The Characters: James Potter, and Lily Evans
The Inspiration: And to top it all off, I'm with you
The Rating: K
The Disclaimer: C'est pas la mienne.
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(cheat)"Come on, Lily, you know you want to do this project with me," James Potter said brazenly, wiggling an eyebrow in what he assumed was a suggestive way.
"Right. The same way I want to throw myself off the Astronomy Tower," Lily Evans snapped, slapping his hand as it slid towards her shoulders. "Look. You take the right side of the sky, and I'll take the left. We'll meet up at Orion. Go."
The air was heavy with the whispers of the other partners and the scratching of quill on paper. Lily's hands were deft in the execution of mapping the stars, and her chart matched the sky perfectly. James handled this project in the same way one might approach chopping a tree down with a pocketknife.
"No, no, no!" Lily whispered angrily, firing her eraser at James's head. "Erase all that! It's horrible! I want to pass Astronomy, not get Troll scrawled at the top of this. It's bad enough that I have to do this with you, do you have to muck it up?"
"But you're distracting me, Lily, my darling!"
"I'm not your darling! Or anyone else's for that matter, now do it right!"
Lily returned to her work, furiously mapping the stars. With a little chuckle, James cleaned his half of the paper with a tap of his wand. He mumbled a spell, wiggled his wand, and touched his wand-tip to the paper. From the wood, inky streams slid out, and embedded themselves in the paper, replicating the skies as perfectly as Lily had.
"Merlin, James," Lily said, after they handed the roll of parchment in. "I didn't know you could draw like that."
With a wink at Sirius Black, James grinned, "Neither did I, Lily. Neither did I…"