Seven years into their relationship, James Potter and Lily Evans are at a crossroads. What had once seemed fated and gold-plated is now under immense pressure. The question is: are they something worth fighting for?
Did I write another thing? Yes, I did.
Is it complete yet? No, it’s not, but it will be soon.
How would I describe it? It broke my heart to write it.
The idea for this Jily fic came to me after posting the third chapter of Knocked Up By My Ex. I had no intention of writing it or posting it until after I finished the fourth chapter of KUBME, but I found myself typing it out and then suddenly I had finished two chapters.
Consider this a peace offering, because I won’t be able to update Knocked Up By My Ex until Wednesday 4 May, since I’ll be flying to Stockholm with two of my best friends tomorrow.
Take care, sweethearts! I will probably still be on Tumblr and I will still write over the next few days, but I’m leaving my main writing device - my laptop - at home for once.
I just updated this one. Chapter 3 is up. I had hoped to update the full story, but I got sidetracked and wrote too much of KUBME these past few days instead.
I promise the final chapter will be up soon, though!
Thank you for reading this story and the support I’ve received so far.
Summary: Sleekeazy’s warns of “unique results for gingers.” There’s a chance Lily didn’t read the label.
She massages the potion in slowly, fingers working in goosebump-inducing figure-eights against her scalp, just like how Annabeth from Ravenclaw had recommended.
Her fingers starts to freeze up after about a minute, so she straightens, reaches to flip her hair over one shoulder, and —
Screams. She screams.
“Oh my god,” says Mary, agape at the other sink. Her mouth works uselessly for a few more seconds as she points, shakily and seemingly unconsciously, at Lily’s reflection. The gesture, as Lily would later recall, looks straight from the mind of Edvard Munch, and it’d be the most comical thing in the room, if not for… well.
AN: Thank you all for your patience. I know this one took a while, and I’m not sure what the next couple of weeks will bring in terms of updates, but I’m glad I was table to take time each day this week during my lunch break to finish this section up. It is by far the most self indulgent chapter I have ever written.
“Question number two. What date did Zayn Malik announce he was leaving the boyband, One Direction?”
“Ooh, I know this!” Marlene yelled, banging her fist on the table, “Let’s see, I was…seventeen? I remember I refused to go to school that day. Mum was furious.”
“Marlene loves One Direction,” Dorcas explained to the table at large, “Used to be one of those girls that showed up outside Fountain Studios after every live show.”
“I was a Louis girl, obviously,” Marlene said, before planting a kiss on Dorcas’ nose, leaving behind a spot of red lipstick.
“Obviously.”
“Yes, yes, but when did Zayn leave?” Remus looked around the table expectantly, pencil poised above the piece of paper, “You have to prioritize the quiz.”
Prompt:“you looked uncomfortable with that person all over you so i went to pretend to be your partner so they’d leave, except they were actually your significant other, and they dump you on the spot oh my god i’m so sorry”
Disclaimer:Writing is still hard. That’s why I needed to keep this short. And because I am too soft-hearted to not have a happy ending and because it would have taken way too much story to untangle the fall out of this prompt, this is only borderline meet ugly.
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James had almost an hour to kill between work and catching the film he’d been wanting to see at the cinema, so he settled himself in the corner café’s window table. Head bopping to the music flowing in from his earphones, he gazed out of the window as he waited for his tea to cool down to a drinkable temperature. He looked at the people walking along the street. Smiled at the excitable dog straining at its lead towards the park across the street as they waited at the crossroads. The woman standing next to the dog walker caught James’ eye. Deep red hair shining in the sunlight spilled in soft waves against the moss green of her jacket.
Wow, James thought. He picked up his mug and sipped his tea, but all the while he was staring at the red-haired woman, now crossing the street. Soon, she would be out of his view, which would be a shame. No, wait. She sat on a bench near the park’s entrance. A grin flashed against the rim of the mug James held against his lips. Riveted, he watched the woman tilt her head up and imagined she’d smile at the sun. Then, the woman turned to rummage in her bag and pulled out a book.
She seemed to have it all figured out, James mused. A book, a park bench and the warm spring sun. The kind of a perfect moment that would stand out from the drudgery of life.
James turned back to his tea. Lost himself in the music for a moment. Pulled out his phone to check the time, then stashed it back in his pocket. Took another sip of tea.
When he glanced out of the window again, the woman was still there. But she was no longer enjoying the book. A man had stopped in front of her and appeared to be engaging her in a conversation. James couldn’t make out her expression from across the distance, but something about her posture had him frowning. She didn’t seem at ease in the man’s company.
James downed his tea. He still had a good forty minutes before the film would start and no better place to be.
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This had been a mistake, Lily thought, her smile frozen on her lips. This would be her fifth date with John. A nice enough bloke. Super considerate. And definitely a looker. They’d met when a mutual friend had set them up and the first three dates had flowed with ease. But during the last one, there had been a fizzle. Lily hadn’t even realised it then. Only now, when he’d shown up to the start of their fifth date, his eyes bright with excitement, the knowledge suddenly hit Lily right in the gut
There was a but.
Still reeling from that insightful sucker punch, Lily almost missed what John was saying.
“I know it’s still early on and bringing up long-term plans probably isn’t wise, but I thought I’d ask anyway.” He flashed her a smile. “My brother’s getting married in September, and if you happen to be free, Lily, I’d love it if you were my plus one.”
Lily gaped at him. Tried to find the words with which to salvage this bloody mess.
“Ummm,” she hedged. “I —”
That’s how far she got when suddenly a tall lanky body of a total stranger slid onto the bed next to her. A sudden weight on her shoulder turned out to be an arm and before Lily could as much as blink, this stranger from Bedlam had kissed her cheek.
What the ever-loving fuck?!
“Hullo, love,” a warm male voice greeted her.
“Excuse me,” John said, frowning at the interloper.
The stranger ignored him, keeping his eyes on Lily. “I hope I didn’t keep you waiting too long.”
“What?” Lily managed to stammer.
“Who are you?” John asked coolly.
The stranger turned to John. He grinned and held out his hand for him to shake. “James Potter. The boyfriend.”
Lily flinched.
John stared at the offered hand as if it were a rotting bin bag.
“Boyfriend?” he repeated, incredulous.
“Yes. Nice to meet you,” the stranger — James — said cheerfully.
Lily saw the entire trainwreck happen in glorious 4K slow-motion. And the sad thing was that the first emotion that bubbled to the surface from the murky depths was relief.
“Funny how that never came up in a conversation before,” John spat to Lily.
Lily said the only thing she could. The only thing she sincerely meant right now. “I’m sorry.”
