a collection of unrelated jily/marauders oneshots.

AU. Who is the stranger Lily drunkenly met at a party? And why can't she stop texting him?

AU. Lily is sick of Severus trying to win back her friendship. Will pretending to date James Potter get him to stay away? Inspired by "To All the Boys I've Loved Before."

AU. Returning from studying abroad, Lily Evans is reunited with her childhood friend James Potter. However, as festivities are underway at the Potter household, Lily begins to realize she picked the wrong day to confess her feelings for him.

AU. Desperation drives James Potter into a makeup store. Despite his clever cover story, he is not fooling anyone, least of all the beautiful and witty store clerk.

AU. James is a trained assassin, but what happens when Lily becomes his next mark?

AU. James Potter frequents the local library and the librarians speculate what brings him in. Is he really that interested in the magazine collection? Or is he far more captivated in the pretty librarian at the counter?

In which James and Lily are huge nerds together, and there are a lot of Pride and Prejudice references. Modern AU.

Modern AU. Lily finds herself undeniably attracted to the cute stranger who keeps buying flowers from her shop.

Modern AU (James/Lily). The Marauders are in a band, and Lily and her friends are big fans. But what happens when Lily actually meets their lead singer, James?

A medley of unconnected drabbles focusing on James and Lily.

But mostly it was just you; scared, young, and all too human Lily Potter looking for a way to cleanse your dirty, tainted, broken soul / drabble. rated M to be safe.

There was something quite beautiful about soulmates, the idea that there was someone out there, just perfect for you. Someone that would complete you, that would make you whole. Would make you feel like the world was okay. Lily hated soulmates. A jily soulmate au where you don't get a soulmark, but rather if your soulmate gets a tattoo, it shows up on your skin as well.

"James leans in. Lily hears the script crumple in his hands, but she doesn't look to check. His lips touch the corner of hers, a hand coming up to cup her face. He is moving. So. Maddeningly. Slow... She curses in her head, makes up about a hundred thousand excuses for the next second—and then grabs him down by the back of his neck and kisses him fully, desperately, fervidly." AU.

Two-shot: James is suffering from a horrible migraine. Luckily for him, he has Lily around to take care of him.

I love my parents. They should be happy and have friends. But when your parents become best friends with the mother of James Potter, your annoying, lazy, infuriating, arrogant, childish prat of an ex-boyfriend, and invite them to spend the Christmas holidays with your family, you start to question the relativity of happiness. Right before you lose your sanity, of course.

'Nothing was quiet with him around; the fire splashed out of his cup like molten gold—it was infectious.' Very angsty. Extremely biased. Marauder-era narration/drabble.

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.)

When Lily's father dies, James Potter comes up with an interesting way to comfort her involving promises of travels and warm, greasy, muggle chips. Written back in July for Jily Week 2, Day 1: Travel.

AU: James and Lily are teenagers in the normal, non-Wizarding World and Lily faces constant daily abuse. One night she can't stand it any more and she and James go for a drive and talk about her life. One-shot. Fluffy Bunny. [Possible, slight trigger]

James tells Sirius all the things he loves about Lily as he attempts to calm down from having potentially ruined his relationship with her. One-shot. Fluff.

It's a Hogsmeade weekend, but Lily and James have both been stood up by their respective dates. So naturally, they resolve to go on a "make-up date" together. Except it's only a pretend date. Right?

Lily Evans is a lot of things, and James loves every last one of them.

After 12 years of waiting, Sirius finally visits the grave of James and Lily Potter. One-shot.

When Lily Evans discovers an abandoned wishing well in the Forbidden Forest, sixth year at Hogwarts is about to get a lot more interesting. Lily and her two best friends struggle to keep The Well a secret from the rest of the school while they unravel its mysteries, but with the Marauders determined to find out what the girls are hiding, nobody's secrets are safe for too long...

Lily can't stop thinking about the boy on her cousin's soccer team. AU.

Lily wakes up to find her fiancé's not in bed.

She smiles at him, warm and wide, and James is amazed at how massive of a moron Terrence is for letting something like that get away.

