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Truham High School Reunion! Nick and Charlie are in their early 40s, both single and successful in their careers, and receive an invitation to attend their high school reunion. Each is looking to rewrite their past and find the future they’ve both been longing for.
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Watching those boys - many of them ridiculously attractive - run around and tackle each other in tight pants every week was a new kind of gay hell for Charlie, especially when he started developing a crush on the star quarterback. Nick Nelson. Charlie Spring, the curly-haired boy he had admired for years from a distance, watching him as he drummed at the football games, as he ran during PE while Nick tried to concentrate on algebra, as he held his head high against the bullies who tore him down for being gay in a time when everyone feared it was a death sentence. -
Won't You Stay With Me (Cause You're All I Need) by tinyarmedtrex
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
11 Jun 2025
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"You two are doing really well!" The instructor said, pausing as she adjusted Nick's hips. It nearly made him tip but Charlie managed to keep them steady. He watched as she turned to another couple, one who seemed far more reluctant to touch each other than the two of them. It gave him pause, made him wonder if he and Charlie should be acting a bit more like that. After all, they were supposed to be having marital troubles. If they got on too well the therapists might wonder why they were there.
Fuck, this situation was tricky.Or, Charlie is offered the chance to write the article of a lifetime. All he needs to do is go undercover at a couple's therapy retreat and write about the experience. The problem? He's not married, or even dating. Enter Nick, who is more than happy to offer himself as Charlie's fake husband, regardless of the consequences for his heart.
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Always known for me, it's you by lilnacegf
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
06 Jun 2025
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It’s hard to be left behind, to be the one who stays. To be the one who moves forward.
I keep myself busy—time moves faster that way. I go to sleep alone, wake up alone. I walk around the meadow of our home. I write day and night, endless stories of him and me, even when I wouldn’t trade ours for anything.
Except for, maybe, more time.
Everything seems simple until you start thinking too much. Why is love intensified by absence?
Long ago, men went to sea and women stayed behind, standing at the water’s edge, scanning the horizon for the ship returning. Now, I wait for him, not knowing where he is, unsure if he’s okay. At least now, men don’t have to long for other men in secret—for that, I’m grateful. When he is here, we don’t hide. We love loudly. But when he's not, when the solitude of my thoughts is my only company, the truth comes crashing down: I am always the one who waits. The moments stretch into years, eternities, seconds slow and transparent as glass. Why has he gone where I can't follow?So I wait.
Or, Nick is a time traveler who can’t control where and when he goes. When he meets Charlie, a man he has never seen before, everything Nick thought he knew changes in an instant.
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Charlie can't quite get the scene he's writing right - acting it out should help. It's fortunate his new-ish flatmate is at work ...
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cheeky-winked introduction by kaalee for thoughtthedormouse
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
11 Jan 2025
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prompt from Mousie: “Oh god, suddenly my brain has forgotten every word there is…”
Charlie is a writer. He overhears a beautiful man ask for his book in Isaac's bookstore.
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at the White Heat by bananabreadatwork
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
03 Jan 2025
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It is 2005 in the Pacific Northwest. Nick Nelson is a paramedic and firefighter; Charlie Spring is a grad student living in Portland. An accident brings them briefly together, but will they meet again? And what will it take for our two boys to let themselves be seen at their most vulnerable?
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Romance author Charlie Spring struggles with his own romantic life… ironic. After leaving a toxic relationship, stuck with writer's block, and his declining mental health, he decides to take a trip to the Welsh countryside for the summer to give himself a break. While he’s there, he meets someone who shows him not only that he deserves his own romance, but helps him realize that one summer is enough to change his life.
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OR: a story about new beginnings, healing, friendship, and finding the kind of love you always wished for.
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Country road, take me home. by HSNomad for flyingspaghettimonstera
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
25 Oct 2024
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Charlie moves to the country for six months. Beyond the orchard there is much more to discover. Featuring chickens, because who doesn't love chickens?
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Charlie Spring isn’t sure what he’s going to do with his life.
A break from everything, he's urged by his friends, should do the trick. So while renting out a house on the other side of the country, he definitely doesn’t expect anything out of the ordinary.
But the Universe has other plans, in the shape of a handsome ghost, who can't remember anything past his own name. -
Day 48: Coincidence or kismet? by mikeywrites
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
15 Aug 2024
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Charlie an author, on his way to his first ever book signing in New York. What are the chances he'll run into his celebrity crush... right?
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A Beautiful Lifetime Event by kingdomfaraway
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
12 Jul 2024
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Charlie had started writing fanfic by accident, really. Sometimes, after he’d watched a show or read a book, he just really wanted to be a part of that world. As he got older, he came to realize what he was doing and then once he discovered other people did it too, joined the wonderful world of online fanfic writers.
His archive of our own account was under the name sphericalgrin which was just an anagram for his name, Charlie Spring, but a very good one if he did say so himself. He mostly went by Sphere, not willing to share his actual name with anyone just yet.
He gained a bit of a fanbase with some older stuff, he went through a very long Jack Harkness/Ianto Jones phase and then might have taken a brief turn into Destiel (which, he stands by, everyone always does). Eventually he found himself writing The Ark fanfic, he knew RPS wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea but he liked writing about Rowan, Jimmy and Lester. He envied their relationships, how the three of them seemed to be so in tune with each other. And no, he wasn’t one of those shippers who looked for clues in every single little thing, but he’d like to believe that Jimmy and Lester would be great boyfriends if they chose to go that route.
