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Charlie Spring is Head Boy. He follows the rules, makes lists, and believes in doing things properly.
Nick Nelson is Rugby Captain. He believes in loyalty, teamwork, and showing up when it matters.
They don’t exactly get along.
When they’re forced to work together, what starts as rivalry and mutual suspicion turns into late conversations, shared responsibility, and the slow realisation that the person you least expect might understand you best.
A fun, tender slow-burn about school politics, accidental feelings, and what happens when doing things properly starts to mean something else entirely.
Because apparently, working together comes with side effects.
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- Part 1 of Between the Lines
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09 Feb 2026
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Nick had just found a rather delicious account about rugby training videos (seriously, how is this sport still considered straight?) when Heather puts down her phone again and looks at him.
“Do you reckon we’d match?”
“What?” Nick raises his eyebrows again. “You do realise that we are already together? Or do I have to slip you a piece of paper – yes, no, maybe later?”
“Of course I do. But do we actually match? Like, would we find each other with this algorithm?”
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Or, Nick is in a happy relationship – but is he as happy as he thinks? We (and he) will find out, when his girlfriend wants to use a new dating app to confirm that they're meant to be together. What could go wrong?Bookmarked by hapod
12 Dec 2025
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Nick is repeating his first year of uni. He’s not convinced it’s a good idea.
Enter a meddling flatmate, an unnerving dark academia elf, and an ill-advised Chemistry class.
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13 Oct 2025
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body's a work of art you'd die to see by healsolikesme
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
10 Oct 2025
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this is a 3+1 fic that came to me because I've loved fics like this in the past. basically, three chapters where nick and charlie get walked in on (because we all know that once they cross that line, they can't keep their hands to themselves), and one time they don't...
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11 Oct 2025
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"The subjunctive is the mood of uncertainty, right? What might have been. Or might be someday. It's…hopeful. You don't know for sure, but maybe." Nick gives Elle a crooked smile. "It's the mood of possibility."
Canon divergence AU: Nick befriends Elle first. Charlie and the others come along as a package deal. And it turns out that accidentally fake dating your bestie gets even more complicated when you catch feelings for someone else…
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02 Oct 2025
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it's hard being casual (when my favorite jumper lives in your dresser). by justjoelockedin
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
04 Dec 2025
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“And… well. I wanted to come up with a solution,” Charlie said slowly, the words clumsy on his tongue, like marbles too smooth to hold steady in his mouth. “About us.”
The silence that followed was not the sharp, dreaded kind. It was patient. A quiet that waited. Nick shifted on the couch beside him, the worn cushions sighing beneath his weight. His face softened, one eyebrow quirking gently upward. “Yeah?” he murmured, voice tinged with both curiosity and caution. “What would that be?”
Charlie inhaled—deep and shaky, the way one might before diving headfirst into freezing water—and then said it.
“We could… be friends with benefits?”
Or another uni-boys fic where Nick and Charlie try to do casual but fail miserably.
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19 Jul 2025
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in sepia-colored tones by avenueblue
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
24 Jan 2025
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“What do you know about Nick Nelson?”
Charlie freezes, certain that he’s hallucinating. “Er, sorry?”
“Nick Nelson.” Mr. Farouk turns the screen of his desktop so Charlie can catch a glimpse of the photo he’s pulled up.
Nick Nelson stares back at him, his beaming face red and sweaty and covered in streaks of mud. He is also, most notably, hoisting up last year’s rugby league Challenge Cup trophy in his arms, balanced precariously on his team’s shoulders after an astonishing win by the Leeds Rhinos he’d undoubtedly contributed to.
Charlie begins to feel faint.
Or: In which Charlie and Nick become nothing more than acquaintances back in Truham, instead crossing paths again in their adulthood as a budding journalist tasked with writing a feature on a rising rugby star.
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02 Mar 2025
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i’m so into you by incompatiblestarsigns
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
20 Mar 2025
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Charlie is a first year at Leeds and keeps running into his flatmate’s friend, Nick. When he starts developing a crush, he realises it may not be as one-sided as he originally thought.
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- Part 1 of i'm so into you
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22 Jan 2025
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19 Jan 2025
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Nick hadn’t expected to be seeking out Charlie Spring in a dingy nightclub after his relationship blows up.