He has never seen her this drunk before, and he's not sure if he's more amused or worried about it.

In the wake of the death of James' parents, his friends are nervous about how to approach him, as he's yet to cry a full week later. Bittersweet Jily moments ensue. T for brief, angry-James language.

James Potter betrays Sirius Black in the most unforgivable way possible. (Anything else in the summary would completely give the story away.) Not slash!

Lily's pillow is a poor substitute for a comforting embrace.

What if Lily had a pregnancy scare in seventh year? What if she told Sirius? Written per request on tumblr, but also because I've wanted this for a long time.

James and Lily form a new birthday tradition.

They get married in October.

He watches the fire some more. It warms the drafty breeze wafting in, unwelcome, from all directions. It dances gracefully, lights up the room—the ultimate antithesis of what has become of him, what little living soul he can still feel in him left, after seeing the lifeless forms of his best friends in the world.

"On this particular night, James Potter and Lily Evans were meant to patrol the castle, but instead of meeting up in the Entrance Hall as they usually would to start their rounds, the Head students met early when James was wandering around the third floor to pass the time and found Lily in a rather dire situation." Jily-Oneshot!

Lily has something important to tell James, but she can't quite find the words.

Lily Evans would ask James Potter for help a thousand times before she'd lose a bet, but with three months for him to teach her Quidditch, she may be getting more than she's bargained for.

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.

He can tell you what orphans look like. And murderers. And soldiers. And mothers. But he won't. / the deaths of thirteen order members, and a study in scars.

All Right, Evans?, Part II [7th year]: "As in all wars, life goes on." -HP/HBP

And it wasn't just the dorm she was leaving. It was Hogwarts. Everything she'd dreamed about, everything she'd ever wanted - now she had to leave it all behind. The world was waiting - and everything they'd been holding out on, every decision, their whole future - it wouldn't wait any longer. And she wasn't ready. James/Lily fluff, really.

The sharp glint in her eyes melted his arrogance and solidified his resolve; her name on his lips shook her consciousness awake and smothered her fears. Once upon a retribution, in a dim, dusty broom cupboard with his ragged breaths and her tinkling laugh, they finally meet halfway. JPLE one-shot.

Because when all efforts at making the rounds schedule fail, what else is there to do but open a few Butterbeers and simply talk. It's here, in the Head's Office, that both Lily and James finally get what they need.

He was frustrating and arrogant and a tad immature, but he was also funny, intelligent and so bloody charming... that sometimes she wasn't sure if she wanted to slap him silly or snog him senseless. A series of unrelated Lily/James drabbles.

"A scrap of paper escapes her and flutters to the floor. As she leans beneath the table to reach for it, she spots something else – another bit of parchment, folded and worn." L/J – oneshot.

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.

Valentine's Day Jily fluff! Enjoy.

"Alright, Evans?" It was a phrase that had followed Lily through her last eight years.

Lily wakes up in the night for no reason, after one such event she goes down to the common room where she finds a familiar face. From there things slowly begin to develop into something else. One-shot.

At Petunia's wedding Lily has a bit of difficulty keeping a straight face and keeping to her sister's rules for the day. Having James there doesn't help matters. One-shot.

She knew. She knew he was lying. She knew why he was lying. She knew exactly what had happened. And she knew exactly what she had to do about it. But it wasn't fair.

'You know, I've always had a feeling that I'd die young.'

Lily's sour Hogsmeade weekend takes an unexpected turn.

It's Christmas Eve and the holiday spirit seems to be lacking for one miserable Lily Evans. Being home for the holidays isn't all she thought it would be with a sister like Petunia. So when she finds herself unwillingly in the company of James Potter, at first she's furious. "Lily!" James exclaimed. "Happy Christmas!" "It isn't Christmas yet," she muttered. "And I'm hardly happy."

We're going to die, James. I know it, whenever I look out of the window, whenever we manage to actually tune that damn wireless. People are dying everywhere, and we're being targeted especially.

