Best One-Shot Delena Fanfics
Delena one-shots under 10k words — a complete read in one sitting. All curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.
Top 6 One-Shot Delena Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Delena fics — short stories under 10,000 words.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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Why Read One-Shot Delena Fics?
One-shot Delena 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.
Ideal for a commute, a lunch break, or right before bed when you don't want to start a 200,000-word fic at 11pm.
About This List
This list of 6one-shot Delena fanfics spans 20,752 total words. Kudos range from 10 on the newest entries to 111 on the most established. Most entries are ongoing works, so subscribe on AO3 for update notifications. The most common rating is Mature (2 of 6 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Slow Burn · Post-Canon.
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