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searching for something, there you were by upside_meg
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Apr 2026
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After Dart escapes the AV room, Max reluctantly helps the party search for him, still annoyed at being shut out from their talk. However, instead of finding the little monster, Max finds something entirely different. A girl.
She wasn't what Max was looking for, but leaving her suddenly feels impossible.
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What if El had found Max in the gym first instead of Mike?
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Mike doesn’t need much out of life. A job that pays the bills. A place to come home to. Most importantly, El safe and within reach.
That’s it.
So when he has to leave for a week to help his family move out of his childhood home, he tries not to think about it too much. They’ve never been good at being apart... but it’s only seven days.
Until she suddenly stops answering the phone. The longer the silence stretches, the more certain he becomes that something is wrong. By the time he gets home, he’s already bracing for the worst.
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there's a world outside your darkened door by upside_meg
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Apr 2026
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Mike plans the post-grad road trip in secret—maps, routes, marking places he thinks El will like. But once they leave, none of it really matters.
They don’t rush, because for once, they don’t need to. For the first time in her life, El gets to stop, breathe, and see everything she’s been missing.
And Mike? He’d drive forever just to see her smile.
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He loved her at twelve. He loves her at twenty. It was never just a crush.
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Mike has loved his sister Nancy’s best friend, El, since he was a kid. What started as a boyhood crush grew up with him. Despite what everyone said, some feelings don’t fade, they just mature. She was always written into his future.
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Mike’s band plays cramped basements and borrowed stages, and El never misses a chance to support him from the front row. {Band AU}