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A paladin escorting his party north discovers an escaped mage hiding in the woods after violently tearing herself free from the cult that imprisoned her for years.
Starved, traumatized, and carrying terrifying power in her veins, Eleven is exactly the kind of magic Mike was raised to destroy.
Instead, after he insists his party take her in, the road stretches onward and her existence slowly dismantles everything he was taught about magic, corruption, and faith. Somewhere between shared campfires, whispered prayers, and the quiet terror of learning to trust each other, Mike finds himself falling for the very thing his order would condemn.
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Mike Wheeler has always tried to do the right thing, especially for his friends. That sense of duty is what has led him to date his best friend, Will Byers, even as the relationship begins to feel more like obligation than love. But when Max introduces him to El Hopper, the certainty he’s always relied on begins to slip away.
Sweet, quiet, and utterly disarming, El draws him in without even trying. Friendship slowly blurs into longing, and every moment they share pulls Mike closer to a line he never meant to cross.
Suddenly, staying faithful feels impossible. {AU College Fic}
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After Dart escapes the AV room, Max reluctantly helps the party search for him, still annoyed after being shut out of their secretive conversation. But instead of finding the little monster, she stumbles across something entirely different. A girl.
She isn’t what Max came looking for but leaving her behind doesn’t feel like an option.
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Mike doesn’t need much out of life. A job that pays the bills. A place to come home to. Most importantly, El safe and within reach.
That’s it.
So when he has to leave for a week to help his family move out of his childhood home, he tries not to think about it too much. They’ve never been good at being apart... but it’s only seven days.
Until she suddenly stops answering the phone. The longer the silence stretches, the more certain he becomes that something is wrong. By the time Mike gets home, he’s already bracing for the worst.
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there's a world outside your darkened door by upside_meg
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 Apr 2026
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Mike plans the post-grad road trip in secret—maps, routes, marking places he thinks El will like. But once they leave, none of it really matters.
They don’t rush, because for once, they don’t need to. For the first time in her life, El gets to stop, breathe, and see everything she’s been missing.
And Mike? He’d drive forever just to see her smile.