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Where you go when you can't go home by MatildaVespasian
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
26 Dec 2025
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His parents had told him they had given him too many good things in life, spent their money – their valuable time, just to have their only son end up working at a video store.
So, he's told it's time to make his own way in the world, if he's not going to follow theirs. He didn't realise where he had been driving when he finally pulled up to the small cabin in the forest.
Steve Harrington gets kicked out and finds himself crashing on Jim Hopper's couch, striking up a surprising friendship with Eddie Munson that changes his life and gains a family he never expected to have.
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11 Feb 2026
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Mike’s gotta be cursed.
It was fine. For the first time in ages, Mike’s life seemed to be on an upward trajectory instead of plummeting downwards. College had, in some way, fixed things. Fixed Mike. He didn’t even feel the need to dissect what exactly had made his early teenage years so horrifying.
But like a curse, it’s all come back.
aka mike figures out his sexuality in the worst way possible, but as always, will is there to help. in more ways than one.
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12 Jan 2026
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Love is a fickle thing.
At least, that’s what Mike’s dad had always told him. So Mike assumes his love for his best friend will fade away and disappear into the deep recesses of his mind until he ultimately forgets it ever existed. Except it doesn’t, and it won’t.
Love is a fickle thing.
Just not for Mike.
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After a thoughtful talk and subsequent breakup with El, Mike has to renavigate his friendship with Will and the overwhelming feelings that come with it.
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12 Jan 2026
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“It’s not your fault if those people weren’t prepared to grow with you." Steve's voice is slow and soft, like the first warm embrace of a summer breeze following a particularly cold winter. “And for those who don’t...well, fuck ‘em.”
Then, he feels it. Fingers, quiet and hesitant, pressing gently against his own. They linger only for a moment—
And then, they’re gone.
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09 Jan 2026
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i’d love to see me from your point of view by unidentifiedblackthorn
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jul 2022
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Now that Will’s sitting and Mike’s the one that’s standing, he looks impossibly tall. Tall and lanky, and huge. He should sit back down, Will thinks, lay back down next to Will and stay in their own secluded little bubble.
“I really want to kiss you,” Mike says, and Will’s eyes snap back up to his so violently he thinks he hears his own neck crack with the force of it.
“Don’t,” Will croaks, before his brain has even processed the words. “Don’t say that.”
“Okay,” Mike says easily, still staring. And what the actual fuck is going on? Is Will hallucinating? Is the weed making him hallucinate? “So sausage and pepperoni?”
Will stares dumbly at him. “Um - yeah. Yes.”
“Cool,” Mike replies and then just turns around and leaves Will sitting dumbly in his own room.
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Mike and Will get high on Jonathan’s weed and Mike has an amazing idea.
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- Part 1 of nobody's ever loved me like you do
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30 Dec 2025