“So am I. Looks like I just dodged a big bullet. Hope you have a happy life together.”
John left in a huff.
Lily couldn’t blame him. She let out a big sigh, her shoulders slumping under the warm weight of James’ arm.
“All right?” he asked, his voice soft.
“Mostly,” Lily replied, pinching the bridge of her nose. “I’d only just realised there was a but and I didn’t want to hurt him.”
“A but?” James echoed, confused.
“You know.” Lily shrugged. “I liked him. A lot. But.”
“Oh. Yeah… Wait.” James jerked his arm away. A look of sheer horror crossed his face. “You were withhim?”
“Emphasis on ‘were’,” Lily said, a wry smile tugging at her lips.
“Oh shit. Oh fuck. I’m so sorry.”
Lily sighed again. “So am I.”
“I shouldn’t have — I completely misunderstood. I just saw the two of you and you looked uncomfortable so I thought I’d get him off your back. I didn’t realise he was your boyfriend. I’m so sorry.” He sounded aghast.
“It’s ok. Well, it’s not,” Lily amended. “But the reason I seemed uncomfortable was because I realised I was going to have to break up with him, anyway. I liked him, but not enough to keep dating him.” She grimaced.
“Still.” James ran his hand through his head in frustration. “I just bungled everything up for you like a right arse.”
Lily managed a smile. “You were trying to help.”
James snorted. “And this is where it got us. Bloody hell.”
Impossibly, laughter bubbled in Lily’s throat. Maybe he wasn’t a complete lunatic after all. And he was good-looking, too, actually, now that she really paused to notice.
James cleared his throat. “At the risk of making a bigger arse out of myself — are you free right now?”
“My schedule’s opened up. Why?”
“Well, I was gonna go to the cinema in fifteen minutes and the least I can do to make up for this mess I’ve made of your life is to offer you a ticket.”
“Going to the cinema would take my mind off things,” Lily agreed. She slanted him a glance. “Though going by myself would only remind me of my sad new single status. Maybe you could tag along?”
“Are you sure you want to keep me around after such a stellar first impression?” James asked, a thread of humour in his voice.
“I think I can stomach you at least until I’ve formed a decent second impression.”
First point of discussion, I feel like at this point in the marauders fandom it is a general consensus that James’s parents are the best people to walk the earth, however in this fanfiction their characters are written very differently. For example, they have set strict expectations for James, like the only suitable occupation for him to have would be to be an auror, and even though they’re not blood supremacists, Sirius himself even pointed out that they might be wary of Lily because she was muggleborn. I am not taking off any points for that because it is within the author’s full artistic liberty to shape the characters however they want; it’s just something that I wanted to point out.
Now, time for me to nitpick ;) I felt that James and Lily were entirely too sappy in this fic, especially for 2 seventeen year-olds, I just felt that the way they were written didn’t entirely vibe with the story and because of that there was some dissonance in how it was read and how it flows.
I will say that this has the foundations of a good Jily fic but I found it lacking in certain areas, one of these would be how the Marauders as a group were portrayed. For example, I can probably count on my hands how many scenes Sirius was in, Remus barely has any lines, and Peter is practically non-existent. In terms of “The Marauders”? There were no “Marauders,” just four separate people who were said to be friends, but this fic actually makes me dubious about them being friends at all.
Rate: 4/10
Most memorable scene: Marlene tells Lily that she is apprehensive to support her relationship with James because not only does she think James will hurt Lily, but that Lily is going against everything she ever believed in by dating a Marauder.
This is different from the usual Jily fanfictions in the sense that Lily is the one chasing James instead of the other way around. In this fanfiction, Lily realizes that she likes James but he has already gotten another girlfriend. Appearances are made by an overprotective Sirius Black and Wise Remus who gives out Sage advice. It was a nice fic overall, I just feel that it wasn’t one of my favorites. It was just missing that special kick, I don’t mean to give out any hate at all, it just didn’t stand out to me much? Like it was a good read i guess but I wasn’t emotionally invested in the story or the characters.
Fanfiction:I love you (ain’t that the worst thing you ever heard?) and its companion fic Butterbeer Bludger and Other Disasters For All Gryffindors and Ravenclaws Involved
Author:lizardcookie
This is a fanfiction about James and Lily where they have a friends with benefits relationship in the summer before their seventh year. This is the shortest Jily fic I have ever reviewed so far, only about 20-30k words but it pacts quite a punch. James and Lily are head over heels for each other but they just. cannot. admit it. SO MUCH ANGST! ft. overprotective best mate Sirius in trying to stop James’s feelings from getting hurt.
This is a series on Ao3 so if another addition does pop up, I am definitely going to read and review it!
Rate : 9/10
Most memorable scene: Sirius confronts Lily about messing around with James’s feelings as she’s literally trying to sneak into James’s bedroom window ;)
Also, please follow me on TikTok @maybeestellaespresion where I post a lot more marauders content!
Death and Other Inconveniences is not so much of a teen love story, instead it offers a more detailed view of the wizarding world in war through the lens of a group of teenagers coming into their own, struggling to find themselves, and grappling to do the right thing when they themselves are not sure what that is yet. The story of Lily and James are integral to this fanfiction but I feel that the author uses them more as a vehicle to portray the up and coming changes in the magical society. This fanfiction touches up on issues such as the flawed ideologies of Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix. Dumbledore starts recruiting his child soldiers to deploy in this war very early. James and Lily and the rest of their classmates are literally teenagers being thrown in this war for “the greater good.” As the war starts really swinging into gear everyone must come face to face with what they think is the right course of action and what they think needs to be done in order to win this war. Lily herself, especially struggles with this in terms of her fears, wanting to retain her morals, and still wanting to contribute to making the world a safer place, just unsure if the Order is the right way of doing it.
This story highlights their moments of blissful adolescence: Lily and Remus discussing relationship problems, Sirius being a drama queen, secret snogging sessions in broom cupboards, and sneaking out to the pub every so often. In the end, all of these characters have to make a choice meant for people far older than they are, but no matter what they choose, they will have to live with the decisions that they have made.
This fanfiction is a masterpiece in its own right.
This is the second fanfiction that I am reviewing by scared of clouds. This is the same author that wrote New Year which I have previously read and reviewed. Upon first reading this fanfiction, it made me realize that this is the first fic I read where the story doesn’t immediately start when the characters are at Hogwarts/going to Hogwarts. Like in most other fics I read, the story starts when James and Lily are at school or it’s the beginning of a school year, but in this one, the events actually kick off during the summer before the marauder’s seventh year so I thought that was a fresh change.
