18 Bookmarks by MerHLY
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Harry Styles has spent his life believing in fairytales- especially the one where he's destined to marry the man who claimed him when he was still young enough to believe love could never be cruel. Their love story is one he tells with pride, even as he swallows the quiet ache of Dante’s impossible expectations.
Enter Louis Tomlinson, a struggling wedding planner with everything riding on this high-profile event. Louis is everything Harry has been denied- warmth, freedom, desire. Their connection is instant, electric, and impossibly dangerous. Harry is drawn to Louis’ ability to see him in ways Dante never has. And Louis finds himself drowning in something he shouldn't want- something that feels like love.
As they fall into stolen moments and whispered confessions, Louis teaches Harry what love should feel like- tender, safe, freeing. But Harry is getting married. His whole life has been built around Dante, around a love story that’s more cage than comfort. Secrets never stay buried, and as tensions rise, so do the risks. Even as Harry’s heart begs him to choose something different, the fear of unravelling his past might be stronger than what he’s only just begun to understand.
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Bookmarked by MerHLY
03 May 2026
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This is the story of a house.
A house that was watched, longed for, dreamed about, for fifteen years.It’s also the story of two boys who became men while looking at it.
How they navigated love in the time of tabloids, social media conspiracies, fame, music, and heartbreak.
How they changed too soon, too late, and sometimes just in time.
And what happened to them after the band separated and life got real.In the end, it’s just another retelling of what happened after two souls met in the toilets of a venue in 2010, and never really stopped loving each other.
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31 Mar 2026
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“Well,” Harry says, still smiling, “it sounds lovely here. I… think I’ll like it.”
Louis arches an eyebrow. “You should,” he says. “Seeing as you’ve booked the room for a whole two months. I briefly assumed you might be a serial killer looking for somewhere quiet to bury the bodies.”
Harry snorts. “I could still be a serial killer, you know. You’ve just completely ruined my element of surprise.”
Or- Global phenomenon Harry Styles just needs a place to hide for a few months; instead he gets a charming inn owner named Louis who treats banter like a love language, locals who might be running a small cult (jury’s still out), and a sheep named Bernard who adopts him as his emotional support human. Harry came to disappear, but instead acquires chaos, increasingly unhinged drama, and the deeply inconvenient problem of falling in love.
Or- a rom-com in a chaotic small town.
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To start again by Loretheloner
Fandoms: One Direction (Band), Faith in the Future - Louis Tomlinson (Album)
11 Nov 2024
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Louis finds himself slowly falling for a bandmate again, despite Oli's warnings against it. Michael finds himself slowly falling for his boss and fighting against the ghost of Louis' past relationship. They find a way to start again.
Or a canon compliant story that follows Michael and Louis from the summer of 2019 to June of 2024. Written for prompt SS of the Louis Rare Pair Fest 2024.
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clinging to the ruin of a broken home by estel_meleth_amdir
Fandoms: One Direction (Band)
24 Oct 2025
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Harry and Louis haven’t spoken sober in almost six years, and with the horror Harry reveals to Louis over the phone in October 2024, Louis wishes it had stayed that way.
After the news of Liam’s death, the rest of One Direction decides to take some time off together to grieve and heal some wounds form the past. But maybe some things might never be healed if people are still keeping secrets from each other.
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This story is about grieving and healing, of letting go and forgiving, and about finding one’s way back to friendship and love.Bookmarked by MerHLY
09 Dec 2025
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Harry’s a lonely photographer in Leeds—known to everyone, but truly known by no one. That is, until he notices Louis, a homeless man living under a bridge. Harry calls him “Bridgeboy” until one day, he decides to bring him coffee.
This small gesture sparks a routine—breakfast together, walks, and quiet moments that slowly build an unspoken friendship. But Louis is guarded, untrusting, and determined to do things on his own. Harry only wants to help, but deeper down, he just wants to be loved.
OR harrys never been lonelier and thats when he meets bridgeboy, a homeless louis who can avoid questions like no other. naturally he brings him home.
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05 Nov 2025
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“Why exactly are you here?” Louis asked, feigning annoyance and failing pathetically at it.
“My publicist told me I can't go anywhere near you.” Harry said, eyes still smudged with last night's eye liner. “That makes you my favorite person in the world.”Or the one where Louis has everything: a lead role in a giant Hollywood franchise, a glittering new house with an entertaining Irish neighbor, and a steady, normal boyfriend who he probably loves. Louis never expected to become a household name among young Hollywood overnight. He also never expected to find something endearing about the enigmatic rockstar who keeps showing up on his back porch.
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Bookmarked by MerHLY
30 Oct 2025
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you stopped me in my tracks and put me right in my place by hemakeshimstrongx
Fandoms: One Direction (Band), Larry Stylinson - Fandom
29 Apr 2023
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"you're a bit snobby, you know that?" he asks, and beautiful stranger scoffs at him.
"i'm snobby? you're the popstar who broke into my hotel room in the middle of the night, scared me awake, drank my alcohol, and slept in my bed. then you assumed we had sex, then offered to throw money at the problem. but i'm snobby."[or: popstar louis tomlinson has a habit of breaking into the rooms of his friends when they try to have an early night. he got a little mixed up one night and ended up in the wrong room. what he thinks can just be one final meeting to retrieve paperwork ends up turning into much, much more.]
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13 Jul 2025
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Harry holds the warm paper bag in his lap, tapping it like it’s a nervous tic.
