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1. I Can Go Anywhere I Want (Just Not Home) by Fall_Down_The_Rabbit_Hole

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   03 Sep 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Steve Harrington
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Robin Buckley
   • Joyce Byers
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Karen Wheeler
   • Ted Wheeler (Stranger Things)
   • Holly Wheeler
   • Sam Owens (Stranger Things)
   • Cathy Owens (Stranger Things)
   • Dr. Kay (Stranger Things)
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper Loves Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Step-Siblings Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper Lives
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Maxine "Max" Mayfield Friendship
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Suicidal Thoughts
   • Stranger Things 5 Finale Fix-It
   • Post-Stranger Things 5 Finale
   • Three Waterfalls (Stranger Things)
   • Hawkins (Stranger Things)
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper Needs a Hug
   • Song: my tears ricochet (Taylor Swift)
   • Post-Canon Fix-It
   • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler Friendship
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Mike Wheeler Needs a Hug

   Summary

   Dear Mike,

   I am coming home.

   It is my turn to be brave now.

   Love,
   El

   ___

   For 961 days, Mike Wheeler has grieved the life he lost. For 961 days, Eleven has hidden from the truth of her past.

   A fateful reunion in the small, not-so-ordinary town of Hawkins will awaken unburied ghosts - which return with a vengeance to bring this tale to an end.

   The tale of the Storyteller and the Mage.

   Series

   • Part 1 of I Once Believed Love Would Be (Burning Red)

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   15,080

   Chapters:

   6/11

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