I am also pleased to report that this fanfiction has given us quidditch!Sirius. All of you guys who read my posts know how much I love me some quidditch player Sirius! And! His position on the quidditch team was a beater! It was just perfect. This author said gothjock representation.
As for Jily’s storyline within this fic, it was very sweet, very filling. I just wish there was more pre-established relationship/pre-dating angst, you know? Because for me, I feel like the angst before James and Lily are officially dating are what really makes it a James and Lily fanfiction ( in my own humble opinion) but the rest of their storyline was phenomenal, I assure you.
I also really like how involved the characters of Lily’s parents were in this story. Like the use of Lily’s parents in this fanfiction and how they interacted with other characters really added depth and dimension to this story and I really liked it.
This fanfiction also said Young!Peter rights and especially with how the author wrote him, I am inclined to agree. Usually in most Jily fics that I read, Peter is the bumbling, meek, token fourth friend, but in here I actually feel that he was a real person. He had his shining moments just like everybody else in the story and I was particularly touched by the thoughtful gesture of house solidarity that he made during the match for the quidditch cup.
Rate: 9.33/10
Most memorable scene: When talking to Lily’s dad about getting married, James straight-up tells her dad that this is the 20th century and Lily makes her own choices and doesn’t need her dad’s permission to get married. However, James does say that even though he is not asking for permission, he is asking for his approval.
Now that? That made me swoon so harddd. It puts every other father/potential-son-in-law talk to absolute shame.
A fanfiction of only roughly about 70,000 words, but it contains multitudes. (source for my word count statistic comes from ff.net) It is short and sweet and it only took me one day to binge-read it all. My overall reviews for this fanfiction is very positive.
Now here are my comments of critique: First things first- In this fic, Sirius is not a quidditch player, which I gripe with so hard. Yes, I know that Sirius wasn’t canonically a quidditch player, but come on? I can hardly see Sirius in the quidditch stands when I know for sure he would be in the thick of the action of the game. You all should probably know by now that I love to read it when Sirius is kicking major butt in the quidditch pitch. I mean this is me reviewing Lily and James fanfiction PART 15 after all.
I also wish that there were more reflections or in-depth descriptions of Lily and James’s feelings towards one another. What was already in the story was brilliant of course, but there’s always room for improvement you know?
I really liked Lily and Remus’s friendship, especially how he was sort of like a confidant to her when Lily told him that she fancied James.
Rate: 9.1/10
Most memorable scene: Lily tells James that she’ll go out with him on St. Glinglin’s day. Silly James thinks it’s a real holiday but it’s just Lily’s way of saying “when hell freezes over.”
Okay, so I was really excited to read this fic because it was suggested to me by someone from tumblr, so if you’re reading this, I am eternally grateful. Please feel free to send me more fanfictions because all your recommendations really warm my heart.
Anyways, to start off this review, this fanfiction fully takes place in sixth year which means that seventh year goes fully unexplored. I understand that this author has full creative liberty with this work so I am not taking off points for that, I just wanted to get it off my chest.
I love the elements of this fanfiction where the author sort of meshed the real-life muggle world events of that time with the wizarding world, for example the tense relations between Ireland and England and how exactly that translates into the Ministry of Magic. I also love all of the references to music of that time and how all the characters are so invested in it, it gives this story a real three-dimensional vibe. The Lily and Sirius friendship here is top tier, those 2 are literally my favorite BroTP and this fic sure did them justice. In terms of other character relationships there was Wolfstar but they did break up over “The Prank,” and I am saddened to have read that they did not get back to even regular close friendship terms before the fic ended. In terms of Jily, I felt that I was kind of left wanting. Like I loved the dynamic between them and I understand they had their heartfelt moments but I needed more you know? Like where was the spice? I need more emotional angst and feelings. Also, James and Lily kissed before Lily even realized she had feelings for James. I’m not talking about sexual appeal or lust, I’m saying Lily kissed James because she wanted to but had no idea it was because she was romantically attracted to him? So it was? weird?? to me, i guess. Anyways, overall, I really wish there was just more to the fic, more content, more emotions- just more.
Rate:8.3333/10
Most memorable scene: Dorcas tries to warn Lily from being friends with Sirius because he’s a “Black” but Lily point-blank tells Dorcas to “never say that shit to my face ever again.”
This fanfiction took me on so many ups and downs, it felt like a rollercoaster that I never wanted to get off of. To be honest, it was a very quick read for me because I loved it so much, I was practically obsessed.
The overall tone for this work is geared towards more adult readers, there are a lot of mature themes. With that being said, there is plenty of smut here but it’s also not just the smut that makes it inappropriate for younger audiences, so if you’re a bit on the young side, maybe just put this fanfiction towards the end of your list. But back to the smut? Oh yeah, Sarah J. Maas could never, ACOTAR has nothing on this!
Anyways those of you who have been with me since the beginning know that I always put spoilers in my reviews but I’m just gonna say it again because what I am about to tell you is a real doozy. Still here? Okay. In this fanfiction, Lily and Snape’s relationship was way more than platonic. Yep, you read that right. Now the story has established that Snape and Lily have slept together before the actual story takes place so while there was no real Snily smut, even the Snily interactions that were written in still made me want to barf. Obviously when James finds out this was a GINORMOUS hurdle for him to overcome and it’s one of the story’s main plot points. This also affects how James and Lily got together so this fanfiction takes on an unorthodox approach in the hows and whys of the start of their relationship.
I understand that not everybody thinks of the Marauders’ story in the same way that I do so even though Sn*pe and Lily used to be together, I’m not going to hold it against them and honestly, I think the author makes up for it later on.
Now to shift the attention to Sirius- he starts off as a downright asshoie. The good thing about this was that he had a lot of room to grow in this story, and the character development towards the end was simply *chef’s kiss*. He and Lily become friends while they were both mad at James and that was super fun to read.
If I had to describe two words to describe the characters in this fic, it would be: inner turmoil. There are lots of it. Also, I don’t know what was in this story but I’m pretty sure it was crack because for the life of me, I could not put this fic down, like I was literally addicted. Also this author said Regulus Black representation.
Rate: 9.7/10
Most memorable scene: Lily and Sirius haphazardly cover the interior of the Shrieking Shack with Christmas decorations.
A memorable quote: “Sirius may be able to charm every other girl living (and some dead), but he couldn’t charm Lily. As James recalled, it was Remus he had to keep an eye on (four hour patrols indeed).
P.S. Chapter 15: “A cold, gray Sunday” is my favorite :)
This fanfiction picks up in sixth year and only covers their sixth year and unlike canon and other James and Lily fanfictions, they actually start their romantic relationship in sixth year whereas in canon and in other stories, we know that James and Lily actually get together in their seventh year.
