"Sometimes, I wish you were a girl." "What?" Eddie turned to him, he could feel his movement. Everything seemed a lot easier to feel, he was aware of his surroundings. "I think it would make things a lot easier. You, a lot easier." ---- Max and Eddie were saved. The town is cleaning itself up from shambles. People are moving on. Things are going back to normal... What the hell is normal in Hawkins? How do you go back to normal after seeing people die right in front of you? After seeing them tortured.? What is normal about the loneliness? The trauma? The nightmares? What is normal about anything in life after near death? What is normal? No one ever is normal.

There she goes ... Another disaster in the wind. STEVE HARRINGTON / OC. @TRAGICSUNS

Mike Wheeler thought he had survived the worst of it. Years after the fall of Vecna and the death of Eleven, Mike is trying to live a normal life-working, sleeping, eating, moving forward. But grief doesn't fade the way it's supposed to. His nights are haunted by dreams of Eleven calling to him from somewhere impossibly far away, and his days are filled with moments where reality feels... wrong. When Mike reconnects with his old friends, he realizes he isn't alone. They're seeing it too: visions of the Upside Down, flashes of a world that shouldn't exist, and the unmistakable feeling that something is watching from just beneath the surface of their lives. Then Eleven appears. She tells Mike the truth-she isn't dead, the world around them is an illusion, and the only way to escape is to wake up. When Mike does, he finds himself in a ruined world where the war was never truly won. Vecna survived by invading their minds, convincing them they had succeeded, and staging Eleven's death to keep them compliant. Now the boundaries between worlds have collapsed, the Mind Flayer feeds on human energy, and the truth may be more dangerous than the lie. To survive, Mike will have to face the reality he's been hiding from-and decide whether waking up is worth what waits on the other side.

the world was on fire and no one could save me but you. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ [ based on jeepers creepers (2001) ] [ fem ! oc x darry jenner ] ▬▬ reader discretion is advised ! 𓂃₊ ⊹

WARNING THIS IS CRINGE ASF ITS MY FIRST FANFIC... I WROTE IT AROUND SUMMER LAST YEAR BEFORE S4! and this is the official "blush count" (how many times I mentioned any form of blushing throughout the story: the answer is 15+.. 6 months have passed since the tragic event on July 4th, Hopper is nowhere to be seen, Joyce is worried sick and thinks Hopper is dead, until he ends up in Chicago, where the Byers have moved. Larry Goodman, an old friend of Hopper's, allows Hopper to stay with him. Joyce and the Kids have settled into their new house, 1491 Crescent Close. Hopper is only a wall away but many boundaries are between them, separating them from what perhaps could be everlasting love Can hopper find a way to make this work? What to expect: Dialogue Cringe letters POV's Romance ⚠️WARNING⚠️ before you continue it may be best to read this!! - language (censored) - some sex references - mentions of alcohol :) Hope you enjoy <3 no 1 in Jopper - 11/6/21

The Stranger Things|Spin Off Ten years after Hawkins, the world has moved on. Everyone but Mike Wheeler. Old friends gather, laughter fills the night, but some spaces remain unspoken, some stories unfinished. One night, a choice, a journey, and the echoes of a girl who changed everything stir questions no one can answer. In The Spaces Between, the past lingers in quiet corners, the future waits beyond familiar streets, and what is missing might just be closer than anyone realizes. - A/N: This story is completely fictional and has absolutely no official connection to Stranger Things or the Duffer Brothers' universe. Everything you're about to read was created inside my imagination as a survival mechanism-because seriously, what in the Upside Down was that ending??? This is not canon, this is coping. This is me choosing to write instead of staring at the wall in silence, questioning my life choices, and replaying the final scene until it hurts. Consider this my unpaid therapy, my emotional repair project, and my attempt to give myself the closure I was very rudely denied. Read responsibly

Lila Hayes or 012 has always been the quiet one in Hawkins lab : obedient, soft-spoken, invisible. At least, that's what everyone believes. Everyone except Henry Creel. He sees through everything she tries to hide: her fear, her strength, her loneliness... and the way the lab is slowly breaking her apart. When a brutal test pushes her past her limits, something inside Henry snaps and the line between protection and obsession starts to blur. Locked inside a cruel facility, Lila becomes the only thing that makes Henry feels human again. And he becomes the only one willing to burn the world down for her. In a place built on control, their connection is the most dangerous experiment of all.

*no good nick* ʷˡʷ ʳᵒᵇᶦⁿ ᵇᵘᶜᵏˡᵉʸ Running away is easy. Especially from Demogorgons. Running away from yourself is harder. And running away from your feelings is impossible. Especially when they involve Robin Buckley. ✦••──────────•• ✧ ••──────────••✦ Nick Harrington ran because staying stopped being an option. Home stopped being safe the moment she realized who she was and who she wasn't allowed to be. Running was easier than explaining. Easier than asking for permission to exist. Easier than staying still long enough to be questioned. So she runs to the only person who might accept her. Her cousin, Steve. Unfortunately, Hawkins is ground zero for interdimensional horror. Dragged into the Upside Down mess she never asked for, Nick discovers that fear is familiar territory. She's good at surviving. Good at escaping. Good at running from monsters with teeth and claws and too many legs. What she wasn't prepared for was Robin Buckley. ... started: December 2025 ... published: December 2025 ... finished:

𝐿𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑎 𝐸𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝐻𝑎𝑤𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐼𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝑡𝑜 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑛, 𝐷𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑢𝑛𝑡, 𝐶𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑎 𝐻𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛, 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔... 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝐻𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑡𝑜𝑛.ᐣ ⭒˚.⋆ ༄. " do you ever stop talking? " " not really. " " good, i like listening to you talk. " ⭒ steve harrington X fem!OC season two - season five ; season two , finished ! season three , finished ! season four , currently writing ! season five , not started ! ! DISCLAIMER ! all rights and characters belong to the duffer brother and the makers of Stranger Things! i DO NOT own any of their characters nor their plot! i only own MY character(s) and/or their plot(s) in my story!