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Best Charles Smith Hurt/Comfort Fanfics

The best hurt/comfort fanfiction featuring Charles Smith (RDR) on AO3, curated by popularity. The vulnerability, the tenderness, seeing characters take care of each other in their worst moments.

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Top Charles Smith Hurt/Comfort Fic Recs

6 hurt/comfort fics featuring Charles Smith, followed by other top-rated stories.

1

Only Lost The Night

Hurt/Comfort

by KBstories · Charthur

"Arthur should've realized, then and there, that a gesture of kindness is like pulling a trigger – it shifts the course of fate just so, and things will never be the same again."Charles and Arthur regroup after a brush with death.

2,470 kudos 5,635 words 3/3 chapters Mature
2

American Spirits

Hurt/Comfort

by werewolfsquad · Charthur

There was a rumor that Dutch van der Linde sold his soul at a crossroad in exchange for the shapechanging beasts that followed at his beck and call. Frankly, Arthur didn’t buy it. He followed Dutch and Hosea because they fed him. Some deal with a devil had nothing to do with it.

2,005 kudos 30,728 words 8/8 chapters Mature
3

Love Is The Soul Of A Neat Irishman

Hurt/Comfort

by pipdepop · Charthur

Sean’s got a lot of love to give. To everybody. Whether they want it or not.(Or: Sean makes it his mission in life to cheer Arthur up – much to Arthur’s dismay. Luckily, Charles is around to help.)

1,976 kudos 8,072 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
4

Sunrise

Hurt/Comfort

by pipdepop · Charthur

He’d tried, in the end, he really had. And it had been hard; so damn hard. Would’ve been so much easier to crawl off into the woods like a dying dog and let himself be reclaimed by the wilderness. But, getting them folks out, sending them to safety, doing his best to protect them from the Pinkertons

1,824 kudos 62,613 words 9/9 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
5

strong is your hold, o mortal flesh

Hurt/Comfort

by anderfels · Charthur

Who knew maize could be such a maze, Arthur muses. Huffing at his own brilliant wordplay, he makes a mental note to tell Charles that joke. Later. When they’re not shooting bounty hunters in a cornfield game of cat and mouse.Set during the Chapter 3 mission 'Magicians for Sport', Arthur and Charles

1,814 kudos 20,224 words 5/5 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
6

an act of observance

Hurt/Comfort

by rojohbi · Charthur

He could leave. No one would blame him; this gang, once so tightly knit, is a nervous horse just moments away from bolting and taking the carriage with it. Charles doesn’t know why he can’t just make himself go.'You know exactly why', he thinks wryly, 'Of course you know.'

1,734 kudos 43,892 words 8/8 chapters Explicit
7

Out of the Dark

by sky_daybreak · Charthur

Arthur knows he's dying, can feel the unstoppable pull of it, feels the spirit appear behind him to take him along. And yet, he finds he does not want to die. There is so much that went wrong, so much he regrets and he wishes, with all his being, he could change it. Could at least ensure those that

6,712 kudos 144,322 words 12/12 chapters Mature
8

Call to Motion

by mangochi · Charthur

“Hey.”Charles looks up, squinting against the sun, and focuses on the figure looming above him. It’s a bright day on the mountain, and all this damned snow is doing nobody any favors. “Arthur,” he says. “Good morning.”“Huh? Yeah, mornin’.” Arthur tilts his head, scratches at his jaw, and tucks his c

6,000 kudos 19,144 words 8/8 chapters Explicit
9

And In The Morning I Loved You Too

by pipdepop · Charthur

Since this... thing between them started, on a surreal, star-soaked night just outside of Blackwater, Charles has learned two things.One: Arthur Morgan sleeps like the dead.Two: the rest of the gang seem to view Arthur’s tent as communal property, and will happily barge in at any time of day or nigh

4,273 kudos 25,971 words 6/6 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
10

Your Words Are All I Breathe

by pipdepop · Charthur

Micah catches Arthur and Charles cuddling, and scurries off to tell Dutch. He does not get the reaction he was expecting. Hosea thinks the whole thing is highly amusing.

2,797 kudos 1,349 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
11

Blind Fortunes

by Gingersnap741 · Charthur

“Hello there! Ah, I see you’re new around these parts. I’m old around these parts. Blind Man Cassidy is my name. If you’d like your fortune told, I just ask for a bit of gold.” He holds out a tin coffee can smothered in rust, full of empty, whistling desert air. Heat broils up around them and makes

2,710 kudos 414,458 words 64/? chapters Explicit
12

take it, if you can

by shades · Charthur

It was a nice respite, Arthur thinks, watching Charles stand, the glint of the sun in his dark hair, his eyes far away, considering, but it wasn’t ever meant to last.

2,451 kudos 68,550 words 10/10 chapters Explicit

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Charles Smith in Hurt/Comfort Fanfiction

Charles Smith — Quiet, principled hunter of the Van der Linde gang who never wastes a word or an arrow, and one of the few members to escape the life intact. His steadfast bond with Arthur anchors the fandom's flagship ship.

Hurt/Comfort — One character is hurt (physically or emotionally) and another provides comfort and care.

The vulnerability, the tenderness, seeing characters take care of each other in their worst moments. Charles Smith's role in RDR makes them a natural fit for hurt/comfort storylines, which is why this combination is one of the most popular in RDR fanfiction.

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