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I'll find you at the base of three waterfalls by ch1nens
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jan 2026
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Mike never gave up on her.. even after all these years he believes she made it out. Even after everyone moved on, he stayed.
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one day we'll meet again (in the light of my love for you) by FateChica
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jan 2026
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El runs and she keeps running until she's about as far away from home as she figures she can get. And as the years go by, she manages to carve out a peaceful sort of existence. It's not a happy life, but she's content with the knowledge that the loved ones she left behind are safe and happy.
But while Mike's safe, he's not happy, not by a long shot. He's living a half-life, living under the shadow of the love he lost... of the love he knows is still out there, somewhere, waiting for him to find her.
And when Mike finally has enough of surviving without living and embarks on an aimless journey to find her, El knows her days of isolation are behind her. Because the longer Mike tries to search for her, the more attention he brings to himself and the more likely he'll put himself in danger. So she leaves a trail of breadcrumbs to guide him to her, as always willing to do anything to keep him safe.
And when they reunite in the sleepy village El has learned to call home, they'll learn if they can move past the shadow of the history they share... and if they can rediscover the love that once shone brighter than the sun.
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Nearly two years after the Battle of Hawkins, the world has moved on. Mike Wheeler hasn’t.
Caught between grief and obsession, Mike begins to receive signs — voices in the static, impossible visions, maps that should not exist. When no one believes him, he chooses to follow the only guide he has left: the certainty that she is still alive.
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Mike Wheeler tries his best to live without the love of his life, believing she's still out there, but out of reach.
Eleven tries her best to live without the love of her life, reading his stories, but having to stay away.Until the tenth anniversary of Will's disappearance strikes and Eleven starts suffering from terrible nightmares of Mike, causing Mike to start seeing visions of Eleven, and where she is...
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Mike Wheeler never stopped loving Eleven. He never stopped carrying the guilt of what he couldn’t save. When his nearly finished book refuses to let one character go missing, Mike realises the truth: you can’t write your way around grief.
A trip to Iceland, once a promise whispered between them on a rooftop, becomes something more than travel. It’s a pilgrimage. A love letter. A chance to say all the words he never got to say.
Amid waterfalls, northern lights, and memories that refuse to stay buried, Mike must decide whether love is something you move on from…or something that asks you to follow it, even into the unknown.
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What if she stayed to protect the life growing inside her—
a child born of the passion between her and her soulmate, and of her determination that no child of hers would ever endure the same inhumane fate she survived? -
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⋆˚࿔ Eighteen months since the vanishing of Eleven had passed and Mike still couldn’t move on no matter how hard he tried. He misses her, and so does everybody else.
One particularly rainy day he receives a letter, raising the question: is El still alive? Mike feels trapped behind the bars of grief and lingering hope. The only way to escape is to go look for her.
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Everyone believes Eleven died saving the world.
Everyone except Mike.
Five years later, hope is the one thing he no longer trusts. He saw her fall. He learned to live with her absence. And yet, some part of him refuses to let her go completely, even as he writes her death into fiction, page after page. When the publishing house demands a happier ending for his novel, Mike realizes how little hope he truly has left. He cannot rewrite the story. He cannot imagine Eleven alive, not in his book, not in real life. To him, changing the ending would mean lying to himself.
As punishment -or salvation-, his editor sends him to Iceland, to the place where Mike once promised Eleven they would meet again, where waterfalls crash against stone and the world feels far from Hawkins and everything that broke them.
What Mike does not know is that destiny is not done with him yet. And sometimes, the place where hope seems most impossible is exactly where it waits. Truth is some promises, no matter how impossible they seem, are not meant to remain broken.
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***MAJOR SPOILER WARNING FOR S5***
Set a decade after the explosion in 1987. Everyone was moving on, but Mike still remained in the past. As the search for El continued in secrets, would he finally be at rest reclaiming the person he had lost, or lost in the pursuit of nothingness in the name of her existence?
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Mike lifted a corner of his mouth in the endearing dimpled smile that she had missed so much, and she thought her heart might just burst from happiness.
“I think, it’s high time we upgrade this ring into a real one.” He smirked, kissing the tips of her fingers.
“You know me. You know my heart—by heart.”
A Hallmark movie inspired- We ride to the waterfalls together at dawn ~
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Where were you my whole life (I believed) by Kat0kake
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
06 Jan 2026
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This fanfic is based in 1992, 3 years after the core 4 graduated, aka where the finale ended. This is inspired by Mike’s theory for Eleven (Jane) and about their reunion after 4 1/2 years.
