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Best Saphael Enemies to Friends to Lovers Fanfics

The best enemies to friends to lovers Saphael (Simon Lewis/Raphael Santiago) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. By refusing to skip from hatred straight to kissing, this trope earns its ending twice over, giving readers both a friendship worth rooting for and the ache of risking it.

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Fall Without Wings

Enemies to Friends to Lovers

by notcrypticbutcoy

The door opens. Alec tenses, and his body throbs. A man steps through, and Alec curls his fingers into his palms, terror pulsing through him. Because the man isn't a man. He's a warlock. A demon. The same person he felt crouching over him when he fell. Why is he here? What has the warlock done to

12,032 kudos 377,185 words 70/71 chapters Mature
2

Strange Love

by arandomfan91

Alec is in love with Magnus. Magnus needs Alec to be his fake boyfriend. What could possibly go wrong?

6,171 kudos 46,632 words 17/17 chapters Mature
3

Family Is Family

by hexicity

The ad is messily stapled against the public announcement board in the quad. It looks like someone wrote it with their non-dominant hand in the first pen they found. Its sloppy red ink reads in giant letters: “FOUR BEDROOMS. ONE BATH. PASSABLE KITCHEN. WILLING TO DELAY PAYMENT ON RENT. PLEASE DON’T

5,567 kudos 5,381 words 1/1 chapters Not Rated
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Captive Angels; Victorious Demons

by Nadja_Lee

This is the story of cultures clashing, painful beginnings, learning, growing and accepting each other and finally happy endings in the middle of a Shadow World marked by war and change.The Downworld and Idris has been at war since Valentine’s climb to power. The result is a Shadow World filled with

5,257 kudos 255,016 words 23/23 chapters Explicit
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His Greatest Gift

by Nadja_Lee

Magnus is gifted a Shadowhunter omega, Alec Lightwood, for helping the NY Institute. Magnus has no need for Shadowhunters, omegas or a mate. But one look at Alec and he is starting to change his mind on all counts….Things start to get very interesting when Raphael shows up at Magnus' door with his n

5,166 kudos 138,095 words 13/13 chapters Explicit
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algunas cosas son del destino

by orphan_account

Simon is pretty sure Raphael is going to murder him one day, and it's all going to be Clary's fault, somehow."Listen, guys," he started. "I don't think you realize what kind of schedules vampires keep." Everyone present - Clary, Jace, Izzy and Alec - looked at him with confusion. "What do you mean?"

5,140 kudos 1,448 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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I know what you are (say it) bisexual

by thankyouforexisting

Simon tells himself,It’s not gay, it’s not gay, I’m totally not checking him out, he just had that stain on his right trouser leg….Raphael is, apparently, a rich as fuck vampire, because the suit shop they go in is fancy as hell. They park in the basement, because, uh, sunlight, and even though dusk

4,907 kudos 6,338 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Loyalty

by Nadja_Lee

Alec finds an injured Wolf when he is a child with a name tag stating Magnus. He cares for the Wolf who in turn protects him and becomes his best friend and support as he grows up.When Alec presents as an omega he fear his life is over. However, Magnus bonds with him, masking his omega scent so that

4,411 kudos 109,936 words 13/13 chapters Explicit
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In Bloom

by Lovely_Lights

Soulmate au where when you write something on your skin with pen/marker/whatever the hell you want, it will show up on your soul mates skin as well. Raphael had given up on soulmates. Simon has been waiting twelve years for a response.

4,109 kudos 6,125 words 3/3 chapters Mature
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Day 3: AU Settings Day

by notcrypticbutcoy

Soulmate AU, in which whatever is on a person's skin can also be seen on the skin of their soulmate. Alec Lightwood has always been an artist. When he was a child, he'd draw all over his hands and arms. As an adult, if he runs out of paper, he crosses onto his arms. But the best things he writes on

3,915 kudos 17,735 words 3/3 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Once Upon A Time In Brooklyn

by Master of Unlocking (Hikarinimichitasora)

