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Nick didn’t mean for a stupid dare to turn into something real — or to see the boy he was meant to fool as someone worth protecting. But somehow he did and it turned out to be the most life-changing dare he's gotten.
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Harry dares Nick to mess with Truham grammar's 'gay boy' Charlie spring and he struggles deciding between his morals and popularity.
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The Voice You Choose to Keep Inside and Locked Away by kingdomfaraway
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
01 Dec 2025
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Try as he might, Charlie couldn’t quite quell his nerves.
He bit at his thumb nail, which was already bitten down more than enough. He pulled his hand away from his mouth, shaking his head slightly as he walked up to the office doors. He’d been inside the building a handful of times now, twice for interviews, and once for his orientation day, but he still checked the sign on the door, making sure he had the right address.
He’d also looked it up on Google maps again too, just in case he somehow forgot the directions. He was well aware of how stupid it might be for him to worry so much but it was his first official full day of work, he couldn’t afford to be late because he somehow forgot what building he was going into. He was also incredibly aware he was catastrophizing but therapy also taught him it was fine to catastrophize, as long as he knew that’s what it was.
He was fine, nothing was going to happen to him, he just had to keep that in mind.
(Or Charlie and Nick are living together in domestic bliss, but when Charlie starts a new job and Geoff retires, he finds himself struggling to stay on track.)
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“Nick,” Charlie spoke firmly, snapping Nick back to attention. His gaze was trained on Nick, a tinge of desperation seeping into his voice. “Do you not know who I am?”
Nick hesitated a moment. He wracked his poor, throbbing brain one last time for some memory of the boy in front of him. He wished so badly that he could tell Charlie something else, anything else, and not cause him more anguish.
“No, I'm so sorry. I don't remember you.” And then, because he couldn't seem to stop his big mouth. “Should I?”
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An AU where Nick and Charlie met and get together in uni. Nick has an accident during a rugby game that leaves him with memory issues. Charlie has to help navigate Nick's recovery while dealing with the pain of his boyfriend forgetting him.
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tornado warnings by sproldenhrts for justjoelockedin
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
26 Nov 2025
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Charlie Spring is not going to get back with Nick Nelson.
He isn’t.
Just because he has his instagram dms open, currently sending reels back and forth, grinning ear to ear, does not mean anything is happening between them.
Exes can be friends, it’s not a foreign concept.
That doesn’t mean feelings are still involved.
Right?
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Or; what if Nick and Charlie had broken up during uni, then reconnected two years later, after both having to move back to Truham under unforeseen circumstances?
OR, the tornado warnings au!
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Will They Write About Us? by Olive_Is_Not_My_Colour
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
23 Nov 2025
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At the age of twenty five, Charlie Spring has already achieved his dream job: becoming a young children's book author. One meeting with his boss changes everything. Going from writing children's books to interviewing a professional rugby player for some big sports magazine he’s never even heard of.
Twenty seven years old, and Nick Nelson is playing professional rugby. But coming out as bisexual months prior has changed his reputation, and how others, even his own teammates see him. As an attempt to change his reputation, and connect to a larger audience, Imogen, the team's social media manager, applied for Nick to be interviewed for a special pride section in an upcoming sports magazine.
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October 31st is a feared day, and it's not because of Halloween; it is All the Day of The Marking. Trackers pursue different chosen individuals by Nyx, the Goddess of Night and Vampires.
Charlie Spring, a bright light yet a tortured soul... After learning about his boyfriend Sai Verma's infidelity, it broke his heart, especially since they have been best friends since birth. Once he is marked, Sai is desperate; he strikes his hand to show Charlie he still loves him. While fledglings are supposed to not have a taste for blood, Charlie is obsessed with it. He hated being different and standing out... However, when his fledgling mark is filled in, which is what full vampires' marks look like... he and everyone else knew that he was different.
Nick Nelson has been at the House of Night for a year longer than Charlie Spring. They knew about each other in school, but they really got to know each other once they became roommates. Nick quickly learns he is obsessed with Charlie; however, confronting his bisexuality proves difficult with his dumb friends and homophobic brother around. Though his friends and brother aren't the only difficulties, it seems like other guys are allured by Charlie too.
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I Hope You Feel My Love by nicknelsonisanareskid
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
15 Nov 2025
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Charlie has a hard day and ends up texting Nick asking him to come home, Nick immediately calls him and rushes home despite plans with coworkers to comfort his husband
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Kiss Me When You Come Home by kingdomfaraway
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
11 Nov 2025
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Moving in together, at least in Charlie’s opinion, was really weird.
Sure, Nick and him spent long swaths of time together before, spending weekends together at each other’s uni’s, and living in each other’s pockets when they were home for summer holiday. Not to mention before Nick left for uni, how they’d simply move from one house to the other. It was game over when overnights were finally allowed, they spent even less time away from each other if possible.
But it was all sorts of different to actually having their own place.
And Charlie was just, well, he was finding out there were a lot of little things about Nick Nelson that he was painfully unaware of beforehand. Or maybe they were things he just excused a lot easier when he wasn’t face to face with them every single day.
He still loved Nick, of course, but just because he loved him, it didn’t absolve him from some of his more annoying habits.
(or Charlie and Nick move in together, there are some growning pains)
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Charlie lingers in the locker room long after all the other boys have left, almost as if he doesn’t want any of them to see where he’s going, and that more than anything convinces Nick that he’s got to do something to find out what’s wrong. So when Nick leaves the locker room, he turns a corner and then hovers there, waiting to see which direction Charlie goes.
