A little thing I did! It's for the November Jily Challenge (just in time??!) and I was given a choice of 2 prompts which I don't appear in this chapter, but one will - I promise!
I was partnered with the lovely @annabtg and @eastwindmlk who have given some lovely encouragement!
Title is in Welsh and it means 'I can't escape from this'.
Read here on AO3
Finally live on AO3.
Thanks for all your patience whilst this mamouth idea left my body. Thanks again to @practicecourts for the tag :)
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When Muggle-Born Oliver Wood becomes an extremely successful cyclist for the British Cycling team, both muggle and magical ministries have to come up with a plan to make sure all is fair. Enter James Potter and Lily Evans.
Afternoon reblog, because I’m quite proud that I committed to idea and had it written in 9 days.
I’d love it if you could give it a read :)
Finally live on AO3.
Thanks for all your patience whilst this mamouth idea left my body. Thanks again to @practicecourts for the tag :)
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When Muggle-Born Oliver Wood becomes an extremely successful cyclist for the British Cycling team, both muggle and magical ministries have to come up with a plan to make sure all is fair. Enter James Potter and Lily Evans.
Can the surprise drop just be this banner? Please?
Only joking, it's on it's way, I'm writing frantically. Send help.
Coming soon - T-minus 23 hours to goooooo agh.
I'm always amazed when I get notifications because I feel like such a lurker at times especially since real life has been the busiest and most draining recently, so thank you, thank you @practicecourts for the tag. I have genuinely only got 2 WIP's in my drafts which seems silly to make a poll for so here's a different one.
Drop it like it's hot - I'll aim to do it in the next 72 hours.
Lukewarm potato - by the end of the week.
Allergy central - who knows? I'll disappear into my bat cave. Bye!
Thanks for playing!
Are we supposed to tag people in these? If so, I'm sorry - this is a no pressure enviroment. It's so low pressure it's like the rain that we've had all through August. Torrential. But if you want to; @blitheringmcgonagall @clare-with-no-i @bougainvilea
Chapter 5 now up on AO3.
Thanks for joining me on my first multichap ride!
Chapter 4 now up on AO3.
‘I think I preferred when you were actually to nervous to talk to me.’ Lily laughed, and nudged him away again to gain access to her computer.
‘You take that back, Lily Evans. Your life was infinitely more boring without me.’ James said with mock affront.
‘Yeah, it was,’ she said with a scrunch of her nose and a smile at him before looking back to her computer.
James paused. This wasn’t part of their banter.
Chapter 3 now up on AO3.
‘Oh hi,’ Sirius drawled and with a grin so wide he could’ve caught the canary and sold it for profit, he added, ‘I’ve heard so much about you.’
‘Pads’, James warned.
‘Only the non-embarrassing things I hope.’ Lily said, catching James’ eye, her smile turning into the smallest of lip bites.
Was Lily Evans flirting with him?
‘Oh, definitely only the embarrassing things’. He smiled and winked. Winked! Well this was going well wasn’t it, James thought.
‘Can I smell sick?’ Sirius cut in and then sniffed, exaggeratedly.
Trust Sirius to ruin a moment.
Chapter 2 now up on AO3.
‘Hiya mate’, he greeted Remus, who was hunched over his farfalline and idly flicking through the technical supply catalog.
Remus hummed in acknowledgment and asked an arbitrary, ‘coming out for drinks tonight mate?’ knowing full well that James’ usual response was a; ‘Not tonight, sorry. Got a thing’.
So when Remus asked; ‘coming out for drinks tonight mate?’ James said; ‘yeah, alright’.
A lump of farfalline fell off Remus’ fork with a slap.
@jilychallenge | Partner: @blitheringmcgonagall | April 2023: Letters and Texting.
Prompt: First date - “ Words We Should Never Have Left Unsaid / P.S I Still Wait For You’.
I’m so sorry it’s late but I literally had to force this thing out of my birth canal. xoxo
Also mahoosive thanks to @blitheringmcgonagall who helped me decide the most embarrassing events to happen in chapter 1
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If you asked James Potter if he loved the theatre, he would answer very diplomatically that ‘yeah, it was alright’, and ‘sometimes the tunes get stuck in your head, you know’, and ‘my mother brought me up on a diet of show tunes, I can’t help that I sing them out loud sometimes, God’.
As a matter of fact, being a naturally curious and inquisitive (and sometimes lonely) child, Euphemia Potter had enrolled her son into a summer of theatre classes in the hope that it would use up his endless energy and perhaps guide her son onto the path of acting so that she would always have some free theatre tickets. As naturally, if her son chose that path, she was sure he would succeed.
january @jilychallenge2023 @jilychallenge
partner: @sosohh / prompt: first date - “I want you so bad it hurts” / “Promise you’ll see me again?”
a/n: i am so sorry this is late it took me forever because i just had no time in jan!!!!! but it's here and i'm pretty proud of it hehe <3 btw i couldn't fit "i want you so bad it hurts" in but just know lily is feeling it the whole time lmao. enjoy!
Their first date feels stupid. The flirting, according to Sirius, has become unbearable. Remus is subtler than that, but makes a dry comment about how they hadn’t been seen together in 24 hours (oh, the horror!). Mary makes a couple of puns and James gets the hints but is too uncertain to make the first move.
Big up to my challenge partner for creating something so wonderful!
@jilychallenge | Partner: @flowersgrowback | January 2023: Firsts, Promises and New Beginnings
Prompt: First date - “I want you so bad it hurts” / “Promise you’ll see me again?”
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Lily Evans is not a religious person. Her faith in a God long ago discarded, scattered to the winds.
James Potter makes her want to have faith. He has helped her rediscover goodness in the world, in people, with random acts of kindness and delicate kneading away of pain and tension held on her shoulders.
If she is Atlas, holding the weight of a world which does not want her, in any capacity, then he is Hercules, offering to help carry a burden, trying to aid her. He could be her God.
