James and Lily Headcanons

• ‘i dont even like you’ james tells lily, lying, when theyre both cast as leads
  

• james’ only reference to any musical being high school musical and its only then when he realises they never even PERFORMED THE PLAY it was JUST THE CALL BACK and lily tells him to SHUT UP because HES YELLING and also EVERYONE ALREADY KNEW THAT 
  

• lily joined cause music + acting = Her Shit and also slughorn is the director and he insisted on having her audition 
  

• lilys always loosing her script and then taking james’ and trying to make him think hes the one whose lost his lines
  

• sirius heckles every rehersal
  

• remus is on lighting and james tries to bribe him to make it go dark whenever lily speaks but lily hears him and tips her coffee down his front 
  

• in rehersals during the bit where theyre meant to kiss james kisses his hand and lily just squints at him bc the fuck was that rlly necesseary he could have just kissed nothing what a weirdo
  

• james being A Smug Shite whenver he sings bc he knows hes good and lily is so sick of his talent she could physically die 
  

• except like. annoyingly they have the same taste in music so when theyre in their dressing rooms she’ll bang on their shared wall and tell him to turn up Melodrama or smth and he’ll smile a little
  

• at one point sirius paints a fake tree yellow just for The Drama Of It All and slughorn is Next Level Pissed and lily and james cant stop laughing
  

• james: ‘wheres the coffee’ *lily, having drunk the entire pot out of spite earlier that morning bc james said she looked like a falmingo in her pink legwarmers, shaking slightly,: SAY WHAT BITCH
  

• lily keeps improvising funny lines and james trying not to laugh each time

• they move out of the rough rehersal stage and everyone knows their lines now and shit is getting real and sirius has been thrown off the props team 7 times but somehow keeps getting back on it 

• lily still doesnt like him but like damn. boy is funny. boy can sing. boy looks like that and can do 5 cartwheels in a row. 

•  they do arm wrestling and james never lets her win but lily always cheats anyway 

• he writes his english essays and shes all ‘youve spelt ‘produce’ wrong how can u even do that’ and ‘stop calling hamlet great ok he did the dirty on opehlia and im sick of pretending like im okay with it’ 

• james sitting in the directors chair despite a) not being the director and b) required to be on stage for a scene at the time 
  

• her car doesnt start and theyre standing in the theatre parking lot, everyone else at home, and he wont leave unless she does and she wont leave her car overnight so they sit on her bonnet and talk about hamlet and high school musical and how theyre similar 

• lily says i cant hit the high note and james, without thinking says yes you can. youre excellent and everyone is staring at him and he goes bright red

• the bit where theyre supposed to kiss only this time theyre v close to each other and its lily can feel his breath on her face. see her reflection in his glasses. she looks winded. she feels like it. 

• once he walks out in her costume on stage and she laughs so hard she falls into sirius’ yellow tree which he keeps putting up 

• lily skulling coffee and then doing her solo and going off stage while slughorn wipes away tears 
  

• theyre in dress rehersals now and its all happening and even when james is looking at someone else hes really looking at her 

• opening night and james is so nervous and in the minute before the curtain goes up she just. grabs his wrist. and suddenly he is a flood of calm 

• sirius holding up a sign when it gets to the kiss that says ‘NOW FUCK’ 

• there is 11 shows and by show 7 james and lily are honest to god having contests to see who can skull the most mountain dew and then do their solo and slughorn is In Dispair 

• the show is still fucking excellent tho

• closing night and lilys walking to her car only now shes never going to have another reason to kiss him again and that just. is a huge fucking problem actually 

• james being literally shoved up againist the bathroom wall about five minutes later after lily has tracked him down and hes liked her all this time and now shes kissing him for no apparent reason and goddamn hes so lucky 

‘marble hearts collide’

#58 “I was going to kiss him, but then my friend texted me about going to Taco Bell, and, well, there’s this cashier that works there who is way cuter, so I bailed on the rest of the date.”

Thank you Grace! I chose this one because I had an idea for it as soon as I read it and so… that’s what this is <3 I might make this a thing ?? like a series

modern + muggle au

“I was going to kiss him, but then Gemma texted me about going to Taco Bell, and, well, there’s this cashier that works there who is way cuter, so I bailed on the rest of the date.” Lily’s telling him this, aware that she sounds loopy, and she can’t help the blush on her cheeks but she’s also had a few glasses of wine, a few really meaning five, and really, it needs to be said. “So, anyway, I’m standing in front of this cashier guy and he really, really is cute. Like, textbook, chick flick, cute. Probably has a good shot at a career on Instagram. And he asks me what I want. And you know what I don’t want?” She pauses, doesn’t give him time to answer, takes another sip of the drink in her hand, drink meaning gin and tonic, and continues, “Him! I don’t want him! So, now I’ve bailed on my date to ask another guy out on a date and I go to ask this guy and I realise I don’t want to go on a date with him! He has to use a calculator to work out my change. I only paid with a fiver!” She throws her hands up and almost sends her glass flying and Sirius takes that as his cue to intervene. 

