#max mayfiled

Chapters: 4/9 Summary: There was a Beach Boys song playing through the grocery store speakers, tinny and totally cliche, but Lucas couldn’t help but smile as he made his way down the aisle lined with colorful cereal boxes. Cause they'd finally made it. They were here in Los Angeles, and the sun was shining and the Beach Boys were singing, and the palm trees were swaying in the warm wind. His gaze had snapped to Max on the driver's seat the second they'd crossed the state line earlier that morning, having left Flagstaff after some truly amazing pancakes at a roadside diner. He'd let out a celebratory whoop at them passing the sign welcoming them to California and she'd laughed, shaking her head a little but still cranking the window down, letting the warm summer air flow in to toss her hair. She was back in her natural habitat, and she'd looked so free, so beautiful, that he'd had to convince her to pull over so he could kiss her properly to celebrate. It hadn't taken that much convincing.

mop the floors, stand tall

like no one’s ever been here before

or at all

ROUND 1 SIDE A BRACKET IS LIVE!!!

Vote at the links below to decide which character is most likely to be a reality TV star?

Mike Wheeler vs Steve Harrington (closes 7:59am EDT 10/24/2023)

Joyce Byers vs Erica Sinclair (closes 8:29am EDT 10/24/2023)

Jim Hopper vs. Max Mayfield (closes 8:59am EDT 10/24/2023)

Lucas Sinclair vs Eddie Munson (closes 9:29am EDT 10/24/2023)

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Remember this is a big bang… just upside down.

Max and Lucas move to New York for work and college because it’s not too far away from Home and Lucas’s family. Not to mention the incredible opportunities they have there.

Max is a paediatric surgeon, or is at least training to be one. Finally being granted a position at a hospital when she is 27.

Lucas is a scientist specialising in physics, more specifically space.

Lucas and Max don’t get married until they’re 25 but by the time they get married they have three kids, two boys and a girl. The eldest is Zach (5), Abi (4) and Myles (2). Zach loves both of his parents equally while Abi (her full name is Abigail) is obsessed with Lucas and Myles (who was born while Lucas was on a business trip so he had a day and a half with max before Lucas got there) is basically Maxs shadow.

The Sinclairs are very close to the Henderson’s (Dustin, his wife, and their son and daughter)

Myles’s full name is Myles Samuel Sinclair. His middle name being an homage to Max’s canon dad Sam. He has trouble talking. Not even uttering his first word (which is obviously mama) until he is 2. And as much as he loves Max he gets all of Lucas’s shy personality. Myles means “soldier” a strong name for a shy kid.

Abi’s full name is Abigail Sinclair, Max opting out of giving her a middle name claiming “if she gets married one day she could change her middle name to Sinclair like I will do with Mayfield”. She is pretty much a mix of max and Erica. She’s loud and argumentative but somehow angelic all at the same time. She is fascinated by her fathers work in science and technology and even helps him build model rockets. Abigail means ‘Fathers Joy’ in Hebrew which is pretty fitting all things considered.

Zach’s full name is Zachary Charles Sinclair, continuing the chain of first born sons in the Sinclair family having the first or middle name Charles (which is Lucas’s middle name and non-canonically his dads name). Zach leans more towards Lucas’s personality with a dash of Max’s but only when it comes to arguing with his younger sister. He wasn’t planned. At all. Max was 19 when she got pregnant with him and there were a lot of complications with the pregnancy resulting in him being born a month and a half early, when max was 20. They would spend nearly a month in the hospital with him before he was allowed to come home.

Lucas’s family are in love with the kids. Finding every opportunity they can to come to New York to help out with them.

Max’s family (excluding her biological father) aren’t allowed to see the kids at all. No exceptions.

The party hadn’t seen each other in 9 years when they reunite for the first time around Christmas time in 1998. Everyone being shocked that Lucas and Max are even still together.

They have a cat caller Oscar and a dog called Kevin. They couldn’t decide which to get considering Max and Lucas are cat and dog people.

Erica takes Abi under her wing. She teaches her how to braid her hair and teaches her all about the latest fashion. (Even though she is 4 and most definitely doesn’t understand what she is saying.)

They live in a three bedroom apartment. Abi and Zach share a room but Abi and Myles will switch when he is old enough to move out of the nursery.

The Sinclair kids are very athletic.

Max and Lucas go to the gym together all the time while they’re both off work, Abi and Zach are at pre-k and Myles is at daycare.

Myles suffers with separation anxiety when he and Max are separated for too long.

Now this part has to do with maxs trauma so if you don’t want to read that skip ahead.

Max often feels that she isn’t good enough. Neil engraved into her brain at a young age that she doesn’t deserve to be loved. So when Lucas asks her what’s wrong she says this:

‘Do you know how it’s feels, to come home everyday from work and look into your kids eyes and think, “Why are you still here? I don’t deserve you. I don’t.”do you know how it feels to look your own baby in the eye and have an overwhelming urge to leave because they would be a hell of a lot better without you. I hate that I think like this but how couldn’t I? After everything.”

He holds her close on nights that she feels this way.

Max is diagnosed with anxiety two months after leaving Hawkins.

Her and Lucas agree that they won’t let each other go. Max makes sure she and Lucas always go to bed happy. For her sake. For Lucas’s sake. And most importantly, for their kids sake.

She is constantly worried that he’ll leave. Even after having three kids together. She’s still worried because she knows how it feels to have divorced parents. It hurts. And step-parents and step siblings could be the worst thing to ever happen to you.

End of Trauma Talk

Lucas holds onto Max as tight as he can. He never let’s go. They never divorce. They grow old together. The end.