Best Epic Friends to Enemies to Lovers Fanfics

Friends to Enemies to Lovers fanfics over 100,000 words — the long-form treatment of the trope. Curated from AO3, ranked by kudos.

Friends to Enemies to Lovers 10 epic fics Avg 164,061 words over 100,000 words

Top 10 Epic Friends to Enemies to Lovers Fanfics

Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with friends to enemies to lovers and falls in the over 100,000 words range.

1

As long as we stay together (if we just stay together)

by HerotheHardWay

Adora is an Astrophysics PhD student who just can’t seem to write her dissertation. When the opportunity arises to work at the IceCube Neutrino Detector at the South Pole, she jumps at the chance, even though she’ll be stuck there for six months during the Antarctic Winter. When she arrives, she dis

8,018 kudos 139,594 words 27/27 chapters Mature Complete
2

Vixere

by mitsuboo

Every constellation in the sky tells a story of someone's future. When one shares a star with another, their paths intertwine forevermore. There is no avoiding loving this person. They are soul mates, bound by destiny. In which the biggest threat to the Fatui happens to be Childe’s soulmate, and he

7,998 kudos 348,679 words 35/35 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
3

To Build a Home

by intothesilentland

Twenty-three years of head-over-heels, devastating devotion and love, love, love for the man with bright eyes and dark hair. Fourteen years of friends, best friends, of always together. One moment of rejection.Nine years of apart. Nine years of heartbreak, nine years of continents away, of not speak

6,959 kudos 383,089 words 70/70 chapters Mature Complete
4

You Don't Even Know Me!

by cuteandtwisted

"Let's keep our daddy issues out of work," said Even."Excuse me?!"Or: The one in which Isak and Even are interns who got off the wrong foot and don't like each other at all (except that they do).Aka the HateToLove!AU many of you asked for.

6,850 kudos 101,487 words 15/15 chapters Mature Complete
5

Fidelity

by hrwinter

Presumed dead after her family is brutally murdered by Lionel Luthor, Kara Danvers begins her first year at Hogwarts with a new family and a new name. She encounters enigmatic and intelligent Lena on the train and immediately feels a fondness and fascination, but does the apple fall far from the tre

5,427 kudos 110,101 words 14/14 chapters General Audiences Complete
6

Cruel & Unusual: A Tale of Personal Growth

by Sea_Dragonfly

Penelope Featherington is officially over Colin Bridgerton.Deservedly so. She’d worked tirelessly over the last twelve months to move on from him. She’d listened to Lizzo on repeat, read every self-help book under the sun, been to therapy, and even changed the plot of her novel from a coming-of-age

5,142 kudos 104,047 words 18/18 chapters Explicit Complete
7

Canvas Of Ice, Brushes Of Blades

by Aesdeath

Jungkook never smiles on the ice. Son of South Korea's national champion, the child is considered a prodigy of figure skating, icy eyes and cold demeanor, pure perfection and no emotion. Jungkook never smiles on the ice, until he meets Taehyung, who enters his life like a ray of sunshine, melting hi

4,088 kudos 100,602 words 14/14 chapters Mature Complete
8

Turn You Inside Out

by GreyWayfarer

Best friends Dylan and Travis had it all figured out. They would both become Sentinels like their fathers, ace their way through the Centre’s rigorous training and they would both take on the world. Only, this doesn’t happen for Dylan. Instead of coming online as a powerful Sentinel, he suffers the

4,053 kudos 110,150 words 28/28 chapters Explicit Complete
9

Slippery Slopes

by courtney-deserved-better (persephones_garden)

After his suspicions surrounding Alejandro have been confirmed, Noah is determined not to let his two-faced teammate win without a good fight. He may not be the strongest competitor, but he's gotten this far already.Alejandro expects his life to get easier with Heather's departure, not made even mor

3,753 kudos 125,250 words 14/14 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
10

The Phantom's Daughter

by C0mradeChicken

TL; DR: What if the Phantom had a very angry, very brilliant daughter who has to deal with family drama and childhood trauma catching up with her?   Paris, 1900. Christine Daaé has always been unusual. No one ever expected anything else from the daughter of the Opera Ghost: motherless, raised betwee

10 kudos 117,613 words 10/20 chapters Mature

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About Friends to Enemies to Lovers

The cruelest arc in the catalog: a deep friendship shatters — betrayal, war, ideology — and the former friends meet again as enemies before finding their way to something neither name fits. The old intimacy makes the enmity vicious and the reunion unbearable.

Enemies who were once friends fight with knowledge instead of weapons; every blow lands on a known weak point, and that history is exactly what makes reconciliation feel like a miracle.

Common scenarios: Childhood best friends commanding opposite sides of a civil war, or estranged partners forced back together by a case neither can solve alone.

About This List

117,613
median words
90%
complete
8,018
top kudos
~7.8 hours
median read time

This list of 10epic Friends to Enemies to Lovers fanfics spans 1,640,612 total words. Kudos range from 10 on the newest entries to 8,018 on the most established. Nearly all (90%) are complete, so you can start any of them without WIP anxiety. The most common rating is Mature (5 of 10 fics).

Recurring tags across this list: Friends to Enemies to Lovers · Slow Burn · Friends to Lovers.

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