Because I am complete trash for Soulmate AUs, I decided to try and make a post about them. Hope you guys like it!
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Soulmate AUs involving measurement
[ Time // Countdown ]
Where for whatever reason, your clock is stuck/frozen/it’s
not counting down anymore but it hasn’t reached 00:00:00:00 yet and you’re
freaking out because this hasn’t happened to anyone before.
Reverse one where the clock starts at 00:00:00:00 from the
moment you’re born and stops counting the moment you meet your soulmate, so it’s
like a reminder that “It took me 19 years, 11 months, 20 hours, and 13 seconds
to meet you, you fuck, and you do it by spilling coffee on me, thanks, now my
laptop’s broken—what, you’re buying me a new one? Okay.”
Your soulmate clock is actually a countdown of how long your
soulmate has left to live and holy shit you have to find your soulmate soon
because your clock says you have three months left (for angst maybe).
Alternate version of above where your clock is a countdown
of how long you and your soulmate have left to find each other or else you both
will die because the universe is sadistic af—and if you find your soulmate you
get to live longer.
Another alternate version of above where you and your soulmate’s clocks have each other’s life spans on it but you can give your time to your soulmate if you want to so they can live longer. Again, because the universe is sadistic af.
The soulmate clock is actually something breakable and you
accidentally break yours or vice versa.
Alternate version of above where someone purposely breaks
their soulmate clock so they can be with someone they fell in love with that
isn’t their soulmate/they are strongly opposed to the whole soulmate idea and
want to defy the system.
Your clock is counting down too fast (as opposed to everyone
else’s) and you have no idea what’s going on anymore.
It’s been a busy week and after finally having some time to
yourself, you just happened to look at your soulmate clock and see that it’s already
at 00:00:00:00 and you don’t know when that happened because you don’t
religiously check your clock either.
Your soulmate clock is actually telling you what time it is
where your soulmate is currently at (could include AM/PM/time zones or not, for
example 3:46:31 MDT).
I already wrote something similar to this but a countdown au where your soulmate has died and you two still happen to meet each other (one is a ghost, one is alive) and the other finds peace after the meeting.
[ Distance ]
Where you actually have a compass instead of a clock, and it leads you to where your soulmate should be.
✖ Soulmate AUs involving colors
[ Eyes ]
Reverse colors AU where you can see in color but once you
meet/marry your soulmate your world turns black and white, this is how people
can tell that married couples really love each other because they’re willing to
give up a world of colors for their soulmate. If your soulmate dies you get to
see color again.
Between you and your soulmate, only one of you can see other
colors and the other sees black and white. Like you can see all the other
colors except black/white/grays, and the other one can only see in black/white/grays.
If you two meet, you’ll get to see all the colors.
You can see colors but realize that recently, with each
passing day, your world of colors is becoming a little duller and you’re
panicking because you don’t know what’s going on, or what it means, or if your
soulmate is okay.
You can see colors and your world turns black and white but
it doesn’t necessarily have to mean your soulmate is dead. There can be other
factors that will result in a black and white world like losing eyesight, but
you don’t know that.
You will be able to see the world in full color once you
meet your soulmate but until then, you can only see the world in the eye color
of your soulmate. However, you can alter the color your soulmate can see, for
example, by wearing contact lenses. Like if you wear blue contact lenses, your soulmate
sees the world in blue, purple makes them see the world in purple and etc. And
you realize each day/week you get to see the world in a different color because
your soulmate is being all cute and would want you to see every color there is
and they probably have a huge collection of contact lenses by the time you both
meet.
Everyone is born color blind and their sights are fixed once
they meet their soulmate, or your soulmate is blind and you have the choice to give them
your sight, but it’s irreversible and if they die, they take your sight with
them.
[ Hair ]
If you dye your hair, your soulmate’s hair color changes as
well and you swear the moment you see your soulmate you will choke them because
you just woke up with your hair colored like a rainbow and it’s your first job
interview at a prestigious company what the fuck. Oh, and your best friend just
took a picture to post online and wait—what, how many likes is that?
Like the above AU but you only get highlights for the dyed color
of your soulmate’s hair. If your hair color returns to normal, it means your
soulmate has returned to their natural hair color too.
