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My Pain Fits In The Palm Of Your Freezing Hand by Brookhacker
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
29 Sep 2025
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Set in a version of 17th-century England, a universe of Nick and Charlie with love and loss and magic.
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With his mother's health failing, apprentice baker Nick Nelson has no choice but to leave the safety of his village and journey into the forest to seek out the spring family, whose magic is both known and feared.
The only member left of his family, Charlie Spring, a novice magic user, is Nick's only hope.
Willing to do anything to save his mother, Nick takes work as Charlie's assistant.Left together in the darkness of the woods, two boys try to find their way to one another as each of their worlds continues to crumble around them.
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Flowers for the Sick and Dead by Anonymous
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
28 Sep 2025
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How's that house that raised you?
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another version of us by firstlovesandfairylights
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
25 Sep 2025
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A house party during a visit home from his first year of university brings Charlie Spring face to face with the ex he’s still not over, suspiciously familiar looking faces and a battle of who can care less.
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Nick decides to go for a walk outside with his guinea pig Lucy. Charlie also decides to go for a walk and they bump into each other on a bench in the park.
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In Whispers and Calluses by SinkingCactus
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
12 Sep 2025
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Charlie is convinced that he's fine. Despite the outing, the bullying, the dinners he can no longer keep down, he's fine.
And then things start disappearing.
Slowly, as things he loves become things he's lost, he loses himself, too. He almost has himself convinced that this darkness he's built for himself is fine. Until someone comes along and tries to teach him how much more he deserves.aka I read too much Emily Dickinson and made it these fuckers' problem
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"Nick, what's wrong? What's going on?" Charlie demands.
Nick's mouth opens. He tries to speak but no words come out.
"Nick, please! You have me so worried. What-"
"I'm assuming you haven't spoken to your dad?"
"No, he called me earlier but I assumed he was just... why? Why, Nick?" Charlie is now forcefully shaking Nick's hands as he searches for an answer.
"Charlie, I'm so sorry," Nick swallows.
"Nick! What is it?" Charlie screams.
"Your mum, she was in an accident. She... she didn't make it, Charlie."
After the unexpected passing of Charlie's mum, Jane, he's now left to work through the complex emotions that comes with grieving and processing the death of a parent. Especially when that relationship was considerably strained. Meanwhile, Nick is navigating through unfamiliar territory as he tries to figure out how to support Charlie in the aftermath.
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Snowed in (with you) by warpaintandpixiedust
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
09 Sep 2025
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After breaking up Nick and Charlie end up snowed in together at a service station hotel. But there’s a problem, there’s only one room and there’s only one bed. Whatever are they going to do?
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I Know This is A Fight Someday We're Going to Win by kingdomfaraway for brbrbeatrice
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
23 Aug 2025
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When my alarm wakes me in the morning, I know it’s going to be a shitty day.
Truth be told, it’s been slowly rolling on me, dark clouds over the horizon and it was only a matter of time before I woke up in the middle of a storm.
Nothing is really wrong, which is the most frustrating bullshit in the history of bullshit. Nothing bad has happened to me, or anyone else. There’s no reason for the torrential downpour that’ll keep me miserable and in bed all day and probably tomorrow too.
(or Charlie's having a really shitty time, but don't worry he's got Nick to come hold him through it all)
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Missing Him Was Dark Gray, All Alone by Not_An_Average_Fangirl
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
22 Aug 2025
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Nick and Charlie are long distance, Nick is at Leeds and Charlie is finishing up his last year at Truham. Nick struggles being away from home, his coursework and rugby practice had become too much and most of all he misses Charlie.
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in case you didn’t know by firstlovesandfairylights
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
06 Jul 2025
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University is harder than Charlie expected. Not just the coursework but the loneliness. The silence. The distance. During a moment of disaster, old thoughts start to surface but just as he’s about to act on them, he finds a message from the past that reminds him that he’s loved and maybe he doesn’t have to do this on his own after all.
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Charlie’s hurt badly, yes, but he doesn’t hate Nick. He understands why Nick did it. Charlie’s heart just can’t really comprehend why Nick decided to put a stop on their love - a love Charlie thought would last forever - and that’s what makes it so hard to find closure and leaves him still mourning the beautiful life they’d shared.
Charlie had expected and hoped that Nick would message him, call him, maybe even come to his door and apologise for the mess and despair he had caused, but he was losing hope with every passing day. It had been months since their last encounter in Nick’s flat from where Charlie had stormed off in pure anger and immeasurable hurt.
And nothing had changed since then.
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OR: A story about how Nick and Charlie find their way back together.🍂🍂
~This story is fully written and I plan to post two chapters a week.~ -
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Charlie Spring is unraveling, and no one sees it. Not his parents, not his teachers—and especially not Nick. Behind every fake smile and "I'm fine," he's starving himself, cutting quietly, vaping to cope, and getting high just to feel something other than hollow. He's mastered the art of pretending, but the cracks are starting to show. And the more he hides, the closer he gets to losing himself completely.
A brutally honest dive into mental illness, addiction, and the suffocating weight of trying to be okay for everyone else—when you're not even okay for yourself.
