✤ Road Trip 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 Walk That Mile by purpledaisy {E, 149k}
Harry stares at him, the line of his jaw standing out scarily. “I wanted to get the most out of this trip so I planned it carefully.” His voice is low and steady and somehow that’s worse than when he was yelling. “So far, you’ve put your sticky fingers on everything I’ve tried to do.”
“Sticky fingers?” Louis repeats, offended. “Are you saying it’s my fault you got stung by a bee? Had you been alone you would have gotten halfway to the Dotty Diner and ran the car off the road because of an allergic reaction, so don’t go blaming me.”
“Polk-A-Dot Drive In,” Harry spits before getting out of the car. He slams the door shut with a deafening reverb and Louis rolls his eyes. A Route 66 AU where falling in love was never part of the plan.
2️⃣ 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.
3️⃣ Stranger Stars by shaylea {E, 212k}
Five years ago, Africa offered a grieving Louis Tomlinson an escape from an England he couldn't tolerate. Now it's become home as he leads overland tours across the continent with his best friend and driver Zayn Malik. What's meant to be just another ordinary six-week trip from Cape Town to Nairobi turns into anything but, when future lawyer/current photographer and songwriter Harry Styles and his friends join Louis' latest set of passengers.
4️⃣ but me, i'm not a gamble by orphan_account {M, 33k}
A Posh & Becks AU in which Harry is a star on the stage and Louis is a star on the pitch, but they're both inexplicably terrible at articulating their feelings. In the end, it only takes a season's worth of failed matchmaking schemes, platonic dinner dates, road trip holidays, and one very convenient David Beckham cameo for them to figure it all out. And if Niall knew all along? Well, he at least has the decency not to be too smug about it.
5️⃣ Have Love, Will Travel by @kingsofeverything {E, 97k}
Rather than spend the summer working at their desks, Louis and Harry are given the opportunity to crisscross the country together in a tiny camper, filming their adventures for a YouTube series.
It soon becomes obvious to their viewers that there’s something more than friendship between them. Eventually, they figure it out.
HIDDEN GEMS:
💎 findin' pieces that can fit by lsforever / @kingonafiftymetreroad {E, 31k}
When they’ve about finished eating, just snacking on their breadsticks and sipping the last of their wine, conversations about anything and everything tapering off, Louis sets his glass down and leans forward over the table.
Harry perks up a bit, sitting straighter to be more level with Louis and his serious expression. He feels nerves prickle across his skin before Louis absolutely confuses the hell out of him.
“So when are you gonna introduce me to your family?” he asks, tone and face serious enough that Harry is thrown so far off course.
“What? Wait, what?”
or, an Omega/Omega Established Relationship AU where they’re figuring it out as they go along. There’s a road trip in there, lots of cuddling, some cats and dogs, and, of course, the best first time Harry could ever ask for.
💎 Across The Lines by @creamcoffeelou {E, 28k}
With a camera in hand, Louis sets off on the road trip of his life to explore the most famous haunted houses of the UK. Things don't exactly go to plan.
💎 I Fall To Pieces by fairytalefemme {T, 5k}
Louis Tomlinson grew up in a tiny farming town one hundred and seventeen miles away from Nashville, Tennessee. She never dreamed she’d ever make it bigger than the local dive bar on a Saturday night but after one of her songs was picked up for a movie she’s been thrust into fame as a newly-closeted lesbian country singer. She’s content to play along with the narratives constructed for her as long as it’ll get her enough for a plane ticket North and a humble apartment once she’s paid her dues.
Everything’s going to plan until she comes face-to-face with America’s Sweetheart, the blonde-haired green-eyed Harry Styles, who’s been winning over the hearts of millions (including Louis’ own) since she was fifteen.
OR the all-girls au where Louis is basically KD Lang and Harry is basically Dolly Parton and they fall in love in a pickup truck.
💎 Backseat Sinning by croisblue / @forwhatiam {E, 5k}
A long ride in a car with no AC is driving Louis to the brink of insanity. Luckily, his boyfriend Harry knows just what will make him relax. And if a stranger decides to sneak a peek at the action... well, the more the merrier, right?
💎 Keep Driving (without me) by LadyLondonderry / @londonfoginacup {T, 2k}
It is hour eight of the road trip and Harry Styles is going into heat.
“We should’ve taken two cars,” Ny Oh says.
“We should’ve left Harry behind,” Mitch grumbles.
