#jily canon divergent

[maraudersftw]

so scarlet it was maroon

Words: 4.4K | Rating: T | Hurt/Comfort

Summary: James and Lily hide in a safe house after a mission gone wrong, even as unspoken pain lingers in the space between them.

Or what happens when I try to write proper angst and fail

Read on: AO3 | FFN

[athenasparrow]

Mid Week WIP

Thanks for the tag @practicecourts : )))

Sharing a snippet from a new story I'm working on:

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“What’s got your knickers in a twist?” Sirius muttered glancing at James as he chucked his shirt with more vigour than perhaps was necessary.

James turned to his brother to find a perfectly arched eyebrow raised in his direction.

“Healer Evans,” James grunted, glancing to the place where a crumpled piece of parchment sat at his desk.

Sirius’ eyebrow remained raised, unimpressed.

James rolled his eyes. “He wants me to gather eucalyptus under a full moon from the grove just outside of Taghazout. I mean honestly doesn’t Dad know we’re busy with our Transfiguration Masteries? We are almost done, but still. I don’t quite understand how he managed to always hire such eager tofts,” James groaned

James paused when Sirius didn’t have an immediate reply, turning to look at his brother

Sirius was staring at him, head cocked, a slight smirk on his face

“What?” James said

“Nothing,” Sirius said straightening his face “I’d just forgotten you hadn’t come in with me to visit Dad when we dropped home last weekend.”

“Right” James said turning away to dig a piece of parchment out of his bag. “So you’ve met Evans then - I just hope he’s better than the last one.”

I am tagging @wearingaberetinparis, @abihastastybeans, @winryofresembool, @charmsandtealeaves (sorry if you've been tagged) xx

[kay-elle-cee]

Unexhilarating Stakeouts (And Their Surprising Benefits) || 984 Words || Read on Ao3 Written for @jilymicrofics Mystery Microfic May Event. Y'all guessed correct with 60%! Thank you to @eastwindmlk for the banner!

James and Lily find themselves paired together for an Order stakeout (and an uneventful one at that).

All things considered, it wasn’t a terrible assignment. Sure, they were stuck behind a copse of rather thorny bushes that made moving to stretch a pain in the arse (literally), but it was a nice, temperate night somewhere outside of Canterbury. A few clouds dappled the waning moon above, a soft breeze danced atop the thorny bushes to keep them cool, and Lily Evans’ head kept falling onto his shoulder as she drifted in and out of sleep.

[hyperfocuscentre]

hey guys! i’m looking for a jily fic, which i believe to be lily centric? if i remember correctly, her parents die way earlier and she and her sister go and stay with someone else (for some reason, i remember mcgonagall but that might just be my brain being dumb??). if you know what i mean, it’d be real helpful if you’d tell me the name of the fic or even link it! thanks!

[missgryffin]

When they were still very young, Remus Lupin's dad married Lily Evans' mum. It changes everything.

Castling | a Jily canon-divergent AU

And that's a wrap! The final two chapters are now posted on AO3. Thank you so much for indulging me with this moody little story 🖤

♜ read the final two chapters on AO3 ♚ start at the beginning

[startledstoat]

I cannot stop thinking about an au where the Potters had a house elf, probably one that James grew up with in his parents house, that could've escaped with Harry the night Lily and James were killed

Like Lily hears James die and her final order to the elf was to take Harry to hogwarts where theyd BOTH be safe within the wards there bc James and Lily would absolutely treat the elf as a member of their family are you shitting me

McGonagall is the first to know that the Potters are dead (and voldemort is still thriving, bc the whole thing with Harry obv did not happen) bc she's doing nightly rounds and finds a distraught house elf stuck out in a storm with a bundle in their arms sobbing and screaming about "Mistress L- oh Lily, Lily s-she to-told me to b-bring-bring little Harry here."

And once other people are made aware, any time someone tries to take Harry from them they start screaming again and refuse to give Harry to anyone but Sirius or Remus and demands that the both of them be brought to Hogwarts at once

And of COURSE they'd know about Peter being the secret keeper so Sirius would be released only a few hours after his arrest

Plot twist Regulus was hunting down horcruxes and had successfully destroyed them all but just hadn't made it to voldemort himself yet so when the aurors get to the Potters' they actually find out that Lily managed to deal the bastard a killing blow right before he got her too so maybe she's also dead, or just seriously injured and has to be taken away to st mungos

[theresthesnitch]

The Moon that Calls Your Name

"Your wife was bitten on the arm and dragged some distance." The healer sighed. "We healed the injuries from dragging, but as you know, the bite won't heal and–”

“Wait, she’s alive?” James bent over, no longer able to keep the sobs back, and it took a full minute before he realized what else the healer had said. “What bite? What was it that attacked them?”

The healer looked distressed, as though she didn’t realize how little James knew. “Mr. Potter. Your wife was bitten by a werewolf. She’s been infected with lycanthropy.” 

~*~

Werewolf Lily AU

Read chapter 1 here on AO3.

