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From first kisses to learning about love, El experiences all of her firsts with Mike.
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15 Jan 2026
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el didn’t sleep most nights anymore. she would tell kali it was because of all the noise of their new home, but they both knew that wasn’t the truth.
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el dreams an easy dream of what could be.
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15 Jan 2026
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Eight years after her disappearance, Eleven lives in hiding in Iceland, silently observing the lives she left behind through the Void. While everyone else moves on, she keeps watch from a distance, carrying the weight of her choice. After years of avoiding him, she finally visits Mike—the one person who hasn’t moved on—and breaks her own rule.
or the finale broke me so much I wrote fanfiction again after five years. My version of Mike and Eleven's life after the epilogue.
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15 Jan 2026
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He glances up to the cascading waterfall just in front of him, squinting to see through the plunging water and–
Wait, was that a person?
It was. It was next to impossible to make out details through the cascading water, but that was no doubt a sillhouete of a person he was seeing down on the bank of the river the waterfall flowed into, their form tiny from this distance, and maybe he's just imagining things but... Could they see him? Were they looking at him too–?
Just like that, he slips.
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Struggling with writer’s block, grief, and the weight of expectations, Mike Wheeler escapes to Iceland in search of inspiration. What he finds instead is a local legend, a dangerous waterfall called Örlagafoss — Fate Falls — and a second chance he never believed he’d be lucky enough to receive.
Sometimes, fate doesn’t give you what you’re looking for.
Sometimes, it gives you who.***WARNING! SPOILERS FOR S5 EP 8 SERIES FINALE!***
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14 Jan 2026
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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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14 Jan 2026
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Mike never gave up, and Eleven never forgot him. In which Mike finally finds El through the small pieces she left behind.
// post finale fix-it fic
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13 Jan 2026
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After eight years of absence, grief, and quiet survival, two lives shaped by loss continue forward on separate paths—one through words, the other through silence. Set between Hawkins and a distant land of waterfalls and wide skies, this story explores longing, fate, and the kind of love that refuses to fade, even when distance and time try to erase it.
Told through moments of memory, waiting, and gentle hope, it is a story about learning how to live again, finding home in unexpected places, and trusting that some connections are never truly lost.
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13 Jan 2026
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Fresh flowers always sat on the center of the small table in the kitchen by the window, colorful cushions on the couch, trinkets she picked up from the bookstore. It wasn’t much, but it was enough. Her things kept her company, even if her heart yearned for more.
Until Mike. Mike, who left everything and everyone behind to be with her. Who slowly started to make this place his own as well—that’s when she started to really notice the changes.
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12 Jan 2026
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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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11 Jan 2026
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This one-shot takes place the night of The Snow Ball, at the end of Season Two. Mike and Eleven step out during the dance, taking a moment alone together, they talk about the events of the past year they were apart.
Fluffy, emotional - the scene I felt the episode was desperately missing.
Mileven.
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11 Jan 2026
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When he wakes in the mornings, it always takes Mike a moment to remember what reality he is waking up in.
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10 Jan 2026
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You don't need to save me but would you run away with me? Yes by making_forts_undercover
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
13 Jan 2026
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After everything, they found each other again. And now, in a life of ordinary days, Mike and El explore the extraordinary simplicity of living a life full of love
Follow Mike and El through a series of snapshots from their life together after they reunite.
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09 Jan 2026
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Two years after her disappearance, El calls for Mike to come home.
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- Part 1 of epilogue
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08 Jan 2026
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“Yeah,” El choked out, her voice cracking as she laid on her side with her walkie-talkie cradled to her chest. “I’m here. Over.”
“Hey! I’ve been losing my mind all week thinking about you. I didn’t get any letters last week and I was at Cerebro for hours Monday night and you never answered. Are you okay? Over.” The connection sputtered, but his voice held through.
Telling her boyfriend about the last few weeks, seemed to be the very last thing she wanted right now. Friends don’t lie. But lying was the only thing she was good at these days.
ST4 comes out in 1 month and this is a mix of Mileven predictions, theories, and mainly what I want to happen, following with the Cali crew plot I'm assuming we will get in Vol. 1
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- Part 1 of Do You Copy?
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08 Jan 2026
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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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08 Jan 2026
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After his book becomes a bestseller- twenty-one-year-old Mike Wheeler doesn't know what to do with himself. After an obnoxious talk with his agent, Mike decides to take up hiking as a hobby to prepare for a trip to see the famous Háifoss Twin Waterfalls.
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08 Jan 2026
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Jane Hopper and Mike Wheeler explore themselves sexually.
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07 Jan 2026
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Mike whispered to anyone who might listen—the ceiling, the lamp, the grasshoppers, “Please. Please!”
The bulb light in his lamp flickered, humming with unbearable waves of electricity, then he was plunged into darkness, a wet, echoey chamber with a single figure, looking at him. Even in the darkness, he could make out her frame, the shape of curls loose down her neck. “El!” he tried to scream, but the vision was already flashing away.
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A Mileven post-canon fix-it fic. Over a year post-grad, Mike finds himself all alone and still mourning the loss of El. Stuck in Hawkins with no motivation to do anything, he begins being haunted by visions of her which cause him to write again and, eventually, to travel the world in pursuit of the life they could have lived together.Bookmarked by SmilingSarah
07 Jan 2026
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Six years had passed since graduation in Hawkins, Indiana. It was 1995, and the party was spread out across the USA. But one man can't be moved until a postcard all the way from Iceland arrives.
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07 Jan 2026
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the only love there is, (is the love we make) by Astralil6
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jan 2026
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«Mike cannot say that he has a bad life in his hometown; his success has allowed him to buy a nice house, and he often meets with his old friends, despite numerous commitments, but, since the events of November 6, 1987, he no longer feels the same; even though eleven years have now passed, he has still not been able to get over her loss and finds himself thinking about her almost every day. He never truly believed in her death, or at least, he chose not to.»
or: Mike and Eleven meet again in a small bookshop in Reykjavik during a conference for his latest book.
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06 Jan 2026