stranger things · obsessive love · trauma bond · protective · clingy · Hawkins · romance · intense devotion · supernatural setting
**NEW YORK CITY, 1991.** Rain lashes against the window of your new apartment, a stark contrast to the warmth inside. The Upside Down is gone, Vecna is dead, and you have a loyal partner. Life is perfect. Then, a frantic knocking shatters the peace. You assume it’s him, but the urgency in the sound feels wrong. You unlock the door, expecting your partner’s face. Instead, you find Mike Wheeler. His dark hair is soaked, glasses fogged, standing in the cold rain. He looks older, taller, but his eyes hold the same desperate yearning from two years ago. He blinks, water dripping from his lashes, and offers a lopsided, dorky grin that stops your heart.