An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: One Direction (Band), Actor RPF
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Pedro Pascal/Louis Tomlinson
Characters: Louis Tomlinson, Pedro Pascal, Zayn Malik, Lottie Tomlinson, Diego Luna, Gael García Bernal
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, American Louis Tomlinson, meet ugly, Car Accidents, Super Minor but it is how it starts so, Flirting, Asexual Louis Tomlinson, Asexuality, mentions of acephobia, Characters Playing Pokemon GO, Drag Queens, No Smut, 1D Aro/Ace Fic Fest 2025
Summary:
Unknown: Hey, is this Louis? I’m Pedro, the owner of the car you hit this morning
After a quick back and forth during which Louis apologized repeatedly, he thought that would be it. He was glad that Pedro was being so nice about it, but he figured they'd said everything they needed to and it would probably come to a close soon with Louis never hearing from him again. Which was fine.
Maybe if they ever ran into each other and figured out who the other was while in the neighborhood, they could be somewhat friendly. They weren’t incredibly close to each other, but Louis walked past the guy’s house at least a few times a week with Clifford, usually in the evening before bed. It wasn’t completely out of the realm of possibility.
But the conversation didn’t end. At least, not the way Louis expected it to.
could you make me a fic rec that has the same vibes as these series: https://archiveofourown.org/series/725172
i'm looking for the type of fics that have them falling HARD in love, like it's the first time it hit them like this, nothing has felt like it before, the world shifted kinda thing. I like those that don't exactly have something happening plot-wise to kick start their connection, just ordinary life meetings like the fic describes it (not a requirement for the rec but if you happen to find more like that, i'll happily take it)
thank you!
Hi, anon! You're very welcome! Here are some fics that have similar vibes to Them Butterflies...thanks for explaining what you were looking for because I think I found just what you're wanting...
such a beautiful dream (series) by staybeautiful / @harruandlou
“I had a sex dream about Harry.” Louis slapped his free hand over his mouth after the words slipped out.
Zayn paused, his hand freezing as he was about to take a bite, his head snapping up to look at Louis. Louis could relate, it’s how he’d felt that morning after he’d woken up. He’d laid in bed for fifteen minutes trying to figure out what had happened, why it had turned him on so much, and then patiently waiting for his erection to go down.
“Like… my Niall’s Harry? Harry Styles?” Zayn clarified, his face bewildered as if trying to comprehend what had just happened. “Do you even like Harry?”
“His last name is Styles?”
or Louis woke up after having a sexy dream about his best friend’s boyfriend’s best friend resolved to never think about it again. He hardly knew Harry, so what difference would it make? But when they are thrown together only a few days later, Louis had to admit, his subconscious might have been onto something.
Just Tell Me the Song and I'll Sing It by myownspark / @myownsparknow
Louis is an architecture student who can only think about the future. Harry is a baseball player who can only think about right now. Both are lonely for different reasons. Boybands bring them together.
Or, this may just be a long love letter to Louis’ voice, I’m not sure.
Based on the following prompt: Harry and Louis are university students who go to the same bar on the weekends. The bar has karaoke and Louis likes to sing Disney/Musical/Boyband songs sometimes. Harry thinks he's cute so he starts singing Disney/Musical/Boyband songs and flirting with him while he's on stage.
My Other Half Was You by @lululawrence
Louis turned the corner to head to Niall and Lewis’ music shop, and slammed right into someone.
“Shit,” Louis gasped, gripping the person’s shoulders in an attempt to remain standing. “God, I’m so sorry!”
“No, I’m sorry,” the man said. “Uh, you steady?”
“Oh, yeah. Sorry again.” Louis blinked a few times and then took a step back. It was only then that he finally glanced up to the man’s eyes. They were a clear, bright green, and curly brown hair fell onto his forehead.
“I should probably…” The man trailed off, motioning towards the antique shop behind Louis.