He falls in love with her when he is thirteen. She's only just come to terms with the fact that she might -feel- things for him. With the two of them guarding their hearts and trying not to risk their new-found friendship, is it really possible for either James or Lily to figure out that they belong together? (Complete)

Perhaps it was the way he was looking at her—as if she were a mystery he was yearning to discover—or the rising surge of emotion in her heart that she felt as she looked up at him, that made her do something that, until recently, she would have thought revolting. She grabbed hold of his shirt collar and pulled him closer to her, pressing her lips against his. Two-shot.

James's first Quidditch match as captain does not go as planned.

"For something so immensely life-changing, it only took Lily Evans a number of heartbeats to realize just how deeply and madly in love with James Potter she was." JPLE Oneshot.

Part I of in-progress trilogy [6th year]: The thing about being Lily Evans and James Potter was that you couldn't do anything without everybody else saying something about it.

James could never keep track of the amount of sleepless nights he had had since Harry's birth.

"James had assumed that after he and Lily had had a spontaneous snogging session in the third floor corridor during patrol, he'd finally get to take her to Hogsmeade. Alas, the fates had never been on James's side." Secret Relationship James/Lily. Written for Tumblr's Jily October.

She told him not to go. They knew, she and James, that this day was bound to come. As much as they could hope for the threat to pass and for their family to be left alone, Lily and James knew in their hearts that they'd never escape from this nightmare.

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.

"Mum!" James snapped, apparently on the verge of hysteria. Running his fingers through his hair he looked down at his smug mother with wide eyes. "Y-You...What did I tell you about talking to Hogwarts students? And, oh God, you had to talk to Lily!"

"Five days." He said finally. "You give me five days to make you fall for me. And I get to do whatever I want with you, for those days." "And what do you get if you win?" She asked uncertainly. He held a small smile. "I get you." L/J

"There's something you have to realise about a boy who buys you sweets that taste like torture, fights a branch duel for your honour, or lets you dribble on his jumper: a boy like that should never be ignored."

To create a Patronus, you need a happy memory. With no family left, Lily struggles to think of a memory, until she remembers the day her mother died and James Potter showed a side of himself Lily had never seen before.

"To an outside observer, Lily Evans didn't look particularly distressed." One-shot. Lily/James, but romance isn't the focus. Canon compliant, as far as I am aware.

When it came to Lily, everything always seemed so hopeless. L/J drabble, James's POV

Rose has a theory: boys aren't just friendly. They're just a little too nice,a little too friendly, a little too touchy feely-these are the Symptoms of love.That's why it surprised her so much when Scorpius Malfoy started show Symptoms.

She could not do this. In another time, in another place, with a long life assured them, she would marry him in a heartbeat. But not now. Not like this.

"A problem shared is a problem halved" - English proverb. L/J friendship!fic.

When Sirius Black falls through that veil and Remus Lupin falls with the force of that curse, they're not dying. Not really.

'It's been fourteen years, and still not a day goes by that I don't miss your dad.' Fourteen cold, hard, long years after that horrible night in Godric's Hollow, Padfoot and Prongs finally get reunited, never to be torn so violently apart again.

When Lily asks James to teach her how to play Quidditch, James comes up with an interesting analogy.

It's a challenge. One week. Lily's hanging out with the Marauders. But trying to keep up with four seventeen year old boys isn't that easy. "If I win you don't ask me out. At all. Never again." "And if I win, you're my girlfriend." This'll be interesting.

There wasn't a password to train compartments on the Hogwarts Express until Rose decided to make one up. Scorpius/Rose oneshot

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

"It makes her feel more steady even though the ground beneath her turns. She worries, though. She's always been a worrier." L/J.

Lily Evans has always despised James Potter. But when some devious blackmail forces her to "fake date" him, she can't help but wonder what exactly he isn't telling her. Will the secret help her see the Marauder in a new light, or push her further away?

"There was an undeniable ease in talking to him, and she began to crave it – to speak to him, to know him, to have him know her." L/J. Part One.

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

"I think you're an arrogant, selfish pig, and I think you'd be doing both of us a favor if you just left me alone!" Potter stared at me for a moment, an unreadable expression in his hazel eyes, before uttering a single word: "Okay." J/L, Lily's POV.

