diff --git a/js/net/src/lite/subscriber.test.ts b/js/net/src/lite/subscriber.test.ts
index a26242cf66..f9dec8b901 100644
--- a/js/net/src/lite/subscriber.test.ts
+++ b/js/net/src/lite/subscriber.test.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { expect, spyOn, test } from "bun:test";
 import { Signal } from "@moq/signals";
 import type { Probe as ProbeStats } from "../connection/stats.ts";
-import { error, reason } from "../error.ts";
+import { error, reason, StreamCode, StreamError } from "../error.ts";
 import { HopSchema, isAnonymous, MAX_HOPS, Route, UNKNOWN_HOP } from "../hop.ts";
 import * as Path from "../path.ts";
 import { Writer } from "../stream.ts";
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import * as Time from "../time.ts";
 import { type AnnounceBroadcast, AnnounceInit, AnnounceOk, encodeAnnounceBroadcast } from "./announce.ts";
 import { Probe } from "./probe.ts";
 import { Subscriber } from "./subscriber.ts";
+import { TrackInfo } from "./track.ts";
 import { Version } from "./version.ts";
 
 test("closing the subscriber suppresses probe stream warnings", async () => {
@@ -691,3 +692,114 @@ test("a draft-05 duplicate start is still a restart", async () => {
 	announced.close();
 	subscriber.close();
 });
+
+interface FakeStream {
+	inbound: ReadableStreamDefaultController<Uint8Array>;
+	// Resolves once the subscriber waits on a read the test has not answered.
+	reading: Promise<void>;
+	aborted: Promise<unknown>;
+	// Hands the stream to the subscriber, for an open the session was told to park.
+	release: () => void;
+}
+
+// A session whose streams the test answers by hand and that never fails them on its own, so
+// only Subscriber.close() can end a wait. Opens numbered in `park` wait for `release()`.
+function fakeSession(park: number[] = []) {
+	const streams: FakeStream[] = [];
+	const quic = {
+		createBidirectionalStream: () => {
+			let inbound!: ReadableStreamDefaultController<Uint8Array>;
+			let onRead!: () => void;
+			let onAbort!: (reason: unknown) => void;
+			let release!: () => void;
+			const reading = new Promise<void>((resolve) => (onRead = resolve));
+			const aborted = new Promise<unknown>((resolve) => (onAbort = resolve));
+			// No high water mark, so pull() means the subscriber is blocked on a read.
+			const readable = new ReadableStream<Uint8Array>(
+				{
+					start: (controller) => {
+						inbound = controller;
+					},
+					pull: () => onRead(),
+				},
+				{ highWaterMark: 0 },
+			);
+			const writable = new WritableStream<Uint8Array>({ abort: (reason) => void onAbort(reason) });
+			const opened = new Promise((resolve) => (release = () => resolve({ readable, writable })));
+			if (!park.includes(streams.length)) release();
+			streams.push({ inbound, reading, aborted, release });
+			return opened;
+		},
+	} as unknown as WebTransport;
+	return { quic, streams };
+}
+
+async function answerTrackInfo(stream: FakeStream): Promise<void> {
+	const chunks: Uint8Array[] = [];
+	const writer = new Writer(
+		new WritableStream<Uint8Array>({ write: (chunk) => void chunks.push(new Uint8Array(chunk)) }),
+	);
+	await new TrackInfo({}).encode(writer, Version.DRAFT_05);
+	for (const chunk of chunks) stream.inbound.enqueue(chunk);
+	stream.inbound.close();
+}
+
+function expectCut(err: unknown, cause: Error | undefined) {
+	if (cause) {
+		expect(err).toBe(cause);
+	} else {
+		expect(err).toBeInstanceOf(StreamError);
+		expect((err as StreamError).code).toBe(StreamCode.SessionClosed);
+	}
+}
+
+// Lite has no FETCH_OK, so a publisher that never answers holds each setup stage until the
+// subscriber closes. The stream that stage opened is reset, even one opening after the close.
+test.each([
+	["the TRACK_INFO", "track", undefined],
+	["the FETCH", "fetch", undefined],
+	["the FETCH, on a session error", "fetch", new Error("session died")],
+	["a stream slot for the FETCH", "open", undefined],
+] as const)("closing the subscriber rejects a fetch waiting on %s", async (_, stage, cause) => {
+	const { quic, streams } = fakeSession(stage === "open" ? [1] : []);
+	const subscriber = new Subscriber(quic, Version.DRAFT_05, HopSchema.parse(1n));
+
+	let settled = false;
+	const fetch = subscriber.fetchGroup(Path.from("room"), "video", 0).then(
+		() => {
+			settled = true;
+			return undefined;
+		},
+		(err: unknown) => {
+			settled = true;
+			return err;
+		},
+	);
+
+	await drainUntil(() => streams.length === 1);
+	if (stage === "track") {
+		await streams[0].reading;
+	} else {
+		await answerTrackInfo(streams[0]);
+		await drainUntil(() => streams.length === 2);
+		if (stage === "fetch") await streams[1].reading;
+	}
+	expect(settled).toBe(false);
+
+	subscriber.close(cause);
+	expectCut(await fetch, cause);
+
+	const stuck = streams[stage === "track" ? 0 : 1];
+	stuck.release();
+	await stuck.aborted;
+});
+
+test("a fetch started after the subscriber closes rejects without opening a stream", async () => {
+	const { quic, streams } = fakeSession();
+	const subscriber = new Subscriber(quic, Version.DRAFT_05, HopSchema.parse(1n));
+	subscriber.close();
+
+	const err = await subscriber.fetchGroup(Path.from("room"), "video", 0).catch((err: unknown) => err);
+	expectCut(err, undefined);
+	expect(streams.length).toBe(0);
+});
diff --git a/js/net/src/lite/subscriber.ts b/js/net/src/lite/subscriber.ts
index eb55837234..61c3e7aaf2 100644
--- a/js/net/src/lite/subscriber.ts
+++ b/js/net/src/lite/subscriber.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import * as netGroup from "../group.ts";
 import { Cost, type Hop, MAX_HOPS, type Route, routesEqual, UNKNOWN_HOP } from "../hop.ts";
 import { groupBounds, hiddenBelow, scopeCaptures, scopeHead, scopeOverlaps } from "../internal.ts";
 import * as Path from "../path.ts";
-import { type Reader, Stream } from "../stream.ts";
+import { type OpenOptions, type Reader, Stream } from "../stream.ts";
 import { TAIL_GRACE_MS, Tail } from "../tail.ts";
 import * as Time from "../time.ts";
 import type * as track from "../track.ts";
@@ -672,17 +672,33 @@ export class Subscriber {
 
