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🎆 These Streets | Gia279 | T | 3.7k

A fey creature is stalking the streets of Baltimore, and it's Derek's turn to play bait.

🎆 if tomorrow never comes | EvanesDust | T | 3.6k

The air in the room is thick with an unspoken secret that Derek clearly isn’t privy to, judging from the weary glances his colleagues spare him. There’s no time to think about why he’s suddenly become the focus of everyone’s attention when they have a defenseless patient on the table.

“What the hell is going on?” he demands, watching in confusion as avoidant eyes frantically dart between him and their patient. Derek follows their gaze, fixating on the chest wound’s ragged edges, on what is simultaneously the most beautiful and heart-wrenching thing he's ever seen.

They say the day a person meets their soulmate is supposed to be the happiest day of their life. Unfortunately, for Derek, life is a cruel bitch.

His vision goes white at the edges. Peeking through the bloodied mess of tissue, marred only by the abraded skin of the bullet wound, is a familiar soulmark. His soulmark. Their soulmark.

🎆 two frozen hearts set out to thaw | raisesomehale | T | 3k

At this point in Stiles’ life, there are an overabundance of ways that he has imagined he could die.

I.e. Demon possession, asphyxiation, torture, blunt force trauma, poison, getting bit and his body rejecting the bite, drowning, bleeding out, ending up as collateral damage in an all out pack war, getting hit by a car or a bullet, developing the same disease as his mom...

But by some cruel twist of irony, hypothermia had never made the list.

🎆 safe haven | raisesomehale | T | 1.4k

Derek stares down at Stiles’ face, the only part of him not swimming in black fabric, and feels stunned as he takes in the features he hasn’t seen in years. The last time he had seen Stiles, the last time Stiles had come here, he’d been wide-eyed and baby-faced, freshly sixteen with a Spark’s Mark flaring to life inside him. He’d been terrified. Now, his face is all sharp angles and definition, matured and molded into a man. And even unconscious as he is, Derek has a hard time imagining anything terrifies Stiles now.

🎆 Maximum Suction | fairytalesandfolklore | T | 0.5k

Derek glares at the pair of them and makes a show out of turning the vacuum up to maximum suction so it's running even louder than it was before, but he barely has a moment to bask in his petty victory before the decrepit old thing splutters and shuts off.

"Not again," Derek groans, sighing in defeat as he jiggles the cord out of the socket and begins the tiresome process of wrapping it back up.

"What's wrong with it? Battery trouble?" Kira asks, because she's the only one polite enough to pretend she actually cares.

"Not sure," Derek replies. "But lately, it only lasts about a minute on max succ."

Stiles, who's been engrossed in a game of I Love Hue on his phone this entire time, huffs out an amused snort of laughter, and without missing a beat, blurts out, "Derek only lasts about a minute on max succ."

It takes Stiles a few seconds for his brain to catch up with his mouth, and then he's blushing harder than a summer sunburn, sinking down into the couch cushions like he's hoping they'll swallow him whole, while Derek stands in the far corner, frozen to the spot with half a vacuum cable wrapped around his shoulder, the tips of his ears burning bright red.

🎆 Can't Hide What I Feel For You | whenwordsmakesense | T | 2.1k

Derek and Stiles are co-actors. Their characters are in love with each other, or that's how the fans interpret their interactions in the show; the truth is that stiles and derek like each other irl and have slowly fallen in love over the course of the show, and the looks they give each other are real. Except they're oblivious, and it takes a little bit of drunken/late night confession to get to the truth.

🎆 The Beast You Make of Me | radio_chatter | M | 1.1k - 1/2

When Stiles is kidnapped from his university dorm by a group of rogue hunters, Derek stops at nothing to bring him home.

🎆 Eight Hundred Steps Between | thisgirlsays22| E | 6.2k

“Did we do this whole thing backwards?” Stiles asked.

Derek had never done things backwards or forwards, but he knew enough to know that love was a delicate thing.

~

Derek found his mate and quickly realized he didn’t know what came next.

🎆 Keep Moving | Gia279 | T | 10k

cook for me (if you can handle me) by yoursongonmyheart (13k) [au, fluff, crack]

louis tomlinson, much to his own despair, gets thrown into a four week cooking class taught by culinary student harry styles. pair that with his classmates zayn and niall who may or may not know his roommate liam, and you've got a recipe for fun.

aka, a wildly self-indulgent crack fic.

