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Best Klaroline Slow Burn Fanfics

The best slow burn Klaroline (Klaus Mikaelson/Caroline Forbes) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. Readers love the anticipation, the meaningful character development, and the eventual payoff of a well-earned romance.

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Dís

Slow Burn

by DisneyKd4

Caroline has worn a mask so long that she doesn't know who she is under it. The Mikaelsons have been playing at being a family for centuries but haven’t a clue what that truly means.*"A coven. A pack. A cult! Something! I want to be a part of something."*The family closed ranks around her.**When th

1,561 kudos 192,776 words 58/? chapters Explicit
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Seeking Sanctuary

by eefdone

She hides her face into the pillow, finally letting the tears fall and soak into the fabric in relative privacy. He waves his wand and mutters healing spells over her back. She can feel the lashes knitting together and grits her teeth against the pain, his healing is a fair bit rougher than the more

1,490 kudos 95,451 words 18/? chapters Explicit
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The Ocean Always Lies

by 0racle_of_bast

“All women are angry. The least we can do for our grandmothers is not pretend that we aren’t,” she told Caroline. "So let's get angry,"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Sabrina Forbes returns to Mystic Falls with two goals: to keep her cousin Caroline safe an

861 kudos 132,710 words 50/75 chapters Mature
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Bloodspell

by esm3rald

Blair Gilbert is Elena's older sister and a witch—a siphoner, really, but Damon Salvatore doesn't know that. Damon needs her help with opening the tomb and so they strike a deal: he stops killing locals, fakes being her boyfriend, teaches her all he knows about vampires, and she helps him get what h

695 kudos 134,237 words 17/? chapters Explicit
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𝐁𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲|ᴛʜᴇ ᴠᴀᴍᴘɪʀᴇ ᴅɪᴀʀɪᴇꜱ

by NebulaVoyager

Sam never imagined his death; the thought never even brushed his mind. But fate had something extraordinary in store for him when it finally happened. He awoke, reborn not as himself but as a character he had once watched from the sidelines-a plain human in a world teeming with vampires, werewolves,

484 kudos 184,670 words 41/? chapters Mature
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Riddle Me Wicked

by AvisCorvo

”That is still my brother-““-Do you want me to prove it?”“No-““-I’ll kill him.” She already had her knife out. “I will erase him so thoroughly your mother will forget she ever gave birth.”“No, no wait-“ A finger chose that inopportune moment to fall out of her pocket. A finger. A finger fell out

371 kudos 23,454 words 5/? chapters Explicit
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The Weight of Hope

by Dallasgurl85

Imagine a different path for Hayley—never kidnapped, never caught in New Orleans' power struggles. Instead, she appears after Hope' s birth, infant in arms, pointing a finger at Klaus Mikaelson. "Your daughter," she insists, while Klaus denies it with suspicious vehemence, guarding secrets of his

335 kudos 107,434 words 20/? chapters Explicit
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An Original Legacy

by Simone_1630

There’s a fire beneath the water that pricked at her eyes. Her nails ground against the floor as her stomach cramped. Her back curled upwards as her head filled with fog. She couldn’t focus on it, not when her left hand still tightly held onto her temporarily deceased guardian. Her head tilts up mee

320 kudos 56,555 words 18/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Falling Down

by Bekah_writer

Caroline Forbes never imagined it would end like this. Pregnant in an unfamiliar city, surrounded by Originals and in the middle of a faction war. But fate had a terrible habit of ruining her plans. Now, Caroline will have to confront secrets, lies, and machinations to survive in New Orleans, the ci

313 kudos 64,919 words 8/22 chapters Mature
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Condemned(oh what a price to pay for love)

by siriuslykiller

Klaus stood, offering him a hand. “Always and forever, little brother.”  Buck took it.   Disclaimer! SUPER IMPORTANT!I had a beta that I asked to help with grammer and punctuation someone I thought I could trust who turned out to be using Claude Ai to edit the small paragraphs and chapter I sent her

255 kudos 29,586 words 11/? chapters Explicit
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Ghostly

by MakaydenCeltics_225

Caroline Forbes was supposed to be dead, but after waking up to an equally dead Kol Mikaelsons franticly urging Caroline to get her bloody ass up, she is thrown into a world like she had never expected the other side would be, fighting for her soul against a mad witch bent on tearing down the barrie

205 kudos 25,250 words 8/? chapters General Audiences
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Viajeras del Tiempo en Mystic Falls

by Darleny062001

Un hechizo fuera de control. Tres jóvenes atrapadas en el pasado. Un futuro que pende de un hilo.En medio de una acalorada discusión, Hope Mikaelson, Lizzie y Josie Saltzman activan accidentalmente un hechizo que las transporta al año 2009, una época en la que el mundo era muy diferente: Caroline Fo

189 kudos 324,730 words 51/? chapters General Audiences
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Nightshade

by DuchessOfDesire

When Caroline Forbes dies after being suffocated by Katherine Pierce with Damon’s blood still in her system, she doesn’t wake up as a vampire. She wakes up as something else entirely. As she struggles to understand her new abilities and uncover the truth about where she came from, Caroline begins ha

131 kudos 30,346 words 6/? chapters Explicit
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He is Mine and I am His

by Princessa420

She fell in love with the beast and her friends are not happy. She will do anything to protect the man she loves not matter the cost. Will he let that happen probably not but let's find out.

74 kudos 34,071 words 16/30 chapters Explicit
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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
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We’re Just Names in Stone

by xAwkward_Ariesx

Determined to stop Silas, Kol kidnaps Bonnie and Caroline in the hopes of distracting his siblings after refusing to heed his warnings. With one ingredient in his possession, he must find the others. Stuck with a temperamental and volatile Original, they must toe the line to avoid ending up as colla

48 kudos 12,133 words 2/? chapters Mature
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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
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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
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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
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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

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Why Slow Burn Klaroline Fanfiction Works So Well

Klaus Mikaelson/Caroline Forbes — The thousand-year-old hybrid villain decided Mystic Falls' bubbly perfectionist deserved the world — 'great cities, art, music, genuine beauty' — and an iconic ship was born. Klaus's promise to be her last love, however long it took, kept fandom burning through two series.

Slow Burn — A romance that develops gradually over time, with tension building across chapters or the entire story.

Being adored by the most dangerous creature alive, who asks for nothing but her honesty; the unfinished ending makes the fic essential. Readers love the anticipation, the meaningful character development, and the eventual payoff of a well-earned romance. That's why slow burn Klaroline fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.

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