Hello! I wanted to put together a February fic rec bc Iāve read some very amazing fics so far this year. This includes my January recs as well bc I forgot to make one last month lol anyway, in no particular order, enjoy!!!
Love Is A Word, You Gave It A Name by CuckooTrooke/ @larrydoinglaundry (158k)
After two decades in brutal show business, Louis Tomlinson is trying to restore his tranquility of mind in the peace of Northern Europe where the sun barely sets, Mariaās bar is always open, and young Harry has an irresistible spark in his eyes.
Sweet Little You by @rosesforriley (112k)
Harry Styles has been passionately researching artificial pregnancy to give a shot at conception to anyone who cannot naturally conceive for years, and after nearly a decade, he finally cracks it. Heās about to make medical and scientific history, and, well, who better to be the first test subject than himself? Heās always wanted a baby after all. And who better to ask to help him conceive his baby than his goofy best friend/colleague who wants absolutely nothing to do with being a father? They sure would make a cute baby, wouldnāt they?OR: Harry is having a baby and heās making it everybodyās business.
Untangle Me by suicxne (103k)
Louis finds himself out of place in LA, unable to get at an itch thatās been bothering him for years. He supposes back in the early days, home hadnāt been a place. Itād been a person. Heād etched it permanently into his skin for fucks sake. It was always him and Harry. Stuck to each other like super glue. Pulled together by some magnetic force, existing in their own bubble. Everyone could see it, but that was half the problem, wasnāt it?Itās not like Louis can pinpoint the exact moment in time when him and Harry fell out of sync. There wasnāt really one at all. It had been a gradual slip, like the tide wearing away at a sandstone cliff. Chipping the solid foundations until there was nothing left to stop the structure falling to the waves below. Itās not like he spends all of his time sitting around moping over a lost friendship, heās good at distractions. But LA only seems to accentuate the distance between them. Two separate planets, not even in the same solar system.Or the one where Harry and Louis finally get it right.
For As Long As I Can Remember (Itās Been December) by @greenfeelings (128k)
After recovering from a severe accident that causes Harry to lose his memory of three years, he moves to London to start his life over as a star chef. Little does he know that when he falls in love with Louis at first sight, itās not the first time they meet.
Featuring an unintentional game of hot and cold, Harry chasing memories that wonāt come back, Louis burying himself in work to try and forget what he canāt forget, Liam being torn between two of his best friends, Zayn as a moral compass and Niall saving the day with good music and brutal honesty.
Teach Me How To Love by @perfectdagger (70k)
Louis canāt believe heās third wheeling, again, so he scans the bar trying to find something better to do.
And he does, he recognizes a face.
That face looks angry, almost fuming and Louis takes a gulp from his beer and looks to the other side, pretending he didnāt even see the bloke, pretending he has no clue who that person coming over his way is. āYouāve told everyone and their mother that Iām a bad fucker?!ā
Thatās how Harry greets him Smooth. Not really. The one in which Harry is bad at sex and Louis spreads it all over town and to make up for it, decides to help him with no agenda of getting anything from it, but in the end, he ends up getting more than he bargained for.
Just Ask Me To by tellmethisisnotlove (120k)
āYouāre telling the truth,ā Louis whispers.
āOf course Iām telling the truth!ā Harry doesnāt even care that he sounds exasperated.
āOh my god.ā Louis grabs the wall behind him as if looking for support. His body slides down against it until heās sitting crouched on the floor.
He mumbles something but Harry canāt really figure out what it is. He crouches down, and looks desperately at the breaking boy in front of him.
āYouāre telling the truth,ā Louis whispers. āYou were not supposed toāā
āI was not supposed to do what? Tell me please,ā Harry urges, taking Louisā hands gently in his.
Or the X Factor era canon fic where they learn how to be a couple and that not everyone is going to be on their sides especially those with plain white t-shirts and saccharine smiles.
Chasing, Searching, Dreaming by @parmahamlarrie (46k)
Everyone is chasing, searching, dreaming of their soulmate.
Harry has known who his soulmate is since he was twenty years old, and ever since, he has been waiting for Louis to be ready for him. The unexpected passing of Louisā mum, and the fact that now he is the guardian of his twin two-year-old little siblings, just means that Harry is going to have to wait a bit longer.
A soulmate AU full of cute kids, house building, therapy, and a lot of dreaming.
You Can Hear It In The Silence by @imogenleefic (234k)
When Harry Styles received acceptance into a post-grad degree, he knew he could no longer afford his flat leaving him with three options:
1) Moving back into student halls. 2) Becoming homeless. 3) Moving in with his best (and only) friend, Niall, and three of Niallās other friends. He ended up choosing the third option. But it was a close race. Shame one of his new housemates reminded him why he only has one friend. If Louis Tomlinson had to choose one thing couldnāt stand, it would be pretentious tossers, having grown up around enough of them. If he had to choose something he couldnāt live without, it would be his friends. So he was proper thrilled to move in with his best mates and a couple of other lads. That was until he discovered one of them was the archetype for a pretentious tosser.
In the interest of seeing out the twelve-month lease without killing each other, they both try (debatable) to get along despite believing they were opposite in almost every conceivable way, each having the communication skills of a cucumber, and secrets that had no business be kept secret.
Tired Tired Sea by @mediawhorefics (113k)
As a B&B owner on the most remote of all the British Isles, Louis Tomlinson is used to spending the coldest half of the year in complete isolation, with his dog and the sea as sole companions. Until, one day, a mysterious stranger on a quest to rebuild himself rents a room for the winter. (the lighthouse au part 1)
14/09/2019 by @mediawhorefics (3k)
In mid-September, Harry comes home.
A Tired Tired Sea Coda. (the lighthouse au part 2)