As for my overall thoughts on this fanfiction, I thought that James and Lily got together too fast, like there wasn’t enough build-up or romantic tension before they got together. I felt like 15% of this fic was them warming up to each other and the other 75% was just James and Lily creating more problems for themselves in trying to navigate a secret relationship. Yes, these two have a secret relationship that they try to keep secret from their friends. ( They’re idiots but I guess that’s why we love reading about them.) I wanted more tension before they became a couple. I want to be on the edge of my seat reading that teenage romance angst where Lily is just slowly starting to realize she actually has positive feelings for James, so I felt that this fic just didn’t give that to me.
Also, Sirius wasn’t written as a quidditch player in this story which really ticked me off because he is literally the definition of a jock goth. Like how do so many people just forget that he was on the quidditch team?
Some of the things that I did like were Sirius taking a muggle studies class and being fascinated with the muggle postal service system. James and Lily went out on a not-date when Lily was still in denial for her feelings for James.
There is minor character death in this to really showcase the upcoming wizarding war, There was also a lot of smut, but good smut though. My previously mentioned comments still stands, but I still had fun reading this.
Rate:6.8/10
Most Memorable scene: Lily absolutely goes apeshit on the slytherins who tried to gang up on her in the corridors. She sends them all to the hospital wing and later Dumbledore sort of calls her a hero.
Most memorable quote: “But its your fault she decides she likes me because she sees the house and figures out we’re rich.”
I Honestly don’t even know how to begin describing this. The first thing I have to tell you is that this story starts out with Sirius dating Lily. That is the first major hurdle you have to jump over in order to proceed with this fanfiction, if you do jump over this hurdle, good job! Because there’s about to be a whole lot more.
I will take this description straight from the author’s notes themselves- “this is a very backwards way of explaining what happened during the marauder’s era.” And I could not agree more. This is not your typical Jily fanfiction. Foreword warning, there is a lot of smut in this and there isn’t a typical build-up of romantic tension between James and Lily that will culminate into a relationship, as one would expect and as one would typically see in most other fics.
Now I don’t want to say it was completely bad, because it wasn’t. I decided to give this story a go despite my previously stated misgivings and I was pleasantly surprised by the writing flow of the narrative keeping me enthralled. It’s like in a math test, you still got the right answer even though you used the wrong formula and you don’t know exactly how you got there. Or like how you solve a problem by creating a bigger problem that cancels the first one out. This fanfiction is like the lovechild of Looking for Alaska,Catcher in the Rye, and Riverdaleall together. I will say this though: The author of “Love and Other Tragedies” could write Harry Potter but JKR could not write Love and Other Tragedies.”
Rate: I’m feeling fifty-fifty on this one so I’ll give it a 5/10
Most memorable scene: In a Defense Against the Dark Arts demonstration using the polyjuice potion, Lily participates in this demonstration where there are several other copies of her. James is the only one who can pick out the real Lily solely based off of her idiosyncrasies.
If you want to read a Jily fanfiction that has a lot of the commonly seen Tumblr tropes, then this is the fanfiction for you! Overall, I thought this story was well-written and a fun read. This fanfiction has the trope of James having a different girlfriend before he and Lily get together and it also has the trope where Lily has a different boyfriend before her and James get together. And actually, what’s interesting is that James actually encourages this relationship because he wants to prove to himself that he got over his feelings for Lily. But, spoiler alert! We all know that he has not, denial is not just a river in Egypt. Angst and feelings galore! The character developments in this fanfiction just get juicier and juicier.
One of the things that I have noticed is that this fanfiction doesn’t have a heavy deatheater involvement. I know in other fics, fighting off deatheaters and dueling voldemort sympathizers in the Hogwarts corridors are major plot points but this only has scenes of minor incursions by the Slytherins and brief mentions of attacks through the Daily Prophet. And I’m not saying this is a bad thing, its just something that I’ve noticed.
Also, I want to point out that Lily has a sort of “pick-me girl” attitude for some parts, like I know Lily is a 16/17 year old who’s a teenager and is still growing in life but in some instances she openly says she’s “not like other girls” because she looks down on gossiping, she quits a snowball fight because she got hit with a snowball (childish in my eyes), says “acting like a girl” as an insult, and after spending time with her dormmates she says she “fulfilled her silly girl quota for the day.” I mean internalized misogyny much? I said before that I won’t hold it against this fic because Lily’s still an impressionable youth so I won’t take points off, but still.
Now the good parts of this story are like REALLY GOOD. Lily’s friendship with both Remus and Sirius are fantastic. Sirius listens to Lily’s woes about love and they get drunk together. I love Remus’s little quips, witty one-liners, and his amused expressions at his friends’ antics. This author is a god at depicting the sexual tension between James and Lily! It’s impeccable and I’m going to put this fanfiction in the Jily hall of fame for that. I loved the point in the story where the title starts to make sense, it’s the most satisfying thing in the world. This fanfiction makes my heart yearn for the simple happiness of sharing a smile with another person, if you guys want to fall in love with two other people falling in love with each other, then I highly recommend that you read this fanfiction.
There is a lot of second-hand embarrassment though.
Rate: 10/10 :)
Most memorable scene: Remus and Sirius both give Lily a kiss on each cheek at the same time in celebration of the New Year <3
{So after i read all the young dudes i was obviously wrecked and i wanted to change the ending so it didnt hurt as much. I dont think you need to read ATYD to read this (i am kida taking it as canon) but if you haven’t you really should. Anyway the chapters vary in veiwpoint and this one is from Lily’s. Enjoy :) }
Chapter 1 (read here on Ao3. i think i have like four chapters posted now)
She had heard the scream from her husband and the cruel words the monster had sneered at him and the flash of green had shone through the entire house but she couldn’t let herself think about it. She would later. If there was a later.
Instead she had to focus on her son.
She held the boy close to her chest, tears streaming down her face, before placing him in his crib.
She could hear the footsteps of the man walking through the house, the charms for changing the layout only slowing down the inevitable.
Her voice shook as she whispered to Harry that she loved him. That his father loved him. That Sirius and Lupin loved him. She was about to say Peter but then realised that he must have given the information to Voldemort. Anyway it didn’t matter now.
She told her son how much he was loved by her and his father and their friends. And how much his grandparents would have loved him. How much anyone who met him had loved him.
Then the door flew open and ‘he’ stood there.
She pleaded with him. Pleaded and pleaded but green light shot towards her and the world went black.
