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  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  13 Jul 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Will Byers
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Steve Harrington
  • Robin Buckley
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Joyce Byers
  • The Party (Stranger Things)
  • Post-Stranger Things 5 Finale
  • Stranger Things 5 Finale Fix-It
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Slow Burn
  • Abandonment Issues
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Implied/Referenced Suicide
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper Loves Mike Wheeler
  • Mike Wheeler-centric
  • Reunions
  • Eventual Happy Ending
  • The Party Friendship (Stranger Things)
  • Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault
  • Slow Build
  • Action/Adventure
  • Mike Wheeler & Nancy Wheeler Bonding
  • Mike Wheeler Needs a Hug

  Summary

  Mike Wheeler is trying to move forward, even as hope has become its own kind of haunting. When a single question cracks open everything he has spent years burying, the fallout draws old enemies back into the light. Now the Party must reunite as the people who once hunted El return, determined to reclaim what slipped from their grasp.

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