Imagine that one person that irritates, infuriates, & insults their way under your skin to the point where each moment with him or her becomes a pop quiz in self-control. Now, imagine that you've woken up in that person's body. For Lily Evans & James Potter, learning to navigate this unfortunate and stressful new reality is truly a walk through hell.

Too aware of her surroundings, Lily Evans tells how, with help from the Marauders, she emerged from her cocoon to live, love, and find liberty in a dark, cynical world. The travel isn't light, but Lily learns what matters in a raw and poignant odyssey.

You feel something inside your lungs rip, and suddenly there are tears on your face. SSLE, Drabble.

The simple tale of an idiot at Christmas.

A collection of drabbles from Wilhelmina Willoughby and Zayz, written to commemorate Lily and James.

It was beautiful, just beautiful, but the best part would always, always be right after.

COMPLETED - Looking for an in-character, realistic, original, canon, post-OotP LilyJames fic from 6-7th year with attention to character development and interaction? With no mary sues, set in 1970's Britain, with correct spelling and grammar? Well this is it!

Contrary to popular belief, it's not always the man who does all the chasing.

HIATUS. L/J. "The first duty of love is to listen." In arguing, neither gave up. But when James finally walks away and Lily is left standing in his wake, the echo of his silence ringing in her ears, something changes in her heart.

James and Lily start hijacking one another's rounds in order to sneak off to entirely inappropriate Hogwarts locales. LJSmut. Lemon.

Because Lily Evans is most definitely not boring, and James Potter is most definitely a complete idiot.

L/J. The Aha Moment: a point in time when something finally clicks. Everyone realizes that there's something more between James and Lily, though it takes some people longer than others. James has always been a slow learner.

Lily finds James after a particularly grueling Quidditch practice. LJoneshot ::Mature::

"This is me Lily" He spoke with absolute conviction that thrilled her to the core, "This is me" And he smashed his lips to hers and Lily saw stars.

It was wrong, the way that he wanted her and the way that his fingers were ghosting over her hips like raindrops in a sun shower and the way that her breathing was heavy and the way that she was pressed too close too close to him in the broom closet. JPLE

James bit the figurative apple. So Lily, being God, threw him out of the figurative Eden." JPLE One-Shot.

James reconsiders his views on mistletoe during the annual game of Christmas Eve Drunken Poker. LJoneshot.

LJ. Maybe he was the hero of her story, and she the heroine in his, but life had other plans. It always did. R&R?

You blush when you see her hand slip into his pants. JPLE Main , One-Shot.

Bella is reunited with her childhood friend Alice under unlikely circumstances. When sparks fly between Bella and Alice's older brother, will she be able to resist? And what secrets is he hiding? Canon Couples

Apathy. That's all James seems to feel toward Lily, and she's beginning to think it's all he ever will. But she needs more than that... Lily/James, some Lily/Sirius.

For a moment they only breathed, looking at each other. There was resent in his eyes and in hers. And then he said angrily, “I was in love with you and you know it.” James/Lily.

It was only a little kiss, a groundbreaking, earth-shattering, spine tingling kiss. Lily frowned, what was that all about?" James/Lily, need I say more...

“Sometimes,” she murmured after a pause, “I get up in the middle of the night, after everyone has gone to sleep, and I sit around down here.” He didn’t have the heart to tell her that she was the only one who ever could sleep around here.

CHAPTER 2:EDITED! Lily extracts a promise from James that he will leave her alone and all for the low low price of one tiny, insignificant, meaningless kiss. Only, Lily seems to be having difficulty upholding the terms of their agreement.

Lily Evans has always, ALWAYS hated James Potter. So when they become Head Boy and Girl, nothing could be worse. But could working with him change Lily’s opinion? Has she been ignoring the truth in her heart all along?

Every so often a beautiful boy waltzes into Lily's life, and sweeps her off her feet. JL

LJ. "It all starts with the staring. Every bit of it – the good and the bad – starts with the staring; the surveillance, the attention, the intensity of each glance, no matter how brief it is." R&R?

L/J. She's almost to the library when a hand grabs her wrist and yanks her into what appears to be an empty classroom. It is. They've been here before. She's intimately acquainted with the desk nearest the door. But it's a good thing she's not honest.

L/J. The darkness makes this easier to say, the cadence of his heartbeat lulling me into a relative safety, and it rolls off my tongue like the most powerful kind of magic. "I love you."

LJ. Just a little bit of useless, kind of mature fluff - there's no really no description for it besides that. R&R?

