actions and reactions. (or: harry hasn't spoken for a year and his boyfriend, louis, has yet to figure out why. harry is a sophomore in college and louis is a senior, and they navigate a world of noise.) [June 2021] word count: 50,000 words trigger warnings: attempted suicide, trauma/ptsd, severe physical violence, smut

Harry is a young student from the Spaceflight Academy. He is owner of excellent reflexes and an acute vision, his main ambition is to be assigned as the gunner of one of the most sophisticated and top secret spacecrafts created by man: The Needle. An spacecraft of two crewmembers, which implies that Harry shall have a partner. In his first day he meets Louis, the most dangerous cadet of the Academy. There are rumors that Louis killed his last partner. The ice from his blue eyes and his face marked with an ugly scar, are not enough to intimidate Harry. But when he finds he has been assigned as his partner, things change. Tension rises to unsuspected limits when Louis informs him that, to fly the craft, he and Harry shall do it naked, with their bodies entwined in a sensual dance. A sexual intimacy that gets Harry to feel angry and very awkward because of the feelings that are waking up in him. Louis shall dominate Harry completely, get his total acceptance will be the only thing that will keep them alive. And for that he shall force him to break through all his limits.

Every night he stands in the middle of the road ㅡ I'm only there to pick him up. © DifferentButGood_1D 2017

Louis knows about beauty; the combination of qualities that pleases the aesthetic senses. He creates that combination every day in the garments he designs while studying fashion at uni. The cut of the design, the color of the fabric, the intricacy of the stitching; it all comes together to create something beautiful. When the science student with the long legs and dimpled smile agrees to model for him, Louis decides he's found beauty personified. Harry just thinks Louis needs someone to show him how beautiful he is. (please keep in mind that this has not been edited as I am just posting it over here for the people who asked for it)

Louis, to his horror, attends an elitist university in which the name Zayn Malik means something, Niall Horan doesn't stop talking, there are pianos everywhere, and Harry Styles, only son of a drug-addled, clinically insane ex-rocker, has a perfect smile and empty eyes. WARNING: all rights go to velvetoscar on ao3 Cover made by: whatkooloser