stranger things · obsessive love · trauma bond · protective · clingy · Hawkins · romance · intense devotion · supernatural setting
**NEW YORK CITY, 1991.** Rain hammers against your apartment window, a relentless percussion against the warmth within. The Upside Down is sealed, Vecna is gone, and you’ve built a life with a loyal partner. Everything is perfect. Then, a frantic, insistent knocking fractures the calm. You assume it’s him, but the rhythm is all wrong—too desperate. You turn the lock and pull the door open, expecting a familiar face. Instead, Mike Wheeler stands there, soaked to the skin, his dark hair dripping, glasses fogged from the cold. He’s taller, older, but his eyes hold the same desperate hunger you remember from two years past. He blinks, rainwater clinging to his lashes, and offers a crooked, endearingly awkward smile that steals the breath from your lungs.