Related to the first two AUs—you decide to get revenge on
your soulmate by dying your hair the most absurd color combination you can
think of and the exchange goes back and forth until you meet each other. It can
be that if you meet, you two can dye your hair without affecting the other
anymore.
If your soulmate dyes their hair your fingernails turn into
that color (like nail polish?) and you’re hoping your soulmate isn’t bald by
the time you meet because it’s the fifth time the past two months that your
nails have changed colors.
If your soulmate dyes their hair, your eyes turn into that
color and you wish your soulmate wouldn’t change it again because you really like
this shade in your eyes.
✖ Soulmate AUs involving any kind of
body mark
[ Tattoos ]
You and your soulmate have identical tattoos on your wrist
about the date when you’ll meet each other. Place and time can be included (as
opposed to the countdown AUs).
Like the countdown AU, an alternate version where it’s your soulmate’s date of death that’s tattooed on your skin.
Where a tattoo isn’t set from the moment you’re born and whatever
tattoos your soulmate gets, you get it too and it’s all cool because you kind
of like the designs, except you also feel the pain of getting a tattoo and that
sucks because you’re kind of in the middle of an exam right now and it’s
getting harder to concentrate on your work.
You remove your tattoo because you hate the idea of someone
dictating who you can be with for the rest of your life and the person who’s
removing it happens to be your soulmate and they’re torn between letting you
know and just not bringing it up because you kind of went there because you
didn’t want a soulmate and vice versa.
Your tattoo is only half
complete and it completes itself the moment you find your soulmate, like if you had half a heart, you’d get a full
heart on your skin.
You’re not sure if the other half of your tattoo should end
with this person’s words, or that one’s—wait, I think it might end with the
phrase of that other person too. It’s just a very open-ended sentence…
You don’t have a name tattoo on your wrist, meaning you
probably don’t have a soulmate but you didn’t want your friends to tease you
about it so you had a tattoo made on your wrist about some name you picked at
random because your friend said she wanted to see it soon. And then somehow
there’s a person claiming to be your soulmate and they’re kind of cute and sweet so you
don’t know what to do.
Because the universe is sadistic af, it only gave you the
first letter of your soulmate’s name.
Your tattoo is like a mood ring, it changes its color depending on what your soulmate is feeling at the moment and you’re not sure exactly what rainbow means.
[ Scars ]
The only way for your scars to disappear is when your soulmate kisses them goodbye.
[ Others ]
Whatever mark you get on your skin your soulmate gets it too
so one day, you just kind of just get a
sharpie and start writing on your skin. You definitely didn’t expect to get a reply, but you did. Now it’s five in the morning and you’re just about covered in ink and this will be a pain to wash off later.
Imagine the above point but like, your soulmate maybe falls off a bike and you write on your arm what happened, and your soulmate replies to reassure you everything’s okay. Yes, you always carry a non-permanent marker to write on your skin at all times.
You accidentally fell down the stairs and broke a leg, oh,
and fate must love you because it seems your soulmate also broke the other leg (or something else) and whatever happens to the other, you feel it too
(no actual injury but you
feel the same amount of pain)
so now you’re in the
hospital and you happen to meet your soulmate in the waiting area.
Wait, imagine the above point but way into the future and you’re about to give birth and your soulmate must be cursing you and rolling on the floor by the operating table or the waiting area screaming murder and punching walls while crying. Also periods, yes periods. Okay, I’ll shut up now.
You can choose to take the pain of your soulmate away. Like if they’re sick or even if they just have a paper cut, you can choose to transfer the pain/sickness to yourself instead and they’ll heal. You can only do it once you meet them though, since what happens to them doesn’t happen to you, unless you transfer it to yourself.
Like above but what if the pain becomes two times or more worse. Imagine someone afraid of pain, and the other soulmate shouldering everything or maybe you can half the pain your soulmate feels if you can’t handle taking everything on your own.
Alternate version of above two points where you can also transfer your pain to your soulmate. Imagine the payback you can do.
✖ Soulmate AUs involving reincarnation
There wasn’t a soulmate system in place before, now it’s
about a thousand and more years later, and—wait, aren’t you the person that killed
me in that back alley?
Where you’re reborn with the
memories of your soulmate and you can only get your past memories if you meet
each other again in this lifetime.
