Lily Evans broke up with James Potter before graduation in an effort to keep him safe. She ought to have known that no one is safe, not in war. One year later and they're working in the same underground team fighting old feelings and Death Eaters. It's a cruel summer, it's true.

After all these years, it almost seemed surreal to find him on the beach preparing to duel James to the death. Lily wondered if Snape would kill her too, even if she begged him not too. Not that she would beg him. Lily couldn't live in a world that didn't have James Potter in it. If Snape was going to dig James' grave, then he'd best dig two.

A COVID-19 curfew takes an accidental turn when the Potters both end up in the ER, Lily in her knickers and James barefoot in his police uniform (co-written with GryffindorMischief)

Falling in love with your director is a stupid idea. Especially when you are the lead actress in a Broadway musical. Anastasia AU

Red. It was such an interesting color to correlate with emotion because it was on both ends of the spectrum. On one end there was happiness, falling in love, passion, all that. On the other end was jealousy, fear and frustration. Maybe that's why James thought the nickname fit Lily so well. (Bodyguard!James/Celebrity!Lily)

31st October 1981: Lord Voldemort is dead. The world is full of chaos, fear and grief. James and Lily Potter, who ended this war, have a life to repair.

The first mistake Lily Evans made was thinking that no man could possibly add up to Guy Patterson. The second mistake was moving in with the guy after answering his roommate wanted ad. Muggle AU

James Potter has just swept into the Premiership on a wave of Brexit outrage and, on his first night in office, a woman strolls out of his fire and tells him she's the Minister for Magic. She tells him not to worry, he'll never see her again unless something really serious happens. It goes, perhaps, without saying, that something really serious happens.

We think we know someone, but the truth is that we only know the version of them that they have chosen to show us. There will be no further explanation, only reputation. (Slytherin!Lily/Gryffindor!James)

Lily Evans can't take her eyes off James Potter when he waltzes into the Gryffindor room with a confident air and a tray full of cupcakes. He's the cocky Hufflepuff chaser that helped slaughter Gryffindor's team on the quidditch pitch. Naturally, she ought to hate James like the rest of her friends but Lily doesn't hate him, not even a little bit. (Jily Hogwarts AU).

Lily loves herbology. James thinks she's barmy, but he falls in love with her anyways.

As was previously 'Queen of the Crunk'. He asked her to Hogsmeade one hundred and thirty seven times. Then he stopped. And now Lily Evans has to battle her own fat mouth and mad head and the probability that number one hundred and thirty eight's going to have to be on her if she wants James Potter to ever smile her way again. Oh dear.

Despite his popularity on campus, James Potter has had a hard time getting the attention of one, Lily Evans. Lily's not impressed by him and his arrogance, but James is quite impressed with everything Lily does. After the blunder that was their first meeting, James is determined to change her mind and she's determined not to let him. Muggle AU

AU. Lily Potter and Harry ran away to save the world. James hasnt seen them in 10 years.

By the time the clock strikes midnight, Lily Evans must face the consequences of the masquerade she plays, because in this story...Cinderella loses more than just a silver shoe. (jily; Cinderella AU)

"When Lily's aunt Rose introduced her to a scrawny twitchy eleven year old boy with frantic hair and glasses that were too big for his face, she certainly didn't think she'd spend the next seventeen years beside him."

James Potter and Lily Evans are both wildly successful YouTubers and Sirius cannot believe that people ship them enough to write erotic fanfiction about them.

Entrapped in a snobbish boarding school, Lily Evans mischievously escapes for one night, fatefully encountering London's most eligible bachelor, Lord James Potter. Set in 1940 during the Battle of Britain. A story of love, war, magic and deception.

