♥️ Recently Read Fics - February 2022 ♥️
These are all the amazing fics I read over the past month (from shortest to longest). Don’t forget to leave kudos and comments to show the authors your appreciation if you read any of these! 💗
♥️ what’s that sound by @onlyfor-thegays (485, NR)
An omega freaking out the first time they hear an alpha purr because they were raised by and around betas and omegas. They had never heard it before and they freaked out thinking their alpha was hurt.
♥️ The Phantom Heart by @haztobegood (500, NR)
Harry notices the small stain at the edge of fabric. She scrapes her nail across the mark. It won’t come off. A smudge of crusted paint forever staining the threads baby pink with a bittersweet memory.
♥️ Thunder and Rain by @neondiamond (628, G, yes this one is mine, but we love a bit of self-promo in this house)
There’s a storm outside and Louis can’t find the puppies. Luckily, Harry’s there.
♥️ let me show you by @thestylinsons (1k, T)
After three rounds and several empty bottles, Louis is feeling a bit tipsy and everyone else seems to be enjoying themselves. Niall has just finished his turn, “Never have I ever got a tattoo”, to which everyone else groans and reluctantly drinks. Louis laughs to himself because he remembers the time he swore he’d never get a tattoo, and now he’s got an arm full. At this point, the alcohol slides down Louis’ throat like honey.
“Tommo, it’s your turn now.” He hums and looks around the room. Niall’s staring at him, giddy off the high of his last turn. Harry’s got both hands around his drink now, the label torn to pieces on the floor. Zayn and Liam are next to each other, and Louis remembers Zayn telling everyone something that happened a few months ago.
Or, everyone plays 'Never Have I Ever', and Louis discovers something about himself.
♥️ Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now by @allwaswell16 (1k, NR)
Louis is having a personal crisis, a third Valentine's Day being single. Unless he meets someone this week at the high end department store he works at, he'll be stuck going to Niall's Valentine's Day party--again.
Or the one where Harry mistakes Louis for a mannequin.
♥️ forever&more by @solitudeandchaos (1k, G)
Harry hands the envelope over to her and watches her throw it into the bin full of letters.
“Are you sure it’ll get to New Zealand in time?”
“It should but it’s hard to tell with Covid.”
Harry bit his lip worriedly, nodded and tapped his phone against the card machine to pay.
it's valentine's day. harry and louis haven't seen each other in two and a half months, they swap valentine's day cards from eleven thousand miles apart.
♥️ as long as there’s us by @hershelsue (2k, G)
Harry and Zayn discuss what to do for Valentine's Day. It doesn't really matter.
♥️ Happy Valentine’s Day, You Cockroach by @allwaswell16 (2k, NR)
Harry Styles, new director of the Milltown Zoo, has a great idea for a Valentine's Day themed fundraiser. For a donation, they'll name cockroaches after people's exes and then feed them to the meerkats on a live stream. He just didn't foresee how many cockroaches would end up with his name...
♥️ you (lost and lonely) by @hershelsue (2k, E)
Harry and Louis have a couple of days together before Louis goes on tour. Sometimes, however, dysphoria hits Harry harder than he can handle. Louis makes it alright.
♥️ Lips of an Angel by @beelou (2k, G)
And Louis can’t believe what he’s seeing. A man, cuddling with a grown bear. Literally rubbing its belly like a contented puppy. He can hear baby talk coming out of the man’s mouth too. Louis rubs his eyes to see if this is actual real life, but when he uncovers them, the sight before him is still there. He didn’t think that when he took his siblings to the zoo that they would see something as odd as this.
♥️ Sleepy Nouis series by @ladyaj-13 (2k, T)
A collection of unrelated Niall and Louis stories where for whatever reason, they end up in bed together.
♥️ take me home (forever and ever) by @twoghostsdancin (2k, T)
As he grips the counter tightly with his sweaty palms, the cashier gives him a concerned glance, an eyebrow angling in confusion. Louis is sure he’s saying something, but he can’t hear a single thing coming out of his mouth. It’s like someone just turned off all his senses, and all he can hear in his ears is a faint ringing sound. He staggers backward, his mind swirling, and his breaths shallow until he feels himself fall into a strong grip.
Or. The first time Louis falls, Harry catches him. The second time he falls, it’s for Harry.
♥️ At Last by @juliusschmidt (3k, T)
That’s when Louis sees it, scrawled in the corner: let’s do valentine’s.
There’s a few more notes after that, a place and a number, but Louis can’t process them in that moment.
His heart pounds and his head spins. Zayn wants to spend Valentine’s Day… with Louis. Louis’d spent so much time equivocating about whether or not to ask Zayn on a date that Zayn had beat him to it.
♥️ Gonna Dress You Up In My Love by @fallinglikethis (3k, T)
Harry decides to take up knitting. He's horrible at it.
