#dramaturgicallycorrect

through the jungle through the dark by YesIsAWorld | E | 12555 Louis and Harry were best friends, until they weren’t. Five years after they last spoke they’re forced to drive cross-country to visit an injured friend. If they can’t get over the past, it will be a very long week together.

Making Shades of Purple by alexenglish | E | 13348 Sometimes you have to get to where you're going to see where you've been. Or, Louis figures out he's in love with Niall. It's way less surprising than it should be.

Alien Roadtrip! by HelloAmHere | M | 16378 For the first time in his life, Louis doesn’t know where he’s going. Harry doesn’t mind. OR: roadtrip with desert feelings, too much snack food, and empty motels. Harry is definitely absolutely not an alien. That would be ridiculous.

Don't Let the Tide Come and Take Me by kiwikero | M | 28658 The aquarium in the lobby has been there as long as Louis can remember, and so has the merman inside. That is, until the day Louis loses his job and decides to set the creature free. They set off on a road trip to the sea, learning to communicate more and more each day. Their destination is LA, but the closer they get and the more Louis gets to know the merman, the more he dreads having to say goodbye. Or, the one where Louis decides to set a merman free and ends up finding his own freedom along the way.

let's start right now by dramaturgicallycorrect | T | 29621 He turns to Harry. “Do you mind, like. Can I take a picture of your driver’s license?” “Yeah,” Harry says easily, fishing his wallet out and presenting him with a California license to match his California plates. He has got an LA address, Niall notes as he snaps a picture. He’s got longer hair in this picture, waving down to brush his shoulders, a far sight from the short crop he's got now. It looks just as good on him, he notes almost subconsciously. He texts the picture to Louis as Harry puts the license away, give this to the police if I go missing .. What have you done Neil?? comes Louis’ answer quickly, but Niall ignores it, looks up to find Harry looking back at him. “It’ll be fun.” “Promise?” Harry tilts his head. “I never make promises. You’ll just have to trust me.” [Or Harry's a professional cross country road trip driver, and Niall is his latest fare.]

somewhere only we know by bethaboo | E | 44536 Personal assistant Louis knows something is up with his best friend and employer Harry. And it's not just his big tour coming up or the ever-increasing womanizing rumors about the popstar. To get to the bottom of Harry's moodiness, Louis decides he has to kidnap him and take him on a roadtrip up the California coast to Portland. The roadtrippiest road trip fic ever written. Basically an excuse for gratuitous fluff and smut with a pinch of angst tossed in for good measure.

but we know where we belong by dramaturgicallycorrect (ot4, 17k)

“What do you need, Louis?” Harry asks, though he fears the answer. Once upon a time, they’d have done anything for each other.

“I have gotten myself into something of a situation,” Louis says, after a long silence.

“And what situation is that?”

Louis looks over at him, but all of the light has left his face. His eyes are dark and tortured in a way Harry hadn’t often seen them. The last time they had gone this dark, their alpha was describing the way Harry’s sister screamed for mercy. They were his last words.

Harry wishes he could turn away again, but he endures.

“His name is Niall,” Louis says. “And he obeys his first moon in three days’ time.”

Niall seems to stay for as long as he can -- that what it feels like to Harry, like Niall’s only ever there until he can’t be there anymore, until something’s tugging him away and he has to follow. Every day he seems to be able to stay longer, sometimes up to hours at a time before he’s tugged away. Every time he goes, Niall leaves his glasses on the kitchen table like a promise.

[Or Harry’s rented a cabin by the woods in Mullingar to write his new album and he doesn’t know that both of his muses are Niall.]

Harry crinkles a smile back at Liam. “See you later,” he says, softer, like a promise, kissing him on the lips quickly before he’s out the door.

Liam’s heart races a little. They hadn’t made any plans, it could just be a general see ya later type deal. Like, we’re both here at Wimbledon, the statistical likelihood we see each other is pretty high, see you later! But the thing is, Liam really does want to see him later.