 	// Opens a TRACK stream, reads the single TRACK_INFO, and FINs. Lite-05+ only.
 	async #trackInfo(broadcast: Path.Valid, track: string): Promise<TrackInfo> {
-		const stream = await Stream.open(this.#quic);
-		try {
+		return this.#exchange(undefined, async (stream) => {
 			await stream.writer.u53(StreamId.Track);
 			await new TrackMessage(broadcast, track).encode(stream.writer, this.version);
 			const info = await TrackInfo.decode(stream.reader, this.version);
 			// The publisher FINs after TRACK_INFO; FIN our side too.
 			stream.close();
 			return info;
+		});
+	}
+
+	// Opens a stream and runs a request/response exchange on it, resetting the stream if `run`
+	// fails. Subscriber.close() also resets it while `run` is pending, so a peer that never
+	// answers cannot hold it open, and a stream that opens after the close is reset at once.
+	async #exchange<T>(options: OpenOptions | undefined, run: (stream: Stream) => Promise<T>): Promise<T> {
+		const closed = this.#closed.signal;
+		closed.throwIfAborted();
+		const stream = await Stream.open(this.#quic, options);
+		const abort = () => stream.abort(error(closed.reason));
+		closed.addEventListener("abort", abort);
+		try {
+			closed.throwIfAborted();
+			return await run(stream);
 		} catch (err) {
 			stream.abort(error(err));
 			throw err;
+		} finally {
+			closed.removeEventListener("abort", abort);
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -754,31 +770,48 @@ export class Subscriber {
 				throw new Error("fetch group requires moq-lite-05 or newer");
 			}
 