You somehow find a diary/journal of your old self and read
through the contents of how you met your soulmate centuries ago.
Your soulmate was an artist of centuries ago, and currently,
you’re an art student at university (or not but you’re taking an arts class).
Then one day for a field trip, you go to a far-away museum and you just find yourself staring at what was your reflection, wearing different
clothes to fit the timeline but it was definitely a split-image of you, on one of the framed displays.
Alternate version of the above where your soulmate still was an
artist of centuries ago but you were there too, and you both were able to meet again in this lifetime. You don’t remember anything but you’d be at the museum, looking at the picture that looks like you with curiosity until your soulmate (who remembers everything) comes by and asks you what you think of the painting.
You’re
sent to an insane asylum because everyone is convinced you’ve lost your hold on
reality since you’re the only one that remembers everything from your past
life. Also, that new doctor is your soulmate.
Your soulmate from the past life is not your soulmate in this life.
You become a writer and your series of novels become extremely popular, but what they don’t know is that you’re retelling your previous life where certain circumstances made it so you and your soulmate did not end up together but your soulmate promises to be with you the next lifetime. At a book signing you open the book cover of a fan’s copy to see something written on the front page: “I’m sorry I took so long.”
You don’t remember anything from your previous life but your
soulmate does—your first meeting under the tree with the broken swing in summer,
the way you smiled when you met each other again at the start of the school year,
your eyes that were filled with such mirth and depth and beauty, even the way
your hands fit together like missing piece of a puzzle—everything, even the
gasps for air, the coarse little pleas, the way you stared with a look of
betrayal until your bright eyes became nothing but a dull sheet of color at the
hands encasing your neck in a vice grip.
You keep going to this place, and you always notice another person here too. Neither of you know that this is the place where the both of you had died/first met in the past life.
✖ Soulmate AUs involving dreams
Kind of a reincarnation AU where you’re losing the
distinction between reality and dreams because when you’re asleep, you actually
relive your past life, and you’re not sure if you’d much rather stay in the
past or in the present anymore.
If you’re on separate time zones, when you sleep, you see
the world in the eyes of your soulmate at present time. You see the world
through your soulmate’s eyes, what they’re eating, who they’re talking to, the
contents of the essay paper they’re trying to finish, but if they look into a mirror/reflective
surface/picture, the image is blurred so you don’t really have a clue what they
look like.
You see your soulmate in the eyes of their friend instead.
Imagine that soulmates just have this ability to dream
together/meet each other in your dreams regardless of whether or not you two
meet in real life. Your dreams could then be like a real-life video game, for example, you
two could be in a zombie-apocalypse type of dream and you both would try your
best to help each other out. If one gets bitten/dies you wake up and your
soulmate is there to tell you everything is alright or tease you how you couldn’t
shoot fast enough
and
then you’d both go back to sleep and maybe start round two.
Just like the above point, imagine how you and your soulmate
could pretty much be with each other even after you’d both gone to your
separate homes/shared bed.
Your soulmate is dead and the only way you two can see each
other again is in your dreams and everyday your soulmate tries to make sure you
know they love you and will always be there for you the moment you close your
eyes and retire for the night.
✖ Other Soulmate AUs
You and your soulmate can communicate with thoughts and your
soulmate happens to be a math major and you really need help with this test
right now.
On some days, whatever your soulmate thinks of is something you
can hear in your mind and your soulmate is currently reading really hardcore smut
fics and you’re trying so hard not to mess up this class presentation which
shoulders half your mark for the semester.
You get to share the same talents as your soulmate and you probably hit the jackpot because it’s the first time you’ve ever touched this instrument but you’re quite the professional at it, what? Shredding? I don’t know what that is but—oh… hey okay, I just did it I think.
The Red String of Fate exists, and only some people have the
ability to see the strings, and these people can actually cut strings and knot
other people’s strings in to alter the soulmate laws. Your best friend’s
wedding is tomorrow and they know you can see the string. They ask you to help
them defy the laws of the universe and help them be with the person they love
even though they know that’s not their soulmate. You know they love each other
so much so you help them, even though the person your best friend’s marrying/your
best friend is your soulmate.
How about like the colors AU except it can be your voice or your hearing instead that comes and goes when your soulmate dies. Imagine how your soulmate’s voice is the first and the last thing you’ll ever hear.
