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An American AU—As a pastor’s kid in the claustrophobic midwestern town of Millhaven, fifteen-year-old Charlie Spring is a master of camouflage. He wears the mask of the perfect, polite son to survive the rigid expectations of Grace Hill Methodist church, entirely convinced that his identity makes him a problem to be solved.
Then an inescapable homeroom seating chart drops a new kid—an intriguing transplant from big city Chicago—into the desk right next to him. Impossibly warm and devoid of cruelty, Nick’s effortless kindness begins to breach Charlie’s carefully constructed defenses, forcing him to face a terrifying question: What happens when the person you’re pretending to be can no longer hide the person you actually are?
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Nick hadn’t expected to be seeking out Charlie Spring in a dingy nightclub after his relationship blows up.
Charlie didn’t expect Nick Nelson to be one of those guys. The ones who are up for whatever fun he throws their way.
Turns out, people can have a lot of stuff buried inside them.
Written for the HS AO3 Discord Anonymous Fic Challenge.
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Charlie Spring and Nick Nelson have everything they ever dreamed of.
A happy marriage. A second baby on the way. A sixteen-year-old daughter who couldn't imagine a world without them.
But when a mysterious masked figure begins stalking their family, one ordinary weekend turns into a nightmare.
Grace suddenly finds herself trapped in 2009 months before her fathers ever met. Armed with nothing but a fading family photograph and memories of a future no one else has lived, she must protect two teenagers who have no idea who she is or how important they are to her.
But Grace isn't the only one who travelled back.
As history begins to change and familiar faces slowly disappear from the photograph in her wallet, she realises someone is trying to erase her family from existence.
If she fails, Nick and Charlie won't just lose each other.
They'll never meet at all.
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In which Nick makes their monthly anniversaries 'a thing'. For the rest of their lives.
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Eight years after Evercove fell to a coup, its royal children are finally free.
Princess Victoria arrives in Glenhaven ready to bury her grief beneath court lessons and war councils. Prince Oliver arrives wide-eyed and eager, having been born in a dungeon and never seen the world beyond stone walls. Prince Charles arrives silent, starving, and hollowed out by captivity, unable to leave the room he has been given.
Their mother was executed years ago. Their father, King Julio, is still trapped beneath the palace after choosing to save his children instead of himself. And the man who stole their kingdom still calls himself Grand Monarch.
For Prince Nicholas Nelson of Glenhaven, Charlie's return is both a miracle and a wound reopened. Before the coup, they were inseparable. Now Charlie flinches from kindness, mistrusts closed doors, and carries the shadow of Ben Hope, the Grand Monarch's son, in every silence.
As Queen Serina prepares Victoria to reclaim Evercove's throne and Glenhaven's court turns against its own unfit heir, Nick must prove himself worthy of a crown while learning that love is not the same as rescue.
Charlie survived the dungeon. Now he has to learn how to live outside it.
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Dear Charlie, remember when... by erinthelibrarian
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
06 Jul 2026
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It's Charlie's 30th birthday and it starts, as days often do, with a note Nick has left for him.
What follows is a gift that has quite literally been years in the making...Series
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Detour Down A Country Road by NotACactusCow
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
06 Jul 2026
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When Charlie Spring's dad gets relocated for work, Charlie and his siblings are forced to leave behind their lives in New York City and start over in a tiny town in South Carolina.
Charlie hates it.
He hates the heat, the smell, the lack of public transportation, the casual homophobia, and the fact that half the town seems emotionally invested in high school football.
Then he meets Nick Nelson.
Nick is a farm boy, a quarterback, and annoyingly nice. He's also funny, patient, ridiculously attractive, and somehow determined to drag Charlie through every small-town summer tradition imaginable.
Charlie keeps telling himself they're just friends.
Unfortunately, that becomes harder to believe with every passing day.
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New Year's Day, 2024, 4:11pm by chocolatefreckle for L56895
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
06 Jul 2026
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Nick Nelson and his rugby team are on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Japan, as guests of the Kanazawa University Rugby Football Club, when a magnitude 7.6 earthquake hits the Noto Peninsula.
Charlie Spring gets one text from his best friend, and then nothing more.
What's one flight across the planet into a natural disaster area in a country where you don't speak the language, when the unrequited love of your life might need your help?
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Inspired by the lyrics of Taylor Swift’s “Fortnight” and told through both present-day scenes and flashbacks. Charlie and Nick dated for only two weeks when they were teenagers, and life took them in different directions after the breakup. Charlie has done his best to move on from Nick, to pretend he’s not miserable in his abusive marriage to Ben Hope, to stop playing the “what if?” game… But when a chance encounter brings Nick Nelson back into Charlie’s life again, they will both need to come to terms with their past and present feelings.
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in thunder, lightning, in rain by eitmrnbiwbo
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
06 Jul 2026
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A collection of short stories from Charlie's perspective. Starting in year seven, we follow him through school and all the way to adulthood.
Title from The Beach by Wolf Alice.
