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Contents: smut • fluff • angst
Adult Nick & Charlie
Two part series • Episode OneWhen journalist Charlie Spring is assigned to interview rugby captain Nick Nelson, he expects a straightforward profile. Instead, he finds a man more thoughtful, and more compelling, than the headlines suggest.
Nick's life is lived under stadium lights and public scrutiny. Charlie's has always been built on observation, on telling other people's stories. Crossing that line was never part of the assignment.
But in professional sport, timing is everything. And some futures are already written.
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- Part 1 of Black Rose
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10 Mar 2026
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Like, Follow, Subscribe by Hope_Rope_Hs
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
12 Mar 2026
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Charlie is a lonely stay at home dad, that finds a way to escape his boring life by watching a travel vlogger.
That travel vlogger happens to have rugby arms and a daughter his son’s age.
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10 Mar 2026
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Ghosted... Again. by NotACactusCow for HappySappyHippo
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
14 Mar 2026
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Thirty two-year-old Charlie Spring has just lost his mother. Their relationship was messy, but the grief still hits him and his siblings hard. Their father takes it worst of all and moves to Spain to be near family, leaving the house to Charlie.
Fresh out of a toxic relationship, Charlie refuses to move back into the childhood home that shaped so many of his issues. Instead, he decides to rent it out.
Nick Nelson, newly divorced and raising his five-year-old son Julian alone, returns to his hometown for support and takes a teaching job at his old primary school. He rents a house for himself and Julian—only to discover his new landlord is Charlie, the boy he once secretly crushed on.
Now Charlie has to decide if he can forgive Nick for ghosting him years ago, and Nick must finally explain what really happened.
And meanwhile…who is Julian talking to in his room when no one else is there?
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Charlie rents out his late mother’s house, only to lease it to Nick, the childhood crush who once ghosted him. As they navigate their unresolved past, Nick’s young son begins talking to someone unseen.- Language:
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06 Mar 2026
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never trust a man with a one syllable name by kaalee for Yee_333
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
03 Mar 2026
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Charlie Spring is a tattoo artist and piercer, trying desperately to keep his shop from going under after his dickhead ex, Dan, walked out. He has no time for gorgeous men that show up without an appointment.
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04 Mar 2026
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Tram-ance by chocolatefreckle for Yee_333
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
16 Mar 2026
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Nick Nelson is catching his first-ever Melbourne tram to work. Which is great. Fine. Amazing. Except that a stunningly beautiful man with dark curls and blue eyes has just gotten on, and Nick is panicking bisexually harder than that time he saw Tilda Swinton in Waitrose.
A fluffy (and
probablydefinitely eventually smutty) tale of public transportation mutual pining.Bookmarked by sapperlott
03 Mar 2026
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The Noise in the Garden by NotACactusCow for Lessthanthreehs
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
16 Mar 2026
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In the Garden, purity is everything.
Desire is called Noise. Doubt is infection. Obedience is survival.
Nicholas has spent his life trying to be good — to silence every stray thought, to follow every rule, to trust that if he empties himself enough, he will be made worthy. But when his growing closeness with Charles begins to stir feelings he cannot name, the Garden takes notice.
What begins as whispers turns into discipline. What feels like repentance becomes punishment, disguised as love.
As loyalties fracture and faith grows thin, Nicholas must decide whether purity is worth the cost — and how much of himself he is willing to sacrifice to protect someone the Garden has already condemned.
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In a rigid religious commune obsessed with purity, a young man’s forbidden feelings lead to trouble— and the unraveling of everything he thought was holy.
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02 Mar 2026
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We Took the Long Way by CarrotQueen91
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
13 Mar 2026
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At twenty five, Charlie Spring finally sets off on the Route 66 road trip he and his friend Isaac have been dreaming about since they were sixteen. Four weeks, lifelong friends, and a road that disappears into the horizon.
When Elle convinces Charlie to widen the guest list, he doesn’t expect to be reunited with Nick Nelson, his long-buried school crush, now a twenty six year old handsome stranger who feels both familiar and entirely new.
Thrown together by long drives, shared rooms, and the slow rhythm of days spent moving through unfamiliar places, Charlie and Nick begin to learn each other gently. In moments that feel almost accidental. In conversations that linger. In the kind of closeness that grows from being stuck together, day after day.
It turns out some things are worth taking the long way around.
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01 Mar 2026
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Nick Nelson: The 40-Year-Old Virgin by Coach1305
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
28 Feb 2026
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Looking at Nick Nelson, you’d never know he was a virgin. Like, who is possibly a virgin at his age?!
Certainly not the captain of the rugby club. Definitely not the bloke doorstopped by every divorcee mother at the school gates. And absolutely not the guy raking in sexual advances at queer bars every weekend.
