#dancer louis

Chapters: 6/6 Fandom: One Direction (Band) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik/Liam Payne Characters: Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Niall Horan Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - College/University, American Football, Ballet, Accidental Cuddling, Spooning, Tutoring, Alternate Universe - Fraternity, Frat Boy Harry, Dancing, Lapdance, Grinding, Bets & Wagers, Shower Sex, Laughter During Sex, Fluff and Angst, Smut, Kissing, Texas, California, Costumes, Autumn, Making Out, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Rimming, Ankles, Brief Violence, Ableist Language, Sexist Language, Homophobic Language, Ignorant Language, Blackouts, Drinking, Netflix and Chill, Starbucks, Baristas, Vomit, Running, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Athlete Harry, Smart Louis, Sexting, Theatre, Bisexuality, Pansexual Character, daddy mention, Therapy, Mention of Panic Attacks, Updated 1/29/16 Series: Part 1 of Soft Hands, Fast Feet, Can't Lose Summary:

American Uni AU. Harry Styles is a frat boy football star from the wealthy Styles Family athletic dynasty. A celebrity among football fans, he knows how to play, he knows how to party, and he knows how to fuck (all of which is well known among his legion of admirers).

Louis Tomlinson is a student and an athlete, but his similarities to Harry end there. Intelligent, focused, independent, and completely uninterested in Harry’s charms, Louis is an anomaly in a world ruled by football.

oh my baby, i’ve been dying here (on the other side)

“With Em, it took me so long to even let her in a bit. I was so hesitant with her, and in hindsight obviously now I see why. I held everything so close to my chest until, slowly I started allowing her to have small pieces of me. Louis never asked, Mitch. And I never gave him permission. He just took it. He just reached in and took every part of me there was to take. And it’s like I belong to him now, like I’m just waiting for his say so. Waiting and waiting until he makes a move too.”

“He already has though, H,” Mitch interrupted, stopping Harry’s train of frenzied thoughts. “He made the first step. All the rest of the steps follow. Just slow down. Let it happen how it happens, and soon there will be a second, and a third, and fourth, and tenth date.”

Harry’s heart beat a bit faster at the idea of a tenth date, of so many dates they couldn’t even count how many there’d even been. Slowly, he smiled, allowing himself to imagine a future with Louis even for just one moment. “I hope so, Mitch.”

༜  10 fics you should read pt. 2  ༜

The Squishy Fic (9k)

au where harry sends a drunken text, louis calls him squishy, and they go to a wedding 

Howls Like A Beast (You Flower, You Feast) (16k)

France, 1754. Château de Versailles.

“You don’t love me,” Louis had said, utterly blasé as he callously fractured the heart of a Harry that was just barely eighteen.

“I do,” Harry had insisted pleadingly, green eyes already watering.

Louis had rolled his eyes, exasperated and flippant in the way only beautiful, young boys could be when faced with the affections of a baby prince. He had run his finger down Harry’s cheek then, had forced him to look into his eyes as he delivered the final blow.

“You’ll change your mind once you’ve seen more of the world,” Louis had teased, pressing a brutally delicate kiss onto Harry’s lovely, pure cheek. “Once you’ve been properly defiled.” He had whispered filthily, delighted by the gasp he heard, the frantic pink blush that had rested high on Harry’s cheeks, the power he had felt at knowing he could make the Crown Prince squirm.

Don’t Unplug Me Or Shut Me Down (8k)

Louis is a self-proclaimed nerd who fixes things and Harry seems too perfect to keep breaking as many things as he does. 

Put It All On Me (15k)

“Yeah, yeah, give it to me, that’s it, spread your legs a bit, there you go.”

The camera follows Louis as he does. Maybe if the modelling thing doesn’t work out, he could try the porn industry. Then again, he’s a bit too stocky to be twinky and a bit too twinky to be anything else. He likes that about himself, though. Well, directors and photographers like that about him. He could pull off pretty and edgy, could do GQ in the morning and a perfume commercial in the afternoon. Right now he thinks he could pull off anything, because it’s Harry fucking Styles directing him.

A Love Like War (173k)

Louis Tomlinson is a cliched rock star, he’s got everything except for love. But then he meets Harry Styles; the man that, against all odds, saves him in every way a person can be saved, even when Louis didn’t know he needed saving in the first place.

You are a lovely adjective, no word ever enough (50k)

“I love you, Louis thinks now, feeling the words on the tip of his tongue. Willing them to spill out. But he knows that if he spills these treacherous thoughts out loud, Harry will panic. Maybe he’ll even run away, like he ran away form The Monster.

I love you, Louis wants to tell him anyway. Wants to whisper it into his hair, kiss it onto his cheekbones, breathe it down his throat.

Instead he chews on his nail and says nothing.”

Tug-of-War (63k)

Louis’ husband dies suddenly and he is left with nothing. Well, not really nothing. He has Harry. And a St. Bernard puppy named Link, whom his late husband left behind for him. Louis takes care of Link and Harry takes care of Louis. Everything is okay until suddenly, it isn’t.

Burn (21k)

Louis is plagued by nightmares of being burned at the stake. Every time he closes his eyes he can see the flames, smell the smoke, taste the acrid smell of his own death in his nostrils. There is nothing he fears more than this.

Besides being something other than what he truly is. Which is, to say in the very least, a powerful witch. One of the most powerful in in the world, as far as he knows. His magic can’t even be matched by Liam, who learned quicker than anyone he’s ever met, or Niall, who’s magic fire could burn through a whole village in a mere moment if he wanted to.

