Top 20 Long Fix-It Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with fix-it and falls in the 50,000–100,000 words range.
Next to You (It's the Rule)
by LunaMyLove
Arthur and Merlin have a special relationship. They always have, even when they were prince and servant. While many question it when first noticing, eventually it becomes an understanding in Camelot—and even among some other countries—that where there is Arthur, there is Merlin. And, where there is
Carry Me Home
by valleykey
The boy shifts on his feet. “The year is two thousand and eighteen? Common Era?”Slowly, smile still plastic on his face, Suguru faces Satoru. This fucking dumbass. “Satoru,” he says, dangerous edge to his voice, “what did you do?”Satoru makes some bastardization of a sound, half between a laugh and
Second Chance (at happiness)
by SailorChibi
Tony knew better than to play with alien toys. He really did. But there was just something so tempting about other-worldly objects. It turned out that he wasn't the only Tony Stark that felt that way. One explosion later, there's a brand new Tony in town. But there's something not quite right about
the lathe
by palmviolet
"This time, do it right. This time Eddie won’t bleed out in his arms, in anyone’s arms. This time, Steve will do it right."— or, steve relives the day they try to kill vecna over and over, and eddie just can't seem to stop dying. steve finds this totally unacceptable.
Roots and Wings
by ideaoforder
When Naruto is kidnapped from his orphanage at age three, Kakashi is so done with this shit. He gets Naruto back, tells the Hokage where to go (politely, because he isn't suicidal), and raises the boy himself. Or, you know, tries and is proud when there aren't too many explosions. Then everybody st
The world kept you like a secret, but I kept you like an oath
by for_the_night
NWH SPOILERSAt 23:37 Doctor Strange casts a spell to make the universe forget Peter Parker.At 23:36 Tony Stark's heart stops for three minutes. When he comes to, no one remembers his kid, but you best believe he's going to do everything he can figure out why. He isn't going to lose his Spider-ling a
The Dreams of Youth
by sami
"Mother, I have to go, with or without you. Please come with me.""A-Zhan, you're five years old," she says."With or without you, Mother," he pleads. "Please come with me."Lan Wangji starts again from the beginning.
The Nightmare in Her Dreams
by esm3rald
Before sailing for Westeros, Daenerys has a prophetic dream. That changes her plans completely.
I'll Be There For You
by SinkingLikeASunset
Just days after his fateful encounter with Anakin on Mustafar , Obi-Wan has resigned himself to a lonely existence on Tatooine. However, he has been granted a chance to go back and fix things. Obi-Wan must alter events and make changes as he struggles with memories of a dreadful future and deals wit
History Repeats Itself
by alexjanna91
Ben Kenobi has been in the past for over three years teaching his younger self, slowly reforming the Order, and falling in love. Everything has been going swimmingly. Until a vision from the Force changes things about his past as well as the future. If his vision comes true Ben has to ask: What does
She Walks in Shadow
by ISeeFire
The Line of Durin fell, and Bilba Baggins felt as if she fell along with them. Unable to find peace upon returning to the Shire, she takes to the road and spends her life alone, fighting to protect the weak, training in futility to fight a battle long since won, and to save those long since buried
it's alright, it's okay
by EmbraceTheEccentric
The sound of another gunshot, a foreign pressure in his head, his senses fading to black as he fell to the ground beside Maki and Himiko, and three final words that were spoken with a tone that couldn’t be described as anything else but bored.“World destruction complete.”
Sideways
by soliloqui
Witnessing the end of the world, being chosen as Champion and sent back in time to change the past – all these things Cloud could almost have expected. What he did not count on, however, is landing himself in a world where Sephiroth has stayed strangely sane, Shinra are supposedly the good guys, and
Petrichor
by manic_intent
“Shouldn’t you be taking it easy?”Finn lowered his vibroblade, turning on his heel, and he grinned as Poe ambled over in his measured flyboy swagger. Damn but Finn sometimes wished that he could walk like that, like he could take any punches that the ‘verse wanted to throw and still come up tops. Fi
The Goldenrod Revisions
by aethylas
A rewrite of Supernatural’s final two episodes, expanded into a five episode arc - in which Chuck needs to be defeated, Castiel deserves to be saved, and the characters in this story get a very different ending.
Goodbye to Everything That I Knew
by My_Barbaric_Yawp
When Dawn’s future at Revello Drive is in jeopardy, Buffy goes looking for a way to convince social services that all is well in the state of Summers. Cue a new truce with Spike in which our heroes learn how to love, live, and parent together while staying one step ahead of Dawnie, the Scoobies, and
Champagne Problems
by thisbetternotawakenanythinginme
Gerri married Laurie a month after they got back from Italy. Apparently everybody but Roman knew it was happening. And maybe he was just too distracted by his whole future exploding to notice a card getting handed around the office? Maybe there wasn’t actually a conspiracy to keep her wedding secret
maybe i’m ready to love you
by chasingfictions
“Buffy?”He almost never used to call her Buffy. Did he? Always Slayer, or pet, or love. Or like, he’d use her name, but it always sounded odd, in his mouth. All tender, touchy. Like, like he was making eye contact with her, just by saying it."Spike."She wonders if it feels the same, for him. His nam
Only a second before
by Gospozha_Grobnic
Since Anakin’s fall, not a day went by without Obi-Wan pleading with the Force for a second chance, even though he knew it was impossible. After the news that Darth Vader was indeed Anakin, this dream only took a firmer root, becoming even more painful and desperate. And then, following his final ba
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by bluebootyraider
The game was never really meant to be won. It's output, the universe John could never really call home, is cursed. So when John and Calliope are faced with two, equally bad options, they decide to go for a third. What if instead of destroying Lord English, they made sure he never existed in the fir
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About Fix-It
Stories that 'fix' canon events that fans found unsatisfying, usually character deaths or relationship outcomes.
The catharsis of getting the ending you wanted, exploring 'what if' scenarios.
Common scenarios: Characters who died in canon survive, relationships that didn't happen in canon do.
About This List
This list of 20long Fix-It fanfics spans 1,480,812 total words. Kudos range from 229 on the newest entries to 31,753 on the most established. 70% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Teen And Up Audiences (7 of 20 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Fix-It · Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence · Time Travel · Alternate Universe - Time Travel · Time Travel Fix-It.
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