Best Short Second Chance Romance Fanfics
Second Chance Romance novellas — 10k to 50k words, polished and contained. Curated from AO3, ranked by kudos.
Top 8 Short Second Chance Romance Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with second chance romance and falls in the 10,000–50,000 words range.
To Build a Home
by crinklefries
There’s something to be said about endings.He's in the middle of one, a story in its epilogue, his chest split open for words on a page. Loki looks at the half-gutted, half-finished, empty shell of a kitchen around him. Dreams end by those who started them. or;Sometimes, in order to come back toge
Sugar and Smoke Rings
by orphan_account
Oliver couldn't explain why the boy at the skatepark always caught his eye.
Prompted
by wannaliveindeansdimples
A place for my collection of short to medium fics based on prompts
All We Have Is Time
by BisexualSpacePrincess
A Dragon Age AU that imagines the Inquisitor as the mage Cullen was infatuated with at the Ferelden circle.
El eco entre nosotras
by ButtonUpJuno
Hay amores que no desaparecen, solo permanecen. Fina tuvo que marcharse de España empujada por el miedo, el silencio y una amenaza que nunca pudo explicar. Argentina fue refugio y herida al mismo tiempo; un lugar donde aprendió a sobrevivir, a crecer, a construir una vida lejos de todo lo que había
The Bard of Hartford
by JCMorrigan
It would have made sense if the creature who had visited Toby Williams' dreams throughout his whole life were Jareth the Goblin King, checking in on his little protégé. However, the voice that connected to him across the vast reaches of space most certainly did not belong to the Goblin King.A chroni
Flying Through the Free Fall
by Writer0890
Banner credit goes to crows4bros on HPFT Natasha Butler has had a heck of a year in the USA, she’s now engaged to a seemingly perfect man named Aaron and expecting his child. She returns to the UK for the first anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts and runs into her old flame Oliver Wood. Not so bur
Shadows in the fade
by MaevenHall
The Inquisitor has given up everything; her future, her love, and her hand. It feels like there could be nothing left to give. The Inquisition continues the search for Solas, even as they have a new fire to put out in the form of a demon cult. Eliana has to retrain her body to fight and her heart to
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About Second Chance Romance
Lovers who already failed once — a breakup, a divorce, a choice made young and regretted long — get another shot years later. The history is both the obstacle and the foundation: they know exactly how to hurt each other, and exactly why it was worth it.
First love asks whether they'll get together; second-chance romance asks the harder, more adult question of whether people can grow enough to deserve each other the second time.
Common scenarios: Exes reunited as colleagues a decade after the airport scene that ended them, or a widowed character and the one who got away meeting again at a mutual friend's wedding.
About This List
This list of 8short Second Chance Romance fanfics spans 224,463 total words. Kudos range from 9 on the newest entries to 511 on the most established. Nearly all (88%) are complete, so you can start any of them without WIP anxiety. The most common rating is Teen And Up Audiences (3 of 8 fics).
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