Hello I am delving back into fic after like 8 years lol (we call that depression), I’m looking for a fic that I’m 90% sure loadedgunn was writing but I assume deleted/didn’t finish bc I can’t find it anywhere. It was like 1940s au, I think larry were childhood friends/grew up together, I think they were poor and in the UK, I think one of them went off to war? Do you have any idea? Does anyone have any idea?
Hi darling. Oh, I don’t remember LoadedGunn writing anything like that. 🤔🤔🤔
But maybe you’re thinking of this one?
Butterfly Gun by eravain (M, 100K)
Harry has never been much of a fighter, but—as always—where Louis Tomlinson is concerned, a lot of things stop being true.
1940's AU. Even after six years apart, they can't forget their shared wartime childhood
There’s also this one, which is lovely. But I think it’s the first you’re looking for.
We’re What Right in This World by BriaMaria (E, 49K)
“Why did you talk like that in Brighton? If you weren’t planning on ever telling me?” Louis asked. “Is it because you think you’re going to die?”
“It’s war, Lou,” Harry said finally.
The words were a knife slipped between his ribs. Everything hurt and he was bleeding. He shifted up, his palms cradling Harry’s jaw, his lips against his boy’s. Not kissing, just resting there, so Louis could feel him. “Promise you’ll come back to me.”
Harry’s hands smoothed down the sides of Louis’ body. “You know I can’t do that. I’ll never lie to you.”
“Promise me. We’re going to have our cottage. And our dogs. And our breakfast in the garden where nothing grows because of the wind from the sea. Promise me.”
“I won’t.” Stubborn as always, his boy. “I’ll promise you, I’ll love you all my life. I’ll promise you, you’ll never leave my thoughts. I’ll promise you, you’re my forever and my always. But promising you something I can’t cheapens the things I can.”
Or the World War II AU where Harry goes off to fight and all Louis wants to do is be the boy who brings him home.