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Best One-Shot Vampire Diaries Fanfics

Vampire Diaries 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 Vampire Diaries Fanfics

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

1

Now My Life Is Changing (It's Always Rearranging)

by cactusfinch

“Bonnie, did I just take a history exam for you?”“Yeah, I mean what’s the point of having this link thing if I can’t use you for cheating on history tests?”Pre-Canon!AU: Bonnie starts a summer by speaking to a vampire three states away, by accident. Grams is not amused. Also, Damon makes a friend.

2,127 kudos 6,128 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences Complete
2

hold me (like I was born to be held)

by sarcastic_fina

His heart was written off in 1864, when he fell in love with a face and a dream that only took 145 years to come true. She can't compete with that, so she doesn't try. She just takes.

1,627 kudos 3,628 words 1/1 chapters Explicit Complete
3

The Coffin Years

by WalkingThePlank

Caroline Forbes wakes up thirty-nine years in the future, desiccated in a coffin for reasons she incorrectly remembers.The world has changed. Mystic Falls has adapted.Everyone has moved on without her.Everyone except Klaus Mikaelson.A future-set Klaroline about time, immortality, searching, and wait

111 kudos 4,066 words 3/20 chapters Explicit
4

Something Borrowed, Something Klaus

by Carolineforbesisawsome

There's no way Klaus wouldn't have had something to say about Caroline's Prom dress.

54 kudos 1,921 words 1/1 chapters Not Rated Complete
5

Time Flies

by Crystalline_Saphire

Damon looses his memory due to Queysiyah. Now, he must deal with his family, and his new family, The Mikaelsons

54 kudos 1,773 words 4/? chapters Mature
6

Reasons Klaus Sucks

by chelz95

Caroline hates Klaus. It's as simple as that.Except... it isn't simple at all. Between saving the world, arguing over absolutely everything and a secret neither of them can afford to admit, hate has never been so terribly complicated.

39 kudos 6,035 words 2/2 chapters Mature Complete
7

He sees her everywhere

by Gabyzzzzzzz

"He stops... suddenly he stops, he looks and then... he sees her! Just like a dream, who is she? Where did she come from? He doesn't know, nor does he care. Because his heart tells him that she is the young woman destined to be his bride." Cinderella, the movie - 1950 When Talitha Calisto Black cros

31 kudos 8,584 words 8/30 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
8

(Im)Perfect

by LittleLynx2002

Carina Gilbert was everything Mystic Falls expected her to be. A Founding Family daughter. A pageant queen. An honour roll student. The perfect sister, the perfect friend, the perfect girl with the perfect smile. After her parents’ death, when Elena withdrew and Jeremy began to spiral, Carina did wh

20 kudos 4,641 words 1/? chapters Not Rated
9

The Heretic & the Hybrid

by winterwitches

Somewhere deep in the Moldavian wilderness of the 1600s sits a girl. One with big dreams, who longs for magic and beauty that she has never been allowed to touch (unless one counts maps and the trinkets her father brings, of course). And she is slowly learning that none of that might ever be hers. O

18 kudos 5,660 words 1/? chapters Mature
10

New orleans will remember

by Moonlit_Daydr3amer89

Elena wants to bring Lexi back to life so Lexi can help Stefan trough the trauma of drowning over and over. She doesn't want Damon to find out about this so she asks Bonnie and Caroline to help her find a solution. After Bonnie and Elena also had a "private" conversation Bonnie finds out Elena is up

10 kudos 2,931 words 2/? chapters General Audiences
11

It's always been you

by Talaghan_datnsh

When the school year start, Akari expects nothing but boredom. But then the Salvatore brothers come back to Mystic Falls after decennies of abscence, and suddenly, life isn't so bleak anymore.

5 kudos 8,364 words 3/? chapters Explicit
12

The light from our love

by VerseofVera

After everything they endured, Stefan and Elena’s love found its way back to each other. Choosing love above all else, they took the cure and embraced the ordinary human life they had always dreamed of living. Guided by their love for one another, they got married and built a family together, raisin

3 kudos 2,873 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
13

In The Fray

by BellaDonnaslove

When Rudy Bennett is assassinated outside Town Hall, his daughter Bonnie inherits a mayorship she never wanted, a town deep in grief, and a murder no one seems interested in solving.With six weeks until a special election and his opponent Silas pulling ahead in the polls, the last thing Bonnie needs

3 kudos 5,128 words 2/20 chapters Mature
14

(Podic) there are pieces of us scattered across the chessboard

by Hayl_bug

Here are two lies and one truth: First, Damon Salvatore had been kicked out of New Orleans for setting someone he shouldn’t have on fire. It was an accident, or at least no one could prove otherwise, so he got off with a slap on the wrist and not anything worse. Banishment in place of death. Second,

2 kudos 3 words 1/1 chapters Mature Complete
15

Petrova Witches

by TheCrazyWriter718

Katherine is trapped in the tomb and Elena goes to find out answers with the help of Caroline…instead Elena gets a family history that she didn’t even expect to uncover.

