Dark Days

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Listing Series

• No Happy Endings in a Plague by roo_writes

  Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)  

  • Mature
  • Major Character Death
  • F/F, M/M
  • Complete Work

  14 May 2026

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Nicholas "Nick" Nelson/Charles "Charlie" Spring
  • Tara Jones/Darcy Olsson
  • Nicholas "Nick" Nelson & Victoria "Tori" Spring
  • Nicholas "Nick" Nelson
  • Charles "Charlie" Spring (Heartstopper)
  • Sarah Nelson
  • Jane Spring
  • Julio Spring
  • Tara Jones
  • Darcy Olsson
  • James McEwan
  • Heavy Angst
  • no happy ending
  • Alternate Universe - 1980s
  • New York City
  • Dark
  • Major Illness
  • Still a love story at its heart
  • HIV/AIDS

  Summary

  Read the tags.
  Heavy Angst / No happy ending

  A washed up college football player tries to make his way forward when life doesn't go as planned.
  1980s, American AU.

  Series

  • Part 1 of Dark Days

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  21,530

  Chapters:

  18/18

  Comments:

  311

  Kudos:

  107

  Bookmarks:

  30

  Hits:

  2,841

• Dark Days, New Beginnings by roo_writes for TwoBeatHearts

  Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)  

  • Mature
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Other
  • Complete Work

  02 Aug 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Darcy Olsson & Original Male Character(s)
  • Darcy Olsson
  • Angst
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Death of an OC
  • Reference to previous MCD
  • 1980s American AU
  • Homophobia
  • Grief

  Summary

  An add-on story to "No Happy Endings in a Plague"
  Darcy stops by the hospital to visit a student, and meets a young man who has been hospitalized.

  Series

  • Part 2 of Dark Days

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,189

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Collections:

  1

  Comments:

  21

  Kudos:

  15

  Hits:

  129