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let light be light (i found you first) by aspentree13
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
15 Jun 2026
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January of 1992. The fifth year since Jane Hopper died in front of Dustin and the Party and disappeared forever.
Dustin is restless. He graduated early from MIT just because there was nothing else to do. He receives an invitation to complete his PhD in Oxford and books it there as fast as he can. But England is pretty much just as boring as America. Until he sees Jane Hopper at his local grocery store. It's not really her, though. It can't be. Right?
(In which Dustin finds a girl he thought he'd lost forever and stays by her side as she learns to choose herself)
Title from "Let Light be Light" by Lizzy McAlpine, a song that made me cry when I listened to it while writing this fic because it was so perfect for it.
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Mike and Will get summer jobs as lifeguards at the Hawkins Community Pool during college break. Will just wants to forget about his first failed relationship. Mike wants to make it an unforgettable summer.
CPR training gets complicated when you're hot for your "straight" best friend and he keeps wanting to practice his mouth-to-mouth technique.
"Should we… practice again?" Mike said finally. "Now?"
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- Part 1 of Super Soaker Series
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rarely is there one wave (meaning fortune comes in threes) by Randomness_is_my_order
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
10 Jan 2026
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“I’m Elín,” El said and there was the note of stubbornness she’d always carried in her, still so present. “Please,” she said. “Please, Mike.”
Mike let out a laugh that grated on his ears, “Finally. I thought you’d forgotten my name.”
El’s brows furrowed, lips twisting, “You think I’d ever forget your name? Forget you?”
“Did you not?” Mike asked with a pained smile.
Egged on by his editor, Mike embarks on a journey to the remote town of East Iceland, Seyðisfjörður, to recuperate and perhaps, find something inspiring to write about. What he finds there instead is the love of his life, once presumed dead, now real before his eyes, and a community that offers him the space to heal without handing him the cure.
Maybe his life still has capacity for the adventure and wonder that he’d once thought he’d lost forever.
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set after season five of stranger things! -
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Mike Wheeler is thirty years old, three years married, and incredibly unhappy. After an unexpected AOL Instant Messenger group chat with the Party, Mike reconnects with Will after several years and realizes that maybe his life doesn't have to be so bad.
Or: A 2000s epistolary fic in which Mike falls in love with his childhood best friend and cheats on his wife.
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The Secrets That You Keep (When You're Talking in Your Sleep) by DH_epub
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
04 May 2026
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Mike thinks it all started the day the Byers moved into their house.
Having sold their house in Hawkins a year and a half prior and moved to California, when they came back, and the town got put in lockdown, they didn’t have a place to go.
Mike had kindly offered up their place during dinner.
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The 18-month gap between s4 and s5 told from Mike's POV with minor other POV's as the story progresses. The gap has been lengthened to encapsulate more time passing. They start at 16, but by chapter 6 they're 17 1/2 with them turning 18 chapter 32/34.
Also known as the answer to Mikewhatthefuckdidyoudo gate
Steve Harrington is to Mike what Robin is to Will
Season 5 Rewrite to follow WHILE THIS IS A COMPLETE WORK, THE SEASON 5 REWRITE IS A WIP
Everything is tagged appropriately. If you choose to read, that is your prerogative. No smut occurs until chapter 36.
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- Part 1 of Do You Want to Know a Secret?