Seven-year-old Rey decides it’s her duty to annoy the crap out of Ben Solo every single day she’s alive.
Good - strangers to lovers AU.
He didn’t mean to start dating. People like Ben should never date—not unless they’re doing it with other people like Ben, which is still in no way a desirable scenario.
Initial - soulmate AU.
A Soulmate AU in which you are born with the initials of your soulmate marked on the nape of your neck. Easy enough, right? Except for two people who don’t use their real names.–Former One Shot that is now to be complete.
Conscience and unconciousness - memory loss AU.
“Who are you?” The man carrying the newspaper asked her, scrunching up his brow. He looked her up and down, completely befuddled. One by one, the other man, the doctor, and the stormy woman turned to look at her. They wore almost identical expressions of confusion. Rey blinked, speechlessly. The appropriate answer was “a waitress”, or “a stranger,” or even “a crazy, perpetually single woman who’s been hopelessly, inexplicably in love with your comatose son for weeks."Behind her, the nurse huffed, cocking her hip. As if it was obvious, she said, “She’s his fiancée.”
Comfort zones - porn star AU, strangers to lovers AU.
Rey worked two days a week at Plutt’s repair shop fixing people’s fancy phones and tablets, and two days a week at Maz’s Place bartending until all hours and still wasn’t making enough to afford both her rent and essentials - like soap. And food.She was really excited at Finn’s offer to get her a temp job on the film set he’d been working on - but his cagey demeanor was making her nervous.When pressed for details, Finn sighed and closed his eyes, holding up his hands in surrender.“Okay, I’m just gonna say it. It’s porn.”Going way outside of her comfort zone and knowing it might be a horrible idea - Rey takes the job.
A home at the end of the world - zombie apocalypse AU.
They’re just two strangers, alone together, after the end of the world. Looking for a place to call their own. There’s safety in numbers but Rey and her silent companion have more than just zombies to worry about in their search for a safe place.Zombie AU. Slow burn. Ben is mute and Rey can’t shut up.
The descendants - royalty AU, beauty and the beast retelling AU.
A curse said in rage and error has haunted the Skywalker family for fifty years. The man on the throne a mystery behind a mask.Rey could never anticipate just what role she would play in setting them all free.‘You need a teacher’'I need a teacher’ Rey nodded. She placed her hand in his. 'But so do you.'A Beauty and The Beast retelling in a galaxy far far away.
Coast to coast - modern force bond AU.
Rey lives in San Francisco, where she works as an engineer for a tech company. She recently moved in with her boyfriend Poe, but she’s been thinking about somebody else.Ben lives in New York, overseeing his own financial team in a high-end Manhattan office. He comes and goes as he pleases. He’s single, but far from lonely.They are connected through a bond neither of them can explain or control.They annoy the hell out of each other, but annoyance soon turns into something else.Rey has been dreaming of Ben and now thinks of him in ways she had not before. He has always wanted her, but thinks nothing will ever happen between the two.Maybe he’s wrong.
The lamb’s thirst - dystopia AU.
Rey thought she felt lonely in the presence of her two colleagues, but now that she’s actually alone, now that she’s the only Guard in charge of the station, in the middle of nowhere, she’s starting to have a better grasp of the concept of loneliness.
When she sees a silhouette walking far, far ahead on the side of the road one day, she first thinks she’s hallucinating.
Cream - cat AU. (this is one of my fav fics, please read it!)
After a long day at work, Rey lets a cat inside her apartment.
The food of love - ochestra AU. (my absolute favorite fic, cried 3 times)
Rey picked up her first violin at eleven, finding a mentor in conductor and former-violinist Luke Skywalker. With the First Chair up for grabs, Rey is thrust into the spotlight as the youngest violinist to take First Chair in the NY Pops.
But Kylo Ren - former violinist, former NY Pops cellist, formerly Ben Solo child prodigy - may take issue with Rey Nobody sitting in his grandfather’s chair.In other words, Orchestra AU.
The Force is music, but like, really good music. Ben and Rey are both child prodigies.
Rey and her terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year - Hogwarts AU.
Rey is eleven when her dreams come true and the Sorting Hat calls out “Gryffindor!”Or: The Reylo Hogwarts AU no one asked for.
Hanging by a moment - fake marriage AU.
There are many things that Ben could have tolerated about his parents’ divorce. That his mother had finally had it with his father’s borderline illegal—or rather, as he liked to put it, borderline legal—company, the shady activities it covered that would doubtlessly end her political career if a reporter got hold of them; that his father had finally had it with the way his mother nags, because sure, he’d thought it was hot twenty years ago, but he is in fact an adult who can actually keep his shit together—all that he would have gotten. He’d have been wrecked, but he’d have gotten it.His dad leaving his mom for a nineteen-year-old gold-digger though, and his mother not even putting up a fight—that had caught him by surprise.That had hurt.Be nice to her, Ben, his mother had said on the phone when he’d spoken to her for the first time in five years. She just lost your father.
