✨ Favourite fics read in 2025 ✨
💠✨ hard times in elmsmere by @stylinsoncity
(M, 38k) in elmsmere, a vampire’s need for blood is only awakened after their first feed. and with their first taste of the vein comes strength, speed and in louis’ case, raging bloodlust for harry, his best mate since the age of three. for louis, being a full-fledged vampire complicates everything, not just his relationship with harry but with harry’s entire coven who took Louis in as an orphan.
he’s struggling enough to adjust to life in the present when an older version of harry magically appears to him and requests his help in the future.
💠✨ The Green Room by @jasthelarrie
(M, 112k) "For the last time, go away! This is fucking harassment, you know that? I'm well within my rights to call the cops." Louis wished he could have hidden the tremor in his voice. He knew that it was thick with emotion. He was frustrated, angry, and beyond devastated.
That was definitely not his ex's voice. Louis froze. Who had he just sworn at?
Louis has just been through a bad break-up and accidentally verbally assaults unsuspecting flower delivery man Harry.
💠✨ To find home (is wherever you are) by CrOminona
(E, 46k) Harry will wake up tomorrow and life will go on as always. They will go out with their friends, they will catch up and have fun. And then one day too soon Louis will pack his bag again, will find a flight to wherever he hasn't seen yet and he will leave the city.
Harry will stay behind, waiting for the texts he barely receives sometimes, some of them sent at weird hours because of time zones. Days will become weeks, life will carry on in London with little to tell and a lot to do. And one day Harry will stop counting the hours that has passed since he last saw him and just expect Louis to appear whenever he pleases. Could be three weeks. Two months. One and a half. They never know, but Louis always comes back.
💠✨ And That Was That by @lightwoodsmagic
(E, 22k) "Okay. When Zayn and I were working on the set yesterday, Liam dropped by and mentioned he had a date. I asked Zayn about it, and he said that they're ah - poly?"
"Oh yeah, I knew that. Li mentioned it when we were playing tennis once." He ran his hand through Louis' hair, smiling softly when he nuzzled into the touch. "Is that what's making you act strange? Because it seems like something that works for them, and I-."
"Zayn has feelings for me." A deep breath, and then blue eyes locked on green. "He said he needs distance because he has to get over them."
Harry hadn't realised his hand had fallen from Louis' face until his fingers were being tangled and gripped tightly.
Or, Zayn and Liam have been polyamorous for years, but Harry and Louis are monogamous. When Zayn meets Louis and starts to fall for him, it opens them all up for something they've never experienced before.
💠✨ these bad omens (l look right through them) by likelarry
(82k) How on earth does someone his parents' age look so damn hot? All of their other friends look... bland and boring.
But Louis, fucking hell. He's something out of Harry's wettest fucking dreams.
Where Louis is Harry's parents' friend and teaches at Harry's university. Harry can't resist getting a taste.
💠✨ Lies & Liability by @evilovesyou
(34k) Harry Styles has only three wishes when he leaves River Dane Manor to go to Town for his first season: that his sister has rented a townhouse that will provide him as many of the comforts of the country life he has grown accustomed to as possible, that he will not trip and fall when he is presented to Her Majesty the Queen, and that he will enter matrimony out of true love, no matter how favourable the match with any which alpha may be.
💠✨ touch me baby, put your lips on mine by @insightfulinsomniac
(12k) When Niall and Zayn invite Louis to a monthly sex party, Louis reluctantly agrees because he's always up to try something new. At the party, each attendee selects a cup based on a color that corresponds with their power dynamic preference - dom, sub, switch, or none.
Louis decides to lean into the preferences he hasn't had the chance to explore before, but what he doesn't expect is to meet the prettiest boy in a blue bandana, blue nail polish, and holding a blue cup.
He expects even less to make a genuine connection that keeps him coming back each month.
Aka the soft and sweet sex party fic with a dash of dom/sub dynamics and a LOT of public sex.
(65k) The train grinds to a halt and Harry leans forward in his eagerness to take it all in. It's a gorgeous Spring day, the sky the same intense blue that he knows from home, which comforts him. There's much here that looks almost familiar, but then so much that is new and strange to his eyes. The bustling station platform and winding streets beyond paved in cobblestones look much like home. There are vehicles ranging from small to very large, some with strange and unusual shapes of which he can only guess the purpose. But most surprising are the people. There is a crowd gathered, filled with men and women, some in what looks to be a military uniform, some in what must be the street clothes in this Land.