“Right, sorry,” Louis apologized again, stepping aside.
“It’s alright. Have a good day.”
“You too,” Louis replied as the man disappeared around the corner.
By the age of 30, Louis' entire life trajectory had changed from what he'd thought it would be. He moved back to the town he grew up in and did his best to pull himself and his life back together again.
Four years, seven months, and sixteen days after the day that changed everything, Louis turns a corner and literally runs into the man who just might change it all again.
🫐 I regret you all the time by @disgruntledkittenface
[E, 3k, Louis/William Prince of Wales, fic post]
Louis’ friends don’t understand, and they wouldn’t even if he explained. But every time William texts, Louis drops everything to go see him.
🫐 I'm the Big Fish by @lululawrence
[NR, 5k, Louis/Pedro Pascal, fic post]
Pedro laughed with the man in front of him who… oh god. Was that Oscar Isaac? Louis wasn’t going to survive if he was left in this room with those two for long. He should probably make his exit, except then Pedro started doing some sort of freestyle it looked like while Oscar cheered him on. Louis couldn’t help but chuckle and was trying to hide his smile as he watched on when Pedro turned and looked directly at Louis, freezing when he did so.After an awkward moment at a party Louis wasn't actually invited to, Louis keeps running into the incredibly attractive Pedro Pascal. Somehow, it's Pedro who manages to make a fool of himself, causing Louis to grow increasingly more confused at his behavior while also feeling more drawn to him. Maybe someday they'll be able to manage a moment that doesn't end in one of them feeling the need to run from the room in order to escape the other.
Hello lovely person. Please can I request some canon (divergent) pack dynamics in the band with omega Harry? Thanking you ♥️♥️♥️♥️
Hi, anon! You're very welcome! Here are some fics that fit what you're looking for...
Follow Your Arrow by LadyAJ_13 / @ladyaj-13
They said Louis playing alpha wouldn’t affect anything. It was the best thing for the band, so he doesn’t really regret it except deep in the dead of night, when he bites down on his knuckles to swap the echoing ache of depri for a sting of pain. But if he’d known it meant stepping back from Harry?
He’d have thought twice.
Compass to my Soul by LadyLondonderry / @londonfoginacup
Harry Styles, alpha, is 1/4 of the perfect pack, and 1/5 of world famous boy band One Direction. He spends his time touring the world with his best friends and family.
Louis Tomlinson, omega, is 1/5 of world famous boy band One Direction. He spends his time hoping his bandmates don’t notice him.
I Don't Mean to Frustrate by @lululawrence
Louis didn’t always feel like he had to hide. His family had known he would likely present as an omega from the time he was young and, despite the fact that male omegas were rare and had all the usual prejudices against them plus some, his loved ones were always caring and supportive.
Looking back on it, Louis sees quite clearly that had things gone differently, had three very specific scenes in his past played out with even a slight adjustment, he would likely be living his life as a happy and out male omega. Dwelling on that too often wasn’t good for him, though, because the fact was, they had happened. The outcome had been what got him where he was today: in the middle of a world tour feeling absolutely exhausted and needy, but not being able to tell anyone, not even his bandmates.
Or the one where Louis is an omega pretending to be a beta, but what happens when Harry, his (pining) alpha best friend, learns his secret?
Louis turned back to his food, getting his meal ready, and Harry meant to focus on Louis’ notes, he did. But he couldn’t help furtively watching Louis out of the corner of his eye as he hummed to himself, swaying and dancing a little in the kitchen as he finished pulling his lunch together.
He knew he couldn’t have it forever, so Harry did his best to memorize every detail he could. Maybe then, when this arrangement ended and Louis wasn’t around as much, Harry could imagine he still was and he wouldn’t feel lonely.
He suspected that no amount of imagining could ever come close to replacing Louis, though.
