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Narnia one-shots under 10k words — complete reads in one sitting. Curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.

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Top 25 One-Shot Narnia Fanfics

Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Narnia fics — short stories under 10,000 words.

1

You're Not What I Expected

by That_One_Neuvichili_Author

Edmund Pevensie is born without a soulmark, and as the years go by, he becomes more and more convinced that he’ll never get one. Prince Caspian is born with the name King Edmund the Just on his forearm and firmly believes his soulmate died centuries ago.They’re both in for a surprise.

6,031 kudos 5,391 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
2

Responsibility

by Bridget

Peter worries about his brother. Actually, he worries about a lot of things, but mostly about his brother.

4,052 kudos 5,687 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
3

Nicknames

by aurics

Edmund isn't sure what to do about Caspian's new habit. But he does know that he likes it very much.

3,542 kudos 1,861 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences Complete
4

Legends

by SedinetteMichaelis

For a long time, Caspian had been attracted to Queen Susan’s portrait and the tales about her. But as he grew up, his gaze had turned to King Edmund, her younger brother. The brilliant strategist, diplomat and swordsman, and so incredibly fair. Caspian had been smitten for years.Of course, nothing c

2,899 kudos 3,058 words 1/1 chapters Not Rated Complete
5

Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness

by MissCatherineEarnshaw

Edmund never understood this whole frenzy about the house of lions. "A bunch of idiots who confuse stupidity for bravery" he thinks distractedly. Vignettes of Edmund Pevensie's time at Hogwarts, from Year One to Seven.

2,296 kudos 9,896 words 7/7 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
6

Are you always so challenging, Your Majesty?

by SedinetteMichaelis

“The Telmarine King is still looking at you,” Susan whispered into his ears. Peter decided to organize a great feast in Lucy's birthday honour. Lords and Ladies of all countries had come, and with them a certain Telmarine King who couldn't stop looking at a certain Narnian King.

2,290 kudos 8,425 words 1/1 chapters Not Rated Complete
7

A Tenuous Alliance

by platinum_firebird

To fend off the possibility of Telmarine invasion, Edmund agrees to marry Caspian, Crown Prince of Telmar...

2,275 kudos 8,583 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
8

Asking a King a Favor

by Hoshisaki

Edmund is on the run for his life, hides and needs to ask the newly crowned a favor.

1,894 kudos 6,728 words 1/1 chapters Explicit Complete
9

Many Are Thy Wonderful Works

by neverfaraway

Aslan has asked a lot of the Pevensie children.

1,672 kudos 8,385 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences Complete
10

Favor for a Knight

by SupernovaSilence

Knights often wear a favor from their beloved. It is customary to be *given* the favor, though.Fluffy Casmund oneshot featuring Caspian being a hopeless romantic, Edmund teasing, and Lucy being evil (as a little sister should be). Set at the start of Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

1,667 kudos 1,794 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences Complete
11

The Queen's Game

by SedinetteMichaelis

It had been as clear as water for Susan that Caspian had intended to woo Edmund since his arrival in Cair Paravel. She remembered Caspian’s presentation quite well after his arrival to the castle, as she remembered the way he had gazed at his brother, awe in his eyes. The King had been struck by lov

1,648 kudos 1,373 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences Complete
12

there's so much history in my head

by WinchesterBurger

He’s barely three when he runs into his parents’ bedroom in the middle of the night for the first time, chubby cheeks tear-streaked and little body shaking from fear. He’s eleven when he remembers the names.He’s fifteen when the Lion visits him.

1,513 kudos 4,104 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences Complete
13

Seasons of Love

by krasnoe_solnishko

The history holds King Edmund the Just in high regard - a talented strategist, a ruthless swordwielder, a perfect judge of human nature. Caspian looks and looks and all he sees is pouty red lips and pale skin just asking for a touch.