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Eating disorders (anorexia), self-harm, depression, substance use (weed, vaping), suicidal ideation, emotional distress, body dysmorphia, lying/manipulation, internalized self-hate. Please read with care. -
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Charlie Spring is tired-tired of walking on eggshells, tired of being treated like a problem, a project, a burden. After one too many fights with his mum and years of carrying silent pain, something inside him finally cracks. But instead of screaming, he disappears. No note. No messages. No goodbye.
He ghosts everyone. Even Nick.
As the people who love him scramble to understand why he left and where he's gone, Charlie tries to find peace in the silence, chasing freedom in the spaces between heartbreak and healing. But running from everything doesn't mean you can escape yourself-and some ghosts are harder to leave behind than others.
A Heartstopper AU that dives deep into the weight of unspoken pain, the aftermath of leaving, and what it means to be truly seen when all you want is to vanish.
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Eating disorders (discussions, behaviors, and mental health impact)
Self-harm
Emotional abuse
Mental health struggles (anxiety, depression, dissociation)
Sexual assault
Running away
Ghosting / abandonment
Kidnapping
Emotional neglect
Internalized guilt and shame
Please read with care.
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What Happens In Paris, Stays In Paris (Mostly) by KRollins
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
24 May 2025
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“Alright then. Who gave you the hickey?”
Charlie froze. He should’ve expected that. God, who’s stupid idea was it for him to join in on truth or dare?
“That’s not a fair question. That’s a personal question where I’m not the only one involved. It was someone on the trip. Let’s leave it at that."
“Come onnnnn, that’s not an answer!”
Charlie felt his blood boil. “Well it’s the answer you’re fucking getting, so drop it.” He spat.
Charlie could taste the blood in his mouth from how hard he was biting his tongue. He wanted to argue back so badly, but he physically couldn’t. Anything he said about the manner risked lowering the list of suspects. And outing Nick.
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Or: The Heartstopper AU where Charlie will fight someone if Nick would stop holding him back.
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TW: HEAVY TW in beginning notes. This one gets heavy. Please read with caution.
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- Part 12 of No BS Charlie AU
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Nick Nelson and Charlie Spring always thought their love would be everlasting; the kind of love one finds in romance novels, that was until one night while Nick was in Year 13 and Charlie was in Year 12. For the first time in two years, Nick and Charlie were no longer Nick and Charlie. Nick had moved away to university and Charlie stayed behind in Truham. Neither of them had spoken to each other since that night. 10 years later, an unlikely person will bring the pair back together, but things may not be the same between them. After all, 10 years is a long time.
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Set in a universe where after their fight in the Nick & Charlie Novela, they didn't get back together.
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Only Nick can see him - the boy who hovers over the ground and wanders with faraway distances in his eyes.
Nick thinks he's losing his mind; haunted by a ghost or imaginary friend...until he builds the courage to touch frigid fingertips.
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Until the last ray of light by NicksVault
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
21 Apr 2025
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Life after being raped is a different way of existing.
After a night of fun with their friends, Nick and Charlie wait at a quiet bus stop under the stillness of the Kent night—hands intertwined, laughter still echoing between them. It should have been just another ordinary evening. But in a single, shattering moment, everything changes.
One brutal act leaves them broken, their world cracked wide open.
Now Nick and Charlie are left to pick up the pieces of themselves. Guilt, fear, and pain threaten to pull them under, but even in the darkest moments, there’s one fragile thread tying them together: love.
Because even when everything is shattered, some bonds refuse to break.
Nick and Charlie’s love survived the worst night of their lives. Now, they’ll learn what it takes to make it through the aftermath—together.
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- Part 2 of Dark Narlie Stories
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Stumbling Towards Tomorrow by Anonymous
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
18 Apr 2025
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After a devastating relapse that leaves Charlie Spring in a wheelchair, he’s forced to confront the weight of his self-inflicted wounds and the fractured relationships he’s left behind. In a hospital where he’s receiving treatment, he unexpectedly runs into Ash, a former friend whom Charlie had cut off during the darkest period of his life. Ash, who has their own tumultuous history with mental health struggles, is now a nursing student working in the hospital.
As Charlie tries to navigate the pain of his past and the harsh new reality of his present, Ash’s return challenges him to confront what he’s been running from. Though Charlie is desperate to reconnect, his pride and self-doubt keep him distant, while Ash remains cautious, unsure whether it’s worth risking the ghosts of their past friendship.
In a tense series of interactions, Charlie slowly begins to unravel, revealing glimpses of the pain that led him to this point. Despite the bitterness, resentment, and overwhelming guilt, the two tentatively begin to rebuild what was lost—one broken conversation at a time. Can they both heal, or are they too far gone, stumbling towards an uncertain tomorrow?
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Charlie is still dealing with his issues. He does not want anyone to know that he’s dealing with them until he made it worse.
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As the sun begins to rise I can barely shut my eyes by warpaintandpixiedust
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
15 Mar 2025
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Written for the discord prompt ‘we could sleep’
A mostly angsty look at Charlie sleepless nights through the years.