Here is just a list of fanfiction for Once Upon a Time that I really enjoyed and am recommending to people who can’t get enough and need to depend on the imagination of brilliant writers to get through those one-week hiatuses :)
I linked all the authors too because after looking through some of their fanfiction, they have some other ones that sound intriguing. Will be updated constantly!
-all the ships/stories are listed in alphabetical order-
Tips:
- Looking for something short? CTRL + F “oneshot”
- Don’t want to go through the painful process of starting a story and waiting for each chapter to be uploaded? CTRL + F “Completed“
- I marked any new fanfiction with “***”
- I listed the the ships as {female character} x {male charater} and FTW character first
Emma x Sheriff Graham
Author: BirdBrain711
Rating: T
Ch. / WC: 4 / 8k
Status: IncompleteSometimes the most dangerous thing of all is the promise of a happy ending. AU after 1.07
Author: Enchantable
Rating: K+
Ch. / WC: oneshot / 11k
Status: CompletedAfter saving a kingdom and becoming a princess, Emma finds the Huntsman in the woods. Can the advice of Rumpelstiltskin convince her to see if she and Graham are meant for each other? Or will the last piece of Emma’s happily ever after be lost forever?
Author: The Labyrinths Scribe
Rating: T
Ch. / WC: 4 / 13k
Status: IncompleteIn pursuit of her own happy ending, Emma all but declares war on Regina, and, as a result, begins to unknowingly right the wrongs done to the citizens of Storybrook and break the curse—but Regina is not going down without a fight.
Author: Many Impossible Things
Rating: T
Ch. / WC: 3 / 9k
Status: IncompleteWith a ten-year-old and a white wolf to guide her, Emma decides to make sure the queen has destroyed her last two hearts. 1x07 and beyond.
Author: LoserLikeSkeeter
Rating: T
Ch. / WC: 12 / 16k
Status: IncompleteHow far will Emma go to save Graham?
Rumpelstiltskin
Author: LinVolturi
Rating: T
Ch. / WC: 9 / 23k
Status: IncompleteAfter being rescued by a strange man, Gisela learns of a deal her made with him and she belongs to him. But what does he want with her? Even he doesn’t seem knows.
Snow / Mary x Charming / David
Author: Kookykrumbs
Rating: T
Ch. / WC: 14 / 42k
Status: CompletedDavid Nolan remembers his fairytale life, but no one else in Storybrook does. He goes to win back Mary Margaret who he now knows is his beloved Snow. But what happened at the Toll Bridge will make winning back his wife the challenge of his life.
Author: monroeslittle
Rating: K+
Ch. / WC: oneshot / 14k
Status: CompletedIt isn’t easy to find where he’s supposed to be. post-1x04
Author: sparklylulz
Rating: K
Ch. / WC: oneshot / 2k
Status: CompletedMaybe, just maybe, things would work out in the end.
Author: Alicester the Trickster
Rating: K+
Ch. /WC: oneshot / 1k
Status: CompletedHis family didn’t marry for love. And that never bothered him. Until Snow White came along.
Elevator Buttons and Morning Air
Author: sparklylulz
Rating: K
Ch. / WC: oneshot / 1k
Status: CompletedMary Margaret goes to visit David in the hospital following the events of “Snow Falls” and ends up walking away with hope.
For the First Time She Thought Twice
Author: Chloes-Cheese
Rating: K+
Ch. / WC: oneshot / 2k
Status: CompletedAfter the events of Snow Falls, Snow wrestles with some doubts about her future when she runs into Charming again. “She said that the ring didn’t suit her. She lied.” Spoilers for Snow Falls.
Hot Chocolate (it’s more a David / Prince Charming thing with cute little Mary x David scenes)
Author: KayleeThePete
Rating: T
Ch. / WC: 16 / 49k
Status: Incomplete“Well here was something he somehow remembered. He definitely like cinnamon in his hot chocolate.”
In the Shadow of the Toll Bridge
Author: Nikstlitslepmur
Rating: T
Ch. / WC: 10 / 47k
Status: IncompleteAU: Something DID jog the memory of our favorite prince that night…but it wasn’t the windmill…
Author:Chloes-Cheese
Rating: K+
Ch. / WC: oneshot / 1k
Status: Completed“I was staring at them but I didn’t care. I just couldn’t get the stupid thought out of my head. I couldn’t look away.” A fanfic of what was going through Mary Margaret’s mind in Snow Falls.
Author: Sarah Rose Serena
Rating: M
Ch. / WC: 6 / 44k
Status: CompletedIf there was one thing she had learned from her ravaged childhood, it was that to be fair was not as beneficial as to be fierce. All that Snow wants to know is this: Is it her pardon or her prison?
Author: KayleeThePete
Rating: T
Ch. / WC: 8 / 65k
Status: IncompleteAU, post-curse story. “I’m going to work to win your heart, Snow,” he told her, or maybe he was warning her. He saw her suck in a breath. “I want you and I want forever.”
Author: Enchantable
Rating: T
Ch. / WC: oneshot / 10k
Status: CompletedIt takes him four hours to pull himself from his coma, three weeks to learn how to walk again and three more to discover why falling in love with Mary Margaret Blanchard is as easy as breathing.
Author: Happy Endings For All
Rating: T
Ch. / WC: 7 / 14k
Status: Incomplete“It’s impossible, but he feels like she’s familiar to him. Maybe it’s because he’s tried to woo her before.” This is a love story, told in two different worlds.
Author:mamaXunicorn
Rating: T
Ch. / WC: 11 / 36k
Status: IncompleteHe didn’t remember anything…but he remembered her. Spoilers for 1x03
Author: anzafire
Rating: T
Ch. / WC: 2 / 11k
Status: IncompleteSnow longed for the day she could forever leave the forest and join her prince charming in their happily ever after, but for now, she’d simply have to remember a lesson she learned as a child; all good things to those who wait.
Author: Thepolymathwriter
Rating: T
Ch. / WC: 10 / 18k
Status: IncompleteOn a cold winter’s day, Mary Margaret experiences a flash of…well she’s not quite sure what it is. A vision? A hallucination? Or could it be a memory? She sets out to ease her confusion, leading to new revelations of the nature of Storybrooke itself.
Snow / Mary x Dr. Whale
Let Love In (it’s more of an eventual Mary x David.)
Author: AuburnFan01
Rating: T
Ch. / WC: 23 / 80k
Status: IncompleteAfter David chooses Kathryn, Mary Margaret finds herself deciding she can’t wait around forever, and starts a relationship with Dr. Whale, which David doesn’t apporive of, so he sets out to win her back. But is it too late?