1,510 kudos 2,239 words 1/1 chapters Not Rated Complete
14

Outside Perspective

by keire_ke

The tempestuous affair of Caspian and Edmund, seen through the eyes of (respectively) Reepicheep, who was there to see it begin, Eustace, who witnessed its consummation and Lucy, to whom fell the dubious honour of allowing for its conclusion.

1,462 kudos 4,118 words 3/3 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
15

Do You Need Me, Your Majesty

by SoullessGhost

Caspian is King now, and Peter hates it. Not the crown itself—Peter understands duty better than anyone. But he hates how easily Caspian can kiss him and walk away, how he never asks for help, never needs Peter the way Peter needs him. After fighting so hard to be together, Peter finds himself alone

94 kudos 5,170 words 2/2 chapters Not Rated Complete
16

to dream, to wake

by Zannolin

“Don’t go,” Peter whispers against teeth and tongue and time. He can’t remember why he says it. He doesn’t know why Caspian might leave, or why Peter’s so certain that he will. “Please.”Caspian only catches at his jaw, kisses him deeper.Even in dreams, it seems he cannot promise Peter impossible thi

62 kudos 2,988 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences Complete
17

planetarium stickers on a bedroom ceiling

by Zannolin

Caspian can’t help but notice how carefully Peter handles the battered old shoebox, the tenderness with which he traces his fingertips along the fading silver Sharpie scrawled wobblingly across the lid. “Did I ever tell you,” Peter begins quietly, voice strangely reverent, “about Narnia?” He looks u

56 kudos 8,272 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
18

The Iridescent Shore

by Aeontrix

Alone with the weight of rule, Caspian has all but given up finding anyone to share it. Aslan grants him one more miracle.

52 kudos 2,385 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences Complete
19

here’s to never growing up

by Zannolin

Caspian finds him in the rapier practice room off the main office—sweat-soaked, tight-lipped, cutting ward knots around their practice dummy with grim and silent concentration. After a moment of observing Peter’s brutally precise cuts and patterns, Caspian steps into the room proper, palming a pract

52 kudos 4,033 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
20

but i want for you this:

by Zannolin

“Can't you talk to him?” she suggests, more than a little irritated at her brother’s seeming nonchalance. Peter is burning himself out like a candle or a fuse before their eyes, and yet Edmund steps in time and again to help him out of every mess he throws himself into. It’s upsetting Lucy. It’s fri

44 kudos 7,179 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences Complete
21

I'm at best/ half sure what happened. I want to start over.

by Once_A_Monarch

Susan sits on her own on the train back, looks in the window and sees the reflections of her siblings across the aisle. She wonders if they'd forgive her for it: for letting their home lie in the past, for burying the little that remains to her, for no longer clinging to every tiny fragment of fable

42 kudos 9,054 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
22

With Everlasting Love

by JohnJudeFarragutPhD

Letters from Aslan to you.

39 kudos 9,406 words 19/20 chapters General Audiences
23

Anxiety Attacks

by Radio_Hound

No summary provided.

33 kudos 9,225 words 14/17 chapters Mature
24

Coming Home

by Aeontrix

After months of grey numbness in England, Susan returns to Narnia - and to Caspian, whose patient heart has been waiting for her all along.

30 kudos 2,291 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences Complete
25

I'll paint you a throne/ and sculpt you out of stone

by Once_A_Monarch

Hours after his coronation, Caspian finds Peter back at the How. He doesn't look up and Caspian can't quite see what he's doing with his body blocking the light but there's a quiet, intermittent clinking sound from where he stands by the wall. ~ Peter knows how to carve stone, it turns out.

28 kudos 1,778 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences Complete

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This list of 25one-shot Narnia fanfics spans 133,423 total words. Kudos range from 28 on the newest entries to 6,031 on the most established. Nearly all (92%) are complete, so you can start any of them without WIP anxiety. The most common rating is General Audiences (11 of 25 fics).

Recurring tags across this list: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence · Hurt/Comfort · Fluff · Alternate Universe - College/University · Dreams.

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