He’s not sure what he’s expecting—maybe that Charlie’s sneaking off to see Ben again? But Charlie doesn’t meet up with Ben. He doesn’t meet up with anyone. Instead, he ducks into a broom cupboard and emerges five minutes later in pajamas with a rucksack slung over his shoulders and what looks like a sleeping bag tucked under his arm.
Nick comes out from around the corner. “Charlie? What are you doing?”
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A closeted Charlie comes out to his parents after Ben assaults him. When his mum kicks him out of the house, Nick and Sarah take him in instead.
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Survivalist by L56895 for HS_Obsessed
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
07 Nov 2025
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If I could pick one thing to be pissed off with my mother about, it would be that she was right.
Not the years of hoarding cans and slowly isolating ourselves in some wretched stone bunker.
No, it’s the fact that she had to go and be right about the world ending.
OrNick and Charlie meet after the apocalypse.
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- Part 3 of The Parents Fucked Up
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im not the one you want babe, im not the one you need by gay4joelocke
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
06 Nov 2025
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Charlie’s fourteen, out, and exhausted.
Between dysphoria, his parents’ uncertainty, and losing the one person who made him feel seen, he’s starting to wonder if it ever gets better.OR
Charlie is trans and struggling when Ben breaks off their relationship
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the author is heavily projecting their breakup/life onto charlie. sorry king but that is the price you pay being my comfort character
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“Nick, why is there a croissant on the back of the toilet?”
Charlie crashes out over Nick's new hyper-fixation, Jellycats.
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“What was Nick’s last name?” Oliver asks.
Charlie nearly chokes on a sip of his drink. “Sorry, what?”
“Nick. Your Nick. What was his last name?”
“Nelson. Why?”
“My form teacher’s name is Mr. Nelson. I think he’s new this year.”
For a moment, Charlie’s brain halts to a complete stop. He hasn’t talked to Nick Nelson in three years. Hasn’t thought about him in almost as long. It can't be the same Nelson. But what if it is?
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Nick and Charlie broke up at the start of Charlie's first year of uni. Unplanned circumstances brought Nick back home to Truham, where he's starting his first teaching job at his old school. When he gets his class lists, Nick is surprised to see Oliver Spring's name in his form group. As if the first year of teaching isn't stressful enough! Meanwhile, Charlie is shocked to hear that Nick is back in town and teaching his younger brother. But what's gone is gone. Charlie can't have Nick back in his life, even as a friend. Especially not when Charlie's too terrified to step even one foot outside of his flat. He can't need Nick Nelson again. But what if Nick needs him?
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Charlie Spring was thriving on routine, his job and the rest of his life pretty much ignored this fact.
The only exception were his bi-weekly schedulded therapy sessions with Geoff. Treating his OCD and anorexia without any routine to it would be an admittedly pretty funny concept.But meeting Nicholas Nelson was going to be the ultimate killer for his routine and at the same time the biggest blessing Charlie would ever recieve, he just did not know about that yet.
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Slices of domestic fluff with our favourite boys
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Charlie Spring, promising rower and outstanding cox, was never meant to study at Cambridge. He wasn’t meant to fall for his rival, either.
Charlie was meant for Oxford, where he began his first year. But nothing went as planned. After a brutal assault, he transfers to Cambridge for his second year, hoping to escape Oxford and the wreckage. There, he finds a new team, a new purpose, and Nick Nelson, star rower with golden-boy charm and far too much to hide.
What begins as animosity turns into something charged and inescapable. But secrets don’t stay buried forever. When the truth surfaces, Charlie and Nick must decide what’s worth risking for a future that might finally be theirs.
Over the course of three academic years, through racing seasons and emotional healing Charlie and Nick’s lives continue to intersect. Their story becomes one of rivalry, resilience, friendship and love.
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- Part 1 of Oxbridge Rowing AU
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“So, Charlie.” Mum this time. Charlie braces himself, “When are you thinking about proposing?”
His face burns a bit, “Oh, uhm… We’re doing some Christmas Market thing tomorrow with the rest of the Paris Squad. I’m thinking about doing it by one of the big Christmas trees or the ice sculptures?”
“Oh, that’s lovely,” Chirps Dad. “Do the ice sculptures. Is Tao still doing the photos? I’ll want them when they’re ready.”
“If Nick says yes.”
“He will,” Mum says, smiling a little.
Charlie sure hopes so.
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What happens when Charlie and Nick get engaged too soon, Nick discovers things about himself that he can't repress, and both of them try hard to make the relationship they had work?
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Since We're Alone, You Can Show Me Your Heart by Not_An_Average_Fangirl
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
11 Oct 2025
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Tori witnesses a serious moment between Nick and Charlie, making her see how much Nick truly cares for and loves Charlie. In the end, she thanks Nick for being someone that Charlie can count on, no matter what.
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Fragmented by Midnight_Fable, vihidk
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
05 Oct 2025
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It hits Charlie like a punch to the gut: if Nick hasn’t gotten up since they came home from the pub last night, Nick has been in bed for the past 16 hours. Sixteen hours. Sixteen. Hours. And he wasn’t even sleeping, as far as Charlie knows. The realization sends a cold wave of panic through him. This isn’t just tiredness. This is something else. Something worse.
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Charlie has just followed his boyfriend to Leeds for university, and everything is going to be perfect. That is, it was going to be perfect before Nick starts to withdraw further and further, and Charlie is forced to confront the terrifying reality that the person he loves most might be slipping away—and he doesn’t know how to fix it. With their future hanging in the balance, Charlie must navigate his own fears and insecurities while trying to be the support Nick needs.
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Nobody talks about what comes after the hospital. Not really.
Charlie Spring just wanted a job — something to make the summer pass quicker and get his mum off his back. But the regular customer who keeps ordering the same oat milk latte with that ridiculously perfect smile? That wasn’t part of the plan.