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There’s that feeling before the drop, the instinctual part of her that says 'find them and don’t let go', don’t turn your back. It’s been a flickering feeling that will hit her with force some days, some odd moments when she wakes up in the Wheeler’s basement or finds herself alone in her room. But it’s always been blind panic, her body reading it wrong. This is real, and now.
Robin finds Nancy and Steve finds her, baseball bat already in hand.
“He’s here.” Will whispers, helpless.
Dread hits Robin like a bowling ball to the stomach. 18 months of borrowed time, gone like smoke.
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During October of 87' Vecna begins the final assault. He starts by flaying Robin Buckley. -
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"You're my best friend, you know," Robin says, a statement of fact. He is her best friend. And he does know that. It's not new information by any means, but it tastes different in her mouth, now, knowing that some asshole from high school grew up to drive her to the grocery store after the apocalypse.
"Stop that," Steve says, "You sound like you're delivering me a speech on your death bed." His intonation is joking, but his voice cracks a bit on the word 'deathbed' and he glances over at her in worry.
"I'll be fine, Steve," she says. "I'm just glad we're alive."
Or, Steve and Robin survive the apocalypse. And then they survive some more. A story in three parts, featuring s'mores, nosebleeds, and nail polish.
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Billy Hargrove survived his confrontation with the Meat Flayer (the fleshy amalgam featured in season 3 of Stranger Things) and found his way westward in an effort to reach California. He carved a bloody path through the Midwest while wrestling with his latent abilities left behind by the nameless Mind Flayer. Eventually, Billy ends up in Las Vegas--Sin City. He quickly established himself as muscle-for-hire among the apparently rich and powerful--earning the nickname "Billy Bulletproof" by flattery and reputation. Billy began to experience nightmares of a winged demon brandishing a burning black blade, crackling with furious crimson bolts that reminded him of Hawkins--of all the pain and misery he swore to forget. The first few nights were muted terror, but each evening of insomnia afterward proffered fragments of speech. And the night before his latest job, the message rang clear.
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The Stranger Things final season the way it should've been, in my opinion.
Includes, but not limited to: El lives, Byler, more character depth for Mike, El, Lucas, Jonathan, Nancy, and Dustin, Eddie grief beyond just Dustin, paintinggate, exploration of why Will was chosen, Argyle doesn't just disappear, Mike gets Vecna'd, Max and Mike traveling through Vecna's mind palace buddy-comedy style, exploration of Will's connection to Henry and the Mind Flayer (except I'm not dealing with anything that happened in that damn play), and dark apocalyptic Hawkins vibes.
Takes place right where season 4 left off and is canon-compliant through season 4. Core four POVs. Plus a few others here and there.
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During the summer of '85, the kids discover that Will is still connected to the Mind Flayer. At the same time, Billy starts acting weird and Max is unsure if she is safe at home. Nancy and Jonathan discover the nasty truth about the Mind Flayer and nearly meet their end. After an argument with Mike, Will goes missing again as he gets stuck with Robin, Steve, and Dustin in a secret Russian base below Starcourt Mall. Having upset both Will and El, Mike tries asking Lucas for help to win them back. As El spies on Billy, she realizes something is seriously wrong. The kids, Jonathan, Nancy and Joyce work to figure out where Will and Dustin are and how it all ties to the upside down.
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- Part 1 of Stranger Things S3-5 rewrite
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A complete season 5 rewrite, starting 9 months after the end of season 4. Updates every week or so.
(Dramatic dialogue that I haven't written yet but its super emotional and cool)
Hawkins is in shambles. Monters stalk the streets and an unseen evil is preying on the townspeople. In an attempt to keep things under control, the military has formed an (albeit strained) alliance with the party with the end goal of defeating Vecna once and for all. The only problem? Somehow, Vecna is always one step ahead, and he is only getting stronger.
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Hawkins is overtaken by armageddon and everyone is desperately tired. After the gates opened, there's no knowing if this is even a fight they can win. Mike struggles to find his use in all this chaos, fearing the loss of control and his role as the heart, which is perfect bait for Vecna.
