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We Took the Long Way by CarrotQueen91
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
05 Jun 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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05 Jun 2026
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breeze of the hebrides by bishyreadytocry
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
06 Jun 2026
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Interior designer Charlie Spring needs a change, and it just so happens that his best friend is hunkered down in Scotland to work on his book. When a series of jobs come up across the Highlands and Islands, he decides to take the leap and join Isaac up north. Even though the first job is renovating a rugby clubhouse, of all things.
Enter team captain, Nick Nelson. He’s prickly, petulant and grumpy, and Charlie immediately wishes he’d never met him. He’s always known that rugby players are, by default, arseholes, and Nick certainly isn’t changing his mind on that one.
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A story about assumptions and healing and figuring out your place in the world, with some pretty Scottish scenery thrown in there. Oh, and there’s seals.
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20 May 2026
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Spring Cleaning by bubblegum_m1lkshake
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
20 Mar 2023
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Nick Nelson is home for a few months and looking forward to some quality time with his mum, Sarah. He wasn't expecting her to have hired a cleaner to help around the house, not to mention developing a serious crush on the guy shortly after they meet. But is the feeling mutual, or is Nick destined to miss his chance at romance and happiness? Only time will tell.
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29 Apr 2026
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Charlie is having a really bad time. He is a broken, lonely mess that is only a burden to those he loves. He has been depressed in bed for too long, and he needs to get out and find something new to live for.
Nick’s life is feeling too small. He’s thrown away everything he was living for. He hasn’t felt like himself in years and he needs to find a place to figure out who he is and where to go from there.
When our boys answer a call for work aways, they land at the Wheatleys’s cottage in fucking Canada, hired to work and live side by side among a family that is loud and chatty and just a bit too open.
How will the next ten weeks shape who they are and what they want? And how will finding each other turn their lives around?Bookmarked by INeedMyRobBack
15 Apr 2026
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Aaron's always assumed he's going to die young.
Three ways Aaron deals and doesn't deal with BRCA2.
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31 Mar 2026
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Charlie Spring has suffered seven years of abuse and neglect at the hands of his grandparents, when he is sent to a new foster family. He is a husk of the happy boy he had once been, expecting the worst from this new home. Will Sarah and Nick be able to help Charlie feel safe once more?
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An AU where Charlie comes to the Nelsons' house as a broken fourteen year old, untrusting of the kindness his new family shows him. This story will explore Charlie's trauma and healing as he fights to find himself again. And hopefully Nick can help him find love along the way.
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13 Mar 2026
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I can't seem to let myself leave you (but I can't breathe anymore) by emilia_kaisa
Fandoms: Emmerdale (TV 1972)
18 Feb 2026
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Aaron doesn't register the first symptom.
Or he does, but he doesn’t think much of it, his mind foggy with pleasure, his forehead pressed against the wall, nails scraping the raw timber. There’s just the slightest itchiness in the back of his throat, surely caused by the cold winter air and strained shouts Aaron has been trying to swallow down unsuccessfully, his voice echoing in a freezing space of the barn.aka
It's 2015. Katie is alive, Robert is getting married, and Aaron is quietly dying.
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20 Feb 2026
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Fleeing from the tattered remnants of his high-flying life in London, Robert Sugden finds himself lost on the moors with no phone signal and no car. When he finds an isolated farmhouse, he hopes for a landline and a lift back to Emmerdale so he can start plotting a return to his old life. But maybe that was never the life he should have had in the first place.
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11 Feb 2026
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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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04 Feb 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 INeedMyRobBack
12 Jan 2026
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The Voice You Choose to Keep Inside and Locked Away by kingdomfaraway
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
16 Mar 2026
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Try as he might, Charlie couldn’t quite quell his nerves.
He bit at his thumb nail, which was already bitten down more than enough. He pulled his hand away from his mouth, shaking his head slightly as he walked up to the office doors. He’d been inside the building a handful of times now, twice for interviews, and once for his orientation day, but he still checked the sign on the door, making sure he had the right address.
He’d also looked it up on Google maps again too, just in case he somehow forgot the directions. He was well aware of how stupid it might be for him to worry so much but it was his first official full day of work, he couldn’t afford to be late because he somehow forgot what building he was going into. He was also incredibly aware he was catastrophizing but therapy also taught him it was fine to catastrophize, as long as he knew that’s what it was.
He was fine, nothing was going to happen to him, he just had to keep that in mind.
(Or Charlie and Nick are living together in domestic bliss, but when Charlie starts a new job and Geoff retires, he finds himself struggling to stay on track.)
