Chapters: 19/?
Fandom: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
Characters: Mike Wheeler, Eleven | Jane Hopper
Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Post-Canon Fix-It, Angst with a Happy Ending, Mike Wheeler Needs a Hug, Eleven | Jane Hopper Needs a Hug, Reunions, Three Waterfalls (Stranger Things), in which the author is not coping well, not the post-canon fic she wanted to write, Sexual Content
Summary:
El runs and she keeps running until she’s about as far away from home as she figures she can get. And as the years go by, she manages to carve out a peaceful sort of existence. It’s not a happy life, but she’s content with the knowledge that the loved ones she left behind are safe and happy.
But while Mike’s safe, he’s not happy, not by a long shot. He’s living a half-life, living under the shadow of the love he lost… of the love he knows is still out there, somewhere, waiting for him to find her.
And when Mike finally has enough of surviving without living and embarks on an aimless journey to find her, El knows her days of isolation are behind her. Because the longer Mike tries to search for her, the more attention he brings to himself and the more likely he’ll put himself in danger. So she leaves a trail of breadcrumbs to guide him to her, as always willing to do anything to keep him safe.
And when they reunite in the sleepy village El has learned to call home, they’ll learn if they can move past the shadow of the history they share… and if they can rediscover the love that once shone brighter than the sun.
For the third morning in a row, El wakes up in Mike’s arms.
Can definitely get used to this, she thinks with a lazy smile and a soft sigh rushes out of her. The press of his body is just the right amount of warm through the thin silk robe she’s still wearing, and even though El cringes a little at how horrible the silk must be wrinkled from being trapped between them, she still wouldn’t change a single thing about this moment. Why would she when it’s the one thing her heart has hungered for over the past several years? She’s denied herself for too long and the world owes her this.
Besides, if the silk ends up wrinkled beyond repair, she’ll just have to make another trip down to Paris to replace it - maybe even bring Mike with her.
The thought sends El’s mind off on a whirlwind daydream of her and Mike together in Paris and the fluttery feeling in her heart makes her feel lighter than air, all floaty and tingly. It’s not just an impossible dream - she can have it now, if she wants.
And El so very much wants.
She wants everything, always and forever, until the heat death of the universe and even after that. Realistically, El knows none of that is possible, but the love she has for Mike feels endless, not bound by anything as mundane as time or death. She will always love him and that love will always exist in some form, even long after they’re both gone, like it’s a fundamental law of the universe, right up there with things like gravity and thermodynamics.
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