10 Bookmarks by willqws
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“It’s like something’s been on your mind for a while and you’re not—you’re just keeping it to yourself.”
Her throat works. “Am I not allowed to do that?”
She doesn’t mean to sound defensive, but the words come out like that anyway. Mike blinks, a little surprised and she can’t blame him for it, but the gentleness of his voice doesn’t fade. “Of course you are,” he says with a nod. Never one to deny her anything.
It sends an aching pang through her chest. He’s always on her side, puts her above everyone else—including himself. He has shown it to her time and time again, proved to her repeatedly that nothing is more important to him than she is. And that—that worries her.
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21 Jan 2026
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They said the end is coming. I find myself running home to your sweet nothings by making_forts_undercover
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
23 Dec 2025
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Mike and El between season 4 and 5.
These are not in chronological order
Chapters 1 to 7 made pre season 5, then post season 5
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07 Jan 2026
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rarely is there one wave (meaning fortune comes in threes) by Randomness_is_my_order
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Jan 2026
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“I’m Elín,” El said and there was the note of stubbornness she’d always carried in her, still so present. “Please,” she said. “Please, Mike.”
Mike let out a laugh that grated on his ears, “Finally. I thought you’d forgotten my name.”
El’s brows furrowed, lips twisting, “You think I’d ever forget your name? Forget you?”
“Did you not?” Mike asked with a pained smile.
Egged on by his editor, Mike embarks on a journey to the remote town of East Iceland, Seyðisfjörður, to recuperate and perhaps, find something inspiring to write about. What he finds there instead is the love of his life, once presumed dead, now real before his eyes, and a community that offers him the space to heal without handing him the cure.
Maybe his life still has capacity for the adventure and wonder that he’d once thought he’d lost forever.
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set after season five of stranger things!Bookmarked by willqws
07 Jan 2026
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all she has given (all i have taken) by ordinarypeople for writeyourheart
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Dec 2022
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At minute twenty-six, Matilda squints, her father giving her no other choice but to focus on the TV. She’s hurt, and she’s angry, she doesn’t want to watch this stupid game show—the camera cuts back and forth to her eyes, the TV. Rory is on the edge of her seat, wondering what’s going to happen next, even though something about it starts to feel a little familiar. They cut back to the TV one last time, music growing louder—
It explodes. Under Matilda’s stare.
Rory feels an icy, unpleasant sense of déjà vu, and then she starts to figure out exactly why Mama put this on.
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07 Jan 2026
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El Hopper moves to New York to live a normal life. She fails at it almost immediately.
Very loosely inspired by Superman. SuperEl AU.
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06 Jan 2026
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After the final battle, El Hopper chooses to live, jumping into a nearby gate, certain it will take her home. Instead, she finds herself stranded in time; forced to scour realities until she can finally find her own. Her Mike. But as her patience thins and her desperation grows, what happens when she drifts too close to a version of him that isn’t hers?
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05 Jan 2026
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Mike Wheeler left Hawkins to escape the ghosts of his past. He didn’t expect to find one in a Swiss café.
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05 Jan 2026
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“It’s not fate. It’s not destiny—just simple dumb luck. And one day she is going to realize that I’m just some random nerd that got lucky that Superman landed on his doorstep. I mean, at least Lois Lane is an ace reporter for The Daily Planet.”
AU in which Mike is a reporter for The Hawkins Post, and the prettiest girl he’s ever seen starts work there as the new secretary. But wait...hasn't he met her before?
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05 Jan 2026
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how cliché of me (to fall in love in a coffee shop) by topangamatthews
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jul 2018
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Mike Wheeler hates writers that say they have to be in a coffee shop to write. But then he finds the prettiest girl he's ever seen, a barista, and suddenly he can't seem to write anywhere else.
(based on the prompt: el is a coffee shop worker and mike is writer and one day he stumbles in and then he continues coming to write (and see a certain someone) and they fall in love.)
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04 Jan 2026
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one day we'll meet again (in the light of my love for you) by FateChica
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Feb 2026
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El runs and she keeps running until she's about as far away from home as she figures she can get. And as the years go by, she manages to carve out a peaceful sort of existence. It's not a happy life, but she's content with the knowledge that the loved ones she left behind are safe and happy.
But while Mike's safe, he's not happy, not by a long shot. He's living a half-life, living under the shadow of the love he lost... of the love he knows is still out there, somewhere, waiting for him to find her.
And when Mike finally has enough of surviving without living and embarks on an aimless journey to find her, El knows her days of isolation are behind her. Because the longer Mike tries to search for her, the more attention he brings to himself and the more likely he'll put himself in danger. So she leaves a trail of breadcrumbs to guide him to her, as always willing to do anything to keep him safe.
And when they reunite in the sleepy village El has learned to call home, they'll learn if they can move past the shadow of the history they share... and if they can rediscover the love that once shone brighter than the sun.
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02 Jan 2026