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there is an ache in you, put there by the ache in me by ethqreal
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Feb 2026
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Seven years later, Steve invites everyone back to Hawkins for the holidays. Love, it turns out, is harder to outrun than grief.
The moonlight glimmered against his eyes, pained as he pulled Will’s mouth closer in desperation.
A part of him had known then, that it would not last.
Mike grasped Will’s shirt hungrily, and his mouth trailed wet heat down his neck. Will had gasped, his hands tangled in his hair. Will had felt it then, the tears that fell from Mike’s eyes against his collarbone.
He nearly asked, should’ve pulled him up and refused to let him use him, as a reminder, or worse, a replacement, but Mike had trailed down further and Will’s words left, instead something like gasp caught in his throat.
a canon-compliant look, to how will and mike might have fell apart, and then fall back together
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i am caught, right inside your line of fire by ethqreal
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
02 Feb 2026
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“Why are you touching him? You don’t own him.”
Will dropped his head into his hands. “Mike, oh my god—”
Paladin Mike’s jaw tightened. “I do not own him,” he said immediately. “He is—” He stopped, swallowing. His eyes went back to Will softening, and that softness made Mike hate him even more. He could recognize the look, and saw it mirrored in his own eyes countless times.
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“He is the Light. By your oath, I am bound to him. My liege.” He bowed his head slightly toward Will, his mouth wrapped around the word like it was a prayer. “My cleric.” He said after, softer.
“Oh my god.” Will flushed, impossibly. “That is crazy. He is actually crazy."
Max, who had been standing with her arms crossed behind them, muttered, “Jesus Christ,” under her breath.
Mike Wheeler is going to explode, because there is an alternate, armoured version of him, following Will Byers around like he belonged to him.
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PJ groans. “I don’t want to talk about it. I don’t like you.” She says, plainly.
Hazel shrugs. “Okay. That isn’t entirely surprising. You also did just aggressively made out with me and said you can’t stop thinking about me, by the way.” She adds helpfully.
The lights in the parking lot were glinting off her face and PJ wanted to punch her. Or kiss her. Either or.
PJ has a lot of different feelings towards Hazel.
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five times everyone thought pj and hazel were in a relationship + one time pj finally figures it out
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he got my heartbeat, skipping down sixteenth avenue by ethqreal
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 Dec 2022
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Mike's family, the Party and everyone else is acting extremely weird around Mike and Will.
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Son of the Western Sea by Mac_Ceallach
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Japanese Mythology, Celtic Mythology, Chinese Mythology
21 Mar 2023
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All myths are true. Beyond the edge of Western Civilization lies the rest of the world. After the Second Olympian War, a restless Percy Jackson sails for the horizon, and never stops.
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17 Jan 2024
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truly creative and incredible. i am in love with this story.
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Falling for You by 1967HogwartsGoddess
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan
26 Feb 2022
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In an alternate series of events, Percy saves Annabeth from falling into Tartarus. Too bad he can't save himself. As Annabeth leads the Seven on a treacherous quest to meet him at the Doors of Death, Percy fights through a wasteland of pain, torture and difficult choices.
Surrounded by monsters, alone in the darkest corner of the underworld, he starts to question whether he's a good kid anymore.
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You can choose whether this fic has a good or bad ending! DO NOT REPOST. Have fun! :)
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Bookmarked by ethqreal
07 Jan 2024
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shaking, intense and horrifying, percy jackson is … everything. even when he’s actually insane.
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Holding hands with Mike Wheeler in the dark, five minutes after the world was supposed to end, Will Byers realizes two things: it’s never been about boys in general, and it’s always been about one boy in particular.
Or: Will grows up, falls in love, mourns his losses, and learns some lessons. Some of his paths are travelled alone, but most are with his friends. Because, as the Beatles love to remind him, it's how they get by. Them, together, against the world.
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It's lovely up here; all meadows dotted with wildflowers, wind-beaten tracks criss-crossing this way and that through the fields, weaving inland to the pinewoods. The sun's hot on his back as he passes ramshackle stone walls, long since crumbled to piles of ancient rubble and scree, and then the path winds downwards, still following the line of the coast until Sirius finds himself outside an old white cottage, tucked away behind the hill with a rose garden that faces out to the sea.
Sirius moves to Cornwall for the summer and meets a rude, beautiful boy who is writing a book that may or may not be about dragons.
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Bookmarked by ethqreal
12 Mar 2022
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rainy, slightly sleepy sunday morning story that slots in perfectly next to a cup of tea and some buttered toast (which is what i was having if u were wondering) i’m feeling very warm and snuggly inside this was such a delightful story
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you wait and you wonder who'll take on your odds by paperclipbitch
Fandoms: The Queen's Gambit (TV)
25 Mar 2021
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“Don’t think of it as marriage,” Benny tells her. “Think of it as castling.”
Beth raises an eyebrow. “Am I the king or the rook in this analogy?”
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27 Mar 2021