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If I promise you can break me (won't you love me like you hate me) by we_are_the_same
Fandoms: One Direction (Band), Zayn Malik (Musician)
28 May 2026
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Zayn’s fingers are shaky as he sets up the camera, his heart pounding when he pulls up the website, the account that’s been created for him. He slips a mask in place before he logs in, sneaking one last look towards the bed and all the toys that are waiting for him on it.
No matter how many times he does this, there’s still a moment of hesitation. Of trepidation, swirling low in his belly. He always has to steady himself with a deep breath, before he clicks on the deceptively small button on his page.
STREAMING LIVE! The page warns him, and Zayn allows himself another slow breath out as his room comes into focus on camera, as the first of his subscribers come flooding into the chatbox.
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stay for the night (in the palaces in my mind) by we_are_the_same
Fandoms: One Direction (Band)
05 May 2026
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“Hello?”
It's tentative, the voice. Louis keeps his eyes firmly closed. This isn't real, he tells himself. This isn't happening. He’d been so careful.
Zayn was going to kill him. Fuck. He’d known better than to go out for a supply run on his own. But Susie had been sick and he hadn’t wanted to take Mike with him when he was so worried about his little sister. She was only eleven years old, it wasn’t like she could stay on her own.
He knows the rules. He knows that agreement that he’s made with Zayn. If I ever come back different-
He scrunches his eyes shut even tighter, as though that can keep the horrible truth at bay. He doesn’t have to be different, he tells himself. He can just ignore-
“Hello?”
Shut up, he thinks. This isn’t real. You’re not real. This isn’t happening.
“I’m sorry you feel that way,” the voice in his head whispers.
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(swore to each other) we'd never be enemies by we_are_the_same
Fandoms: One Direction (Band), Zayn Malik (Musician)
30 Apr 2026
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When he’s in a fight like this, he doesn’t think. He doesn’t have to think. There’s this single minded focus, almost like he can predict what move is coming next. Like his muscles are already anticipating, reacting, before he’s even seen his opponent move.
A small tremor in Blitz’ hands and Zayn pushes his own hands up, bringing up a wall of water that blossoms into ice in front of him, keeping Blitz’ electric current from hitting him. He steps back, eyes on the distorted shape on the other side of the ice, though Zayn doesn’t have to guess at his next move.
This is what he’s been doing for the past six months, after all. This is what he’s trained for, it’s his purpose. One of these days, he will manage to complete his task.
One of these days, the fight will go his way, and Blitz will be obliterated.
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a beautiful sight (we're happy tonight) by we_are_the_same for 4ureyesonly28
Fandoms: One Direction (Band)
07 Dec 2025
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2025
For years, he’s had the same routine. For years, he’d only have to wake up and there’d be lips pressed against his cheek, a raspy happy birthday whispered against his skin. He’d wonder, sometimes, how Harry could pinpoint the exact moment he’d woken up, because some years he hadn’t even been able to open his eyes before those lips made contact with his skin. He’d deduced that it must mean that Harry had been awake before him, every year without fail, and had been watching him. Had known him well enough to know when Louis slipped back into consciousness. It’d made him feel warm and safe and known, once upon a time.
This year there aren’t any lips pressed to his cheek. There isn’t a raspy happy birthday whispered against his skin.
This year, Louis wakes up alone.
2016
"Hi,” the boy chirps, and Louis sort of wants to scowl, mostly because he doesn’t.
“Hi,” he echoes, lower in pitch but not unfriendly, and the boy’s smile brightens in response.
“Hi,” he says again. “I’m Harry. I moved into the apartment next to yours a couple of weeks ago,” he points over his shoulder. “28B. I um. I thought I’d introduce myself.”
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It’s stupid. Louis knows it’s stupid. He knows it’s just a trick of the light, the Mona Lisa effect, or whatever they call it. He knows that a painting can’t really be watching him.
But he can feel the hairs raise on the back of his neck whenever he turns away from the painting nonetheless.
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“You didn’t.”
