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At 28, former professional rugby star Nick Nelson has traded scrums for scones, retiring from the sport to open his cozy new bakery, Nelson's Nook. Enter Charlie Spring, a witty culinary publicist embarking on a three-month training stint under Nick's guidance who will change everything.
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I Cherish With Fondness the Day (Before) I Met You by SqueegyBeckenheim
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
03 May 2026
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Charlie Spring has worked on yachts for nearly a decade and needs to decide what he wants from the next phase of his life.
Nick Nelson is not not using his new job as a yacht deckhand to run away after years of feeling unfulfilled and directionless.
They both have the next six months working in the Mediterranean to figure their shit out.
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Or, a yachtie AU featuring bad first meetings, prickly interactions, close quarters, and lots of really good decision-making fueled by a healthy dose of horny hatred.
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21 Nov 2025
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Charlie looked shyly around the circle of other patients waiting for the therapist. He felt his jaw slacken as his eyes focused on the startled face of the man seated directly across from him.
A man he recognised.
Nick Nelson.
At least, he was pretty sure that was Nick Nelson staring back at him. He looked a little worse for wear, but Charlie supposed he wouldn’t be here if that wasn’t the case.
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Adult Nick and Charlie meet in inpatient. A story about hope, and the beauty that lies just on the other side of pain.
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20 Nov 2025
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Charlie is living a perfectly fine suburban life outside Denver. It’s fine, it’s great. Things are a bit strained with his husband, but that’s just married life, right? He’s happy enough. When Nick Nelson, with whom Charlie had a whirlwind two-week romance back in their college days, moves in across the way it doesn’t mean anything has to change. It was fifteen years ago, and Nick has his own perfectly fine suburban life.
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13 Nov 2025
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The Secret Third Option by kingdomfaraway
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
20 Oct 2025
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“Does it make me a terrible person that I’m glad someone else is having a worse week than I am?” Charlie asked.
“Nah,” Isaac answered. “Maybe you should message Nick and commiserate together.”
“Oh, yeah!” Elle said happily, eyeing Charlie’s face down mobile. He grabbed it, stuffing it in his pocket to prevent her from having it. “Best way to get over someone is to get under someone else.”
(Or Charlie Spring is an actor, whose ex Ben Hope is being a massive asshole. Nick Nelson is a rugby player who just got outed. Both need a bit of a image rehab, so what else is there to do? Fake date of course.)
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12 Nov 2025
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I'll wait for your love. by SPRINGINGintoaction (sailingtheLarryship)
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
27 Feb 2025
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Nick Nelson is a rugby prodigy, and he feels all the crushing weight of what that means. His future has never been his to choose, and he's always been okay with that if it meant making his father, rugby legend Stephane, proud. However, when a video of Nick and the boy who awakened his sexuality that Nick had purposefully kept dormant for years kissing is recorded and spread around campus, Nick's world is flipped on its axis. He's forced into a public outing he wasn't quite ready for and Nick is left to deal with the aftermath that leaves him with a lot of drama, hurt, and baggage that he’s not sure he ever wants to unpack. So, he swears off any distractions, closing the door on all of it - love and relationships and his desires to fulfill a part of himself no one else seems to want to accept. If it isn’t about rugby, if it isn’t about fulfilling his pre-determined destiny, he doesn’t entertain it. And it's all okay because all Nick wants for his last year of uni is to be someone his father can be proud of again. That is until he comes across one Charlie Spring.
Or an au where Nick is struggling to understand himself, Charlie is trying hard to reinvent himself, and the universe is struggling to keep them apart.
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10 Oct 2025