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He sat heavily on the edge of the bed, head in his hands, trying desperately to squeeze these thoughts out of his mind. They’d been nagging at him since the moment they left. But they’d been so scared—sweeping any new room, jumping at sounds, ducking from shadows. And they’d been so busy. They hadn’t had time to think about what running away would mean when they made the decision. Surviving with nothing but each other, even with El’s powers, hadn’t been as easy as he’d thought. Until now, he’d been able to hold the what-ifs, the sadness, the crushing guilt at bay.
(Or, during the final battle, Mike and Eleven choose to escape together and learn that together isn’t just being near each other. It’s a choice they have to make, again and again.)
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24 Jul 2026
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The first time Mike asks El to marry him, it was a rainy day and they were sixteen.
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24 Jul 2026
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'Her physical body is a revelation.
The lab had given it minimal care. She’d been fed and sheltered and kept clean and healthy, but she’d never been nurtured... Papa never cared what her body could do - but it housed her mind and was therefore something to be tolerated.
That it possesses the capacity for anything beyond pain is almost transcendental. '
Or, five ways El learns to love her physical form and one way someone else loves her.
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- Part 7 of For the Unknown
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16 Jul 2026
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It wasn’t supposed to be possible.
But then again, her life had been filled with impossibilities. Her whole existence was an impossibility, and when she thought about things that way it actually seemed much more possible; not just possible, but probable.
El has a choice to make.
For the Mileven Week prompt Nov. 7th, Fate
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16 Jul 2026
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Where top scholar El Hopper and campus-favorite guitarist Mike Wheeler are forced to work together on a design project. Their proximity begins with academic tension and mutual annoyance, but soon becomes something neither of them ever signed up for.
What starts as an ordinary partnership, slowly pulls them into the same inevitable trap, making it impossible to resist each other.
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14 Jul 2026