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Best Mature Friends to Lovers Fanfics

The 25 most-loved mature friends to lovers fanfics on AO3, ranked by kudos. The foundation of trust and intimacy is already there - it's about recognizing what was always true.

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Top 25 Mature Friends to Lovers Fanfics

Ranked by AO3 kudos. Every fic on this list is tagged with friends to lovers and rated Mature.

1

The Standard You Walk Past

by bafflinghaze

On returning to Hogwarts for their Eighth Year, Headmistress McGonagall decided to room Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter together. She may have hoped for a leading example of house unity; the other students fully expected insults and fights. But nothing happened.That was, until Harry sleepwalked into D

71,914 kudos 46,202 words 14/14 chapters Mature Complete
2

I'm Reading Your Lips (You're Speaking My Language)

by some1_around

Rozanov cocked his head. “You speak Russian? Or just the curse words?” “Yes, I speak Russian,” he snapped, defensive and angry. He knew that it had been a mistake to even try to be friendly with Rozanov. “Why? Do I not look Russian to you?” He scoffed. “No, not really,” Rozanov said. Some of his tea

52,890 kudos 30,455 words 4/4 chapters Mature Complete
3

All the Young Dudes - Sirius's Perspective

by Rollercoasterwords

this is an ATYD fanfic first!!! and a harry potter fanfic only by necessity. this is literally just me rewriting each chapter of atyd but from Sirius's perspective bc i love this story so much and can't get enough of it. all credit for the original work goes to MsKingBean89 and if for some reason yo

47,973 kudos 628,178 words 188/188 chapters Mature Complete
4

The Darkening of Your Soul

by Maeglin_Yedi

Harry is betrayed. Harry gets a second chance to do it all over again.There is just one catch. If Harry gets to keep his memories from his previous life, so does Voldemort.

47,910 kudos 260,498 words 56/? chapters Mature
5

Mental

by orphan_account

Harry has had quite enough of sharing his mind with someone else, thankyouverymuch. A miscast Legilimecy spell says otherwise.(Fic from 2010 FF archive being uploaded here.)AND FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME, STOP REPOSTING THIS ON WATTPAD. I DO NOT WANT IT ON WATTPAD. YOU DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO POST

44,434 kudos 186,678 words 32/32 chapters Mature Complete
6

Fall Asleep (Fall For You)

by drannie

“They say when you fall in love you can’t fall asleep, but now that I’ve met you I feel like I finally can.” A University AU where Jungkook and Taehyung become roommates. But Jungkook has insomnia and can't fall asleep with other people and Taehyung can't fall asleep alone.

40,923 kudos 149,957 words 22/22 chapters Mature Complete
7

And like the cycle of the year, we begin again

by katherynefromphilly

Set after the Merlin Series 5 Finale "Diamond of the Day".Canon Compliant. In Character. Arthur Pendragon Returns.Cover art by Lao-Pendragon------For many long years Merlin waited.For the other part of his soul, for the other half of his life. He was born to serve Arthur. So that meant he was al

39,048 kudos 207,580 words 39/39 chapters Mature Complete
8

Real Slow

by surveycorpsjean

“I see.” Zuko closes the scroll. “Is the Water Tribe sending a replacement?” “Uh yeah,” Sokka gestures to himself dramatically. “You’re looking at him.”

31,094 kudos 21,416 words 1/1 chapters Mature Complete
9

A Sign of The Morning

by ToEdenandBackAgain

Vecna is dead. The Upside Down is cut off from Hawkins yet again. Steve is trying to go back to normal, whatever that is. He's also trying to figure out exactly how Eddie Munson has managed to fit so easily into his life.

23,534 kudos 86,804 words 12/12 chapters Mature Complete
10

Atlas

by etymologyplayground

"Eh! 'Little brother,' what!" Wei WuXian says, mock-outraged. "I'm thirty-five!" (Sort of. He was born thirty-five years ago, anyway.) "You must be, what, twenty-five tops?""Nooo," Xie Lian says, smiling. "I'm eight hundred years old.""You don't look a day over four hundred," Wei WuXian says. "Serio

23,405 kudos 12,306 words 4/4 chapters Mature Complete
11

Hearts Don't Break Around Here

by klancekorner

Lance and Keith have been best friends since first grade. Lance’s brain is always on overdrive and Keith’s blunt, realistic ass can never keep up. They both come to realize that sometimes you can learn a lot about loving yourself by loving someone else.

21,200 kudos 135,555 words 13/13 chapters Mature Complete
12

Dissonance

by stuckybarnes

(FIC HAS BEEN FULLY REVISED AND EDITED TO THIRD-PERSON POV! REVISED AS OF 6/30/21! WOO!) Wherein Deadpool is reluctantly hired to protect Peter Parker from an organization out to hunt him, with varying success on both ends and quite a lot of feelings, revelations, and identity crises.