This is basically my rewrite of S5 up until a certain point because what the hell was that...Also I really wanted to write an apocalyptic Hawkins and Mike suffering (with a happy ending probably) (I miss my non-lobotomised son). Both Mike, Will, Jane and Lucas will regain some of their lost characteristics (eff you s5 writers).
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teeth of god, blood of man (i will be what i am) by divinesmites
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
01 Jul 2026
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The kids are gone. All seems lost. With November 6th on the horizon, the Party races against the clock to keep their loved ones safe, and to stop the end from coming to Hawkins.
Can cycles be broken? Can love defeat fear this time?
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a ST5 vol 2 & 3 rewrite, in script format. picks up directly after sorcerer
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Stranger Things 5 (1987 - The Last Battle) by dan_stobxwed1708
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Jun 2026
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Thursday October 29th, 1987.
It has been almost 18 months since the "magnitude 7.9 Earthquake" that violently struck Hawkins, IN. Vecna's plan has worked – Hawkins has fallen. Nothing is left of it, shrubs have grown out of major locations, weeds seep through the roads and the majority have left Hawkins for elsewhere. Max is still in a coma, and her status is unknown. She could die at any random moment. El and Mike are struggling with their relationship, whereas Will is struggling with his sexuality and believes he's all alone. Robin and Vickie are officially dating, but their visits are always brief to elude being caught. Vickie's bewilderment is seeping into their relationship; she's frightened and unsure of what is going on. The rise of the satanic panic and the HIV/AIDs crisis worries her, as she tells Robin about the several cases that she's had to deal with. Most places are closed, apart from the hospital where she volunteers.- Language:
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Mike has been reliant on heat suppressants ever since he first presented in winter of 1986. He hasn't been in heat since his first one all the way back in February. Unfortunately for him, that means that the second he misses a day thanks to the shortages of everything the apocalypse brings, his body immediately goes into the worst heat he's ever experienced (which isn't saying much) to compensate for it.
Which, of course, ends up triggering Wills.
Ik this is pretty niche but its MY niche
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They said the end is coming. I find myself running home to your sweet nothings by making_forts_undercover
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
24 Jun 2026
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Mike and El between season 4 and 5.
These are not in chronological order
Chapters 1 to 7 made pre season 5, then post season 5
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“Do you know how to use this?” Nancy presses as she shakes the firearm at Mike. “Mike! Can you use this?”
Mike stutters, blinking rapidly, “What? Um, I—”
“I can.”
Will steps forward from behind Mike. If he’s nervous, it doesn’t show on his face as reaches out his palm.
Without a second thought, Nancy tosses him the gun.
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A look into the development of Nancy and Will's friendship in an apocalyptic Hawkins as the Rightside Up turns Upside Down.
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Four weeks after the gates open up and an unnatural earthquake perturbs Hawkins, the Byers are staying with the Wheelers. As Mike and Will slowly fall from innocent childhood best friends into something more, life seems to be speeding through obstacles, both typical and supernatural.
The whole town is on lockdown. The Byers are staying with the Wheelers. Mike is being overcome with strange feelings that he doesn't know how to handle. The gang formulates a plan to save Max's soul from the Upside Down. Will is determined to overcome his trauma.
But when a heart and a soul coalesce, would their lives ever dare to be the same?
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Will smiled back, soft and sweet, like he always was. It was, all in all, the same smile Mike had grown up knowing as well as his own reflection. It was Will's teeth peeking through the slight pull of his chapped lips, and Will's skin wrinkling near his eyes. Mike would know Will's smile anywhere.
Only, that wasn't his smile.
Because that wasn't Will.
"Follow me?" Will asked, and one yellow ray of sunlight punctured the fog, illuminating the tufts of his mud-spattered hair like a halo. It was fitting. If the rest of the town thought Will was the devil, he'd always been an angel to Mike.
And for the life of him, Mike couldn’t remember what it was he’d been so worried about just a second ago.
"Yeah," he answered, treading behind Will and headed for the woods. "Always."
It's the summer of 1987, the town is under lockdown, the people are panicking and praying, and they've pinpointed Will as the one to blame for it all. In fact, nearly everyone seems a little afraid of Will these days, except for Mike.
(Or: Following a desperate ritual to cast the devil out of Hawkins, Will starts acting strangely. Mike starts having dreams.)
