A/N: This chapter is actually dedicated Zoya for her flavor suggestion; it gave me this idea. I think Lily offers a different perspective to James that affects him a lot, and I hope my meaning isn't too misunderstood in this. Thank you all for your encouraging reviews.
Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans
five: caramel
He loves her because she tastes like caramel.
When he kisses her for the first time, and she is all stumbles and helpless gasps and green eyes dancing, she tastes like caramel and the irony does not escape him; he has always hated caramel.
He is afraid of sounding so terribly cliché but, Merlin, in her mouth it doesn't taste much like what he's ever encountered at Honeydukes. And he knows his mates will think him utterly ridiculous, but afterwards, when she has gone for a bit and that taste is all there is for him, he doesn't mind caramel so much anymore.
It is not the first or the biggest thing she has changed about him.
It amazes and frightens him that she can hold so much control over him, and he wants to run away from it but he knows he can't; he knows he won't stay away from her for that long.
He won't because she's Lily Evans, and sometimes she makes him see things a little differently and sometimes she changes things about him without really trying and he loves her for it.
