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• I miss my dying town by Metaphors_and_stuff

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

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

  23 Jul 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Joyce Byers
  • Argyle (Stranger Things)
  • Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Post-Stranger Things 3
  • POV Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Slow Burn
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper Has a Crush on Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • except she's just realising that
  • Minor Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Lenora Hills (Stranger Things)
  • Angst with a Happy Ending
  • Not Actually Unrequited Love
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield is Not Okay
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper Needs a Hug
  • Friends to Lovers
  • Lesbian Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • no AI
  • Mentions of past abuse
  • mostly from El's past
  • Jealous Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Angela makes a brief appearance
  • No Vecna (Stranger Things)

  Summary

  Max was sad. Mike wrote so in his letter to El.

  Though, no; he did not write exactly that. But that was what he meant. And El couldn’t stand not being able to help her out in any way.

  That’s why, once El has heard that Max was coming to visit them in California over spring break, she’s made a plan.

  Only seven days to make Max feel happy again.

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  English

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