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The Long Way Back to You by xxbeignetsNcoffeexx
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
15 Dec 2025
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Ten years ago, Nick Nelson and Charlie Spring broke up after one disastrous night — the kind of fight that leaves two people hurt, silent, and blocked on every social platform.
They moved on.
Or at least, they tried to.A decade later, both of them are adults living in London.
Nick is a warm, steady primary school teacher.
Charlie is a weary editor who spends his days fixing love stories he no longer believes in.They take the same trains.
Cross the same streets.
Scroll through the same dating apps.And somewhere in the noise of grown-up life, they both reopen Hinge — without knowing the other is there too.
They’re older now.
Different now.
Strangers, almost.
But maybe not as far apart as they think.Some stories don’t end.
They just take the long way back.---
Edit: Surprise! Chapter count is now 14 instead of 9 — chapters 10+ are epilogues 😌
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15 Dec 2025
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When Nick Nelson’s best friend meets a tragic and untimely death, he is left to raise her young daughter on his own. Charlie Spring works in an elementary school librarian after a toxic relationship rips his dream job away from him. He forms a bond with a certain shy kindergartener with a devastating backstory. What happens when Nick and Charlie find each other in this universe and will they both learn what it means to be family?
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26 Nov 2025
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Fifteen year-old Nick Nelson was fine with his life. Sure, he would have preferred not to have been bullied off the football team for his bisexuality, but he was fine. Really. He had his incredible mother, his best friend, Darcy, his love for baking, and his growing collection of romance novels. He just also happened to have a heaviness hanging over him that he would always be a little broken - a little too much, but somehow never enough. He thought he was fine with that. But, when a beautiful boy with blue eyes, soft curls, and a troubling past moves into the yellow house across the street, Nick starts to find all the ways that two broken souls can mend each other.
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22 Nov 2025
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spells that drowse my soul by birdie_kwiat for properrugbynerd
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
17 Nov 2025
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A doctor steps in and blocks his way. “Sir, you can’t go in there!”
“No, no, no,” says Charlie, “you don’t understand—”
“Are you family?”
“No, but—”
“Family only,” he informs him sternly, disappearing behind the glass door. The doctor joins the throng of medical personnel surrounding the man’s body, and when they wheel the gurney out of sight, Charlie staggers back from the glass wall like he’s been punched.
Shock and helplessness coalesce within him. Inexplicably, he finds himself laughing, his trembling fingers lifting to his lips to contain the mirthless giggles that spill forth. “Oh, God,” he whispers. “I was going to marry that man.”
The nurse at the desk drops her jaw. “Oh, luv.”
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While You Were Sleeping AU- Language:
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17 Nov 2025
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Charlie left Nick and disappeared without a trace. He didn’t have a choice; he had to protect him. Three years later they are reunited and rebuild their relationship.
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16 Nov 2025