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  1. Public Bookmark 4

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    The Sequel to Padlock Hearts

    Dom and Fiona thought they had forever figured out. Life, being life, ruins that plan with a devastating loss that forces them to stumble through grief, love, and adulthood like two people who absolutely did not read the emotional instruction manual. Dom keeps writing music like it’s oxygen while fighting an industry obsessed with polishing him into something sellable. Fiona is learning how to live in her own skin again, how to want things, and how to tell the world to back off when it demands too much.

    This is a story of love that survives in messy, loud, sometimes feral ways. There’s laughter at the worst moments, swearing, stubbornness, late-night songs, quiet domestic chaos, and badly timed jokes. They aren’t chasing perfect. They’re chasing real. Love doesn’t always stay whole. Sometimes it breaks, sometimes it burns, and sometimes, against all odds, it gets reforged.

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    08 Jun 2026

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    “Yeah, well, you know what they say,” Mike said dryly. “‘The truth will out.’”

    “Oh my God,” Will said. "You can’t be serious. I really don’t get why you’re acting like this.”

    “Like what?”

    “Upset? Angry? I don’t know—Jealous?”

    “Jealous.” Mike grimaced. “You think I’m jealous?”

    “Well, you’re sure as hell acting like it.”

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    The Party plays a game of Truth or Dare. Mike doesn't take Will's "truth" very well.

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    17 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 51

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    The glances his friends share are not subtle, at all.

    “What?” Mike snaps.

    “It’s just… you never talk about her,” Lucas says.

    Mike’s grip on his beer tightens and he doesn’t say anything. Drinking so much was a mistake. His head is starting to spin in a mix of frustration, guilt, anger-

    “It’s been years Mike,” Lucas is saying, gentle like he is when he’s trying to get through to someone, “how are you going to move on if you can’t even talk about, you know, the good memories?”

    The good memories are all tinted red and feel like impending doom, except they already happened, they’re not impending, they’re just always doomed now.

    “Maybe I won’t,” Mike mutters, words slurring.

    ~~~~~

    Post canon au with a little twist. Karen and Ted Wheeler don't survive the demogorgon attack in season 5. When all of his friends leave for college, Mike stays in Hawkins to take care of Holly so Nancy can finally go to college. Mike is left with a house to take care of, a sister to raise, and a whole lot of repressed guilt and grief.

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    28 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 20

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    “I mean Jesus, Mike! We survived everything we did together and you think I’m gonna what? Just sit back and watch you self-destruct?!”

     

    Mike is forced into staying with Will and Jonathan after he passes out and ends up in the hospital. What starts out as the worst possible turn of events quickly turns into the best thing that could’ve happened to him.

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    22 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 12

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    Mike was burning up. Or dying, maybe. He couldn’t tell.

    Because no matter what he did, he couldn’t get Will’s face out of his head. The way he had smiled so gently, the way he looked up at Mike through his lashes. The gentle shadows cast across his face by the streetlamps. He sat on the edge of his bed. Will slept in this room last week.

    Mike dropped his head to his hands, letting out a groan.

    Will’s lips, parting to say “goodbye, Mike”.

    Mike fisted his hands in his hair, tugging. What was going on? What did that mean?

    “Mike?” He looked up to see Nancy standing in his doorway, dressed in pajamas. “Is something wrong?”

    And, mortifyingly, tears sprung to his eyes.

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    In his senior year of high school, Mike has a crisis. College looms on the horizon, and he'll have to live without the people he leans so heavily on. And Will – how can Mike live without Will?

    From September '88 to June '89, his understanding of himself changes.

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    19 Apr 2026