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1. at the White Heat by bananabreadatwork

   Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   03 Jan 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Nicholas "Nick" Nelson/Charles "Charlie" Spring
   • Tara Jones/Darcy Olsson
   • Elle Argent/Tao Xu
   • Charles "Charlie" Spring (Heartstopper)
   • Nicholas "Nick" Nelson
   • Sarah Nelson
   • David Nelson (Heartstopper)
   • Tara Jones
   • Darcy Olsson
   • Isaac Henderson (Heartstopper)
   • Tao Xu
   • Elle Argent
   • Benjamin "Ben" Hope
   • Stéphane Nelson
   • Benjamin "Ben" Hope is His Own Warning
   • Nicholas "Nick" Nelson Needs a Hug
   • Charles "Charlie" Spring (Heartstopper) Needs a Hug
   • Writer Charles "Charlie" Spring (Heartstopper)
   • Hurt
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Car Accidents
   • Medical Trauma
   • Alternate Universe - 2000s
   • My first fic
   • Tags May Change
   • Tags Are Hard
   • Smitten Nicholas "Nick" Nelson
   • Charles "Charlie" Spring is a Menace (Heartstopper)
   • Is this whump?
   • Eventual Smut
   • Slow Burn
   • Pacific Northwest
   • Portland Oregon
   • Smitten Charles "Charlie" Spring (Heartstopper)
   • Bi-awakening
   • Angst and Fluff and Smut
   • Charles 'sweatshirt princess' Spring
   • They/Them Pronouns for Darcy Olsson
   • Period-Typical Homophobia
   • Coming Out
   • Sassy Charles "Charlie" Spring (Heartstopper)
   • Hurt/Comfort

   Summary

   It is 2005 in the Pacific Northwest. Nick Nelson is a paramedic and firefighter; Charlie Spring is a grad student living in Portland. An accident brings them briefly together, but will they meet again? And what will it take for our two boys to let themselves be seen at their most vulnerable?

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   43,170

   Chapters:

   10/15

   Comments:

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