A medley of unconnected drabbles focusing on James and Lily.

What if the Potters had found themselves on the flip side of the prophecy, and Neville had been The Chosen One? They might have had their chance at happily ever after. A collection of "if they lived" AU drabbles.

"James looked at her and she felt like her skin had suddenly caught fire. 'It's got one hundred percent, absolutely nothing to do with your essay.'": Featuring professor!James, student!Lily, and both parties' abandonment of better judgment. L/J. AU smut edition.

The sky looks like a dark hole and everything feels incredibly strange, incredibly loud. He looks like James, he feels like James, but his eyes are all wrong. "How about we play a little game, darling?" They go through universe after universe, always ending up together, always dying together. She smiles sadly, "It's fitting, isn't it?" A series of Alternate Universes. Jily. AU.

You mean to say that Potter's family is coincidentally staying across the street from our beach house for the summer, Mum and Mrs. Potter are now randomly best friends, and they expect me to hang out with that git for two months? You've got to be joking. (Even worse? There's a sequel.)

Lily Evans finds herself in an exceedingly mortifying situation, only to come out of it with quite...unexpected results. [Lily/James Lemon, One-shot]

Bitter enemies, fit them perfectly, but as Sirius's lips dug into her neck, sucking and teasing her, all rationality left her. Sirius told himself time and time again that this time, would be the last and then a few days would go by and here they would be.

Lily is trying to study, but James can think of so many other things to distract her.

Lily uses all the Marauder nicknames casually, except for James's. He's rather upset about it...until she tells him the reason why.

AU. Oneshot. Lily is fond of laser tag, but when the Marauders find out she has no one to play with, they invite themselves along to a game.

James Potter is done. Finished. It's all over. Definitely. Probably. Maybe

Sirius thinks his whole life might just be about showing up at James' doorstep, over and over. (A love story, but not in a romantic way.)

"'I've come so close,' he says, just barely above a whisper as he sinks to his knees and rests his head in her lap. His hands are clutching hers now. 'To death' she chokes out. He nods against her and she feels his hair brush against the thin fabric of her stockings as something inside of her breaks." James/Lily. One-shot.

the sight of him in between her thighs nearly sends her over the edge. james potter/lily evans. 861 words. smut.

The Marauders think the parchment James just dropped is a list of the places they've pulled pranks, but Lily knows better.

Lily is half asleep, crawling over James as she gropes for her wand on the nightstand. She's about to question the funny look on his face when she realizes that the grain and weight of the wand in her hand is all wrong. Her cheeks burn with the realization that it's not her wand, but his, she's holding. She releases it instinctively, dropping it to the bed.

"If you must know, I heard a rumor that a pretty girl was going to be here." "Oh. And?" "The gossips were wrong, of course, as per usual." James surprises Lily with an unexpected visit to a Slug Club party.

James and Lily, and a whole lot of firsts. Smut.

An assortment of Jily drabbles pieced together to make a love story.

Lily wanted to know why Sirius hated her. Sirius was more than happy to give that information and not withhold anything that may cause James to, say, punch him in the face, IF he was listening. Oneshot.

(Oneshot) She wondered when the world became less interesting than James Potter. LE x JP

"You know how Muggles do that twelve days of Christmas thing?—well, you get seven. Sorry, love."

A (mostly) angst-free Halloween!Jily oneshot: It was just a kiss, friends kiss all the time.

The events of a single night can have very unexpected consequences. Two shot, Jily AU. Cover art by Viria.

James and Lily meet in an off chance in a bar in South London during their school holidays. Short one-shot drabble for October.

Lily stared at James now, and her insides squirmed. However it wasn't a bad squirm. It was fluttery, jittery, oh my Merlin I fancy James Potter squirm. Oh dear, Lily thought. J/L oneshot

Auror training is not quite what she expected. [AU Lily/James, Smut]

James and Lily have been in hiding for two months. James is stir crazy and trying not to show it. Lily jumps into action.