So I decided to just make a post of all the ideas I’ve thought of so far for each theme! I tried to think of things I haven’t read before but I’m pretty sure with tons of people out there, some of these are sure to exist already. I was also planning to write more but maybe next time, my heart hurts already from typing these ;////;)’
I hope you guys like it though
and please feel free to add on to this or make these into stories please I’ll love you forever and tag me please I’d love to read them.
++ justfandomwritings is queen of Soulmate AUs, and I’d like to dedicate this to her because she’s amazing and so much more
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- sirius finding lily one night in third year by the fire with a half burnt letter containing the words freak and please don’t even come home and sincerely petunia
- sirius telling lily about his family and regulus and the death eaters and how great prongs has been to him
- lily being the one to show sirius motorcycles and giving him a leather jacket for his fifteenth birthday
- sirius having to apologize to lily more than even remus during the incident in fifth year because he knew better and she knows he knew better and she’s so so disappointed
- lily freaking out and flooing to james’ the second she discovers sirius has run away from home, bringing him cookies and firewhiskey she pawned off marlene
- the three of them staying up until 3am just drinking and being and living, and lily realizing maybe potter isn’t so bad after all
- lily taking sirius - erm, padfoot - to a dog park near her muggle neighborhood
- sirius finding lily sobbing in the astronomy tower one night because they’re dead they’re dead and they were her parents and she can’t stop crying
- sirius realizing lily is in love with james before lily even does
- sirius convincing james to ask lily out again one last time their final year at hogwarts
- lily crying in the middle of a muggle grocery store when sirius suggests that maybe he could walk her down the aisle before taking his place as prongs’ best man
- sirius having just as many, if not more, lily stories to tell at their wedding than james stories
- lily suggesting padfoot be harry’s godfather before james can even get the words out of his mouth
- sirius always having lily’s back when they’re out on order missions without james, because he promised his best friend lily would be safe no matter what
- sirius thinking about that promise as he flies his bike to their home on october 31 saying please don’t be dead please please please
- lily thinking about how sirius will take the fall for this before the green light reaches her body
a/n:YOUTUBER!Y/N IS HERE!!!!!! this came from the anons, just like behind the bar did, and i simply HAD to deliver. y/n is a youtuber, harry is her editor, chaos ensues in nyc. a significant portion of this fic involves a lingerie shoot for For Love & Lemons, and you can find the sets that inspired y/n’s on their instagram! if you’d like to see their apartments (or rent them lol) here’s y/n’s and here’s harry’s. s/o to my betas, @harrystylescherry, @havethetimeofyourstyles, @bfharry, and @stellarboystyles ily!!!!
Against his best intentions, he ended up watching your videos for two hours, completely ignoring all of the work he had to do that day. He just couldn’t get enough of you, the sound of your voice in his ears, the sight of your face up-close to the camera in a makeup tutorial that held absolutely no interest for him beyond inspecting every inch of your face. The long lashes that fluttered when you chuckled, the adorable button nose with a barely visible scar on the bridge of it that you didn’t bother covering up.
He was on his second coffee by the time he switched back to his email, where your message still sat without a reply. Could he handle watching your videos on repeat, hearing your voice in his headphones for hours? Probably not. But at the same time, the prospect of it was far more enticing than the other work he had at the moment. So against his better judgement, he typed back an email saying he was interested and suggesting the following morning for their phone call. He pasted his usual rates into the body of the email so you had a primer before their call, and with that, he pushed himself away from his computer and stared at the screen.
Harry was so royally fucked.
or
Y/N is a YouTuber and she hires Harry as her editor
This was so cute and so hot idk what to do with myself I love them! I wonder what her followers think of Harry omg I’m sure they love him because he’s the sweetest 🥺
HI OMG THANK U
y/n’s followers are like obsessed with harry and think he’s adorable mainly because he like showers her with affection even on the vlog and does really stupid cute things for her all the time and like posts shit on his insta like 3 months ❤️ and a super adorable photo of her and IT MAKES THEM SOFT (as it does me)
I liiiiive for frat boy!!! Sorry this took so long I’ve just been so busy with work and I know it’s not the biggest list hope this still helps :) (also added this to my masterlist on fic recs it’s a pinned post to find it easier )
He’s not really sure how it happens. He’s not really sure what cruel twist of fate had them run into each other in Diagon Alley one evening, unplanned. He was just killing time, because Sirius is visiting his uncle and his parents are traveling. She was just killing time, because Petunia doesn’t speak to her and Severus wants her dead, in a manner of speaking, and Mary’s been traveling abroad as an early graduation gift from her parents.
