Best Explicit Mutual Pining Fanfics
The 25 most-loved explicit mutual pining fanfics on AO3, ranked by kudos. The delicious frustration of obvious mutual attraction, the anticipation of them finally realizing the truth, and the emotional payoff.
Top 25 Explicit Mutual Pining Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Every fic on this list is tagged with mutual pining and rated Explicit.
frequently, secretly fond of each other.
by milominderbinder
Shrugging one shoulder far more casually than he possibly feels, Ilya says, “I like both. Is secret, okay?” “Okay,” Hollander says, voice cracking. He doesn’t say anything else. The air’s so heavy around them that it feels like being in the middle of a scrum, the weight and heat of all those bodies
I Would Bring You the Stars and the Moon
by GutterWitch
“Houston, do you copy?”Caitlyn panicked, feeling extraordinarily unprepared having been thrust into her new position without so much as even a handbook to consult. What were the formalities? What was she supposed to respond with? Where was the damn push to talk button…“Hellooo? I said Houston, do yo
Heir Apparent
by MonsieurClavier
When a Voldemort in his thirties encounters a time-travelling, seventeen-year-old Harry Potter, he makes a dangerous—and hilarious—assumption. He assumes that Harry is his son. And his son, of course, deserves the very best.A confused Harry plays along for the sake of self-preservation, but living w
As the Romans Do
by kooksie
As a straight man, Ilya Rozanov has never had a gay roommate before, but it’s going pretty well. Shane Hollander is kind, silly, and an even bigger hockey nut than Ilya. So when Shane starts bringing men over, and Ilya begins to want to bash their fucking heads in, Ilya comes to a startling conclusi
Remain Nameless
by HeyJude19
How did it feel? It felt like he was barely holding it together. She, of all people, should shun him. Or yell at him. Curse him. Spit at him. Take out her wand and blast him off the face of the earth. It was crushing guilt and relief and confusion all at once when he looked at Hermione Granger.The m
Woodash and iron and leather
by iffervescent
Jaskier is the only person Geralt's ever been around who doesn't smell of fearRussian Translation hereKorean Translation herePodfic here
The Secrets We Kept
by Larissa_liest
Shane Hollander disappears from the NHL at twenty with a career-ending “injury.” Four years later, he’s the new assistant coach for the Ottawa Centaurs when Ilya Rozanov signs with the team. His former rival. His secret hookup. The father of his daughter.Ilya doesn’t know Lily exists and Shane plans
the affliction of the feeling
by nondz (pinkjook)
“Hold on,” Robin interrupts. “Hold on, is this— are you, like. Do you know what masochism is?”“I know I act like it sometimes, Robin, but I’m not actually fucking twelve,” Steve says.OR: Eddie has a black hanky in his back pocket.
your heartbeat, across the grass
by fakeplasticlily
To his unbridled horror, Wei Wuxian sees his face up on the giant screen in real time for the entire stadium to see. Still laughing as his face takes a moment to catch up with the sheer mortification he’s feeling, A-Yuan perched on his shoulders as the Lan Wangji cape drapes over them.There’s also c
Meet Your Match
by morriganmercy
After the war, Draco Malfoy seeks refuge from infamy in the Muggle world. A friendly Muggle couple takes him under their wing, but there’s a problem: they are intent on setting him up with their best friend, Hermione Granger. Or, in which the Muggle friends Hermione Granger undoubtedly would have ha
bang bang, kiss kiss
by bunkuto
He stops. Or freezes. Either one, really.Because Suguru is decidedly not alone.He’s hovering over a man, his dark hair loose and spilling over his face and he’s…pinning the man to his bed, one strong hand pressed over the other’s wrists.“Fuck,” Satoru wheezes.Suguru brings men home and Satoru wonder
a light hidden and singing
by occultings (microcomets)
Since he was a child, since Lan Wangji had first become aware of his own alienating effect on others, he has long resigned himself to a loveless marriage. Perhaps even a companionate one, so long as his partner was agreeable and unbothersome and let him have his own space.He could not have even begu
Twirl Three Notes and Make a Star
by inexplicifics
The Warlord of the North receives an invitation to the elven summer festival, and Geralt sends Jaskier, Eskel, and Ciri (and more than a dozen overprotective Witchers) off to be diplomatic.Or: Eskel finally gets to take a vacation. If you can call riding herd on Jaskier and the little menace a vacat
a safe pair of hands
by occultings (microcomets)
Lan Wangji gets hit with a touch-starving curse. Wei Wuxian helps.
