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We all know that Sirius is a klutz...why would James ever ask him to be best man at a wedding?

She came in the dark and begged for his help: to protect the Light in a time of Darkness. A speculation of the devastating move that put our hero Harry in jeopardy.

Time changes everything, and even the most precious days must end. Remus and James talk as their lives change, and old loves turn to new ones. When the smoke clears and love is ended, there's always one person left alone.

"Sunlight beams pleasantly onto the nape of my neck, warming my body delightfully whilst Alice blows bubbles somewhat dreamily into that un-containable Zen that floats above us." Lily Evans and best friend, Alice Eston, enjoy their last carefree day on the Hogwarts grounds during a free period, talking about love, cheating and Frank Longbottom. That's before a certain James Potter turns up.

Family isn't always right. Sirius Black sits in a cell waiting for the trial that never came. He remembers.

The last day before the school year for Jame's and Lily's 5th 6th and 7th years.*Songfic*

Harry's life as it should have been - in other words, what he missed out on by losing a mother and a father.

The final battle is over, and Ginny Weasley is looking for someone on the battlefield; looking for him. But when she finds him, she realises she is going to have to say the hardest word of all - Goodbye. HP/GW songfic to James Blunt's 'Goodbye My Lover'.

James feels an overwhelming sense of protection to Remus, and comforts him after a vivid nightmare. *Slash Warning*

James Potter struggles to learn that marriage means compromise. When you don't, there are consequences.

Regulus Black intends to try out for the Slytherin Quidditch team in his second year. He does it, however, for reasons that might not be the best. No matter what, certain Gryffindors will do anything to see that he fails. Written for the Regulus Black Group Cookie Challenge.

AU ficlet- One stormy night, Liliana Evans, daughter of a prominent pureblood Slytherin family, realizes that there's nothing left to live for. James Potter is looking for a way out of his family's constant planning of his future. What will they find in each other?

A few brief glimpses into James and Lily's last days.

Find out what happens when you mix one dark-haired Slytherin poet, a reluctant James Potter and a bored Sirius Black left too long to his own devices.

Ever since they met, he couldn't stop thinking about her... (James-centered fic)

Have you ever wondered how MWPP came up with the idea for the Marauder's Map? And what's that got to do with the secret passage on the fourth floor?

Quinnellia Chamberlain, aka Quinn, has come to Hogwarts from the United States to finish her magical education. She is befriended by Lily Evans and her dormmates and for the first time in her life has good friends, is getting good marks, and is staying out of trouble. Until she tries out for the Quidditch team and is told by the Captin, James Potter, that girls don't play Quidditch at Hogwarts. Can Quinn and Lily beat some sense into James? Moreover, can Quinn stop thinking about her own problems long enough to help Lily with her own crisis

I have lived my whole life with Kolen and the rest of the vampire clan. We're constantly migrating; fleeing from sunlight and those dreaded, mortal humans who have for centuries been hunting down and slaughtering our kind. I was one of the few, lucky survivors. One day, Kolen came to me in and put me on a dangerous mission to recreate our clan. My name is Katrina Sillane, and this is the story of my fateful mission...

One day, somewhere within the last year of the war, Lily finds a photo that makes her remember the days when Petunia was her sister. A short examination of the relationship between the Evans sisters. Not sappy.

James confronts Severus Snape after Sirius told Snape about the entrance to the Whomping Willow.

Lily was excellent at comforting, but she was horrible at being comforted.

It's the Halloween Boogie, a dance only seventh-years are allowed to attend. So what happens when you throw the Marauders in there?

Closed in worlds they cannot contain, Lily and James sit together and the fireworks soon fly....

Fidelius has been performed already, but on a dark night with a storm rising fast and furious over the home where they were staying, a visitor arrives on a dark bike with an idea that will effect them all. Lily POV. JP/LE.

Before Hogwarts, Lily had a friend, her cousin, named Harry. This story is about them, and who they were and what they did. Slightly bittersweet, but it covers Lily's discovery of magic, her meeting with James, and why she named her son Harry.

A deceptively typical evening in the Potter household at Godric's Hollow.

