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to lure a hummingbird (you had me moonstruck) by brokenbeaks
Fandoms: One Direction (Band)
28 Feb 2019
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Before the dawn of their first proper interaction, Louis William Tomlinson doesn’t know the impact of the starlit atmosphere. He doesn’t know that snails can sleep for years on end, nor that an octopus has a pulse that triples the human beat. He doesn’t know any of that, because he’s yet to dive into the enigmatic, limitless mind of Harry Edward Styles.
And when he finally knows, he doesn’t ever want to go back.
Or: An enemies-to-lovers fic where Harry and Louis are neighbours who are forced to get along due to the inconvenience (or convenience) of a broken lift.
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- English
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- 81,371
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 399
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12 Aug 2022
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“About last night,” Harry says suddenly, as if he’d been debating on whether to say anything. Louis whips back around to look at him.
“Do not finish that thought,” Louis says just as abruptly.
Harry looks at him oddly, as if assessing him. With a small frown, it seems the assessment is over. “I only wish to say that you do not have to dwell on it. The rest of the men will surely forget by tonight.”
“And you?” Louis asks, raising an eyebrow. “Will you forget?”
“I will remember every second of it fondly,” the Lord says, no trace of a tease in his words.
or, a Victorian era au where Louis pines for his overprotective older brother’s very charming best friend.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 71,808
- Chapters:
- 2/2
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- 1
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- 138
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11 Jul 2022
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home is where the heart is (but god, i love the english) by maroonmoonlouis for harriblou
Fandoms: One Direction (Band)
13 Jun 2022
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“Niall, there is absolutely no bloody way your club shelled out over £400,000 to have Harry Styles ugly mug plastered all over London’s bus stops.” Louis scowls from the passenger seat as their car flies by yet another bus stop with his sworn enemy’s face on it.
“Harry was a proper diva that day too,” Niall fondly reminisces of the alpha. “Kept demanding they redo his hair and swatting away any of the players who touched it.”
“They could've done his hair six ways to Sunday and he still wouldn’t look any more attractive than some bigheaded giraffe type,” Louis continues on his tirade, hoping to get his best mate to commiserate with him, but it’s becoming increasingly far-fetched, especially since said best mate is also on the same football team as said giraffe.
- or the enemies-to-lovers football au where Harry is the star footie player used to getting his way and Louis is his new manager determined to whip him into shape.
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09 Jul 2022
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His first driving lesson with Louis takes place on a Saturday.
Harry stumbles out through the front gate in thrown-on baggy jeans and his ratty Ramones shirt, sees Louis leaning casually against the car, and his knees nearly give out. Apparently "not another surly teacher" meant a drop dead gorgeous twenty-something scruffy guy with shaggy brown hair and cheekbones sharp enough to chop a salad with. Clearly, Robin's trying to get Harry killed at seventeen.
Or, the AU where Louis is a 25-year-old driving instructor and Harry is a 17-year-old virgin who's really awful at seduction, except for the time he gets Louis to fall for him and fuck him senseless and take him on kinky adventures.
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- Part 1 of driving instructor fic
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- English
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- 95,482
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 719
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- 11,863
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24 Nov 2021
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It’s Louis’ senior year, and he’s dead set on doing it right. However, along with his pair of cleats, a healthy dose of sarcasm and his ridiculous best friend, he’s also got a complicated family, a terrifyingly uncertain future, and a mortal enemy making his life just that much worse. Mortal enemies “with benefits” was not exactly the plan.
Or: The one where Louis and Harry definitely aren’t friends, and football is everything.
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- Part 1 of The Unbelievers Story
- Language:
- English
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- 136,814
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 1,715
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- 26,640
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- 1,462,495
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22 Nov 2021
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In the grand scheme of things, finding a date for a wedding should be no problem for Louis Tomlinson. He's rich. He's handsome. He's reasonably well behaved. But when the wedding is for his lifelong best friend (and former boyfriend), and is happening in under a month, finding a date for the ceremony and accompanying festivities becomes more of an adventure than he ever could have planned for.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 146,241
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 2,137
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- 27,335
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19 Nov 2021
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Harry has the rest of his life planned. Marriage. Career. Kids. Happily ever after.
