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1. Joint Custody by Hellshire (holleighgram) for Emotional_Lover

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Not Rated
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen, M/M
   • Work in Progress

   01 Apr 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Will Byers & Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Lucas Sinclair & Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers & The Party
   • Will Byers
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Steve Harrington
   • Robin Buckley
   • Joyce Byers
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Kali Prasad
   • The Party (Stranger Things)
   • Will Byers Has Powers
   • The Mindscape
   • Developing Friendships
   • Good Friend Will Byers
   • Good Friend Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • The Party Friendship (Stranger Things)
   • Memory Related
   • Heart-to-Heart
   • Coma
   • Good Friend Steve Harrington
   • Nancy Wheeler is Not Okay
   • Repressed Mike Wheeler
   • Repressed Memories
   • Siblings Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Joyce Byers is a Mess
   • Lovers Lake (Stranger Things)
   • Unconsciousness
   • The Upside Down (Stranger Things)
   • Action/Adventure
   • Mystery
   • Identity Issues
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Dissociative Identity Disorder
   • References to Depression
   • Stranger Things 5 Vol. 2 Rewrite
   • Will Byers-centric
   • Will Byers Has Daddy Issues
   • Attempt at Humor
   • Possession
   • Temporary Character Death
   • Drowning

   Summary

   The plan was simple.
   Get Will close to the gate at Lover’s Lake.
   Let Eleven piggyback into the hive mind.
   Find Max. Find Holly. Bring them home.
   The plan was simple and it still went to shit.
   Now Will, El, and Max are forced to rely on what remains of Henry Creel to help them navigate the labyrinth of memories to escape the Hive Mind.
   Joyce and Hopper have now lost both of their sons to the Upside Down, but this time they're taking matters into their own hands.
   Nancy has now lost the two people she's been pushing away, and is forced to face the devastating reality of the independence she's asserted.
   And the boys are forced to come together in order to find the long-dormant answers held within their party's quietest members.
   Old wounds resurface, truths long avoided come into focus, and the question none of them are ready to answer begins to take shape:
   What happens when the only way to save the world is to understand the ones who broke it open?
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   Series

   • Part 6 of Parental Guidance

   Language:

   English

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