Lily and the Marauders receive an offer from Dumbledore. What now?

"He tells her that he loves her laugh, her hair, and her mind. He tells her that she's beautiful when she's angry and when she's sad, and she's absolutely stunning when she's happy. And when she smiles at him and calls him by his first name he feels as though he could face a Hungarian Horntail wandless, because he loves her." Eight ways James tells Lily he loves her.

"Her mother told her not to fall in love when she was still so young, but it was easy to say things like that when there wasn't a pair of warm hazel eyes burning into her skin from his position next to her at the breakfast table." J/L one-shot.

She was dramatic. He was dynamic. She was precise. He was impulsive. He was James, and she was Lily, and one day they shared a kiss, but before that they shared many arguments, for he was cocky, and she was sweet, and matters of the heart require time.

James Potter isn't very sure of much, but he is sure about Lily Evans. Lily and James one shot, second person perspective. Cover art by Burdge-Bug.

Jily smut one-shot.

She's a mix of stolen kisses and hot skin and burns. She's a volcano. Something in the air is different when he walks in, a loud, handsome boy-hurricane (her hurricane) throwing the room into absolute chaos. They're bold and fearless and crazy, ever-changing but still the same. Companion piece to Rumours. James/Lily one-shot.

Sirius drags Lily to her very first Quidditch game. After all, who can resist seeing their crush in a uniform? A fluffy one-shot rated K , just to be safe.

To have and to hold, until we meet again on the other side. L/J. Drabble... ish.

Lily Evans' and James Potter's relationship has always been a complicated story; it's just about to get a lot more complicated. And so is everything else. They might not know each other well, but they're about to know each other a lot better. Cover art by anxiouspineapples.

Out-take from my multi-chapter fic "Turning Tables", by common request, because apparently you lot needed details. Overly romantic smuttiness. Please note the M-rating, there's nothing but smut here. Cover art by Viria.

If there was one thing James was good at, he realized, it was making Lily Evans angry. One-shot. Jily.

"I'd like to assign the two of you a special, undercover mission," Dumbledore says, his wrinkled fingers steepling on his desk. "I require two Order members to pose as a newlywed couple."

A few times when Lily heard the word Mudblood.

"What are you thinking?" she asks, and her words are soft and tentative, her breath is visible in the space between their lips. "I might be falling in love with you," he replies earnestly, his hazel eyes boring into hers, unblinking, giving up every feeling that stirs within his heart for her. L/J. One-shot.

"She lies on top of him, the red of her hair contrasting with the blue water of the lake that they lie near, and because James Potter has always been passionate, he does the most sensibly passionate thing he can think of and breathlessly speaks, 'Will you marry me, Lily'" L/J, one-shot.

No one ever explained this part of love to him. No one told him that magic went beyond transfiguring desks into cats and that magic was holding her hand in his and kissing her eyelashes.

James and Lily, finished seventh year and dating, share a private compartment on their last ride from Hogsmeade Station. Explicit M.

"He presses his forehead against hers and looks into her eyes, and she is burning up for him to see, and he is burning up so that she can keep warm, and he kisses her so that they can burn together, as bright and hot as the stars that they gazed at with wonder and awe from the Astronomy Tower." James and Lily, one-shot.

The life Sirius could have had, if his friends hadn't died.

In the room where everything is hidden, you'll find more than just objects. Stories end up there too. (HBP compliant)

Lily and James define "friendship" rather differently. Jily oneshot, with a Remus cameo!

In which James is oblivious, Remus plays matchmaker, Lily laughs at her boyfriend's expense, Sirius drinks, and Peter loses chess. L/J. One-shot, birthday smut edition.

AU. A version of how Lily Evans and James Potter would have met if they were only two university students in a world where magic and Hogwarts didn't exist.

Jily one-shot. M for lemons.

Did this for a Lily/James Valentine's exchange and it ended up a lot longer than I intended! The story of how Lily's patronus ended up as that particular form...

