Best One-Shot Butcher/Hughie Fanfics
Butcher/Hughie one-shots under 10k words — a complete read in one sitting. All curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.
Top 16 One-Shot Butcher/Hughie Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Butcher/Hughie fics — short stories under 10,000 words.
You smiled at me first
by thefirecrest
John escapes from the laboratory for an afternoon and makes a friend. Years later, Homelander has an unexpected meeting at Believe Expo.Or the one in which Homelander and Hughie are childhood friends and Homelander is his, typical, possessive bastard self.[Chinese Translation now up: https://archive
Distraction
by aishahiwatari
Hughie’s on a sort of elated, desperate high after he leaves the tower, after he escapes with his life without being noticed by the superhero squad he’s supposed to be spying on. It manifests in high speed chatter and fidgeting, two things that make Butcher glare at him, sidelong.“If I let you suck
Earth or Diabolical Creature
by aishahiwatari
Professor Butcher is gorgeous, but he's closed-off, distant, unattainable.Annie knows that.Robin, meanwhile, has feelings about Professor "just call me Hughie".With the quarantine in place, an online lecture allows a little insight into both their personal lives.
Diversion
by aishahiwatari
“Why are you hard?” Hughie has to know.“Why are you?”Hughie checks. He isn’t hard, actually. But he checks. And that’s enough. When he looks up, it’s to meet Butcher’s triumphant grin.Hughie sighs. “So I guess we’re doing this again.”
Black Coffee
by aishahiwatari
Hughie really needs this job.And, okay, he wants his boss to need him too.
Dysfunction
by aishahiwatari
“Did he touch you?” Butcher’s repeated snarl breaks through it all. He’s livid, vibrating with tension. Hughie should be more scared than he is. Mostly he’s confused.“No, he- what? Ezekiel?”“No, not fucking Ezekiel, what’s he gonna do, bore you to death? Homelander.”
Demarcation
by aishahiwatari
“Holy fuck, you’re hot.” Hughie realises anew when he sees what’s underneath today’s ridiculous shirt, no artificially bulked muscle but a glorious, broad chest tapering down into a slim waist, a flat stomach, and he’d never realised he could have a thing for shoulders, but- “I’m gunna need you to r
Present
by aishahiwatari
Wow, Hughie thinks when he sees the flowers, a bright and colourful bouquet shoved into the garbage can at the end of the street. Someone’s relationship is going well.They’re nice flowers, too. Not that he exactly knows a lot about that sort of thing. Butcher is- not the gift-giving type.
Five Times Hughie was a Beta
by CookieMonstersRUs
“You are not an omega," Kimiko signed. "You are a beta. Our beta.”“Yes, that’s true, I’m the beta here.”“Our beta,” she repeated. “Pack.” And then she gestured to his wrist and mimed biting it, like she wished for all of them to be a real family.“Oh.” Hughie shouldn’t have been stunned by that, but
A candle in the window on a cold dark winter's night
by SatsumaSegments
‘Has anybody else noticed that Hughie and Butcher are in love with each other?’‘D’you think they’re planning on telling us? Or were we just meant to work it out?’‘Oh, fuck. Guys. What if they haven’t worked it out?’
Of Bonds Old and New
by holyfudgemonkeys (erraticallyinspired)
Although he can’t say he believes in any higher being, Butcher can say that if one does exist, they’re probably having a good fucking chuckle about him right now.Or, Butcher's rut is fast approaching, and there's one person he finds himself gravitating towards.---Kinktober Day 14: Omegaverse
Home
by aishahiwatari
“Daddy’s home,” Butcher says, and Hughie grits his teeth and rages and fumes and seethes because this is not fair, he does not get to just waltz back in after fucking everything, and act like nothing’s happened. MM accepts it, and Frenchie’s come to expect it, and Kimiko- well, who fucking knows, bu
Disruption
by aishahiwatari
Hughie looks Butcher in the eye, Butcher who alternately regards him with a vague sort of affection and swears at him in laboured metaphors, who has warm hands that have taken lives and moved corpses but have never touched Hughie in any way he doesn’t want. He probably wouldn’t go so far as calling
(Bad)? Neighbours
by MotherFuckingSorcery
Hughie knows nothing about the new neighbour, apart from the fact that he’s aggressively good looking. He’s all dark crisp lines and danger emanates from him like a cloud. “Billy Butcher,” he says, with some kind of cockney accent, shaking his hand with an overly firm handshake.Hughie arches an eyeb
Canary
by JustSomeoneWhoLikesToWrite
Mother’s Milk had called Hughie his canary. Or a.k.a Butcher thinks about Hughie’s reactions to him being back.
Devotion
by aishahiwatari
Butcher really fucking hates supes.There’s not a good or decent one among them.Translucent, for all he’s stuck naked in a cage being regularly threatened with death, proves him correct all over again, the first time he and Butcher are alone.
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One-shot Butcher/Hughie fanfics — anything under 10,000 words — are the format of choice for sharp emotional payoffs, single-scene character studies, smutty interludes, and tropes that don't need a full arc to land. You finish them in one sitting.
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About This List
This list of 16one-shot Butcher/Hughie fanfics spans 73,465 total words. Kudos range from 1,544 on the newest entries to 4,146 on the most established. Nearly all (100%) are complete, so you can start any of them without WIP anxiety. The most common rating is Explicit (10 of 16 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Missing Scene · Possessive Behavior · Rough Sex · Alternate Universe - No Powers · Fluff.
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