#25dofc

25 DAYS OF FIC COVERS: (14/25)

Take Our Bodies Higher by @littlelouishiccups

Word Count: 21,039

Harry wasn’t often caught off guard at his job anymore. He called different men Sir, Master, or Daddy for work almost every week, but he’d never been told he was a good boy in a voice quite like that.

In which Harry is a phone sex operator and Louis dials a wrong number.

25 DAYS OF FIC COVERS: (11/25)

Tudor Rose by @casuallyhl

Word Count: 73,815

“We are together now,” Louis whispers. “Nothing will separate us again.”

With Louis warm against him, eyes shining brightly, lips red and begging to be kissed, Harry believes him unquestionably.

As they fall into one another, Harry and Louis forget the concerns that monopolize the realm. They forget everything that isn’t greedy hands, hungry mouths, and words of love. They forget that they have no right to one another – not when they’re in the king’s palace.

Or, a Tudor AU where Harry and Louis are young and betrothed lords in Henry VIII’s court, but when Harry catches the king’s eye, their future becomes as unsteady as England without a male heir.

25 DAYS OF FIC COVERS: (13/25)

Take Me Higher Than I've Ever Been by @ireallysawanangel

Word Count: 51,158

Harry is pretty simple. He goes to work everyday, comes home, then watches Netflix with his cat. And if he happens to have a tiny little crush on his coworker, then that’s just his own business.

[Or the one where Harry and Louis work together and Louis starts to notice Harry back. Featuring a wedding, a sassy cat, and first times.]

25 DAYS OF FIC COVERS: (20/25)

All Your Dreams Are On Their Way by @1diamondinthesun

Word Count: 73,685

“This is a real place,” Louis said in wonder.

“Yes, it is.”

“We’re at a fancy resort on an island.”

“Correct,” Zayn said with a growing smile.

“We need to make a pact right now to never get swept up into a dance-off with Patrick Swayze a la Dirty Dancing,” Louis warned faintly, craning his neck up to look at the Welcome Pavilion. “And no summer romance, period.”

Zayn shrugged and nodded easily. “Deal. I mean, it’s not like we’re going to meet the loves of our lives on a random Caribbean island.”

Or, Louis Tomlinson is a grieving author with a deadline. Harry Styles is afraid to realize his potential. The Caribbean is the perfect place to dream bigger. Featuring cocktails, imposter syndrome, and a race-against-the-clock rescue under a starry St. Lucia sky.

25 DAYS OF FIC COVERS: (3/25)

Picking Up The Pieces by @halosboat

Word Count: 72,416

Harry just signed his second set of divorce papers. He felt like his life was over, like he had nothing left.

Then he meets Louis.

25 DAYS OF FIC COVERS: (16/25)

all we can do is keep breathing by @avocadolouie

Word Count: 310,000

“Harry, I-I’m so sorry…” Louis stutters out, trying to keep his voice level and even, to portray a depiction of strength, but with the way Harry is looking at him, staring at him like he has a personal passage way straight to Louis’ soul, it’s so hard, nearly impossible.

That simple opening phrase, that short introductory acknowledgement that is often rushed out so easily, painlessly, at a safe distance. Giving a doctor the ability to portray empathy without true emotion, without feeling the full brunt and sheer force of the underlying pain itself.

But Louis feels it, he feels the crushing agony laced behind the phrase, he feels the weight of the painful words slipping from his lips, the cause and effect that the three-word expression holds. The distantly empty “I’m so sorry” that doctors throw out in self-preservation, isn’t at all empty for him. Louis recognizes it, he understands it, he feels it.

a fated story of two broken and battered boys who barely survived the unimaginable and how the love of one little brave girl defies all the odds and somehow puts them back together.

25 DAYS OF FIC COVERS: (15/25)

After Dark, After Light by @becomeawendybird

Word Count: 71,440

Harry Styles is the laird of Clan Edwards who is just trying to keep his clan afloat when they get word that the Mackenzies have been cutting a swath through the Midlands and beyond, and their sights are set on the northern Highlands next. In an attempt to garner extra protection for his clan, Harry sets out to mend his father's past wrongs and ally with their neighbors to the west, Clan Sutherland.

Louis Tomlinson is the mysterious commander of the Sutherland army sent back with Harry on orders from his laird to help shore up Clan Edwards' defenses. As the winter draws nearer by the day, the two are thrown together to prepare for the invasion that they expect as soon as the ground thaws.

25 DAYS OF FIC COVERS: (4/25)

My Lights Stay Up, But Your City Sleeps by @twoheartsbeating

Word Count: 108,266

Harry breaks into his own smile, scrunching his nose when he glances back up, meeting Louis' eyes, his stiff posture loosening. They stare for a beat, Harry's smile dwindling. "So... you're okay with it? That it can’t go anywhere?"

Louis nods easily. "We're on the same page. Promise." He holds out his pinkie to prove it, mind hazy and giddy from alcohol. Harry’s dimples appear in each cheek as he holds out his own, their pinkies intertwining. "We're just two people who like each other, have fun together, and who may or may not kiss and... stuff.” He grins, wild adrenaline pumping through to his fingertips.

Harry sinks his teeth into his bottom lip, lowering his flushed gaze to the floor.

“Just don't go falling in love with me, and it'll be fine," Louis smirks.

Or Louis has trouble sleeping, Harry has a habit of wrapping himself around Louis during the nights, and a mutual agreement to engage in a fun and simple thing quickly turns into something perhaps not so fun, and certainly not simple.