[2]
Whoever his soulmate was, Louis hoped they weren’t as bored as he was in that moment. Seriously, if he had to sit through another lecture on how much Mary loved Hamlet he was going to stab himself in the eye just to avoid class next time. He did remember as he watched another blossom slowly come to life that he was supposed to pick up Lottie and take her to dance class, though. He quickly scribbled, “Lotts dance 4,” on his hand so he wouldn’t forget. He wondered what his soulmate thought of that. Louis smiled a bit to himself and then continued to daydream as the vines on his arms grew in size and beauty.
[3]
Harry’s face shifted to something Louis couldn’t read.
“You don’t even know me.”
“Yeah, but I know you deserve to be treated with kindness just like anyone.” Louis cracked a smile. “Besides. I wanted to punch Niall earlier. You were kind to him even when he was being a total ass.”
Harry laughed heartily, and Louis felt butterflies erupt in his chest. It was the first time he’d seen more than a tiny smile out of Harry. He had dimples. They were deep and uneven and beautiful, just like his laugh was a little overloud. It was so distinctly Harry. Louis could tell that even after having known him for just a few hours.
[4]
He walked out, taking a little more note of what surrounded him this time around, but the only thing he recognized was his shirt laying on a chair in the kitchenette. Louis scrubbed his hands through his gross hair before he remembered getting soaked with champagne during the show the night before. That mixed with his sweat and the inordinate amounts of alcohol he was sure he consumed was enough to make Louis seriously crave a shower.
First, though, he had to figure out who he’d woken up in bed with and what the hell was going on with the ring on his finger.
Louis heard a voice that sounded familiar coming from the bedroom. The voice was quiet enough that Louis couldn’t hear what he was saying, but oh God some of the pieces were coming together.
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1. Caught In Your Gravity
It felt like the blood froze in Harry’s veins even as he got a bit lightheaded. He hadn’t even made it two practices, only one of which he was remotely in charge of, without giving it all away and now he and Liam were both absolutely fucked.
“Shit,” Harry breathed out. “Who all have you told? Does everyone know? I thought I covered it better than that…”
“No, no,” Louis said quickly. "They’ll figure it out soon enough, though, because they’ll get used to you changing things up, but you’re only going to trip over your so called Americanisms for so long before they realize it’s because you don’t actually know fuck all about football.”
Harry sighed. “Yeah. I figured. I just need to bullshit for long enough to allow Liam to get the situation figured out from his end.”
“Right, which brings me to my entire point. I think we can find a mutually beneficial arrangement with all of this.” Louis leaned forward. “You need to learn the ins and outs of the sport incredibly fast. I can help you with that.”
“What do you want in exchange?”
Or, an AU inspired by a 30 second trailer of Ted Lasso that doesn't actually have much in common with the show at all.
2. Drawn to You
It had started with Louis getting in trouble for coloring on himself when he hadn’t touched a felt tip pen the entire day. Through the years, the random drawings had evolved and changed. There was a period in sixth form when his soulmate must have gotten shy or something, because the drawings only happened after school hours and in places that others wouldn’t be as likely to see. The inside of his bicep, his thigh. A couple times he even had drawings appear on his ribcage. While he didn’t mind those few years, he did seem somewhat soothed when they began to appear on his left arm again. He’d missed them.
Or that completely self indulgent soulmates au that plays out in not always romantic ways.
3. The World Will Open Its Arms
Harry scrubbed at the countertop. It wasn’t even dirty, but it was three in the morning and the girl who was supposed to relieve him over an hour ago never showed. He was now on hour ten of his shift and his feet hurt and his back ached and he was trying not to cry, thanks to more fucking judgmental alpha truckers who could smell it on him.
Of course they could. He practically lived at the diner. The entire place reeked of it.
Unbonded pregnant omega.
4. Will Love Be There
Louis didn’t care who he had to pay or how much, but he was pretty sure he would give his entire life’s savings and a year’s salary if it meant that whatever was causing someone’s fucking phone to ring would stop.
