Quick note here. I couldn't sleep tonight but I was feeling creative so I thought I'd write some. So mind you none of this has been edited, I tried to read through it some but I just keep getting more ideas so I apologize if it's completely muddled. I will edit it at a later time. Thanks for reading!

"Nice to meet you." The tone of Lily's voice matched the seemingly sweet smile plastered across her face, but her eyes were cold and brutal as she looked at the man. He gave her a knowing wink, which only hardened her gaze, her freckled cheeks flushing a dark pink as she tried not to think about the fact that he had seen her quite naked only a few hours previous.
"Well I think I'll head out then." Lily said to Elkah, whose oblivious expression made her feel slightly better.
She scurried past him, their arms brushing as she squeezed through the narrow space, making her blush even harder.
She hurried down the street to her usual cafe, her hands stuffed in her pockets and her head turned slightly down so her wavy hair could cover the ridiculous blush on her cheeks.

"Rough day at the office?" She looked up as Remus, the owner of the small shop and now her good friend, thanks to her need for caffeine, set down her usual coffee order.
"You don't know the half of it" Lily replied watching him sit down across from her with a sympathetic smile gracing his lips.

For the next few weeks, Lily did her absolute best to avoid the cocky bloke, Jamie? She thought his name was? As much as humanly possible. She left for lunch early and as soon as she got back she darted upstairs to finish the last two hours of her shift doing some made-up job of organizing new arrivals. Anytime she was unlucky enough to be stuck with him, he only made her furious. He'd make some sexual comment and she'd threaten to sue and he'd sulk off to another corner of the shop.
One hateful day the gods of fate turned against her and Elkah was put into the hospital. The little old woman apparently had suffered from a minor heart attack. Lily had, of course, gone to visit her as soon as she heard the news, but the doctors and the frail old woman herself both assured her she would be perfectly fine and back to her usual self before they knew it. Content knowing all she needed was a bit of rest, Lily left the hospital to go and reopen the bookshop. What she didn't account for was that no one had told the cocky bloke what had happened and when she returned he was sitting outside on the stoop of the old building presumably waiting for his shift. Lily, being the overly polite person she was, walked right by him and up the steps to unlock the door with her newly acquired set of keys.
"Oh good gods I thought maybe the place had shut down and no one has bothered to tell me." He said brushing his pants off as he stood up. She didn't even glance at him as she walked inside the shop and set up the register for the day's work.
"So what did happen?" He questioned her. Lily stayed silent, ignoring him and hoping maybe he'd catch a hint and go away. "Oi red?!" He half-shouted and snapped his fingers near inches from her face. This made the little freckled girl whip her head around in anger. "My name is Lily, thank you very much."
"So you can hear? I thought for a moment maybe you'd gone deaf." He said with a cheeky smile.
"Listen, Jim, Jamie, whatever your name is, I'm just here to do my job and get paid so if you'd kindly move out of the way I need to turn the sign to open so we can get at least some business today." She snapped as she pushed past him toward the front door.
"You're quite firey, although I do think I might remember you being something like that in bed..." He said, and obvious grin on his face. Lily froze, and silently thanked the gods that her back was turned to him so he couldn't see how red she was. She took a deep breath and turned toward him. "Listen Jamie, I'll tell you all you need to know so you can quit pestering me now and hopefully forever." He quirked an eyebrow in anticipation, but stayed silent. "Elkah suffered from a minor heart attack. She'll be fine she just needs to rest for a while before she can't come back to work. As for our relationship, I deny any fact that I ever slept with you, because frankly it was a huge mistake as I am now realizing, and you are to never mention it again. Now kindly stay out of my way. " she finished with a sinful grin and placed herself neatly behind the cash register. James, who looked quite shocked, stayed quiet for the next few minutes. And thankfully for lily, just as he was about to open his mouth, the bell above the door jingled and a small family came inside to shop around.

