heartunprepared

For all those new to the fanfiction scene, below is a list of stories that are considered to be of high quality and “must reads” to start you off on your journey through the wonderful land of fanfiction. The list is broken up into the relevant categories, and then further broken up into groups depending on whether the story has been completed, in the process of being written (and the frequency of updates/last time updated), or just oneshots. I would like to point out four things about the following list of stories.

1. All stories below are there because we think they are of high quality and are ones you should definitely check out. Regardless of how old the story is or how frequently the story is updated; they’re all good stories, so don’t just skip over all the stories that aren’t frequently updated, because I promise that you will be missing out on an amazing story. We wouldn't have listed the story if it wasn't.
2. Several of the stories have a strike through them. This means that at the current time the story is unavailable to be read, but will be up again at some point.
3. Whilst the list below is quite extensive, that does not mean that it contains every single high quality, “must read” story out there. You might find that you favor different writing styles to the ones listed below, in which case I’d suggest that the best way to find other stories you might like is to check out the favorite authors and stories listed by the authors that you do like. There are other ways of finding good stories, so don’t think that just because the story isn’t listed below, that it isn’t a good story.
4. Some of the stories that were previously listed in the opening post (OP) have been deleted because they no longer existed on the server they had been posted on, or led to an inconclusive place (i.e. FanFiction.Net deleted the story, it led to a locked LiveJournal page, so on and so forth). No offense is made to be taken from the deletion. If you remember your story being one of the ones that was deleted and have since posted it elsewhere, share it with the thread, and further steps can be taken from there.

But enough with that, happy reading everyone! Hope to see you all dropping by with comments about your favorite stories soon!

17 Again (Mike(Mark)/Scarlet):

Completed:

• 17 Again: Scarlett’s Story
• The Morning After

Work In Progress/Incomplete:

• A Mother, My Wife
• Firsts
• Priority

Oneshots:

• Love Can Be Enough by Dani (Pandora147)
• Ghosts in the Backyard
• Night Out

Hairspray (Link/Tracy):

Completed:

• After the Beat
• Like a Song in the Soul
• In Need of a Miracle
• A Song for Sweetness by Amber (inlovewithbroadway226)

Work In Progress/Incomplete:

Last updated over 12 months ago:

• Encore: Hairspray 2
• Confessions of a Teenage Crooner
• Love Was Made for Me and You - Rated M
• Beautiful Liars - Rated M

Last updated under 12 months ago:

• Learn You Inside Out - Rated M
• Moments in Time

Oneshots:

• Peanut Butter by Pash (princess_narnia)
• Pretty in Pink by Pash (princess_narnia)
• Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me by Pash (princess_narnia)
• The Yearbook
• Affirmation
• Waiting For Tracy - Rated M
• Softest Sound of Falling Rain - Rated M
• Brougham Rhapsody - Rated M
• Orange Juice - Rated M
• Rescues Me
• Flowering
• Papa
• El Dorado
• The Gladiator - Rated M
• Christmas Gifts
• All I Want for Christmas - Rated M
• I’ll Wait for You
• Like a Song in the Soul: Push, an M rated chapter within Like a Song in the Soul
• Beauty
• Under My Skin - Rated M
• It’s a Beautiful Thing
• Swing
• An Afternoon with the Turnblads - Rated M
• Learning Curves
• LYIO: Summer Days, a flashback within Learn You Inside Out
• Lap Dance - Rated M
• Of Scissors and Needles

High School Musical (Troy/Gabriella):

Completed:

• Once & Again - All The Right Moves - Slips & Tangles - All are rated M
• Out of Our Control
• The Wedding Planner
• Chemicals React
• The Cold Hard Truth
• Waiting
• Older Guy - Rated M
• Unafraid - A Cake For Mommy - Amazing - by Jill (Fearlessღ)
• Finding What’s Perfect
• Ring of Revenge
• Some Like It Hot
• In Love with Two? by Lo (L0velie)
• Both Hands
• Police Tape
• Start of Something New
• Series of Steps
• Searching for What was Missing - Here And Now - Even Now
• Sunsets & Swelling Hearts
• Convincing You To Fall
• The Girl Next Door by Jule (~Jewel~)
• Comprehend
• Insatiable - Rated M
• One Step At A Time
• All At Once
• Rocker Dude
• My Musical Girl
• If Only for a Moment by Jule (~Jewel~)
• Halfway To Enough
• Can't Just be Friends by Kelly (Time4Love)
• More Than One
• Never in my Wildest Dreams by Rach (rachrep) - Rated M
• Battle of the Sexes - Rated M
• Just One Night
• Here With You
• Masked Affection
• Don't Stop The Feeling by Kelly (Time4Love) - Rated M
• With Love
• Who Knew?
• Just a Click Away
• Best of Me
• Thursday, Prestige by Rach (rachrep) - Rated M
• Dancing Changes You
• Deep
• Distractions - Rated M
• Finding Love - Rated M
• Crash Into You by Kelli (MineyMouse14)
• Play It My Way, the sequel to Here With You, by Dani (pandora147) - Rated M
• Soulmates
• It Was More Than a Letter by Lo (L0velie)
• Husband and Wife
• Never Let Go by Kelly (Time4Love) - Rated M
• A First For Everything
• What happened in Vegas?
• Home Sweet Home
• Army Wives
• Game Over - Rated M
• Ghost of a Good Thing by Michie (Michelle.) - Rated M
• It's Not Over - Rated M
• Engaged Desire by Rach (rachrep) - Rated M
• Collide by Michie (Michelle.) - Rated M
• All I'll Ever Ask - Rated M
• Unexpected - Rated M
• The Someday Trilogy: Once Upon a Time by Dani (pandora147) - Rated M
• A Pinkie Promise
• Life In a Glass House by Kelli (MineyMouse14)
• Forgetting to Love by Kelly (Time4Love) - Rated M
• Broken by Holly (hollybaggins)
• Looking Back to Move Forward - Rated M
• Think Twice - Rated M
• Everything
• Living the Dream by Lynn (didumissmeofcourseudid) - Rated M
• Time Changes Everything by Kelly (Time4Love) - Rated M
• Melting the Ice
• All I Want cowritten by Stace (Stace29), Corri (firefly24) and Rin (Rin.)
• Inevitable by Kate (kat1estone)
• The Moments That Count
• Cat and Mouse
• We Said Always by Rach (rachrep) - Rated M
• We Love Pretending
• Since Kindergarten
• Feel It - Rated M
• Follow Through
• I'll Email You
• All of the Above
• Your Anything
• Seven Wonders
• Oasis - Rated M
• Lightning Only Strikes Once by Kelly (Time4Love) - Rated M
• Down The Aisle, sequel to We Love Pretending
• What I Love About You
• Meant to Live - Rated M
• With My Life by Kelly (Time4Love) - Rated M
• Fate Works in Strange Ways
• The Distance Between Us
• Parallel Currents by Van (~Van~)
• Love, Hate, Hope - Rated M
• Mrs Someone - Rated M
• You're Mine Forever - Rated M
• Broken Dream - Rated M
• HSM2 and a Half - Rated M
• Keeping Us a Secret
• Back in the Day
• G Force by Rach (rachrep) - Rated M
• Saving Gabriella
• Nights Like These
• Inadvertent Target by Kate (kat1estone) - Rated M
• A Different Affair – Rated M
• Dreams or Desire

Work In Progress/Incomplete:

Last updated over 12 months ago:

• Take Me, Baby, or Leave Me
• Burgers, Brats and Boomerangs
• Concocting Chemistry
• The Bolton's Must Die
• It’s In The Genes
• In True Wildcat Fashion
• Two Hearts, One Status Quo
• Just The Little Things by Clara (clara4ever)
• Shattered Perfection
• Out of My Element, the sequel to Chemicals React
• Falling Through Time
• Friday Night Lights
• When The Stars Go Blue by Rachel (sapphires)
• Accepting the Inevitable
• Be Who We Are
• Your Pulse is my Heartbeat
• She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
• Burning
• It's Always the Quiet Ones
• Open Your Eyes by Sophia (*~Sophia~*)
• Back to You
• Stolen
• A Dream When I'm Not Sleeping by Holly (hollybaggins) - Rated M
• From Me To You
• Trust Your Opposite - Rated M

Last updated over 6 months ago:

• Crash Reality Check
• ...Because I Want You by Anne (Anneris) - Rated M
• How Sweet It Is
• Live and Let Spy cowritten by Holly (hollybaggins)
• The Mad Season - Rated M
• Only In My Dreams - Rated M
• My Best Friend’s Hot! cowritten by Kylie (TwinkletoeSuperstar) - Rated M