Louis grins, unconcerned. “But I did. Or maybe I didn’t. It’s not like they can prove anything.” He shrugs a shoulder, wrapping his arm around Harry and pressing a kiss to his cheek. “Let them try.”
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you lost your head (so I gave you mine) by we_are_the_same
Fandoms: One Direction (Band)
18 Sep 2025
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The doorbell rings and Harry’s heart leaps in his throat. It’s not like he wasn’t waiting for exactly this to happen - like he hadn’t been suffering from the paralysis that came with waiting for a future event, no matter how far back it was in the day - but somehow, between watching the minute hand of the clock move towards the twelve and the hour hand finally settling firmly on the two, he’d still managed to be surprised.
He’s nervous, wiping his hands on his jeans as he walks on suddenly unsteady legs towards the door. Never invite strangers to your house, rings through his head in his nan’s voice, but the thing is, Harry doesn’t know what else to do.
Of course there’s other options. There should be other options, at least. But he’s tried them all. He’s tried going to the library to study, but somehow it’d been too quiet. He’d tried music, but that was too loud. He’d tried the pomodoro technique and he’d tried body doubling, but none of it had helped.
Hence, Louis.
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do you feel what I feel (does it feel right?) by we_are_the_same
Fandoms: One Direction (Band), Formula 1 RPF
11 Sep 2025
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His ears are ringing as he slowly shuffles through the hallway, head bowed and the hood of his sweatshirt all but pulled over his face. There's a quiet but insistent headache pulsing at his temples and he breathes in shakily before knocking just once on the nondescript hotel door that currently feels like it's potentially going to save his life.
He stumbles across the threshold the moment the door opens, and Zayn’s arms are there to catch him, wrapping around him in a hug that makes him feel as though he’s finally able to breathe.
And this. They didn’t used to do this. They didn’t hug. They weren’t the kind of friends that were comfortable like that. Hell, a few weeks ago they weren’t friends at all. And even right now, he’s not sure what they are.
He just knows that Zayn wraps his arms around him and the ringing stops. Oscar could cry.
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when all the ticking stops dead by we_are_the_same for beardyboyzx
Fandoms: One Direction (Band)
31 Aug 2025
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The first time he sees it, he thinks that he’s dreaming. That instead of getting up, dragging himself to the shower and looking at his exhausted reflection in the mirror, he must have turned back around in bed and acknowledged that today wasn’t going to be the day. Just like it hadn’t been the day yesterday, or the day before that, or the day before that.
But the water droplets rolling down his back feel real, and the fog on the mirror feels real, and when he wipes away the condensation, he sees it just as clearly as he sees himself.
A dark, vaguely humanoid shape, with concerned hazel eyes.
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He allows himself a moment to think back. To nine. To fifteen. Sixteen. To eighteen and twenty two and twenty seven. And it eases something in his chest, thinking of all those moments. Of what they'd had in common.
Or: Five times Zayn finds Liam on the hill and one time Liam comes to find Zayn.
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the comfort of being known by f1-things (we_are_the_same) for chaotic_bells
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
05 Aug 2025
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Post Hungary 2025. Charles is sad and wants to go home.
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a million miles from yesterday by f1-things (we_are_the_same) for chaotic_bells
Fandoms: Formula 1 RPF
05 Aug 2025
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Lando writes a letter to Oscar
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- Part 1 of Fanfic Trope Mashups
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It’s been five years and Zayn still feels the ghost of Louis’ hand on his throat whenever he can’t breathe.
There used to be a point in time when he craved it; the way his pulse would do an uptick, the way blood would rush through his ears and everything would feel faint, but these days it’s nothing like that. These days it’s only panic tightening his chest and stealing the breath from his lungs, and no amount of trying to calm himself down works anymore.
It doesn’t help that no one understands. Well, one person would, but he’s the exact person that’s got Zayn in a panic right now, and there’s some morbid kind of humor in that, because of course Louis still manages to control his breathing when it’s been five years since they were last even in the same room.