As the day turns to dusk, Sir Lupin heroically gets the royal family out of a castle under siege. Now the three royals and their knight find themselves running for their lives through the forest. James and Lily's tenuous relationship will be tested, as secrets come out and emotions run high. But to protect their family and their people, they must come together to fight their enemy

Lily meets James the summer before her last year at University. She's trying to get away from the stress of applying to medical school and the fact that her sister has uninvited her to her wedding, and being a camp counselor is the perfect distraction. Lily is the leader of the Griffon cabin, and James and his group of Lion boys have definitely caught their attention. ONE-SHOT

Lily Evans loves her local library. But someone is leaving strange notes in all the books she is reading. She is determined to find out who. Jily. Library AU

James was quite against taking his sister to her dance classes, but one look at her ballet instructor has him wanting to do pirouettes everywhere he goes.

James and Lily meet after missing their flights, and by the end of the day, it all sort of seems like fate JILY AU ONE SHOT

The M25 needs to undergo massive emergency repairs and the entire motorway has been shut down for, well, probably the rest of eternity. Lily Evans was foolish enough to think she could make it through before the traffic properly started. She's absolutely dying of boredom when she spots the guy in the car opposite. Nonsense ensues.

JILY CHALLENGE MAY 2018 tv show au "you laughed at my joke this one time on a stakeout, and since then i've been hopelessly in love with you" brooklyn nine-nine au

Lily Evans has just opened a new cafe which serves models, musicians...and Royalty, apparently. Jily AU, Royalty Jily.

Lily Evans is unsure of James Potter's tall tales when they run into each other one rainy night. He claims to be looking for his wife and son, both cursed to Lily's world by a wicked witch from his magical world. Lily's own son Harry is enchanted immediately by James' stories and she finds herself thrust into a mysterious adventure that might lead to her own happy ending.

Lily runs her father's grocery store and the guy she remembers from her childhood moves back into town. Thanks to petals for the brilliant prompt - "grocery store AU where Lily works the counter and he keeps buying things just to talk to her"

Based on the KittyKitPanda HeadCanon "Lily Evans and Sirius Black founding a 'Hogwarts Society for Witches and Wizards with Hair as Beautiful as Life Itself' club for the singular purpose of not inviting James Potter into it."

Lily Evans and Sirius Black grew up across the street from each other. Because of all of the mayhem they cause Lily's parents and Sirius' uncle sent them to different wizarding schools. James always looks forward to Sirius' "Letters from Evans"

James swears that it isn't going to snow - as a meteorologist, he probably knows what he's talking about, right? Wrong. Thanks to the tumblr anon that requested some winter Jily x

Between her obsession for caramel macchiatos and staring at James, he should've emitted himself into the hospital for irregular heart rhythms the minute Lily showed up in the coffee shop. This is the pediatrician!Lily & tattooedsurgicalintern!James meet in a coffee shop AU that you never knew you needed.

An anonymous person requested that I write a story where Lily and James are childhood best friends that turn into teenage lovers so I took the liberty to rewrite The Prince's Tale, where James Potter replaces Serverus Snape.

Lily Evans, lifelong New Yorker, is headed to the University of North Carolina for a job interview and she can't find the right god damn building. Lucky for her, southern belle James Potter is there to save the day. American AU, Modern AU, Muggle AU, University Professor AU

Lily's life drastically improved the day she became Ladybug, superhero of London. Except for the part where she fell hard for her partner, Chat Noir, who doesn't feel the same. James's life was already great before he became Chat Noir. Maybe he'd fall in love with Ladybug if he weren't so into his classmate Lily Evans. Together they battle unrequited love and, you know, Voldemort.

James and Lily are doing the fluffy things. Muggle AU, Mass Transit AU (lol not a thing?), Coffee Shop AU. This was supposed to be a one-shot, but my best friend is annoyingly convincing (and also I'm complete Jily trash). Now it's a multi-chap.

Modern Jily AU for the Jily Royalty Fest. Lily is the illegitimate sister of Duke Sirius and Prince Regulus, and is summoned to the Slytherin Palace to take her place by Prince Orion on his deathbed. With the help of her new friends, Lily learns what it means to be a Princess, and just what it is that makes a family.

"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.

"Ten years," James whispered to his wife. "We've been dead for ten years… how is this possible?" Ten years after the tragedy at Godric's Hollow, James and Lily come back to life and find their world turned upside down.

