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.

For a moment they only breathed, looking at each other. There was resent in his eyes and in hers. And then he said angrily, “I was in love with you and you know it.” James/Lily.

This is just the kind of thing that happens when life decides to punish you.

When trying to decide who might be worse - the Weasley twins or James and Sirius - the Fat Lady retells a story about overhearing James' confession to Lily. One-shot.

L/J. It's the most twisted love story: unrequited, unknown. Maybe she deserves it. She gave it up, after all. It was hers, always hers, but she pushed it away and now she can only watch it given to others. She broke him. And that's what haunts her.

I’m so clever, said James Potter, letting out an elitist laugh. No one else would ever have thought of this ingenious plan. He rocked his chair back onto two legs, and almost fell, but didn’t.

It doesn't feel like he's living. In a world ruled by the Dark Lord, he's miserable, but not because of the government. A chance meeting wakes him up, but there's something familiar about her that he can't quite put his finger on…