She had visions in that darkness. Visions of her son and her husband. Of her friends and her family. Happy ones to start. Memories of days in Hogwarts spent by the lake. Of days before Hogwarts when tuney had been kind to her and Severus had been a good person. Of her wedding day and the day Harry was born. But slowly they turned darker. Memories of Harry crying. her friends arguing. Of her and James arguing. Meetings about the war. Severus and Petunia cursing at her. Hearing the lists of the dead which had grown longer everyday. Seeing the corpses at the funerals. Seeing Marlene lying so still. Hearing the thud of James hitting the floor.
Then darkness crept in again and she saw nothing more.
When she awoke she couldn’t see anything. She was lying on something hard, perhaps a large rock and there was wind whistling loudly and the sound of waves crashing somewhere near. She shivered and peered into the darkness.
She felt hollow. She hadn’t a clue what had happened and where she was. She supposed she was dead but she felt very cold and she was definitely corporeal as she could feel herself and the rock she was on.
As she waited for her eyes to adjust to the darkness she tried to use her magic. No luck. Not that she had expected there to be a result as she had died far away from her wand. Well, had she died?
Lily Potter had always been a quick and logical thinker. One of the things that had set her so apart from her husband and that had held her back when she started liking him was that she would think things through carefully and try and come up with the best solution to a problem whereas James would rush straight into things without giving a second thought to the matter. At first she had struggled with that but had eventually realised that his need to protect his loved ones, that often hindered his thoughts was what would keep them safe during the war. At any rate he wasn’t as nearly so reckless as his best friend. That was something at least. As she was sitting in the dark thinking about this Lily wondered how Remus could deal with being with sirius. Knowing that the man’s recklessness and impulsiveness had put both of them in danger so often. Yet Remus is always stuck by him.
Thinking of her friends had helped Lily calm down. But then she remembered that her husband was dead and her son probably was too and she melted down into tears. Light drops of water at first. Just enough to coat her lips with salt before she was sobbing loudly and uncontrollably.
After a few seconds of sobbing loudly someone from somewhere in the darkness asked
“Is someone there?”
She would have recognised that voice anywhere and despite the situation she grinned happily.
“James?” She asked, not caring that he couldn’t be speaking, that he was dead.
“Lils!” James shouted, the relief in his voice obvious. “Are you alright?”
“Yeah. I think so. Nothing really hurts. Are you OK?”
“Yeah. What happened? Where are we?”
“I don’t know darling. But he’s got Harry. I’m sorry I tried to hold him off but he cursed me. I thought I was going to die. I thought…. I thought he killed you” The tears started again as she tripped over her words.
“Darling it’s alright. You did everything you could and obviously I’m not dead.” He joked, a bit of humour in the dank place they were in cheering Lily up immensely.
They tried to find each other by following their voices but they came to the conclusion that they were trapped apart from each other. They tried magic again and again. Spells for light. For letting people know where you were. For help. For heat. Even patronuses but nothing worked. So they gave up and talked to each other through the darkness. Hours later, or at least what Lily thought to be hours later James drifted off to sleep and she sat in the silence listening to his snoring. She must have fallen asleep soon after and she woke up with a dim light shining through the room.
She could see it more clearly now. Cavernous with tall ceilings and rough walls. There was a gate of sorts at one end of the room,enclosing her. A thin slit in the wall gave way to light behind it and she could hear seagulls screeching over the sound of the waves.
James was awake too and his cell, for want of a better word, faced Lily’s. They were so close. Barely a meter and a half between the two sets of bars and when they stretched their arms through their fingertips scraped each other.
If they strained their ears and tried to listen past the deafening waves they could hear screaming coming from far above them.
Food and water appeared in their rooms three times that day and they ate in silence, so rare for the two of them. So rare that it was just the two of them. Whilst in hiding they had barely a moment together without Harry and before that there were always friends, usually Sirius and Remus spending time with them.
In between meals they talked. They tried to figure out where they were and what had happened to them. They also tried to assure each other that Harry would be OK but neither of them really believed it. However if the unspeakable had happened neither of them would have been able to face it and they both cried themselves to sleep that night. The next day the sound of the waves disappeared for awhile and the screaming above them stopped as loud shouts and jeers sounded through the hall and cells they were in.
And those shouts were what led James to his theory of where they were.
They were sitting in silence a few days later when Lily suddenly felt very cold and she shivered. Dark memories and thoughts infiltrated her mind and she looked over at James who had started to cry.
Then the feeling was lessened and James jumped up with a triumphant laugh.
“Lils! I figured out where we are!” He said gleefully.
“Where?”
“Azkaban!” He said, the happiness in his voice fading.
“What? How?” She asked incredulously.
“I don’t know how we got here but it just seems the most likely outcome. We know we’re in a castle near the sea. We know that there are other people in this place who are being tortured or something and we both keep on getting periods where we feel terrible. So dementors possibly. ”
Lily didn’t know what to make of this other than admiring her husband’s thought process.
This revaluation didn’t help the two of them much however perhaps it calmed them a little to know where they were and shake off some of the uncertainty.
Over the next few days they could hear more shouting and heckling coming from above but not as loud as from the second day.
And soon days must have passed into weeks and weeks must have passed into months. They tried keeping track by scratching tallies on the walls but they kept on having different answers.
They tried not to think about what might have happened to Harry or to their friends or what was going on with the war and instead they talked about memories. Happy ones usually especially that summer in Cornwall before everything went downhill. As more time passed they were starting to run out of things in their life to talk about so they started making up stories about different worlds.
Months stretched into what must have been years and any hope they might have had at the beginning of escaping or being rescued was scuppered. They had tried hundreds of times to escape but nothing worked and no one had come near them.
At a certain point talking and thinking about their friends was too much and they spoke very rarely of them if at all. They spent most of their time telling stories and surprisingly dancing.
Lily had never been amazing at dancing. Sure she could dance in a party in the gryffindor common room but that was about the extent of her talents. James however had been taking lessons his whole life.
In a suppressed memory, Sirius has taught Lily to dance for her wedding but she had resigned not to think of her friends and that memory had faded. James taught her to dance in the prison. They would sing songs that they had played on Sirius’ record player in Hogwarts and music they had listened to after school and they would dance to the music together, waiting for when they could hold each other again.
So for years and years, they would tell tales from worlds they had constructed in their heads and they would dance and sing and scream until they fell asleep, their hands stretching towards each other through the barriers.
summary: being a muggleborn dating Regulus meant you had to keep it a secret. When your older sister finds out she raises fear of heartbreak in both of you
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You and your sisters had been born jealous. Petunia turned to envy first as the attention that had been solely given to her was split between two other daughters. She had always been bitter towards you and Lily, never forgiving you for interpreting her perfect young life. She had taken your things, broken your toys and ripped your clothes trying to punish you for being born and turning her from an only child to the eldest.
