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When El hosts a bachelorette party for her friend, hilarity ensues as she ends up revealing a lot about her and Mike's relationship to a room full of women, who suddenly begin seeing him in a new light. Based on "#1 Crush" by Garbage.
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- Part 4 of Songs to Love By
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20 May 2026
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When Nancy and Jonathan Byers finally come to visit El and Mike in Iceland, El realizes that being alone with Mike is a lot harder than she realized it would be. (Pun absolutely intended)
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- Part 6 of Words to Love By
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01 May 2026
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Once they reunite in Iceland, El can't help but feel like Mike is holding back when it comes to her.
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- Part 5 of Words to Love By
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26 Apr 2026
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Eleven has been dead for three years when Mike begins to feel her touch.
At first, he thinks it is grief. Then he thinks it is hunger. Then he stops trying to name it at all.
Whatever comes to him in the dark wears her shape, knows his body, and refuses to let him go.
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14 Apr 2026
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At twenty-one, Mike looks at El the same way he looked at her when they were sixteen. Like he is totally devoted to her, still. Like he loves her, still.
The years between them condense and shrink down, like their separation was inconsequential, like their reunion was always inevitable.
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- Part 2 of We're Not in Indiana Anymore
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31 Mar 2026
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dry your eyes (i never could bear to see you cry) by Xenodochy
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Mar 2026
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Terry Ives has saved her daughter twice now.
The first was when she gave her the strength to banish Henry Creel to another dimension.
And second is when she coaxes her daughter to ask Mike Wheeler to run away with her instead of saying goodbye in the Void.
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24 Mar 2026
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Pulling back to look at him, she rested her hands on his chest, while his settled to her waist to keep her close. She looked down, then back up at him. There was something she was holding back. “There is something I,” her eyes fluttered down again, this time to where her hands rested. “That I need to tell you.”
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Another Mileven post-finale reunion, this time with a little twist.
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13 Mar 2026
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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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10 Mar 2026
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There’s that feeling again. An overwhelming feeling of rightness and belonging, simply because he is with her. Her golden-brown eyes are sparkling in the sunlight.
“Being here with you is better than anything I could’ve dreamed of,” she says.Mike and El reunite. Despite the years and the distance, some things haven't really changed at all.
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- Part 1 of We're Not in Indiana Anymore
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06 Mar 2026
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El learns the meaning of the word insatiable first through Hopper, and then through Mike.
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- Part 4 of Words to Love By
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28 Feb 2026
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Mike and El take a road trip to see the sights in Iceland, and El ends up facing her biggest fear, exposure.
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- Part 3 of Words to Love By
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27 Feb 2026
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When Mike learns that El is sad about missing the Prom with him, he orchestrates a magical night of romance and dancing that takes her breath (and his) away.
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- Part 2 of Words to Love By
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26 Feb 2026
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She grew up surrounded by white walls, dark rooms. This new world is huge, the waterfalls seem to go all the way up to the sky and the land above them stretches infinitely. To ground herself, she focuses on the small things: the feeling of moss, soft in her hands, the little bugs and spiders, how plants here are so different. She notices all of these things, and yet she can’t manage to put them into words.
Nothing she can write seems to capture the intensity of what she really feels. El draws flowers on the margins of the page, sometimes she’ll remember a random song lyric and put it to paper as well, but she can’t seem to get past the first sentence.
Dear Mike, I’m okay.
Dear Mike, it’s really cold here and I like it sometimes but not always.
Dear Mike, the waterfalls are beautiful.
________It’s day 292 when El looks for Mike through the void for the first time, almost eighteen months go by before she dares make herself known. In the meantime she builds a life, but Mike can’t manage to do the same.
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24 Feb 2026
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"She'll find a way to survive. It’s what she always does."
El escapes Hawkins and travels to Iceland, building a new life for herself in the process. She just wishes she didn't have to do it alone.
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- Part 2 of His, Hers, Theirs
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23 Feb 2026
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Settling on the stool next to Mike, Johánna remarks, “You have loved her a long time, yes?”
Mike startles, head whipping to look at Johánna, who merely smiles at him in amusement around her sip of beer. He relaxes at the sight of her, clearing his throat as he nods. “Yeah. I’ve loved her since the day we met.”
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23 Feb 2026
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He is so good to her, no matter what, and it overwhelms El to know she has him in her corner, always.
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22 Feb 2026
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“I’m selfish, El,” Mike blurts, his thumb rubbing circles at the small of her back. “I don’t like other guys looking at you the way I look at you.”
El’s expression softens, a look crossing over her eyes that tightens his throat. He’s relieved that she’s not put off by his selfish, possibly possessive, attitude. “I know,” she says with a light nod. “But I don’t think they look at me the way you look at me.”
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22 Feb 2026
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He knew he had no right to be upset. El was a grown woman, twenty-three years old, and the time apart had done her well, if you asked him. And she had spent so much time alone. It would be wrong to expect her to deny herself pleasure and intimacy—something she so deeply craved—hoping that something, someone, could fill the Mike-shaped hole in her heart.
It was all fair, and despite the jealousy simmering in his blood, he understood.
But male ego was a fragile, fragile thing.
Because if Mike wasn’t her first, then he had to be her best.
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21 Feb 2026
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Getting caught up in the moment by making_forts_undercover
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 May 2025
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Mike catches El in a compromising situation
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21 Feb 2026
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“I just… I need to memorize you like this.”
El eyes fluttered open a little wider. “Like what?”
“Like this,” he said, his gaze sweeping over every detail of her face as if he were describing a masterpiece. “Happy. Safe. Here. With me.”
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Mike and El have a sweet and loving conversation in the middle of the night
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21 Feb 2026