Fic preposition:
1: Remember: http://archiveofourown.org/works/747241
Louis was broken apart when his girlfriend died. He rejects any comfort and lashes out constantly. Enter Harry Styles, the bands new addition. The two instantly clash, but they soon discover they have more in common then they thought. And what happens when the aggravation with each other turns into something different?
2: The Last Something That Meant Anything: http://archiveofourown.org/works/1740089
When Harry leaves the band - leaves Louis - to pursue his dreams of a solo career, he breaks much more than just One Direction. It's a gamble and a new start for each of the boys but while Harry walked away smiling, finally having got everything he apparently dreamt of, Louis is left to pick the pieces up.
Some hearts don't break even, some are simply shattered. So can you really learn to un-love someone?
3: Sunshine: http://archiveofourown.org/works/762889
Harry’s eighteen and trying to figure everything out. Louis is his neighbor who’s in a suspicious relationship and also very possibly Harry’s soul mate, but that's stupid. Harry's just going to take things slow with him. Slow doesn't really seem to be an option with Louis, though.
4: Monday Meetings: http://archiveofourown.org/works/1098132/chapters/2209606
American AU where the boys all work for their college newspaper. Louis gets to voice his opinion in every issue, Liam is in charge, keeping everyone in line, Niall just really loves soccer, Zayn is an aspiring photographer and Harry is the incoming photo editor.
(Or, the one where Louis wants to date Harry, but won't, because they work together, even though the other boys follow no such rule.)
5: My Cubicle Life: http://archiveofourown.org/works/1111771
Louis Tomlinson’s life hasn’t exactly turned out the way he wanted it to.
He and his foul-mouthed best friend, Niall Horan, used to talk about everything they were going to do with their lives once they were grown. Their lives would be filled to the brim with excitement and adventures, love and happiness, friends and family but most of all, they’d be filthy rich.
Louis thought that his most life-changing event would be coming out as gay in uni.
But as it turned out, his life would become painfully simple.
Fresh out of uni, he found himself working a meaningless, low paying, life-sucking 9-5 job and going home alone every night to the flat that he shared with his best friend. But when a curly headed, dimple having, freakishly tall boy got locked out of his flat one night and came in like a wrecking ball into Louis’s life… well, it turned out that would be the most life changing thing to happen.
And he hasn’t been the same since.
6: And Then a Bit: http://archiveofourown.org/works/1415272
“We’d like to give the fans what they want.” Magee states, placing his hand on the table in front of him and leaning forward. “We want to give them Larry Stylinson.”
Or, take a parallel universe where Louis and Harry were never together, mix in a two year hiatus and an impending comeback, pour in a dash of lost fans, two tablespoons of strong friendship and a Modest! employee with a good idea. Add a squeeze of pretending to be a couple, lots of kisses and a tattoo or two. Stir. Serve: the mother of all publicity stunts.
(aka Harry and Louis fake a relationship for publicity. Eventually it becomes a lot less fake and a lot more real.)
^^ this is literally fic I was reading when Zayn quit the band
7: Can I lay by your side?: http://archiveofourown.org/works/3467054
"Harry, tell me what you are going to do when you leave here."
“I’m going to drive to a hotel, drink some of that vodka, enough to give me dutch courage." Harry looks down at his feet, colour blooming in his cheeks. “I’m going to find a bar, find a man who wants to sleep with me, find some weed and lose myself for a few days.”
“Look, do you even know your way around Manchester, do you know anyone here?”
He shakes his head.
“So you are just going to pick up a random man and sleep with him?” Louis huffs out incredulously.
“There’s a first time for everything.”
Or
Fate brings Louis to Harry. Alone, Harry's buying vodka in Louis' local shop. He takes him home, this beautiful stranger, giving him his undivided attention and the weekend of his life. Together they tick off Harry's 'to do' list and fall in love at the same time. Harry has secrets and despairingly, on Monday morning, he has to go back to his old life. Louis and Harry meet up six months later by accident in quite different circumstances.
8: Marking Up The Atmosphere: http://archiveofourown.org/works/3371957
At the age of twenty, Harry deals with things expected to occur at his age: student loans, instant meals, electricity bills, and the constant, incessant presence of never ending coursework.
That, and the job of raising his six year old daughter and avoiding the charm of a young, successful, and very off-limits Louis Tomlinson.
9: Gods& Monsters: http://archiveofourown.org/works/2090982
The instructions were simple: seduce and destroy Harry Styles. Not once did they discuss the option of Louis actually falling in love. So, naturally, that's exactly what he did.