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"I'm sorry," El said softly as she crisscrossed her legs on the couch to face him better. "I know the rules said no spying."
Their knees bumped into each other as he moved to mirror her position. Her hands clasped onto his, and every small bit of skin on skin felt dizzying and heady, almost like her touch was a drug after being without it for so long. Mike giggled half-giddy through his tears.
"Screw the rules," he said. "You make your own rules, remember?" She smiled a soft little smile at this, bright and warm like a blanket bathed in colorful sunset light, and he wanted to burrow in and just live there. Her hands in his were warm too, a little callused, but still as soft and small as he remembered and so, so alive.
AKA Five times Mike Wheeler wanted to believe El was 'visiting' him after her death(?) at the gate, and one time he knew she was. Fair warning, gang - it's gonna hurt before it gets better.
PART 1 of this slow-ish burn Mike/El reunion story in 3 fics because SCREW that ending! They will always find each other. This part follows Mike from 1987 to 1993.
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18 Jun 2026
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Eight years have passed since El disappeared, but Mike never recovered. Living as a writer, he is still stuck in the past, isolating himself and seeking comfort in alcohol. Far from Hawkins, El carries secrets, guilt, and the hope that there’s still a place for her.
Or Mike never forgot Eleven, and she's desperately trying to get back to him.
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15 Jun 2026
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In 1993 New York City, Mike Wheeler is being haunted by dreams of Eleven in the void. Half-convinced that they might be real, Mike sets out on a journey he feels he should have undertaken a long time ago: finding her. Because if there was even the slightest chance that she could be out there, he could no longer live with not trying.
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12 Jun 2026
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Voldemort came back and took Harry Potter five years after the events of 1981 at Godric's Hollow. After years of trying to talk to Harry or tempt him to the side of the light Dumbledore is desperate -- and so entrusts the mission to the one person that has always managed to get a reaction out of the stubborn boy -- Hermione Granger.
He didn't count on them falling in love. Or deciding they were going to be nobody's soldier -- his or Voldemort's.
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22 Dec 2025
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Hermione Granger has loved Harry Potter in silence for years, always by his side, carrying a quiet ache she cannot confess. Her heart breaks the day she overhears him say he will never see her as more than a friend, yet she cannot turn away. Slowly, someone new enters her life, stirring emotions she never expected and challenging the loyalty she has always relied on. As her heart begins to shift, Harry starts to notice her in a way he never has before — the courage, brilliance, and quiet strength he had long overlooked. A story of unspoken love, quiet heartbreak, and the slow-burning realization that sometimes, the hardest truths are the ones left unsaid.
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28 Oct 2025