Best Short Second Chances Fanfics
Second Chances novellas — 10k to 50k words, polished and contained. Curated from AO3, ranked by kudos.
Top 14 Short Second Chances Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with second chances and falls in the 10,000–50,000 words range.
Second Line
by NotRamona43
Wiebe could tell he was wearing Ilya down, but he still looked nervous. "Ilya," Ilya stilled. To his team he was always Rozanov or Roz or Rozy, never Ilya. "You're our guy. There's nobody I'd rather be our captain, to lead this team to another Stanley Cup. It's clear you don't like the guy, but we b
How To Reinvent The Stormtrooper Armor To Make Your Surrogate Father Proud And Shut The Naysayers Up For Fun And Profit
by Jackdaw_Kraai
This is an AU of loosingletters' The Background Noise Of Defiance verseInstead of Luke inadvertently revealing to his anonymous holonet friend that his last name is Skywalker, thus revealing himself as the son of said holonet friend (yes, Darth Vader has a Space Twitter), he keeps mum and instead ta
The Greatest Harvest
by Wolven_Spirits
Shen Yuan found the perfect way to live a low-key, relaxing life in the post-canon world of PIDW: by becoming a farmer!Raise cool plants, and live a quiet life writing herbariums with his brother. So why in the world were all these troublesome figures suddenly appearing at his gate??This wasn’t why
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
we prophesy in part
by eclipturesque
Ilya hasn’t planned on meeting Shane’s parents after only three days at the cottage. He sure as hell hasn’t planned on dying that very same day, only to wake up in his childhood home in Moscow. The year is 2004, he’s twelve again, and his mother is still alive.
nine lives (and a tenth for good behavior)
by sarcastic_fina
Three years ago, Bonnie Bennett died. After waking up in an unmarked grave, she returns to the land of the living with a whole lot of questions. Like how did she die? Who brought her back? Where is Damon? And how long until the cruel grip of Death comes for her again?
Prompted
by wannaliveindeansdimples
A place for my collection of short to medium fics based on prompts
Your Best American Girl
by the_ULTIMATE_ratLord
5 years after the down fall of Claw, Suzuki Toichiro gets a second chance thanks to Reigen Arataka.But he never expected to fall in love with him.
A Second Chance
by LuckyCasca
Guts has a run in with a strange fairy stuck in a rift. The fairy tries to rescue herself but ends up taking a broken Guts with her and they end up in a place all too familiar. Guts has been given another chance to change the course of fate for himself and his loved ones. However, is it possible to
The Years Between Us
by orphan_account
They were never meant to cross paths again—not after what happened that night. But fate, unfinished feelings, and the quiet ache of time pull Seungmin and Mina back into each other’s orbit.Mina, a girl rebuilt from the pieces of a past she never asked for, carries her family’s burdens and her own fr
Re: Odyssey Series The Curse of the Golden Apple
by mjtanner
Eris, the goddess of chaos, hates Odysseus of Ithaca for ending the Trojan War. It was her war. She started it. Who is this nobody to end it? She's furious that he's made it home to Ithaca after 20 years of torment, and she'll stop at nothing to make sure he never gets to live happily ever after. Th
Lingering Ghosts (finnick odair)
by fawnsangel
"I am the echo of your shadow." In the industrial and bleak corner of Eight, Sophia Violet Grover lived as a Capitol darling, her punishment for surviving the games .She learned to survive by becoming something else: a million layers of not her to keep herself alive. Sophia Violet Grover another nai
parallax
by virshiral
Solas and Felassan were best friends in grad school - then Solas was asked to serve as an anonymous peer reviewer for Felassan's first grant application. The report didn't stay anonymous for long, and they haven't spoken since. Four years later, Solas is exhausted and overworked and has just written
Willing and Able
by loveraging
Seven years ago, Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson wrote love letters to each other and set them to be delivered in the future. Seven years later, the letters arrive. The only problem? They haven't spoken to each other in over five years. Also, they hate each other. Also, they got into a fistfight at
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About Second Chances
Former lovers or missed connections get another opportunity at romance. Past mistakes are confronted and love gets a chance to bloom again.
The hope of redemption, the maturity that comes with experience, and the satisfaction of love finally working out.
Common scenarios: High school sweethearts reuniting, divorced couples reconciling, missed timing finally aligning.
About This List
This list of 14short Second Chances fanfics spans 380,181 total words. Kudos range from 1 on the newest entries to 18,395 on the most established. 50% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Mature (5 of 14 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Second Chances · Time Travel.
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