I think the thing I love most about seeing Football!Harry and Football!Louis together is that it’s a tangible reminder that they’re best friends, first and always.
“Swifties are so basic!” “Directioners are a cult!”
imma stop you right there buddy. we are not shaming teenage girls here, but if we were, how bout we talk about you, a grown ass man, will all your grown ass man friends absolutely losing your shit over a bunch of other grown ass men kicking balls around?
The English national team is on the brink of winning the UEFA final and it all hinges on a penalty kick from team captain and national hero Louis Tomlinson, who was forcibly outed in the press right before the tournament. The whole country holds its breath as the goal sails through.
Unbeknownst to the rest of the world, up-and-coming model Harry Styles and the team captain have been dancing around each other for years. Harry decides, on this particular night, that he's had enough and Louis deserves a reward that only Harry can give him.
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Written as a part of the @wordplayfics challenge for the prompt "Particular."
It’s Louis’ senior year, and he’s dead set on doing it right. However, along with his pair of cleats, a healthy dose of sarcasm and his ridiculous best friend, he’s also got a complicated family, a terrifyingly uncertain future, and a mortal enemy making his life just that much worse. Mortal enemies “with benefits” was not exactly the plan.
Or: The one where Louis and Harry definitely aren’t friends, and football is everything.
Whirlwind by dolce_piccante
M, 21k
AU. Acclaimed actor, Hollywood heartthrob, and Oscar nominee, Harry Styles, seems to have the world at his feet, but seeks out an old friend when he needs a date for his big night.
Pull Me Under by zarah5
E, 140k
AU. As the first British footballer to come out at the prime of his career, it helps that Louis Tomlinson is in a long-term, committed relationship. Even if that relationship is fake. (Featuring Niall as Louis' favourite teammate, Liam as Louis' agent, and Zayn as Liam's boyfriend, who just happens to be good friends with one Harry Styles.)
burn this flame by rainbowninja167
E, 13k
“You’ve played keeper before?” Tomlinson asks suspiciously, hands on his waist.
“Er, yeah,” Harry coughs. “Loads of times.”
“Alright Popstar, if you’re sure,” Tomlinson tells him with a shrug, his professional expression already curling into laughter. Harry tries not to read too much into it. After all, how hard can goalkeeping really be?
When Harry gets invited to play in a celebrity charity match with Louis Tomlinson, Manchester United's star player, he's determined to impress him with brilliant football skills. The only flaw in Harry's otherwise foolproof plan? He has absolutely no football skills, brilliant or otherwise.
We got nothing to lose by iwontseecadyagain
NR, 12k
“Oops!” A deep and slow voice fills Louis’ ears as an arm reaches around his waist, to keep Louis from rebounding into another white-outfitted body – this time a short young girl who could only be gymnast.
“Hi,” Louis replies as he turns to smile up at the person and thank him for preventing Louis’ life from dissolving into a real-life game of Pong, but the words dry up in his throat when he sees.
The person is a boy, tall and lanky with curly brown hair pushed away from his face messily and held back by a gaudy Union Jack scarf, green eyes sparkling from all the camera flashes and impossibly pink lips curled in a wide smile that nearly encompasses his whole face.
And Louis recognizes him instantly. And he thinks that maybe if walking into the Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremony wasn’t enough, having Harry Styles’ arm around him might be the killing blow.
Also known as an Olympics AU where Harry is a pro tennis player, and Louis is a pro footballer. They meet at the opening ceremony and fall in love, obviously.
Ain't That A Kick In The Head! by keysmashlesbian, wreckingtomlinson
T, 22K
[deleted, the link will lead you to the pdf file]
“Well.” Niall unlocks his phone. “It wasn’t getting the traction I wanted on Snapchat. So… I tweeted it.”
What.
“You tweeted it,” Harry states, nearing a state of brain dead. “To your ten thousand followers.”
Niall nods, handing Harry the phone. “You’re a meme, Harry.”
“I’m a what?”
“A meme. It’s like an internet—”
“I know what a fucking meme is, Niall! Why did you make me into one?”
Niall has the fucking balls to cackle at that while Harry looks at the mess his former friend created. Videos of him screaming at Tomlinson about Tide Pods and his ass are being quoted and combined with memes to a create a level of memeception Harry has never seen before. That isn’t even including the thousands of tweets of him falling up the stairs remixed with random Top 40 songs.
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In which Harry’s a disaster gay who doesn’t know shit about soccer, Liam drinks too many blue raspberry Coolattas, Niall knows everyone, Zayn looks dead, and Louis is Not Happy about sharing his breakout moment with “Drunk Hawaiian Guy.”
Sing When You're Winning by hazsementir
NR, 90k
Harry is fifteen minutes late to the office on the day Louis Tomlinson comes out as gay.
Or, the one where Harry's a chronically underpaid magazine intern and Louis is the Premier League's first gay footballer and pretty much the last thing they need is each other.
Depois de muitas cantadas, ao vivo e fora das telas, Louis um astro do futebol inglês, pede Harry, um renomado jornalista esportivo, em namoro em rede nacional.
I’m just very happy that H still wears his pearl necklace which I totally believe Louis gave him for the anniversary.
I wasn’t really convinced that he was in Australia but he looks so tan, maybe they went together somewhere before Australia? Anyway it seems HL had some nice sunny days off together.
Hi, anon!
I'm happy he wears it too. It didn’t look like he was wearing the cross and dicklace today, only the pearls (or maybe he was, we just couldn’t see them).
I wasn't convinced he was with Louis in Australia either, and we'll never know, but yeah that's a bit of a tan he's got going lol. His good mood tells me he's had some rejuvinating time off spent with the hubby. That's what matters.