🔔 It's December! That means it's One Direction Advent fic season! Advent fics are generally posted daily from December 1 to December 24/25. Don't forget you can subscribe to the author to get a daily email reminder to read their Advent fic! 🔔
🎄 It’s Impractical (And I Need It) by LetTheMusicMoveYou / @letthemusicmoveyou28 {Fic post}
“It’s called the Alphabet Challenge. Couples’ go on a date that starts with each letter of the alphabet. It’s super cute, and a good way to spice up your relationship. You should try it!” Harry says to Liam and Zayn encouragingly.
Louis scoffs. “Pretty sure if it needs that much spicing…” He uses his fingers to put air quotes around the last word. “Then your relationship is already doomed.”
Harry clicks his tongue disdainfully. “Of course you’re not mature enough to understand something so evolved. You probably wouldn’t last three dates.”
(Or the one where Louis and Harry are frenemies, but a slightly tipsy bet has them doing a challenge that involves going on twenty-six consecutive dates leading up to Christmas Day. Will they kill each other, or find out they have more in common than they thought?)
🌟 Promises and Pomegranates by sweetkalachuchi / @neverforpickles {Fic post}
Louis runs to the forest after the biggest scare of his life and meets a stranger that changes everything.
🎅 Like I Said — On Your Own Now by LadyLondonderry / @londonfoginacup {Fic post}
Niall Horan has never seen himself settling down. At least, not in the traditional sense. He's never yearned for the typical partner, 2.5 kids, and a picket fence. No, Niall is selfish.
Niall wants more.
Niall wants a house the size of a castle, he wants enough room for all of his close friends and their families, and he wants to become the weird beloved single uncle that just also lives but everyone loves.
Twenty four Christmas Eves. One Christmas. One set of blueprints. Five friends. The worst puzzle ever created.
Happy Christmas, Here's to many more.
🦌 Christmas is Coming, the Goose is Getting Fat by @lululawrence {Fic post}
Out of desperation, Louis has recently started a job where he cares for the swans that reside year round at a loch in Scotland. It's not a bad deal, overall. He gets to live in the castle whose land the swans live on and most of his expenses are taken care of.
But there's paperwork.
Louis hates filling out paperwork.
Thanks to a stroke of genius, he begins recording daily logs on his phone so he only has to fill out the paperwork once a week before sending it in.
Join Louis through the transcripts of his daily logs in the days leading up to Christmas as he deals with everything you would expect of a December in Scotland; winter storms, a leaking castle, learning more about muted swans than ever expected...... and his soulmate goose that shows up after Louis apparently meets his soulmate.
Too bad he doesn't know who his soulmate is, much less how to find him.
🎁 it's time to begin by @disgruntledkittenface {Fic post}
Louis goes to a new coffee shop on Friday morning, where his friend Zayn just started working. The guy in front of him in line is hot, but Louis chickens out and doesn’t make a move. He doesn’t think anything of it until he wakes up the next morning and it’s still Friday.
Caught in a time loop and reliving the same day over and over, Louis is determined to try anything to get out of it. Even if that means overcoming his fears.
☃️ This Christmas by @neondiamond {Fic post}
It’s a well known fact amongst his flatmates, Liam, Niall and Zayn, that the holidays are Louis' least favourite time of the year. When the month of December starts off with Niall bringing home a new flatmate to fill the empty room they’ve recently found themselves with, Louis only expects more annoyance as a result. But as he gets to know his new flatmate, Harry, he starts to open up to the idea that maybe this time of year isn’t so bad after all.
Or the one with radio show host Louis, baker Harry, OT5 flatmates, a cat, and a whole lot of cosy Christmas feels.
✨ About the Gravity of Distant Lights by childofthelarents / @child-of-the-larents
“That was intense,” Harry observed, looking as if he hadn’t suffered nearly as much as one might expect after hours of focusing on rather dry paperwork. Something about the way he was looking at him caught Louis off guard. Made him reckless in a way that he wasn't used to.
„Everything you do with me will be just like that,“ Louis joked mindlessly, meaning the jurisdictional work, only noticing the slight innuendo when he saw the way Harry blinked slowly, the double meaning clearly sinking in. By then, it was far too late for Louis to take the words back.
A terrifying second of quiet stretched between them.
~ or In his life, working as a lawyer for one of the country’s biggest TV productions, Louis is accustomed to control, strategy, and maintaining distance. But when he becomes tangled in the chaos of their latest show, all that precision is challenged by someone impossible to ignore...
🌲 A Very Merry Donny Christmas by @prettystylinson {Fic post}
Louis hates Christmas. Truly, deeply, with a passion. Too much cheer, too many twinkly lights, and worst of all...It always overshadows his birthday. But when he crosses paths with a relentlessly festive café owner who practically sparkles with holiday spirit, Louis might just discover that the season isn't as unbearable as he always thought.
🛷 Christmas Holiday by @itstilliswhatitis
Harry and Louis are two strangers with a couple of things in common.
1. They just ended a relationship. 2. They both booked a 40-something days cruise to the carrabean spontaneously.
With a little help from three employers at the ships karaoke bar (Niall, Liam, and Zayn), they find themselves enjoying each other's company. Neither of them is ready for something serious. That turns out to be a problem...
🕯️It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas by @reminiscingintherain {Fic post}
Harry's out of a bad relationship - is he really ready for the festive season?
🧣 One Last Christmas by louisismycat / @liminalkittyfics {Fic post}
Harry and Louis will officially begin their separation and divorce in the New Year. In the mean time, they’re committed to making this Christmas a special one for their children. Every night, they’ll keep up their family tradition to keep the magic alive. But maybe the elves have some Christmas magic of their own up their sleeves?
🔔 The Road Not Taken Looks Real Good Now by Worldsofdreamers / @defences-down {Fic post}
At 32 her life looks nothing like she imagined it would.
Not even close.
Going home for Thanksgiving is nothing more than an avalanche of reminders of this. Especially once someone from her past returns too.
🎄 home to me by @homosociallyyours {Fic post}
When Harry accidentally steals a shirt from his new (very cute) neighbor's laundry, he doesn't mean to get addicted to the scent. He's strong, though. He'll survive the scent fading and move on, no problem. Right?
He's just gotta keep his distance from Louis, the aforementioned hot neighbor.
Louis, meanwhile, is struggling to make friends in his new apartment in a brand new town. Nobody in the building will return his friendly gestures, but at least the cute guy down the hall makes eye contact with him sometimes (after being caught staring just a little creepily, yes, but beggars can't be choosers).
An Advent drabble series
