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• Chain Keeps Us Together (Running In the Shadows) by Claw_45

  Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Multi
  • Work in Progress

  02 Feb 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
  • Robin Buckley/Vickie Dunne/Nancy Wheeler
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
  • Jonathan Byers/Steve Harrington
  • Will Byers & Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Jonathan Byers & Will Byers
  • Robin Buckley & Will Byers
  • Robin Buckley & Mike Wheeler
  • Robin Buckley & Steve Harrington
  • Steve Harrington & Dustin Henderson
  • Mike Wheeler & Nancy Wheeler
  • Will Byers & Lucas Sinclair
  • Will Byers & Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield & Mike Wheeler
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Kali Prasad
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Mike Wheeler
  • Will Byers
  • Lucas Sinclair
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • Jonathan Byers
  • Robin Buckley
  • Steve Harrington
  • Nancy Wheeler
  • Dustin Henderson
  • Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Kali Prasad
  • Jim "Chief" Hopper
  • Joyce Byers
  • Vickie Dunne
  • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
  • False Hydra AU
  • Apocalypse
  • Vecna's Curse (Stranger Things)
  • Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault
  • Will Byers Needs a Hug
  • Will Byers Has Powers
  • Siblings Will Byers & Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
  • Mike Wheeler is Bad at Feelings
  • Angst
  • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
  • Good Friend Lucas Sinclair
  • Protective Lucas Sinclair
  • Protective Mike Wheeler
  • BAMF Maxine "Max" Mayfield
  • BAMF Will Byers
  • BAMF Eleven | Jane Hopper
  • Loser Mike Wheeler
  • I couldn’t decide between rovickie and ronance so you get rocknance 😈
  • Past Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson
  • Maxine "Max" Mayfield Needs a Hug
  • Mike Wheeler Has Internalized Homophobia
  • Mike Wheeler Has a Sexuality Crisis
  • Will Byers Has PTSD
  • Mike Wheeler & Nancy Wheeler Bonding
  • They’re siblings and I fear the duffers forgot ab that
  • Robin Buckley Has ADHD
  • Fuck it everyone’s neurodivergent
  • Mike Wheeler Has BPD | Borderline Personality Disorder
  • Betaed we live like Steve Harrington
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added

  Summary

  Monsters, illusions, and devastation galore!! This is my False Hydra AU in which all the happenings in ST have been due to the influence of a False Hydra rather than the Mind Flayer. There will be angst, and I will be putting all of these characters into the blender, so be warned!

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  2,469

  Chapters:

  2/?

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