James vaguely remembers his mother saying something about idle minds being a dangerous thing.
They were both just killing time. It wasn’t supposed to lead to this, to her letting him talk to her, to her letting him ask her for a drink. It wasn’t supposed to lead to this, his body pressed against hers, her hands tangled in his hair pulling him closer, closer, closer.
This isn’t how James Potter wanted to kiss Lily Evans for the first time. In daydreams and idle fantasies in times spent drawing out her initials on his parchment, he pictured her arms flung happily round his neck after a glorious victory on the itch or some homework assignment gone wonderfully astray. In fact, he’d been spending his idle summer time trying to map out just how he could convince her to do any one of those things, hyper aware of how precious little time they have together in school for her to even consider fancying him the same way he fancied her.
He didn’t picture Lily wandering alone, he never imagined the dullness that seemed to overcome her usually vivacious eyes, never fantasized about the way she looked at him straight on and asked, “Want to do something stupid?”
He, apparently, was something stupid.
So one moment they’re in the Leaky Cauldron and the next they’re stumbling into the alley way and she’s tearing at his shirt buttons and he’s learning that his hands like running through her hair much, much more than just rustling his own. Her hands are burning the skin across his shoulders, lightly scratching at his back while she’s being supported by her hips and the press of his body against hers into the brick wall. It is entirely, entirely too fast for him, but then Lily Evans moans into his mouth and he gets that same thrill he’s felt when flying a broom towards the ground again and again and again and can’t will himself to stop.
They do stop, though. Eventually. He isn’t losing anymore of his dignity crammed between two crates of bottles for the pub. James gets some amount of satisfaction from the fact that she’s as out of breath as he is, then even more satisfaction that in her glazed eyes, he can see life there for the first time all evening.
He stares at her, completely unable to think, knowing that no thought could make any amount of sense of this. But all Lily Evans does is stare back at him, her bright eyes flickering across his face looking for something he doesn’t know how to give her. Her lips turn up in a friendly sort of way.
“Thanks,” is what she says, like all he did was help her with an essay. Then she untangled herself from him and was gone.
When Jily writers do smut, they do it very well, so if you’ve never read any before here’s a list of fandom favourites to pick and choose from. “Smut” is usually just sex with little or no plot. “Lemon” is a stand alone, or a chapter, that includes a sex scene. A “Lime” is usually not as detailed smut or is suggestive stuff. One shots below will be categorised in this way, while all multichapters listed below will have explicit smut scenes, at intervals throughout the fic.
MULTICHAPTERS
Buried Treasure and Transmogrify, 20 chapters, complete -Lily Evans has spent years despising James Potter. He has spent just as long worshiping her. When seventh year pairs them Head Boy and Girl, each comes to realize that their judgment isn’t quite what they thought it was.
Kiss and Tell, 17 chapters, complete- The rules were simple. Provoke each other. Scream at each other. Snog each other. Do this as frequently as possible, but don’t ever, ever kiss and tell.
Love and Other Tragedies, 21 chapters, complete -“We don’t deserve her,” the Head Boy answered thoughtfully. “None of us do. Not even me. Not because she’s perfect. She’s not. Sometimes I think she’s even more disastrously flawed than the rest of us combined. And not because she’s beautiful, even though she is. Certainly not for being lovely because she never was.We don’t deserve her because she’s so much more than we’ll ever be”
Lust… or Love?, 30 chapters, complete -Who to say, who to say? Lily thought, looking around the nearly empty library. Someone Vince never talked to, someone she hardly spoke to—whom to pin the loss of her virginity on? “Potter,” Lily blurted out desperately.[…] Oh, hell. What did I just get myself into?
A Very Thin Line, 14 chapters, complete - Lily Evans can’t stand James Potter. James is determined to change Lily’s mind. A battle of wits ensues, proving the old adage ‘There is a very thin line between love and hate.