The person calling must have gone to voicemail, because it stopped ringing and vibrating, but it started up again almost immediately.
“Make it stop,” Louis whined. He lifted his head enough to pull the pillow out from beneath it and smothered his head to dull the sound. “Oh shit, I think I’m gonna puke.”
“Just be sure to get out of bed first, please,” a deep, gravelly voice said from right beside Louis.
“Holy fucking shit!” Louis cried in surprise as he shot up in bed.
Or the one where Louis attends a Steve Aoki concert and accidentally ends up with a husband.
HI I would LOVE to hear more about sober hindsight 👀 😂😂😘
i answered sus' ask including screenshots of our conversation and tumblr decided that i DID NOT answer sus' ask, but i'm glad because anitra asked and now i can answer you both!
SO YESTERDAY anitra linked her fic rec in the fat bird chat and it appeared like this
and i thought that was funny and then i said 'your blog title as the title of a one night stand fic' and then anitra and i were going back and forth with this prompt idea
and i do actually think option 2 would be even more hilarious because omg what if harry's just a louie out there with a fan account replying/retweeting jokes/his insatiable thirst for louis, and then he retweets
and says something like louis was the one with whiskey dick, and it all blows up? anyway. i love the fat bird chat because we're all friends but we're all writers and we're all silly and stuff like this just happens!
I don’t know which wips have been asked about yet and so rather than picking one someone else may have already asked about…. I wanna hear about the wip YOU are most excited to talk about in this moment. GO!!!
Oh yay! So alpha Louis five times is five times Louis uses his alpha voice for the alpha Louis fest! It's due at the end of the month and I haven't started it yet, surprise, surprise. It's also my first time writing omegaverse, so maybe that's why I'm nervous to start it even though @reminiscingintherain helped me brainstorm so I know what happens. But then again I haven't written anything at all this year so maybe it's just writers block ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I didn't give you any information really, just rambled on so sorry about that but thank you for asking!!
Hello, do you know any fics where everyone thought louis is a beta until they find out he's an omega? or maybe fics where he pretends to be a beta (but is actually an omega) thanks!
Hi, anon! You're welcome! That's such a fun trope, isn't it? I'm assuming what you meant in the parentheses is turned around where Louis is pretending to be an omega but he's really a beta. Here are some fics that fit what you're looking for!
Paradise by TreywisKrucks
When he reached him, Liam was taken back at what he witnessed. "What is happening to him?!" Harry asked, relinquishing his anger and moving towards the beta.
Leering at Harry, "He is dropping."
"I thought only omegas dropped." Harry asked confused.
"Exactly! Only omegas do!" Liam clarified, letting the actuality of the situation dawn upon the Emperor.
Alpha Emperor Harry Styles of the province of Imperium had conquered more than half the country of Cynthia in his six years reign but all of this had even occurred due to the unwavering loyalty and firm presence of Louis Tomlinson who was assuredly a beta until he wasn't.
I Don't Mean to Frustrate by @lululawrence
Louis didn’t always feel like he had to hide. His family had known he would likely present as an omega from the time he was young and, despite the fact that male omegas were rare and had all the usual prejudices against them plus some, his loved ones were always caring and supportive.
Looking back on it, Louis sees quite clearly that had things gone differently, had three very specific scenes in his past played out with even a slight adjustment, he would likely be living his life as a happy and out male omega. Dwelling on that too often wasn’t good for him, though, because the fact was, they had happened. The outcome had been what got him where he was today: in the middle of a world tour feeling absolutely exhausted and needy, but not being able to tell anyone, not even his bandmates.
Or the one where Louis is an omega pretending to be a beta, but what happens when Harry, his (pining) alpha best friend, learns his secret?
Fakes (Streaming Live) by @allwaswell16
Alpha camboy Henry Steel has a rather unfortunate crush on omega camboy Luscious Lucas. He also has a rather unfortunate secret that's about to be revealed.
