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My Pain Fits In The Palm Of Your Freezing Hand by Brookhacker
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
06 Nov 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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You Did A Number On Me (But Honestly, Baby, Who's Counting?) by Brookhacker
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
28 Sep 2025
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After eleven months of being in love with his 'friend' and casual hook up, Nick Nelson decides it's finally time to have a talk with Charlie about what they are
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- Part 3 of So It Goes...
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I'm Yours To Keep (and I'm Yours To Lose) by Brookhacker
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
21 Sep 2025
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Nick is lover boy at heart. He's been having a casual relationship with Charlie Spring for nearly a year, which is.... fine. When Tara and Darcy confront Nick about talking to Charlie about wanting more, Nick realizes that he can't go on much longer the way things are.
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- Part 2 of So It Goes...
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It's A Cruel Summer With You by Brookhacker
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
09 Sep 2025
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Charlie Spring has taken on the challenge of being the chief Steward on a luxury charter yacht for the summer. He's there to make money, and that's it. He's got no interest in a boatmance. That is, until he meets Bosun Nick Nelson.
Close quarters, flirty interactions and crew nights out can only lead to one thing... but summer only lasts so long.ON HIATUS AS OF SEPTEMBER 2025
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Back When We Were Still Changing For The Better by Brookhacker
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
22 Jun 2025
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Nick Nelson is overwhelmed.
At thirty years old he finds himself back in his hometown taking guardianship of his brother's children.
Juggling two kids, two dogs and a new job is a lot but what choice does he have?
He doesn't need anything else added to his plate.So what happens when the children's Piano teacher sweeps him off his feet?
Only Charlie Spring's life isn't exactly simple either.
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Holy Orange Bottles, Each Night I Pray To You by Brookhacker
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
28 Mar 2025
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Charlie and Nick have been holding hands since they sat down in the office waiting room and when Nick squeezes his hand as the doctor speaks for once it doesn’t feel like a comfort.
Charlie tries to keep a positive attitude. They don’t really know what’s happening yet and it won’t help Nick to have Charlie all stressed out and crazed. It could still be nothing. If Nick isn’t freaking out then neither is Charlie.
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Nick and Charlie's journey after a life-changing diagnosis. -
I Hate Accidents (Except When We Went From Friends To This) by Brookhacker
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
17 Mar 2025
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“They say you should marry your best friend and all.”
Charlie’s eyes went wide.
What the fuck was happening? Had Nick just said that marrying him would be fun?
This was probably a tequila-fueled dream. Charlie was probably tucked up in bed at that very moment.
But if it was Charlie’s dream, he might as well go with it.
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Best friends Nick and Charlie get drunkenly married in Las Vegas -
I Saw The Dimples First And Then I Heard The Accent by Brookhacker
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
16 Mar 2025
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There were dimples. A pair of perfect dimples right there on Cute Guy's cheeks, sealing the deal, the only thing that could make this dude any more attractive was if he had a
“Mum, it’s fine!”
A British accent
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Seeing Charlie Spring is love at first sight for American rugby player Nick Nelson. Charlie is the total package, smart, funny, confident, and kind. The hang-up?Charlie is only attending the same university as Nick for a year before returning to his life ( and his boyfriend with whom he is 'on a break' from) back in England.
Is a single school year of being with Charlie worth the heartache Nick will endure when Charlie leaves?
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Nice To Meet You, Where you been? by Brookhacker
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
17 Feb 2025
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"Oh, are you new?"
"Um yes?"
“Ah, makes sense. Can I give you a hand?”
“With the shower?”
Charlie hadn’t taken off his dressing gown yet, but he wasn’t particularly keen on some random waltzing in on him to ‘fix’ the shower. It sounded like the beginning of a bad 80s porno.
“Yeah, there’s a bit of a trick to it.” called the voice from the other side of the curtain.
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If It's Make-Believe Why Does It Feel Like A Vow We'll Both Uphold Somehow? by Brookhacker
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
25 Dec 2024
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Charlie Spring always dreads going home for Christmas.
But when his best friend and flatmate Nick Nelson offers to spend the holiday pretending to be Charlie's boyfriend to get his family off his back the idea of going home doesn't seem quite so awful.
Pretending to date Nick shouldn't be a big deal.
It's not like Charlie is in love with him...anymore.
His crush on Nick is a thing of the past.
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I'm Not A Bad Guy (But I Do Bad Things With You) by Brookhacker
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
27 Oct 2024
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Charlie Spring doesn't date.