2 kudos 2,591 words 2/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
16

Forgiveness

by Iceymicey01

A Rewrite of season 2 after Klauses hybrid ritual and elijahs betrayal. Here elena breaks up with stefan before and there's alot of chemistry in the air with elijah but he betrayed her and caused her to despise him.Bonnie fails the spell and elena turns into a vampire. Will she ever forgive him?

1 kudos 1,762 words 3/30 chapters General Audiences
17

(Podfic) coffeehouse

by Hayl_bug

coffeehouse: Adjective used to describe a move, player, or style of play characterized by risky, positionally dubious play that sets traps for the opponent. Or, Enzo lives up to his word and takes Damon out for ice-cream.

1 kudos 3 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
18

The Gemini Failsafe

by SalvatoreBound

This story picks up right from the end of 6x05. Stefan is at the cemetery, admitting to himself for the first time that he isn't okay without Damon. As we know, Damon appears, and they share a hug. However, I’ve added a twist: What if the Gemini Coven had prepared a failsafe in case Kai (or anyone e

1 kudos 975 words 1/1 chapters Not Rated
19

A Thousand Years

by vanessa_rein

𝔪𝔦𝔨𝔞𝔢𝔩𝔰𝔬𝔫/𝔰𝔞𝔩𝔳𝔞𝔱𝔬𝔯𝔢 After nearly two centuries of lies, betrayal, and survival, Adelaide Salvatore thought she'd finally built a life worth living. But when the past returns, in the form of the brothers she spent a century longing to find and the man she thought she'd lost forever.

0 kudos 7,125 words 3/? chapters Mature
20

What The Living Do

by BellaDonnaslove

Damon and Elena took the cure. Now they have to figure out what a life actually looks like when it has an end.They wanted this. That doesn't make it easy. A post-cure Delena story about the first weeks of a mortal life, told in alternating chapters.

0 kudos 1,903 words 1/10 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
21

Bite Back

by Kay_Squared

After a long night of writing her OC’s lore, Stefanie gets caught in a storm and wakes up as her OC Ivanna Montclair who has a high chance of falling into a fate similar to death.-This is gonna be a pretty slow burn because Damon hates her right off the bat due to her doppelgängers actions.Im in the

0 kudos 1,423 words 1/? chapters Not Rated
22

Salvation Epilogue

by Ruall

When Elena finally turned around, she found him leaning against the wall near the entrance, watching her through half-lowered lashes. Elena ignored the feeling his gaze stirred in her. Was it apprehension, or anticipation? Sometimes, with Damon, she wasn't entirely sure there was a difference. "Make

0 kudos 3,304 words 1/? chapters Mature
23

(Podfic) it's no big surprise you turned out this way

by Hayl_bug

Elena and humanity; a love letter. Doppelgängers don’t live long enough to have death wishes.

0 kudos 3 words 1/1 chapters General Audiences Complete
24

The Convergence

by MerlinTomlinson

Alaric - For as long as he can remember, ever since that vampire killed his girlfriend in the middle of the night, he started to study vampires and trying to hunt them down. A possible lead is the town Mystic Falls, known for having vampires in the past. Starting a new life in town as history teache

0 kudos 7,502 words 2/? chapters Not Rated
25

Scent

by DestielCeo

So erm this is an old thing in my notes i never thought id post but idk Also kinda freaky and i write bad i think so dont expect something incredible Tell me if u want another chapter and uhm i guess thats all good luck if ur gonna read it..

0 kudos 1,274 words 1/1 chapters Mature

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This list of 25one-shot Vampire Diaries fanfics spans 89,600 total words. Kudos range from 1 on the newest entries to 2,127 on the most established. Most entries are ongoing works, so subscribe on AO3 for update notifications. The most common rating is Mature (8 of 25 fics).

Recurring tags across this list: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence · Slow Burn · Enemies to Lovers · Alternate Universe · Human Elena Gilbert.

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