But enough was enough. Nick's birthday was in a few days, and he was determined to lose his virginity with a bang.
Forty of them actually.
Nick Nelson was changing his sexual status from forty-year-old virgin to forty-year-old slut.
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28 Feb 2026
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The Road Not Taken by angiejm for thesarahellis
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
27 Feb 2026
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Charlie Spring is widowed, in his early 40s, and happily single living in LA. For years, his mother has tried to convince him to move back to the small Washington town where he graduated high school, which doesn’t interest him in the slightest. However, after a visit home for the holidays—and some happy news from his sister, Tori—he finds himself unexpectedly drawn home, where a (not so) chance encounter with Nick Nelson, the man he crushed on for half of high school, sets him on a new path.
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28 Feb 2026
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In the fragile weeks after his marriage ends, David nervously steps into a gay sauna for the first time, searching for a part of himself he’s spent most of his life denying.
Or—
Filthy Dolly smut.
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22 Feb 2026
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47 things by shootingforthestars for Chaotic_Mesh
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
28 Feb 2026
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this definitely isn't the fic that i started for meshy's birthday LAST year but didn't get around to posting until THIS one. definitely not. also, these aren't the droids you're looking for. move along, please...
there is some sad at the end (hence the tags) but also, it's mostly a deep dive into how these two love each other, through a long time and a lot of times. maybe that makes the journey worth it? (spoiler: it's the only thing that does, i think.)
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17 Feb 2026
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Charlie Spring, freshly heartbroken and feeling cosmically unlucky in love, visits a psychic after Isaac buys him a ticket. Unfortunately, her predictions have him swearing off love for good.
Enter, Nick Nelson.
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16 Feb 2026
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Nick and Charlie met at St. Sebastian's University as theology students, both investigating their vocation. Nick is set on the priesthood and following the traditional version of Catholicism he grew up with. Charlie is more interested in being the social justice-focused follower of Jesus outlined in the Bible. They do not like each other, and when they are reintroduced at the university and forced to teach a theology seminar on love, vocations, and health, they clash, in more ways than one.
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15 Feb 2026
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Inspired by New Rules by Dua Lipa.
Nick and Charlie broke up six years ago.
They meet again.Bookmarked by sapperlott
11 Feb 2026
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I'm sure this has been done before but I am suffering from such chronic writer's block when this idea popped into my head I had to run with it.
It is based on the Saturday Guardian newspaper's 'Blind Dates' feature where two strangers go for a meal together and report back on their findings.
Some of the answers in the fic below are plagiarised from actual 'blind dates'.
No prizes for guessing who The Guardian has thrown together.Bookmarked by sapperlott
08 Feb 2026
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Nick and Charlie are in their early 40s and a lot of life has happened to them. Charlie suffers from a chronic illness, Nick is a former professional hockey player turned hygienist. Both have kids from previous relationships. After innumerable misunderstandings about their relationship, they decide to start a podcast together, just to clarify how two queer men can be best friends and nothing more... because, surely that's all they are, right?
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30 Jan 2026
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Even if David and Olly met first, Nick and Charlie are made for each other in every universe.
They might also be surprisingly good at faking too… 👀
An N+C spinoff of The Rules We Fake, by Escapingnarnia and Noangel1983
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- Part 3 of Dolly Rules
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14 Jan 2026
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After the worst storm ever recorded in the history of the UK and Ireland, Franko Primavera, drummer of the rock mega-band INTENCIoN, disappears off the coast of Ireland, and is presumed dead.
Six months later, widowed teacher Nick Nelson encounters a new face in his sleepy Scottish adopted hometown, the enigmatic Charlie. But as Nick and Charlie grow closer, Charlie's past starts to catch up with him.Bookmarked by sapperlott
10 Jan 2026
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if you change your mind (take a chance on me) by chaoortu
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
16 Mar 2026
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Nick wished.
He hoped.
He fucked like it was the last time he'd ever get the opportunity, perhaps because he knew even then that this would never happen again.
In the morning, drummer boy was gone with nothing more than a note scribbled onto the hotel's memo pad.
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Whoopsie Baby AU incoming!
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05 Jan 2026
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the baker and the candlestick maker by chaoortu
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
17 Mar 2026
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On Saturdays and Sundays from 10-2, Charlie sets up his pokey little stall at the Daffodil Market and does his absolute best to sell his wares. It's not exactly easy and he more often than not spends more on his stall rent than he actually makes back, but it's worth it to him to have the mental break from the corporate grind that is his office job.
- - -In which Nick is a baker and Charlie is a candle maker.
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03 Jan 2026