Peter Pettigrew is dead by his own hand. Remus Lupin shares the news of Wormtail's death with Sirius Black and the Potters, and ponders how he feels about it.

James Potter is tired of Lily Evans noticing all of his flaws, until he finds out that maybe her attention isn't such a bad thing after all.

A song can hold so much in its words, as James is about to find out. Songfic to Head Over Feet by Alanis Morissette

Exams are over, but school isn't out yet. The Marauders decide to take adavantage of the free time and make this day one to remember

"Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them." ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. "The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity." ~Walt Whitman

Lily goes undercover to get a certain Death Eater to join the Order...

Chock full of angst, this recounts James's death and the reaction of him and his betrayer - or is it lover? Warning: Slash.

While Lily is having Harry, James thinks about his son. Then the moment comes, and James has some promises to make to Harry. Does he keep his promise? (Lily/James)

Peter Judas Pettigrew remembers the events which led him to join the Dark Lord, the night he betrayed James as he lives up to his namesakes. Contains slash.

This is the third of my one chapter mini-fics. This is a tale of the marauder we know very little about - James Potter. This small fic shows that even in their early childhood, James and Sirius could be counted on for making mischief.

Death prevails in a fatal confrontation between the dark and the light... LJ, Non-Romance, AU, Angsty.

Takes place that fateful night when Wormtail betrayed the Potters...

Throughout their years at Hogwarts the Marauders have always lived their lives in the same way, making the same choices and decisions over and over without change. Lily has always pushed James away in fear that if she lets her guard down he will let her down. Aurora is positive she's not in love with Remus and won't hear any different because she is ultimately afraid of what will happen if she faces her emotions. Raine is afraid to speak. Peter has always hid in the shadows of his three best mates. Well, this year they all decided that it is time for change. This is the year they never expected to come.

Sometimes James hated Peter.

Lily Potter can't stand being at Godric's Hollow for much longer. So, she runs. Set two days before Hallowe'en 1981.

One night will always be remembered in the world of Harry Potter. There was one night that started it all --- a Dark Lord was defeated, a friendship was broken, and a child was left an orphan, yet hailed as a hero at the same time. The night of All Hallow's Eve is recounted once again in this tale.

It's not always safe to trust people you run into in pubs, but sometimes it's better than family. James and Sirius at eight years old.

"Everything they ever did was funny... Except for the things that weren't." [One-Shot] [MWPP-era]

What was it that made Lily Evans stop loathing James in their seventh year? This first-time fic writer takes a stab at it.

Voldemort decides to kill two birds with one stone: get James out of the way and take control of Godric's Hollow -- by framing James for a murdering someone very close to Lily. Can she help him? Or, more importantly.... WILL she?

James and Lily's seventh year at Hogwarts, in their own words.

Follow up to There is a single candle on the table. James and Lily decide on a Secret Keeper at late at night.

Look into the mind of Lily: tormented by James and just wanting some peace and quiet. And how does Peter Pan fit in with all of this?

In February he will be a skeleton lying tangled on stone. Now he is an angel drifting like a white ghost, with a softness which fades quietly among harsh angles and geometry.

Set in the summer after Sirius' death. Perhaps slightly deranged from the tradgedy, Harry sees Sirius in himself, and in a sense, forgets James. HP/DT RL/SB

Philip Shoskey is an ordinary man trying to overcome the loss of the love of his life, Terry Rosier. However, after a surprise meeting with a man long thought dead, some of Terry's secrets are exposed, and hold roots that will change Harry's life forever. (Despite how this summary sounds, the OC's are really, really minor characters in the plot. James, Harry, Remus, Tonks, Dumbledore and Snape really are the main characters.)

When James Potter comes home from his fourth year at Hogwarts, he realises that he loves his classmate, Lily Evans. He attempts to write a letter to her and on receiving it, Lily employs the help of her best friend, Severus, in writing a nasty reply. James is not subdued. Read to find out what happens to Lily and James!

Dreams. By day Snape can sneer at them and push them to the back of his mind. But as he well knows its not so simple to keep such an iron control of the subconscious at night. Unease can become fear, dreams can become nightmares...

