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Welcome! This is just a collection of One-Shots I felt like putting together. It will be updated randomly whenever the feeling strikes. Some are funny, some are sappy, some are dramatic, some are full on romantic, but mostly just slice of life about our favorite couple. AxH, GxP
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29 Jun 2026
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Shortaki Collection 2026
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Dear Helga, (writing down your feelings is more difficult than I thought) by lovelytomeetyou
Fandoms: Hey Arnold!
29 Jun 2026
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Fragile. Weak. Defenseless.
You’ve always been everything but these words to me.
And yet I know how much you hate even hearing them. Even when it’s not about you at all.
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- Part 2 of {HA!} Hey, Helga?
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29 Jun 2026
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Dear Helga, (writing down your feelings is more difficult than I thought)
lovelytomeetyou---
Cute, Arnold POV
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Roses, Sailboats, The Whole Nine Yards by PlayerPiano, SomeOtherGuy (PlayerPiano)
Fandoms: Hey Arnold
18 Jul 2026
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Helga Shortman's autobiographical essays about her life with her husband and two kids.
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19 Jun 2026
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Roses, Sailboats, The Whole Nine Yards
SomeOtherGuy (PlayerPiano)Incredibly adorable married shortaki life
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A story of Mr. Simmons' fourth grade class at P.S. 118 in Hillwood, USA, told through the years from shifting perspectives.
We begin with the last day of school, after a huge conflict shakes up the entire class, threatening to change some relationships forever while sending someone home in tears.Changes in the canon set by the original movie and TJM. Strap in!
Pretty PG to start since they'll be young for a bit, but we'll see.
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13 Jun 2026
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sydnew_castle - Untitled (Time)
multiple perspectives, rly cool
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four times our lips almost met (and the one time they spoke) by ashleykay
Fandoms: Hey Arnold
14 Sep 2016
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He thinks, maybe he doesn't love her and isn't sure what a kiss would do. He's got his parents and a jungle and the whole world waiting for him.
But he still can't forget the color of her eyes.
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04 May 2026
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four times our lips almost met (and the one time they spoke)
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When Arnold is transferred to his high school’s Advanced English class, the last person he expected to see was Helga. As the only two in the class from their P.S.118 gang, she makes him swear not to tell anybody. Arnold always knew there was more to Helga than there seemed, but after he begins to hear her writing, he asks himself, Could he like the real Helga G. Pataki?
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25 Year Old Thaddeus Gammelthorpe drifts through life with practiced ease living in Arnold's boarding house. He takes his pills, goes to work, comes home, and goes to bed. An easy, controlled existence.
25 Year Old Rhonda Wellington-Lloyd thinks her life is all glitz and glamor, but there are edges under the surface, people who seek to control her. Her every movement seems designed to brace her for a future she finds abhorrent.
They meet again and deep in his subconscious, Curly stirs, threatening everything.
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Years later, they cross paths again, not as kids, but as adults carrying the weight of responsibility, grief, and lives that never quite turned out the way they imagined. Arnold is still the caretaker he’s always been. Helga is still sharp, guarded, and fiercely loyal, but both are worn down in ways they never learned how to name. Set in a quiet, aging boarding house that feels frozen in time, the story follows the slow rebuilding of connection: between two people who once meant everything to each other, and within a home that has forgotten what it feels like to be lived in. Small moments, shared routines, unexpected laughter, stubborn acts of care begin to soften old wounds.
This is a story about found family, quiet healing, and love that doesn’t arrive all at once, but grows in the everyday: in showing up, in staying, and in learning how to let someone else carry the weight with you.
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Thrown together into a shaky truce since their Best Friends are dating, Arnold Shortman and Helga Pataki will have some negotiating to do, even if it costs them their sanity— and their stubborn hearts. A/U. Characters meet in High School. AxH GxP
---Helga said, "And the final rule of the Best Friends Treaty, 'Never, ever, fall in love with each other.' It makes things messy and complicated." Her hands on her hips as she stared him down, "It's the only way to protect our best friends."
