Author's note, introduction, summary, and rating. Rating, summary, and disclaimer towards the bottom.
This has been running around in my head for almost a full year now and I just haven't had the time to sit down and write it out. I'm really bad about finishing a story that I start. It's not that I don't write it out or don't have a plan in mind, it's that I just don't have a lot of time. I'm a mother of twin 2 year old boys and work full time to help my fiance' pay all our bills. It doesn't leave a lot of free time to write, but this one just wouldn't leave me alone. It wont get out of my head and almost every single night, I lay in bed and it expands on itself without me even writing on it, so I figured I should probably start to get it down before I start to forget where it started in the first place. My updates are gonna be few and far between, I only have 2 days off a week and I tend to use that time doing all kinds of errands, but when I do update, it will be a rather large one, like 5k+ words. If there's a line break, it's not a jump forward in time, it's a switch in POV unless stated otherwise as this has to be told by multiple sides or it just doesn't work out right. With all that said, let me introduce myself. My name is Missy. I have twin 2 year old boys who monopolize most of my free time. The rest of my time is spent either at work or running errands and paying bills. I'm not hurting for money, but I'm not one of those people that have unlimited free time because I come from money. I've had to work my ass off for every little thing I have and personally, I think it makes me a better person. I love my kids, I love my job, I love my life and I wouldn't change a thing about it except maybe to make more time in a day and more time in a week so I could still do the things that I love and not just the things I have to do. Writing is a hobby, it doesn't pay my bills and it doesn't put food on the table so at the end of the day, if I haven't wrote anything, it doesn't make my feel bad, it's just what happens in life. I try to write something every day, but sometimes that fails and I don't feel bad if it does. When I was a teenager, I used to write on here quite frequently and managed to finish a couple stories. I don't know what happened to those or I would repost everything I started years ago and finish what I hadn't already. I haven't even been sitting at my laptop for 10 minutes yet and the munchkins are already coming up and asking me for stuff, it's a normal day in the life of a mom. It doesn't leave much time for anything else. I have insomnia so, that will help things get written more than the average mom since I barely ever sleep.
Now about the story... It's gonna be AU. It's rated M for A LOT of reasons. If you are under the age of 17, I don't advise you to read this. There's a lot of swearing and a lot of sexual things going on in this, so unless you're old enough to be reading that type of thing, hit the little back button at the top of your web browser or on your phone and pick a different story to read because this isn't the one for your young and impressionable mind. If you're looking for flowers, butterflies, and unicorns, turn back now. There's some pretty dark scenes in this. If you hate people that write about e0g of every chapter and spoil what's going to happen by giving you a run down of what's going to happen in the story. If you start this story, this and the rating filter when you search for certain stories is all you're going to get. I welcome criticism in reviews, but it's not going to change the way this story plays out as it's kind of taken on a mind of it's own in the last year in my head.
Summary: How might the story have ended if Lily and James didn't wind up together? What if it wasn't Lily and James that defied He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named 3 times, but James and someone else? What if Lily and someone else live happily ever after together? How different would the magical world look today? How different might the story be of Harry Potter? Would Harry Potter even still exist? Would Voldemort still be around? Would the war still be raging on? I'm not sure that we can ever answer all these questions, but we can answer some of them.
Lily ends her friendship with Snape and turns to the least likely of people. She watches him from afar for a week and then finally gets the courage together to go to him. He's amazing. He's not who she thought she would wind up with, but she could do worse. She might want him for the clarity he gives her mind, but she also has a certain security with him. How different her life is now with him than it was without. Life could not be going better for her right now. Now if only that pesky wizard that is trying to dominate the magical world would just drop dead.
Disclaimer: I'm not J.K. Rowling. I don't own anything except the story line and any characters you don't recognize from her world. If I was J.K. Rowling, this would have been how the story went and I would be sitting pretty right now instead of busting my ass at work all the time.
Enjoy my version of how things might of happened had Lily not wound up with James Potter at all.