I've been burning for you, baby (since the moment I left)
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It’s 1987, Halloween night, and Mike and El share their first night together days before she disappears.
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I’ll be your morning-bright, good-night shadow machine by thiccpecans
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Feb 2026
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Mike Wheeler is, in every sense, a shell of the person he used to be. Days melt into years, success arrives without feeling, and the book deal he once longed for does nothing to fill the space inside him. Only El’s absence still maims him—persistent, potent, impossible to ignore. But then, she appears to him one night, in a vision that feels far too real.
Or, El accidentally pulls Mike into the void after years of estrangement and they, slowly but surely, become one again.
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