✨ Deuxsphere by sweetlullabies (156k) [au, university, soulmates, enemies to lovers, slow burn, pining]

The way the vines of the rose curled around the sharp straightness of the dagger was an image that was going to be forever embedded into his mind. The longer Harry craned his neck to look at it in the mirror, the more he realized—it was fucking creepy. He couldn’t for the life of him figure out why it was there, or why humans decided to make it mean something.

Harry's first year at uni is guaranteed to be a breeze as long as he stays focused, steers clear of flying footballs, and completely avoids boys who are in bands.

dream our dreams of dazzling blue by sweetrevenge (13k) [au, fluff]

Harry and Louis meet at a rollerskating rink. Louis might be a little bit in love with the boy who keeps fucking falling down.

or, the one where Harry and Louis start out as strangers but become so much more.

✨ Heart on an Open Highway by afirethatcannotdie (5k) [au, famous/non-famous, fluff]

AU. Harry's a popstar about to release his second album, and Louis is the Radio 1 intern who gets his heart racing.

✨ hush. by Wankerville (41k) [au, prose, coming out, high school, angst, hurt/comfort]

“I don't like you like that, Harry.”

“See,” Harry starts, Louis can hear the smile in his voice, “that's where I think you're lying.”

or an au where small towns suck, louis is losing it, and harry’s just too perfect.

✨ I Am the Blinking Light by dearmrsawyer (19k) [au, fantasy & supernatural]

There is a legend of a lighthouse far out to sea. It can’t be found on any map, and those who do find it never return. They say a ghost haunts the lighthouse, and you can hear it calling out in loneliness on the ocean waves.

if it’s me you’re looking for by eleadore (14k) [au, friends to lovers, angst, pining, neighbors/roommates]

Louis has a bad habit of getting drunk before he confesses--or maybe it's the other way around. AU.

✨ Keep Yourself Warm by navigator (19k) [au, friends to lovers, angst, pining, neighbors/roommates]

AU. Harry sleeps around.

King and Lionheart by stylinsoncity (46k) [ou, a/b/o, friends to lovers, pining, angst]

Louis can't remember a time when he didn't hate being an omega. But maybe he just needed Harry to come along and make him his.

King and Lionheart by haloeverlasting (30k) [au, royalty, coming out]

Prince Louis Tomlinson is the first out gay monarch in his small country's history. After facing a failed attack in town, he understands why. Expect the unexpected seems applicable, but nothing could have prepared him for his own mother's reaction -- a bodyguard by the name of Harry Styles.

✨ Makes Perfect by checkthemargins (8k) [ou, pwp]

"What if you practiced on like, a mannequin?" Louis presses. "Or one of those blow up sex dolls? Or even just like, I don't know, a pillow or something. Whatever it'd fit around."

Harry tilts his head thoughtfully, curls catching the light so entrancingly that Louis finds himself reaching up to push his fingers through them. "It's different, though, innit? When it's a real person. A pillow won't snog me."

"Why should it?" says Louis. "You can't even take its bra off."

Mutability by haloeverlasting (108k) [au, friends to lovers, slow burn, angst, pining, hurt/comfort]

Harry and Louis meet in a book club. Life and fiction have their parallels.

Salt & Vinegar by elsi_bee (77k) [au, road trip/travel, friends with benefits, pining, fluff]

Louis is ready to experience the local flavour during his next few weeks in beautiful Costa Rica. So why does the same British boy keep pulling him in?

‘Sexbot’ series by mediaville (14k) [ou, angst, smut]

Louis catches Harry getting off with a [sexbot] and is burdened with the knowledge of what Harry wants from him.

✨ Sometime Around Midnight by cherrystreet (3k) [au, exes to lovers, angst]

It's a Tuesday evening when Louis hears that the band is in town. It's poor timing, really; he has precisely a thousand and one documents to catch up on for work, his flat needs a desperate cleaning that he's put off for weeks, and he's been fighting off a cold since Friday that finally seems to be winning. He stares at the band’s flyer posted online - a bleak announcement that they're back for one night only at their old stomping ground, a shit time slot right around midnight - and he gives it about 90 seconds before he's leaping off the couch, looking for his wallet.