Louis wears everything anyway.
♥️ I Can Be Your Vice by @littleroverlouis (3k, E)
It could be his innate flight or fight instincts kicking in. His predator is closing in and he is the prey. Fear would be a rational response.
After all, there is a centuries old vampire standing directly behind him.
“You’re ahead of schedule, Louis.”
Or Harry and Louis are FWBB (friends with bloodsucking benefits)
♥️ I'll do anything you say (If you say it with your hands) by @harrystomlinson (3k, G)
"What d'ya say curly?" Louis raises his eyebrow, mischievous smile playing on his lips.
"I'll do anything you say." Harry's voice comes out breathy, eyes widening when he realised what he'd said.
Louis doesn't reply- only takes his hand and pulls him in.
♥️ Make Your Mark by @ladyaj-13 (3k, T)
When one of Liam's classmates isn't getting the hint that he's not interested, Louis suggests they make him look unavailable.
♥️ Been Waitin’ (After Weekend After Weekend After) by @absoloutenonsense (3k, T)
Louis and Harry meet at a laundromat.
♥️ Validation by @lululawrence (3k, NR)
“Hey, how are you?” Harry asked. He’d found that sometimes just a smile and a kind face was all that was needed to brighten someone’s day.
“Oh, uhm. I’m alright. Can you validate me? »
Harry chuckled inwardly, but decided to go ahead and take him literally.
Or the one where Harry worked in a parking garage and he totally didn’t mean for this, the whole validation of people as well as their parking tickets, to become a thing. It just kinda...did.
♥️ Somersault by @sun-lt (4k, G)
“Got you something,” Louis whispers eventually.
Something in Harry’s stomach fizzes; the idea of presents—especially surprise ones—has never failed to evoke somersault excitement in his belly. And though he never has any expectations, it’s certainly not uncommon for Louis to spoil him like this when he knows Harry’s had a rubbish sort of day.
Louis gets Harry presents. Harry’s contemplating getting Louis a ring.
♥️ in the shallow water, you can swim around me (i won’t mind) by @non-binharry (4k, E)
“What’s got you all worked up this morning, princess?”
Louis tickles up Harry's ribs and Harry squirms, slapping his hands away.
"Your little footie players are in here giving their mummy hell this morning." Harry explains. “I could barely sleep so I had a little bath. I thought it was only fair that you give me a hand to lotion myself up.”
“And just where do you want me to rub you down, my love?” Louis asks, an amused lilt to his question. Harry knows that Louis had already figured out exactly what he was really getting at, too embarrassed to flat out say he was horny at 8 o’clock on a Thursday morning. Harry’s libido was going haywire in his final trimester, and while Louis was never going to refuse pulling his cock out to give his baby exactly what he wanted, Harry felt undignified over the reality that he could barely function these days if he didn’t do something first to relieve the aching pressure building just beneath the surface.
“Hmm,” Harry says, tapping his chin, “I think I want you to start… here.”
♥️ Click by @allwaswell16 (5k, E)
When Louis got assigned a roommate, he wasn’t exactly thrilled, but as far as roommates go Marcel was a pretty good one. That was until Marcel started clicking a counter everywhere he went...
♥️ baby I’ll never leave (if you keep holding me this way) by @so-why-let-your-voice-be-tamed (6k, T)
His fingers curl around the first thing he can find that would be suitable as a weapon, an umbrella that has a rather impressive looking metal pin at the end. He holds it in front of him the way he imagines people hold a sword, tiptoeing through his living room until he can find whoever’s in his kitchen. He briefly considers calling 999, figures that if someone’s trying to burgle him, he should probably not be a hero and actually rely on professionals to arrest them, but he’s never been the type to sit back and wait, and -- is that singing?
It is singing. Whoever is trying to rob him is in his kitchen, singing an eighties pop song under their breath.
♥️ you bring me home by @solvetheminourdreams (6k, G)
OTRA Melbourne — 14th of February, 2015
It's Valentine's day. It's Valentine's day and Harry's annoyed, because instead of spending the night with his boyfriend after a day packed with promo and a show—he can't find him anywhere.
Or the one where the boys trash a dressing room, Liam and Zayn just want a gift wrapped, Niall's life is in peril, Louis is MIA, and Harry's just a tad frustrated.
Did he mention it's Valentine's day?
♥️ Kiss Me Again, You Fool by @wabadabadaba (6k, E)
“Louis, you’re cuter than a button. Will you be my valentine? Hm, no,” Marcel scowls. “It is true but no. ‘I love you a latte!’ But wait, does he drink coffee? Only sometimes so that doesn’t make sense.”
Marcel sticks his tongue out as he ices three more cookies.