Usually updated within 3-6 months:

• East High Story
• Intensity
• Use My Shoulder by Lo (L0velie)
• Emotions Unaccounted For
• Diary of a Nerd
• A Picture Tells a Thousand Words
• You, Me and the Stars
• Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking by Kelli (MineyMouse14)
• In the Air
• In Your Eyes - Rated M
• Just Like a Tonne of Bricks by Holly (hollybaggins)
• White Oleander - Rated M
• Dapples with Daddy
• Chosen - by Dani (pandora147) - Rated M
• Like Brother and Sister
• Between the Lines
• White Horse
• Tis the Season
• Succumb by Jordyn (Jordyn1234567) - Rated M
• A Moment of Madness by Lynn (didumissmeofcourseudid) - Rated M
• Free for Life - Rated M
• Lifetime Piling Up, the sequel to Life In a Glass House by Kelli (MineyMouse14)

Usually updated within 3 months:

• Dangerous Fascination - Rated M
• Between the Lines by Jill (Fearlessღ) - Rated M
• My Guys
• Love Never Ends
• Brief Encounter by Lynn (didumissmeofcourseudid) - Rated M
• Star Crossed by Holly (hollybaggins)
• Body Flow - Rated M
• Disguised Affection cowritten by Corri (firefly24) - Rated M
• Currents
• Open for Business by Lynn (didumissmeofcourseudid) - Rated M
• More Than Passion by Mich (veganation) - Rated M
• Living the Dream - Rated M
• The Date Doctor
• Feel This
• Not As Planned by Liisa (RCarros)
• You're Stuck With Me - Rated M
• Trading Letters for Desire cowritten by Corri (firefly24)
• Kismet by Kylie (TwinkletoeSuperstar) - Rated M
• When Love & Hate Collide - Rated M
• Like Lightning - Rated M
• Like Catching Lightening by Nel (Nelmichelle xo)
• At the Edge of a Petal
• Dynamite Kid and the Green Butterfly
• Thank That Star, continuation of Broken by Holly (hollybaggins)
• Running to a Stand Still by Michie (Michelle.) - Rated M
• This Moment, part of The Someday Trilogy by Dani (pandora147) - Rated M
• Missing Pieces - continuation of Collide, by Michie (Michelle.) - Rated M
• Rushes
• All You Need is Love - Rated M
• This Is Your Life by Kait (kebarrera)
• Flashover – Rated M
• Can’t Be More Than This
• Finding Your Way Back Home
• Every Man for Himself by Jordyn (Jordyn1234567) - Rated M
• Secret Service
• Murphy's Law
• I Know What It's Like - Rated M
• Just Friends by Nikki (LAchick) - Rated M
• An Apple A Day by Rach (rachrep) - Rated M
• It's Always Been You by Rach (rachrep) - Rated M
• Inevitably Lovable by Corrie (ReachForThemStars)
• Famously in Love
• Heart of the Matter
• In Pieces by Jordyn (Jordyn1234567) - Rated M
• Missing Pieces
• The World As We Know It, the sequel to Meant to Live
• The Last Shot
• Fall Like Shooting Stars by Heat (heat.)
• Protecting Fate by Kelly (Time4Love) - Rated M
• The Definition of Us by Van (~Van~)
• The Gin Mill
• Our Sweet Decline
• You Make Me Feel So Young, series of related oneshots
• Inked - Rated M
• Oh, Kelsi
• Snowing Heart Flakes – Rated M
• Mirror for the Sun by Stace (Stace29) – Rated M
• Let The Best Man Win – Rated M
• Between You & Me by Van (~Van~)
• Raindrops on Roses, a series of related drabbles by Nel (Nelmichelle xo)
• I’ll Be There For You, sequel to Seven Wonders
• Narrative Attraction – Rated M
• With Me Through Adversity
• Tumbling Etceteras, sequel to Inevitable, by Kate (kat1estone)
• Dirty Dancing
• Nights Like These 2: A New Beginning, sequel to Nights Like These
• The Perfect Guy
• The Beginning of Forever, sequel to All the Kings Horses, by Marianne (sunnycougar)
• Bittersweet Love by Nel (nelmichelle xo)