[sofargoneao3]

does anyone have any fic recs with jily just being normal parents? I’m digging and finding slim options

[blitheringmcgonagall]

P.S. I Still Wait for You

Chapter 2/4

Ten days before the wedding and he comes home from training to find Marlene McKinnon sitting on the low wall outside his flat, smoking a cigarette. The door is open and there’s a muggle contraption inside making an infernal noise.

“S’ up?” she says, without moving. She is the epitome of cool – backcombed blonde hair, black leather trousers, black eyeliner, The Cure t-shirt, red Doc Martins.

He raises his brow.

“Do I want to know about…?” he waves his arm vaguely in the direction of his home.

She shrugs, chips at her black nail polish, takes a long drag of the short cigarette.

“I can explain.”

He snorts, sits down beside her on the wall, and waits in companionable silence. A muggle man emerges after a while, wearing navy overalls, pencil behind his ear.

“There you are, love, all sorted,” he says, grinning at the two of them, like he’s just done them a massive favour.

“Thanks Mr. Smith. How much do we owe you?” Marlene says, stubbing out the cigarette on the wall and rummaging in her black satchel.

She pays him and watches him leave, scanning the street, hand on the wand in her pocket, eyes narrowed.

“Still worried in case a Deater follows him?” James says.

“Yup,” she nods. “Force of habit. Can’t seem to stop. Even after three years.”

“Some things don’t change easily.”

He’s talking about something else entirely and Marlene knows it.

She takes a deep breath, turns and faces him head on.

“I got a telephone installed, line’s connected now. Lily wants to ring you. She’ll phone you before the weekend, after seven some time.”

It’s simultaneously the worst and best news he has heard since she left.

“Why?” he finally manages to say.

“Because.” Marlene shrugs again. “She wouldn’t say.”

He runs a hand down his face.

“What the actual fuck.”

She stands closer to him, grabbing both his shoulders.

“Just talk to her, yeah?” she says.

Like it’s perfectly easy.

“Please. She deserves one conversation.”

He can’t seem to answer so he doesn’t. He nods, brusque.

“You’ve gone quieter in your old age,” Marlene smiles back at him, then leans in and gives him a strong hug, suffocating.

He laughs then, smiles back at her, even if it doesn’t quite reach his eyes.

“Yeah,” he agrees.

“I love you both,” she says. “You coming Friday to the local? Dorcas’ll be there. So will the lads. She got a promotion. Assistant Editor.”

“Holy shit! Congrats!” he gives a low whistle.

“Will we see you?”

“Probably,” he says, scuffing the toe of his shoe against the concrete.

It depends on the call. It depends on what Lily says.

***

 The phone rings on Friday night, at 7pm exactly. He’s been walking up and down the hall, repeatedly, for the past two hours. He picks up the receiver and finds he cannot speak.

“James? Hi, hello. It’s Lily… are you there?”

He laughs then, short and bitter. As if him not hanging on to every word she says was ever an option.

“James?”

“Lily.”

“Hi.”

“Hi.”

There is an awkward pause.

“Hi,” she repeats. “Thanks for taking my call.”

He doesn’t say anything.

“Hello?”

He takes a deep breath, looks up at the ceiling.

“What do you want, Lily?”

He didn’t want to sound like a pathetic looser. A weirdo who still thinks about her most days. He tries for polite, detached. He hears her swallowing.

“I was hoping we could have a brief talk.”

“Yes. Go ahead.”

“I, er, when I was, I was surprised to receive the invitation to Remus and Sirius’ wedding. I didn’t feel it was right to go. But they insisted. To the point of visiting me on a number of occasions. And they were my friends, are my friends. I don’t want to upset them. I’m so happy for them…” she pauses, and she sounds like she’s short of breath for some reason.

“Yes, I’m happy for them too. They both deserve to be happy.”

“They do. It’s… it’s just… difficult. I wanted to ask you a favour.”

“A favour?” he slides down the wall, until he’s hunched into the corner, on the floor, telephone cord in his left hand, twisting it repeatedly.

“If I come, I… I don’t want to talk to you. It would be too… difficult. Too hard. I couldn’t… I’ve told them. If I come, I’m not sitting at your table and I’m not talking to you.”

He makes a sound, so she knows he’s listening.

“I can’t do it.”

“I understand,” he says.

He hears her long exhale.

“Thank you, James.” She sounds relieved.

“Would you do it again?”

“Sorry?”

“Would you walk away, without saying a word? Would you do anything differently if you could go back?”

A heartbeat.

“No, I would do it again, every time.”

He’s glad she can’t see his face. His knuckles are white from how hard he grips the phone.

“I won’t talk to you, I won’t even look at you. You needn’t worry.”

“Thank you.”

“Goodbye Lily.”

“I hope you are alright.”

He’s perfectly fine. His heart isn’t breaking down this long-distance line tonight.

“I’m fine. I’m not missing you at all. I’ve moved on. Made new friends. Met new lovers.”

He sounds so plausible he can almost convince himself.

“Good. That’s good, James, I’m so glad to hear that.”

If she’s been feeling any remaining sliver of guilt about how she left him, he’s made it easy for that to evaporate.

“Yeah, so, you needn’t worry, I’ll leave you alone. It won’t be any problem.”

