to try and catch your shadow (1D, AU)

[saralisse]

to try and catch your shadow
louis is a ghost and they're all a little in love with each other
for this prompt at the 1D halloween fest
Warnings: self-harm, suicide, louis is a ghost, unbeta'd, minor character death,
title taken from My Favorite Ghost by Me Vs. Gravity (x)
5029 words, complete.

MOVED TO FIC COMM ( X)

Comments

[saralisse]

i have been trying to come up with an appropriate response to this comment for three and a half hours.
i have failed.

f;lknrjgnerlnfak ilysm thank you thank you i love that bit too and i just i'm actually proud of this one a little bit and aklsdfj;aksljfk.

[eccentricsimply]

'harry has nightmares, so many nightmares that night. but every time he wakes, louis is there still, smiling warmly and forgiving harry for not having saved him before.'

OUCH
NO
I didnt ask for this
Its lovely, really, nice job.

[saralisse]

oh, that was one of my favorite bits!

thank you, thank you.
*hug* i'm sorry it hurts.

[loupooh]

Oh my god my heart is aching rn.

I can't even think anymore, my brain is all mush. I blame you.

[saralisse]

*hug* I'm sorry you're aching.

I didn't mean for it to be this painful.

[hostagesfic]

man, i absolutely loved how easy it was to just, like, accept the way being a ghost worked? because there wasn't a carefully delineated set of rules to it but one just found out enough from little details surrounding louis and it worked. i really liked louis' like, constant bitterness (i assume being a ghost mustn't be horribly pleasing) but how protective he was over his boys despite his own demons. i've always said if liam is daddy direction, louis has to be mummy direction, and i totally felt it here. (also gosh, the eleanor details- my other half and i have a bit of a soft spot for the darling girl, and every time she's included in fic in a nice light it's the very greatest. so yay!)

hey, this turned out longer than expected. lovely fic! -p

[saralisse]

That was the most lovely comment. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I read it just as Little Things came on the radio and now I'm all emotional.

I'm so glad it was easy to accept the nature of the ghosts - I'm not really sure where it all came from. I completely agree with Louis being mummy direction! (i adore eleanor, and work very hard to show her in a good light in all of my fics, no matter what her relationship with louis looks like in them.)

<3

[tamzinrose]

oh darling, you are so good

[saralisse]

i'm only as good as you help me to be. (thank you)