Lily was next when she realised she wasn’t the only one who could sprout fire from her fingertips. She had accused you of faking your magic for years, doing everything she could to best you even if she never fully understood her powers herself. Luckily she outgrew this jealous fit and by the time you shared a cabin on your way to Hogwarts she was beaming ear to ear.
It was you who was last to realise what the burn in your chest really meant. The feeling came heavy like thick rain drops as you watched your sister fall so effortlessly in love. Each time she gave James a quick hug or leaned onto his shoulder your eyes narrowed, fury irrationally rising in your throat.
This wasn’t because you wished James was yours instead. In fact you had considered him an idiot since you met him and would have rather drown yourself than date the loud mouth fool. You were instead jealous of the simplicity of their relationship. Envious of how they could be carefree, how they could dream of picket fences and happy futures. You hated that they could still be stupid kids. How they were given the freedom to make out in hallways and sneak into eachothers dorms with their worst consequence being a slap on the wrist and week of detention. Nothing hurt more than watching your sister live a simple life you knew you never could.
You stared across the room locking eyes with Regulus for only a brief moment before his darted away. Charms was dreadfully boring, the lecture practically putting you to sleep, you knew you should have been paying attention, but watching the younger Black perform the spell with ease was far more interesting. The flick of his wrist was an addicting, dull look in his eyes far more attractive than it should have been. He had woken up late that morning, his hair messier than usual. You thought it looked adorable, the way a few strands drooped in front of his lashes. He only got cuter as he blew them from his face with a pout.
“You have a staring problem.” Levi muttered from beside you.
You rolled your eyes, “Do you ever mind your own business?”
“Please, you make your thing for Black everyone’s business.” He muttered and you kicked him under the desk.
Cussing at you he glared, leaning down to massage his bruising shin.
You wondered briefly how he would have reacted to the reveal of your relationship with your “hopeless crush” as he liked to call it. The surprise on his face would have been sweet as honey.
Regulus was watching you now as you continued to talk to your desk mate, he had never liked the boy, call it jealousy or anger, something bitter always rose in his throat when he saw you with him. Maybe it was because he knew your life would be so much easier if you had loved him instead.
“I don’t get what you see in him anyway.” Levi said, looking across at Regulus whose eyes had quickly retreated back to his parchment.
You grew brittle at the statement.
“I mean I know he’s attractive but if it’s really about looks why not go for his brother?” He grumbled.
You scoffed, “Please, Sirius is a piece of work.”
“And he isn’t? I’m surprised he hasn’t called you a slur yet.”
Rage bubbled in your stomach, your chest feeling hot, “Shut up.”
Levi was either oblivious to the anger set in your tone or unbothered by it “I mean really y/n, you have a crush on a purist? It’s sickening.”
You screwed your eyes shut in an attempt to stop the hot tears building behind them. You wanted to scream at him, slap him across the face and shout how Regulus would never do such a thing. You wanted to tell him how wrong he was, make him regret ever speaking such cold words. But instead you looked away, wiping your tears as they came while your boyfriend sat across the room pretending you didn’t exist.
You were used to it, you knew as a muggleborn dating a pureblood from a family like his would never be easy but the words still stung. That night you sobbed into Regulus’s chest as he held you in your usual hidden courtyard.
As your tears soaked through his sweater he felt nothing but the cold grip of guilt. He had never meant to fall in love. He had known it was a mistake the second it had happened. Even now he knew he had been wrong and stupid and naive to let himself feel so deeply for someone he could never truly be with. He would never forgive himself for forcing you into the hellish life he lived with a simple confession. He hated himself every day for it, he didn’t deserve to indulge in his emotions knowing it would cause you nothing but pain. He didn’t deserve you and he had known that from the start.
Yet every night you met, kissing under the pale moon until your lips grew numb. Everynight he found himself falling deeper and deeper into you until you filled his dreams and nightmares alike. So he forced you closer to him, knowing he would cause nothing but hurt. And you were so childishly in love you let him.
Later as you lay asleep on his chest, legs tangled beneath a blanket he let his own tears go, silent apologies dripping down his cheek as he tightened his grip on your waist.
Lily watched you from where she sat at her table, green eyes narrowed as she tried to read your mind across the dining hall.
“Something is definitely off.” She mumbled turning to James who stared at her with a dopey grin. “You haven’t been listening to a word I said have you?”
“How can I when you’re so beautiful?” He murmured back and she scoffed, face darkening.
Sirius gagged, “You guys are disgusting.”
“Christ Black, how old are you?” Lily spoke with the roll of her eyes.
He scrunched his nose and pretended to mock her silently only earning a sigh from Remus who sat beside him.
“Something is wrong with y/n, I can just feel it.” Lily continued content on ignoring Sirius.
“Maybe she’s dating that Callahan kid.” James offered. “There’s been tons of rumors.”
Lily scoffed, “Please, she has told me multiple times she has absolutely no interest in him.”
“A few months ago you were telling her you had absolutely no interest in James.” Remus offered not to look up from his book.
Lily sputtered blushing heavily again, “That is completely different.”
“Sure it is.” Remus drawled, eyes peering over the cover at her.
Lily furrowed her brow, “But why wouldn’t she tell me? I mean I thought we’ve always been close.”
“Maybe it’s not that serious.” Sirius shrugged, “Maybe they’re just fuck buddies or something.”
Lily pulled back in disgust, “Don’t talk about my little sister like that!” she hissed as Remus kicked him under the table.
“What? She’s almost 17! It’s not like she’s 12 or something, Godric.” Sirius complained and James threw a spoon at him.
“You know if you’re really that curious we could always just check the map.” James said looking over at Lily who was trying to set Sirius on fire with her glare.
She considered it for a moment, “Isn’t that kind of..” she paused “intrusive?”
He shrugged, “She’s your little sister.”
The sky was dark that night as you met with Regulus. The moon was new leaving only the blinking stars to light the ground beneath you.
You grinned when you saw Regulus leaning against the small statue in the middle of the courtyard. You quickened your pace pulling him into a brief kiss as you met.
“Hi.” You whispered against his lips and you felt him smile.
“Hi.” He responded, hands on your waist pulling you closer once again.
You tasted sweet like the nectar of the gods, soft and tender in his arms. Your hair smelt of pomegranate, your flowery perfume engulfing him. There was nothing more addicting on this world than your lips.
You both pulled away breathless and grinning stupidly, “Your hair looks so cute like this.” You mumbled running your hands through it and tugging lightly on a curly lock that had fallen down his forehead.
