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the bedsharing friends to lovers roommates au i was always destined to write
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30 May 2026
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“They're streets in the same city, and sometimes they intersect. I think I'm already planted at that intersection. I'm already under its streetlights.” - Billy-Ray Belcourt
Charlie Spring is at his wits' end. After a decade of keeping his panic attacks at bay, they're suddenly back with a vengeance, threatening to derail the life he's meant to be planning with his fiancé Ben. The only glimmer of hope is his therapist's suggestion that he might have success with a service dog.
Nick Nelson is back at square one. He's six months out of a failed long-term relationship, living at home again, and completely directionless. He loves working at his family's service dog agency, Second Chance, but he needs more than that to keep him afloat.
Or: Nick and Charlie never sat together in form. They never dated. They both moved through life separately, suceeding and failing in small measures, until a chance meeting in their late twenties brought them back into each others' orbit.
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- Part 1 of Pawprints
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29 Jul 2025
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Charlie wants his ex back. The problem is he’s in a new relationship, and this time it’s an open one.
He knows they go to swingers parties together. He wants to go too, to prove he could be into that sort of thing. It's couples only. Not ideal, but also not a problem he can't solve.
He needs to find a fake boyfriend, and fast. Enter Nick Nelson from work, serial womaniser and all-round irritating human being. He’s not Charlie’s first pick, but he’s probably the only person crazy and horny enough to go along with it. After all, it’s an opportunity for him to get laid as much as he wants while Charlie attempts to seduce his ex all over again. Win win.
What could possibly go wrong?
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16 Jun 2025
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After his nearly twenty year long marriage ends, high school French teacher Nick finally feels like he might be ready to open himself to a new relationship, despite his hurt in the past and anxiety about how his four children would respond to him with someone new.
Almost 40 year old Charlie is resigned to singlehood, investing his energy into his family and friends and his small dental practice, to protect himself from being hurt again. When an incident at a sporting event leads Nick to Charlie’s dental practice, they discover a connection they didn’t expect to find, at one of most people’s least favorite places.Series
- Part 1 of Spring Family Smiles
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24 May 2025
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Always known for me, it's you by lilnacegf
Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic)
09 Aug 2025
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It’s hard to be left behind, to be the one who stays. To be the one who moves forward.
I keep myself busy—time moves faster that way. I go to sleep alone, wake up alone. I walk around the meadow of our home. I write day and night, endless stories of him and me, even when I wouldn’t trade ours for anything.
Except for, maybe, more time.
Everything seems simple until you start thinking too much. Why is love intensified by absence?
Long ago, men went to sea and women stayed behind, standing at the water’s edge, scanning the horizon for the ship returning. Now, I wait for him, not knowing where he is, unsure if he’s okay. At least now, men don’t have to long for other men in secret—for that, I’m grateful. When he is here, we don’t hide. We love loudly. But when he's not, when the solitude of my thoughts is my only company, the truth comes crashing down: I am always the one who waits. The moments stretch into years, eternities, seconds slow and transparent as glass. Why has he gone where I can't follow?So I wait.
Or, Nick is a time traveler who can’t control where and when he goes. When he meets Charlie, a man he has never seen before, everything Nick thought he knew changes in an instant.
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23 May 2025