But sometimes plans don’t work out.
That’s not necessarily a bad thing.
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- Part 1 of Marold Harold
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 110,750
- Chapters:
- 23/23
- Collections:
- 2
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- 416
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- 1,273
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16 Oct 2021
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Louis and Harry have known each other all their lives. Friends as children, they danced around each other as teenagers, and have spent the last twenty-five years either screaming at each other or not speaking at all. Except for that one time ten years ago…
When Hurricane Nicole threatens the coast, they end up stuck together in their families' old vacation home that they begrudgingly co-own.
During the storm, and in the months after, they’re both forced to reevaluate their history and what they mean to each other.
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- Part 1 of Don't Want Shelter
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 76,624
- Chapters:
- 9/9
- Comments:
- 512
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13 Oct 2021
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But here’s the thing about secrets that people tend to forget—they’re deeply personal things. Tiny pieces of information about someone that they keep locked inside and only let out at certain moments, or to certain people, or not at all.
Secrets have value, you see, even if only to the person holding them inside. If those secrets were to be told, if those tiny jagged pieces of someone, the parts they hold most dear, the parts they hide out of shame or fear or regret—if those pieces were exposed to someone, it would have the potential to change everything.
When bad turbulence and three glasses of wine have Louis spilling all of his secrets to the man sitting next to him on the plane, it's embarrassing, sure, but it's also easy enough to shrug off and block out of his memory forever. Or at least, it was until Louis went into work on Monday morning and realized that the man from the plane is the new CEO of his company.
Inspired by Can You Keep A Secret? by Sophie Kinsella.
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- English
- Words:
- 59,208
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 473
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27 Sep 2021
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He’s tall—that’s the first thing that registers in Louis’ head when he spots him, standing with his hands behind his back. Tall, with curly hair, staring at them with the widest, greenest eyes Louis has ever seen. And wait, are those dimples? Louis didn’t know ghosts could have dimples.
Because he’s definitely a ghost, this boy. At first glance he looks normal, standing there pigeon-toed in a band shirt (The Ramones, Louis can’t help but note incredulously), dark jeans, and some boots, with rings on both hands, and tattoos littering his left arm—a sleeve made of anchors and names and roses and other completely unrelated things. But he’s also a little bit translucent; if Louis focuses, he can see the outline of the furniture, the design of the wallpaper through him.
“Hi,” the boy—the ghost—says to Louis. His face shifts; somehow his dimples dig deeper into his cheeks. His eyes flit from Louis, to Niall, to Liam, and finally to Zayn, and his face goes from shocked to elated. “I’m Harry.”
At in that exact moment, standing between three of his best friends and staring at a (quite handsome) ghost, Louis can only think one thing.
Nick Grimshaw was right.
- Language:
- English
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- 49,348
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 177
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- 1,738
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20 Sep 2021
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Paediatrics AU. Harry and Louis are competing for the same position. They have differing outlooks, a heavy amount of mutual irritation, and all manner of reasons why getting romantically involved would be a terrible idea. Somehow — well. Things end up happening.
He wants your job. Remember that.
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19 Jun 2021
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“This is all a game to you, isn’t it? Well, it’s not for me. This is a real life or death situation,” Louis says, spitting the words at him. “And I just don’t think you’re cut out for it.”
For a moment, they stare at each other in complete silence. Harry can feel his blood thrumming between his ears, can see Louis glaring at him, feels red-hot anger. And then all he feels, oppressively and desperately, is lust.
Suddenly Louis is surging up to him to press his lips against Harry’s. Harry walks the two of them backwards, pressing Louis back against the door. Louis oomphs in surprise and brings his hands under Harry’s scrub top, scratching at his lower back.
“Lock — oh — lock the… fucking door,” Louis mutters.
When Harry Styles starts his first day as a surgical intern, he expects a lot of things: to treat patients, to observe a surgery, to feel a bit overwhelmed. What he definitely doesn't expect, however, is that the handsome guy he kicked out of his bed this morning is also an intern.
A Grey’s Anatomy AU where tensions are high, Harry and Louis are hooking up in secret, and no one has time for love. Or do they?