Sirius struggles to keep his sanity in Azkaban, but one group of memories in particular wears away at him. Will he win, or will the Dementors break him?

Lily caught James kissing another girl during a Hogsmeade weekend a few weeks before Christmas. She hasn't forgiven him yet, even though James has pleaded with her constantly. James only wants Lily back to him before Christmas arrives. One-shot songfic.

I'm not sure when everything changed. He was just a boy. An arrogant, spoiled, self-absorbed, good for nothing boy.

Lord Voledmort is recruiting werewolves as 'soldiers' for the upcoming war. He now has his sights on Remus. Will Remus change over? Or will Lily, James, Sirius and Emma Gibson lose their best friend forever?

Sirius has spent ten years of his life locked up for crimes he did not committed. Hopelessness and despair seemed to be the only way out for Sirius, who has to face his worst memories everyday. Azkaban would have destroyed him if it hadn't been for James. See what comes of a man who survives Azkaban, and finds a measure of peace along the way.

"If you fool me once, then shame on you. But if you fool me twice, then shame on me." -Slash- Remus Lupin speaks to James Potter one last time before letting him go for good. James-Remus and implied Lily-James.

Fifteen years after he thought he'd left it behind him forever, Remus Lupin is back at Hogwarts. It is all much as he'd left it in 1978, with one notable exception: where once he'd roamed the corridors of the castle alongside Sirius Black, now he hunts him down. And try as he might, he just can't stop thinking about the events that led up to this change.

Why did Sirius decide he couldn't be the Potter's Secret Keeper? Why did he think Remus was the spy? My take on the subject...

A one shot songfic based on the song "Hold On" by Good Charlotte. Lily and James have both built up so many walls around themselves that they can't let anyone in to help. They both have problems, but they have to go on with their fake lives, pretending nothing is wrong. They both don't really want to live their lives anymore...

This is a fun J/L story that starts in First Year. Sarcastic, witty, and humorous, "Reflections" is told form Lily's PoV as she looks back on her memories.

His heart casts no shadow, because it is the shadow. Remus/James. For Fallen, the R/J FQF.

A songfiction based on the events of ORDER OF THE PHOENIX and the lyrics to Garth Brooks' song, STANDING OUTSIDE THE FIRE. Harry reflects on the Mauraders after one of their deaths. SPOILERS

All that remained was a box full of memories. (Remus/Sirius)

Sirius Black has just escaped from the hell that is Azkaban and is on the run. In the strange, twilight world that exists between the Wizard and Muggle worlds, he learns some of the cruel realities of life here in the underworld. Striking up an uneasy friendship with a strange, deadly clair-sentient named Morgan, the two begin the long journey to Hogwarts. Stopping at an inn in the border village of Mangletorn in the Scottish Lowlands, Sirius is jarringly reminded of an episode from his and James Potter's past, and learns another cruel truth about himself.

Lily Evans has got a boy friend! James Potter desperately tries to forget about her with the help of his friends. He gets frustrated as he has trouble concentrating on his studies, his best friend is on cloud nine, Quidditch practice goes crazy, and he can't avoid the red head who he is forced to do Head duties with. Watch as he is put in to funny situations and fails miserably at his mission. There is lots of Quidditch, on the side romances, original characters, a detention, and maybe something big and fancy.

Marauder-era fic. Sirius and Remus being the central couple, they are both pursuing other people in an attempt to hide from their feelings. Quite angsty, actually. SS/RL, RL/SB, SB/LE, LE/JP

Rita Skeeter, Roving Reporter. Yeah right. Rita's ruined, and in the wizard prison Culparrat, all for the little crime of revealing the magical world to the muggles, even if it was only in a fiction book. Now it's the day before she is released, and she is thinking back to years before when Lily and James died, when she had best friends, and when she was free.

Wormtail returns to Godric's Hollow.

'Lily Potter is falling...' What happens after death. Lily thinks back. Lily/James, hints of Remus/Sirius.

Sirius hasn't seen the Potters since they were placed under the Fidelius Charm... it's Halloween, 1981, and what he does not know is he will lose three friends... two by death, and one by betrayal.