James was utterly shocked at the amount of feist in the short redhead's body. She had completely wrecked him in one fowl swoop and he spent most of the day contemplating it. He knew she was lying about the sex being a mistake. Well it might've been a drunken mistake, but he was sober enough at the time to remember that she enjoyed herself as much as he did. That thought was the only thing keeping his ego together. He stayed away from her the whole afternoon, even when they weren't busy, but after a while, his curiosity got the best of him. He made his way through the towers of books to the front register slowly, his hands shoved nonchalantly in his pockets. She didn't even look up when he came to a stop in front of the counter where she was sitting filling out some disgusting looking form. He decided to test his luck and made his way toward the door. Just as he began to push it open she stopped him. "And just where do you think you're going?" She asked without so much as looking up from her paperwork.
"Oh so now I'm more than just a ghost?" He walked back and leaned against the desk. Sensing she wasn't going to reply, he sighed dramatically before saying "I was just going to leave and get some dinner, it is closing time you know" he watched her with raised eyebrows as she brushed her long hair behind her ears and looked up at him.
"Oh no, it isn't closing time yet little Jamie." She said with a grin. He had to admit the little flutter his heart did when she called him that made him never want to correct her. " as you'll recall, we opened late today which means we must stay open later. Besides I have a hell of a lot more paperwork to do. " she said with a heavy sigh. So, sensing he wouldn't get much more out of her, he wandered back to the mystery section and began placing all the new arrivals.

A few hours later, Lily finished her temporary managerial duties, and decided it wasn't nearly busy enough to stay open any later. She called for Jamie and told him he could go home. she did one last sweep of the store before heading out the door and turning to lock it behind her. "You must be hungry," a voice behind her started and she nearly jumped out of her skin.
"Shit, Jamie," she sighed, seeing the familiar face at the bottom of the steps. "I thought you'd gone home."
"Sorry," he winced, "I didn't mean to startle you, I just figured you probably hadn't eaten all day, and you did a lot of work today from what I could tell so I thought I'd take you to dinner." He finished, suddenly becoming more interested in looking at his shoes than looking at her.
"And what exactly makes you think I'd want to go to dinner with you?" She asked, crossing her arms over her chest and leaning back against the door.
"Well, I've kind of been a dick the last few weeks. I mean I can see why you've been avoiding me, anytime I get a chance to talk to you I always have to say something crass, but you... you make me nervous." He laughed slightly and ran his hand through his hair, making her heart squeeze in an unfamiliar way. "So I thought if I bought you a good meal, I could make it up to you." He finally met her eyes and she thought she might burst into tears looking into those hazel orbs that held so much sincerity in that moment.
"What the hell, let's go." She said, pushing past him. "But I'm picking the place. And for the record this is not a date, by any means. I'm just tired and hungry and will never pass up free food. Got it?" She looked over her shoulder to see him still standing at the foot of the steps looking shell-shocked and the sight was enough to illicit a genuine laugh from her that seemed to jerk him back to reality and he ran to catch up with her.

Fifteen minutes later and they say across from each other in Over the Moon cafe, Lily's favourite lunch spot. Remus came over to take their order, giving Lily a not-so-secret wink that made her green eyes widen and her pale face blush. Which in turn made James grin like mad. "What'll you have then Lilyflower?" He asked looking at her adoringly, which only made her blush harder.
"I'll just have the usual, thank you Remus." She said, too hungry to fight his stupid nickname at the moment.
"You're perfectly adorable when you blush you know." James said, once Remus had left with their order, which of course made her blush again.
"Oh shut it lover boy." She replied as she turned her head to look out the window.
Much to James's happiness, they spent several hours at the cafe, talking and laughing. And to top things off, he even got to walk her home. Any other night he would've tried to kiss her, the way her pale skin glowed in the streetlights drove him mad, but he didn't want to ruin his first good encounter with her, so he contained himself.

The next day they each got a call from Elkah who, despite her condition, was outraged at them for having tried to run the store on their own. She scolded them each thoroughly in her thick German accent and told them they must stay home until she came back on Wednesday and that the little shop would be fine to be closed for three days. Lily, not being one to argue, abided by the old woman's wishes and spent the majority of that Sunday in bed reading and listening to records and trying her damnedest not to admit to herself what a great time she had had with her coworker the night before.

James, being slightly terrified of the old woman, also stayed at home. Only instead of distracting himself he spent most of the day talking nonstop about the perfect redheaded girl to a very disgruntled Sirius Black, who was seriously regretting having asked how his night was.