Or, Louis is trying to get over his ex, and he thinks that paying their favourite band a visit might help bring him some closure.

He's wrong.

Swallow My Words by YesIsAWorld (32k) [au, high school, secret relationship, coming out, sports]

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.

✨ The Melody You Never Heard by bananasandboots (30k) [au, road trip/travel, enemies to lovers]

It's one last adventure. One last chance to be young and carefree. One final weekend before they take up their internships, their corporate positions, before they enter the real world, fresh out of university. Niall's his best mate. Liam's been there for him since they were lost, little freshmen, trying to find their ways through an overwhelming first year. Harry can't disappoint them, even if it means enduring four days with Louis.

Louis, who he does share a history with, a history he's never told anyone about, not even Niall, a history he hasn't brought up in three years because it's stupid and embarrassing and confusing.

Or, the one where Harry gets roped into a four-day camping trip with the boy who kissed him and never called back.

we can take the long way home by eleadore (27k) [ou, friends to lovers, friends with benefits, smut]

“Fertile,” Louis says, and then laughs because it sounds stupid to say out loud. He hasn’t ever really thought of himself in those terms. Baby-making terms. It’s just one of those things his body can do, like exercise, or go without tea. Doesn’t mean he will.

or,

The band takes a break. Harry and Louis come together.

We Can Work It Out by Anonymous (24k) [au, university, friends to lovers, coming out, pining]

Louis Tomlinson had big plans for his last year of uni. He was going to hit the gym, he was going to get hot, and he was finally going to catch the eye of the girl of his dreams.

Enter Harry Styles, friend-of-a-friend and part-time personal trainer. Falling for him was never part of Louis’ plan.

When You Look Like That by hrrytomlinson (16k) [au, exes to lovers, fluff]

“You… you still have the dress form I got you for your eighteenth birthday? You've kept it for ten years, Harry?” Louis’ eyes flick around Harry’s studio. It’s big and modern, with floor to ceiling windows that help flood the room in bright sunlight, just like the lobby. However, he can't stop staring at the faded, but present, heart surrounding the “H + L” written delicately in Louis’ handwriting in the center of the mannequin.

💕 saviour complex (sequel to spit the blood back) | Poe | M | 22.7k

"The first time Stiles told Derek he loved him, he didn’t exactly tell Derek. And that shouldn’t hurt, but it does. Stiles told a crowd of people and Derek happened to be one of them. And Derek had known, of course he’d known, he’d known for months, he’d known when he was helping Stiles pick out lyrics for the album and he’d known in early mornings and late nights and lazy afternoons. But those words, so often whispered and thrilled, weren’t given to him, they were given to an audience."

*

(or: Trauma is an unreliable narrator. A sort-of sequel to spit the blood back, focusing on Derek Hale. The author may have watched the All Too Well short film too many times.)

💕 yes, deputy | sterekhale | M | 1.7k

His radar reads the speed as the dark SUV comes into view, and his first thought is that he might have to seize and impound the vehicle, then he realizes who the driver is.

💕 and you feel like falling down | Fenris13 | T | 1.2k

"You know that this is totally unnecessary, right? There's no reason you have to carry me all the way back to the car, I'll be fine—"

"Oh? Okay, I'll just drop you here then," Derek says.

💕 looking | Helenish | M | 3.5k

Stiles likes enchiladas, true crime novels, black coffee, eggs over-easy, Pearl Jam, he’s tall and kind and great with kids—

(warnings for things that happened in canon with Kate)

💕 In Vodka Veritas | fairytalesandfolklore | T | 2.1k

"Listen, the only reason I suck so badly is because I'm drunk," Stiles insists, swiping Derek's controller out of his hands and settling it back onto the charger. "Under normal circumstances, I could totally kick your ass."

"Sure you could," Derek teases with a playful roll of his eyes. "Tell you what — I'll have another drink to even the score."

"Fucking werewolf stamina," Stiles scoffs and shakes his head, immediately regretting it when the room spins violently.

Derek shrugs. "I could go for another round of Sex on the Beach," he says, though admittedly, he's already quite drunk as it is, wolfsbane-infused vodka swimming giddy laps in his veins.