Nick Nelson doesn't love that.
A friendship and a casual sexual relationship are the things Charlie is ready for.
Nothing more.
Nick can give him that.
No really, he can.Series
- Part 1 of So It Goes...
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21 Days: Curse You Out or Take You Back to My House (Haven't Decided Yet) by Brookhacker
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
11 Sep 2024
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Charlie Spring hates Nick Nelson.
He also hates how attractive he still finds him.Nick Nelson is so frustrated by Charlie Spring.
Why is the guy always glaring at him as if Nick was the one who blew him off instead of the other way around?Their hostility towards each other comes to a head when a pair of meddling lesbians take matters into their own hands.
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My Love Is As Cruel As The City I live In by Brookhacker
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
06 Jun 2024
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"You don't need to do that" Charlie insisted, as Nick patted his pockets looking for his phone.
"Do what?"
"Ask for my number. I know that's not what this is"
It couldn't be. Charlie didn't do this. He didn't give boys his number. He didn't give anything more than one night. It wasn't worth it.
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Charlie Spring is doing...ok.
Life is complicated but there's one thing he keeps simple. He doesn't date, not after the mess of his last relationship.Enter Nick Nelson.
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You Can Call Me Babe For The Weekend by Brookhacker
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
09 Feb 2024
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After a miscommunication in the locker room leads to Nick Nelson's entire rugby team thinking that his best friend Charlie Spring is really his boyfriend, Nick enlists Charlie to play his boyfriend for the weekend, just to save face.
The only problem? Nick has been utterly in love with Charlie for years, and a weekend pretending to be a couple might be too much for his fragile heart.
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Don't Know What To Call This Situation (But I Know I Can't Call You Mine) by Brookhacker
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
02 Feb 2024
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University Student Nick Nelson is falling hard for Charlie Spring. The only problem is that Nick can't figure out how to take their 'casual' situationship into the real thing.
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At Every Table I'll Save You A Seat by Brookhacker
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
31 Jan 2024
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Charlie has been dreading attending his ex's wedding, and getting punted to the singles table is just the cherry on top. That is until he meets the guy sitting next to him.
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This is Our Place, We Make the Call by Brookhacker
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
26 Nov 2023
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"I think if we want to have this magical chill vibe that Darcy is so keen on we should set some boundaries. So I've got a rule. No hooking up with your housemates"
Was it Charlie's imagination or did Nick glance at him when Tao said that?
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After a lonely experience at secondary school, Charlie is hoping to find a fresh start at uni. What he hadn't banked on was falling hard and fast for one of his housemates. Even if Nick somehow likes him back, is being together worth the risk of possibly messing up the dynamic of their new friend group? Living with a crush is one thing, but actually getting the chance to be with them? Another story.
University AU where the whole gang is randomly assigned as housemates at uni. -
I Believe That We Were Supposed To Find This by Brookhacker
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
26 Oct 2023
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“Nicky I, I promise I wasn’t snooping. I was doing the wash and I turned out your trouser pockets like I always do and”
Sarah placed a letter in the middle of the table.
Nick's heart dropped into his stomach. It was one of his letters from Charlie. He could see Charlie’s signature at the bottom of the page.All my love, Forever yours
CharlieHow could Nick explain this away?
“Charlie is a very special friend, isn’t he?” Sarah said delicately, still watching her son with that look he couldn’t understand.
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Nick and Charlie meet for the first time at an all-boys boarding school in the year 1936. Despite the expectations of society the two boys fall deeply for one another even as the looming cloud of another great war begins to descend over England. -
I'm Captivated By You Baby Like A Firework Show by Brookhacker
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
30 Jul 2023
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“I begged him not to do this” he mumbled, mortified at what he’d gotten himself and Charlie into.
“What?” Charlie sounded a little amused and slightly confused.
“I’m going to kill him,” Nick said decidedly as he sat up and peered over the side of the cart, staring down at Chrisitan at the operator's stand. He was grinning up at them, looking quite pleased with himself.
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Nick and Charlie work at the same amusement park over the summer holiday.
Sick of seeing his friend pinning away like an idiot, Christian hatches a plan to get Nick and Charlie to the top of the ferris wheel just in time for a convenient breakdown. -
Will You Call When You're Back At School? by Brookhacker
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
08 Jul 2023
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After a whirlwind summer romance in the sun, Charlie is nervous about if Nick wants to continue their relationship once they return home. Charlie has fallen hard and fast but does Nick feel the same?
Was this just a fling for Nick?