[Or Harry is Britain’s Best Chance and Liam is a wild card at the Championships, Wimbledon.]

work those shorts. by nopehes | M | 3643 The AU in which H&L are basketball captains from rival schools who hook up during late night 1v1 basketball sessions.

Sliding into home by becka | E | 4896 Niall and Louis have been on the same baseball team for two years, and they've been fucking for nearly that long. But when Louis gets hurt and can't play for a while, he's cranky and in need of soothing. Niall helps.

So Much Left to Say by myownspark | M | 7654 Harry and Louis play for rival high school football teams, and when they play against each other in the Homecoming game, someone has to lose.

down in atlantis by polka_stripes | E | 8818 Harry's sick of his string of shallow relationships and doesn't want to crush on Louis if he's just going to be broken up with after a few months. The heart doesn't always care what you want, though, and Harry's is going to dive in deep.

Double-Play by photo41 | M | 13094 Harry’s studying abroad in the states with his best mate Niall, and somehow gets thrust into the world of baseball. Not that he minds though, as baseball is chocked full of attractive players, especially Buffalo’s shortstop, whose favourite past-time seems to be using as many baseball pick-up lines as he can. Directed at Harry.

wild card (nobody, nobody) by dramaturgicallycorrect | T | 30108 Harry is Britain’s Best Chance and Liam is a wild card at the Championships, Wimbledon.

Swallow My Words by YesIsAWorld | T | 32699 Senior year is stressful. On top of balancing school work, family, and friends, Harry's lacrosse team is vying to win the state championship, he's not sure where he's going to college yet, and he has a secret boyfriend that no one can know about.

power play by sweatpantstomlinson | E | 34863 Louis and Liam play for rival professional hockey teams, but somewhere between the constant travel, grueling workouts and endless laps on the ice, they fell for each other. Only issue? No one knows they’re together...or even that they’re gay.

It’s not like he’s not seen any of them over the last eighteen months -- he has – but certainly not all once, not like the way it used to be. Not even the 2015 Way It Used To Be, because even before Zayn left they’d all pretty much tried to do their own thing. Like Just Starting Out Way It Used To Be when they were too scared to let go of each other because they didn’t have anybody else.

Niall had always had his family and the crew and all, but most days it felt like it was just the five of them and nobody else. And the world was laid out in front of them for the taking and they didn’t know who they were or who they wanted to be. Some days Niall still doesn’t know who he is or who he wants to be and he thinks that’s just as comforting as it is terrifying.

You’re not supposed to have it all figured out by age 23. He thinks people forget that sometimes.

[Or Niall organizes a lads’ holiday to see if they still fit.]

Harry’s maybe abusing his privileges as a teacher to take Jules out of school without express permission from her dad, but she looks awful. She’s crying in the real way, not whining but proper tears, and the longer she sits around in the nurse’s office, the closer she slips to a proper fever.

He doesn’t know what Liam was thinking when he dropped her off this morning. She’s clearly miserable, and in no state to be around the other kids. If Harry had been there, if he’d just let Harry stay the night, he would have insisted Jules stay home.

But Liam doesn’t ever let him stay. It’s been nine months. Harry’s got a bloody key to his flat, and for some reason he can’t understand, he’s never allowed to stay.

[Or Harry plays at being a step-dad, and Liam doesn't know if he's ready.]

Disgruntled film star Louis Tomlinson gets in trouble with the media and with his management company, so he is roped into a media stunt to recover his image: Win a Date with Louis Tomlinson!!!!

Harry Styles, a Tesco baker from Holmes Chapel, is delighted when his best friend Eleanor  wins a date with Louis Tomlinson (!!!!). What nobody (including Louis) sees coming is Louis following her home to Holmes Chapel. What Louis doesn't see coming is having his life changed by the bouncing, baking, enthusiastic idiot called Harry Styles.

Famous/Non-Famous AU

Words: 39,565 (9 chapters) Relationships: Harry+Louis Additional Characters: Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Eleanor Calder Published: 08. June 2014