Yeah. So did I.
Cupcake wars - bakery AU. (big recommendation!)
Entirely by accident, Rey ends up fucking someone who works for Snoke’s Cupcakery. She’s just blowing off steam. It doesn’t mean anything at all. It certainly won’t come back to bite her in the ass.
Sirens - mermaid AU.
When her kind frequented the oceans, mermaids spent hours polishing their scales and knotting their tresses with beads and shells to attract a mate. Rey can’t imagine such a tedious thing. She has no interest in a mate. Not that it matters since she is the last mermaid.One morning she wakes up to find a small offering left outside her home. She catches only a glimpse of alabaster and obsidian before the creature dives into the murky depths of the deep sea. On the edge of the drop-off, Rey is left with a choice: Stay in the light or follow into the dark.
Finding north - pirate AU.
Rey longs for nothing more than to find the family who abandoned her on an island in the Caribbean. So when she discovers a compass that supposedly will help her do just that, she poses as a man on a pirate ship and embarks on a perilous journey across the sea. But little does she know, it is the compass that leads her directly to the cursed pirate captain Kylo Ren.
OR in which Beauty and the Beast meets Pirates of the Caribbean.
Insufferable - college AU.
Rey Niima and Ben Solo are both student ambassadors at their university. This means that, unfortunately for Rey, they often get stuck with each other at various university events. Rey finds Ben Solo to be an insufferable snob until he begins to slowly prove to be otherwise.
Silver and shade - demon!Ben AU, strangers to lovers AU.
Ben Solo, bookstore owner and demon, is just trying to enjoy his freedom and keep hidden from the First Order, a radical group set on destroying the fragile peace between humans and supernatural beings. He’s managing pretty well, until private investigator Rey Jackson comes to him for help finding her friend who was kidnapped by the very organization that Ben’s been running from.Together, they infiltrate the First Order headquarters in search of her friend, only to discover that something much more sinister is arising.
Reylo Urban Fantasy AU.
Incendiary - theater AU.
“Rey,” the director begins. She sounds almost apologetic. “I should have told you earlier. This is Ben Solo.”Rey’s eyes go wide with shock.“Ben Solo?” she asks, weakly. “As in….”“As in, the theater intimacy consultant.” Ben reaches into the pocket of his black jeans and pulls out a business card. He hands it to her. “Yes. That’s me.”
(In which Rey is starring in her first big Off-Broadway production and Ben Solo is the intimacy consultant brought in to save the day.)
Dime bag darling - high school AU. (this one always makes me melt.)
Rey Johnson has been selling weed at her high school for petty cash for a while when she starts selling to her least favorite kid, Ben Solo. After all, money is money, even if it does come from extra snobby rich boys.
A few small repairs - strangers to lovers AU.
“I don’t want to sell,” Rey said. “That doesn’t seem like a complicated concept for you to grasp, and the fact that you can’t get started ruining another block isn’t really my problem.”
“Ruining?” The furrow in his brow deepened; so did his voice.“I saw what you did across the street. That ridiculous monolith? You’ll forgive me if I’m not exactly enthused at seeing another block wiped out to match it.”
He blinked at her. Anger was evident on his face, blossoming up swiftly, then contained again, neutral. But Rey could already see that he had a tell: the way his full lips pursed slightly, then relaxed, like he was chewing on his own hasty reply and swallowing it back down in favor of something more thoughtful. That, and the faint tic under his eye.
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OR: Ben Solo is a ruthless property developer, and Rey Johnson is the lone holdout on the block. She does not intend to give up what’s hers, not for anything. (Not even for a pair of pretty eyes.)
Gotta love the little things - teacher!Ben, polyamorus AU. (okay this is a poly AU with Finn/Poe/Rey/Ben I personally really enjoy this one, but I understand it’s not everyone’s cup of tea!)
Disaster Dameron. That’s the nickname he gives her after she wipes out on the playground the first day of school, adding another band-aid to the collection of Disney Princess ones littered across her knees and elbows. She’s a sweet little thing, if a bit accident prone, and he genuinely finds himself enjoying having her in his small class of 20 kids.
And then he meets her parents - all three of them.
It starts with Finn, and then he meets Poe, and eventually he meets Rey. And after each smile they throw his way, he starts to think that maybe he’s the one who’s the disaster.