In which Lily Evans makes the best of insomnia, with the help of her womanly wiles.

In which Lily Evans outsmarts a bully and possibly gains an admirer.

There are certain rules of magic that Lily Evans would very much have liked not to confront in one day. What began in Defense Against the Dark Arts between two people avoiding the obvious ends in the dungeons, the same two people not the same as they were before. One-shot.

It was called the Reginald Borage Grant for Innovative Brewing and Potionmaking, and Lily knew from the very start that she had absolutely no chance of winning it. LJOneShot.

Another oh-so-clever, broom-cupboard attempt to woo the unyielding Lily Evans. But in the end, perhaps it's not quite that hopeless. L/J. One-shot.

"His name was Terrence Hunter, muggle-born and all kinds of perfect, but Lily couldn't help but note the lack of callouses on his fingers, the way his brown curls crowned his kind face a little too immaculately, the way his eyes were of the wrong hue…how there wasn't a pair of spectacles for her to remove before he leaned in to kiss her." Three-shot. JPLE.

Lily's sour Hogsmeade weekend takes an unexpected turn.

Of James Potter, Lily Evans, and the aftermath of an opened window.

In which James discovers a routine of Lily's and Lily discovers a new side of James. In James' pov. For Allie and the Gift-Giving Extravaganza 2013.

No one would believe it, but it actually hadn't been his idea. LJSmut. Lemon.

Addiction quickly pursues, and he is my prescription.

Remus and loneliness and too much space. -—remus/sirius, advent calendar day five.

Lily finds herself a date on her way to the Christmas dance. One-shot. Lily/James.

Hermione has a series of vivid dreams about Draco Malfoy after taking anti-malarial medication. Can she reconcile the real Draco with the one she sees when she sleeps?

L/J. It doesn't surprise her at all that James Potter comes rushing into the Hospital Wing only an hour after she lands herself there. And for someone she doesn't even like all that much, she's still glad to see him.

L/J. While the Marauders help Remus through his transformation, Lily waits, because it's the only thing she can do. And then James is brought in, cut and bleeding.

"What do you mean she's missing?" James asks; his mouth is open and his eyes are wide in horror. All the color drains from his skin and it now stands out, harsh against the black curls falling in his eyes. He pushes them back angrily; Lily keeps telling him he needs to cut his hair.

Jily oneshot: smut indeed. A chance meeting in the shower.

They're fighting (again), and they're forgetting why (again) because James is giving her The Look (again), and Lily is letting it get to her (again). L/J. One-shot, smut.

James Potter was not happy, and it was all Lily Evans's fault. L/J. One-shot, smut.

It was beautiful, just beautiful, but the best part would always, always be right after.

ONE SHOT. Sequel to "Her Amortentia." After discovering the scent in her Amortentia is James Potter, Lily attempts to run from him, but as is his custom, James is not willing to let her go.

They were lying in his bed, all curled up and ready to go to sleep, when she slowly trailed her fingers up his back. He shuddered. Fluffy!Lemon.

Lily relieves some tension in the warm bath and James happens to wander in... Bronze Metal: Smutlympics - Aquatics. Rated M for Strong sexual content and language. Don't like, don't read.

Written for LunaInTheSky. JP/LE One-shot. Lily's terrified of storms and when Marlene and Alice are away for the Easter holidays and not there to help her deal with it, Lily has little choice but to seek comfort from other sources... WARNING: Strong Sexual Scenes.

"The manner of giving is worth more than the gift." - Pierre Corneille. L/J three-shot

Mature one shot. "We'll leave these on, yeah?" he told her, voice husky as he kissed the lace decorating her right thigh.

"Granger, I can't hire you on any longer," Draco said. Hermione stared at him. Losing her job might actually mean losing the War, and she had to bargain, but there was literally nothing she had that he would want. Or was there?