“You’re not gonna eat the lemon bar now, are you?” Louis asks, glancing sideways.
Harry looks at him, mock offended. “Why wouldn’t I?”
“Because it’s dessert.”
“Says who?” Harry fishes it out and unwraps it like he’s been waiting his whole life for this moment. “You can’t dangle citrus pastries in front of me and expect me to act normal.”Harry and Louis start texting again after Liam's funeral. It's not supposed to mean anything.
But grief is messy. So is love.Bookmarked by MerHLY
15 May 2025
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Pain and Peace Through the Grief by words_of_my_own
Fandoms: One Direction (Band), Larry Stylinson - Fandom, Larry - Fandom, Larries - Fandom, Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson - Fandom, louis tomlinson/harry styles - Fandom, 1D - Fandom
15 Dec 2024
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"Harry sits at one end of the church pew, Louis at the other, an unspoken distance between them that feels endless. Beside him, Niall is close, his hand resting softly on Harry's thigh - tentative, as if he's trying to offer comfort to both of them at once.
It tears at Harry’s heart to see the raw, swollen red of Niall’s eyes - so broken, so lost. He can’t even bring himself to glance at Louis; the weight of everything that has unfolded since last night - the unsaid words, the aching silence - keeps him frozen in place. He's terrified of what he might see in Louis’ eyes, of the distance that now lies between them.
Zayn sits next to Louis, and it feels as though they’ve unintentionally divided into two pairs, each drawn to the person they’ve always been closest to. It’s almost inevitable after everything that happened last night, though Zayn and Niall remain blissfully unaware of the true cause of the palpable tension."
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The story begins at Liam’s funeral, where the remaining four band members are reluctantly reunited. Over the following months, both Harry and Louis struggle to come to terms with the sudden, shocking shift in their relationship.
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19 Mar 2025
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18+ | A Canon-Compliant Story of One Direction (2010-2028)
This is a fictional, primarily Larry-centered story, with other ships woven throughout. It follows a canon timeline with real life events. It explores the complex relationships and emotional struggles of Harry, Louis, Liam, Zayn, and Niall, depicting them as complicated, multifaceted people. Through a fictional lens, it delves into love, loyalty, the pressures of fame, and the darker realities of the music industry and closeting.
Based on our timeline of real events: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1chnTlFQLu0KQwTkAwM0XXbOkS3Nx_rmTGC82PAPUFHE/edit?usp=sharing
NEW CHAPTERS TO BE POSTED SOON
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London, May 23rd, 2025
Interview with Harry Styles, popstar, bisexual icon and philanthropist, by Louis W. Tomlinson.
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Louis finds himself out of place in LA, unable to get at an itch that’s been bothering him for years. He supposes back in the early days, home hadn’t been a place. It’d been a person. He’d etched it permanently into his skin for fucks sake.
It was always him and Harry. Stuck to each other like super glue. Pulled together by some magnetic force, existing in their own bubble. Everyone could see it, but that was half the problem, wasn’t it?It’s not like Louis can pinpoint the exact moment in time when him and Harry fell out of sync. There wasn’t really one at all. It had been a gradual slip, like the tide wearing away at a sandstone cliff. Chipping the solid foundations until there was nothing left to stop the structure falling to the waves below. It’s not like he spends all of his time sitting around moping over a lost friendship, he’s good at distractions. But LA only seems to accentuate the distance between them. Two separate planets, not even in the same solar system.
Or the one where Harry and Louis finally get it right.
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23 Nov 2024
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After years of no contact, it's a random Tweet on his timeline, that makes Louis brave enough to wish Harry a happy new year
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04 Sep 2024
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they’ve still got all the money in the world, all the big nights and bigger houses, all the people at their doors with singles and album deals and promises of more, they still have all of that, and they will forever. the only thing they’ve burnt through is each other.
or, two years after the band, harry and louis bump into each other for the first time.
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"You know my heart - so tell me honestly, did you ever really want this?
So I’ll sing this song for every word that comes out wrong
But I’ll be okay – is that what you want me to say?"In the end, it's neither the fame or the pressure, nor Management or the constant hiding and denying that tears them apart. Or maybe it's a sum of all and so much more on top.
In the end, it's Harry.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?
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Bookmarked by MerHLY
29 Sep 2023
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It's Fine To Fake It 'Til You Make It ('Til It's True) by sunflouwerhabit
Fandoms: One Direction (Band)
11 Dec 2023
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Harry Styles @HarryStyles_KE
hi again! so, i wanted to apologize one more time for the whole “helogogjs good gksdjid” thing, and also say that i didn’t just accidentally open your DM’s when i wasn’t paying attention earlier. i sort of had a question about a tweet you posted yesterday? like. the whole “rent a boyfriend” thing? is that something you were serious about? and if so, how does one come to hire you to be their boyfriend? i’m, um, asking for a friend*****
Harry dreads an impending visit to his hometown, where he’ll be forced to reunite with a newly engaged ex-boyfriend, a childhood best friend turned near stranger, and a family who never understood just how desperately he needed to leave.
In the midst of it all, a ludicrous Twitter proposition brings him to Louis.
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After two decades in brutal show business, Louis Tomlinson is trying to restore his tranquility of mind in the peace of Northern Europe where the sun barely sets, Maria's bar is always open, and young Harry has an irresistible spark in his eyes.
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- Part 1 of love is a word, you gave it a name