Top 10 Short Mates Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with mates and falls in the 10,000–50,000 words range.
Electricity In the Contact
by ladyblahblah
In which Derek has been invited to the Greater Pacific Northwest Alpha Symposium (that's not what it's called, Stiles, stop saying that), and showing up unattached would mean an arranged marriage. When the rest of the pack objects, he agrees to let Stiles come along to pose as his mate. Derek is r
Lap Magnet
by Prairie_Grass
Wherein an ill-advised floral arrangement leads to a whole new definition of obliviousness, accidental mate-bonds, and far more sex and tropes than one fic really needs.or Five times Derek and Stiles didn’t notice how close they were (literally) and then a whole bunch of times when they did...
So Shed Your Skin and Lets Get Started
by halfhardtorock
He's sixteen and in the woods on the wrong side of the town-line and he's so fucking fucked. He knows he's not supposed to run, they teach that to you in preschool (don't run from a Were, back away slowly and walk with care), but they never told you how it would feel, standing alone in the dark with
One Dollar Yoda
by exclamation
Stiles is an unbonded spark, so he's been dealing with courting alphas since he was ten. It's gotten a lot worse since he turned sixteen. Some are assholes, some are nice, but Stiles hasn't wanted to spend the rest of his life bound to any of them. When Derek Hale shows up at his school, Stiles expe
Stop Crossing Oceans
by greenleaf
“There are no absolutes, Scott! No hard rights or hard wrongs! The world doesn’t fucking work that way and we can’t afford to think like that, because people are going to die! We signed up for that the moment we got involved with all this!”“We? We?” Scott hisses. “Don’t you think you? Don’t forget t
Knot if You Don't Knock
by jsea
Stiles never expects to present as an omega -- that's something that happens to people like Greenberg, not him. He is so wrong.His life only gets stranger when Derek Hale mistakenly bursts through the door of his exam room during a doctor’s appointment. What happens next is a complicated series of e
Truth and Consequences
by KouriArashi
“The place you give the Bite has meaning," Derek says. "Biting someone on the side is to make them your beta. It makes them your subordinate, but it also invites them into the pack with the full protection of the alpha. Biting someone on the legs indicates that you’re turning them to an omega. And b
Don't Feed the Wolves
by Amazonia_8
Stiles took the dare, because what else was he supposed to do when the whole lacrosse team was chanting his name? Even though the werewolf pack had left Beacon Hills years ago, nobody was stupid enough to set foot on the Hale property. Except, apparently, Stiles.Now he's got a feral werewolf followi
Go Easy On Me
by mrsassbutt
Wednesday Addams detested love. She didn’t need nor did she want it. Enter Enid Sinclair.Add some werewolf mating drama.A dash of teen angst.A sprinkle of dark horror.And it might just be a recipe for disaster.OREnid Sinclair’s mate is Wednesday Addams and she’s kind of freaking out.
Day by Day (Swept Away)
by rebelcongeriem
The one in which Harry decides to play magizoologist in Chile and ends up meeting a pair of vampires who promise him both a family and a place to belong.He accepts...eventually.
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About Mates
A supernatural bond designates two characters as destined partners, common in werewolf, vampire, omegaverse, and fae settings. The mate bond may be instantly recognized, slowly discovered, or actively resisted, and stories often examine what fate owes to choice.
The fantasy of being biologically, cosmically certain that someone is yours appeals to readers, while the best fics complicate it by asking whether the characters would have chosen each other anyway.
Common scenarios: A werewolf scenting their mate in a crowded room and panicking, or a character rejecting a destined bond and dealing with the supernatural fallout.
About This List
This list of 10short Mates fanfics spans 236,065 total words. Kudos range from 3,537 on the newest entries to 35,649 on the most established. Nearly all (80%) are complete, so you can start any of them without WIP anxiety. The most common rating is Explicit (5 of 10 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Mates · Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence · Scent Marking · Dubious Consent · Mating Bond.
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