Set during 7th Year, learning the Patronus Charm in DADA can only end badly right? James/Lily; M for swearing

Contrary to popular belief, it's not always the man who does all the chasing.

The fact of it is that it's Dominique and she's a bit blinding and he can't define her physically but he might able to quantumly. -—dominique/oc

We'll tattoo the hours onto our hands and the minutes onto our feet. - —The Next Generation, in every way possible.

When Sirius Black left Manchester six years ago for a record deal, he also left behind Remus, his longtime boyfriend. Now they have a chance to be reunited, but Remus isn't sure he's willing to make amends with the man who sold their love for stardom.

WARNING: Strong Sexual Scene. Lily and the Marauders' lives are about to change forever; they have one final night of freedom before they become official members of the Order. To complicate things, Lily is still trying to sort out her feelings for James.

"You know, Lily," he continues, with the wisdom of a boy who understands the girl that he's in love with, "you're just scared of being vulnerable." JPLE One-Shot

Lily Evans is nothing like fire. *Lily/James*

James and Lily start hijacking one another's rounds in order to sneak off to entirely inappropriate Hogwarts locales. LJSmut. Lemon.

As the Voldemort War rages outside the castle, long standing prejudices begin to seep their way into Hogwarts. James/Lily, background Remus/Sirius Full summary with warnings within

James has to deal with the consequences when he steals Lily's towel. Again. LJ ONESHOT! A bit racy, not too smutty, rated M just in case. Enjoy!

Hatred never really leaves much space for realism. - —DominiqueScorpius

After having been broken up for a year, Remus and Sirius are forced back together when their assistance is needed for an Order mission. The events that follow their reunion, coupled with their insecurities, send them spiraling towards certain disaster.

When war escalated beyond their control, James lost the girl he loved, and it's not until five years after the war's end that he stands a chance to get her back. AU

Lily on the verge.

"She likes me," he tells the hag, because the night before she had kissed him; she had brushed her hands over his spine and her fingertips had trailed lightning across his skin. — Lily/James - For Ela

ONE-SHOT. Smut. Lily seeks James out after a Quidditch match.

Drabble. Lily discovers what the smell in her Amortentia means.

Sometimes it's the survivors who lose the most. Drabble series, Lily/James, Remus/Sirius

It may be Harry's big day, but some things never change. Lily/James, Harry/Ginny

Sometimes, James wished Lily wouldn't be so stubborn; sometimes, Lily wanted James to understand.

Because Lily Evans is most definitely not boring, and James Potter is most definitely a complete idiot.

The Three Broomsticks is the setting for five significant scenes in Lily and James's relationship.

Lily gets mad when James makes her all worked up for nothing. James can think of uses for said worked up-edness. Mild bondage, M for a reason, etc. etc.

"Why is it so important for you to win, James?" She asks him mischievously, lying down on her back and looking up at him through thick lashes. LilyJames. Drabbles

'"You always want things you can't have, James." ... Suddenly, he picks her up, and her legs are wrapped around his waist, and she's slammed into the wall, and his lips are on hers, and his lips are on hers, and his lips are on hers ...' JPLE One-Shot.

James and Lily make a bet. Lily loses. Well, sort of. SMUT.

One morning you wake up to find you're living someone else's life; only later do you find out it's your own. Lily/James

She'd like to quit him like a bad habit. Too bad it's easier said than done. *Lily/James*

The Head Girl makes a mistake. Now the Head Boy is in the Hospital Wing with no recollection of who he is or who she is- but he certainly doesn't care enough to keep his perverse thoughts to himself. One-Shot. Rated M for naughty language and sex talks.

"Suddenly we were discussing the Unbreakable Vow, and I don't know who did, but one of us suggested that we should make one.." "WHAT?" Ruby roared. "Oh my Merlin! What did you promise, Lily?" One-shot

The rules were simple. Provoke each other. Scream at each other. Snog each other. Do this as frequently as possible, but don't ever, ever kiss and tell.

