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i only want to be with you (and i would go to the ends of the earth) by thenewromantics
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Jan 2026
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“So, now what?” Mike asks, voice quiet.
“Now, kid.” Hopper pulls out another cigarette and lights it, taking a deep drag. “Now, we try to live, because that’s what she wanted us to do.”
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or, mike tries to survive eighteen months without el.
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Years down the line, Mike awakens on an early morning.
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baby can't you see (you belong with me) by thenewromantics
Fandoms: The Shadowhunter Chronicles - All Media Types, The Mortal Instruments Series - Cassandra Clare, Shadowhunters (TV), The Shadowhunter Chronicles - Cassandra Clare
22 Mar 2025
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5 reasons that jace herondale thinks clary fairchild should break up with her boyfriend + 1 reason she actually does
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After Joey finds out Pacey is in Boston, she doesn't expect things to be this hard, or for it all to hurt so badly. Or a summer apart does nothing to quell Joey's love for Pacey.
aka a pacey/joey centric season 5 rewrite.
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Pacey doesn't really know why he decides to pick up the phone and call her, but the minute he hears the sound of her voice on the other end, he knows it was the right decision.
or, a missing pacey & joey scene from the summer between season 4 & season 5
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my house of stone, your ivy grows (now i'm covered in you) by thenewromantics
Fandoms: Dawson's Creek
01 Feb 2021
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They tell you that one single event can set your entire being on a journey that it was never intended, or planned, to go on. Joey Potter had never experienced such a thing. That was, until now, until him.
pacey and joey future au.
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something gave you the nerve to touch my hand (it's nice to have a friend) by thenewromantics
Fandoms: Dawson's Creek
26 Oct 2020
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After her mom dies, her dad gets carted off to prison and her best friend abandons her, Joey's not really in the mood to let people into her life. That is until Pacey Witter decides he's bound and determined to be her new best friend.
pacey and joey best friends au.
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but i'd marry you with paper rings (you're the one i want) by thenewromantics
Fandoms: Dawson's Creek
12 Aug 2020
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“And you know, if it doesn’t work out and Dawson doesn’t want to run off into the sunset with you so you can spend the rest of your lives watching PG movies and holding hands, I’ll marry you.”
or, the five times pacey asks joey to marry him + the one time she asks him.
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Determined to finally become more than just a Lima Loser, Finn embarks on the scariest journey he's ever encountered, college. Between trying to navigate a whole new world, and his renewed friendship with Rachel, who he definitely is still in love with, the next four years of his life are going to either make him or break him.
au post season 4
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i (love/hate) you, circle what applies by thenewromantics for freshbloom
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 Feb 2020
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el hates mike. mike hates el. that's the way it's been ever since they first met. neither one of them are in any mood to change that, but they might just be forced to. because their best friends are getting married and suddenly they're forced to get along. if not for their own sake, then at least for lucas and max's.
aka, a mileven enemies to lovers au.
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mike loves el. el loves mike. sometimes it's as simple as that. but sometimes it's that very fact that makes everything all the more complicated.
a collection of mileven one shots. some canon. some semi canon. some totally au. all about mileven being absolutely in love with each other.
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who'd have believed you'd come along by thenewromantics
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
30 Jun 2019
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When Mike Wheeler moves from Indianapolis to Hawkins in the middle of his junior year the only thing he really wants is a couple of friends and a spot on the baseball team. However, he quickly realizes that life wouldn't be nearly as interesting if it didn't throw him a couple of curve balls, one of which is the most beautiful girl Mike has ever seen in his entire life.
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the road to being okay is long, dark, and lonely by thenewromantics
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Jun 2019
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mike wheeler is not okay. but he's gotten pretty good at pretending to be. a look at the year without el.
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"welcome home, el."
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el tells mike her favorite things, the things that makes her happiest and what she wants in ten years. turns out all of those lists have one very special thing in common.
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i was enchanted to meet you (please don't have somebody waiting on you) by thenewromantics for freshbloom
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
11 Feb 2019
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when el runs into a tall, handsome stranger one day on her way to her psych class, she's fairly certain she's never seen anyone so cute in her entire life, and she spends the next week totally unable to get him out of her head. the only problem? he's dating her best friend. at least, she's pretty sure.
aka a mileven college au.
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mike wheeler and el hopper are best friends. have been since mike could remember. he can’t imagine his life without her and wants nothing more then to be her best friend for the rest of his life. the only problem? he’s absolutely, totally in love with her. so, in order to solve his problem, he turns to an anonymous advice blog run by a hawkins high student. little does he know his entire life is about to change.
aka the best friends to lovers fic no one asked for.
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share my bed, steal my heart (both are yours) by thenewromantics
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Dec 2018
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"El gave him a sympathetic smile from her place on Mike’s bed. Somehow it was more comfortable than the one back in her own room, but she attributed that more to the fact that it was Mike’s, then anything else."
aka, the mileven bed sharing fic that no one asked for.
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ted wheeler dies on a tuesday afternoon at the end of march.
mike tries to move on.
aka the ted wheeler death fic that no one asked for
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it's the ten year reunion for the hawkins high school class of nineteen eighty nine and everyone is having different feelings on the matter. the only thing that everyone can agree on is that mike wheeler and jane hopper are just as in love as they were in high school.
aka, a high school reunion fic.