Lily Evans has spent a very large portion of her life wanting to punch James Potter in the face - but when she finally does so, it's not for the reasons she expected. L/J.

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.

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.

"Then why won't you go out with me?" James asks quietly, looking down at me with blazing eyes. There are many reasons why I won't go out with him. 1 He's a selfish git. 2 He's not my type and 3..."You would hurt me."

Trapped in the Slytherin Changing Room on a mission with nothing but an invisibility cloak for company, the most terrible thing happens to Rose Weasley. She gets trapped under mistletoe with HIM. Scorpius Malfoy. RW&SM One-Shot

For six summers, Lily's parents hear all about that Potter boy. Then comes the seventh.

It wasn't about being reckless, or looking for a fight. It was about fighting for something that was important, no matter the risk. L/J Order years.

Though they've "known" each other for years, it takes Lily Evans and James Potter several moments to truly connect. *Complete*

The story of Lily and James through the eyes of Professor McGonagall.

Lily Evans needs a minute to figure something out - and it's a little hard to think straight around James Potter. L/J one-shot.

It started out as a simple quest - he wanted to see her smile again. That alarmingly beautiful, incandescent smile. But over time, it turned into something more. An L/J one-shot.

James and Lily spend their summers together producing plays, though neither are happy about the presence of the other. With James, as the set designer, and Lily, as the actress, tensions run high.

"Speechless," he went on, suddenly looking entranced by her lips. "You're making this too easy, Rose." One-shot, R/S

“Are you coming?” James demanded. Lily raked her eyes over him with marked disinterest and rolled her eyes. “No.”' 7 years at Hogwarts, 7 years of Quidditch, 7 questions asked and only 6 refusals? Fluffy LJ oneshot.

He asks her out every time Gryffindor wins the Quidditch Cup. She always declines. The seventh time, she runs away. LJ

Lily has recieved some very distressing news and is left with an aching heart. This leaves James with the job of cheering her up.

ON HOLD - As war begins in the Wizarding World, James Potter and Lily Evans are chosen as Head Boy and Girl to help keep the students at Hogwarts safe. Lily has her doubts about James — he's never been the responsible type — and in the hopes of making her seventh year at Hogwarts less aggravating, she agrees to something that could be a terrible mistake.

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.

Lily Evans's seventh year. Head girl. And sure, Potter as head boy was a drawback, but she could get over that. She had everything going for her--until someone ripped it all away. JL Angst--WARNING: Rape. COMPLETE.

Lily Evans has always, ALWAYS hated James Potter. So when they become Head Boy and Girl, nothing could be worse. But could working with him change Lily’s opinion? Has she been ignoring the truth in her heart all along?

Spell engineering has never been so complicated than when an afternoon of trying and trialing leaves James and Lily in an interesting position. LJ-oneshot.

Scorpius is scared. Scorpius is in shock. Scorpius is confused. Scorpius is angry. Scorpius is groggy. Scorpius is scared again. Five times Scorpius doesn't kiss Rose and one time he does , as they go through six moments in Hogwarts and come full circle.

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 not all sunshine and rainbows in the Gryffindor common room.

L/J. The darkness makes this easier to say, the cadence of his heartbeat lulling me into a relative safety, and it rolls off my tongue like the most powerful kind of magic. "I love you."

Because he just might be the right kind of wrong I need. -Rose/Scorpius- ONESHOT

Darn those bloody Quidditch robes. For all Lily Evans cared, Quidditch could be chucked into the next century. In fact, the stupid sport should just be outlawed all together. Come to think of it, so should the game of Truth or Dare. LJ 7th year.

Will it really take a Bludger to the head to make Rose Weasley realise that Scorpius Malfoy was the one who had always been there? Oneshot. RWSM

Lily and James: their epic as the fanfiction authors love to tell it. In a nutshell.

LJ, one shot. Both Lily and James are taking Defence Against the Dark Arts. Both Lily and James need a textbook. Problem is, there's one copy left.