Regulus practically purred, melting into your touch. He dipped his head low to hide his blush, lips skimming the skin of your neck.
You giggled as he mumbled a bashful thank you before nipping slightly below your ear. He was always careful to never leave marks that could be seen the following day. You wished he wasn’t.
You felt his hands on the back of your thighs lifting you off the ground. You wrapped your arms around his neck and buried your nose in his hair as he walked until your back hit the wall of the castle. You scratched your nails lightly against his scalp and Regulus groaned. You gasped at the feeling of his tongue on your jaw as he pressed you further into the stone. Your legs now wrapped around his waist as he left sloppy kisses on your collar bone.
It was then you heard the shuffle of footsteps.
“Regulus.” You whispered and he broke away to look up at you, his lips red and glossy , “I heard someone.”
He slowly lowered you to your feet, “You sure?”
You nodded and you both stood silently, ears craning for another sign of life among you. After a minute you sighed, “Sorry, I must have been hearing things.”
Regulus just shook his head grinning lightly, “ ‘s fine babe.” words slurring, intoxicated by your taste.
Your lips reconnected, his teeth grazing your bottom lip as you began to work on the buttons of his shirt, tugging on his tie to loosen its knot. But there it was again the soft sound of feet, closer this time.
You both paused Regulus pulling away leaving your skin feeling cold in his absence.
“Who’s there?” He demanded into the darkness, wand lit.
There was no response and you grabbed his hand to pull him back to you. Regulus stood his ground so you leaned into him, lips ghosting against his ear.
“It’s probably just a mouse or somethin’.” You murmured hands coming back to undo the remaining buttons of his shirt.
Regulus glanced around once more before looking down at you, “You’re probably right.” he said before he began to untuck your blouse, hands sliding slowly under it.
It was that which finally broke Lily, her vision going red. She stepped from beneath the invisibility cloak ignoring James’ protests.
You let out a small yelp as your sister appeared from thin air, Regulus who had his back turned to her immediately drew his wand pushing you lightly behind him. His eyes went wide as he found himself inches from your older sister. It was your turn to pull Regulus behind you.
“Lily, What in bloody hell are you doing here?”
When James sheepishly appeared as well you gasped, “What is wrong with you both, are you stalking me?”
Lily looked stern, her arms crossed, “Why are you with him?” she seethed.
Your eyes narrowed, “None of your fucking buissnes. Now take your dog and leave.”
Regulus almost didn’t believe it was you that was talking. He wasn’t accustomed to the harsh tone you used, your anger hardly ever directed at him.
“This is most certainly my business!” She spoke shrilly.
“It is most certainly not. Now get out.” You shouted.
“How can you expect me to leave when you’re getting all touchy feely with a purist?” She hissed, grabbing at your wrist to pull you away from the boy behind you. You slapped her away so hard the sound echoed off the walls, “Call him that again around me and you’ll fucking regret it.” You growled.
Lily stepped back surprised by your sudden aggression but not backing down, “Please y/n, I’m just calling it as it. The sooner you realise that the better.”
Regulus felt his throat tighten as he listened, teeth biting into his lip as he had nowhere to look but his feet.
You stepped closer to your sister inches from her face, “Leave.” your voice struck heavy.
Lily responded just as harshly, “No.”
James shifted behind his girlfriend feeling like he was intruding on the fight which was taking place. Sensing his awkwardness you looked back at him with a searing gaze.
“Get out Potter, you have no place here.” You spat.
He was planning on shuffling away when Lily turned back to him angrily, “No James stay.”
You scoffed as he did as he was told, “Fucking pet.”
“Don’t speak to him like that.” Lily scolded.
“You’re the one who’s calling my boyfriend a purist.” You growled your mouth bitter at the taste of hypocrisy.
“Because he is one!” She bit back. “You really think he actually loves you after being raised how he was? With a mother like his?”
Regulus felt like he had been slapped, his cheek stinging as the older girl spoke.
“Don’t you dare bring up his mother.” You were shaking with rage by now, your face streaked with angry tears, “And how dare you speak ill of Regulus simply because of his upbringing as if his brother isn’t one of your closest friends. How do you think Sirius would feel hearing what you just said?”
This took Lily back a step, her rage cooling a bit as she realised her mistake, “It’s different,” She tried to recover, “He isn’t with his family anymore. Sirius has already broken away from them. He made the choice any good person would.”
Regulus felt her eyes on him as she spoke. She was no longer interested in her sister and instead focused on him. He felt like he was choking under the pressure of her stare. When he glanced up to meet her gaze he inhaled sharply. He hadn’t seen such hatred in a long time.
Your lashes were thick with tears by now, disgust and fury morphing your face, “Go fuck yourself Lily.” You spat.
She ignored you, gaze locked on Regulus, she had no intention of speaking to you anymore, “You stay away from her.” she demanded, “If you truly love her you stay away from her.”
You shouted lunging forwards and shoving your sister backwards. She stumbled back catching herself.
It was you who fell, your feet tangling, forcing you to the ground. You hit hard, hands and knees scraping against stones and moss which made up the floor. You couldn’t find it in you to stand up simply letting exhaustion and misery take you where you lay. You shook with sobs, voice cracked and raw. Lily immediately dropped beside you, hands circling your neck as she drew you into a hug. You fought her as you always did but she held on, letting you beat her chest with your fists until you stilled.
Regulus took a step forward but was stopped by your sister whose glare told him everything he needed to know. Tears pricking his own eyes he stumbled past the two of you and disappeared into the darkness of the dungeons. He didn’t hear James shout for him over the sound of the ring in his ears. He wasn’t sure where he ended up, somewhere deep in the depths of the sprawling castle, dust coated the staircase he collapsed onto. Only there did he let himself cry, choking sobs rubbing his throat raw as he looked for someone to blame. His mother for forcing him into the terrifying world of dark magic? His brother for abandoning him in his abusive home? Or your sister for pointing out the truth he prayed you would never see? Regulus wished he could pass the blame off to anyone but he wasn’t stupid, he knew he had no one to hate but himself.
Regulus disappeared entirely for three days. Three days you spent desperately avoiding your sister who seemed just as adamant to talk to you again. You skipped meals opting for hunger instead risking meeting her in the hall. She would show up outside your classes forcing you to scramble out the back way or sprint away like a child running from punishment.
On the fourth day of your boyfriend’s absence you felt yourself beginning to panic. Fear of him never returning, filling your head with irrational thoughts. It wasn’t like you could ask around for him, your relationship needed to remain secret despite the difficulties you were facing. It was then Lily cornered you.
You stared at the redhead as she blocked your only exit. “Lily, move.” You sighed exhausted by the past few days, sleepless nights not improving your condition.