Oneshots:

• Until Death Do Us Part
• Romance Challenge HSM Style
• Creating Space Between Us
• Old Tricks, New Intentions
• The Perfect Gift
• A Wink Satisfies Me
• A Christmas Story
• The Kissing Booth
• An Impromptu Midnight Meeting
• One Big Heart
• How Was Your Flight?
• A Flower For Your Troubles
• All Things Come to an End
• Personal Space
• By Moonlight
• Firsts - Series of oneshots
• Baking
• School Musical Third Wheel
• Be Mine
• Your New Beautiful
• Just a Kiss
• One Shots and Songfics, a series of oneshots and songfics
• Kaleidoscope of Contradictions, a series of one-shots occurring between the stories Chemicals React and Out of My Element
• Let the Rain
• The Bet
• Caesar's Brutus
• Fingers Intertwined, a series of oneshots
• Uncomfortable
• There You'll Be
• Pros and Cons
• Gate C24
• What Happened to Us?
• Rush, a series of oneshots
• Three Little Words
• Unfortunate Sighting
• Talk is Anything but Cheap, a series of oneshots
• The Edification of Troy Bolton
• Beneath the Mistletoe
• The Way It Should Be - Never Felt More Complete
• The Little Things
• Interludes, a series of M rated oneshots
• Strangers, The Spice of Life - Rated M
• Bleeding Love
• Library Love
• The Anniversary Gift
• We Weren't Crazy
• Please Say
• Unexpected
• You Are the Pants in Me
• Shooting for the Stars cowritten by Holly (hollybaggins) - Rated M
• His Dream Girl by Liisa (RCarros)
• The Horizontal Movie Mambo - Rated M
• Can't Buy Me Love
• Blister - Rated M
• Blame it on the hormones - Rated M
• Challenge Accepted
• The Zipper - Rated M
• Confessions
• Sneak Out
• M&M’s
• Homecoming - Rated M
• Authentic Corporeal Real by Dani (pandora147)
• Little Details
• Reunion
• The Shirt Thief
• 2:47 AM
• Of Diamond Rings and Three Letter Words, a series of oneshots
• Eighteen Days
• In Uniform by Stace (Stace29) - Rated M
• Equifinality by Dani (pandora147)
• Greatest Gift of All by Kylie (TwinkletoeSuperstar)
• Gift from an Angel by Lynn (didumissmeofcourseudid) - Rated M
• Should've Said - Rated M
• Beautiful
• Somebody
• Nightmares
• Definitely Him
• Taken Room
• Laundry Day - Rated M
• Beyond My Control by Dani (pandora147) - Rated M
• Texting
• Unforgettable
• You and Me
• Asphyxiation by Marianne (sunnycouger)
• To Be Oh So Officially Official by Holly (hollybaggins)
• Lost and Hopeless
• Young Love at its Truest
• I’m Yours by Tamy (WhereverYouAre)
• Always by Tamy (WhereverYouAre)- Rated M

The Suite Life (Trevor/Corrie):

Completed:

• Back Where We Belong by Nikka (bokayjunkie)
• Coming Undone by Nikka (bokayjunkie)
• Feels Like Love by Jill (Fearlessღ)
• No Mercy by Jill (Fearlessღ)
• Accidentally in Like by Nikka (bokayjunkie)
• An Adventure by Nikka (bokayjunkie)

Work In Progress/Incomplete:

Last updated over 12 months ago:

• The Parent Trap

Usually updated within 3-6 months:

• Notice Me

Oneshots:

• Someday Soon - Someday is Today
• Only Option
• Math Just Got Exciting
• So Sweet by Nikka (bokayjunkie)
• Addicted to You
• His Corrie
• A Night to Remember by Nikka (bokayjunkie)

Zac/Nikki:

Completed:

• 1, 2, 3, 4, Tell Me That You Love Me More - Rated M
• Once Upon A Dream - Rated M

Work in Progress:

• The Road that Got Us Here
• Who Better To Love
• The Adventures of Zachary & Nicole

Oneshots:

• Tell Me A Story
• The Infamous Cheesebake

Zac/Vanessa:

Completed:

• The Only Reason by Jill (Fearlessღ) - Rated M
• 24
• A Lifetime of Love - Rated M
• More than Words by Kate (kat1estone) - Rated M

