Fragments Of Unconnected Conversations

A collection of Lily's and James' One-shots by MorningDawn and shyangell

Summary: Lily. The Marauders. Two separate worlds. Read trough the conversations and a bunch of funny situations as James and Lily come closer and closer.

Pairing: James/Lily

DISCLAIMER: All the fictional characters appearing in this fanfiction story are not mine, they're J.; and they are being used with the only purpose of personal entertaiment.

Getting her to smile.

Lily walked down the Castle corridors, minding her own business when suddenly a voice startled her. She looked who had just called her. Oh great, just what her day had been missing, James Potter was walking towards her while calling her to wait up.

He was, definitely, the most obnoxious boy she had ever met. Well, that wasn't completely true, Black was worse, of course that Black didn't spend every waking hour of his day asking her out. Although, now that she thought about it, this year he hadn't asked her out once, of course that it had only been two weeks since the school year had started.

And that was weird, because they had talked, really talked (not the usual he asking her out and she yelling at him), they were both Heads and they got to spend a lot of time together. Duty time, of course. Well, it was just damn weird.

He finally caught up with her and addressed her with his usual supposedly (and admittedly) charming grin plastered on his face. She feared the worst.

- What do you want Potter? - she asked, If he asked her out, and spoiled their unwritten truce, she was going to kill him.

- Whoa Lily! - said nonchalant- I jus wanted you to ask if you knew which were the transfiguration homework? - Lily looked at him with a funny face.

- Couldn't you ask Remus? Or Black? - he looked at her almost amused.

- Where have you been this last half a day? At the moon? None of them was at class.

- Where were they?

- Well, you see, Remus was ill again, and Sirius decided to stay with him. So I was supposed to take notes for them and let them know the homework. But you see… it turns out that I was not listening…

- And Peter? - asked Lily suspiciously, before letting James end his story about how accidentally, obviously, he hadn't been listening only on the precise moment when McGonagall had said which homework they were supposed to be doing. - Couldn't you ask Peter?

- You see, he's at the hospital wing.

- What happened to him? - asked, a small hint of worry in her voice.

- Well, it was a Quidditch accident. - stated James as if that was the most normal thing in the world.

- But Pettigrew doesn't play Quidditch! - Lily felt dumb; she didn't understand it, what had to do Quidditch, with Peter being at the hospital wing.

- YES! Yes, I know. But I ran into him. - Lily looked in disbelieve.

- And what exactly has to do Quidditch with you running into Peter?

- Well, you see… I ran into him with my broom during yesterday training. - he gave her his most "I'm sorry for being this way, but I can't change" smile. She suddenly burst out laughing. She didn't know why, but she was actually laughing at something Potter had said. That was a new. When she finally managed to stop laughing she looked up at his eyes. She had never realised they were that beautiful. They just stoop there for what seemed an eternity. He was the one to finally break the silence.

- So… now that you know about the whole story, would you mind telling me the Transfiguration homework? - she smiled at him.

- Yes, yes, of course.- she pulled out a piece of parchment and a quill and scribbled the homework from McGonagall. - there you go. - she said as she handled him the piece of parchment. He smiled back and thanked her for her kindness once more.

She then took off to the Great Hall. He thought he saw a smile in her face while she walked away. Yes, she had smiled wholeheartedly at him. Now that was a great way of ending your day. He thought as he walked to the Great Hall for dinner.