She didn’t listen, “Y/n we need to talk.”
“About what?” You scoffed, “I have nothing to say to you.”
“I just want you to understand why I,” She paused, “Why I said what I did.”
“I don’t care why you said it Lily.” You said, “I don’t care if you think you were protecting me or saving me from some hopeless relationship. I honestly don’t care.”
Her eyes swelled, “How can you say that? How can you not care? I love you y/n I just want you to be safe.”
You stared at her, “I just don’t understand why you couldn’t just let me be happy.”
“He’s dangerous.”
You shook your head, “No, his family is dangerous. His situation is dangerous. He’s not.”
“Y/n please.” She begged, for what you did not know.
“Just stay out of my shit Lily.” you mumbled pushing past her and back into the hallway.
You spent the night where you always had, the small courtyard hidden between two towers of the castle, a statue of a woman draped in vines and flowers at its center. The moon was a small sliver, a dusting of clouds blocking the stars from your view. The shuffle of footsteps brought your eyes from the ground.
There stood Regulus, his face shining in the pale light. His hands were stuffed in his pockets, nose pointed at the floor as he refused to meet your gaze.
You stood quickly throwing your hands around his neck. He leaned into your touch burying his head into your shoulder as his hands found your waist.
You smelled delightful as always, your lips soft against his cheek and hands in his hair. Regulus hadn’t realized he was crying until you began to comfort him. Sweet words whispered into his ear as you only held him tighter.
“She’s right, you know.” He croaked, lifting his head to look at you. “You shouldn’t be around me.”
You shook your head feverishly, “You’re wrong Reggy.”
“I don’t deserve you y/n, I don’t deserve to be with you.” He sobbed, “I could never deserve you.”
“You’re right, love.” You mumbled, smiling through the tears that coated your cheeks, “You deserve so much better.”
This fic is my first dip on the Harry Potter fandom in 15 years!
I’m posting it today as a birthday tribute to a very dear friend I met on this fandom about 17 years ago (yes, a looooong time ago lol) on a Brazilian HP fanfic website, Floreios e Borrões. She was my first beta, an important friend during our tween and teen years, and is to this day very very precious to me.
So, the first chapter of Unexpected Patronum is now live on AO3!
I hope you all enjoy it!
It’s the begging of 1977’s school year, Lily Evans’ 7th and last year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Appointed Head Girl along with James Potter as Head Boy, Lily is in for an interesting year, that’s for sure.
What she never expected was a series of unusual events to start unfolding during classes. And for something to classify as unusualin the Wizarding community it must be something reallyextraordinary. Another unexpected surprise is that those events were reveal a connection between her and James that she never imagined, and will need to figure out how to deal with and what to do about it.
Modern Muggle AU. A certain redhead drunkenly signs up for a reality show called Married at First Sight, in which complete strangers are paired by professional matchmakers and get legally married for eight weeks. They first meet each other at the altar, then have their lives taped for two months while they navigate their burgeoning relationship. There are forced activities in the spirit of Growth and Development, and at the end, they very dramatically reveal whether or not they want to stay married, or get divorced.
Fluffy, physically affectionate and sexy little established relationship Hogwarts fic with all the beloved bits like Quidditch parties, teasing friends and midnight rendezvous
Growing up she was addicted to flying, jumping off swing sets, arms outstretched, praying the wind would lift her far, far away. Then she was losing herself in books, living other lives. Later, boys became the newest distraction, craving attention, until the addictions turned deadly.
From the moment he was born he’s told he would do great things, that his future was bright. Ever since, he’s been dangerously hurtling towards each next big thing. Somehow, the brightness blinded him, shadowing what was right in front of him.
Lily’s running from her past, but trying desperately not to bump into her future. James’ future surrounds him almost completely, as he fiercely keeps a hold on his present. It’ll be a miracle if either makes it to christmas.
Lily hates her job at Meggi’s Magical Ice Cream, but the boy who works next-door at the sandwich shop sure makes her awful shifts a little more magical.
Lily’s life is changed forever when she takes a morning stroll through the woods and ends up in 1745 - two hundred years in the past. Outlander / Anastasia AU
prompt : i hit you with my car/broom and was the only one to visit you in the hospital A HOSPITAL MEET-UGLY. Spread those legs now. DISCLAIMER : THIS IS A TRUE STORY. The events depicted in this fiction took place somewhere in 2022. At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred.
Lily was well within her rights to dislike James Potter when they were in secondary school. She’s also well within her rights to, well, not dislike him now. To like him a whole lot more than that actually. More than she probably should.
(A modern Muggle AU featuring one (1) crooked smile, scientific discoveries made at Noraebang Night and a little dose of awkward flirting sprinkled on top.)
Lily had the sneaking suspicion that despite technically being the mastermind behind their little fake-dating plot, she’d just been expertly manipulated. But she didn’t give a damn, because all she wanted to do was snog that stupid smirk off James Potter’s face.
Some scenes from the year Lily and James Potter did that cozy quarantine thing before it was cool, and then it ended when absolutely nothing sad happened.
This is a love story about James, a man, with a genetic disorder that causes him to time travel unpredictably, and about Lily, his wife, an artist, who has to cope with his frequent absences and dangerous experiences of reappearing in odd places.
Phoenix Radio is going through a rough period with the arrival of the new and controversial Riddle Radio. Albus Dumbledore, founder of the country’s number one radio station, asks his team to get ready to rebrand. Gone are the days of family friendly radio, a show where two exes talk about where their relationship went wrong and deliver relationship advice live on air, named Shout Out To My Ex, is exactly what Phoenix Radio needs. Who better to co-host this show than Lily Evans and James Potter, two Phoenix Radio employees who absolutely despise each other, or do they?
A Jily Modern AU inspired by Rachel Lynn Solomon’s “The Ex Talk”.
“Ah,” James said, shooting Lily a puzzled look that she wasn’t entirely comfortable with. “She was really unsteady on the ice, I was trying to keep her from falling.”
Lily didn’t say anything, sure that she had just revealed entirely too much, and was thinking of ways to play this entire conversation off as a joke when James spoke up again, more hesitantly this time.
“Besides, if you want to know if I’m interested in a girl, there’s a better way to tell.”
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Written for the December 2021 Jily Challenge for the prompt ““look we get it you can skate fast and its very impressive okay but can you please hold my hand I’m struggling to stand up straight and I need ur help ice skating””
(AU) Lily Evans is having a fantastic Christmas. First, her ex moves next door to her with his new mistress. Second, her whole office finds out about it. And third, she’s paired up with James Potter, who thoroughly dislikes her… Right?
