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He told Mikey he wouldn't touch another pill for as long as he lived, something he's sure the guy has heard from every passing person who's entered inpatient, sat in those hard unforgiving metal chairs. They probably stopped keeping a tally of how many showed back up again with the same solemn promise as if they forgot they already broke it the first time.
Addiction is a constant fight, where the opponent learns how to lose more than they'll ever win. Relapse expected, it's just how it goes.
Frank just has a devastating reason to be so terribly certain he won't.
In the aftermath of a harsh sober reality, Dr. Frank Langdon returns to The Pitt to face whatever mess he left behind while trying not to fray apart at the seams.
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- Part 1 of The Quiet Work of Healing
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30 Jan 2026
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Frank Langdon is eight years old and he keeps his mouth shut.
This is a story about panic. This is a story about hope.
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27 Jan 2026
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When Frank Langdon walks back into the Pitt on a Fourth of July weekend ten months after he left, he doesn’t tell anyone he’s gotten divorced.
It doesn’t work out for him. Well, until it does.
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11 Jan 2026
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i could be your lover (and you could be my heartache) by sunsetozier
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
19 May 2026
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Silence. Hungry, carnivorous—or maybe cavernous, vast and lined with teeth, ready to bite. The quiet before the storm, the gasped breath in before the heart stops. Tragedy tastes bitter. Blood tastes like pennies. Both are in the air, promises coating the tongue. Something bad is about to happen.
From beneath the bed, something reaches out—a mass of darkness, a shapeless nothing—and it grabs Mike by the wrist, yanks him forward. Mike chokes on a yelp and flails his arm free, blood dripping from where the shadows grabbed him, like the touch of darkness has split him open. He tries to scramble away, unfolds his legs to kick himself back but only makes himself easier, more vulnerable. The unidentifiable mass encircles Mike's ankle, and he screams something agonized, terrified—and then it pulls Mike, clawing at the carpet with his bloodied fingers, under the bed.
This time, the silence isn't hungry. It's satisfied.
will starts entering the mindscape in his dreams on the same night that mike gets taken by vecna. this is probably the least confusing part of everything that happens after.
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07 Jan 2026
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After returning to Hawkins, Mike Wheeler can’t sleep.
Nightmares bleed into his days, cigarettes replace rest, and his fears keeps circling the same person: Will Byers. As Hawkins waits for the next disaster, Mike begins to realize that what haunts him isn’t just trauma. It's the terrifying possibility of losing the boy he can’t imagine surviving without.Bookmarked by Rustyspoons
05 Jan 2026