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They had never been face to face before now. They’d never touched, skin to skin, until Harry landed a punch to his face, high on his cheekbone.
Louis shoved him off and was pulling his fist back from Harry’s abdomen before he realized his face wasn’t tingling because of the pain.
It pooled out from his cheek, over his face, down his neck and spine. A shiver in the late September night. Heat, sparks - whatever you wanted to fucking call it.
or The Tomlinson and Cox gangs have hated each other for over forty years. Harry Styles, the grandson of Gritty Cox, was freshly back to the city after uni when, on his first night out, he punched the Tomlinson heir in the face. It shouldn’t have mattered, their gangs have done worse to each other. But all it took was one single touch to recognize your soulmate. Louis was adamant that being soulmates changed nothing, not who they were or which family they were loyal to. Or, at least, it shouldn’t have.
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08 Oct 2025
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madison square garden shenanigans
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- Part 2 of come on, bring everything
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05 Feb 2023
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Harry wasn’t planning for his trousers to rip on stage. He also wasn’t planning for everyone to see his lace knickers when it happened. But what he really wasn’t planning on was his boyfriend punishing him for it.
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- Part 1 of Center Stage Whore
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28 Jan 2023
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@StylinHarry: So I kinda fell for a boy yesterday at #ChiPride. Kissed & fireworks went off. Literally. He’s a drama teacher. Goes by “Louis” but I prefer Sunshine. Very pretty. The prettiest. Got separated & I’m a fucking idiot who forgot to get his number. Anyone know him? #helpfindsunshine
Or, Louis and Harry meet at Pride in Chicago and spend the day falling for each other before getting accidentally separated.
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This is part of a Wordplay prompt challenge that a group of us are participating in for the prompt "polish". To read the amazing fics that were written by the others on this prompt, click here, and to see all fics written as part of the challenge, click here or find the masterpost for this year’s challenge here.
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15 Jul 2022
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“You like feeling like my girl?” Louis wasn’t asking just about sex.
His words weren’t harsh, Harry realized. The hands on his back and in his hair were still there, still moving. Louis just sounded — he just sounded like he was asking Harry to explain.
“Yeah,” whispered Harry. He hadn’t felt this fragile in Louis’s arms for as long as he could remember. Like Louis could prod him too hard and he’d shatter. Collapse into dust. But Louis kept not prodding him, not pushing him. He just kept holding him, surely, like Louis knew he wouldn't break him.
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- Part 3 of Like Waters Poured Into One Jar
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20 Mar 2022
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08 Jan 2022
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Harry is fifteen minutes late to the office on the day Louis Tomlinson comes out as gay.
Or, the one where Harry's a chronically underpaid magazine intern and Louis is the Premier League's first gay footballer and pretty much the last thing they need is each other.
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08 Jan 2022
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Make Tea, Not War by adventuring, howdoyouwhisk (popsongdelusional)
Fandoms: One Direction (Band)
12 Oct 2014
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"Is he the messiest?"
"Yes."
"Does he do the washing up?"
"Never."
"Does he make his bed?"
"Never."
"Hopeless, hopeless flatmate. Would you rather be with one of these guys?"
"Nope!"
Or: Louis attempts to become a better flatmate, much to Harry's dismay.
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06 Jan 2022
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And really, Harry didn’t think he would actually get this far. He’d only been asking to 1) distract himself from thinking about the fact that he won’t have Louis here forever and 2) get the rejection over and done with before he has the chance to get too attached. But he’s come too far now to take it back
He supposes it’s now or never.
"What would you think about going to New York City?”
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Or, it's 1970, Harry needs a ride to the first ever pride parade in New York City, and Louis happens to be in the right place at the right time.
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03 Jan 2022
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Harry still luggs his telescope up to the roof when he needs to unwind after a long day, and, more often than not, Louis is there, too. And Louis will smoke and Harry will stargaze and Louis will ask, “See anything good?” and Harry will let Louis press his eye to the eyepiece and point out the constellations that he recognizes, if any. They talk about everything else — everything except the one moment that Harry can’t stop thinking about.
Or, Harry’s new in town and just wants to spend his nights on the rooftop gazing at the stars. He gets far more than he bargained for.
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26 Dec 2021
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It’s 8:50 when Zayn pops his head around the corner of Harry’s cubicle.
