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   This is the end, run away with it. by e_salazar

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   12 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Suzie Bingham
   • Robin Buckley
   • Erica Sinclair
   • Steve Harrington
   • Original Character(s)
   • Bisexual Mike Wheeler
   • Mike Wheeler is a Mess
   • Mike Wheeler Needs a Hug
   • Mike Wheeler Being an Idiot
   • Post-Canon
   • Miscommunication
   • Idiots in Love
   • Smoking
   • Drinking
   • Everyone is Alive
   • New York
   • Mental Health Issues
   • Slow Burn
   • Alternate Universe - After College/University
   • Will Byers Deserves Love
   • Will Byers-centric
   • Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies
   • Aged-Up Character(s)
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Time Skips
   • Non-Linear Narrative
   • Implied/Referenced Suicide
   • everyone has a quarter-life crisis
   • Mike Wheeler stops running
   • Will Byers is so fucking done
   • Explicit Language
   • Swearing
   • Mike Wheeler's Internal Monologue
   • Author is a Mike Wheeler Apologist
   • Mike Wheeler Has a Sexuality Crisis
   • Mike Wheeler Has ADHD
   • Recreational Drug Use
   • Minor Mike Wheeler/Original Character(s)
   • Original Character Death(s)
   • Major Original Character(s)
   • Mike Wheeler in a Band
   • Author Is Sleep Deprived
   • Angst
   • Mutual Pining
   • Not Actually Unrequited Love
   • Friends to Lovers
   • Childhood Friends to Lovers
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler in the 1990s
   • 1990s
   • Mike Wheeler is Not Okay

   Summary

   Tired of running from the inevitable, Mike appears back in New York on Will’s 25th birthday, and the Universe gives him one last chance to make things right.

   And he better not fuck it up this time.

   Except he already kinda did.

    

   OR: Pretty much a “quarter of life crisis” saga about two idiots finding their way back to each other despite years of miscommunication and missed opportunities.

    

   Set mostly in New York in 1996-ish. Post-college. Everyone is alive.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   76,752

   Chapters:

   12/28

   Comments:

   10

   Kudos:

   11

   Bookmarks:

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   Hits:

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   Bookmarked by KlanceShipperForLife

   04 Jul 2026