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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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- English
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- 175,403
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- 24/24
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- 1,380
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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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- English
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- 91,720
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- 24/24
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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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- English
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- 511,520
- Chapters:
- 26/26
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10 Oct 2025
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Charlie Spring is concentrating on his running when a handsome face appears at the adjacent treadmill. Will this chance encounter be the opportunity to realise an old teenage dream?
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Nick Nelson tries really hard not to come on too strong - I wonder how that worked out?
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- English
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- 26,075
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 750
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- 519
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18 Sep 2025
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full time problem by Kody (saturated)
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
05 Oct 2025
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a nick and charlie teacher/parent au but without the cuteness you might expect
first time year 3 teacher nick nelson meets charlie spring, older brother and legal guardian of one of his students. except they kind of already know each other
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18 Sep 2025
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On the Other Side of the Ocean by pennlion79
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (TV) RPF
02 Jan 2026
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Nick Nelson's career and personal life are in shambles as injuries have forced him off the rugby pitch and his long-time girlfriend has dumped him. Charlie Spring is a highly successful English Literature professor with a deeply troubling past. Both men are looking for something that they are not sure they will ever find and have come to the United States and Penn State University to do it. Can they find happiness and peace together?
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- English
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- 284,813
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- 22/?
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18 Sep 2025
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You can't get over someone if you're still under them.
Nick and Charlie broke up but they can't seem to keep their hands to themselves. Will they ever admit their true feelings?
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29 Jul 2025
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The Butterfly Club by bordercollie111
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
13 Aug 2025
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A Regency AU Heartstopper fic with shades of Jane Austen and Bridgerton!
In the early 1800s, Nicholas Nelson and Charles Spring fall in love at Eton school and have to think creatively to find ways to be together while society expects them to fulfil their family duties.
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- 42/42
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02 Jul 2025
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Nick made sure his backpack was sealed and the hood of his jumper secured over his head before he departed the bus. He was the only one getting off at this stop and he paused under the bus stop's roof as the bus left him there. He’d hoped he would see something, anything, to jog his memory, but nothing called out to him. He was only six the last time he’d been anywhere in the area. He barely remembered what the house looked like, let alone the surrounding area. He could remember the kitchen most of all, the time spent baking his with Mum, standing in the little kitchen, an apron tied around his waist. They were probably his favorite memories of being here, the little pleasant ones he had.
(Or Nick grows up with his Dad in Paris and when he gets kicked out, he runs away to Kent to find his mum and ends up finding Charlie along the way)
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- English
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- 58,052
- Chapters:
- 12/12
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- 674
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- 540
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24 Jun 2025
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Bruschetta by Oatsiexx for erinthelibrarian, Thisismeht, BeezusRed
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
14 Aug 2025
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Inspired by Attachments, a novel by Rainbow Rowell.
Charlie and Isaac exchange daily emails whilst writing for a newspaper together. After a story is leaked the Editor decides to hire an Internet Security Officer who's job involves monitoring emails. Enter newly single Nick, living with his brother and looking for employment...
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- Part 1 of Bruschetta
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- 54,722
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- 51/51
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- 5,670
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23 Jun 2025
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“They're streets in the same city, and sometimes they intersect. I think I'm already planted at that intersection. I'm already under its streetlights.” - Billy-Ray Belcourt
Charlie Spring is at his wits' end. After a decade of keeping his panic attacks at bay, they're suddenly back with a vengeance, threatening to derail the life he's meant to be planning with his fiancé Ben. The only glimmer of hope is his therapist's suggestion that he might have success with a service dog.
Nick Nelson is back at square one. He's six months out of a failed long-term relationship, living at home again, and completely directionless. He loves working at his family's service dog agency, Second Chance, but he needs more than that to keep him afloat.
Or: Nick and Charlie never sat together in form. They never dated. They both moved through life separately, suceeding and failing in small measures, until a chance meeting in their late twenties brought them back into each others' orbit.
