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Louis blinks his eyes open, his eyelids fluttering as the room swims around him. He takes several gulps of beer once he confirms that he’s definitely not hallucinating, that the very first portrait Harry Styles ever painted of him is hanging on that wall.
Louis stares at the wall, his heart jackrabbiting in his chest as he realizes that there’s not just one painting of him, there’s five, the portraits lined up like they’re some sort of storyboard depicting the rise and fall of his deepest love. His greatest heartache. A pain that cut him so deep that he left the fucking country, severing all ties with his life in New York, now suddenly surrounding him as if he’d never left.
Fucking shit motherfucker fuck.
Louis returns to New York City five years after he left it – and the love of his life – behind. He didn't intend to see Harry again, but fate has a funny way of pulling them together, whether they like it or not. After making a begrudging truce, they both start to wonder: Would it be so bad if history repeated itself?
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11 Oct 2020
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Around four in the afternoon on day two, Harry was dropping kisses on Louis' chest and heading downwards when he abruptly stopped.
“I can move back here,” he said, propping himself up on the mattress with his hands.
Louis' eyes popped open and he looked up at him, totally lost. “What?”
“For a while,” Harry continued, the idea taking hold. “Hang out with my mom. Work on my script. Be with you.”
Louis had already resigned himself to the fact that this weekend was a crack in the space-time continuum that would soon close, sending him and Harry back to their respective, very different lives. It would be a memory that would keep him warm when he was an old, old man – that time one of People’s 50 Most Beautiful had kept him on his hands and knees for two days straight.
He wasn’t so stupid as to hope for more.
“You’re crazy,” Louis scoffed.
Harry’s eyes shone. “Am I?”A few weeks after Louis and Harry, *ahem*, reconnect at their high school reunion, Harry temporarily moves back home. Louis isn't sure he has the emotional fortitude for a prolonged fling with the man of the dreams.
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- Part 2 of Not That Gone
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- English
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- 61,995
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- 10/10
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29 Sep 2020
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harry plays football in a small town in west texas. louis might be the only person that doesn’t give a damn. au.
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- 1/1
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- 127
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06 Jul 2020
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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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- English
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- 81,459
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- 1/1
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- 210
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10 Apr 2015
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Outwit, Outplay, Outlast by dancesongsoul, lookatyourchoices
Fandoms: One Direction (Band)
22 Mar 2015
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“Tommo and Harry are gonna do it. I don’t know when, but they’re gonna do it. They’ve got the mattress, the pillows, everything’s in place, and they’re gonna do it. I really wish those two the best of luck.” –Taylor Swift, "Chapera"
Or a Survivor All-Stars AU in which Harry and Louis are just in this game to win the million dollars, but they end up with something better.
Featuring Harry's yellow swim shorts, Louis in snapbacks, and OT5 shenanigans.
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- Part 1 of Survivor AU
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- 4/4
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- 398
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23 Mar 2015
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“I can see you don’t believe me,” Harry says, pretending to be stern. Louis chuckles a little but doesn’t get out of the bed. “Anyway, I texted Liam and told him you’re with me. He said to stay here as long as you need, and he’ll deal with the show over there until you want to come back, all right?”
Louis doesn’t say anything again so Harry whispers, “Just stay here with me for a while, yeah? I’ll take care of you.”
Louis is quiet. He never picks his head up, but Harry can see the pillow move from where he’s nodding and his fingers tighten around Harry’s. “Yeah,” Louis says. “Yeah, all right.”
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17 Feb 2015
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Falling in love with your step-brother’s best friend is a disaster enough. When he happens to be the boy everyone loves and you’re a nerd who wears sweater vests and cries during rom-coms, it takes it to a whole new level.
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13 Jan 2015
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Harry's got a heart, a soul, and a band. And with that, obviously, comes a future paved in great success, right? So all he has to do is win the Battle of the Bands, right? Simple.
What's not so simple is the fact that Louis Tomlinson is his biggest competition. And also happens to be made of everything that Harry's ever wanted.
No... That's not simple at all.
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- English
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- 21,377
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11 Jan 2015
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In which Louis is a designer at Burberry and Harry spends December wearing Lanvin… and Lanvin… and Lanvin.
