Apocalypse AU
🔥 red hands by reveries_passions
“I’ve never told anyone,” Harry murmurs, voice so soft no one else would be able to hear, if it wasn’t just the two of them.
“But you’ve told someone,” Louis tells him firmly. “And that’s not gonna fucking happen around here. You don’t speak a word of it, or someone’s going to kill you, and we can’t let that happen.”
a dystopian au in which harry, an ex-soldier who’s escaped from his government run camp, accidentally stumbles across the biggest rebel movement in the country, and louis, one of the rebellion’s mysterious leaders who appears to hate him, seems to simultaneously have an obsession with keeping him alive. or: harry is wanted for treason, niall hasn’t changed in four years, liam is always smiling, and louis is angry. like, really angry.
🔥 you’ll always be my thunder by tomorrows (4k)
Louis doesn’t let himself think about it. He doesn’t think of The List or LA or the cobblestone streets he knows like the back of his hand by now. He ignores the way the sun reflects off the gold band on his finger and decidedly puts on the peppiest, most sickeningly upbeat tunes on his phone. The sound of Anne’s voice was enough for him, he thinks. Now it’s just a matter of coping. He wonders if he’s got the strength to ignore the pain in his chest for that long, until the end of his life, he presumes.
Based on these tags where a two-year long zombie apocalypse finally comes to an end and Louis and Harry don’t know if the other’s survived.
🔥 A King Beside You by stylinsoncity (26k)
When the aliens invade, the last thing Louis expects is to fall in love.
🔥 With a whimper by kitundercover (132k)
Dystopian AU. Louis has been alone for too long to remember how not to be, and Harry has too much to worry about to deal with a scrawny, wild, stranger. —
The man grips his arm tightly. “You’re not going to say anything.” It’s not a question.
Louis shakes his head, his body twitching.
“Fine.” Large green eyes survey him before letting go. “It’s cold. Take this. Wear it.”
Louis can’t help another flinch as the man’s long scarf is wrapped around his tender neck, it’s still warm. He touches the soft material. “Thank you.”
The man bears his teeth. “Don’t thank me. Don’t ever thank me.”
🔥 build me up and keep me warm by avatarlahey (21k)
Zombie/Warm Bodies AU. One day Harry wakes up and he’s dead. Or undead. Dead, but not dead. Whatever. This is his life and it kinda sucks, but Harry likes to think that there’s more waiting for him beyond the coldness of his heart.
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The one where Harry yearns for something warm, Louis won’t stop talking, Zayn and Liam are out for zombie blood, and Niall is Harry’s zombie best friend who thinks his name is Naill.
🔥 Converging Fates by ForeverRememberLarryStylinson (83k)
The one where the world has mutated and become far more vicious, harsh, and deadly than ever before. It’s a survival of the fittest world, and only those whom are able to conceive children are kept to live. Most who aren’t, are left out to die.
Louis Tomlinson can conceive.
Harry Styles is the leader of a cult.
Together, there is fire.
🔥 When the World Comes Down by blue_marauder (6k)
“I wouldn’t breathe the same air as him even if we were the only two people on earth”
Harry didn’t mean that literally. Not until Harry and Louis are the only two people alive on this earth (to their knowledge).
🔥 whispering of fields half-sown by Eliane (7k)
“And how ironic is it that even now, at the end of all things, Louis’ mere presence makes Harry want to believe that anything is possible again. That the earth isn’t close to collapsing on itself, that the tomorrows are bright and shining and full of promises. Harry hates Louis for giving him something to look forward to when the sky only keeps getting darker. Harry loves Louis for it. ”
[All of his boys come back to him in the end, but it’s Louis, Harry has been waiting for all this time.]
🔥 Time Is All We Have by evelynegrey, fortunefavorsthebrave (20k)
“Okay, here’s the deal,” the man who’d met him outside started, “if you fuck up, or try to sell us out, or use us as bait, you’re out. Okay?” Harry nodded quickly. “And we will outsmart you,” he continued. “We will outrun you, so don’t even think about trying.” “I don’t want any trouble,” Harry told him, cowering slightly. “Good.” He tossed him his gun and Harry caught it clumsily. “We’re gonna have to teach him to shoot.”