The seventh bride - fantasy AU, arranged marriage AU. (oh this one is SO good, and the writer just updated it so please go smother them with love!)
Through a strange twist of fate, Rey suddenly finds herself married to the Marquess of the Reach, a mysterious man who she has never seen and whose name she has never learned. All she knows is this: the Marquess has been married six times before, and each time, the dragon Kylo Ren has devoured his wife within a year of their marriage.Medieval AU based off of “Psyche and Eros” and “East of the Sun and West of the Moon” with a healthy dose of “Beauty and the Beast” thrown in for good measure.
The trail bride - Oregon trail AU, historical AU. (this one’s super sweet and cool.)
“It might be indelicate to breach the subject of marriage at this trying time…”An adequate statement. The man had only been dead for three hours.But one must always be practical.“I am not so softened by sentiment in the matter as you would typically find a widow, Mr. Hux.”Rey Niima finds herself in a perilous situation when her husband dies at the start of their journey West. From the few bachelors on the trail in her party; she attaches herself to the best of her options.That option is the mysterious Banker Ben Solo.
Mountain spring high school - high school AU.
Two weeks into Ben Solo’s senior year, he already knows he hates Rey Jones.A few days later, Rey Jones hates Ben Solo back.
One above all - arranged marriage AU, emperor AU. (this one I highly recommened!)
Rey didn’t expect her arranged union to Emperor Snoke to be happy, considering her parents sold her hand in marriage for a decent sum of gold, but she didn’t expect it to end this soon, either. Married to a tyrant, Rey isn’t surprised when the people of his empire come to see his blood spilled. But she is surprised when Kylo Ren, named 'king killer’, becomes emperor and decides to not only keep her alive, but take her as his own empress.
Suits and stilettos - lawyers AU. (again, highly recommended, cried several times!)
Ben Solo, protégé to James Snoke at the prestigious Kenobi-Snoke-Organa law firm, is tasked with employing a male Alpha Associate from one of the Trinity law schools. Why then, he hires Rey Jensen – a female Omega from Jakku Law with a photographic memory and a stubborn streak to rival any Alpha – is anyone’s guess.Luckily no one knows she’s an Omega except him.Unfortunately for Ben, her intoxicating scent is messing with his head and he is increasingly growing to resent the fact that he isn’t like every other person on the planet that simply can’t smell her.
–The A/B/O modern day lawyers fic kind of (but not really) based off the show Suits
Let’s dance forever - karaoke AU, married!Ben AU. (this one has way too little kudos for a fic this good, please support this writer!)
Ben Solo doesn’t usually find himself at karaoke bars. He left the opera world behind for a music licensing gig, and he hasn’t done much of anything since his parents died. But one night he gets dragged to one by Phasma and Hux, and something inside him starts to change.
Quail and dumplings - sugar daddy AU, miscommunication AU.
Did it feel weird? Paying for sex?”
He finishes chewing on his bell pepper and shrugs. “I don’t think so, no.” He seems to ponder the issue as he sips on his coffee. “All things I’ve really wanted in life, I’ve had to pay for. One way or another.”
Or: Rey needs money. Ben offers money to Rey in exchange for sex. Rey accepts.
Knight in sooty armor - Firefighter!Ben AU, age difference AU.
Ben rescues twelve year old Rey from a fire. When she returns at sixteen they form an unlikely friendship.Author’s Note: No underage, non-con, dub-con between primary pairing, hence the lack of archive warnings.
The office life - office AU. (it’s probably obvious but I am SO OBSESSED with this author, I just recommened like 3 of their fics. please give this a read it’s so so good so far!)
Rey Jones’ goal in life is to collect her paycheck while not doing more than the strict minimum at work. She doesn’t mind occasionally going out with her coworkers in the process; it doesn’t happen too often, and most of them are pretty okay people.Ben Solo, however, is a colleague she’ll never get to know even remotely, as he always declines his coworkers’ invitations.Susmita Warsi, meanwhile, thinks that if Rey Jones were to ask him out personally, Ben Solo would make an exception.
I would let you - soulmate AU, miscommunication AU.
The first sentence your soulmate speaks to you is tattooed somewhere on your body. And it’s supposed to be exactly that– one sentence.Except Ben’s mark is practically a full-length fucking novel, spanning the entirety of his back.And his soulmate must be quite the charmer, because– upon their first meeting– she will apparently call him a fucking prick and threaten to beat him up.Ben can’t wait.
There may be something there that wasn’t there before - fantasy AU, Beauty and the Beast AU. (again, I’m also obssed with this author.)
She’s a thief, small and lithe. Her days are spent pickpocketing and snatching from market stalls. She has the sun in her skin and the light in her smile. She is beauty.