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- Part 1 of Do Not Go Gentle
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 70,259
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 191
- Kudos:
- 2,494
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- 1,238
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- 75,674
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16 Jun 2021
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After watching yet another actor walk away with his Oscar, Louis is on the lookout for the role of a lifetime that might finally get him the one thing he has always wanted. He didn't think coming out of his self-proclaimed break to do another film would be all that difficult, but that was before he met his new co-star.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 70,037
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 327
- Kudos:
- 2,073
- Bookmarks:
- 1,032
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- 64,070
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26 May 2021
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Becoming a best-selling author isn’t as difficult as Louis would have guessed. It seems all you need these days is the perfect blend of alcohol induced philosophy, complete disregard for one’s dignity, a live blog about how fucked love is, and a bored publisher interested enough to offer him a deal.
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- Part 1 of Every Story Universe
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 54,461
- Chapters:
- 18/18
- Comments:
- 194
- Kudos:
- 1,233
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- 613
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- 37,742
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14 May 2021
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Harry Styles hated the minister's son.
Louis Tomlinson was brash, obnoxious and possessed all the attributes that Harry deemed unlikable in another person. Unfortunately, they attended the same Bible studies class at church and their mothers were best friends, so avoiding the other boy was impossible.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 87,454
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Comments:
- 391
- Kudos:
- 2,596
- Bookmarks:
- 1,082
- Hits:
- 72,907
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12 Apr 2021
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Mutability by haloeverlasting
Fandoms: One Direction (Band), BBC Radio 1 RPF, Zayn Malik (Musician)
14 Jun 2017
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Harry and Louis meet in a book club. Life and fiction have their parallels.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 108,522
- Chapters:
- 15/15
- Comments:
- 253
- Kudos:
- 509
- Bookmarks:
- 257
- Hits:
- 15,600
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09 Apr 2021
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Harry's new to college, fresh out of Catholic school and conversion therapy camp, and Louis runs the campus LGBTQIA organization.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 208,589
- Chapters:
- 36/36
- Collections:
- 4
- Comments:
- 3,605
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- 7,121
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- 2,947
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- 296,307
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14 Mar 2021
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Louis is the only omega to ever make it in the cut-throat world of competitive motorcycle racing—that is, he would be if anyone actually knew about his identity. Now, his sights are set towards competing in—and winning—the European Grand Prix, the biggest and most difficult race of the entire year, so he can disappear underground for good. He’s close enough, too, until an alpha sports journalist is assigned to follow Louis’s every move as he prepares for the event of his career.
Or, an AU where motorcycle racing is the biggest sport in a heavily divided world, Louis is trying to take control of his own destiny, and Harry is in for more than he bargained for.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 237,271
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Comments:
- 864
- Kudos:
- 4,513
- Bookmarks:
- 1,843
- Hits:
- 179,258
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07 Mar 2021
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And I'll judge the cover by the book by harrystylesandstuff
Fandoms: One Direction (Band)
02 Nov 2015
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At twenty years old Harry has his life figured out. He’ll graduate from the private University of Buckingham and move to Oxford to study journalism. He’ll meet someone who shares his values and accepts who he is, and apply everything his successful parents have taught him.
At twenty-two years old Louis has no clue what he wants in life. He’s not sure he’ll pass the year and doesn’t know where he’ll go after that. He spends his time smoking away his doubts about himself with his friends and all he cares about is making sure his family doesn’t fall apart.
They don’t belong together.
Or a Private University AU where Harry is a queer posh prince, Louis is a closeted troublemaker, and neither expect to understand each other the way they will.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 73,810
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Comments:
- 193
- Kudos:
- 3,560
- Bookmarks:
- 1,880
- Hits:
- 156,511
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01 Mar 2021
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Louis Tomlinson loves milky tea, a strong contour, the Paris skyline, and Harry Styles. Just not necessarily in that order.
(Or, Harry’s a supermodel, Louis’s a make-up artist, and the sky is the fucking limit.)
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- Part 2 of dusted in gold
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 79,495
- Chapters:
- 9/9
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 41
- Kudos:
- 678
- Bookmarks:
- 298
- Hits:
- 22,966
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23 Feb 2021