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✤ Vacation 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 Let Me Feel Your Heartbeat by @angelichl {E, 34k}

Harry is 98% sure Louis hates him. So he feels like his bewilderment is justified when the omega offers to help him through his rut.

2️⃣ waiting for the tides to meet by @nauticalleeds {E, 59k}

Louis lets out a deep breath, thinking about Harry’s soulmate. Thinking about how Harry’s soulmate is probably as beautiful as Harry, some person that Louis cannot compare to, and how the universe has chosen them to be Harry’s. Fuck the universe. “Fuck you,” he calls out to the universe. He’s aware of how crazy he sounds.

Maybe he is crazy, with how he’s falling for Harry. And fuck that, too. 

Soulmate AU. Everyone is born with heterochromia — one eye is their own eye colour, while the other is the colour of their soulmate's. It's only when they meet their soulmate for the first time that their own eyes match properly. After a hazy night at a frat party, Louis wakes up to blue eyes and the shocking realization that he had met his soulmate, without any sober recollection. Seven years pass where Louis comes to terms with the fact that he'll never know who his soulmate is. Then one fated summer, a beautiful green-eyed photographer arrives at Louis' workplace, with promises of endless laughter and a familiar feeling in Louis' heart.

Featuring a lovely cup of OT5, a road trip down the coast, and a scene where Harry eats a whole head of lettuce. Don't ask why.

3️⃣ love is a word, you gave it a name by CuckooTrooke / @larrydoinglaundry {E, 158k}

After two decades in brutal show business, Louis Tomlinson is trying to restore his tranquility of mind in the peace of Northern Europe where the sun barely sets, Maria's bar is always open, and young Harry has an irresistible spark in his eyes.

4️⃣ Fake It Till You Make It by thealmightyavocado / @avocadolouie {M, 136k}

In a twisted turn of events, Louis finds himself posing as the brother of his fiancé, Harry, for an annual company retreat.

Did he sign up for this? No.

Is he doing it anyway? Yes.

Can they actually pull this off? Probably not.

5️⃣ Falling For Me Won't Be A Mistake by Rearviewdreamer / @all-these-larrythings {M, 58k}

Harry is married to his job and so overworked that he doesn't know how to stop. All it takes is a forced Hawaiian get-a-away, the warm tropical breeze of the island, and the most beautiful, elusive man he's ever seen to make him remember what living is like outside of work. Well, that, and the little souvenir he accidentally takes home with him.

HIDDEN GEMS:

💎 Love Moves Like The Sea by flamboyo / @riverswater {M, 33k}

“Of course I want to stay with you, I missed you, you know? We haven't spent so much time apart since…” Harry’s smile dims a bit. “Well, we've never done it.” There's a hint of a question there, a why. Why did you stop reaching out, why did we stop talking for months? Louis doesn’t answer. He can’t say, ‘I was hoping that by ignoring you for months I would have fallen out of love with you, and it didn’t even happen’ on their first day of vacation, can he? * Spending two weeks in his uncle's old house by Lee Bay beach is not Louis' ideal holiday, but sadly is the only one he can afford this summer. Spending those alone with Harry, his best friend who he has spent the last five years in love with, may make everything a little better, though. Away from everyday reality, alone somewhere that makes you forget your past and gloss over your future, maybe it's time for two friends to finally explore what they haven't said (but felt) for years.

💎 Like Those Foreign Stars by @beanno28 {E, 18k}

Louis' family go on a vacation to Mexico, he never expects to meet a handsome young entertainer who seems to have taken a liking to him. What happens when Louis easily gives in and decides sneaking around his family's back to have a fling takes a turn?

💎 BLVD by @kingsofeverything {E, 12k}

It’s the first week of summer break and Harry just wants to relax and enjoy his vacation in Myrtle Beach.

If only he could stop making an ass of himself.

💎 i need something, so tell me something new by @alwaysxlarrie {E, 10k}

Louis goes on vacation to New York City to enjoy the good weather and good food - he even has a list of restaurants he wants to eat at. Much to his delight, his first restaurant stop includes a gorgeous curly boy and his nosy but supportive best friend. Maybe he'll get more than what he came here for.

