Best Long Friends with Benefits Fanfics

Friends with Benefits fanfics from 50k to 100k words — full novel length with room for slow development. Curated from AO3, ranked by kudos.

Friends with Benefits 17 long fics Avg 71,463 words 50,000–100,000 words

Top 17 Long Friends with Benefits Fanfics

Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with friends with benefits and falls in the 50,000–100,000 words range.

1

The Devil's White Knight

by orphan_account

When Harry wakes up in an alternate timeline--a timeline where Voldemort was defeated long before the first war--he discovers everything is different. His parents, his godfather, his friends--and him. Harry must deal with the consequences of who he would have been if he had been raised by his pare

42,476 kudos 64,573 words 10/10 chapters Explicit Complete
2

Love, I have Wounds

by Sharleena

Jungkook meets Taehyung in a dirty club with terrible music and harsh lights that color his skin blue.Jungkook has just started feeling lonely when he meets Taehyung, who seems to have been lonely his entire life.

19,099 kudos 79,451 words 4/4 chapters Explicit Complete
3

No Homo

by orphan_account

Stiles' sophomore year starts something like this:3 FourLokos+ 1 peer-pressuring cat- 1 best bro to end all best bros= 1 Craigslist ad headline that reads "str8 dude - m4m - strictly platonic".Derek is the fool who replies.

18,735 kudos 84,092 words 12/12 chapters Explicit Complete
4

What Goes Around

by KouriArashi

“Well,” Stiles says, “if they’re going to hunt werewolves, I’m going to hunt them.”It’s a ridiculous statement from a ten-year-old, but he’s obviously one hundred percent sincere. For the first time since the fire, Peter feels life stir inside him, feels purpose. It’s kismet, clearly. He’ll never me

17,076 kudos 71,451 words 16/16 chapters Mature Complete
5

It's Okay Because It's You

by suffocatingspring

Katsuki’s first encounter with his own hanahaki came right at the end of their 2nd year at UA, and as he stands over the ceramic sink, he thinks "Of course the petals are green. What else could they have fucking been."Green, like his hair. Green, like his eyes. That shitty ner-"Kacchan?" The devil i

16,991 kudos 64,187 words 5/5 chapters Explicit Complete
6

don't leave me tongue-tied

by dawnshine

After wishing on a star, Jisung develops the bizarre ability to see "lust gauges" of the people around him, displaying the current arousal levels of their owners. As if that weren't strange enough, his best friend Minho's gauge is always filled to the brim despite him being one of the most calm and

14,234 kudos 57,507 words 5/5 chapters Explicit
7

But is it wrong if I see him this weekend?

by ihave_a_boringlife

That thought settles into his brain dangerously. Ilya’s been with everyone. Girls. Guys. Others. What's another person on the list? If Shane wants experience… If he wants to stop feeling behind… Why not Ilya? Yes, he was a complete asshole that Shane wished he could choke to death sometimes and his

11,947 kudos 65,917 words 12/12 chapters Explicit Complete
8

Tempting Scandal

by Stillpink

Penelope is an innocent, but her experiences as Lady Whistledown teach her that she has much to learn about what happens between men and women behind closed doors. Fortunately, she has a friend willing to teach her all she wishes to know.It all seems so simple...until Colin Bridgerton uncovers her p

7,771 kudos 89,735 words 17/17 chapters Explicit Complete
9

Don't Hold Your Breath

by frozenpotions

“Hey, Bruce,” he said tentatively. “You have a lot of casual sex, right?”Bruce raised one delicate eyebrow. “Mr. Kent,” he said slowly, amusement curling around the words, “are you calling me easy?”(or: Not quite fresh out of a divorce, Clark attempts to have a hot girl summer. It goes well until it

5,175 kudos 50,441 words 7/7 chapters Explicit Complete
10

hundred thousand hearts

by sanguinesun

Giyuu's eyes widen, pretty in the way a seemingly calm river with vicious rapids lurking underneath is pretty, and Sanemi is screwed. He promises himself that nothing like this will ever happen again.He's lying.(Sanemi and Giyuu fall into a friends with benefits situation. Then everything falls apar

3,926 kudos 52,490 words 9/9 chapters Explicit Complete
11

rulebreaker

by jenomochi

Jaemin would like to think this all started out as an accident. That one day, he just happened to be so sexually deprived (or, read: horny), and his boss happened to be so too. That they both just accidentally stared at each other for too long that day, that Mister Lee accidentally called him over t

2,813 kudos 88,041 words 8/8 chapters Explicit Complete
12

All the Way Through

by sevenfists

“I hope you’re going to tell me that you’re in a loving, committed, long-term relationship,” Jen said.“Well. No,” Sidney said. “We’re—it’s a casual thing.”“Not anymore,” Jen said. “Congratulations, you’re in love.”

2,671 kudos 82,845 words 1/1 chapters Explicit Complete
13

at least it was here

by usoverlooked

Everyone moves in the second day of August. Someone orders pizza and Weiss announces in no uncertain terms that they’re going to have a party on Saturday, and everyone needed to mark ‘attending’ on her Facebook invite.“Is this what college is like?” Ruby asks.“There’s more alcohol and crying,” Nora

1,997 kudos 63,926 words 20/20 chapters Teen And Up Audiences Complete
14

Partners with Benefits

by OnlyTheInevitable

Mulder and Scully try being friends with benefits. Will it work out, or will their feelings for each other complicate things?

1,925 kudos 68,345 words 12/12 chapters Explicit Complete
15

Body Language

by explosionshark

Buffy and Faith have always communicated best when they're not relying on words at all.

1,623 kudos 86,823 words 7/7 chapters Explicit Complete
16

Off Script

by isapgx

“Don’t look at me like that,” Suguru said. “Like what?” “Like you forgot what this is.” — To the rest of the world, Satoru Gojo is untouchable. To Suguru, he is just the high school ex-boyfriend who calls after midnight when he wants to escape the spotlight. Suguru tells himself he is in control of

313 kudos 91,217 words 11/16 chapters Explicit
17

Constantly On The Cusp

by Frosty49

Finn and Rey have been best friends since the 10th grade. As time goes on, their friendship begins to evolve. Lines get blurred and feelings get involved. Can these two finally come to terms with they mean to each other?

53 kudos 53,836 words 16/? chapters Explicit

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About Friends with Benefits

Two friends agree to a no-strings physical arrangement and draw up rules to keep feelings out of it — rules that begin failing almost immediately. The genre convention is ironclad: someone always catches feelings, and usually both already had them.

The trope runs on dramatic irony and denial; readers watch two people perform casualness while every gesture betrays them, waiting for the arrangement to collapse into the relationship it always was.

Common scenarios: Rule three is no sleepovers, broken by week two, or the moment one of them gets asked out by someone else and the arrangement abruptly stops feeling casual.

About This List

68,345
median words
82%
complete
42,476
top kudos
~4.5 hours
median read time

This list of 17long Friends with Benefits fanfics spans 1,214,877 total words. Kudos range from 53 on the newest entries to 42,476 on the most established. Nearly all (82%) are complete, so you can start any of them without WIP anxiety. The most common rating is Explicit (15 of 17 fics).

Recurring tags across this list: Friends with Benefits · Alternate Universe - College/University · Smut · Friends to Lovers · Eventual Smut.

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