#itsnotbleak

[hazel-wand]

I’ve just finished this story and loved it. It’s angsty in places, and I felt terribly sorry for Steve, but the story telling is brilliant. This features a Winter Soldier Bucky who has turned himself in, but who doesn’t remember his life as Bucky Barnes and doesn’t really care to.

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[allwaswell16]

This is a rec list of my favorite One Direction amnesia fics as requested in this ask. They are in order by word count. You can find my other recs here. If you enjoy the fic, please leave kudos and comments on it! Happy reading! ***Updated 22 March 2021 as requested in this ask. Updates noted with an asterisk.***

- Louis / Harry -

💫 For As Long As I Can Remember (It’s Been December) by  green_feelings / @greenfeelings 

(E, 128k, secrets) After recovering from a severe accident that causes Harry to lose his memory of three years, he moves to London to start his life over as a star chef. Little does he know that when he falls in love with Louis at first sight, it’s not the first time they meet.

💫 The Dead of July by whimsicule / @baroness-elsa

(M, 117k, Avengers au) Harry is Captain America, and Louis’ been dead for 70 years.

💫 Meet Me in Montauk by make_this_feel_like_home

(M, 84k, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind au)* The one where Harry has amnesia, Louis can't handle the pain and Lacuna Inc provides a unique service: the ability to erase a person from your memories.

💫 Consequences by @allwaswell16 

(E, 78k, exes to lovers) Two years ago Harry let his powerful family come between him and the love of his life, something he deeply regrets. Louis has tried to move on from their devastating break up. Sometimes, he even thinks he has. It only takes one moment to freeze them back in time.

💫 As We Were, As We Are, by @jaerie​ 

(E, 51k, historical au)* Alex is a British soldier who has been injured in battle, Louis is a RAF pilot with amnesia. Somehow they put each other back together even if they get separated along the way.

💫 No One Does It Better by nodibs

(E, 50k, angst) Harry's an alcoholic and Louis is a bartender. The first time they meet isn't the first time they've met.

💫 take my hand (and my heart and soul) by @anylessreal / bananasandboots

(M, 45k, friends to lovers) the one where Harry hasn't spoken to his best friend in sixteen months and can't remember why.

💫 Strangers in Love by @darlou / sweetums

(E, 42k, enemies to lovers)* Louis wakes up to find himself in a marriage with the last man he thought he'd ever end up with.

 💫 fondre ton absence by @scrunchyharry​ 

(T, 41k, historical) When he thought things could not possibly get worse, Louis went missing at the Somme and was declared dead. While everyone buried and mourned him, Harry never moved on. If Louis were dead, he was sure that he would know it. 

💫 (don’t forget) where you belong by @rimharry / rippedgloves 

(E, 38k, aftermath of violence) the one where Louis wakes up from a coma and doesn't remember Harry.

💫 who we used to be by itsnotbleak 

(T, 29k, exes to lovers) An au where Harry and Louis used to be together, and then they broke up, and now Harry can’t remember any of it.

💫 Indestructible by @crazyupsetter​ /  whoknows

(E, 24k, canon) “I’m okay,” Harry says, and Louis is going to say something to that, even if he doesn’t know what, except Harry’s kissing him.Louis freezes.

💫 Fugue by @canonlarry​ /  iwillpaintasongforlou 

(E, 16k, established relationship) Harry falls asleep a 17 year-old who lives in Cheshire and is probably rockstar Louis Tomlinson's biggest fan. He wakes up 24 with a wedding ring on his finger, two kids, and Louis Tomlinson attempting to wake him up with a blow job. 

💫 and just forget the world by @voulezloux / localopa

(NR, 4k, car accident)* harry’s in a car crash. louis won’t leave his side.

💫 Lucky by @ineffablelouis​ 

(G, 2k, temporary amnesia) Harry has surgery and wakes up with temporary amnesia. Louis is there to witness it all.

- Rare Pairs -

💫 and i refuse to let this go by annemari / @underthisweather​

(T, 71k, Louis/Nick Grimshaw)* The one where Louis and Nick are in a secret relationship, Nick loses his memories, and Louis tries to not fall apart.

💫 Somehow I Still Carry On, Burdened By Fears by @slashter​ 

(E, 31k, Zayn/Liam)*  the one where Liam's been kidnapped but doesn't remember Zayn and Zayn struggles with loss and love and heartbreak all over again

💫 Somebody Hurt You (I Know A Place) by @writcraft 

(E, 20k, Louis/Nick Grimshaw)* An unexpected encounter brings Nick and Louis together but before they can tell anyone about their relationship an attack on Louis tears them both apart.

💫 Miss Missing You by harriet_vane

(M, 16k, Louis/Liam)* Louis wakes up after an accident with a year of memories gone and something not quite right about his relationship with Liam.

[hlficlibrary]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: One Direction (Band) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson Characters: Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Nick Grimshaw Additional Tags: Amnesia fic Summary:

“The doctor said he might remember,” Gemma said. “If he was around familiar things. Mum thinks that means he needs to stay with her forever, spend all day looking at old baby pictures and school photos. But he remembers all that perfectly. It’s living with you and your weird gang of lost boys that he doesn’t remember.”

“And you think the best way to jog his memory is some weird kind of full-emersion re-enactment?”

“It might be,” said Gemma. “It can’t hurt to try.”

 An au where Harry and Louis used to be together, and then they broke up, and now Harry can’t remember any of it.

[stellahibernis]

Saturday morning fic rec:

Author’s summary:

"You think your old army buddy is working at Subway?”

“Of course not,” said Steve, trying to sound like he thought the idea was ludicrous. “Bucky died in 1944. I just...” He didn’t know what to say, so he slapped on his best lonely soldier face and lied. “It’s just it’s nice to pretend for a bit, you know?”

“No,” said Natasha. “It sounds deeply unhealthy, but you do you.”

In which Steve finds a man that looks a lot like Bucky making sandwiches in a Brooklyn subway. Except Bucky died seventy years ago, and this guy shows no sign of remembering Steve.

Words: 39791, Chapters: 3/3

Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Steve Rogers, James “Bucky” Barnes, Natasha Romanov, Sam Wilson (Marvel)

Relationships: James “Bucky” Barnes/Steve Rogers

Additional Tags: Not Captain America: The Winter Soldier Compliant, Not Captain America: Civil War (Movie) Compliant

My notes:

I really liked the alternate take presented in this, as well as the trickiness of their relationship and how they need to figure out how to be together when they’ve been apart such significant time. The structure and reveals work very well too.

[lyingwithlarryfics]

who we used to be 

“An au where Harry and Louis used to be together, and then they broke up, and now Harry can’t remember any of it.“