The Pen.
Words: 275
Couple: Lily Evans and James Potter.
Book: Harry Potter.
Generation: The Marauder's Era.
Disclaimer: All characters you recognize do not belong to me. The prompt was found on Tumblr.
AU.
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14th of October. (Sixth Year.)
James Potter can hear tapping. Rapid, inconsistent, scattered and loud. Throughout the quiet school library he can here tapping.
Not the sort of noise you make from tapping your finger against a hard surface, but more like the sound those 'chop-stick-things' made when Sirius Black pretended to play the drums on the kitchen bench. But it couldn't be anything of the sort or Madam Pince would have had a fit at the thought of food in her library.
The tapping stopped, leaving James to frown as he heard a familiar voice groan and swear. Just that alone has him closing his Potions book and standing up to move towards where the sound had been coming from.
"Sodding Slughorn," Lily Evans is muttering, bent over her school bag and clutching her own potions book to her chest, "If it's that sodding important the damn man can flipping write his own damn essays."
Coughing, James shifts nervously about three feet from where she was, and he winces slightly when she looks up at him with narrowed eyes. It takes him a moment, nervously running his fingers through his hair to even think of what he could say.
"What Potter?"
"Uh nothing, I just heard a tapping noise and was, uh, just curious."
"Well it was a pen, and I've stopped so you can go be curious in a broom closet with Janet the fourth year and leave me alone."
He nods, trying to tell himself that Lily Evans did not sound jealous with that last comment, and turns around. When he's made his way back to his table, James stops.
A pen?
What the heck was that?
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I started working on this in September 2014. Twenty-Fourteen. I've dubbed myself the procrastination queen.
Because I had absolutely no other inspiration, I found it in a headcanon about Lily beginning to use pens instead of quills after the incident in fifth year and James being curious and all that. If you want to see the original headcanon and the add-on tags you can find it here – aziriphales dot tumblr dot com /post/ 62125028509/lovepadfoot-agunfulloftigers-lily-evans – you know the deal, delete the spaces and put in the full stops.
At this current time there are ten chapters written and up to seventeen planned. Unsure how long it'll go for really. But let's just go for the ride, huh?
Thank you!
All mistakes are mine.
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