Christmas hasn't been kind to Eleven Hopper for many years. Seeking a way to forget all her troubles, she ends up alone in a bar on Christmas Eve, not expecting to find something more than just a drink. (AU, modern day, CHRISTMAS, strangers, aged up, angsty, smut, one night stand turns into more)

-ON INDEFINITE HIATUS-Two years after he left her in Hawkins for New York, Mike and El are called to California for a celebration. For the first time they're forced to confront their broken pieces and rediscover who they were. After a week together in the Cali sunshine they have to fly back home, but will home be the same, or will home have become something more than a place?

It had been some time since the gate had closed. Years in fact. The party had recently begun their junior year of high school. Things had settled. They had made the best of a bad situation, having gotten used to seeing El only twice a year. But for Mike, everything was going to be completely up-ended, because now El was joining the boys at Hawkins High School. Mileven Mileven