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03 Jan 2026
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Xmas Cake and Gingerbread Men by Yojfull
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic), Radio Silence - Alice Oseman
24 Dec 2025
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Charlie has been taking cooking and baking classes as part of his efforts to reclaim food as something positive in his life. He starts finding himself again after a devastating breakup. Of course, it doesn't hurt that the instructor is a gorgeous slice of eye candy. Will Charlie make a move, or just biscuits?
Nick has been teaching baking classes at his friend Imogen's cooking school, as an attempt to find a purpose after retirement from professional rugby — while he enjoys it, is this really all there is to his life now?
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- Part 16 of Candy Hearts
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18 Dec 2025
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Merry Christmas, Charlie Spring! by bubblegum_m1lkshake
Fandoms: Heartstopper (Webcomic), Heartstopper (TV)
09 Jan 2023
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Charlie Spring is twenty-four and has worked in a gift shop in Kent for the past few years. Closing up for the last time before his Christmas break, he's met with the unbelievably kind eyes of a handsome stranger who implores him for his help with a last-minute gift.
And who is Charlie to argue? It's Christmas, after all.
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A short and very fluffy AU in which Charlie Spring and Nick Nelson find each other as adults over the festive period.
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02 Dec 2025
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Aaron Livesy has never had sex. Not really. Not with a guy. Not proper sex.
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15 Nov 2025
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30-year-old Charlie Spring-closeted, widowed, father to a 6yo diabetic daughter-moves from Texas to Germany for a new job and new start. His deeply religious upbringing has long kept him from embracing his true self but in his new environment, he finds the space to question the faith that has defined his entire identity. Nick Nelson-out and proud bisexual primary school teacher-patiently and lovingly walks alongside Charlie as he overcomes his past and all the while the sexual tension between them grows.
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- Part 1 of I Had to Get Out
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27 Oct 2025
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Another rich and famous au from me! I want to give this another go! Robert is a famous actor, moving back to Emmerdale after ten years away. Aaron's the local mechanic and a single dad. Sparks inevitably fly. Rated E for requested chapter 20.
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19 Sep 2025
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I Know This is A Fight Someday We're Going to Win by kingdomfaraway for brbrbeatrice
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
23 Aug 2025
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When my alarm wakes me in the morning, I know it’s going to be a shitty day.
Truth be told, it’s been slowly rolling on me, dark clouds over the horizon and it was only a matter of time before I woke up in the middle of a storm.
Nothing is really wrong, which is the most frustrating bullshit in the history of bullshit. Nothing bad has happened to me, or anyone else. There’s no reason for the torrential downpour that’ll keep me miserable and in bed all day and probably tomorrow too.
(or Charlie's having a really shitty time, but don't worry he's got Nick to come hold him through it all)
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24 Aug 2025
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Nick was always there in the mornings, in fact Charlie was pretty sure he never actually left, usually seeing him behind the counter when he’d leave for home at 2:00.
On the days Charlie wasn’t there, he wondered if Nick stuck to the same routine, or if he worked a different shift. Charlie went grocery shopping every Saturday at 1:30, usually his only trip into town, and he never once saw Nick. The handful of times a month he’d go in for other reasons, it would be Nickless as well. It was as if the man only existed inside of the building, Schrödinger’s Nick, he’d taken to calling it in his head.
(Or, Charlie’s a recluse writer who can’t seem to write his second novel and Nick is a former rugby star who now owns a bakery.)
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03 Aug 2025
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“What was Nick’s last name?” Oliver asks.
Charlie nearly chokes on a sip of his drink. “Sorry, what?”
“Nick. Your Nick. What was his last name?”
“Nelson. Why?”
“My form teacher’s name is Mr. Nelson. I think he’s new this year.”
For a moment, Charlie’s brain halts to a complete stop. He hasn’t talked to Nick Nelson in three years. Hasn’t thought about him in almost as long. It can't be the same Nelson. But what if it is?
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Nick and Charlie broke up at the start of Charlie's first year of uni. Unplanned circumstances brought Nick back home to Truham, where he's starting his first teaching job at his old school. When he gets his class lists, Nick is surprised to see Oliver Spring's name in his form group. As if the first year of teaching isn't stressful enough! Meanwhile, Charlie is shocked to hear that Nick is back in town and teaching his younger brother. But what's gone is gone. Charlie can't have Nick back in his life, even as a friend. Especially not when Charlie's too terrified to step even one foot outside of his flat. He can't need Nick Nelson again. But what if Nick needs him?
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22 Jul 2025
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Public Bookmark 150
Mystery Work
Part of Private
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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13 Jul 2025