Every Other Midnight, 83 chapters, WIP- Professor Potter and Head Girl Lily Evans… The Dark Decline
Age of Inertia, 16 chapters, WIP -“You’re a pretty, innocent-looking young witch. You could get away with anything.” As an obituary writer and spy for the Order of the Phoenix, Lily looks to her past to keep the part about innocence at least partly true.
Before the Fawn, 52 chapters, WIP (abandoned?) - “You’re a pretty, innocent-looking young witch. You could get away with anything.” As an obituary writer and spy for the Order of the Phoenix, Lily looks to her past to keep the part about innocence at least partly true.
ONE SHOTS / DRABBLES / TWO SHOTS ETC.
SMUT:
Just In Time, one shot -
James and Lily have a quick shag before Potions.
One night stand (untitled), one shot - “So” He started to talk to her. She looked at him, lifting one eyebrow. “I think you’re hot.”“I think so too.” She agreed. “But what are you going to do about it?”
Kiss Just as Before, one shot -
It was supposed to be a one-night-stand, no-strings attached. But there’s something about James that Lily can’t help but connect with.
Control, one shot - In the beginning, you were all about control, both of you. - You aren’t playing the slightest bit of attention to the lesson, for two main reasons – one, you know the subject, and two, three of his fingers are inside you. The development of Lily and James’s physical relationship.
Here Let Me Help You With That, one shot - James comes back from Quidditch practise only to find that Lily is in need of assistance in… certain areas.
All Worked Up, one shot - Lily gets mad when James makes her all worked up for nothing. James can think of uses for said worked up-edness.
Stockings, one shot - “We’ll leave these on, yeah?” he told her, voice husky as he kissed the lace decorating her right thigh.
Heartbeat, one shot - Lily seeks James out after a Quidditch match.
Black Tie, one shot - It was all because of her note, now stored in his pocket and feeling as though it burned him through his trousers.His fingers gripped his drink at the thought of it.
So Close, one shot - “James looked at her and she felt like her skin had suddenly caught fire. ‘It’s got one hundred percent, absolutely nothing to do with your essay.’“: Featuring professor!James, student!Lily, and both parties’ abandonment of better judgment.
And The World Turns Slower, one shot -
Out-take from [the] multi-chapter fic “Turning Tables”. Overly romantic smuttiness.
LEMONS:
Birthday Surprise, one shot –
Lily gives James a surprise for his birthday.
Exercise In Stress Relief, one shot -
Lily Evans knew exactly where James Potter was going to be and she needed to be there with him.
Nightmares, one shot -
Lily’s been having nightmares.
Something of Note, one shot -
James receives a note from his girlfriend, asking him to meet her somewhere unusual.
Coercion and Competition, one shot -
Lily finds James after a particularly grueling Quidditch practice.
Hijacking, one shot - James and Lily start hijacking one another’s rounds in order to sneak off to entirely inappropriate Hogwarts locales.
Hot and Cold, one shot -
No one would believe it, but it actually hadn’t been his idea.
Auror Training, one shot -
Auror training is not quite what she expected.
Why Don’t You Make Me?, one shot - They’re fighting (again), and they’re forgetting why (again) because James is giving her The Look (again), and Lily is letting it get to her (again).
Him, three shot, and Her, two shot - He hopes she hates him. / It’s him. It’s always him.
New Year Resolutions, one shot -
She was so drunk, she could swear it. Nothing besides alcohol could make her act this way.
Stay The Night, two shot - The events of a single night can have very unexpected consequences.
Red Velvet Ribbon, one shot - It all starts with some teasing banter beneath spindly branches and green leaves, all bundled up in a red velvet ribbon.
The Hallway with the Large Windows, one shot- It was wrong, the way that he wanted her and the way that his fingers were ghosting over her hips like raindrops in a sun shower and the way that her breathing was heavy and the way that she was pressed too close too close to him in the broom closet.
LIMES:
Thunder and Lightning, one shot -
Lily’s terrified of storms and when Marlene and Alice are away for the Easter holidays and not there to help her deal with it, Lily has little choice but to seek comfort from other sources…
Fireside, one shot -
Trying to reassure Lily Evans that the world isn’t going to fall apart on his watch, James ends up revealing far more than he’d intended - and the emotions that have been bottled up for years are finally realised.
