OldButGold28
Fandoms
- Formula 1 RPF (1)
Recent works
-
Tags
Summary
“What was I supposed to do, then? Stop the car and give you back your position? It doesn’t work that way, Räikkönen,” he spat his surname like it was a swear word, trying to get under his skin, “or you’re forgetting how this world works with your old age?”
Recent bookmarks
-
The Finish Line (Is A Good Place For Us To Start) by LoadedGunn
Fandoms: One Direction (Band)
15 Jan 2014
Tags
Summary
Louis Tomlinson, one-time Formula 1 World Champion, is looking forward to the 2013 season. He’s got Zayn in his garage and Liam in his ear, he’s got Cowell Racing backing him despite former indiscretions, he’s got experience and the best race car out there. Not to mention he’s the only racer they have, after Oliver dropped out late last year.
It hasn’t occurred to him that Oliver would have to be replaced by February. That is, until he finds himself at a party celebrating Harry Styles leaving Ferrari for Cowell. Harry hotshot Styles, who broke a record last year and is probably looking to make a big splash. Harry Styles, who is talented and somewhat intimidating. Harry Styles, who left Ferrari for reasons unknown and seems kind of lonely and harmless in person. Lonely, harmless, hot as fuck. Whatever.
The first thing Louis does is take him under his wing. From there it’s nine months of slow-burning romance, the past catching up to them, turning into the human puppy pile that is OT5 and a lot of feelings until, of course, reaching the finish line.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 121,961
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 653
- Kudos:
- 5,169
- Bookmarks:
- 3,203
- Hits:
- 280,622
Bookmarked by OldButGold28
16 Apr 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Louis never wanted a soulmate, didn’t really care for the whole Bonding thing at all, really. Enter Harry Styles, who’s wanted to be Bonded for as long as he could remember. With one fateful meeting in an X Factor bathroom, Louis gets a dagger on his arm and the realization that just because Harry is his soulmate doesn’t mean it’s mutual.
From the X Factor house to Madison Square Garden, from the Fountain Studios stage to stadiums across the world, Louis has to learn to love without losing himself completely, because someday his best friend will Bond to someone and replace Louis as the center of his universe. Meanwhile, Harry begins to think that maybe fate doesn’t actually know what it’s doing after all, because his other half has clearly been right in front of him the whole time. All he has to do now is convince Louis to give them a chance.
Or, the canon compliant Harry and Louis love story from the very beginning, where the only difference is that the love between them is literally written on their skin, and there’s only so much they can hide.
Series
- Part 1 of Hiding Place
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 365,058
- Chapters:
- 17/17
- Comments:
- 1,096
- Kudos:
- 5,196
- Bookmarks:
- 3,040
- Hits:
- 330,023
Bookmarked by OldButGold28
16 Apr 2025
-
Tags
Summary
“I hate all of you.” Louis’ cheeks flush. “You better watch yourself or Wootton is gonna release an article claiming all of our woes are a direct result of a serious Mario Kart addiction. He’s already got an insider ready to tell him Niall prances around the clubhouse pretending to be Yoshi.”
Some of the boys chuckle, but Louis’ heart nearly stops when a honk sounds from second base. Everyone turns in that direction and Harry fucking Styles slaps a hand over his own mouth, as if trying to muffle the fact that he’s a motherfucking Siren. Louis stares. He wasn’t… it really wasn’t that funny? He couldn’t possibly be laughing at Louis, right? He…
What?
“Sorry,” Styles gasps. His shoulders shake as those dimples, which have had blogs and articles and entire columns dedicated to them, bloom. “Sorry…"
Louis hates him. Louis hates him. Louis hates him.
~~~
OR: Star shortstop Louis Tomlinson only finds solace between the white-chalk lines of a baseball diamond, until Harry Styles- the absolute bane of his existence and (probably) the worst pitcher in Major League Baseball- becomes an overnight sensation in the city Louis calls home.
Series
- Part 2 of Down the Line
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 279,961
- Chapters:
- 9/9
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 610
- Kudos:
- 1,034
- Bookmarks:
- 594
- Hits:
- 75,174
Bookmarked by OldButGold28
08 Apr 2025
-
Tags
Summary
Harry joins the Hogwarts staff as the new History of Magic Professor, while Draco has already been teaching Defence Against the Dark Arts for the past year. When Samantha, a first year, is being bullied one day and throws a made-up Truth curse at her harasser, only to accidentally hit Harry instead, Harry becomes cursed to tell the truth, and not only that, he has to regularly tell it to Draco Malfoy. Samantha is clearly gifted, maybe the most powerful witch or wizard to ever come through Hogwarts, and yet she has no idea how to take the curse off. As they work to remove it—and also teach Samantha how to control a power that's becoming more dangerous by the day—will Harry's truths become too much to handle? And will whatever’s going on with Draco just make everything exponentially worse?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 114,500
- Chapters:
- 15/15
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 985
- Kudos:
- 4,964
- Bookmarks:
- 1,647
- Hits:
- 116,429
Bookmarked by OldButGold28
08 Apr 2025
-
Tags
Summary
“Harry, I-I’m so sorry…” Louis stutters out, trying to keep his voice level and even, to portray a depiction of strength, but with the way Harry is looking at him, staring at him like he has a personal passage way straight to Louis’ soul, it’s so hard, nearly impossible.
That simple opening phrase, that short introductory acknowledgement that is often rushed out so easily, painlessly, at a safe distance. Giving a doctor the ability to portray empathy without true emotion, without feeling the full brunt and sheer force of the underlying pain itself.
But Louis feels it, he feels the crushing agony laced behind the phrase, he feels the weight of the painful words slipping from his lips, the cause and effect that the three-word expression holds. The distantly empty “I’m so sorry” that doctors throw out in self-preservation, isn’t at all empty for him. Louis recognizes it, he understands it, he feels it.
✚☤✚
a fated story of two broken and battered boys who barely survived the unimaginable and how the love of one little brave girl defies all the odds and somehow puts them back together.Series
- Part 1 of all we can do is keep breathing
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 310,000
- Chapters:
- 18/18
- Collections:
- 5
- Comments:
- 1,139
- Kudos:
- 3,747
- Bookmarks:
- 2,216
- Hits:
- 249,642
Bookmarked by OldButGold28
08 Apr 2025