“Okay. Thank you, James.”

If she says James one more time he will scream or sob or punch something.

“Goodbye,” he says, formal, brisk.

“Good –"

He hangs up the phone, before she can say anything more hurtful. He’s struggling to understand how he was ever in love with her. Why he was ever in love with her.

@jilychallenge2023 this is from April, but I kept going… 🩷

[startanewdream]

In which James and Lily Potter fall in love, defeat a dark lord, and rebuild the world (and how only one of these is true).

Written for the November @jilychallenge (@jilychallenge2023), for the prompts "a kiss to break the spell" + “Is that all I mean to you,” he/she laughs. Paired with @charmsandtealeaves!

“We need to tell them.”

Potter sighs. His fingers are itching over the bandages in his arms, even though he shouldn’t; Lily places her hand over his, impatient, and he stops.

“We cannot.” As she splutters angrily, he shakes his head. “Have you seen what they are calling our— it?”

Lily hadn’t; the assumption of the picture had been enough to render her speechless, but now she lets her gaze wander through the newspaper. Below the headline announcing the Dark Lord’s defeat, Lily finds the “official” explanation for their photo.

The true love’s kiss that defeated Voldemort.

Read it more on AO3

[emeralddoeadeer]

Class of '78

Canon Divergent Marauder era jily fic

It's been five years since graduation, and while many things have changed, some things never will.

Read on Ao3

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[mirrorofliterature]

the only star in the sky | a study of sirius black, circa 1979 | 7.8k | rated: t | sirius & lily + sirius & marlene + sirius & regulus | canon-divergent

Five days in, 1979 is already a difficult year for Sirius Black. Wartime is as bleak as British winter, but at least all his friends are still alive.

Or: Sirius Black spends an afternoon grocery shopping with Lily Evans as his world falls apart. The next day, he starts to repair it.

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Here is my Fandom Trumps Hate gift for @annanother-thing, an exploration of Sirius Black's friendships with the women in his life, particularly Lily Evans and Marlene McKinnon, with a side of brotherly angst.

Hint: the brotherly angst has something to do with the canon-divergent tag. There is also background dorlene, who are a married couple well-established as prime war targets in their late forties.

Enjoy!

[kay-elle-cee]

Things That Haven't Happened Yet || Read on Ao3 1.2k Words || Chapter 1/4 || Rated E

It's a @jilymicro-oops! I'm expanding Friday's "Hazy" micro and have four whole chapters planned out!

A slight error in Legilimency lessons leaves Lily a bit more exposed than expected, and James in shock.

You won't believe half the things I see inside my head/Wait 'til you see half the things that haven't happened yet.

[maraudersmanwhore]

We are recruiting for a NEW Marauders server! This is an AU, as the end goal is for the first War to be successfully won - hence the name, happy endings! This server is 18+ for everyone's safety and comfort! Roleplay has not yet begun, as we are still building and recruiting, but feel free to join us!

Taken characters:

James Potter

Sirius Black

[missgryffin]

When they were still very young, Remus Lupin's dad married Lily Evans' mum. It changes everything.

Castling | a Jily canon-divergent AU

♜ continue reading on AO3

[startledstoat]

Unforgiving Current, Unforgetting Moon

At 14, Regulus Black made an unexpected friend in Remus Lupin.

At 16, losing Remus almost hurt worse than losing Sirius.

at 18, He hopes he hasn't burned that bridge completely to ashes.

Or where Regulus and Remus become friends in Hogwarts, have a falling out when reg takes the dark mark, and then meet again and fake their deaths to go horcrux hunting together during the war.

Prologue

Remus Lupin is dead.

Sirius barely registers the words as Moody announces them to the room. He's sure he heard wrong because that's just-that's- that's not right. Remus? His Remus? No. He saw Moony last week. When he'd left to spend the moon with the pack. Moony was running a few days late, but he promised Sirius he would return. He promised. And Moony doesn't break his promises. Not his Moony. 

Remus Lupin is dead.

James feels his heart stutter in his chest. He knows it's a lie. It has to be. It has to, because his heart, after its brief moment there, is now pounding. And If his heart is still beating, then so is Remus', because there's no Prongs without Moony. Because if Peter's down the table, breathing heavily, then Remus must still be breathing, because there's no Wormtail without Moony. Because if Sirius is across from him, shaking his head frantically, eyebrows furrowed, then Remus must still be able to move his own body, because there wouldn't be padfoot without Moony. 

Remus Lupin is dead. 

Lily takes a sharp breath in, waiting for Dumbledore to tell them that Moody's just playing a cruel joke. She brings a hand to the small bump on her belly. No. Her best friend isn't dead, because he's going to be the other godfather. Because-because she and James haven't even gotten the chance to ask Remus and Sirius yet. 

Remus Lupin is dead. 

Peter breaks out in a sweat. Because there's no traitor without Remus. He's spent too long meticulously putting together the details, planting suspicion. Without Remus, there is still a spy. But there isn't anyone else to take the fall for Peter's betrayal, except the rat himself. 

Remus Lupin is dead.

But that can't be true, because- because it's just not.