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- English
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- 20,230
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- 1/1
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- 2
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- 306
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- 5,029
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01 Jan 2015
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Harry falls asleep a 17 year-old who lives in Cheshire and is probably rockstar Louis Tomlinson's biggest fan. He wakes up 24 with a wedding ring on his finger, two kids, and Louis Tomlinson attempting to wake him up with a blow job. The doctor calls it organic retrograde amnesia, says he might never get back the last seven years of his life. The only thing that feels the same is how he feels when Louis touches him, and maybe that's enough to make him fall in love all over again.
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- English
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- 16,492
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- 1/1
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- 173
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- 152,468
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31 Dec 2014
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For Reasons Wretched and Divine by panicmoonwalk for bugspokemon
Fandoms: One Direction (Band), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
13 Dec 2014
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Niall’s head was sitting in the fireplace, wide grin lighting up his features as flames licked the bright tips of his hair. Louis promptly dropped his tray at the sight.
“Bloody hell!” He yelled, half at the sudden appearance of Niall in the fire and half at the scalding cocoa he’d just dropped on his bare foot. “What are you doing?!”
Niall just continued to grin, clearly highly amused by Louis hopping on one foot and desperately trying to search for a weapon he could use to beat his friend’s head out of the fireplace.
“Well,” Niall began. “We’re going on an adventure!”
Or, the one where Louis and Harry’s Christmas holiday at Hogwarts is rudely interrupted when they’re dragged off on a tropical wizard’s vacation, featuring some angry centaurs, a spell gone wrong, and the ‘weirdest birthday anyone’s ever had. Ever’.
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- English
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- 19,055
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- 1/1
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25 Dec 2014
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It isn’t his fault though, it is entirely the fault of whichever gods thought it would be a good idea to taunt Louis by dangling a curly haired boy in front of him with a mouth that can’t possibly be as soft as it looks, a mouth that requires further inspection with Louis’ own mouth. Unfortunately, Louis absolutely cannot do that, because it would go against all rules and guidelines in the Golden Handbook of Nanny and Employee Etiquette that he’s pretty sure exists.
au where harry plays rugby at uni, louis needs to hire a nanny, and life is one big cliche.
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- English
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- 41,475
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- 1/1
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- 135
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06 Dec 2014
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harry meets louis at a basketball game. he doesn’t know why everyone seems to think that they’re an item (aside from, maybe, the hundred paparazzi photos of them that come out the next morning).
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05 Dec 2014
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somewhere between boot camp and now, harry styles has lost his ability to care about logistics, or really anything that doesn’t revolve around this boy.
‘you were an avalanche, i was a city perched desperately close to the mountain’- Language:
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05 Dec 2014
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AU. “we should get married," louis says, and this time, neither of them say no.
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- Part 2 of glitter / gold
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18 Nov 2014
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The first time they meet, it is sunrise, and Harry is naked.
(Or, the one where Harry is a lost fairy, and Louis takes him in.)
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- 1/1
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02 Nov 2014
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taking tips and getting stoned by alison for ArielFabulous
Fandoms: One Direction (Band)
28 Jun 2014
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Louis drives a taxi. He hasn't seen Harry in eight years when they have a chance meeting.
A lot has changed in that time. But not everything.
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- 128
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05 Oct 2014
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The thing is, Louis wasn’t meant to exist without Aaron. They’d grown up together and into each other. Forged together by pain and trials they were too young to deal with. Forged by love too of course, an absolute fuckton of the stuff. Melded together until they were two halves of a whole. Now, Louis just feels like half a person.
Or, the one where Louis' pretty sure he's already loved and lost his soulmate, and then he meets Harry.
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- 61,809
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- 15/15
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- 252
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02 Oct 2014
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baby, how we spoon like no one else by brownheadedstranger
Fandoms: One Direction (Band)
14 Mar 2013
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Harry comes out to visit Louis in Los Angeles and it's easy, to pretend that things could stay like this.
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01 Oct 2014
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harry likes beautiful things; louis is starshine. new zealand isn’t so bad. a fwb! and ski trip!au
"each trip harry goes on teaches him to behold beauty more carefully, and he thinks that’s why he’s struggling so much; his eyes can’t decide whether he wants to look at the town outside his window or the boy pressed too close to him in the tight seating of the car. he feels like this problem might become reoccurring, and he’s glad that along with beholding beauty he can also tell when he’s completely fucked. ”
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23 Sep 2014