Top 13 Short Road Trip Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with road trip and falls in the 10,000–50,000 words range.
Woe Trip
by SciFiDVM
Tyler is on the run after escaping the armored transport. The police are closing in on him when help arrives from the last person Tyler expected. Turns out that Wednesday makes an excellent getaway driver. A road trip ensues.
Dust and Ashes
by vidnyia
Two lives had been packed into the trunk of a beat-up, baby blue ‘82 Ford Escort. It had about one long drive in it - one last journey. That was all Jean needed it for. There it sat in the driveway, ready to take him home. Jean remembers his teenage years as he drives across the country to return
Bad Land
by Eleta_Preloc
We're going on a road trip, it's going to be a shit one. Kira, Garak, and Damar, on the lam. Set during 'The Dogs of War'.
so real that i feel fake
by maximumqueer
"She'd been hoping, that maybe, just maybe Leon would be back long enough for them to do… something together. Something more than just grabbing lunch or dinner, the dark shadows under Leon's eyes still fresh. A month long road-trip to California, stopping at all the cheesy tourist stops — the worlds
Tougher Than the Rest
by unpleasantdiversions
"Let's go on a road trip," Ed says. "All the places we hit when we were kids." "Eddie—" "I don't like paperwork," Ed says quickly. He can see the frustration building in Izzy's eyes. He's mad about something; what, exactly, Ed almost never knows. "I'll do it later, whatever papers you want me to sig
Lost Lady Found
by peg8472
Jesus has wandered far away from London, and Aziraphale and Crowley must road trip to find him. When their journey takes them to the Big Apple, will they be able to stomach a bite of this one? The two will need to work through difficult conversations and find their way back to each other while they
Seven Days of Being a Trucker
by knoxdalton
Izzy lives a solitary life in his truck. Don’t pity him, he likes it that way. He’s free from expectations and commitments, even if the silence sometimes presses in too close. The only thing he truly dreads about the job is picking up hitchhikers: they wave him down, then fill the cab with pointless
Home came with us.
by NicolasSturnioloObsessddddd
Nick has always been the one who notices. The one who remembers everyone's favorite snacks, pulls blankets back over sleeping shoulders, and stands between the people he loves and whatever wants to hurt them. So when he, Matt, and Chris rescue three enhanced children from a government detention cent
A Summer of Identity Crisis
by Lightning_Thief21
Clio found a home in Hollywood because she couldn’t find a home elsewhere. At just sixteen years old, she had her whole life planned. Three albums in two years, a sold-out tour, trophy cases of awards; but to her, this was only the beginning. Clio had a charm that could make her irresistible, a kind
Albuquerque
by AthensWisdom
Patricia Quijano, a side tangent lover, Don Quixote enthusiast, and worker at the Small Book Shop, dreamed about finding the Twins of Legend in the ghost town of Cuervo, New Mexico. And who could she ask to help find these twins other than Nicholas and Perenelle? We follow Patricia's journey across
Your Strain (It Gets Under My Skin)
by FahcLove
Instead of Dean finding Emmanuel!Cas, Meg manages to run into him first. On the run from Crowley’s goons and desperate to find any kind of leverage on the King of Hell, she decides to take amnesiac-Castiel on a road trip across the United States.
First Love/Late Spring
by BomberBomb
Andrew runs away from home, trying to find himself. Dennis runs away from home, already sure of himself. Their paths one day cross and Andrew drives Dennis all the way to some shitty motel, so he can be free. Along the way, they learn that they understand each other more than either one expected and
the love song of a blonde boy (are you with me now?)
by spicyxscorpio
part 5 of ax & rhi's world! with two tours for both of axel's bands behind them, they get some much-needed r & r and quality time as a couple when axel whisks rhiannon away for a spontaneous road trip along route 66! they spend 3 days trekking through canyon hikes, exploring weird roadside attractio
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About Road Trip
Characters in a vehicle with too many miles and feelings ahead of them: gas station snacks, radio arguments, motels with one bed, and conversations that only happen staring at a highway instead of each other. The journey reshapes whoever finishes it.
A car is a confessional on wheels — nowhere to storm off to — and readers love the enforced togetherness that turns passengers into something more by the destination.
Common scenarios: Estranged friends driving cross-country for a funeral and reconciling somewhere around Nebraska, or an impulsive coast-to-coast trip planned at 2 a.m. that neither expected the other to agree to.
About This List
This list of 13short Road Trip fanfics spans 267,177 total words. Kudos range from 1 on the newest entries to 2,488 on the most established. 46% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Explicit (4 of 13 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Road Trip · Alternate Universe - Road Trip · Canon-Typical Violence · Angst · Emotional Hurt/Comfort.
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