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Eighteen months had passed since Eleven disappeared. To everyone else, she is a hero who gave her life. To Mike, however, she is someone he simply cannot let go. While his friends look forward to college and a new beginning, Mike remains behind, trapped between grief and a stubborn, lingering hope.
When a mysterious postcard arrives out of nowhere, his vague intuition suddenly turns into certainty. It was only a picture. But it was enough to give his life a sense of purpose once again.
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It’s been years since the death of Eleven, leaving behind all her love ones she cares so deeply about.
Mike has became a best selling author, writing books about what his life with the person he truly loves. He knows that she’s out there somewhere but doesn’t know where yet.
Dustin is a scientist who is trying to explore the wonders of the universe hoping that Eleven is out there in a different universe alive but hopefully in this universe.
Lucas and Max are living together and haven’t settled down because they both have hope that El is alive somewhere and want her at the wedding.
Will is an artist in New York City with her own gallery but hasn’t released any new painting that doesn’t include Eleven in it.
All five of them have hope that El is alive out there somewhere
Thats when they get all get a phone call from Steve, he reads out a message from a post card from Iceland,
“Meet me by the waterfalls”
-Love El
Mike was one of the only people who knew what that meant, she is alive and waiting for them to come find her.
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The party venture off to Iceland to find Eleven, with hope that she is alive and waiting for them.
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Beyond the cloud of grief, Mike learns just how much he hadn't known. But one thing was for sure, he'd find the three waterfalls, and maybe, just maybe, allow himself to move on. There's always still hope he'll find El, and maybe, he just might. With the help of the others, Mike goes on a journey of personal discovery. Leading the party to just the same thing.
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Just like Mike had promised, he and El are finally living in peace— in a land with three waterfalls.
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when saying goodbye doesn't feel like the end by liftingrocks
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Jan 2026
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Senior year of college 1993, and no one’s heard from Mike Wheeler in months. Exhausted and withdrawn, his grades slide, his conduct suffers, and he falls into destructive routines. He shows up unannounced for winter break in Hawkins.
Hopper has one carefully chosen Christmas gift and a hope that it’s enough to bring the boy he knew back… and maybe lead him to her too.
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The Man Who Can't Be Moved And The Girl Who Came Back by dylewrites
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
05 Jan 2026
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Mike Wheeler has been waiting for a decade, and yet every day he reckons he can wait a little longer. Everybody else moved on — but he remained unchanging. Same time, same routine, same spot where he would sit and stare at the place where he last saw El — where he last felt her touch. Ten years on, that memory is as fresh as the pain he felt when she disappeared. It’s as if he’s been stuck exactly where she left him.
A few days before the anniversary of El’s disappearance, Mike realizes he’s being watched — watched long before he even begins to piece the puzzle together. The military has been keeping an eye on him, and he can’t think of any reason except that they believe he would lead them to someone — to El. That, like him, they also believe she’s alive.
And that fragile hope is enough to ignite something inside him. If she’s alive, he’s going to get to her first — hide her from the rest of the world before they can even catch up. He’s going to find her — even if he has to search every corner of the world, every place with at least three waterfalls, just like he promised.
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In 1987, Mike Wheeler lost all of himself.
In 1993, he found a part of himself, with his adopted daughter.
In 2000, he found the rest of himself, in a country he never expected. -
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They lose each other at a party.
Mike finds Will kissing someone else—and realizes, far too late, that watching hurts worse than admitting the truth.
Drunk confessions, years of repression and declination, and one bathroom that becomes the point of no return. -
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He had spent years grieving for a ghost. Now, he would spend a lifetime loving a secret. And for Mike Wheeler, that was a miracle he could learn to live with.
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It has been 4 years since the Upside Down was destroyed and with it the girl Mike loved more than anything. The theory that she survived and is living in peace keeps him going, inspired to write her story disguised as a simple fantasy novel. He stays in contact with the party that has been spread out, but he is alone most of the time, spending his days at his typewriter.
El has managed to find peace in Iceland, making new friends and living without the threat of captivity under a different name, but something is missing in her life ever since she said goodbye to the boy she loved more than anything. She always thinks about her previous life in Hawkins, writing letters to them that she will never send.
One day, El walks into the bookstore and notices a familiar name on the cover of a bestselling fantasy novel. "The Storyteller and the Mage" it was called. And this version had the happily ever after they both had wanted.
Maybe it was still possible. Maybe Mike could write the ending after all. El just did not know how possible it was.