Or, more accurately, four days, eleven months and twenty-eight days. But who’s counting?
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feels just like a drug (really fuck me up) by we_are_the_same
Fandoms: One Direction (Band)
28 May 2025
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“God, look at you,” Louis murmurs, his hands back on Zayn’s chest, fingertips greedy with the way they push in, stroking, claiming, owning. “You’re so eager for it. Shame that it’s only me who gets to see it.” He follows his words with a teasing flick of Zayn’s nipple, and Zayn’s fingers slip, losing their grip on his cock. He might let out another whine, he doesn’t know, he feels more than hears it, but Louis’ voice is there at his ear, breath skimming over his skin. “Want that, do you? Want someone to come in here and see you like this?”
No, Zayn thinks. Yes. He whines again, unsure, the thought making him feel deliciously dirty, shame heating his cheeks as he can feel himself throb in the pathetic grip he’s managed on himself. Louis must see it, because he chuckles. “Well, you’re in luck princess,” he whispers. “As it just so happens, I’ve invited some friends to come and watch. They should be here any minute.”
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Louis is searching through his drawer, trying to find some lost pennies, maybe a buck or two, anything that means he doesn’t have to starve for the next week and a half, when he comes across the flyer that he’d haphazardly shoved into it the last time he had a guy over. Louis isn’t sure what had compelled him to pick it off the noticeboard when he’d first seen it, though if he’s honest with himself, that isn’t entirely true.
New study, the flyer claims, financial compensation up to £3000.
It had sounded too good to be true, at the time. Yet he’d kept the flyer, because £3000 is a lot, especially for a 22-year-old college student. Which is probably why it had been posted at a uni noticeboard in the first place, which he knows should probably give him pause, but well.
Desperate times, and all that.
Which is how Louis finds himself in a sterile looking white room, one that he figures is usually used for important - boring - meetings, sitting opposite a young looking bloke in a white lab coat.
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Or: Louis participates in a scientific study, but everything is not what it seems.
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I'm Already Up Here (And I Got My Eyes Closed) by we_are_the_same for lightswoodmagic (sarah_writes)
Fandoms: One Direction (Band)
20 Jan 2025
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It happens like this: Zayn is sixteen and he gets his soulmark.
Zayn had wondered what his would be. Louis had gotten a large flower on his arm, which he had bitched and moaned about at first until he’d realised that the petals changed colour depending on his soulmate’s mood. Zayn had thought it was kind of sick. He’d imagined his own; leaves climbing up his arms maybe, or large vines wrapped around his chest like his mum’s mark.
Instead he wakes up on the morning of his sixteenth birthday, feeling like he can’t breathe. He pulls his shirt over his head, seeing a large purple, angry looking bruise on his chest. Poking one finger at it, he’s not surprised when it throbs, and he throws himself back onto his pillow, sighing. Day one of having a soulmate, and this is what he’s got to show for it.
It happens like this: Zayn is sixteen and this is only the start of it.
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There has been a rivalry between them since they were young. Since the very start of their careers. It’s always been Louis and Zayn, the ones to watch. The ones to do battle and ultimately share the podium.
They push each other to be better, is what the world says.
They hate each other, is what Zayn and Louis say.
And it all comes to a head in Val d’Argenton.
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Harry has been driving in complete darkness for ten minutes. Which is bad enough on its own, but even more so when he can’t stop thinking about the ghost story Niall had told him just before he left.
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Liam Payne has met his soulmate.
He knows he has, because he woke up with his power this morning.
Problem one: he has no idea who his soulmate is. He saw a ton of people last night, because it was the introduction party for the uni he is now attending. He’d talked to at least a dozen people, and he’s unsure on what counts as ‘meeting’ your soulmate, because it might just be someone he’d bumped into on his way to the loo.
Problem two: his power seems to be that he can read minds.
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London, May 23rd, 2025
Interview with Harry Styles, popstar, bisexual icon and philanthropist, by Louis W. Tomlinson.