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- Part 1 of Pawprints
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- English
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- Chapters:
- 51/80
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- 3,036
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- 1,333
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- 59,420
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15 Jun 2025
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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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- English
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- 35/35
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- 1,776
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12 Jun 2025
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Song Fic inspired by lyrics in The 30th (Billie Eilish)
Set in Durham, a couple of years after graduating university, Nick is struggling with internalised feelings of love and attraction to his best friend which he is doing his very best to squash down. When the unthinkable happens to Charlie, these feelings unequivocally rise to the surface and Nick realises that life is too short to not love who you love.
Join us on a journey of love, friendship and self-acceptance.
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- English
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- 92,688
- Chapters:
- 13/13
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- 1,072
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- 1,179
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- 357
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- 41,620
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05 Jun 2025
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The Road Home by Lockerberry, unhingedlatte for chaosvibes
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
14 Aug 2025
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Nick Nelson, who lost his mother five years ago, has been working tirelessly to obtain his family's farm. He has embraced solitude, convinced that it brings him contentment. However, his life takes an unexpected turn when he encounters Charlie Spring. Charlie's arrival shakes up Nick’s world, challenging his beliefs and ultimately, changing his perspective on life. As their relationship develops, Nick begins to realise that companionship and connection are essential ingredients for true happiness, and just maybe, he should embrace the new person and find a new type of joy in his life.
Essentially, a tale of loss, grief, friendship, and love. Farm boy Nick meets posh boy Charlie then sparks begin to fly.
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- English
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- 150,382
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- 13/20
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- 751
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- 502
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- 161
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- 24,922
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03 Jun 2025
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Charlie Spring is a PhD candidate in Data Science at UC-Berkeley where he uses his supercomputing time to analyze large datasets. He sleeps on a mat under his desk in his cubicle because rent prices in The Bay Area are insane, and roommates suck. He spends his free time pestering his librarian friend, Isaac and volunteering a few hours a week at a local pet shelter. As a lonely data nerd, he decides to start dating on the “data-driven” OK-Cupid platform, but as a data scientist, he can’t help but to optimise his approach to ensure he’s conducting a thorough search for the right partner.
This fic is now posted in full.
There will be two short epilogue chapters added after the story is marked complete.The story was inspired by two fantastic true stories told on the Moth and Story Collider podcasts, respectively. I highly recommend you listen to them, but I'd wait until after you've finished the fic. The story will start T (for language, mainly), raise to M (starting at chapter 8) and will eventually earn the E rating for smut.
I live for your kudos and comments, so please leave both to let me know you're interested in this fic! Thanks!! Xoxo DotSeries
- Part 1 of The Narlie Data Universe
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03 Jun 2025
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Nick Nelson is successful. He's got a fancy car, a beautiful girlfriend, and a flat in a desirable part of London. He's on his way to a highly profitable career in environmental law, and with it comes a chance to finally mend his relationship with his estranged father. But beneath the veneer of success, Nick harbours a secret that threatens to destroy the progress he's made both in his career and with his dad. He's spent years concealing his true self, carefully constructing a mask that no one can see beneath, but the arrival of a new hire at Fournier & Associates forces Nick to confront the truth about himself. When the chips are down, what will Nick choose: the life he's built, or the truth in his heart?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 138,349
- Chapters:
- 16/20
- Comments:
- 808
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- 469
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- 130
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- 18,691
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01 Jun 2025
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When Charlie Spring quit his job at the bank and travelled to the other side of the world to train as a zookeeper he expected to meet lots of cute animals. What he didn't anticipate was meeting a very cute zookeeper called Nick. Standing in front of him was the perfect incarnation of the ‘Aussie guy’ he had been dreaming about.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 65,993
- Chapters:
- 11/16
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 337
- Kudos:
- 139
- Bookmarks:
- 65
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- 6,697
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01 Jun 2025
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Charlie Spring always dreamed of becoming a police officer, a plan he shared with his best friend Tao since childhood. But when they finally begin training, the pressure is heavier than expected and so is the presence of Officer Nick Nelson. Charlie and Nick clash immediately, but underneath the tension, something deeper begins to spark something Charlie never anticipated.
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30 May 2025