through the jungle through the dark by YesIsAWorld | E | 12555 Louis and Harry were best friends, until they weren’t. Five years after they last spoke they’re forced to drive cross-country to visit an injured friend. If they can’t get over the past, it will be a very long week together.
Making Shades of Purple by alexenglish | E | 13348 Sometimes you have to get to where you're going to see where you've been. Or, Louis figures out he's in love with Niall. It's way less surprising than it should be.
Alien Roadtrip! by HelloAmHere | M | 16378 For the first time in his life, Louis doesn’t know where he’s going. Harry doesn’t mind. OR: roadtrip with desert feelings, too much snack food, and empty motels. Harry is definitely absolutely not an alien. That would be ridiculous.
Don't Let the Tide Come and Take Me by kiwikero | M | 28658 The aquarium in the lobby has been there as long as Louis can remember, and so has the merman inside. That is, until the day Louis loses his job and decides to set the creature free. They set off on a road trip to the sea, learning to communicate more and more each day. Their destination is LA, but the closer they get and the more Louis gets to know the merman, the more he dreads having to say goodbye. Or, the one where Louis decides to set a merman free and ends up finding his own freedom along the way.
let's start right now by dramaturgicallycorrect | T | 29621 He turns to Harry. “Do you mind, like. Can I take a picture of your driver’s license?” “Yeah,” Harry says easily, fishing his wallet out and presenting him with a California license to match his California plates. He has got an LA address, Niall notes as he snaps a picture. He’s got longer hair in this picture, waving down to brush his shoulders, a far sight from the short crop he's got now. It looks just as good on him, he notes almost subconsciously. He texts the picture to Louis as Harry puts the license away, give this to the police if I go missing .. What have you done Neil?? comes Louis’ answer quickly, but Niall ignores it, looks up to find Harry looking back at him. “It’ll be fun.” “Promise?” Harry tilts his head. “I never make promises. You’ll just have to trust me.” [Or Harry's a professional cross country road trip driver, and Niall is his latest fare.]
somewhere only we know by bethaboo | E | 44536 Personal assistant Louis knows something is up with his best friend and employer Harry. And it's not just his big tour coming up or the ever-increasing womanizing rumors about the popstar. To get to the bottom of Harry's moodiness, Louis decides he has to kidnap him and take him on a roadtrip up the California coast to Portland. The roadtrippiest road trip fic ever written. Basically an excuse for gratuitous fluff and smut with a pinch of angst tossed in for good measure.
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.