Once upon a time, in a faraway land called Brooklyn, an older-than-he-seemed Warlock lived in a fashionable loft apartment...Magnus Bane angers the wrong warlock and ends up with more than he bargained for. Not only is he cursed to live out fairytales that risk his life in increasingly creative ways

3,842 kudos 99,104 words 22/22 chapters Explicit
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forever isn't too long, when i'm right where i belong

by orphan_account

Raphael sat on the living room chair, the cup of tea Magnus had practically forced on him balanced on his knee, while Magnus himself was slouched on the sofa, laughing. "You," he wheezed in between hysterical fits of giggles, "are going to propose? To Simon?" Raphael pursed his lips, praying for str

3,800 kudos 4,091 words 2/2 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Caramel

by blackm00n5

Prompt: saphael - Simon really does taste like caramel, and Raphael saves his baby from everyone's sweet toothOrThree times Raphael saved Simon from being bitten, and one time Raphael did the biting.

3,763 kudos 1,626 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Of Kings and Queens

by Persephonesheart

“What do you have young Morgenstern worthy enough to trade, you are runaways are you not? You said yourself that you have no supplies.” “We have an omega”Magnus is a True Alpha and leader of the Downworld pack, the biggest of its kind in Idris, land of sand and unforgiving laws. Magnus tries hard t

3,690 kudos 205,019 words 86/? chapters Not Rated
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coax the coals

by sarcasticfluentry

Raphael, in turn, looks at the ginger root Magnus is holding and says, “Díos, this again?”“What do you mean, again?” Jace asks, looking curious.“Have we just abandoned all social rules?” Simon asks, going mostly unheard as he follows Raphael into the loft. “Does no one say ‘hi’ anymore?”

3,478 kudos 7,416 words 1/1 chapters Explicit
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Keeping it Quiet (AKA: Five Times Alec and Magnus Were Almost Busted and One Time They Were)

by CryMeARiverSong

Secretly dating the High Warlock of Brooklyn is a lot harder than Alec would have liked, especially when your friends have no idea what the word 'privacy' means.

3,426 kudos 10,051 words 6/6 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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To Walk the Long Road Home

by AnAceAJokerAndAQueen

Stiles goes to the Pack for an ordinary Pack meet, but what he finds out is not what he expected.

3,255 kudos 54,801 words 32/32 chapters Mature
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An Omega Transaction

by Nadja_Lee

When Alec presented as an omega his whole life changed for the worse. He was sent away to be taught how to become a 'proper' omega, his parabatai bond to Jace muted. After suffering years of abuse, Alec finally sees Jace again. Jace explains that as part of a truce with the Downworld Alec is meant t

3,091 kudos 131,223 words 7/7 chapters Explicit
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Customer Satisfaction

by kuro1neko2kun

'You’re the customer and you get back at me for all the times I’ve spelt your name wrong by mispronouncing my name in increasingly horrible ways’ AU

3,047 kudos 2,137 words 2/2 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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The Frayed Truth

by 100percentfluffster

A canon divergence: Clary manipulated Jace into working against Alec, his parabatai. And Simon doesn't agree to let her meet with Camille. Clary Fray will do anything in her power to get what she wants. Even if she ends up hurting her friends along the way. This is a story of how Alec and Simon have

2,681 kudos 106,628 words 17/17 chapters Not Rated

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Why Enemies to Friends to Lovers Saphael Fanfiction Works So Well

Simon Lewis/Raphael Santiago — Shadowhunters' fledgling vampire and the acerbic clan leader who mentored, sheltered, and repeatedly threatened him — a push-pull the show kept charged even after Simon's betrayals. The fandom shipped the bickering sire-bond energy harder than most of the show's canon couples.

Enemies to Friends to Lovers — The long road taken in full: open hostility softens into reluctant truce, truce grows into real friendship, and friendship finally tips into romance. The middle stage is the point — these fics insist the characters actually like each other before they love each other.

A babbling sunshine disaster versus a century of dry Catholic exasperation; the height difference is a bonus. By refusing to skip from hatred straight to kissing, this trope earns its ending twice over, giving readers both a friendship worth rooting for and the ache of risking it. That's why enemies to friends to lovers Saphael fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.

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