Seasons' Greetings 2011 ♥ Stocking-Fillers

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Main posting for the fest is over, but we'd like to encourage some Lily/James-themed holiday spirit while we've still got a few days more to Christmas proper. Thus, we present:

☃ STOCKING FILLERS ☃

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Let Nothing You Dismay, by firstbreaths [Fic, PG13+] (1/?)

[firstbreaths]

Title: Let Nothing You Dismay
Author/Artist/Creator: firstbreaths
Rating: PG13+
Warnings: mild language
Prompt: Lily and James go holiday gift shopping for their friends (and maybe for each other) in Hogsmeade. by missgoalie75
Wordcount (if applicable) ~1800 words

missgoalie75, this sort of deviated from the original prompt just a little, but I know how much you like Lily + Marauder friendships, so. Hope you enjoy. <3 Posted in parts due to character limits

Re: Let Nothing You Dismay, by firstbreaths [Fic, PG13+] (2/?)

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“I’m not going to help you sneak past the patrols just because you helped me,” Lily said haughtily, fingers clutching tighter at her bag straps to stop them from shaking. Revealing her feelings for James at what was supposed to be one of the most romantic times of the year was one thing, but it didn’t mean anyone actually needed to know that she was in love with the boy she’d once called Pillock Potter. “And before you say ‘I don’t need your help’, I hear you and Peter got caught by the Ravenclaw prefects for being out of bed after curfew, just last week.”

“Might have wanted to get caught, ever think about that?” Sirius asked, jutting his hip out defiantly and smirking at her. “I’ve got a reputation to uphold, and I can’t do that if all our best exploits are a secret

Re: Let Nothing You Dismay, by firstbreaths [Fic, PG13+] (3/?)

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Sirius seemed to ignore it this time, although she didn’t quite trust his slight smile. His gaze flickered around the shop as he said, “Seems a bitter shame, really, to buy presents that are going to be all but gone by New Year. I assume you’re buying for Remus?”

Lily nodded a little too wildly, thankful for the easy cover story. She did actually need to pick something for Remus, anyway. “I ought to introduce him to my sister. She might actually believe in magic if she saw how much chocolate he could eat without getting a single pimple, the git.”

Sirius just cocked an eyebrow in response. “Do not tell him I told you this, but he’s been conducting secret skincare deals with Gilderoy Lockhart. Remus gets to look like Witch Weekly heartthrob material, and that barmy iidiot gets to look like he can actually tell a Flobberworm from a piece of macaroni

Re: Let Nothing You Dismay, by firstbreaths [Fic, PG13+] (4/?)

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“So, uh, Remus?” Lily asks, turning back to the tower behind her and running a thumb over one of the boxes as Sirius comes to stand at her shoulder. “I’m rubbish at gift buying; what do you suggest?”

She could always order something for James by mail, if it came to it - and then she’d have time to think of a not too saccharine but appropriate seasonal way of writing I love you, please snog my brains out.“Like I said, I’m not much for presents myself, Lily,” and she smiled a little despite herself at the use of her first name. She’d always known what a high regard James Potter held his friends’ opinions in, and maybe, just maybe

Re: Let Nothing You Dismay, by firstbreaths [Fic, PG13+] (5/5)

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“Better you than me,” Lily said finally, sighing, “I’m fairly sure I’ll be lucky if I get a bottle of body wash from my sister, like she thinks I can actually scrub the magic off my skin.”

“Better than the lump of coal I’ll be getting,” Sirius replied, just shrugging when she looked over her shoulder long enough to catch a glimpse of the way his mouth turned upwards just a little too quickly for the smile to be real. “What? All those Muggle stories about how the naughty children get coal in their stockings instead of presents. If I’m going to be scorched from the family tree like one of Baggins’ potions going up again, I might as well have learnt something from it.”

Oh.“I’m sorry,” Lily said, shifting a little awkwardly from foot to foot as she turned around to face him. “I feel so awful now, complaining about Petunia, when