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Flimsy for my grandmas lap quilt is done! I might add a border just to add square footage, but I still have to get batting so I have time to figure it out.

✤ Wedding Fics ✤

A series of posts with the top five fics of each category by kudos plus five more hidden gems from that category! Remember to leave kudos and a comment on the fics you enjoyed to show your appreciation! You can find the library's other recs here.

- Top 5 H/L Fics -

1️⃣ Escapade by dolce_piccante {M, 146k}

In the grand scheme of things, finding a date for a wedding should be no problem for Louis Tomlinson. He's rich. He's handsome. He's reasonably well behaved. But when the wedding is for his lifelong best friend (and former boyfriend), and is happening in under a month, finding a date for the ceremony and accompanying festivities becomes more of an adventure than he ever could have planned for.

2️⃣ Perfect Storm by @cherrystreet {E, 80k}

What do you do when your best friend asks you and your (now) ex to be the best men at his destination wedding? You can either tell him the truth, tell him you’re not together anymore, and deal with the consequences, or you can pretend you’re still together and roll with it, just pray you don’t spiral. Fake it ‘til you make it. You know, for the sake of the wedding.

Harry and Louis choose the latter.

3️⃣ don't tell the gods (we left a mess) by barchive {E, 71k}

After a misunderstanding with Liam’s mother, Louis agrees to accompany his best friend to a family wedding and pretend to be the world’s best boyfriend. But their simple plan goes awry when he learns that Harry, ex-boyfriend/ex-love of Louis’ life, will also be in attendance. (aka: fake!boyfriends with a twist ft. bromance, romance and cake.)

4️⃣ Truth Be Told (I Never Was Yours) by JustForTommo {E, 76k}

Harry watches Louis as he scrunches up his nose and bites the end of a pen in concentration. He’s been working on seating arrangements for the past hour and getting more frustrated by the minute. Louis huffs out a breath and glances down at Harry with a soft smile on his lips before he returns to the task at hand. It’s easy, right then, for Harry to let himself believe that they’re planning a seating chart for their own wedding and bickering over who is going to sit where from a list of their own family members. He can let himself daydream about a white picket fence and a dog that they could have within the next year.

It’s like a cold slap in the face when Harry looks to the top of the page to see “Aiden and Louis Grimshaw” at the head table, and Harry has to mentally remind himself for the thousandth time that Louis is not his. Never was, really. He’s just the wedding planner that’s been in love with Louis since he was sixteen.

(or the one where Louis and Harry have a complicated past, Louis is getting married to someone that’s not Harry, and the universe has decided to have a laugh and make Harry the wedding planner.)

5️⃣ (your heartbeat) rang true inside my bones by flimsy / @flimsi {E, 32k}

Harry goes as Louis' date for a weekend wedding. He ends up taking the role a bit too seriously.

“Hey,” Harry hears himself say just as Louis climbs back into the car. He ducks down, holding onto the roof to look at Louis who cocks his brow at him and says, “What?”

“I meant it,” Harry starts. “Like, I’d do it. I’d be your date for the wedding. If it’d make you feel less awful about being there and if you want me to, I’ll do it. I promise I’ll be good.”

HIDDEN GEMS:

💎 no heart for me like yours (no love for you like mine) by @phdmama {E, 46k}

When Harry Styles, wedding dress designer to the stars (sort of) and Louis Tomlinson, wedding planner and relationship expert (kind of) meet on the occasion of their sisters' engagement, sparks fly. But not the good kind. Louis thinks Harry is a dick and Harry thinks Louis is an asshole.

That doesn't last long.

The road to true love isn't always smooth or uncomplicated. Can two stubborn men find their way?

💎 Forget the Silent Nights by LadyLondonderry / @londonfoginacup {T, 44k}

For years afterward, everyone who lived at 404 E. Redwood referred to that Christmas as The Christmas we stole a baby.

Technically, that wasn’t the strict truth, as Evie had already been five years old by the time she came to stay in their crowded (but loving) home. And technically they didn’t steal her.

Either way, the last Christmas with the seven of them in that broken old house on Redwood all together was probably one of the most memorable holidays each of them had, what with the wedding and the the snowstorm and the raccoons in their attic…

And the baby they stole, of course.

💎 Stranded In A Dream by @kingsofeverything {T, 12k}

Harry leaves everything behind for a job in Vegas which doesn't quite work out as planned. Feeling down on his luck, he meets Louis, a dancer for Britney Spears, who's determined to help Harry turn things around. They may or may not end up married.

💎 The Very First Words of a Lifelong Love Letter by LiveLaughLoveLarry / @loveislarryislove {M, 9k}

The prompt I picked was (lightly edited): "Harry and Louis have been best friends ever since they met through fandom (I picked Critical Role) twitter. Person A (I picked Louis) lives in New York City and Person B (Harry) lives in the UK. They’ve never met in person but they FaceTime and text daily. Person B’s cousin is getting married to a rich American who’s paying for the entire family to travel to The Hamptons for a summer wedding. Are Harry and Louis ready to meet?"

Harry thought he was just imagining things when the flower girl looked like one of the twins, but -- he’s almost certain that groomsman is Louis. The pictures he's seen haven't been the best quality, granted, but he knows Louis. He does.