17,834 kudos 122,063 words 44/44 chapters Mature Complete
13

but then, my homework was never quite like this

by Jazzfordshire

“Wait, when you say ‘you’ll be teaching’, you mean…both of us?” Kara asks, sounding more than a little apprehensive. “Lena and I will be teaching it together?”Lena’s own apprehension is so high that she’s fairly sure she’s seconds away from hyperventilation, but she’s surprising even herself with ho

13,371 kudos 41,138 words 4/4 chapters Mature Complete
14

Where There's a Will There's a Way

by xiaq

Luke walks straight to Din and Din suddenly feels like he should be doing something with his hands.“Hi,” he says.“Hi,” Luke agrees, grinning. “So. I didn’t get your name, before. Grogu just calls you ‘Daddy’ in his head but I’m assuming I should call you something else.”Din chokes a little.*****This

10,762 kudos 20,985 words 9/9 chapters Mature Complete
15

Our Hearts (Have Minds Of Their Own)

by EffortlesslyOpulent

Clarke is NOT going back to another family reunion without a fake girlfriend to shut everyone up. Lexa, her neighbor and best friend, needs powerful clients like the Griffins for her up and coming business. How inconvenient that they accidentally fall head-over-heels for each other in the process.It

10,082 kudos 103,319 words 15/15 chapters Mature Complete
16

Cascade

by Avonne

Harry wants to touch, and Draco wants to be touched. If only they could figure it out.

9,839 kudos 18,738 words 1/1 chapters Mature Complete
17

love thy neighbor

by wincechesters

Lan Wangji’s new neighbor is obnoxiously loud, incredibly ridiculous, and a shameless flirt. He is also quite possibly the love of Lan Wangji’s life.

9,771 kudos 7,427 words 1/1 chapters Mature Complete
18

What happens in Vegas

by Ididloveyou_once

57 missed calls. Bart_ahhh tagged you and one other in a postThe Gazette (4 hours ago)Bruce Wayne’s youngest eligible bachelor is off the market: Timothy Drake-Wayne eloped in Vegas [EXCLUSIVE pictures] 63 unread messag-Tim jolted upright. His eyes scanned over the headline again. Timothy Drake-Way

9,225 kudos 92,234 words 23/23 chapters Mature Complete
19

my love's ugly bloom

by Anonymous

Shane sends him a text that says 'thinking about your cock' with a picture of his rippling abs, and even though Ilya really appreciates the abs, all he can think about is the faint bruise blooming on Shane's ribs, and whether it hurts him very badly, and whether there's anything Ilya could do to mak

8,497 kudos 10,703 words 1/1 chapters Mature Complete
20

let me in before the rainy season starts again

by tiltingheartand

“Oh shit,” he says, eyes wide. And then, “oh fuck,” as he’s scooting backwards as quick as he can, “sorry, sorry, I’m sorry,” because what else can you say when you realize, oh, that’s not just a version of your friend that your brain conjured up, that’s your actual friend, the anthropomorphic perso

8,185 kudos 2,633 words 1/1 chapters Mature Complete
21

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
22

Unnamed Feelings

by SinisterSound

Seonghwa worked so hard to become closer to Hongjoong, even when it seemed the other wanted nothing to do with him.But then the air is cleared, which means they’re good now, right? Or: Seonghwa falls in love with Hongjoong slowly and doesn’t even notice.

6,938 kudos 15,165 words 1/1 chapters Mature Complete
23

fever got me aching

by knightswatch

But it doesn't solve Kyoutani's sudden problem-- he's not even sure really why he wants people to touch him. He doesn't have any fondness for strangers and, for the most part, he likes looking so scary that people won't sit next to him on the train.And he certainly doesn't want fucking Yahaba touchi

6,636 kudos 3,779 words 1/1 chapters Mature Complete
24

The Wall Thing

by rideahorse

Yahaba stumbles, but a hand on his arm catches him. Kyoutani helps tug him to his feet, and the hand lingers, thumb idly rubbing circles across his bicep. Words escape Yahaba in a breath, and they sound like, 'Thank you,' but they feel a whole lot like, 'Kiss me.'“Be careful,” Kyoutani says, voice

6,275 kudos 6,830 words 1/1 chapters Mature Complete
25

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 Complete

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46,202
median words
96%
complete
71,914
top kudos
~3.1 hours
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This list of 25mature Friends to Lovers fanfics spans 2,640,364 total words. Kudos range from 6,171 on the newest entries to 71,914 on the most established. Nearly all (96%) are complete, so you can start any of them without WIP anxiety. The most common rating is Mature (25 of 25 fics).

Recurring tags across this list: Friends to Lovers · Getting Together · Romance · Fluff · Hurt/Comfort.

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