It was supposed to be a one-night-stand, no-strings attached. But there's something about James that Lily can't help but connect with. ::Mature::

L/J. The Aha Moment: a point in time when something finally clicks. Everyone realizes that there's something more between James and Lily, though it takes some people longer than others. James has always been a slow learner.

Lily's been having nightmares. Fluff that ends up smut.

Potter was going to say that he wasn't my boyfriend. I couldn't let him do that. For the love of Merlin, I could not let him do that. I had to stop him. He couldn't tell her the truth. So I did the only conceivable thing I could think of. I kissed him.

Lily and James, because even when there's a war going on you can still be in love. - -LilyJames.

James lies to Lily, but it all comes right in the end. I know, not the best surmmary, but there we go. J/L Smut

Gone were their boyhood dreams of grandeur as harsh reality was ushered in. R/S

James and Lily work well together in many different situations. Lily/James

Lily finds James after a particularly grueling Quidditch practice. LJoneshot ::Mature::

It's James, Lily, and a whole bunch of words under the invisibility cloak. How much can they hide? They'll all be revealed in time.

L/J. '"Mister Potter," she whispers. "How are you on this fine morning?" That contradicting smile grows on his face - charming and naughty and shy all at once, the smile of a man with everything he's ever wanted in his hands.'

In the final NEWT exam, Albus Dumbledore watches four students answer a question he himself had requested to be put in. What is love? Four students, four essays, and one delighted Professor.

It's the best accident she ever made. An alternate DH fic.

James looked as though he didn't know whether to laugh or try to protect me. Obviously, he opted for laughing. LJ Oneshot.

A thought that made the monster inside Lily’s chest roar with triumph. He needed to be repaid for the constant harassment, pranking, date offers, and overall big headedness. She needed revenge

Because she's the same age and twenty-three years younger and the complications fade away. - -DracoRoxanne

After an emotional full moon, James finds solice in Lily. My first lemon, be nice!

I think this counts as statutory rape, James, might I remind you that you're not exactly ALLOWED IN HERE!" JPLE, One-shot.

L/J. It's easy to say that the Prefect's bath is his favorite place in the world lately.

When Lily Evans imagined James Potter sweeping her off her feet, it had always involved him snogging her senseless. Instead, she finds herself sitting in a muddy puddle, shoeless and throwing up slugs. Where did it go wrong? L/J Oneshot

James and Lily get a new bed. That's pretty much it, so there's no real summary necessary here. Pretty much just fluff, but there is a fairly graphic lemon, so it's rated M. Enter if you dare. Read and review. Thanks. :

Hermione and Theodore Nott are in a relationship. A series of sexy, angsty, and/or frustrating vignettes that eventually tell a story. Rated M for a reason.

What she didn’t realize until after she agreed to go out with him was that these things were piling on his shoulders until he was hunched under the weight of the world and it was all he could do not to throw it off and watch it shatter.

“Miss Evans, what seems to be that matter?” asks a concerned Slughorn. Other than the fact that James has his fingers inside me, and I moaned his name out loud in class? Nothing. J/L

It's him. It's always him. JamesLily. Threeshot.

Harry and Ginny make a pact that will change their lives. They just didn't know it'd be such a big change. What happens when a little drunken agreement turns into something a lot more complicated? H/G, AU, Post-DH, Mature sexual content and themes.

LJ. "They didn’t do it out of love. They were not in love, nor did they want to be. They barely knew each other. None of this was romantic, not even close. What they had together was purely business." R&R?

James Potter was going insane. Every attempt at blocking out the pornographic moans Sirius’s date was making had been fruitless, and he was this close to jumping out the window." LilyJames. Oneshot.

Are you watching me sleep?" Amusedly. "No." Guiltily. LilyJames. Oneshot.

L/J. "We should leave." With the receiver pressed against her ear, Lily waited in the quiet of the night, twisting the telephone cord in a white-fisted hand. She should've known he wouldn't like the idea, but she was so tired of the nightmares...

