i have a really good idea for a mileven fic but don’t have the patience to write it and your stories sound great so maybe you’ll choose to?
it can pick up at the end of season 5 maybe with a time jump where mike’s theory is true. El is alive and well and in a little town away from hawkins. she still misses all of them but knows she can’t go back, she works at a little library/ restaurant now. she uses her powers to check on them. after college mike is halfway done with his book and gets stuck. he becomes obsessed with finding el. his friends are worried and attempt to talk some sense into him with an intervention of sorts. it ends up backfiring because he tells them about a lead he has that is actually substantial and hopper is also there. a few of them (maybe all) agree to go on one last adventure, for real this time.