There are no robes. And not a single one of them is veiled.
💠✨ You Take Me Over, You're the Magic in My Veins by supernope
(E, 36k) Louis can feel Harry's eyes on him as he turns to head toward his seat. He tucks a secretive smile into the palm of his hand while he slides into place beside his sister, his mother's seat still empty as it awaits the Queen's entrance. He knows he should be behaving himself a bit more, should be focusing his attention on Gemma, rather than her brother. He's working on borrowed time is expected to announce his engagement to the Princess within the next few weeks, but he can't seem to help himself. Gemma is lovely, kind and witty and beautiful, but he has no interest in being married to her, had no interest in marriage before her arrival, period.
Teeth sunk into his bottom lip to disguise his smile, Louis risks a quick glance toward Gemma and Harry's usual seats, finds Harry already seated and staring steadily back at him. His hair is a mess from Louis' fingers and his cheeks are still flushed, and Louis' heart gives a heavy, delighted thud. No, he thinks, he has no desire to be betrothed to Princess Gemma, but he finds he wouldn't mind being married after all, if it was Prince Harry he was promised to, instead.
💠✨ the unfinished game (series) by barchive
(T, 75k) Harry's been engaged to Princess Charlotte of Ryde for as long as he can remember. He's come to know her, to love her, through the letters she's sent him over the past three years.
But when the wedding finally arrives, Harry quickly learns that nothing is as it seems. With his crown and country at stake, Harry must decide who to trust in this strange new land. And the sly Crown Prince of Ryde doesn't seem inclined to make things easy.
(M, 164k) Harry and Louis are finally engaged. That, unfortunately, is the easy part.
The course to true love never did run smooth and with Queens and countries on the board, nothing is certain. It is down to them both to find a path onwards, but will be it together or alone?
💠✨ Endgame by @brightgolden
(E, 38k) Where omega Crown Prince Harry Styles is trying and failing to get pregnant for four years, but all that is about to change when courtesan alpha Louis Tomlinson comes into the equation.
💠✨ The Edge of the Stars by @casuallyhl
(NR, 16k) to want to go out with me?"
"Oh baby," Jay chuckled. "1 can convince all of the UK to want to go out with you."
Or, a Meet the Parents AU where Harry is the man of Louis' dreams, and it's up to Jay to convince him to date her son.
💠✨ all i've ever learned from love by @eulogisemeao3
(M, 53k) "Will you think of me?*
"When you're with him, will you think of me? Every time he touches you, every kiss, when he-" Louis thrusts into tight heat, groaning deep at the way Harry shudders beneath him, how his fingers dig into his shoulders, how he moans Louis' name hot and addicting. "Does this. Will you think of me?"
Harry doesn't know how to say that ever since he met Louis, every man after had been replaced by him.
In 1940's New Orleans, Harry's only ever known how to survive. One night he meets his match in the rugged Louis Tomlinson who gets through life just like him. What was to be a one night encounter turns into something bigger. Evenings spent like thieves, and nights spent baring their bleeding hearts, lines get blurred. Behind the masks they wear, they realise that somewhere out there, love exists, and it can grow oh so quickly.
💠✨ And I'II Be Yours To Keep by sweetly_disposed
(T, 58k) Moving from a rough school to a private performing arts college is a culture shock for Louis. He's trying to settle in the best he can, establish himself as a respectable teacher when the kids he's teaching are only a few years younger than himself. One student in particular, quiet Harry Styles, catches Louis' attention from the word go.
It soon becomes apparent that Harry has talent, is one of the best ballet dancers Louis has ever seen. Louis has a responsibility to keep Harry at arm's length, but with every day that goes by, he feels his control slip a little more. It's risky for everyone involved, but somehow... Harry seems worth it.
("That's Harry Styles," Zayn said. "He's been at the school since he was eleven. Hands down the best male ballet dancer here, I swear.")
💠✨ Love on the train by @likeabluebird01
(M, 4k) The one where Louis and Harry meet on the tube during a speed-dating.