When Louis meets Harry however, he realizes that his magic isn’t as strong as he thought. And as he tries to navigate through this magic, and the trials of friendships and lost loves that come along with it, Louis finds that being powerful is more of a plague than he realized. A plague that infects more people than he is comfortable with. 

Dance to the Distortion (96k)

Louis accidentally breaks Harry’s camera lens and in order to get it fixed, they decide to participate in a romantic couples study. The only issue is that they are not actually couple. Well that and the fact they cannot stand each other.

Soft Hands, Fast Feet, Can’t Lose (112k)

American Uni AU. Harry Styles is a frat boy football star from the wealthy Styles Family athletic dynasty. A celebrity among football fans, he knows how to play, he knows how to party, and he knows how to fuck (all of which is well known among his legion of admirers).

Louis Tomlinson is a student and an athlete, but his similarities to Harry end there. Intelligent, focused, independent, and completely uninterested in Harry’s charms, Louis is an anomaly in a world ruled by football.

A bet about the pair, who might be more similar than they originally thought, brings them together. Shakespeare, ballet, Disney, football, library chats, running, accidental spooning, Daredevil and Domino’s Pizza all blend into one big friendship Frappucino, but who will win in the end?

This is a shorter rec list and several of these are on the athlete fic rec we posted yesterday, so we’re not going to make a separate post for it, but here you go!!! Happy reading. And thank you! :)

Hii! Here you go lovely: 

Lovers Dance When They’re Feeling In Love by justyrae:

Summary: Harry is the clumsiest professional dancer anyone’s ever met.

Flightless Bird by DonnaHaywardsHead:

Summary: AU where Louis Tomlinson is a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet. When his rival from ballet school, moody dance prodigy Harry Styles joins the company, old wounds are reopened and old passions reignited. During the company’s production of Swan Lake the secret that doomed their love is finally revealed, but will it be too late?

The Art of the Giants by asphodelknox:

Summary: Louis is dancing away from an old relationship when he meets Harry at a bookstore in the busy streets of Seattle. Harry is just a bookstore owner hoping his handsome weekly visitor could become something more.

can’t keep this beating heart at bay by reality_ruins_dreams:

Summary: “And Arabesque!” The young man’s voice echoed through out the studio, the eager dancers moving into position. “Shoulders back, yes! You all look so graceful and beautiful! Right dancers you’re turning into.” Clapping his hands, he grins excitedly at the group of his young students, “Alright, that’s it for class today! Make sure to stretch and do not forget that our recital is in one month, so what does that mean?” He scans the faces before him before answering himself, “Have your piece ready! You’re dismissed and I’ll see you Tuesday.”

Or the one where Louis is a dancer and Harry is hopelessly in love with him.

You Were the Sun in my Storm by ashsparagus:

Summary: The one where Louis’ depressed and his friend Niall sets him up with Harry Styles, who suffers from depression himself.

Can I Make It Any More Obvious? by slashter:

Summary: “I don’t have a good past. With boys. I’ve dated some crap guys who’ve done terrible things to me and I've…I’ve done some crazy shit with some guys, and Niall and Liam have always pulled me through, they’ve always had my best interests in mind. And they…they don’t think that you’re good for me.” Louis finished, sighing and looking down at the tiles. “And the least I can do is listen to them, because I really do adore you, but if I get with you and I fuck things up, like I tend to do, then I’ll lose their trust and yours, and I don’t want that. I can’t–I can’t deal with that. It’d kill me.”

[AU where Louis does ballet and Harry is the epitome of everything Louis’ friends want him to stay away from]

The Hockey Player And The Ballerina by larrysbitchx:

Summary: Louis is a 3 time USA IBC gold medalist ballerina and Harry is a hockey player for team Canada.

Louis has a secret that comes with consequences and difficulties.

He wants Harry and Harry wants him.

But his secret is the only thing keeping them apart.

Hold Me Closer by balanceds:

Word count: 50k Rating: Explicit

The Styles-Twist holiday in the Catskills is supposed to be just that: a family holiday. A last hurrah before Harry relocates to the states for uni. Instead, it quickly devolves into a honeymoon for his parents, leaving Harry and Gemma to fend for themselves. Harry quickly befriends the staff at the resort, and is enticed by Louis, one of the dance instructors. Harry gets in over his head in an attempt to impress him, but with Gemma egging him on and a ticking clock, how could he not at least try?

Learning to Breathe 110kHe’s playing football at one of the top universities in England and he should love everything about his life right now, but instead he’s moving backwards. How does your past fit into your present? Louis is still figuring it out. ((ITS SO GOOD))

EDIT: I totally linked the wrong fic…I meant to link…

Soft Hands, Fast Feet, Can’t Lose 112kAmerican Uni AU. Harry Styles is a frat boy football star from the wealthy Styles Family athletic dynasty. A celebrity among football fans, he knows how to play, he knows how to party, and he knows how to fuck (all of which is well known among his legion of admirers).Louis Tomlinson is a student and an athlete, but his similarities to Harry end there. Intelligent, focused, independent, and completely uninterested in Harry’s charms, Louis is an anomaly in a world ruled by football.A bet about the pair, who might be more similar than they originally thought, brings them together. Shakespeare, ballet, Disney, football, library chats, running, accidental spooning, Daredevil and Domino’s Pizza all blend into one big friendship Frappucino, but who will win in the end?