Ruin
by Sea_Dragonfly
“Perhaps you should take a seat,” said Violet.Colin wouldn't remember the details of what his mother told him next. He would remember her hand warm on his knee, her eyes wide with concern, her voice gentle as velvet. All of it in stark contrast to the devastating news she shared.Penelope was ruined.
fever
by adietxt
The world spins as soon Sanji opens his eyes.It feels odd, almost detached in a way, like a dense fog slowly filling his head. He pinches the bridge of his nose in an attempt to chase away the sensation, hoping his fever would subside soon, when he’s suddenly hit with a wave of heat deep in his bell
Spite
by wellitcouldbeworse3
You wake up in a hospital bed with plenty of injuries and no memories, and the only person that seem more upset about it than you are is a short, angry man named Levi. Takes place directly after A Choice With No Regrets.
should have known better
by wo_osan
“Who do you think the shipper fans would assume tops between the two of us?”What.No, seriously. What the fuck.Wooyoung is so shocked by the question that he wonders if maybe he’d heard him wrong. Surely San wouldn’t have just asked him-“The fuck kind of question is that?” he says. or: wooyoung reall
Cardinal
by taiyakii
“Enough of the poetry,” Scaramouche snaps hastily, mostly to spare himself from more of this perpetual torment. “Find something better to do with your mouth.”Kazuha pauses at that, surprise ghosting over his face as he tilts his head, and Scaramouche savors in his temporary victory, in the triumph o
Paper Planes
by annie_vi
As springs ebbs into summer, Park Jimin unexpectedly spots a familiar face at a pool party - Jeon Jeongguk, his childhood best friend and first love, who disappeared without explanation five years ago and left Jimin heartbroken.
cleopatra
by dontaskmedude
But I must admit it, I would marry you in an instantDamn your wife, I'd be your mistress just to have you aroundORsometimes a family can be a lesbian, her stepdaughter, her gay husband, his lover and their eight children
I Knew You Were Trouble When You Walked In
by doeyedgirlyevil
There he stood. Frozen. In the presence of a man who Henry was willing to swear before Queen and country, under pain of death, was the single most beautiful person on the face of the planet, and possibly several galaxies beyond. A man who possessed the kind of magnetic pull that could persuade Henry
From Almaty, With Love
by BoxWineConfessions
It’s quiet here. Even if the car alarm on the neighbor’s goddamn BMW has been going off for the past twenty minutes. Quiet, even though the alarm’s got the neighbor’s dog howling like crazy, and the neighbor works second shift and isn’t there to comfort the dumb dog. It’s quiet…They haven’t spoken t
get loud
by wo_osan
“This is Wooyoung, he’s my best friend.” San turns to Wooyoung, leaning in far closer than he would while sober and grabbing Wooyoung by the shoulders. They’re basically the same height so it’s oddly jarring to suddenly be so close, noses almost touching. “You know that, right?” San says seriously.“
Often, Lately
by AngelWithoutAShotgun
“Shane had been used to being alone. He'd never thought of himself as lonely. He honestly often craved the solitude, found it grounding. But that was before he knew what it was like to have someone to call, someone to touch. He was never lonely before Rozanov, but he'd been lonely ever since.”April
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About This List
This list of 25explicit Mutual Pining fanfics spans 1,843,037 total words. Kudos range from 6,298 on the newest entries to 45,340 on the most established. Nearly all (84%) are complete, so you can start any of them without WIP anxiety. The most common rating is Explicit (25 of 25 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Mutual Pining · Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence · Explicit Sexual Content · Slow Burn · Alternate Universe.
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