✤ Beach Fics ✤
A series of posts with the top five fics of each category by kudos plus five more hidden gems from that category! Remember to leave kudos and a comment on the fics you enjoyed to show your appreciation! You can find the library's other recs here.
- Top 5 H/L Fics -
1️⃣ Escapade by dolce_piccante {M, 146k}
In the grand scheme of things, finding a date for a wedding should be no problem for Louis Tomlinson. He's rich. He's handsome. He's reasonably well behaved. But when the wedding is for his lifelong best friend (and former boyfriend), and is happening in under a month, finding a date for the ceremony and accompanying festivities becomes more of an adventure than he ever could have planned for.
2️⃣ Perfect Storm by @cherrystreet {E, 80k}
What do you do when your best friend asks you and your (now) ex to be the best men at his destination wedding? You can either tell him the truth, tell him you’re not together anymore, and deal with the consequences, or you can pretend you’re still together and roll with it, just pray you don’t spiral. Fake it ‘til you make it. You know, for the sake of the wedding.
Harry and Louis choose the latter.
3️⃣ waiting for the tides to meet by @nauticalleeds {E, 59k}
Louis lets out a deep breath, thinking about Harry’s soulmate. Thinking about how Harry’s soulmate is probably as beautiful as Harry, some person that Louis cannot compare to, and how the universe has chosen them to be Harry’s. Fuck the universe. “Fuck you,” he calls out to the universe. He’s aware of how crazy he sounds.
Maybe he is crazy, with how he’s falling for Harry. And fuck that, too.
Soulmate AU. Everyone is born with heterochromia — one eye is their own eye colour, while the other is the colour of their soulmate's. It's only when they meet their soulmate for the first time that their own eyes match properly. After a hazy night at a frat party, Louis wakes up to blue eyes and the shocking realization that he had met his soulmate, without any sober recollection. Seven years pass where Louis comes to terms with the fact that he'll never know who his soulmate is. Then one fated summer, a beautiful green-eyed photographer arrives at Louis' workplace, with promises of endless laughter and a familiar feeling in Louis' heart.
Featuring a lovely cup of OT5, a road trip down the coast, and a scene where Harry eats a whole head of lettuce. Don't ask why.
4️⃣ love is a word, you gave it a name by CuckooTrooke / @larrydoinglaundry {E, 158k}
After two decades in brutal show business, Louis Tomlinson is trying to restore his tranquility of mind in the peace of Northern Europe where the sun barely sets, Maria's bar is always open, and young Harry has an irresistible spark in his eyes.
5️⃣ Falling For Me Won't Be A Mistake by Rearviewdreamer / @all-these-larrythings {M, 58k}
Harry is married to his job and so overworked that he doesn't know how to stop. All it takes is a forced Hawaiian get-a-away, the warm tropical breeze of the island, and the most beautiful, elusive man he's ever seen to make him remember what living is like outside of work. Well, that, and the little souvenir he accidentally takes home with him.
HIDDEN GEMS:
💎 Salt & Vinegar by elsi_bee / @elsi-bee {E, 77k}
Louis is ready to experience the local flavour during his next few weeks in beautiful Costa Rica. So why does the same British boy keep pulling him in?
💎 Faith in the Future by @lululawrence {NR, 52k}
The mailbox was hanging wide open.
Harry slowed to a stop beside it. He’d been at the beach house for months and hadn’t used it because no one knew he was there.
When he finally stepped in front of the mailbox to see what was inside, he was even more surprised. He’d expected a letter of some kind, but instead all he found was a torn piece of paper.
If you beat me home, hang tight! I ran out of sandpaper. Just running to Jon’s to get some more —L
Harry stared at the note, turning it over to see if there were any other clues to find. It was the kind of note someone would leave because they were meeting someone here. Like they’d been at the beach house recently. Harry knew that wasn’t true, though, because he’d been entirely alone the entire time he had been here.
Or the fic where Louis and Harry are both hurting for different reasons when a very special mailbox, and maybe a touch of fate, brings them together. While they might be everything the other needs, will they find a way to each other?
💎 BLVD by @kingsofeverything {E, 12k}
It’s the first week of summer break and Harry just wants to relax and enjoy his vacation in Myrtle Beach.
If only he could stop making an ass of himself.
💎 Come on in, the water's fine by bluegreenish / @greenbluish {M, 9k}
“This is our selection of cocktails this week. But,” Louis interrupts himself, catching the man’s attention after his eyes had already been flitting over the chalk letters on the board. “if you’re asking for my opinion here - I’d take a sex on the beach.”
Wiggling his eyebrows, the man laughs and steps closer to the counter. “Consider me intrigued.”
“Yeah?”
“Yes. Sex on the beach sounds good.”
or, the one where Louis is set on enjoying his last summer jobbing abroad as tourist entertainer and it only gets better when a mysterious hotel guest with overly expensive sunglasses keeps coming back for his drink recommendations.
💎 baby, in the summertime by EmmyLouWho {T, 4k}
“Well you’ve got to do something,” Liam argues. “It’s not like your perfect guy is just going to suddenly appear right in front of you.”
“Central to Tommo,” his radio crackles. “There’s a guy who looks like he might be getting into trouble directly in front of the tower.”
Louis and Liam both immediately turn to their left, and squint out into the surf. After scanning the waves for a few seconds, Louis spots a guy bobbing around quite a way away from the shore.