Because standing in front of him with her green eyes blown wide and mouth shaped in a small 'o' is Lily Evans and James is just about hoping that the ground would open up beneath his feet and swallow him whole.

AU: Written for the prompt "Hey, we hooked up last night and it turns out you are my child's teacher." When Lily spends the night with a gorgeous guy she thinks that's that when she leaves in the morning, only to get the surprise of her life that evening. One-Shot. Jily.

It may have taken him a while to get to this point, but James Potter is happy with his life; as the captain of the pirate ship Fawkes, no-one tells him what to do or where to go. But when he agrees to carry a passenger - for a fee, of course - his life takes a rather interesting and wholly unexpected turn, and the past may be about to catch up with him. Jily AU, cover art by Viria.

In which Academy Award winner Lily Evans discovers the periphery of internet fandom and the existence of Prince James's gold star system.

Lily Evans is planning on seeing the New Year in alone, then just getting through the rest of the year with as few problems as possible. Unfortunately for Lily Evans, very little in her life is that simple. Still, what difference can a year make? 1977 through the eyes of L & J. Cover art by Viria. All Harry Potter characters, places etc are the property of JK Rowling.

James and Lily have been fighting non-stop for months. When Moody orders them on respite, they retreat to Lily's old stomping grounds. More specifically, camping grounds.

Moments. They make or break relationships. Lily didn't just happen to fall in love with James. It wasn't an accident, but a long drawn out process that grew out of the relationships of the people around them. And when it came down to it, even Lily and James couldn't fight fate.

James and Lily brew Amortentia together—and nothing happens. Lily thinks she's officially gone forever numb, James thinks the dungeons smell like a swamp, and everyone concludes they're both idiots. Everybody's daft in love.

Lily Evans went down a different path in life when she left Hogwarts. Two years later, the last person she'd expect comes to bring her back into the world she left behind. AU.

"We don't deserve her," the Head Boy answered thoughtfully. "None of us do. Not even me. Not because she's perfect. She's not. Sometimes I think she's even more disastrously flawed than the rest of us combined. And not because she's beautiful, even though she is. Certainly not for being lovely because she never was.We don't deserve her because she's so much more than we'll ever be"

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.

Lily has always considered herself ordinary. But as she enters her 7th year, things start changing and Lily starts going a bit mad. Suddenly, she's Head Girl, her mates are acting strangely, and there's a new James Potter she can't seem to get rid of. PRE-HBP

Working for the Order had always been a risk. Members disappeared or were killed more often than not, but James Potter and Lily Evans had managed to escape the worst of it. That is, until a simple mission from Dumbledore goes horribly wrong. Trigger warning for torture, abuse, rape.

Lily Evans' and James Potter's relationship has always been a complicated story; it's just about to get a lot more complicated. And so is everything else. They might not know each other well, but they're about to know each other a lot better. Cover art by anxiouspineapples.

AU. Lily Evans isn't a witch.

Neither Prince James nor barmaid Lily had any interest in running the Kingdom of Gryffindor. This is the story of how they changed their minds.

AU. if a certain person doesn't hear a prophecy, does it still come true?

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.

As the Voldemort War rages outside the castle, long standing prejudices begin to seep their way into Hogwarts. James/Lily, background Remus/Sirius Full summary with warnings within

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

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.

Twenty two year old James Potter left the fame and fortune of quidditch to be hogwarts's transfiguration professor for the year. will it be just work or will a certain redheaded professor Evans make the year a lot more interesting. Read n review plz

LJ. "They didn’t do it out of love. They were not in love, nor did they want to be. They barely knew each other. None of this was romantic, not even close. What they had together was purely business." R&R?

Lily's boss at the Daily Prophet decides she's developed an unhealthy fixation with Aurors so he sets her the task of covering Gilderoy Lockheart's book release instead. But it seems someone has taught Lily how to smell a rat anywhere she goes. LilyxJames

Slight AU. Lily isn't happy. Although she should be with a seemingly perfect life and perfect boyfriend to boot. But then James Potter comes along and shows her you're not always supposed to do...what you're supposed to do