“Dude, I really can’t talk right now. If I don’t finish this report—“
“You hear about that plane crash?”
Harry stops short. “— what?”
“Louis works in that area doesn’t he?”
“What?” Harry’s hand is frozen in midair, halfway towards scratching his neck.
“Yeah, some plane just rammed into one of the Twin Towers, I guess. Ben is—“
Harry’s blood doesn’t run cold and his heart doesn’t skip a beat. The wind isn’t knocked out of him and his stomach doesn’t drop.
He’s mostly just confused.
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02 Nov 2021
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it’s strange, making the choice to face his past—it almost feels like he’s heading for the sun straight on, like he’s screaming come on and burn me, i deserve it.
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when a solar flare is announced to end the world in twelve days, harry reunites with the people that he used to know better than the back of his own hand.
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13 Oct 2021
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“Um, sorry, but I believe that’s actually mine,” Harry said a bit awkwardly, pointing at the cup.
The man huffed, slightly narrowing his blue eyes, “Nope, large Americano, dash of cream.” He held the coffee up closer to Harry and honestly, Harry knew exactly what was in the cup because it was his coffee.
“Right,” Harry slowly drawled out as if he was talking to a toddler, “Which would make that mine.”
“Look, I really don’t have time for this, I’m running late. And this,” he said before he took a sip from the cup, “Is mine.”
Harry’s jaw dropped and he held his hands out, failing them slightly, “Wha-you can’t just drink it!”
“Well I did, so, do you still want it or can I be on my way?” The man challenged.
Harry shook his head disbelievingly, “Take it, but for the record, it says Harry on it.”
The man turned the cup around and a sharp laugh came out of his mouth, “Well, shit.” He looked at Harry, a smile stretched across his face as crinkles formed next to his eyes. “Thanks, Harry.”
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16 Sep 2021
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Louis couldn’t be prouder of his bake, but there’s something—there’s something. Something about Harry Styles and the earnest way he measures, pours, mixes, scrapes. Something about the tip of his tongue poking out of his mouth as he knocks the air out of his batter.
or a great british bake off au in which louis cares about winning and winning only, harry is made of sunshine and rainbow sprinkles, and niall sticks his nose into other people's business. also featuring liam as louis's best friend-slash-concerned mother, and zayn as a macaron connoisseur.
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22 Aug 2021
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’'I can’t sleep without you anymore. Got used to you.’’
Harry is always like that, so transparent with his feelings, so abundant with his love. He cuddles Niall the most, always stares up at Zayn like he’s something cool and out of this world, always attentively serious with Liam and always helping Leona out in the kitchen. He’s not so different from the shy, timid boy he’d first met, still stands pigeon toed when he’s waiting for Louis and the lads to go home after school, still stands with his shoulders all hunched but then he sees Louis and suddenly he’s taller, brighter, smile and dimples on full display.He’s so beautiful.
-Or the fic in which Louis and Harry are foster kids who get separated long before they could even understand what loving each other means. They were so young and since then, circumstances had made Louis tough, had forced him to harden up. What happens when he and Harry meet again?
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30 Jun 2021
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Louis struggles with their relationship as Harry grows into his identity.
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17 Jun 2021
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Harry shouldn't be alive. Louis doesn't live until he's found him.
(Previously titled 'Stars')
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03 Jun 2021
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22 May 2021
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hit me with your sweet love, steal me with a kiss by icedwaters for brainwaves
Fandoms: One Direction (Band)
13 Feb 2015
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Louis would like to know when his life became a huge romantic comedy, because he’s starting to get tired of being the butt of every joke. Harry’s already at the club when he, Zayn, and Liam arrive. He’s got on the tightest jeans Louis has ever seen in his life (including his own), and this flannel shirt with the sleeves cut off, the buttons mostly undone to reveal the majority of his chest and a few tattoos. Louis’ eyes are first drawn to the big butterfly inked above his abs, then to black lines drawn on his shoulders, partly hidden by the edge of his shirt. He can’t help staring, his eyes clinging to Harry’s exposed skin.
(or louis is a 22 year old photographer in his third year of uni, and harry is his 19 year old cat-loving neighbor.)
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28 Mar 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.
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28 Feb 2021