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At 28, Nick Nelson is living a life that should make him happy: he's got a good job, solid mates, and an on-again-off-again girlfriend he's known since secondary school. But for years, maybe as long as he can remember, he's felt like something was missing. Worse, he can't shake the nagging fear that he's the problem, that something might be wrong with him.
Charlie Spring is only 27, but he's already divorced, burnt out halfway through his masters degree, and his mental health is held together by twine and prayers. The only thing that gets him out of bed most days (other than his menagerie of pets) is his work as a wildlife rehabber at the Haven. Saving those animals is his focus in life now; he can't be bothered to worry about saving himself. And after what he endured at the hands of his ex-husband Ben, he's sworn off love for good.
...Then Nick finds an injured duckling.
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04 Mar 2024
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This fic is on Hiatus, til further notice sry
Sure, he’s not looking for love, but is respect too much to ask for?
Apparently so, Charlie thinks as he continues to scroll through his messages. He sighs and almost decides to give up on Grindr for the night and switch over to his group chat with his friends. He clicks over to the browse tab again – one last time – and sees someone he definitely hadn’t seen a minute ago.
Nick, 23
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Face the world again, firm and courageous.
Then all your troubles will fade from your memory
like floods that are past and remembered no more
Your life will be brighter than sunshine at noon
and life's darkest hours will shine like the dawn
(Good News Translation, Job 11:15-17)I am not at all religious and neither is this story. But I do believe that sometimes we can find a light in the most abysmal places and we can be that light for someone currently shrouded in darkness.
This is a story about the light.
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21 Feb 2024
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Nick goes to a club as part of his rugby duties to perform as a Go-Go dancer for the evening and meets "Blue" (aka Charlie). The chemistry is amazing, and they begin an emotional journey of learning to love each other and one’s self that involves lots of sex.
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- Part 1 of Rugby a Go-Go
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02 Feb 2024
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January
“Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways, we’re not.
We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.”
-Paul AusterFates collide and coincidences abound as Nick and Charlie’s lives entwine in numerous ways one eventful January.
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- Part 1 of January
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22 Jan 2024
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Because You Were There by hereforhsfanfic for Whatteverr888yup
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
20 Dec 2025
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When Charlie texts what he thinks is Tao's new number, he mistakenly gets a random stranger instead. Charlie is in crisis and the stranger offers to listen. Charlie decides to take a chance and starts talking with them...
What started off as just another wrong number AU where Nick and Charlie meet in the most unlikely of ways turned into a story of finding your true self and learning to be brave enough to share it with the world.
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08 Jan 2024