💎 hear my belated regret by theankletattoo / @peachade {E, 3k}

“Baby, can you look at me? Please,” he pleads, thumbing over his cheekbones, pads of his thumbs calloused. It reminds him of the beach, feet wet from salty waves, sand coarse, sticking to him, laughter and waves and salt and lovers.   “Don’t ask that of me,” he says out loud.

got me an appetite, now i can taste it by velvetnoodle | E | 3401 It's a hot, June night when Louis spots the man in the crowd, and it's about to get hotter

eyelid of the sky by theankletattoo | E | 13013 Maybe he can let the burn settle down. Just until they are somewhere else where their underbellies are only theirs to attack and protect. au. harry loves, quiet and desperately.

under your thumb by strong | nr | 15345 where the year is 1975, louis is the leader of a misfit group of boys in venice, and harry is a roller skater who somehow finds his way in

give it to me (like you mean it) by lovergalore | M | 20772 "Shouldn't you be with your girlfriend? The girl every guy would kill to be with?" Louis asks, sharp and bitter and then promptly sucks his lips back into his mouth and turns away, staring resolutely down the lifeless, dark allyway. He hears Harry laugh again under his breath. "Would you kill to be with her?" Harry asks, lips quirking. Louis quickly look back at him, his eyes burning into him. "No." or an AU based in the 1970's where Louis has a boring life, working in a little cafe in Prague when the city's most famous celebrity returns with a mystery boyfriend who isn't such a mystery to him anymore.

The Changer and the Changed by homosociallyyours | M | 59496 It’s the spring of 1977 and Harry Styles has just moved to New York City after graduating college. She knows she’s a lesbian. She just needs to figure out how to meet other lesbians. Louis Tomlinson works at a popular women’s bookstore in the Lower East Side, Womon’s Direction, where she spends her days reading feminist literature, writing poetry, exchanging friendly barbs with her boss Niall, and dreaming of finding someone to love. When Harry and Louis meet, their connection is instantaneous. Slowly but surely, Louis welcomes Harry into her community of women. Stonewall veteran and old school butch Niall; Liam, a land dyke who’s moved to the city for love; and Zayn, a lesbian musician who’s been ostracized by a vocal part of women’s community for being trans, welcome Harry with open arms, ready to help her find her place in New York City’s bustling lesbian scene. It’s a time of growth for everyone involved.

Atlas At Last by louisandthealien | M | 83037 He doesn’t know what he had been expecting out of the road trip itself besides burping contests and too much shitty gas station food with Oli and Stan, but in the brief moment before Harry ambles up his driveway, Louis idly wonders if this is about to become some sort of Gay Coming of Age story. Maine to California in ten days. In which Zayn’s an open-shirt hippie they meet somewhere in Ohio, Liam’s the pastor’s son running away from home, and Niall’s the number they call on the bathroom wall. It’s 1978. Harry and Louis are just trying to get to San Fran in time for the Queen concert.

Here In The Afterglow by fondleeds | nr | 88649 “If you hadn’t noticed, I don’t have many friends,” Louis whispers, the blossom of insecurity in his stomach unfurling and clawing its way into his throat. Harry is silent for a long time, and then he speaks; a soft, slow uncurl that makes Louis’ stomach shake. “I’ll be your friend.” - 1970’s AU. In a tiny town in Idaho, Louis’ life is changed forever by the arrival of a curious stranger.

press into my bones by theankletattoo | E | 2121 “What the fuck is wrong with you,” he hisses, half annoyed, half aroused. Harry only hums in lieu of a reply, his eyes not even open yet. Bastard. His mate is a bastard. or louis wakes up full.

Woke Up The Girl Who Looked Just Like You by vondrostes | E | 2932 “Is that something you get off on?” he joked. “Fucking yourself while watching me sleep?” “More like imagining you fucking me while I’m asleep,” she corrected as her face went pink.

Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) by juliusschmidt | E | 2995 Harry and Louis' tent is too small.

til you get what you want by eleadore | E | 5119 Sometimes Harry is still too big for Louis to take. He wants him anyway.

Sunrise High & Bodies Low by bad1ands | E | 7779 It’s all Zayn can do to pull Liam into his lap at first light or climb over him in the dead of night and fuck the long day out of him until the boy’s mumblings are only incessant pleas for more and sleep. (Or, just lazy, domestic sex.)

open up your butterfly doors by docklands | E | 8854 Harry and Louis have fun when Harry should be at work. Half asleep and too inebriated by pleasure, Harry ends up doing things he shouldn't do. Louis makes him pay for it.

i wish you felt me falling by abovetheserpentine | E | 17603 Harry’s in love with Louis. Louis isn’t in love with Harry. There’s nothing to work out.

forgive the urgency, but hurry up and wait by soldouthaz | E | 53701 Louis' going to do better. He’s going to have all of the uncomfortable conversations and the relationship talks. He’s going to make himself be a good boyfriend. And he’s got absolutely no idea where to start.