Louis can’t believe he’s third wheeling, again, so he scans the bar trying to find something better to do.
And as he does, he recognizes a face.
That face looks angry, almost fuming and Louis takes a gulp from his beer and looks to the other side, pretending he didn’t even see the bloke, pretending he has no clue who that person coming over his way is.
“You’ve told everyone and their mother that I’m a bad fucker?!”
That’s how Harry greets him.
Smooth.
Not really.
The one in which Harry is bad at sex and Louis spreads it all over town and to make up for it, decides to help him with no agenda of getting anything from it, but in the end, he ends up getting more than he bargained for.
Author: @perfectdagger (sincerelyste)
Pairing: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson
Rating: Explicit
Status: Complete (8/8)
Word count: 70k
thanks to @delicatepointofview for helping me with the moodboard!
Louis Tomlinson left his home in Doncaster as a young man with the intent of making enough money to send it back home to his family and support them however he could. None of the farms are hiring as he travels through Yorkshire, but eventually he makes it all the way up to the northern coast where he secures employment on a fishing boat. He's an in-land child at heart trying to keep his head down and make a living in a town of sailors born from the sea.
Harry, or so he likes to be called, is the myth and legend himself known as the Staithes Mermaid. No one has laid eyes on him, but everyone loves to tell tall tales. Until, all of a sudden, a few incidents crop up around town. Then, the Staithes Mermaid becomes an easy scapegoat. The only problem? Harry approaches Louis, a human, for the first time begging for help to clear his name.
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Historical, Alternate Universe - Victorian, Victorian, Fishing, Sailing, Loneliness, Isolation, Mermaid Harry Styles, Sailor Louis Tomlinson, Village life, North of England, Minor Violence, Gun, Territorial Disputes, No Smut