Top 20 One-Shot Pining Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with pining and falls in the short stories under 10,000 words range.
count your blessings, not your flaws
by PitViperOfDoom
Midoriya Izuku has never been asked out, confessed to, or flirted with, except as a joke.
True Love
by platonic_boner
AU where soulmates can’t lie to each other.(That’s okay, Merlin wasn’t planning to lie to Arthur anyways! Haha.. ha.. ha…)
What The Fuck Did You Just Call Me?
by reading_raindrop
“A-ah B-Bakugou! You dropped some pencils!”Katsuki stiffened. Kirishima and Kaminari froze. Basically, everyone within earshot stopped what they were doing to look at Izuku like he sprouted a second head. What did he just call him? “What the fuck did you just say to me?”Katsuki whipped his head towa
In Love With Justice
by PlotsOfCoffee
Batman is notorious for his secretive ways, so when the Justice League meets someone he associates with, they naturally have questions. The questions continue to pile up when it’s clear that Batman is rather. . . close to him. Or the Justice League thinks Batman and Nightwing are dating.
Sideways and Slantways and Longways and Backways
by hologramophone
“I called you a slave-driver!” Stiles cried hysterically. “I called you an ogre! I stole all the blue paperclips!”Derek raised an eyebrow at him.“That’s company property!” he shouted, waving his arms madly in distress.Derek ran a hand over his face. “It’s not theft if the vice president of the compa
one to ten
by crunchrapsupreme
Kirishima attempts to climb the ladder of success and weasel his way into Bakugou Katsuki's explosive little heart. Step one? He has to get to level ten.
A Dandelion By Any Other Name
by TabbyCat33098
Jaskier is throwing up flowers and refuses to tell Geralt who has afflicted him so. As Geralt grapples with Jaskier's impending death, he comes to terms with a few things himself. //“Who’s the unlucky woman?” Geralt asks, stepping into the firelight. Jaskier starts, dandelions spilling from his ha
Oblivious In Love
by Atsvie
Peter and Wade are sort of a thing. Everyone knows. Except for Peter.
take me out (the date way or the assassination way)
by fruitily
yoongi [7:58]IM READY TO DROP DEAD jimin [7:59]relatablejin [7:59]you say that at least three times a weeknamjoon [7:59]is this about the guy you keep running intotae [8:00]what guy?????? are u keeping tea from me????????jin [8:01]theres a mysterious hot guy on campus that yoongi keeps running into
#SoftRobin
by mistolez
Lesbian and proud @Jackie_Kellyguys, I almost got mugged in Gotham and @Robin saved me. he offered to walk me home and while this Robin doesn’t really do that, the others sometimes did so I figured it was safe enough. and guys, we call him the Angry Robin™ but he was actually super nice??|Lesbian an
exodus 20:3: you shall have no other gods before me
by birdsofpassage
Childe finds out that the alcohol in Liyue is a force to be reckoned with. It leads to much more than just a hangover.
fools of us all
by MemeKonHQ (MemeKonYA)
“I...” Yamaguchi broke the silence again, his voice tight, shaky.This was bound to be a big one, then.“I’m in love.”Kei almost stumbled over his own feet then, almost choked on his own spit. What. (Or: Yamaguchi has taken to telling Kei things about his day while Kei has headphones on. This makes
come a lily, come a lilac
by pdameron
"Most people just pick whatever flower they think is prettiest. It doesn’t require a lot of input from me.”The man walks up to Q, leaning against the counter between them. “Well then, what can I do to get your input?” (In which Q runs a flower shop, and his newest regular is almost definitely a spy.
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
Goodnight, Tadashi
by Magefeathers
Tsukishima buys a body pillow, and calls it Tadashi. Kuroo has an absolute field day with this information.
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
under the influence of fingertips
by tamerofdarkstars
Gimli awakes the morning after Aragorn's coronation in the lap of an Elf with Dwarven courtship braids in his hair. It comes as a bit of a surprise.
Wheatgrass and Froot Loops
by WhoNatural
"You’re falling for him," she says, and it’s not a question. Stiles looks up, blinks, and shakes his head."No," he lies. "We work out, have really intense sex, and then eat cereal marketed for children. We have a system, okay? Why upset the arrangement?"
this dream, realized
by luftballons99
“It’s just dancing,” Ash whispers, knowing that nothing he does with Eiji could ever be ‘just’ anything. “You’ll be a pro in no time.” orAsh teaches Eiji how to dance. Eiji teaches Ash how to hope.
just a normal night at the kent farm
by impravidus
“Aren’t you a little… young?”“Sexual activity is not out of character for an adolescent of my age.”“Is that what you’re doing? Engaging in ‘sexual activity?’”Damian and Tim run into each other leaving their significant other's rooms in the middle of the night.
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About Pining
Unrequited or unspoken longing for someone, often with lots of internal anguish.
The exquisite torture of loving someone from afar, especially when it's mutual but unspoken.
Common scenarios: Secret crushes, assuming feelings aren't returned, watching from across the room.
About This List
This list of 20one-shot Pining fanfics spans 119,306 total words. Kudos range from 5,063 on the newest entries to 70,831 on the most established. Nearly all (95%) are complete, so you can start any of them without WIP anxiety. The most common rating is Teen And Up Audiences (14 of 20 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Pining · Fluff · Getting Together · Misunderstandings · Angst with a Happy Ending.
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