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1. handle me with care in this life (we can live it out again twice) by subliminalpsyche

   Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M, F/F, F/M
   • Work in Progress

   20 Feb 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Will Byers/Mike Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers/Nancy Wheeler
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield/Lucas Sinclair
   • Robin Buckley/Vickie Dunne
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper/Dustin Henderson
   • Joyce Byers/Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers
   • Maxine "Max" Mayfield
   • Eleven | Jane Hopper
   • Lucas Sinclair
   • Dustin Henderson
   • Nancy Wheeler
   • Jonathan Byers
   • Robin Buckley
   • Steve Harrington
   • Vickie Dunne
   • Jim "Chief" Hopper
   • Joyce Byers
   • Murray Bauman
   • Henry Creel | One | Vecna
   • Erica Sinclair
   • Kali Prasad
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Apocalypse
   • Stranger Things 5
   • Fix-It
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • POV Alternating
   • Vecna Possessing Mike Wheeler
   • Will Byers Has Powers
   • Angst
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Underage Drinking
   • Slow Burn
   • Found Family
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Mike Wheeler Loves Will Byers
   • Will Byers Loves Mike Wheeler
   • takes them a minute to lock in though
   • Childhood Trauma
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Stranger Things 5 Fix-It
   • Protective Mike Wheeler
   • Protective Will Byers
   • Blood and Gore
   • Weapons
   • Byler-Centric
   • i’ll update these tags as i go
   • Forced Proximity

   Summary

   Mike doesn't remember much of the final battle against Vecna, but he quickly finds out nothing is at it seems — and it hasn't been for a long time.

   Or a post-S5 volume 2 fix-it fic where monsters are lurking around an abandoned Hawkins, Vecna is nowhere to be found, and Mike has no idea how they can stop the world from ending.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   23,972

   Chapters:

   3/?

   Comments:

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