Fic list: Pining & Unrequited Love
Do you guys know any fic with John pinning after Paul or John having unrequited love toward Paul?
Pretty much every fic ever has some sort of pining (and it's glorious) but those with unrequited love are a bit harder to find. I've listed those that match both of your requirements, sort-ish, although in some the love turns out not to be so unrequited after all ;)
Impossible Opening by beatle_boot (7/7 | NC-17)
It had always been that way; John wanting more and Paul never having caught on to that fact.
Thunderwing by autochrome (1/1 | 7382 | R)
Beat-like, stream of thoughts. John gets some strange ideas when he's bored, perhaps, but his eyes still can never find room enough to leave the one who lays across the room from him. Far less cutesy than I fear that sounds, however.
traded out holding hands to holding back everything by makeitbetter (1/1 | 1182 | PG-13)
because that’s something that is true of anyone in love with their best friend. // (or: neither of them talk about their feelings)
Outro by bakerstreetafternoon (1/1 | 7382 | R)
May through July, 1968. Had it been this tension that had kept them together? Had it always? Outro (n): the ending of a musical composition. In all musical forms, this can include "altogether unexpected digressions just as a work is drawing to its close, followed by a return to a consequently more emphatic confirmation of the structural relations implied in the body of the work."
Don't Let Me Down by foolontheweb (5/? | NC-17)
The wall John's built around his emotions for Paul is crumbling down...
Shakespeare & Roses by hb_princess (1/1 | NC-17)
The old “If I Fell” chestnut. John wants to write a love song; Paul is his (unwitting?) inspiration. It’s the unwitting part that makes John so crazy.
This Time by beama_casey (1/1 | PG-13)
John knows that it has to be different this time Set 1965-ish. After Rubber Soul, and the boys are touring.
Longing by aanahitt (1/1 | PG-13)
John's thoughts on him and Paul