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His other eye held a sense of familiarity to Mike. The color a soft green. He looked at his nose, at his mouth, at the mole over it.
Wait.
...What?
He looked back up into his eyes. The same eyes he had looked into on their last day together.
His stomach dropped. He was going to be sick.
He traced his face yet again as his mind simultaneously remembered every picture of Will.
Pictures Mike had been studying meticulously ever since he died.
That’s right, Will died.
Will is dead.
He's supposed to be dead.
He kept repeating the sentiment in his head, but it didn't matter. All the details matched. Sure, his features had become older, but it was still him. It was still-
"...Will?" Mike whispered, terrified the sound of his voice would somehow make him disappear, make this not real. Instead, it appeared as if Mike speaking awoke something in Will as Will’s emotionless eyes suddenly shot up along with the shotgun flying back up into his hands, shooting right past Mikes head, straight through the tree he was still leaned against.
Or: A Will Byers was never found AU, until he was
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I decided to write a better, Stranger Things season 5 this time with a lot of byler, a m11 break up, max not getting side lined, and just over all better!!
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Mike gets taken instead of Holly, Jancy lives, and Will gets used like a puppet after psychological warfare!!
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A/B/O Apocalypse AU.
On November 6th, 1984, Hawkins, Indiana experiences a freak hyper-presentation event. The result? Every child under 3 and every adult over 20 dies due to overexertion of the body - leaving behind only the children and young adults completely changed from the incident. Their dynamics presented earlier than normal, and at an intensity never before seen in modern dynamics. The US government places a quarantine on all of Hawkins - for the safety of those changed inside of Hawkins and for the protection of those outside.
Thus starts a period of time where Hawkins is split into three primary packs: The Homestead, Hargrove’s Pack and Hellfire.
Mike Wheeler wants nothing but the secured safety of his makeshift pack - but it requires him, Lucas and Dustin to deliver Max back into hell’s maw by Billy’s command. It’s an easy decision to defect when Will and Nancy are in the same pack protecting their target.
Will Byers tries not to think of the imminent issue looming ahead - he’s an unmated omega in a world where omegas can’t stay unmated for long. And it seems like his chosen alpha had just fallen into his lap.
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Closing the gate stopped the Mindflayer, but the people it used for meat didn’t stay dead.
Two years later, Steve and Dustin were struggling to survive in the new zombie-infested world when they were captured by Billy, now the head of a large and brutal group of survivors. Faced with a gun pointed to the back of Dustin's head, Steve agreed to be one of Billy's “wives” to protect his pup. The situation seemed hopeless.
Cue Eddie Munson, head of a pack that consisted of nothing but his remaining packmates from Corroded Coffin and twelve-year-old Erica Sinclair. He’d be damned if he was going to let one of his Hellfire pups rot in Billy's clutches. If that meant rescuing an omega who was a total dick to him in high school, so be it. Little did he know, that'd be the best decision of his life.
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Two years after the Quake, Vecna remains dormant, but Demo attacks continue to rise consistently while the government tries to keep Hawkins in the dark. The crew tries to stop it by guarding the open cracks of the Upside Down while planning their next step to take down Vecna. But Will Byers is tired, and he just really wants to rest. As a matter of fact, he could kill just to have an ounce of it.
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Will Byers slowly turns evil, and Mike Wheeler knows what to do to stop him, but he’d rather die than hurt his best friend.
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The Hour of Lead by evsthewise
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
21 May 2026
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“Do you want me to spell it out?” Mike scoffed, moving closer until they were eye to eye. “Sharing a room with Will, getting all touchy with him, cozying up? Don’t play dumb.”
Richie gaped. “What? You mean being a decent human being?”
Mike's cheeks flushed. “You're obviously…” He struggled, then finally muttered, “…flirting with him.”
Richie choked. “Me? Flirting?” A laugh burst out of him.
It's summer in Hawkins, and Richie wouldn't mind getting to kiss a certain boy—maybe even more—if it weren't for the minor inconvenience of a massive earthquake tearing the town open like a giant gate to hell.
It’s a bit of a turn-off. But he’s nothing if not optimistic.