He is a prince, at war with himself. He is a mix of a man, a hybrid of containment and utter chaos. He has the night in his hair and hatred in his eyes. He is beast.
She just stole from the wrong garden.
“You are aware that doesn’t belong to you, are you not?”
Ecstasy in winter - a/o/b AU.
At 31, Ben has never been in a relationship. Actually, he’s never even kissed anyone. When the subject of past relationships come up, he lies by omission. As an Alpha, he believes he has failed his designation. He is afraid of not being good enough, and could never act upon his attraction to omegas. That is, until he meets Rey.(Fill for this Reylo Prompt)
Ondine - selkie!Ben AU. (so, so good and angsty.)
Of all the seals she has lured to her boat, not one has recognized her, or even shed its skin for her when she pushed her knife to its throat.She would find the bastard selkie. She would find it and kill it.But she’s been gone too long today. Exhausted, she grabs her oars. It’s time to feed the baby, anyways, and that selkie might enjoy one more day until she’s found the damned thing and cut his throat. Human or seal.Originally Posted for Day 5 of Reylo Monster Week: Sea Monsters.
I caught fire - high school AU, gothic/emo AU. (so good I cried several times.)
Rey meets a boy at Warped Tour who shouldn’t be perfect for her— but a shared smoke and a stolen kiss leaves her waiting for a call that never comes.When she sees him again for the first time at her new school, she is shocked—not just because she thought she’d never see him again, but because he clearly hates her. And the worst part is… she doesn’t even know why.
An emo tribute to the angsty teen in all of us.
Brooklyn baby - friends with benefits AU.
Ben had told himself that the less he knew about her, the better. He knew just by looking at Rey that she’d probably ruin his life.And that he’d let her.That gaze of hers had been trouble, he’d known that from the first moment they’d met. But now he was certain the rest of her was trouble, too. And he was screwed. Ben Solo was absolutely, positively, one-million percent screwed.
Out of water - mermaid AU.
When ex-rocker Kylo Ren buys a lakehouse, he expected to relax near where he spent his summers as Ben Solo. He expected peace and quiet, with fresh fish and lazy days spent enjoying the sun. He most certainly didn’t expect for a vicious mermaid to insist this part of the lake is hers, and to get the fuck out.
A short-ish story for Mermay, follow the antics (and of course the slow burn) of these two as they settle their differences. Somehow. Maybe. Hopefully. Crossing fingers and fins?
Would like to meet - a/o/b AU. (this one has omega!Ben so if that’s not your thing be aware, although this fic is super duper cute and I would love to see more omega!Ben. you can be beefy and sensitive at the same time boys)
Tired of being sexiled and sexless, alpha Rey goes on alpha-omega dating app A2O. There she finds a new profile for KyloRen, a male omega in her area who is too old and way too big to be considered a catch. His heat is in less than a week.Her therapist is always telling her she can’t save everybody and she doesn’t owe this guy anything, but when he messages her, she can’t pretend to be indifferent. She tells herself she just wants to get laid, that it’s just for his heat, and that it’s just pheromones making her think he’s perfect for her.
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“Oh!” Rey exclaimed.He glanced at her, and a blush crawled over his cheekbones.“You’re, er, you’re really… close, huh?”He scratched his neck. “I may have miscalculated.”He smelled like… she couldn’t describe it. She’d never been very good at that. A swimming pool maybe. Not chlorine, but hot and glittery and playful but dangerous too if she wasn’t careful. Some secret place that could envelope her entirely, where she could lose hours.
Nocturnal studies and other peculiar magic - Hogwarts AU.
Hogwarts was the first home Rey ever had. Now she has a chance to return as a grown woman to be the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher.She cannot tolerate the Potions Master and former Death Eater that she duelled and scarred so many years ago. Yet unity must be upheld.Gryffindor and Slytherin will unite in ways never before.
Go i know not whither and fetch i know not what - Russian mafia AU. (finished this one today, it was INSANELY good, it has a lot of petnames so if that’s your thing I highly recommend it!)
The year is 1994. The Iron Curtain has come down, the oligarchs have begun their rise to power, and Kyril Ren, a powerful member of the infamous crime syndicate Solntsevskaya Bratva, has been given a job: hunt down an estranged uncle who has been snitching to the FBI.Irena, nicknamed Rey by her adoptive father Luke, is a Krav Maga instructor in New York who has finally been able to obtain her original birth certificate from Russia. Turns out she was born in a little village named Vershinino, but if she wants to know more than that… she’s going to have to go there herself.
TL;DR: What up here’s a Russian Mafia AU.
12/30/2019
Cutting it here for now but I will update later!