“I go bananas for you,” Marcel giggles. “That’s cute, but not sophisticated enough. He’s the best designer on our floor, he deserves something better. ‘Right from the start, you stole my heart?’ No, I don’t want to scare him off. I should probably just speak from the heart, that’s always what mom says. But then Gemma says that’s lame, I don’t knooow,” Marcel groans.
or the one where Marcel has a huge crush on his coworker, Louis, and decides Valentine's Day is the day to put himself out there.
♥️ Where Love Grows by @neondiamond (6k, T, more shameless self-promo)
When his husband leaves without warning only weeks after the birth of their first child, a struggling Harry is forced to move in with a work colleague and raise his newborn in the desolate, dreary outskirts of London. There, within the walls of a shitty apartment complex, he meets Louis Tomlinson, fellow struggling parent and hopeless romantic.
♥️ young hearts on the chase by @polaroidlouis (7k, G)
Before he can question him any further, Harry’s holding out a drink to him, ‘Louis’ written on the side of it with messy, pink letters. Warmth spreads all throughout Louis’ body when he takes it, starting from the tip of his fingers where they brush Harry’s to curl around the cup and settling in his chest.
“I also got us– um,” the omega starts, nervous fingers fumbling to get the paper bag open. “Got you an egg muffin. Or– or a normal muffin if you don’t like egg ones.”
“Who doesn’t like egg muffins?”
The smile that breaks across Harry’s face in response is as bright as the one yesterday. Louis almost expects it to be kissed into his cheek as well. It looks like Harry’s considering it for a moment, too, dreamy gaze gliding all over Louis’ expectant face. He seems to decide against it with a sigh though, and Louis’ not disappointed when they start walking side by side instead (he’s not).
harry’s a hopeless romantic, louis’ oblivious, and it’s going to be Valentine’s Day.
♥️ in comes the rain by @starlitlou (7k, M)
Louis glared down at the calendar notification on his phone, as if by the power of his gaze alone, he could make time skip forward. He just really did not want to deal with this.
Stupid fucking heat. Stupid fucking biology.
He knew it was dumb how worked up he got about it. It was far from his first time having to deal with it and it would be far from his last. And yet.
Being ace and an omega had never been Louis' favourite combination. Even less so when his heat is involved. Unfortunately, it's not something he can avoid forever. Harry makes it all a bit better.
♥️ With You Here, It’s Better by @chloehl10 (11k, M)
Louis hates Valentine's Day, especially since he's found himself suddenly single yet again.
When he stumbles upon his ex in the pub cavorting with his new boyfriend, Louis has had enough. He doesn't, however, expect a tall, curly haired stranger to come and turn his night around...
♥️ It’s Been Ages by @2tiedships2 (13k, NR)
“We need to talk,” Niall said as he plopped down on Louis’ bed. “It’s you and Harry. You like him, he likes you, it’s a match made in heaven and you will one day be mates,”
Louis shook his head in exasperation. “If you’ve been watching, you would see that Harry is interested in, like, alpha alphas. Not me.”
“What the fuck is an alpha alpha?” Niall asked with furrowed brows.
“You know what I mean,” Louis said, giving Niall a pointed look.
“I literally have no idea what you’re talking about.”
♥️ two sugars by @sun-lt (21k, T)
Louis rushes away to the kitchen, waving distractedly, and as his and Niall’s voices rise in a muffled squabble, Harry commits his first ever act of theft.
Louis’ blanket, emerald polar fleece still heated from his body, soaked in the mountain lake notes of Louis’ scent and the sugary aroma of the café, fits easily beneath his parka. Harry’s heart pounds like he’s run a marathon and his tea—perfectly sweet—burns as it splashes on his cheeks and chin, his trembling fingers failing to control the tilt of the paper cup.
Lonely and anxious in a new city and a new job, obsessed with preparing for a picture-perfect future he can’t actually picture, Harry begins to nest but can’t allow himself to indulge enough to satisfy the bone-deep, instinctual urge. Louis works in a café with a yellow door, has an extensive collection of soft sweaters, and keeps offering Harry books and pastries.
♥️ With A Little Kindness by @jacaranda-bloom (33k, E)
The man lays his hand on Harry’s forearm and Harry looks up as the stranger leans in. “I just wanted to say,” he whispers. “Can I cover your bill? I’m a big believer in paying it forward and I can see you’re struggling. It’s none of my business, of course, but I’d really like to help.”
OR the one where Harry is a struggling single parent who doesn’t have time for relationships and Louis is a generous stranger who is unlucky in love, until fate decides to step in and bring them together.
♥️ Bring It Back That Old Feeling by @all-these-larrythings (57k, M)
After six years together, Harry thought there wasn’t anything that he didn’t know about his husband, and no problem they couldn’t solve with a kiss and a snuggle. After a painful year of booze and heartache, he realizes some problems are much harder to fix, but the wait is always worth it.