Happy Birthday, Mr. Potter, one shot -
In which James is oblivious, Remus plays matchmaker, Lily laughs at her boyfriend’s expense, Sirius drinks, and Peter loses chess.
A Moment, one shot -
It starts with an occasional glance from across the table during meals, a brush of his foot against yours under the table, the electric shock when his hand brushes yours during rounds. Next thing you know, you’re in his bed again.
After Hours, one shot - It was beautiful, just beautiful, but the best part would always, always be right after.
Purely Business, one shot - They didn’t do it out of love. They were not in love, nor did they want to be. They barely knew each other. None of this was romantic, not even close. What they had together was purely business.
yes!! those three are all amazing stories, seven times is one of the most well-written stories i’ve read! if you go into my fic recs page, i have a whole list of war/spies fics, but here are some of my personal favorites :)
when the bell tolls by everythursday: this is honestly my favorite dramione fanfic of all time. sage’s writing can be flowery at times, but this is just beautiful. draco is in azkaban, hermione’s working for the ministry, they need to hatch a plan to catch old death-eaters. everyone needs to read this. it’s long and wonderful and thrilling. 148k words, 20 chapters, complete.
the boy in the hammock by galfoy - galfoy writes really good war!fic. this one is set when the trio is on the run in DH. hermione has to make a quick exit, and what she finds is —-interesting—– to say the least. 61k words, 18 chapters, complete.
we learned the sea by luckei1 - draco, a top death eater, brings the order in on his plan to defeat voldemort. 201k words, 37 chapters, complete.
sugar water by everythursday: draco is on the run and forced to supply information to the order through hermione. 60k words, 7 chapters, complete.
turncoat by elizaye: draco switches sides and acts as an informant for the order during the war. he has one condition: he wants hermione to be the liaison. 256k words, 101 chapters, complete.
static by galfoy: I LOVE THIS fic. voldemort turns on draco and lucius, so they go to the order for help. hermione has to take them in. she’s just suffered a nervous breakdown. 75k words, 21 chapters, complete.
cruel and beautiful world by lena phoria: i loved this one. voldy-wins!au where hermione is stuck in a slave ring and draco takes her in. this has some darker themes than most of the other stories on here, so beware. voldywins!au. 422k words, 50 chapters, complete.
seven times by kerriclifford240879: seven times can mean a lifetime of change. 16k words, 7 chapters, complete.
isolation by bex-chan: he can’t leave the room. her room. and it’s all the order’s fault. confined to a small space with only the mudlblood for company, something’s going to give. maybe his sanity. maybe not. “there,” she spat. “now your blood’s filthy too!” 279k words, 48 chapters, complete.
bad faith by morrighan256: post-hogwarts tale of the war with voldemort and the unexpected contributions of one draco malfoy. 56k words, 24 chapters, complete.
the nietzche classes by beringae: the ministry takes action against the remaining prejudice in the wizarding society and asks hermione for help. “what do you want? money? power? name your price, granger. I’m not about to let pride get in my way when an azkaban sentence is on the line.” 45k words, 15 chapters, complete.
silencio by akashathekitty: in a whirlwind of pleasure and angst, can draco and hermione end up happy and together? or are they destined forever to keep their relationship physical - and above all - secret? 92k words, 15 chapters, complete.
the fallout by everythursday: hermione learns about growing up through the redemption of draco malfoy. 310k words, 49 chapters, complete.
cruel and beautiful world by lena phoria: after years of captivity, hermione granger fights her way onto the streets of voldemort’s london with only the knife in her pocket and the blood on her hands. There’s a checkpoint on every corner, a curfew enforced by voldemort’s most trusted followers, and the only way back to the boy who lived is through the death eater who let her be captured in the first place. 422k words, 50 chapters, complete.
the politician’s wife by pir8fancier: hermione hates draco in the springtime, hermione hates draco in the fall, hermione hates draco 24/7. 67k words, 14 chapters, complete.
AND MY ABSOLUTE FAVE
when the bell tolls by everythursday: as a dark revival begins to rise four years after the war, hermione granger is placed on the assignment of putting an end to them – and her first task is to recruit the ministry’s best hope and last option in the form of draco malfoy. 148k words, 20 chapters, complete.
