A One Direction fic rec of co-worker fics as requested via dm. If you enjoy the fics, please leave kudos and comments for the writers! You can find my other recs here. Happy reading!
🎻 Love Is A Rebellious Bird by gloria_andrews / @gloriaandrews, @100percentsassy
(E, 134k, enemies to lovers) Louis is the concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra, Harry is the New! and Exciting! interim conductor/ex-cello prodigy who “has made Mozart cool again” according to Esquire Magazine
📑 you are my destiny (you are the reason that i still believe) by @alwaysxlarrie
(M, 98k, Cinderella au) Being a new employee at a company means that you have to learn to brush off the shitty bosses, shitty coworkers, and not getting the credit you actually deserve for things. At least, that's been Harry Styles' experience.
🚐 Have Love, Will Travel by @kingsofeverything
(E, 97k, road trip) Rather than spend the summer working at their desks, Louis and Harry are given the opportunity to crisscross the country together in a tiny camper, filming their adventures for a YouTube series.
🎭 The Brightest Lights by Rearviewdreamer / @all-these-larrythings
(M, 70k, actors) After watching yet another actor walk away with his Oscar, Louis is on the lookout for the role of a lifetime that might finally get him the one thing he has always wanted. He didn't think coming out of his self-proclaimed break to do another film would be all that difficult, but that was before he met his new co-star.
💻 this charade (was never going to last) by @scrunchyharry
(E, 68k, fake relationship) As if the whole ‘industrial spy’ business was not stressful enough, Harry found himself in a hatred-at-first-sight relationship with one of his new coworkers, Louis, a man intent on detesting Harry.
🍽️ Feels Like Coming Home by @phdmama
(E, 60k, exes) The last thing Harry Styles expects when he's hanging out at the Someday Cafe in Somerville one rainy October day is for his ex, Louis Tomlinson to walk through the door, but that's exactly what happens. But having Louis back in his life, not to mention working at the restaurant where he's a chef, isn't easy
🌊 No Going Back by jacaranda_bloom / @jacaranda-bloom
(E, 56k, strangers to lovers) Sales reps Harry and Louis are bored with their jobs and their lives. After meeting at a conference in Cardiff they hook up, have a few too many drinks, and jokingly apply to become remote lighthouse keepers. Six months, just the two of them, looking after the southernmost lighthouse off the bottom of Australia. It’s not like their applications will be accepted. Right?
👨🌾 That's What I'm Here For by @taggiecb
(E, 46k, farm) Louis Tomlinson is a dairy farmer on a tiny farm in eastern Canada. His wife of nearly thirty years has left him and his children are all grown up and out of the house. Louis needs help running his business but has no idea where to even start looking. Luckily for him his children know just the man for the job.
👨🏫 Hands Clasped Tight by @afirethatcannotdie
(E, 44k, secret relationship) Or the one where Harry and Louis are high school teachers and their students have been playing matchmaker for over a year. Little do they know, Harry and Louis are already married.
🏫 You Watched Me Sink by bananasandboots / @anylessreal
(E, 38k, secret relationship) the one where Harry teaches Sex Ed and sneaks around with the drama teacher, and doesn’t realize how out of tune he is with his true feelings until everyone else figures it out for him.
📥 Big, Bright World by RealName
(M, 35k, office) Harry was engaged to someone else and had been from the moment Louis started working at Visionary. Office AU (not based on the TV show).
🎭 Rooms on Fire by @softfonds
(E, 34k, Omegaverse) Ten years ago, Louis helping Harry through a heat was the start of a romance that ended in heartbreak. Now, Harry's marriage is over thanks to his husband's very public infidelity, and Louis is fresh off a Golden Globe win. The last thing they both expect is to be cast in the same movie.
📊 You Left all your Dreams on the Threshing Floor by LadyLondonderry / @londonfoginacup
(M, 26k, office) Louis Tomlinson gets a job at Mod Magazine. He’s quickly drawn to the one person in the office who won’t give him (or anyone) the time of day; Marcel Styles, Senior Layout Editor.
💒 what's left of my halo's black by LiveLaughLoveLarry / @loveislarryislove
(E, 22k, fwb) A year after a devastating breakup, Louis is still trying to put himself back together - but getting over a breakup is hard when you work as a wedding planner. Thankfully, his coworker Harry is the most supportive friend Louis could ask for. But Harry has some secrets of his own, and they send Louis' world spinning off its axis all over again.
📋 baby, you're the end of june by @disgruntledkittenface
(E, 13k, Omegaverse) In which Harry courts Louis. Entirely by accident.
📈 On That Note by @allwaswell16
(E, 6k, Omegaverse) Louis’ office job on an omega only floor would be absolutely fine, if not for the alphas he and his friends have to deal with in the building. But although they’ve never met face to face, the friendly notes sent between him and Harry in Purchasing help him get through the day.
📎 Harmony by @seekforwarmth
(E, 6k, Omegaverse) Alpha Harry and Omega Louis don’t have the most amicable relationship at work. When they get stuck together in an elevator, Harry scents Louis after nothing else works to bring him out of his panicked state.
🗂️ Stuck in a Hellevator by Stria / @nooradeservedbetter
(T, 1k, trapped) Okay, so Louis might not be the easiest person to be around either. But it’s not his fault Harry from finance was hired around April’s fools, and he had to prank him by attaching that sign that said dumbo on him, it was all in good humour and he didn’t mean anything by it.
🕵️♂️ your crimes are quiet, my love by lightswoodmagic / @lightwoodsmagic
(E, 97k, Zayn/Liam) A darker Miss Congeniality AU that follows Zayn and Liam, MI5 agents, partners since training and best friends, as they race to stop a serial killer.
🔍 Bloom by LadyAJ_13 / @ladyaj-13
(T, 28k, Liam/Louis) In early 1970s Oxford, Detective Sergeant Louis Tomlinson has to deal with the dual pressures of a case that hits too close to home, and the arrival of new colleague Liam Payne. Payne is both the bane of his existence and, uh... dangerous. Very dangerous. His eyes, that is. His lips. The way he stands.
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