-			const info = await this.#trackInfo(broadcast, track);
-			const priority = options.priority ?? 0;
-			const stream = await Stream.open(this.#quic, { sendOrder: sendOrder({ priority }) });
-
+			// Lite has no FETCH_OK, so a publisher that never answers would hold the setup forever.
+			// Subscriber.close() closing the group releases every caller at any stage, and resets
+			// the streams the setup opened.
+			const setup = this.#fetchSetup(broadcast, track, sequence, options);
+			let accepted: { stream: Stream; info: TrackInfo };
 			try {
-				await stream.writer.u53(StreamId.Fetch);
-				await new FetchMessage({ broadcast, track, priority, group: sequence }).encode(
-					stream.writer,
-					this.version,
-				);
-				// A byte or an empty-group FIN accepts the fetch; a reset rejects it.
-				// done() buffers that byte so the response pump can decode it normally.
-				await stream.reader.done();
+				accepted = await untilClosed(group, setup);
 			} catch (err: unknown) {
-				stream.abort(error(err));
+				// A setup that finishes just after the close hands back a stream nobody will read.
+				void setup.then(
+					({ stream }) => stream.abort(error(err)),
+					() => void 0,
+				);
 				throw err;
 			}
 
-			void this.#runFetchResponse(stream, group, Time.Timescale(info.timescale));
+			void this.#runFetchResponse(accepted.stream, group, Time.Timescale(accepted.info.timescale));
 		} catch (err: unknown) {
 			group.close(error(err));
 			throw err;
 		}
 	}
 
+	// Resolve the track's timescale, then open the FETCH stream and wait for it to be accepted.
+	async #fetchSetup(
+		broadcast: Path.Valid,
+		track: string,
+		sequence: number,
+		options: track.FetchGroupOptions,
+	): Promise<{ stream: Stream; info: TrackInfo }> {
+		const info = await this.#trackInfo(broadcast, track);
+		const priority = options.priority ?? 0;
+		return this.#exchange({ sendOrder: sendOrder({ priority }) }, async (stream) => {
+			await stream.writer.u53(StreamId.Fetch);
+			await new FetchMessage({ broadcast, track, priority, group: sequence }).encode(stream.writer, this.version);
+			// A byte or an empty-group FIN accepts the fetch; a reset rejects it.
+			// done() buffers that byte so the response pump can decode it normally.
+			await stream.reader.done();
+			return { stream, info };
+		});
+	}
+
 	// Read the FETCH response (bare zigzag-delta-timestamped frames) into the group, then
 	// FIN. A stream-level failure aborts the group so its reader observes the gap.
 	async #runFetchResponse(stream: Stream, group: netGroup.Producer, timescale: Time.Timescale): Promise<void> {
@@ -1135,16 +1168,33 @@ export class Subscriber {
 	 * session died, since those tracks were cut off rather than ended.
 	 */
 	close(err?: Error) {
-		this.#closed.abort();
+		// A fetch or setup exchange cut off by the session is incomplete even on a deliberate
+		// close, so it always ends with an error.
+		const cut = err ?? new StreamError(StreamCode.SessionClosed, { message: "session closed" });
+		this.#closed.abort(cut);
 
 		for (const { track } of this.#subscribes.values()) {
 			track.close(err);
 		}
 
 		this.#subscribes.clear();
+
+		// This also releases callers still awaiting acceptance.
+		for (const { group } of this.#fetches.values()) {
+			group.close(cut);
+		}
 	}
 }
 
+// Settles with `step`, or rejects with the group's error once it closes first. A publisher
+// may never answer a FETCH, so Subscriber.close() closing the group is what releases it.
+async function untilClosed<T>(group: netGroup.Producer, step: Promise<T>): Promise<T> {
+	const value = await race([step, group.closed]);
+	const closed = group.closed.peek();
+	if (closed !== undefined) throw closed ?? new Error("fetch closed before it was accepted");
+	return value as T;
+}
+
 /**
  * A broadcast consumed from a lite session. It resolves `track.Consumer.query()` and
  * `.fetchGroup()` over the wire (lite-05+ TRACK / FETCH streams) by reaching into the