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It Must Be Exhausting Always Rooting For The Anti-Hero by Not_An_Average_Fangirl
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
08 Dec 2025
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Nick has a tough mental health day and turns to Charlie for support when he struggles to get through the school day. However, Tao is completely oblivious to the fact that Nick’s having a difficult time and he ends up making things worse.
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- Part 2 of People Throw Rocks at Things That Shine
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How Could You Do This, Babe? by Not_An_Average_Fangirl
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
28 Nov 2025
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Nick gets drunk when he’s out at the pub with Charlie and a random girl at the bar ends up taking advantage of him. Charlie catches them kissing when he comes out of the bathroom, initially, he’s furious with Nick until he has the chance to explain what really happened.
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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?
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You're Insecure, Don't Know What For by Not_An_Average_Fangirl
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
16 Nov 2025
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Charlie starts to spiral into his old thought patterns and starts becoming really insecure about his appearance after Harry corners him in the changing room after rugby practice. Nick reminds Charlie that he’s beautiful.
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Mismarked Heart by POEms_and_drabbles (PoeticAntics221)
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
12 Nov 2025
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What if the universe got it wrong?
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You Say You’re Fine I Know You Better Than That by Not_An_Average_Fangirl
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
09 Nov 2025
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Some of Nick's teammates make homophobic comments aimed at Nick and his relationship with Charlie. They think that Nick should be coming out with them to the pub to flirt with girls instead of spending time with his boyfriend. Charlie steps in and makes sure Nick's teammates regret saying anything.
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Even If They Don't Want It by hist0ry_huh
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
28 Sep 2025
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The moments before Nick visits Charlie at the Daffodil Clinic for the first time and a conversation between him and Tori about the most important person in their lives.
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- Part 15 of Heartstopper One Shots
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Snowed in (with you) by warpaintandpixiedust
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
09 Sep 2025
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After breaking up Nick and Charlie end up snowed in together at a service station hotel. But there’s a problem, there’s only one room and there’s only one bed. Whatever are they going to do?
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Love Can't Cure a Mental Illness by Not_An_Average_Fangirl
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
23 Aug 2025
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Nick and Charlie are very much in love, they have been since they were fifteen and sixteen. They have always been there for each other, in good times and bad. So, when Nick starts to realize that Charlie’s mental health is declining he drives all the way to Charlie’s university, only to find him passed out on his bathroom floor.
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Missing Him Was Dark Gray, All Alone by Not_An_Average_Fangirl
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
22 Aug 2025
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Nick and Charlie are long distance, Nick is at Leeds and Charlie is finishing up his last year at Truham. Nick struggles being away from home, his coursework and rugby practice had become too much and most of all he misses Charlie.
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Behind Closed Doors by Lumirizzyouup
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
23 Jun 2025
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Two Nelson siblings witness the violence that Stephane did to Their mother from a young age and wrongly learn that maybe that's what love is. One inherits their mother's silence, and the other inherits their fathers anger even after the divorce happens, all while Sarah slowly becomes absent. Will Charlie help Nick or remain in the dark of the abuse that happens when no one is there.
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My First Boyfriend by PoeticAntics221 for sugarpiehoney
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
08 Jun 2025
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“God, he looks fucking incredible. Charlie usually kept his hair short, but now it’s cropped even shorter on the sides, with longer curls at the top. He’s wearing a loose vest that proudly shows off his binder and there’s a definite path of hair trailing down into the waistband of his jeans that wasn’t always there. His top rides up as his arms are lifted in a V-shape, stretching out a huge flag behind him. Blue and Pink and White. It’s beautiful. He’s so fucking beautiful.
His caption is a simple message: charlie (he/him)
Well, there’s not a single doubt in my mind now. I’m definitely bisexual.”
“Charlie Spring is a boy.
He’s always been a boy.
He was my first boyfriend.”
OR: Trans Charlie AU where Nick and Charlie date in school before Charlie’s transition. Charlie breaks up with Nick. Eleven months later, Nick sees Charlie’s coming out post on Insta and reaches out.
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- Part 17 of Are we parting?
- Part 3 of MCD
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On her train ride back from her London office, Imogen daydreams about a life she doesn’t know how to have.
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Moving On, Standing Still by HappySappyHippo
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
09 May 2025
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It had been a rough week. Charlie’s anxiety had been on full tilt for fear of making the wrong decision. It took him an exhaustive session with Geoff and a lengthy discussion with Tori – as usual being an annoying shit with her pointed questions that led him to really ask himself what he actually wanted – to finally be able to reach out to James.
And now he was standing in front of James’ door, nervously sweating, with a bunch of flowers in his hands, waiting for the door to his new life to be opened.-
Or, Charlie decides to give a new love a chance.Series
- Part 13 of Are we parting?
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"This time, I'm the menace!" by VroDo
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
07 May 2025
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Nick was having a good time. He really was.
Well, he tried, anyway.
Sitting in the pub with the gang felt like old times. Until it didn’t. He had missed this so much, and still, something was missing.
Or someone.
So when his eyes caught Charlie’s frame coming towards the table he thought for a moment that his mind had once again fled into a daydream.
But the man at Charlie’s side was more the stuff of nightmares.
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- Part 14 of Are we parting?
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Nick decides he can't do it anymore and Sarah really fucking loves her baby boy.
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luckiest girl in the world by loving_narlie
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
14 Mar 2025
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Nick struggles with being a parent and Charlie is there to comfort him
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Turning Over a New Leaf by addikat09
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
13 Jan 2025
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Nick is sad about many things. But mostly about all the change now that sixth form is over. Sarah suggests they go on holiday to Menorca to cheer him up, and he ends up finding out much more about himself the summer before Uni begins than he anticipates.
This is a story about the complex feelings and experiences that come with growing up and how our lovely boys help each other through them. Their journey as friends/lovers in this fic is not straight (lol) forward, but I can promise a happy end.
The title is based on the song Love You by flowerlove -
Hold Me (Don't Leave Me) by Franklyfrank
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
26 Nov 2024
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Nick is clinging on for dear life.
How I imagine that the whole of the Halloween party went in S3 E4.