Work In Progress/Incomplete:

Last updated over 6 months ago:

• So Jessica Alba Fantastic by Jill (Fearlessღ)
• Puppy Love No More - Rated M
• Coping with the Unexpected by Anne (Anneris)
• I Feel Sparks by Holly (hollybaggins)

Usually updated within 3 months:

• Always Together by Nikki (LAchick)
• To Be With You by Nikka (bokayjunkie)
• Falling Into You, a series of connected oneshots chronicling Zac and Vanessa's relationship by Kate (kat1estone) - Rated M
• Memory Loss
• Going Back - Rated M

Oneshots:

• The Completely Dull and Uneventful Life Of by Holly (hollybaggins)
• Don't Forget My Slippers
• All Jazzed Up
• Shades of Success by Michie (Michelle.)
• The Real Deal by Michie (Michelle.)
• Scenes from a Marriage by Michie (Michelle.)
• How Palm Springs Changed it's Name by Cris (crisTM) - Rated M
• He Shoots, She Scores! by Cris (crisTM) - Rated M
• If That's Ok With You by Nikka (bokayjunkie)
• Another 3 + Forever by Taylor (Its_Tay37
• Forever With You
• Once upon a Dream by Kate (kat1estone)
• I Know Him!
• An Efron Christmas

The Places we read: Ficwad, FanFictionNet & The Music in Me

kirsalessi

New thread!

Thanks Dani!

kat1estone

Thank you, Dani! Love this title


And just Why is my head lost in a world of psychoanalysis and literary theory? Why can't my degree be about Troy and Gabriella?


Any selfless authors willing to provide something to help me procrastinate will be appropriately rewarded

heartunprepared

You're welcome guys Let me know if there is anything you want added/changed/updated in the OP.

I ask myself this question every day.

kirsalessi

I'd take majoring in fanfiction.

liv3inlov3

Aww Kate
Perhaps new stories to cheer you up although the other one is quite depressing

Fight with Food, a High School Musical fanfic - FanFiction.Net
Summary: The seniors at East High want to spend their last day of high school making sure everyone remembers them and a food fight is exactly what will do it. Of course, this all started because of Troy Bolton and Chad Danforth.

Flight 447, a High School Musical fanfic - FanFiction.Net
Flight 447. Disappeared. Modern airliners do not just go missing. They don't just disappear. How ironically ****ed up it all was. That she should lose the one thing she had held so tightly onto. Fate was playing her, and what a cruel game it was.

heartunprepared

Just gonna put this here again to make sure no one misses it.

New fic from hsm07

Time Warp, a High School Musical fanfic - FanFiction.Net

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There is a Bachelor of Creative Writing at a uni in Brisbane, I wonder if they have FanFiction as a major within that

MermaidRam

Hey, what about ones with Troy/Sharpay, Troy/Kelsi, & Troy/Taylor?

scabbyabby

a new thread! #30 as well. A big for Zaccy's thread!
A Sound of Music/Nel inspired title.

I really need to stop this sleeping business, threads being killed when I'm not around is unacceptable.

So, can we get anymore updates for our pretty new thread?

lostandinsecure

New thread, thanks Dani.
New story aswell.

I'm dying for a PF update.

WhereverYouAre_

Thanks for the new thread, Dani!

I've found some time to come on and write... not going too well though, as my iPhone is playing up.

Updates? Pretty please with Troy and Gabriella on top!

scabbyabby

Aww Tamy

Hopefully your juices will start flowing and people will answer you update please.

WhereverYouAre_

Abby!

yeah, I'm thinking I need do this fic differently to how I planned, and start in the action, so to speak!

I know! I mean, come on authors! How can you resist Troy and Gabriella on top of a beautiful, glistening

scabbyabby

I say write whatever springs to mind first. Getting something jotted down feels more fulfilling than staring at nothing.

I'm a planner but with writing it doesn't matter if there is a plan written because some stories have a mind of their own.

WhereverYouAre_

It's quite amusing to be honest, because there I was unhappily attempting to get out what I was trying to say, and it just wasn't working. So, I opened a fresh page of OpenOffice, and just typed whatever sprang to mind, and now I have a random paragraph, that somehow seems to fit in with said "not-as-perfectly-planned-as-I-would-like-it-to-be" fic.