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1. This ISN'T What I Imagined by wonder_sky

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • F/F, F/M
   • Work in Progress

   06 Nov 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Robin Buckley/Vickie
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
   • Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Steve Harrington
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Joyce Byers
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Billy Hargrove
   • Robin Buckley
   • Vickie (Stranger Things)
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Barbara "Barb" Holland
   • Eddie Munson
   • Bylers implied and mileven is...complicated here just so yall know
   • Hallucinations
   • Inspired by Stephen King
   • Im posting this early bc the trailer came early
   • Horror
   • Blood and Gore
   • Psychological Horror
   • Undead
   • Mind Manipulation
   • Possession
   • Insanity
   • Missing Persons
   • Unreliable Narrator
   • Serial Killers
   • Some intentional mischaracterization
   • Stephen King References
   • Alternate Universe
   • References to Macbeth - Shakespeare
   • Dungeons & Dragons References

   Summary

   Some people have dreams. Happy, wistful, loving dreams. Kissing the boy you love. Everyone who once died being alive again. Those who treated you poorly being better now.

   Not Mike Wheeler.

   That's not what this is.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   1,962

   Chapters:

   2/?

   Kudos:

   2

   Hits:

   98