“Hey, Evans,” he says, stilling her hand, “breathing is a vital part of staying alive.”

She looks at him with wide eyes, wide eyes meaning eyes that can’t focus on one thing. “I’m breathing.”

“Good to know.” He slips her legs off his lap and stands, cracking his neck, before snatching her glass from her hand. He downs it before she can protest and just grins at her pout. “Everything in moderation.”

“Including sobriety.” Surprisingly, drink never seems to hinder Lily’s vocabulary. It just makes her sound like a character out of an American coming-of-age film. 

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‘marble hearts collide’

#58 “I was going to kiss him, but then my friend texted me about going to Taco Bell, and, well, there’s this cashier that works there who is way cuter, so I bailed on the rest of the date.”

Thank you Grace! I chose this one because I had an idea for it as soon as I read it and so… that’s what this is <3 I might make this a thing ?? like a series

modern + muggle au

“I was going to kiss him, but then Gemma texted me about going to Taco Bell, and, well, there’s this cashier that works there who is way cuter, so I bailed on the rest of the date.” Lily’s telling him this, aware that she sounds loopy, and she can’t help the blush on her cheeks but she’s also had a few glasses of wine, a few really meaning five, and really, it needs to be said. “So, anyway, I’m standing in front of this cashier guy and he really, really is cute. Like, textbook, chick flick, cute. Probably has a good shot at a career on Instagram. And he asks me what I want. And you know what I don’t want?” She pauses, doesn’t give him time to answer, takes another sip of the drink in her hand, drink meaning gin and tonic, and continues, “Him! I don’t want him! So, now I’ve bailed on my date to ask another guy out on a date and I go to ask this guy and I realise I don’t want to go on a date with him! He has to use a calculator to work out my change. I only paid with a fiver!” She throws her hands up and almost sends her glass flying and Sirius takes that as his cue to intervene. 

“Hey, Evans,” he says, stilling her hand, “breathing is a vital part of staying alive.”

She looks at him with wide eyes, wide eyes meaning eyes that can’t focus on one thing. “I’m breathing.”

“Good to know.” He slips her legs off his lap and stands, cracking his neck, before snatching her glass from her hand. He downs it before she can protest and just grins at her pout. “Everything in moderation.”

“Including sobriety.” Surprisingly, drink never seems to hinder Lily’s vocabulary. It just makes her sound like a character out of an American coming-of-age film. 

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The first time James kisses Lily is coincidentally the first time they hug as well. She’s pressed against him, tears soaking into his robes and a letter from Petunia crumpled in her fist. Her head sits just below his chin and it just seems natural to tilt his head and place a kiss to the top of her head. He swears that between sobs she doesn’t even notice (she does).

The first time Lily kisses James is so quick, and natural, that sometimes he isn’t sure it even happened. She had left her scarf in charms, and he chased her all the way to potions to give it back. He caught her just before she entered the classroom, and all it took was a simple ‘thanks’ and a peck on his cheek to leave James standing in the dungeons for 20 minutes after Lily had disappeared into Slughorn’s class. He got detention for being late to muggle studies (so worth it).

The first time Lily and James kiss each other it’s sweet, romantic and everything they’d both been thinking about (it was also awkward with knocking of teeth, lots of apologies, and Lily’s hair got tangled in James’ glasses). What began as two friends drinking butterbeer in Hogsmeade ended with hands clasped under tables and the sharing of scarves (and Sirius’ fake gagging in the background). It was the beginning of a lot of kisses. Kisses in the dark, kisses between classes, forehead kisses, joking kisses, kisses through tears, kisses through laughter.

The last time Lily and James kiss they don’t realise it’s the last. It’s a quiet moment, Harry is asleep in James’ arms and Lily pulls them both close. A gentle kiss on Harry’s forehead and another on James’ lips. Maybe it wasn’t the most romantic, or the most dramatic, but it may have been their most important kiss. A kiss that James remembered when he stood, wandless, in front of a man who wanted to kill his family. A kiss that Lily remembered when her hands were shaking and her legs were weak as she ran, Harry pressed tight against her. The last kiss shared between the three reluctant heroes of the wizarding world.

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