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Charlie didn’t plan to fall for him.
He definitely didn’t plan to fall for Nick Nelson, guitarist for Swanborn, when his own struggling rock band gets invited on tour with the indie darlings. Nick’s pure walking trouble in a Northern flat cap, with a crooked smile that gets under Charlie’s skin faster than he can shut it down.
They’re on tour together for eight weeks. Shared stages, buses, changing rooms and glances that linger too long. Charlie tells himself it’s just physical, just flirting, just another distraction in the long line of flings he entertains himself with on the road. But under that brooding bad-boy facade, Nick watches Charlie like he matters. And for Charlie, that’s a whole lot of dangerous.
Now they’re stuck on the same bus, in the same cities, circling each other with heat and hurt crackling destructively between them. Charlie wants to hate Nick. But some people just get under your skin and fucking stay there.
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Way Cooler Than I Actually Am by Zirconite
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
17 Dec 2025
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Nick and Charlie in various short snapshots. Some canon-compliant, some AU, mostly just fluff and smut with these adorable creatures.
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Charlie is a talented journalist struggling to be taken seriously in a workplace that consistently takes him for granted, while Nick, charming and guarded, carries the quiet weight of responsibilities he never asked for. When a high-profile assignment arises, resentment sparks and tempers flare, forcing them into close proximity neither is prepared for.
Outside of work, Charlie finds himself drawn into late-night gaming sessions with a soft hearted stranger who offers easy laughter and unexpected comfort, while Nick begins discovering new sides himself thanks to his sharp-witted, kind gaming companion. As professional frustrations mount and personal lives press in from all sides, unspoken tensions and blurred boundaries begin to surface. Set between office politics, digital escapes, and moments of vulnerability, this is a slow-burn story about misjudgment, longing, and the complicated ways people learn to see one another.
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27 Jan 2026
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The Devil You Know by henry_amargosa, Oatsiexx
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
17 Mar 2026
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Morose from being dumped by Charlie, Nick arrives at Leeds unexpectedly alone, far from family and his remaining friends and struggling to care about anything. But his flatmate and rugby teammate Harry Greene is determined to do whatever it takes to help Nick get over Charlie – and under someone new.
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23 Dec 2025
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The Campsite Rule by chocolatefreckle for isto4u
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
24 Nov 2025
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An Absurdism/Dollyverse AU.
What if our favourite closeted bisexual, David Nelson, hadn’t grown up into the self-assured mature adult of Absurdism – just stayed the exact same homophobic, malicious douchebro of canon – but still ran into the business end of our hero, the best snarky twenty-one-year-old bisexual brat ever, Olly Spring?
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- Part 1 of The Ignorant Art School
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06 Oct 2025
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Omegathon 2025: Sponsored by Minx! by emmyarcher
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
23 Jan 2025
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Charlie lets James drag him to an alpha/omega speed-dating event to help raise money for a good cause and maybe meet someone worth having a drink with. The whole thing is a bit of a mixed bag, until Nick sits down across from him.
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25 Sep 2025
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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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26 Aug 2025