Harry stares wide-eyed as he walks down the aisle in step with the bridesmaid, taking their places on either side of the stage. As they turn to look out into the audience, Harry’s strong suspicion solidifies into certainty. That’s Louis. He’d bet his life on it.

But Louis doesn’t look at him, and it’s not like Harry can wave. He can only stare, mouth still hanging half-open. Suddenly, as much as he loves weddings, he can’t wait for this one to be over.

💎 Have Me And Hold Me by @letsjustsee {NR, 5k}

His clumsy trips were now even more burdened by the sudden downpour. Twice he almost fell making his way back to the ceremony area, mostly due to his insistence on running across the lawn in between trips. The rain was relentless, coming at him from all angles with a deafening wind that muted everything outside of his own heavy breathing. He felt like he was making pretty good headway, all things considered. His pace was stalled only momentarily when, on his tenth or so trip, he thought about what someone looking out the window at that moment would see. Louis in his formal shirt and trousers, barefoot, stomping through the muddy lawn to gracelessly lug two chairs at a time towards the building.

sea view | E | 3762 “What happened to pillow princessing your way through tour?” “Woke up with a craving.” ____ Harry and Brad wake up on a yacht.

all caught up in your ebb and flow by flimsy | E | 5232 Liam and Louis find something to do that day on the yacht. “Don’t be a knob,” he says and nudges his nose against Liam’s arm again, faux-snapping for him until Liam catches his jaw in his hand to stop him. “No biting.” He grins and presses his thumb squarely over Louis’ lips and Louis scrunches up his nose, half-amused, half-annoyed because he can’t move at all with Liam’s arm around his shoulder and his hand holding him tightly, locking him in. He wiggles his tongue out until his taste buds bloom up with the salt from the sea that’s still stuck to Liam’s skin, and cocks a brow at Liam, grinning against his thumb when Liam’s eyes widen a little, mouth forming a perfect little ‘O’. Liam releases his chin, brows furrowing, and Louis chases his hand with the flat of his tongue, laughing.

time trickles down, breathing for two | E | 5591 Inspired by the boys' sojourn on a yacht in Miami. Because I think we were all a little bit turned on by what happened there.

The Tide Rises by Peachyhaz | E | 6124 “It’s our yacht and I can proudly say that I’ve never fucked somebody in the middle of the Mediterranean.” Harry announced proudly. Zayn frowned down at him. He didn’t believe that for a second, especially since Harry was dripping with money that anyone would do anything to get to. or Harry is filthy rich and wants to fuck Zayn on their new yacht

Under the Milky Way by jacaranda_bloom | E | 11023 Louis had always been a prankster, but being on tour provided him with countless opportunities to hone his skills with silly jokes and games, harmless really, and all in good fun. That was until the night he accidentally ended up in the wrong hotel room and dumped a bucket of iced water over a complete stranger. Or the one where Louis is a rock star on tour, Harry is a free lance photographer, and drinking red wine under the stars might just be worth the hangover.

Starlight by cinnamoncurls | M | 11630 “This is a disaster,” came Louis’ voice from across the room. Harry squeezed his eyes shut. He thought back to last night, when Gemma and him had had the bright idea to binge watch three whole seasons of Grey’s Anatomy. Everything that could have gone wrong, did go wrong. Surgeons have a name for it. We call it a perfect storm. It was his nineteenth birthday, and it was a perfect storm. ⭑ ⭑ ⭑ Sometimes all you need to do to get over a bad day is sneak into a yacht club party and pretend to be a duke and a prince with your platonic childhood best friend. And snog the shit out of him. That too.

too deep for this ship by lsforever | E | 19314 Harry is new in town. He's filthy rich, lives on the yacht his dad gave him, wears stupid Chelsea boots on the dirty, bird-shit covered dock, and while Louis tries to distance himself mentally from people like Harry, it's hard to when he has a smile like that. He's everything Louis never expected him to be and more, and it isn't long before Louis caves and gives himself to the gorgeous, bubbly lad. ~ Also known as the fic where Louis' profession is not common (previously unheard of by the author), Harry is a lovely contradiction like always, Niall is easily amused and constantly lazy, Liam is a secret-keeping little shit, and Zayn is a complete secret — at first. It all makes sense, eventually.

Lost and Found by shiftylinguini, Writcraft | E | 31329 In a year when things are coming to an end for Nick, an unexpected chapter begins at the start of a long, hot summer. An accidental romance in Malta. Featuring Annie on the decks, Nick and Louis below deck, a handful of bad nautical puns and weather that's far too hot for trackies.

Thank you for all the work you do!

I am looking for a fic i read on AO3. I believe it is an older fic and written from Dracos POV.

Harry is an Auror and Draco is a curse breaker working at a children's hospital in France. He gets asked to come back for curse that starts buy taking out part of his team Hermione and Harry are keeping information from Draco because they don't trust him.

After an night out Harry takes Draco hot and drugs him with Veritaserum and learns that Draco accidently killed his mom by removing his dark mark.

They finally trust Draco enough to share the full curse with him and after a bit more work he finds out that his father is the source and that Draco has to "die" for the curse to stop.

Also Pansy is getting married- I think it was to Dean?

Can you help? I thought I had it bookmarked and searched AO3 and I'm worried it may have been deleted?

Thank you!

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