Top 15 Short Roommates Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with roommates and falls in the 10,000–50,000 words range.
The Standard You Walk Past
by bafflinghaze
On returning to Hogwarts for their Eighth Year, Headmistress McGonagall decided to room Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter together. She may have hoped for a leading example of house unity; the other students fully expected insults and fights. But nothing happened.That was, until Harry sleepwalked into D
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
home economics
by Anonymous
The Swiss National League doesn’t care about the legendary Hollander-Rozanov rivalry. When the MLH can’t negotiate with the Hockey Players’ Union in time to prevent a hockey lockout at the start of the 2015 season, the Zürich Lions jump at the chance to sign both Shane and Ilya to short-term contrac
i hate accidents (except when we went from friends to this).
by burgundyshirts
The first time it happens, Will classifies it as a little accident.When he wakes, the morning sun is burning through the window onto their faces, and Mike’s cursing as he stands to close the curtains, stumbling all the way.“Scoot over,” he grumbles, voice dry, and for a second Will can’t do anything
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
are u dating??
by ladyofsnails
Izuku's life is going amazingly well, with his Twitch channel where he streams himself playing video games and discussing the nerdiest things imaginable hitting 3 million followers, his best friend as his roommate, and his other close friends as tight-knit as they've been since high school. The only
Impossible Things
by accioromulus
Sirius’s thoughts are a slow-moving, impending disaster. How he wants to pin Remus up against the cupboards, to crowd him into a corner; how he wants to intertwine their fingers, to brush his lips against Remus’s forehead, his jaw. Instead, he settles for ducking his head and sliding a finger throug
Just Hold On (We're Going Home)
by kiaronna
Where Yuuri remembers the banquet, Viktor forgets, and Yakov Feltsman has his own plans.“I’ve been made aware of your recent break with Celestino Cialdini, and would like to offer you a trial period where you train under me, in St. Petersburg. There are only three conditions: you will board with ano
cottonmouth
by lightsflicker
“Just saying, if you’re taking another hit, you should share it with me,” Mike says, and Will slowly tilts his head, drinking in every word. “It just makes sense. Like, mathematically.” Will’s reddened eyes narrow, bewildered. “Mathematically?” “If there’s two hits left, we’d each only get one,” Mik
Moving Out of the Closet
by Sinnatious
Yoo Joonghyuk meets his neighbour Kim Dokja, who at first glance seems to be living in what he thought was the building's janitor's closet.
learning how to be (with you by my side)
by uniqueusernamegenerator
"Hey!" says Luz from the kitchen doorway."Hi," says Amity absently, turning to drop her bag before she stops in her tracks.She whirls around. Oh my God. It's Luz. Terrible, messy, and apparently very cute Luz.~Or, Amity has never met her roommate (until she does).
To Build a Home
by rarepairenabler
“You’re gonna be living with them?” Iwaizumi asks, sounding more concerned than necessary. “With the two neighbors you’ve been crushing on for the better half of the semester?”What.Ridiculous. He does not have a crush on Bokuto and Kuroo. They’re just friends. Good friends. The fact that Bokuto’s bu
Just Looking
by sleepykangaroo
Freshman year. Mike, Will, and Lucas are ready for a clean slate. No more high school nerd status. But back in their triple dorm room after their very first campus party, Mike can’t sleep. He never noticed the tiny noises Will makes in his sleep. So, he steps closer. Just looking. He does it once. T
u + me = <3
by elph4ba
Chloe tries to forget about Max as she enters a new chapter of her life, but the universe has a funny way of bringing people together when they least expect it. Or: Max and Chloe figure out how to fit back into each other’s lives as college roommates.
Placebo Effect
by mole
这个故事可能是关于：Keith是一个fuckboy而Shiro是一个完美室友。
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About Roommates
Characters sharing an apartment, dorm, or impractically small flat, where proximity does the romantic heavy lifting. Shared kitchens, thin walls, and borrowed hoodies turn cohabitation into a slow ambush of domesticity.
The trope front-loads intimacy — they already live together — and lets the feelings catch up, which means readers get domestic fluff and pining simultaneously.
Common scenarios: Strangers matched by a housing lottery who start cooking for two without discussing it, or best friends splitting rent until one of them brings home a date and the other discovers jealousy.
About This List
This list of 15short Roommates fanfics spans 360,974 total words. Kudos range from 4 on the newest entries to 71,914 on the most established. Nearly all (87%) are complete, so you can start any of them without WIP anxiety. The most common rating is Explicit (6 of 15 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Roommates · Alternate Universe - Roommates/Housemates · Alternate Universe - College/University · Idiots in Love · Mutual Pining.
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