Charlie didn’t expect Nick Nelson to be one of those guys. The ones who are up for whatever fun he throws their way.
Turns out, people can have a lot of stuff buried inside them.
Written for the HS AO3 Discord Anonymous Fic Challenge.
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09 Dec 2024
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Six years ago, soon after Charlie started uni, Nick and Charlie broke up. And their lives have been fine since. Really. It’s fine.
Then they run into each other at a wedding, and it ignites a spark they had long since thought extinguished. But they can’t be long-distance again, they know it doesn’t work.
A relationship, anyway. The sex still seems to be good.
So maybe just a little bit, then. Once a year. This is too good to let go of completely. Right?
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A Same Time Next Year AU
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15 Oct 2024
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it’s always okay in the end by bishyreadytocry
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
25 Oct 2024
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One night. Two people. Four years.
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The evolution of Nick and Charlie on the same night each year as they meet, become friends, pine, struggle, ache, and eventually figure it all out.
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15 Oct 2024
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Greatest Regret, Biggest Mistake by Europa22
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
18 May 2024
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"Standing five feet in front of him was Charlie Spring, his greatest regret...
That’s when Charlie saw it. He saw the flicker of remembrance from Nick Nelson, his biggest mistake..."
A fic where Nick & Charlie had a falling out in secondary school and life has brought them back together nearly a decade later. This story will explore lost friendships, reconnecting after so many years have passed, and the complications of love sprouting from scorched earth.
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25 Jun 2024
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Charlie watches as the broad figure of his favourite customer slips through the door and disappears into the darkness of the bleak winter evening. He’s eternally grateful for the fact that the shop has pretty much emptied out now, and Elliot is occupied with washing up in the back room, giving him a moment alone to sigh dreamily to himself as he stares after him and lets the residual fluttering in his stomach settle back down to normal.
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Or, Charlie is slowly having his soul crushed working as a barista, but at least he has the daily visit from his favourite regular customer to look forward to. A coffee shop AU.
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07 Jun 2024
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now i've read all of the books beside your bed by thetomkatwholived
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
15 May 2024
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Tara smirked. “Yes, Charlie Spring. Isaac is one of his best friends. He posts booktube videos.”
“Booktube?”
Darcy rolled her eyes. “Get on the internet, Nicholas! Youtube videos specifically about books. Isaac has a really great channel. Awesome queer recs.” She handed an earbud to Tara, and they both huddled around her phone.
Or, Nick sees Charlie for the first time in years in Isaac's video and maybe that crush he thought was dulled comes back in full force. At least he can get all the recommended books at the new bookshop in town...
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17 May 2024
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And I'll Hold Onto You by yousopuglywrites
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
19 Feb 2024
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Charlie reckons most people assume that he’s the clingy one out of the pair of them, but it's Nick who is unable to leave an inch of space between them whenever they're together.
(aka Nick is clingy and Charlie likes it)
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- Part 1 of Love Language: Physical Touch
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11 Apr 2024
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Dip You in Honey So I Could Be Sticking to You by yousopuglywrites
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
04 Jul 2022
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Nick is just about to walk out the door for a pub night when his mum calls him. He knows there's only one reason she would be calling, unprompted, at this hour on a Thursday. Something's happened with Charlie.
(The one where Charlie has an argument with his mum and turns up on Sarah Nelson's doorstep while Nick is away at university; naturally, she calls Nick).
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11 Apr 2024
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Of Dog Treats and Heartbeats by bishyreadytocry for erinthelibrarian
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
26 Apr 2024
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Charlie gets himself a dog. She’s a pain in his arse. She’s also the best thing that’s ever happened to him.
Nick has always had dogs. He also bakes for them in his own wee shop. It’s the best thing that’s ever happened to him.
So far, anyway.
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04 Apr 2024
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Seeking by recharging for morphinealarms
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
25 May 2024
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A prequel to Pink is The Flavor.
When Charlie first meets Nick on campus, he’s not sure what to expect. There isn’t a bone in Charlie’s body that is interested in finding out more about the boy, and yet. There he is.
Bright like the sunlight, inescapable.
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- Part 4 of Pink Is The Flavor
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04 Apr 2024
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