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1. Between the Ruins and Us by veilvoyager

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   12 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler/Eleven (Stranger Things)
   • Aged-Up Characters
   • Post-Canon
   • Post-Canon Fix-It
   • Established Relationship
   • Mutual Pining (kind of
   • emotionally)
   • Post-Battle
   • Survivors
   • trauma aftermath
   • Emotional Healing
   • Comfort
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Love as an anchor
   • Found Family
   • Eleven POV
   • Dual POV
   • Mike Wheeler POV
   • Soft Mike Wheeler
   • Soft Eleven
   • Soft mileven
   • Emotionally intimate
   • Quiet Moment
   • Bonding
   • Processing
   • Guilt
   • Kissing
   • physical affection
   • Non-Graphical Sexual content
   • makeout
   • heat - Freeform
   • Cabin Setting
   • Elevens Room
   • truck
   • Nighttime
   • Recovery
   • soft angst
   • Bittersweet
   • Hopeful Ending
   • Sleeping Together (non-sexual)
   • Healing

   Summary

   After the fight is over, the adrenaline fades, but the weight of survival doesn’t. In the quiet that follows, Eleven and Mike cling to each other, finding comfort, grief, and love in the aftermath of almost losing everything.

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