Arnold glared back with equal intensity. "No problem here."
"As if you weren’t thrilled when you met me—"
"I was fooled by a pretty face. Like that’s never happened before."
An almost wicked curl played on her lips, "So you admit to being naive?"
His arms now folded, "I believe the term is romantic idealist, baby."
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The fact that she was actually gonna make it to school made Helga feel like she'd beaten the world. It was a small victory, sure, but she'd felt like the universe was trying to prevent her from walking through those big, obnoxious blue doors, and now she was going to do it.
"Take that universe!" She'd triumphantly shouted at no one in particular.
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You know what they say about speaking too soon?
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26 Feb 2026
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Fungabunga - Helga's Bad Day
rly cute wholesome silly helga
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An Arnold x Helga one-shot through the eyes of their fathers. Over a series of time jumps. It’s complicated…
Helga was born in March and Arnold was in October, so Arnold is older than Helga. If Helga is, in fact, younger than Arnold, could Arnold hear baby Helga’s cries from San Lorenzo?
Shortaki Week Prompt - Day 6 – Time Travel.
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The walk-in closet was too small to qualify as a separate room, but it was large enough for her to sit comfortably and hide.
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13 Feb 2026
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It hurts good.
dramatic owl (snarky_panda) - A Place of Her Own
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Helga wakes up in the wrong bed, in the wrong room, in the wrong house, in the wrong city, in the wrong world, in the wrong universe…!!! …Or did she? Partially inspired by Flower Princess11’s “A Broken Heart”. Shortaki, and THREE crack pairings!!! Partial AU. Start of the Awakeverse.
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05 Jan 2026
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WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING WITH HELGA
The_JAM - Awake
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Arnold meets with the Patakis to ask for their blessing to marry Helga, but Arnold can't stop thinking about their treatment of Helga. Sometimes there's nothing to be done, and you have to let people hang out to dry.
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- Part 2 of Shortaki Silliness
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04 Jan 2026
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great ending message, fitting for helga.
TheDooms - Welcome to My Life
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What's the harm in saying hello?
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31 Dec 2025
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adorable and wholesome
RileyHale - Simply Having A Wonderful Christmastime
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The heart was a precarious thing. It could cause Helga to double over in laughter, sob at a stupidly sappy movie, or even swing a broken beer bottle at her creepy tinder date last month. But at this moment, all she could do was stand there like an idiot, her breath catching at the sight of a familiar figure pushing open the door.
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11 Dec 2025
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light, funny, and very helga-coded
pinkalicious2002 - Toke
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Sometimes a pig's tail can help unravel the past. When Abner begins to display strange behavior, Arnold makes it his mission to find out what his pig is up to.
Meanwhile, Helga has her own problems to deal with, and an annoying little porker keeps showing up.Series
- Part 2 of Yo Arnold! - Highschool Hijinx
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"After finding his parents in San Lorenzo, 6th grade passes and Arnold moves back to the country with his parents for 2 years to help with the Helpers for Humanity, until he comes back to Hillwood for high school. But what changed in those 2 years he was gone?"
My "what if" idea on what a season 6 could entail if it were to be set in a high school setting.
This story is meant to keep characters as "in character" as possible, while not being afraid to develop them further than they were in the show. This is not a fluff fic. It's meant to just be good general story telling with a cohesive and meaningful plot that all ties together. I try not to insert anything that won't ever go anywhere. My stories are all roughed out ahead of time and all have endings.
This fanfic is also littered with drawings and doodles because I'm more of a visual story-teller! Picture book time yay!Series
- Part 1 of Yo Arnold! - Highschool Hijinx
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Helga dreads another Thanksgiving with her neglectful family. Arnold, celebrating his first Thanksgiving with his parents, invites her to the Sunset Arms.
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"It isn't about what you hide behind the mask. It's about who's still there when the mask comes off... and he was. He always was.."
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- Part 1 of Behind the Mask
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21 Oct 2025