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- Part 1 of in thunder, lightning, in rain
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Joyeux Noël ! by AngelicaR2 for almayen, Merlin_EmrysPendragon_Jr, MarinaKaFai, BlackAngelis, Maeglin_Surion, LeiaFavaz, Kinailovestosleep, House_of_the_Lion, Aiko_66, Litany_Riddle, Felicia_Vardya, MissAmande, Smilarah
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Game of Thrones (TV), Once Upon a Time (TV), Au revoir là-haut (2017), Supernatural, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018), Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated (Cartoon 2010), Les Pardaillan Series - Michel Zévaco, The Man in the High Castle (TV), Sinbad (TV), Tales From the Kingdoms Series - Sarah Pinborough, Downton Abbey, Reign (TV), Black Sails, Heartstopper (TV), Supergirl (TV 2015), DCU, Once Upon a Time in Wonderland (TV), Willow (TV 2022), Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo, Lost (TV 2004), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), HPI: Haut Potentiel Intellectuel (TV 2022)
06 Jul 2026
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[Multifandom] : Drabbles cadeaux de Noël (et puis sûrement des micro-fics après vu que j’ai pas envie de créer de nouveau recueil).
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- Part 55 of Nuits du FoF
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Pillow Fort Surprise by hollonov_narlie
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
06 Jul 2026
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Nick surprises Charlie with a cute date night after being away at uni. But that's not the only surprise in store for Charlie that night.
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“You’re Nick and Charlie, so you’re gonna be fine.”
Spoiler alert: - we weren’t fine. Not even close.
Nick and I had believed we could make a long-distance relationship work. We loved each other, we were positive, and we were strong. But the distance between Truham and Leeds could have been a million miles; the journey lasted hours, train tickets took all our money, and I… well, I turned into a bitch. There’s no other word for it.
I pushed and pushed until Nick did something terrible. Something that broke us apart. Something that sent me spinning back into a relationship with a man who’d already abused me as a boy. The scars from that terrible time – mental, physical – followed me over the following six years.
And that’s when Nick found me again. Still playing with Queer Intentions. Directionless, miserable, still deeply scarred by the past.
But here’s the thing… we live in the same city now. The past is another country, so they say. Can we move past what happened?
Do I even want that?
Can we rekindle what we had before… or does it risk sending me into another self-destructive spiral?
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Best Days of Your Life by alwayshope633
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
06 Jul 2026
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“Charlie can’t help it. He knows it’s cliche, knows it’s dramatic, knows he’s acting like an American contestant on The Bachelor — multiple old seasons of which he and Nick watched this summer, in the pleasant hot haze of holiday boredom.
He knows all that, and he still runs and literally leaps into Nick’s arms, wrapping his legs ever-so-briefly around his middle.
He comes back down to earth and his mind flickers, just for a moment, with questions about whether Nick was ready for such a public display in his still-new city. But Nick is gripping Charlie’s hips so tightly, and pressing his face into his neck, and swaying a bit and — well, he doesn’t really seem to mind.”
Or: Fluffy slices of life as Nick and Charlie navigate long-distance and their uni years
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Universe Constant by kaalee for shootingforthestars
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
06 Jul 2026
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Charlie is absolutely sure that the Nick that is with him right now is not his Nick.
Is he?
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When Charlie boldly approaches Nick at a bar one night, he’s quickly rebuffed, but ends up hearing from Nick several days later.
Turns out, Nick is questioning a lot of things. Charlie thinks he knows how stories like this end, but is thrown for a loop when Nick says he wants to take things slow. (This doesn’t work out for either of them.)
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Huckleberry: Love, Lies, and Locomotives by Mypalal
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
05 Jul 2026
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Eighteen-year-old Charlie Spring does not live a charmed life. His factory town is dying, his parents are barely scraping by, and his older sister, Tori, is entangled in some money-making scheme that might not be legal. Charlie's own future seems to hold nothing but dead-end jobs and a slow crawl through community college.
But for a few golden weeks each fall, life gets better—because Charlie works at Huckleberry Mountain, a cheesy old amusement park with a haunted train ride that turns his boring, rust-belt life into something almost magical. For the past two seasons, he's been the backup to Mina Parsons, the hometown sweetheart who always played the lead conductor.
That is, until a few months ago, when Mina vanished. No one knows if she ran away or if something more sinister happened. And now everyone’s looking at her boyfriend—Nick Nelson—as the main suspect. The same Nick Nelson Charlie's been in love with since, well, forever. -
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Thirty-something Nick and Charlie meet as trainee therapists at a psychology practice, and sparks fly immediately. Nick spent his life in an environment where he could never fully be himself, so he suppresses his emotions and shuns vulnerability like a pro. He still has a lot to learn, but he’s sincere and determined – if a little terrified – and when he loves, he does so fiercely and unapologetically. Charlie’s been through a lot, but he’s quite far along in his healing journey after therapy. These days, he’s no longer avoidant (no, really) and swears by his tried-and-true radical honesty policy, alongside a rock-solid coping style grounded in gallows humour and rationalisation. Cue a slow-burn emotional romance with two people learning to love and be loved as they are, lots of personal growth, an unflinching look at the harrowing realities of trauma, and a focus on the gritty, quietly powerful work of recovery.
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Survivalist by L56895 for HS_Obsessed
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
05 Jul 2026
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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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After the worst storm ever recorded in the history of the UK and Ireland, Franko Primavera, drummer of the rock mega-band INTENCIoN, disappears off the coast of Ireland, and is presumed dead.
Six months later, widowed teacher Nick Nelson encounters a new face in his sleepy Scottish adopted hometown, the enigmatic Charlie. But as Nick and Charlie grow closer, Charlie's past starts to catch up with him.