AU where the world has gone to shit, Harry has accidentally survived, Niall likes root vegetables and no one knows anything about Louis except that they would follow him to the end of the world and back. Zayn and Liam are also there.
🔥 the riotous failure of our theories by Eliane (4k)
After the world has ended there’s still, etched on Louis’ skin, a compass pointing to home.
🔥 bruises on your thighs (like my fingerprints) by ariadne_odair (2k)
it’s the apocalypse. it’s the apocalypse, and louis has her girl by her side, harry’s face buried into her neck, their limbs tangled together so louis couldn’t escape if she wanted to. not that she’d have anywhere to go. it’s the end of the world after all. and she’d never leave harry. never.
🔥 All The Songs That You Sing In The Dark by pukeandcry (10k)
What happened was that first people got sick.
What happened after that was that they died.
But the worst thing was what happened after that. After they died, they came back.
🔥 things have gotten closer to the sun by starseas (49k)
it’s strange, making the choice to face his past—it almost feels like he’s heading for the sun straight on, like he’s screaming come on and burn me, i deserve it.
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when a solar flare is announced to end the world in twelve days, harry reunites with the people that he used to know better than the back of his own hand.
🔥 The whirlwind is in the thorn trees by weddingbells (28k)
Louis Tomlinson has enough on his plate without having to worry about a Zombie Apocalypse, thank you very much. Too bad the world doesn’t listen to him, and too bad that among the constant fear of getting eaten, he meets someone that changes his life.
🔥 After Our End by missberrycake (23k)
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. Epictetus AD 55 – 135
‘Apocalypse’ unleashes Derren Brown’s most daring plan for a television show yet – to convince internationally renowned boy band One Direction that the country has been overcome by a cataclysmic asteroid strike, that deadly infected now walk the earth and that they are a few of the mere handful of survivors.
In which One Direction have a colossal, apocalyptic trick played on them. It brings their world to a temporary end. Literally.
🔥 The Exceptionals by iwillpaintasongforlou (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.
🔥 Time Is All We Have by evelynegrey, fortunefavorsthebrave (series)
“Okay, here’s the deal,” the man who’d met him outside started, “if you fuck up, or try to sell us out, or use us as bait, you’re out. Okay?” Harry nodded quickly. “And we will outsmart you,” he continued. “We will outrun you, so don’t even think about trying.” “I don’t want any trouble,” Harry told him, cowering slightly. “Good.” He tossed him his gun and Harry caught it clumsily. “We’re gonna have to teach him to shoot.”
AU where the world has gone to shit, Harry has accidentally survived, Niall likes root vegetables and no one knows anything about Louis except that they would follow him to the end of the world and back. Zayn and Liam are also there.
🔥 Endure and Survive by literato (62k)
“I don’t know if I can give you back to them. Now that this … now that everything between us has happened.”
“After all we’ve been through. It’s not for nothing.”
Or
An au where Harry, a young survivor 15 years into a zombie apocalypse, makes a promise to accompany a lad his age to a large group with a huge aim of finding a cure for the society in exchange for a new set of guns doubling what he lost. As they make their way across the country of United States, and out of their safety zones, they experience loss, truth, survival and love.
🔥 purple rain by fondleeds (WIP)
“I’ve got the same,” Harry says, pointer finger moving up and down in lazy, little lines as he talks. “In my notebook, I cross off each day. Write something down.”
“And what happens when you run out of pages?” Louis says, a little snarkier than he means it to be, slipping the matchbox closed. He can feel his ribs constricting, curling in to protect his chest.
“Well,” Harry says softly, looking out to the emptiness, to the dry, dead earth. “I hope it doesn’t come to that.”
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AU. It’s the end of the world.
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