COMPLETE! AU Welcome to H.W Academy, where manners exist and the nobility reside. It’s the only world James Potter knows, but when Lily Evans enters his life, that world is shattered. L/J He’s about to learn that there are some things money can’t buy. R/R

Breathing is not an option. Neither is thinking. But they can feel. Oh, can they feel. L/J One-shot, Mature.

Insight into some of Lily's more irrational moments. Thankfully, James interprets, or rather misinterprets, this hysterical and confused Lily for endearing. Hmm...and how exactly does this work to bring them together? EDITED!

He was waiting. Waiting for her to make the next move, to dictate where this rendezvous would lead. Waiting, as always, for her. L/J, one-shot.

Lily's perspective on the loves and losses in her life. A bit dramatic, a bit of angst, a bit of romance.

There is something between them—a hopeless fascination, an undeniable tug. A tug he doesn’t understand. He doesn’t try to. She feels it too. He’s sure of it.

When your boyfriend doesn't turn up for breakfast, forgets to walk you to Potions, practically ignores you in said Potions lesson and then makes up pathetic excuses to get out of spending time with you you know something's wrong. JL

COMPLETE. Lily Evans over analyzed everything until she fell in love with James Potter. Then everything more or less stopped making sense and she was just seventeen.

If it wasn't Evans, he'd call it off and let them stew in it. He'd snog her senseless and be done with the whole thing. [JamesLily. Marauders era]

She didn’t know why she was here, to be entirely honest. Lily and James get lost in some rosebushes. LJ [oneshot]

In the words of Slughorn: You will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. James and Lily start their relationship in 7th year, but what happens when Lily starts receiving love letters from the Half Blood Prince? 'Obsessive Lily Disorder' sequel.

A single touch, the brush of a hand or the gentle graze of a foot and he’s captivated all over again. [LJ Oneshot]

“Tonks loved Remus as a gentle lover but she also craved rough sex…”

A Scrooge channeling Lily runs into a bit of trouble with a bottle of Ogden's Old Firewhisky after she finds the Marauders drunk in the Head dorms. LJoneshot

Lily discovers her boyfriend snogging another girl one night and decides the only way to get him back is to give him a taste of his own medicine. She enlists the help of the Marauders. Rating has been increased by request.

James Potter's laugh is poison.

JL She wanted him and he wanted her, and it was all that should have mattered, but for some reason it wasn’t and she felt like nothing was ever in her control.

The Dark Lord pays Harry a visit but ends up flirting shamelessly with Aunt Petunia! Honestly, carrying on like a couple of teenagers....

Sirius Black was everything Lily had ever dreamed of. So why is James Potter the one taking her breath away? Maybe Lily has finally found the something more she was looking for.

A neat little Lily & James, oneshot [[could become more, something like a miniseries]]. From Lily's perspective, just a moment inside her head on a July afternoon. It's a bit messy and incomplete, but it's something.

“Me? The great Potter, afraid of a little school girl.” [ J a m e s & L i l y ]

Lily Evans has been distracted lately…and it’s all because of James Potter and his stupid, unbuttoned shirt. Hardly any fluff, but plenty of shirtless James for everybody. Seventh year fic.

He hopes, in that time, she does not change, that she is still as lovely despite the brown hair as she is today, that she still wants him in any degree and that she doesn’t hate him for what he may be forced to do. During HBP. Written for rtchallenge pro

James struggles in taking the next step of getting serious with Lily Evans. ONE SHOT.

Lily is in love with her bestfriend's boyfriend. In her typical, sarcastic manner, she tries to figure out a way to confess her love. Without losing her bloody mind. Again. [rewrite]

James worships the ground Lily, er, throws him on? Includes stalking, Polyjuice potion and James attempting many acts of suicide such as drowning his head in toilet bowls because Apple Of His Eye Evans hates his guts. Or does she? Complete .

By all appearances, James Potter has been lost in the darkness of life. It has become a series of trials and annoyances, but possibly, the unrelenting presence of Lily Evans could make things different.

a lovely jl vignette about how they got together. includes: impersonators, green hair, ballroom dancing, graffiti, the north tower balcony, and of course, obligatory snogging.

When James blackmails Lily into spending time with him in order to get back her notes to study for her NEWTs, will she see the side of him that actually cares about her, or will she kill him before she gets the chance? lovehate, post Oopt. reviews loved!

LJ, one-shot. Sad, dark blue fluff, the silkier kind. 'You must have loved her very much, not many people remember enough to wait.'

He came home with roses, never expecting rain, never suspecting the truth. "There's something you need to know. I was going to tell you, but... James, there's another man in my life."