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Nick Nelson doesn't like his boss a lot on a personal level, but Benjamin Hope has given him a job and with it a purpose, a salary and, most importantly, a bit of his confidence back after being a disastrous failure at uni and, let's be honest, life in general. To his own surprise, Nick proves to be a good PA. He really sees no reason to complain if his tasks sometimes exceed the limits of his contract - until Hope starts an affair with Charlie Spring. Nick despises everything about this relationship, which would be bad enough as it makes for incredibly uncomfortable moments during his work days. Everything would be so much easier, though, if Charlie wouldn't only be the most annoying, but also the most beautiful human being Nick has ever met.
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“Well..” Tara laughed nervously. “You know how we were getting feedback about not having enough variety in the magazine? Like types of queer people?”
Charlie had to admit, they all kind of did fall into a particular subset of queer people, but they had a lot of different experiences on this team. He had no idea how attending a rugby match was supposed to help with that. “Types of queer people?” He parroted.
“Well… Nathan suggested we try and find.. sports queers.”
Elle, who had stayed relatively silent just watching the plays on the field, Charlie couldn’t say if it was with interest or not, she was good at feigning interest for the sake of her friends. She snorted from beside Tao, pushing her glasses up on her nose. “And you know some of these elusive sports queers?”
“Yeah! I mean.. I know one. He’s actually out there right now.” Tara gestured to the field.
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It had indeed been difficult to know him, to exist in the orbit of his perfect existence, a reminder of the fragility of human connection and the complexities of the heart.
Charlie had been a coward. He never acted upon his impulses. He had so desperately wanted the boy, in more ways than one. They had been friends. Best friends, even.
Until they weren’t. Until it had all been too much, and Charlie’s feelings came over him faster than he could’ve ever controlled. He remembers feeling like the worst person in the world after he pressed the block button, after he moved form groups in school just so he wouldn’t have to look at the perfect boy anymore, the boy who could’ve never felt the same about him.
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Charlie never confessed his feelings for Nick, and is facing the consequences seven painful years later.
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Lost In The Spotlight by narlieslovechild
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
06 Feb 2024
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Rugby King, Nicholas Nelson, wants to come out. So when his agent sets him up with bestselling author Charles Spring, he's ready for anything. Charlie on the other hand doesn't want to be romantically involved with anyone, let alone someone like Nick. He hates his agent for this, he hates lying to the world, and he especially hates letting the world into his personal life. But maybe Nick is exactly what Charlie needs to get out of his writing slump.
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I'm the writer, but you're the poem. by The_Masked_Bandit
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
26 Aug 2023
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“A loud thud catches Nick’s attention from the back of the room, near the couches delimiting the children’s corner from the romance section. There, a lanky man is standing with two thick books at his feet, having by all appearances dropped them just now. If Nick hadn’t looked at his picture ten times a day for an entire fortnight, he could have been convinced that it wasn’t Charlie Spring in front of him. But by now, he knows these curls, as thick and as dark as leather, better than he knows his own name. Yet it can’t be him, right?”
Charlie Spring is a successful children’s book author. Nick Nelson is a primary school teacher. Charlie’s stories celebrate differences and acceptance, which makes them both kids’ and teacher’s favourites in Nick’s classroom. Hence, whenever his class takes a trip to the local library, he’s always roped into reading "The Spring Tales". What happens when Charlie shows up to one of his readings and their friends assume they’re already dating?
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Back To School Night by rcrwrb, summerdawn_23
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
23 Dec 2022
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Charlie Spring is a single dad to his daughter, Daphne Spring. Daphne starts Year 1 and her teacher is none other than Mr. Nick Nelson. Daphne's class has a back to school night, where Charlie is very excited to see a certain Year 1 teacher. What he doesn't know is that Year 1 teacher is also very excited to see him.
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and you know for me, it's always you by froggyqueer
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
11 Dec 2022
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At 28 years old, Nick Nelson is the top singer in the UK, and his agent is convinced that the next step is to write an autobiography. Despite Nick's early protests, he hires a ghostwriter he finds attractive in the hopes that it'll make the experience more bearable (spoiler alert: it does). There's nothing quite like meeting the love of your life and immediately spilling all your secrets to him.
At 27, Charlie Spring is an author fresh out of a two-year-long relationship, and with few of his preferred projects under his belt. When he's approached by the agent of a singer he's practically obsessed with, he agrees to the job despite his nerves. Upon meeting the star, he realizes that, oh shit, he's kind of perfect. Moving to the other side of England, away from everything he knows, has never seemed more appealing.
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A Phenomenological Study On Us by nelliefiles
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
21 Nov 2022
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Charlie has been holed up in front of his laptop for a few months now; Nick has yet to find out why exactly that is until Charlie hands it to him on a silver platter. In other words, Charlie Spring wrote a research paper to determine whether or not their twelve-year-long relationship would continue to lead to what he hopes to be a life-long romantic relationship.
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- Part 3 of adi's heartstopper fics
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He came around, I stole his glance in my youth by CaseGone333
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
11 Nov 2022
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“He finally let his eyes wander around the room and found a set of hazel eyes looking directly into his. His eyebrows furrowed and lips curled up the tiniest bit after taking account of the man’s expression: head tilted to the side, mouth slightly open and heat growing up his cheeks.”
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Where Nick is unbelievably smitten with the curly-haired boy across the café who seems to have a lot on his mind