💠✨ the thought of you is wrapped around my neck by @louieshalo
(E, 15k) Harry bites his lip, glancing over at him; his eyes are still on the horizon, so Harry lets his gaze linger for a moment. The chill has flushed the tip of his nose and apples of his cheeks pink, and he looks so painfully pretty that it makes Harry's heart hurt; this close, he can see a few patches of close-shaven stubble Louis' razor hadn't quite cleared away, and belatedly it strikes him that Louis must have shaved specifically for this. He'd certainly had noticeable scruff when Harry had been shamelessly ogling at him through the huge festival screens lining the stage earlier in the day.
His teeth sink into his bottom lip to temper the satisfied little smile that blooms at the thought of Louis taking the time to neaten himself up for a night out with Harry, the idea sating the endless pit of need that Louis ignites in him just enough to quiet it for a short while.
or, where Harry is desperately, stupidly in love with his best friend.
(E, 16k) Harry falls asleep a 17 year-old who lives in Cheshire and is probably rockstar Louis Tomlinson's biggest fan. He wakes up 24 with a wedding ring on his finger, two kids, and Louis Tomlinson attempting to wake him up with a blow job. The doctor calls it organic retrograde amnesia, says he might never get back the last seven years of his life. The only thing that feels the same is how he feels when Louis touches him, and maybe that's enough to make him fall in love all over again.
💠✨ The Exceptionals by @canonlarry
(T, 12k) The world has been decimated by a nuclear apocalypse. Harry lost his family and the love of his life, and is left with a nasty scar across his face and the mutated ability to heal people with his hands. When raiders come into his village trying to kidnap Exceptionals like him, Harry is forced to flee to people and places he's never seen before-- and maybe find a piece of his past in the process.
💠✨ Web Me Harder by @canonlarry
(E, 7k) Louis Tomlinson, otherwise known as London's masked hero Spiderman, finds himself crashing through the window of Harry Styles one night after a particularly nasty fight with a villain. Luckily Harry is a nursing student with a soft spot for caped crusaders who's more than happy to tend to all of Louis' wounds, no matter how many times he swings by.
💠✨ cut your teeth on my heart by @turnyourankle
Louis has worked as a security officer for years, but he's handed his first opportunity to be team lead. The assignment is nothing like what he expected.
Harry has spent years trying to distance himself from the pressure of the Twist name and legacy. But it's going to be hard to avoid when his mum hires him a bodyguard.
💠✨ every universe but ours by @28finelines
louis and harry have been friends with benefits for going on nine years, until a woman claiming to be louis’ fairy godmother decides to send him into a variety of alternate universes to help him find his soulmate.
💠✨ two (left) feet in front of me by @lydiejo
And that’s when it happens.
Six minutes and twenty-two seconds into the recording, DomiFreq is describing how much they miss Harry, how much they want to pull his hair and hold him down when Harry glances around the café as inconspicuously as possible. Just to see. Just to distract himself from the flush creeping up his cheeks, the sweat pooling at his neck.
That’s… That’s Louis Tomlinson. Louis goddamn fucking Tomlinson.
✨💎 Like Falling by j_klmnop
Harry had been waiting — patiently, desperately to take things further with Louis.
It started with a dress, a bold attempt to shatter Louis’ restraint.
It ended with something that felt a little like falling.
✨💎 Lend Me Your Hand by @becomeawendybird
Society has long since decided that the soulmarks everyone is born with are entirely unfashionable. They're just another way for people of a lower class to scam their way into marrying above their station.
Lord Louis Tomlinson, Viscount Loring, on the other hand, has always believed that he will find his soulmate one day. Despite preparing for a match his whole life, he is entirely unprepared for the arrival of Gemma Styles' younger brother.
Harry Styles has been traveling and away from society for over a year. Coming back, he intends to spend time with his sister, and slowly reacquaint himself with life in town. He doesn't need to wait around for a soulmark to determine how his life will play out.
💠✨ I Drove All Night (To Get To You) by @chloehl10
“Sorry mate, but I think you’re my ride?”
Harry just stared, not blinking at the man in front of him, wondering what he’d done in a past life to deserve this.
“You’re Louis Tomlinson.”
