Best Mature Hurt/Comfort Fanfics
The 25 most-loved mature hurt/comfort fanfics on AO3, ranked by kudos. The vulnerability, the tenderness, seeing characters take care of each other in their worst moments.
Top 25 Mature Hurt/Comfort Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Every fic on this list is tagged with hurt/comfort and rated Mature.
Lock All The Doors Behind You
by entanglednow
He has no idea what you're supposed to say when you find one of your...werewolf acquaintances, completely out of their mind, growling like they're about to see what your insides taste like. There's no handbook for this. Stiles is thinking that if he survives he might write one.
The Third Option
by orphan_account
Homecoming AU.Ben and May divorced before Peter’s parents died, so when Ben is murdered Peter goes into foster care. It takes just a tiny taste of superpowers for Peter to decide he doesn’t want to put up with his horrible foster father anymore—the streets are infinitely more appealing. All he wants
The Cadence of Part-time Poets
by motswolo
“They’re… chaos,” Remus said firmly. “And chaos is—”“Rock and roll.”He looked at Sirius sharply, and for once, matched his grin. “Yeah.”“Maybe that’s my excuse then,” Sirius said. “I cause a bit of chaos now, and maybe one day, it’ll turn into rock and roll.”After losing his mother at age eleven, Re
something you can fix
by some1_around
Maybe if the video ended there, Shane thought, it would be okay. Okayish. Still incriminating. Still a fucking disaster. Still embarrassing, to have his breakup with this beautiful actress filmed and disseminated on Reddit of all fucking places, but not a nail in his coffin, burying him alive. But t
In the (Second) Beginning
by cherryfeather
As their lunch stretches on Aziraphale slowly comes to realize that Crowley is—enjoying him. Enjoying Aziraphale’s conversation, and company, far more openly than he has in most of Aziraphale’s memory. And Aziraphale knows that he himself is just chattering on, letting conversational tangents carry
To only ever know the cold
by IbecomewhatIbelieve
Svetlana knows about Jane. It's frankly insulting for Ilyusha to think otherwise. She just never expected to have to call him for help. During the Olympics. In Russia. In the dead of night. -Or, it's Sochi 2014 and Russia has lost to Latvia. Grigori Rozanov, not yet compromised by illness, punishes
Damage
by dontcareajot
Peter Parker finds himself in a sticky situation and who should show up to rescue him but the infamous Deadpool? Now Peter feels indebted to the mercenary... And maybe weirdly charmed by him.
Trust fall
by Ididloveyou_once
‘Drake?’Tim felt like he was choking. His throat was tight. He couldn’t swallow.‘Damian?’ He managed.Damian was… here. At Kent Farm. Dressed in the too-big Batman pajamas that Dick had bought him last Christmas as a joke. And- And-Tim was wearing Kon’s t-shirt and his hair was messy and his lips wer
wrapped around your finger
by arahir
Venom goes about love in every wrong way he knows how. Thank god for late night television.“Me. They invited me for dinner,” Eddie insists, trying again to make his hair look some specific way in the mirror. He’s given up and started over three times. It’s a double date. Like on that show.“What—w
The Guiding of Death
by RayShippouUchiha
“Hades and Persephone reborn huh,” Fury states then more than asks, “no need to ask which is which.”Toni’s brows furrow even as dread begins to squirm to life inside of her.But before she can say anything, before she can open her mouth and set the record straight, she hears it.A murmur as loud as a
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.
Chaos for the Fly
by LaylaJeffany
“Wednesday, you are so new to love’s torturous sting. It simply takes time to get used to the poison, my darling. You have to build up a tolerance for it. Then – you’ll start to wonder how you ever lived without it.” Enid accidentally summons a malevolent spirit in an attempt to communicate with he
what does he have that I don't?
by k0feew_milkk
Wednesday came in, closing the door behind her and walking up to her desk without even sparing her a second glance. That itself wasn’t unusual, it actually happened almost every night; what caught her attention was the way the other girl smelled.She smelled like Tyler.orthat one fic where enid scent
Foundation (Build It Higher, Bury It Deeper)
by RayShippouUchiha
It’s just … he’d thought, given his fight against Neji and then his confrontation with Gaara, that someone would finally really acknowledge what he’d done. That beyond Iruka-sensei’s crushing hug and Kakashi-sensei’s absent pat, someone would actually notice that he’d won against both of them.That
Fuck pride (pride only hurts, it never helps)
by ImogenGotDrunk
After the android uprising, Connor becomes a permanent fixture in the DPD. That’s fine. Gavin can accept that. The dipshit’s more human than he used to be, and a decent detective to boot. Gavin can deal with him being around.What Gavin cannot deal with is Connor’s replica; prissy, cold-eyed, and wit
a lesson you should heed (try, try again)
by aloneintherain
Izuku doesn't know why the day keeps resetting. He doesn't know why he's trapped on campus, or why there's no phone reception, or why Aizawa and Shinsou keep losing their memories of the Saturdays they've already lived, while Izuku remains constantly, painfully aware. But he does know this: Aizawa a
next time, next time
by aworus
Over and over again, Aizawa Shouta is woken by the same alarm, at the same time, on the same day. The roof access door alarm is triggered. It is 7:56am. It is Saturday. And over and over again, Aizawa Shouta is just barely too late to stop Midoriya Izuku from stepping off of the ledge and splatterin
disjunction
by Nanashi07
Six years after he and Viktor part ways on antagonistic terms, Jayce wakes up in the Machine Herald’s medical clinic.Jayce desperately wants to rub at his forehead, but the binding at his wrist stops him. He settles for squeezing his eyes shut. “Why?” he asks.Viktor is silent for barely a moment.
Veiled Truths
by ikeracity
Erik has dreams of a dark room, of being pushed down into the floor and violated in a way that makes him scream until his throat is raw. But Shaw never, ever touched him like that, so Erik wonders if he somehow repressed memories of Shaw's torture. Either way, he hides the dreams from Charles, inten
cast out fear
by s0mmerspr0ssen
Kirk saves Vulcan from Nero at high cost to himself. It falls to Spock to pick up the pieces.
Drown In My Ocean of Black Box Dye
by brigreenie
He clicked the pen his therapist had given him, opening the first page. In big letters, he wrote, “Reasons To Live: 1-100.”Then, he flipped to the middle of the journal. He paused, felt-tip inches from the page. This was gonna be another mistake to add to his long-running list, wasn’t it?Caving, he
Peter and the Jailbirds
by beautifullights
“If you did play chess," Ross said, "you’d remember that a pawn can become a queen. The most powerful piece on the board, Parker, remember that? But—” Ross smiled— “only if it obeys.”He adjusted his tie, stood, and looked down at Peter. “I’ll ask you again,” he said. “Eventually. You may feel differ
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
As You Wish
by orphan_account
Of all the things Dick Grayson expected to find on the roof of his rarely-used Gotham apartment at two in the morning, a beaten and bloody Red Hood was not one of them.
Cascade
by Avonne
Harry wants to touch, and Draco wants to be touched. If only they could figure it out.
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About This List
This list of 25mature Hurt/Comfort fanfics spans 3,344,222 total words. Kudos range from 9,839 on the newest entries to 69,106 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: Hurt/Comfort · Angst · Emotional Hurt/Comfort · Fluff · Canon-Typical Violence.
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