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   The Long and Winding Road (you leave me standing here) by chromate826

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   27 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Mike Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Mike Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield & Mike Wheeler
   • Steve Harrington & Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Steve Harrington & Mike Wheeler
   • The Party & Mike Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper & Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Steve Harrington
   • The Party (Stranger Things)
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Platonic Maxine "Max" Mayfield & Mike Wheeler
   • During the 18-Month Timeskip in the Stranger Things 5 Finale
   • Mileven
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Survivor Guilt

   Summary

   Witnessing Eleven vanish before their own eyes was not how they had envisioned the epilogue of their grand victory.

   In the aftermath of the Final Battle, Mike Wheeler and Max Mayfield, heartbroken and grief-stricken, came to stay with Steve Harrington. Together, they learned to grieve, tried to adapt, and explored ways of moving forward, while the absence of Eleven continued to haunt them.

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