NGC Recs Romantic Friction: Foes & Frenemies
Stories where characters are enemies, rivals, or at least frenemies of each other... yet in spite of their friction or conflict, they fall in love anyway. (So, yes, it can be Enemies to Lovers, but simple Belligerent Sexual Tension would be a relevant tag. It’s not strictly for people who would literally kick each other off a cliff if they could, or have tried to in the past.)
Some pairings may have canonical conflict/friction with each other, so I will probably be more selective about which fics end up here and try to focus on fics where the conflict is stronger.
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Jingwei Tries To Fill the Sea by kianspo
Fandoms: 天官赐福 - 墨香铜臭 | Tiān Guān Cì Fú - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 天官赐福 | Heaven Official's Blessing (Cartoon)
30 Jul 2024
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'After I Married A Disabled War God As My Concubine' AU. Hua Cheng, the undefeatable general of Yong'an army, is captured by Xianle forces at last. His punishment is to have his legs and meridians broken and be married off as a concubine to the notoriously spoiled and rotten crown prince. Hua Cheng has no desire to die. He needs to find out who betrayed him and then to erase the corrupt kingdom of Xianle off the map. For that, he has to survive this mockery of a marriage first.
But is the prince really everything they say he is?
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Bookmarked by SmuttyGhostCat (NeonGhostCat)
20 Oct 2024
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If a dying enemy knocked on your door, would you tell them to fuck off or would you try to help them?
When it happens to Harry, he is dead set on the former — until Malfoy falls unconscious right there on Harry’s doorstep and changes Harry’s life forever.
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- Part 3 of Seven Shades of Magic
- Part 3 of Drarrelie's Seven Shades of Drarry contributions
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Bookmarked by SmuttyGhostCat (NeonGhostCat)
14 Dec 2023
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Draco found the nest down in the Manor’s cellars, while he was clearing them out.
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- Part 7 of Harry Potter works
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01 Mar 2025
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Tea and No Sympathy by who_la_hoop for disapparater
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
23 Dec 2014
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It's Potter's fault, of course, that Draco finds himself trapped in the same twenty-four-hour period, repeating itself over and over again. It's been nearly a year since the unpleasant business at Hogwarts, and Draco's getting on with his life quite nicely, thank you, until Harry sodding Potter steps in and ruins it all, just like always. At first, though, the time loop seems liberating. For the first time in his life, he can do anything, say anything, be anything, without consequence. But the more Draco repeats the day, the more he realises the uncomfortable truth: he's falling head over heels for the speccy git. And suddenly, the time loop feels like a trap. For how can he ever get Harry to love him back when time is, quite literally, against him?
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- 11/11
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07 Jun 2022
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Illya kills an American spy in Zurich.
Three days later, he’s staring into the face of a dead man standing in his hotel room.