Alternative Universe. A stranger muses on his past with Lily Evans, what once was, and what never shall be. One-shot.

A one-shot song fic to "The Lucky One" by Alison Krauss. Peter had never been lukcy. He always needed help. He never had good grades, never got the girls... unlike Sirius. Sirius has always been the lucky one... and to Peter, he always will be.

My take on the events of that fateful October night in 1981. Told through many changing points of view and ranges to include an appearance by the whole lot of redheaded Weasley children, Sirius' escapades and the first indoor Quidditch match at the Potter household.

Non-magic AU. Detective Sirius Black's world is turned upside down when a gruesome murder occurs in the heart of London. At the centre of the investigation, Remus Lupin. While Sirius' instincts say one thing, his heart says another. He just doesn't know how to decide which one's right.

This story focuses on the coming together of two very different worlds via the marriage of James Potter and Narcissa Black. Harry's adjusting well enough, but little Draco would rather eat dirt than love his new daddy. Can the two families become one? And will this change the HP series as we all know it? Harry's still 'The Boy Who Lived' and Draco's still a spoiled brat. Will love and kindness make all the difference?

After receiving a bite from a werewolf, Remus has spent most of his life alone. Hogwarts gives him the chance to discover friends and enemies alike.

The war ended once and for all on October the thirty-first, 1985. An AU exploration of what might have happened if Peter had not turned traitor.

Before they were Harry's eyes, they belonged to Lily. Lily and James contemplate the future on their last night together. One-shot.

I always snatch the Snitch. I'm always a winner, golden and perfectly round and armed with wings, forever meant to fly, because I am

In December 1978 celebrating solstice according to Lily’s idea means waiting for the sunrise and more.

Things that are broken can be mended but the cracks will always remain. What will the pressures of war have on the relationship between Remus and Sirius?

R for some violence to animals. In Hogwarts, during MWPP time, there are secret meetings in the dungeons for upcoming Death Eater trainees. James wants to make the Order and nothing is quite what it seems.

AU. When an illness sweeps the entire world, Sirius must fight to protect the people he cares about as the dead begin to rise. Remus is on the other side of the continent, working desperately to develop a means to put the dead back where they belong. Sirius is trapped in the heart of London with a widower and a group of frightened children. Can they survive until they find one another?

1979 and 1981. Two Halloween nights, two destinies. James and Lily contemplate the meaning of life and death the night of Harry's conception.

James has never understood Muggles, and now, hiding with his family, he has to pretend to be one. He doesn't quite like it.

"No one knew Remus Lupin loved her too." James wasn't the only one to love Lily.

James Potter hasn't been sleeping well for the last few weeks. How will he tell his pregnant wife that their unborn son is marked for death?

"She is my heart's desire and she will realise that I am hers." A JamesLily ficlet from someone else's perspective. Oneshot.

Harry has a twin, non-cliche. Harry, the true boy who lived, is slightly neglected, but only because of a misinterpreted prophecy not the fame going to his parents' heads, and the twins act like twins are supposed to... THEY DON'T HATE EACH OTHER!

Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs growing up through the eyes of an outsider.

Lily Evans and Leslie Miller were best friends. So were James Potter and Sirius Black. But with danger around every corner, and betrayal plaguing them every step of the way, what will they do to restore peace to their world? Rated R to be safe.

Every moment centres around something different. Not every moment fits with the next. Character sketches and drabbles of Lily and James, each is about something.

Voldemort decided one fateful night that Neville Longbottom was the infant whispered of in the prophecy. Unluckily for the wizarding world, Neville and his parents were killed, leaving Voldemort to continue his tyrannical reign over the wizarding world. The story is centred on two victims of his barbaric reign, Desdemona and Antenociticus Snape. Both of them left parentless by the hand of the Dark Lord. Struggling to find sense in this land of hypocrisy and war, they fumble nervously to care for themselves.

James, Sirius, Peter, and Remus make and complete their invention - the Marauder's Map.

Remus at James and Lily’s funeral. Angst. Not funny, not Christmassy. (SB/RL implied)