Lily Evans: 3&4/100 (original) (raw)

These are both short, so I thought I'd post them together, less clutter-y...

Prompt: Straight Up - Paula Abdul(56)
Character: Lily Evans
With Cameos From: James Potter
Word Count: 226
Summary: Sometime during 6th year...Lily is wondering how serious James really is about going out with her.

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Lily can’t recall a time when she’d been completely alone with James Potter before. It makes her uncomfortable in a way she was having trouble identifying. Yet here they were, abandoned by friends on both sides and uncomfortably alone in a classroom.
Lily clears her throat and shifts in her seat.
James studies her, not shy about openly watching her. He seems about to speak when she interrupts.
“Can I ask you something?”
He seems startled and nods dumbly.
“And you’ll be totally straight with me? I mean, really honest?”
He nods again.
“Do you really want to go out with me or are you just trying to have some fun?”
He stares. The question catches him even more off guard than he already was. His features soften after a minute and a deep V creases his forehead. Lily can’t help but trace the lines with her eyes, unwilling to look at him fully.
“I think it started out that way...just a game, I mean,” he admitted softly. His hand ran through his hair, mussing it. “But it’s not that way anymore.”
Before she can respond, a small flood of students stream into the classroom, shattering the moment. Lily turns back to her unopened book and pretends to study the the well-worn cover of her textbook, well aware that James Potter had yet to take his eyes off her.
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Prompt: Say My Name - Destiny's Child(65)
Character: Lily Evans
**With Cameos From:**Severus Snape
Word Count: 216
Summary: Their second day at Hogwarts...Lily is upset because Severus is angry she's been sorted into Gryffindor.

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“Sev, it’s not like we can’t be friends just because I’m in Gryffindor,” Lily pleaded. There were tears in her eyes as she faced off with her friend in the nearly empty corridor.
Severus stared coldly at her, his mouth set in frown. She wishes he would say something, anything, even if it was just her name. Lily’s face, in contrast, is overwhelmed with the confusion and hurt she feels that her best friend is angry at her on their second day of being in a new foreign place. It’s not as if she could help that the stupid hat didn’t think she would fit in Slytherin. It had called out “Gryffindor!” before Lily had a real chance to protest.
Severus was angry because he had planned for months that they would be in the same house together. He considered it a betrayal for Lily to have made the hat call out something so offensive as Gryffindor, even though he knew that it wasn’t her fault.
“Talk to me,” she pleaded, wishing he would stop acting so strangely. He shook his head, but his dark eyes softened a bit at her distress. Lily relaxed at the shift in his mood, believing that it was a sign he would eventually get over her deviation from the plan.
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