L/J. She's almost to the library when a hand grabs her wrist and yanks her into what appears to be an empty classroom. It is. They've been here before. She's intimately acquainted with the desk nearest the door. But it's a good thing she's not honest.

L/J. A series of short vignettes. James and Lily like to appreciate the little things in life.

L/J. Kissing James Potter in the middle of the common room is wrong, so wrong, but Lily gives up. She hasn't slept in two days and her brain is obviously delirious, so she releases hold of it and it clicks off like a light switch. Nox.

Breathing is not an option. Neither is thinking. But they can feel. Oh, can they feel. L/J One-shot, Mature.

COMPLETE. Companion piece to Seventeen. Rated for language. James Potter mulls over his relationship with Lily Evans and realizes...he's doomed.

To be banausic, to be mechanic. 'James, what are we? Because I really don't know anymore' Lily cries, flailing her arms outwards. When James and Lily experiance some relationship issues, James decides to take things into his own hands. [HARD M for SMUT]

COMPLETE. Lily Evans over analyzed everything until she fell in love with James Potter. Then everything more or less stopped making sense and she was just seventeen.

If it wasn't Evans, he'd call it off and let them stew in it. He'd snog her senseless and be done with the whole thing. [JamesLily. Marauders era]

She didn’t know why she was here, to be entirely honest. Lily and James get lost in some rosebushes. LJ [oneshot]

She was so drunk, she could swear it. Nothing besides alcohol could make her act this way. Oneshot. LilyJames.

Lily Evans hates James Potter, and Potter is none too fond of Evans. But when Lily does the unexpected...James falls for her. Literally.

Lily and James have an interesting night and breakfast in bed. Be warned, there are helpless fluffy bits. Oneshot.

It starts with an occasional glance from across the table during meals, a brush of his foot against yours under the table, the electric shock when his hand brushes yours during rounds. Next thing you know, you’re in his bed again. LilyJames.

A Scrooge channeling Lily runs into a bit of trouble with a bottle of Ogden's Old Firewhisky after she finds the Marauders drunk in the Head dorms. LJoneshot

Lily won’t date James because of his Quidditch obsession, so he quits it for a bet. In 7 days, he struggles to cope with withdrawal symptoms, while she attempts to not fall in love with him and prevent embarrassing situations like sniffing his boxers.

Lily discovers her boyfriend snogging another girl one night and decides the only way to get him back is to give him a taste of his own medicine. She enlists the help of the Marauders. Rating has been increased by request.

Because dangerous things happen when we touch. And when he leans. JamesLily

1981: In the final days of the first war with Voldemort, Lily resorts to Dark magic, James is not a hero, Peter justifies himself, Harry sees all but understands nothing, and everyone has secrets to keep. Warnings: violence, dark magic. Written 2004-2005. To be edited and podficced at a later date.

Lily Evans has been distracted lately…and it’s all because of James Potter and his stupid, unbuttoned shirt. Hardly any fluff, but plenty of shirtless James for everybody. Seventh year fic.

James thinks Lily's working a little too hard...and she's more than willing to agree. lemon

A case of selfinflicted laryngitis leads to some interesting repercussions for Lily Evans. LJ oneshot

James Potter loses his glasses and seeks help from Head Girl, Lily Evans, to be his guide dog. No doubt, unintentional boob grabbing always occurs with temporary blindness. One shot.

James Potter does not posses a single quality that could ever merit a swoon. And he is definitely up to no good..or at least that's what she told herself when she followed him out in the pouring rain. Definitely up to no good. Oneshot.

PostHogwarts. James and Lily have a serious talk about their future while visiting in London. Fluffly, R, two chapters.

In her seventh and final year at Hogwarts, Lily Evans finds herself facing a tragedy that leaves her life in pieces. She ultimately finds great strength both within herself and those she never would have expected. FINAL CHAPTER UP July 8 05!