Best One-Shot Fake Marriage Fanfics
Fake Marriage one-shots under 10k words — the trope distilled to a single complete read. Curated from AO3, ranked by kudos.
Top 9 One-Shot Fake Marriage Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with fake marriage and falls in the short stories under 10,000 words range.
Bending You(r logic)
by scribespirare
Assflash, newshole, we were married the whole goddamn time.
the warp and weft of your being
by tardigradeschool
When getting legally married to Spock is the only way to keep him on the ship, Jim is more than willing to do so. (In fact, upon reflection, it turns out that there are very few things he wouldn't do for Spock.)
not even work husbands, just regular husbands
by TheElevenOfSpades
If Viktor had kissed Jayce to avoid being caught by MelAnd then it gets worse
Playing House
by queerly_it_is
When John is away on hunts and it's just Sam and Dean, he finds it feels almost like a husband and wife. Sam knows its messed up to think like that but he can't help it. More so when Dean's willing to play along with it, calling Sam pet names and treating him as if he really was Dean's wife.
a dragon's chance
by Bundollier
Bruce had always promised Jason that he would have freedom to choose, but Jason once again finds his choices ripped away.Tim has been betrayed and is on the edge of a losing fight, desperate for any chance to save his people.Written for JayTimWeek Day 4
A Night at the Inn
by pleasantwasteland
In the morning they had a date with the crimson horror. Tonight, in 1892, the Doctor and Clara Oswald walked arm in arm down a cobblestone street in Yorkshire, looking for a place to stay.
Spy x Gravity
by Durren93
Secret agent Dipper has the important mission of maintaining world peace, and to do so he has to adopt a daughter and get married.
The Fanfic Where Regulus Dies.
by RedHoodRebel
Regulus Black and James Potter meet 25 years later. Many things have changed since their fleeting teenage romance. Both are married (not really), as they each try to prevent the other from discovering that in 25 years they haven't been able to get over each other. Emotions are running high and one l
{PodFic} Elbows on the counter By: Suchgreatheights
by OurFlagIsLove
The day they get married, the things he knows about Stede could fit on a post-it note. First: he’s fucking rich. Second: he needs a husband to stay that way. Third: he is built like a brick shithouse. Pretty eyes, nice hair. Penchant for weird socks. (Or: 5 times Ed doesn't tell his husband he loves
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About Fake Marriage
Fake dating's higher-stakes sibling: characters marry for visas, inheritances, insurance, or undercover assignments, and must perform an entire domestic life convincingly. Rings, shared addresses, and in-laws make this lie far harder to compartmentalize than a few staged dates.
The performance demands real intimacy — shared beds, learned habits, convincing tenderness — until neither party can locate the line where pretending stops.
Common scenarios: A green-card marriage between coworkers that survives the immigration interview but not the feelings, or undercover agents whose suburban cover marriage outperforms their real relationships.
About This List
This list of 9one-shot Fake Marriage fanfics spans 38,037 total words. Kudos range from 1 on the newest entries to 13,182 on the most established. 67% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Teen And Up Audiences (4 of 9 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Fake Marriage · Fake/Pretend Relationship.
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