“I was last time I checked,” Louis chuckled, still leaning in through the passenger window. Harry knew he was staring and not in a polite way, but he couldn’t bring himself to turn away in case this was all a dream, and he most definitely didn't want to wake up if that was the case. “Can I get in, then? Would kind of like to avoid more photos of my arse in the paper if it’s alright with you...”
Harry’s job as a chauffeur for the rich and famous was not as flashy as he’d thought. Late nights having to listen to the ridiculous demands and whims of these high profile clients leaves him disheartened with the world he thought was all glitz and glamour.
One night his boss asks him a favour. To collect one last client before he clocks off. Only problem is when that client gets into the car it’s Louis Tomlinson. As in Harry’s all time crush. As in future husband and father of all his children Louis Tomlinson.
He can be cool and professional, right?
💠✨ Went Down In Flames by @itsnotreal
Louis was in an absolutely shit storm. He had let it go on for too long. Let it go too far. But he had a plan. And tonight, said plan was going down. He was going to tell the boys he was proposing this weekend. ‘Harry’ would turn him down, albeit gently, and Louis would play the heartbroken boyfriend. He’d gotten this far. All he had to do was lock himself in his bedroom and cry a little. He’d been in a few plays growing up. Piece of cake.
Except. It didn’t go that way. Of course, it didn’t. Because the universe, the beautiful chaotic bitch that she was, just had to have an actual Harry Styles and he just had to be Niall’s best friend.
💠✨ Pushing It Down And Praying by j_klmnop
Harry has a life that looks perfect from the outside— a career he loves, a new home, a wife who adores him. But something’s missing, something he can’t name until he meets his new neighbour, Louis.
What starts as easy friendship becomes something far more, and suddenly pretending feels impossible.
Because what’s he supposed to do when everything he’s pushed down starts clawing its way to the surface?
And once it does, neither of them can pretend it isn’t there.
💠✨ Therapy for Advanced by @darling-28
Louis’ tipsy brain decided that a four-week couples therapy retreat sounded like the perfect holiday idea.
Minor issue: he didn’t have a boyfriend.
Enter Harry, add one unhinged therapist and too much sexual tension… and somehow, it actually works out.
💠✨ all our bruised bodies and the whole heart shrinks by shinyblueeyes
“Was your invite serious? For dinner?”
“One-hundred percent,” Zayn says, nodding.
“Louis won’t mind?” Harry checks.
“Please,” Zayn scoffs, laughing again. “He’ll be more than thrilled if you show up in our kitchen. Add to that that you can cook, he may never let you leave.”
I wouldn't mind that, Harry wants to say. Would you keep me forever? Would you let me stay? He doesn’t say any of these things.
written for the 2025 zourry fic fest prompt: Harry works evenings at a shop, keeping him afloat to follow his passion. He starts to notice a beautiful, soft spoken man coming in once or twice a week to pick up something last minute, things like bouquets, pints of Ben and Jerry’s, bottles of wine, and confections. Harry starts to wonder whom this stranger is treating with these little surprises, wishing it were him. Little does Harry know that he’s also caught the stranger’s attention, which is why he keeps coming back, and he thinks Harry should definitely spend some time with him and his lover.
(E, 19k) Harry and Louis have been friends for ages, sleeping together any chance they get. One night in Rome, Harry decides that it's time to confess his feelings.
💠✨ beat the darkness by turnyourankle
(T, 7k) Harry is a volunteer nurse stationed in Cairo; Louis is one of the patients in his ward.
💠✨ who we used to be by itsnotbleak
“The doctor said he might remember,” Gemma said. “If he was around familiar things. Mum thinks that means he needs to stay with her forever, spend all day looking at old baby pictures and school photos. But he remembers all that perfectly. It’s living with you and your weird gang of lost boys that he doesn’t remember.”
“And you think the best way to jog his memory is some weird kind of full-emersion re-enactment?”
“It might be,” said Gemma. “It can’t hurt to try.”
An au where Harry and Louis used to be together, and then they broke up, and now Harry can’t remember any of it.
💠✨ Allure by SuperSweetChaos
The one where Louis is a literature professor who finds out the quiet student in his class who always keeps to himself is an exotic dancer.
