NEIGHBORS FIC REC: Below you’ll find fics where Harry and Louis live close to one another.
📖 Light My Fire, Blow My Flame by @softfonds (98k)
the One Where…. Louis is a Broadway actor, Harry is a newly graduated lawyer, Liam is a radio DJ, Zayn is an English Professor at NYU, and Niall is a music producer. A Friends AU.
An enemies-to-lovers fic where Harry and Louis are neighbours who are forced to get along due to the inconvenience (or convenience) of a broken lift.
📖 Little by Little by @absoloutenonsense (65k)
Harry discovers figuring out who you are is more complicated than a potato metaphor.
📖 the stars are smiling by @stylesthebrave (33k)
Harry’s new in town and just wants to spend his nights on the rooftop gazing at the stars. He gets far more than he bargained for.
📖 deFENCEless by @cursethedaylight (27k)
When Louis butts heads with his new neighbor who loves to garden a little too much, all he can do to protect his yard (and heart), is keep on building up his fence(s).
AU. When Harry moves to a new city, his new flat come with a number of sweet, anonymous gifts and surprises that brighten his days. Could it be a friendly ghost? Another friendly presence in his new building is his tattooed neighbor, Louis, who seems determined to put a smile back on his face.
📖 That’s How I Know by @allwaswell16 (19k)
the one where Harry’s African grey parrot spills his dirty secrets to his very hot neighbor.
📖 Cut to The Feeling by @pocketsunshineharry (16k)
AU where Louis is a ghostwriter working from home, and Harry is his firefighter neighbour who happens to have the cutest dog on Earth.
📖 in midnights, in cups of coffee by @suspendrs (15k)
Louis is overworked and cold, Harry is stressed out, and they might be in love.
📖 You’re My Somebody by @fournipplesau (14k)
where Louis tries to fix his plumbing and cuts off both his and Harry’s electricity.
📖 Replay by @itsnotreal (10k)
Harry moves in across the street and they really hit it off.
📖 Just Your Jinx by @larryatendoftheday (10k)
Harry Styles may or may not have accidentally jinxed his extremely fit new neighbor, and it’s not so easy to make things right.
Louis’ heat is out, Harry’s a terrible upstairs neighbor, and an empty Christmas tree is the perfect excuse to fall in love.
📖 Where Love Grows by @neondiamond (6k)
When his husband leaves without warning only weeks after the birth of their first child, a struggling Harry is forced to move in with a work colleague and raise his newborn in the desolate, dreary outskirts of London. There, within the walls of a shitty apartment complex, he meets Louis Tomlinson, fellow struggling parent and hopeless romantic.
📖 An Old Acquaintance by @getmehighonmagic (6k)
Harry moves into a new apartment building, after a shitty break up with his last boyfriend, with every intention of making a fresh start. That is, until he meets his next door neighbour, with whom he is quite familiar…
Single Alpha Louis moves into a new apartment building and doesn’t realize he misses courting someone until meeting his next door neighbor, a charming Omega named Harry.
Louis is working up the nerve to officially ask him to court, but what if Harry secretly beats him to the punch?
📖 I’ll Keep You Warm by @parmahamlarrie (5k)
Louis is the kind of guy who keeps his head down and minds his own business. He’s lived on the same street for years and barely would recognize the buildings, let alone his neighbours. That’s all about to change however, due to a broken key and an unexpected snow storm.
Louis is an overworked bartender hoping to save up enough extra tips to buy a new air conditioner before he literally melts during a scorching NYC heat wave. Harry is the new neighbor that wakes him up by moving in his sole day off at 6am. An NYC enemies to neighbors to friends to lovers AU featuring a rickety fire escape, the 2021 Euros, Lirry bickering like a divorced couple, and enough OT5 clichés to rot your teeth. (If Harry’s pastries don’t get them first.)