Title: In love and in lust
Author: apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: Mainly James, but also Lily and Harry
Word Count: 748
Rating: G - yes really, despite the title!
Prompt: For potterverse100, number 9 - Love. Prompt table here. Chronological list here.
Summary: As the tear that has formed in the corner of his eye slips over his cheek James considers what made this day possible.
Author's notes: I'm really trying to make these 100 stories link into one long one, but at the same time for each of them to stand alone totally unreliant on any other. The scene that is played out in this one isn't how I intended to treat it - I thought what plays out within might fill three or four stories. Maybe I'll write smaller snippets into individual ones later. Oh, and I haven't forgotten the serious implications of the time - that will come later, too.

( In love and in lust )

Title: Splendid synchronicity
Author: apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: Lily/James, Harry, Sirius
Word Count: 763
Rating: G
Prompt: For potterverse100, number 92 - Diagon Alley. Prompt table here. Chronological list here.
Summary: Harry is four weeks, three days, twelve hours and seventeen minutes old, and James and Sirius decide that Lily should go out to lunch.
Author's notes: For everyone I've owed comments to for the last few days - many apologies. The irony of the pause coming as I was congratulated on my diligence to answering comments has not passed me by!

( Splendid synchronicity )

Title: Congratulations and silly names
Author: apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: Lily and James
Word Count: 705
Rating: G
Prompt: For potterverse100, number 83 - fire. Prompt table here. Chronological list here.
Summary: Now they're used to Lily being pregnant, James and Lily have to think about telling others.

( Congratulations and silly names )

Title: Guessing games
Author: apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: James, Sirius, and Remus (most definitely separately)
Word Count: 927
Rating: G
Prompt: For potterverse100, number 85 - friendship (runs on from number 62 - nicknames). Prompt table here. Chronological list here.
Summary: After his and Lily's talk about the impending birth of their baby, James needs to get his worries off his chest. The trouble is that he's actually not very good at doing so.

( Guessing games )

Title: What's in a name?
Author: apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: Lily/James and soon to be born Harry
Word Count: 696
Rating: G
Prompt: For potterverse100, number 62 - nicknames. Prompt table here
Summary: The birth of the baby is drawing nearer. Alongside the excitement there are doubts forming in James's mind.

( What's in a name? )

Title: Am I stupid?
Author: apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: Lily/James and Harry
Word Count: 825
Rating: G
Prompt: For potterverse100, number 54 - food. Prompt table here
Summary: There are bound to be down days when there is a price on your head - aren't there?

( Am I stupid? )

Title: Red and gold
Author: apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: Lily/James and Harry (aged 15 months)
Word Count: 607
Rating: G
Prompt: For potterverse100, number 22 - house pride. Prompt table here
Summary: Shut away at Godric's Hollow the Potters take every chance for a bit of fun, or a reason to celebrate.
Author's Notes: Apologies about the absence of potterverse100 fics; it's been a busy few weeks. But here we are ...

( Red and gold )

Title: Hot, fat and ugly
Author: apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: pregnant!Lily/James and Sirius Black
Word Count: 726
Rating: G
Prompt: For potterverse100, number 28 - weather. Prompt table here
Summary: Living in London had seemed ideal until now, and right now to Lily it seemed impossible.

( Hot, fat and ugly )

Title: Every cloud has a silver lining
Author: apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: Lily, with James and Harry Potter
Word Count: 598
Rating: G
Prompt: For potterverse100, number 89 - drink. Prompt table here
Summary: Normal life being out of reach because of the Prophecy, James and Lily make the best of their time with Harry. Accidents, however, can happen.

( Every cloud has a silver lining )

Happy Birthday to the lovely nimerha, I hope you have the most wonderful day. You certainly deserve it, hon. *hugs hard*

So, in honour of your birthday this is for you! I hope you like it.

Title: By the light of the moon
Author: apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: Lily, with James and Harry Potter
Word Count: 460
Rating: G
Summary: At Godric's Hollow, Lily isn't sleeping. By the light of the moon, she thinks a little.
Author's Notes: nimerha gave me the wonderful artwork that is the background to this journal at Christmastime. I love the expression on Lily's face in this art, wistful, sad, thoughtful, and yet still quite determined. I don't think this very short story really does it justice. Please go and look at the original on my journal, rather than the smaller version contained within this post.
Prompt: This also works for prompt number 65, Full Moon, for potterverse100.

( Lily, the picture )

( By the light of the moon )

Title: We'll see
Author: apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: Lily/James
Word Count: 989
Rating: G
Summary: That feeling of being strange, she'd felt versions of it before. But never quite like this.
Author's Notes: Inspired by vanillacocktail - she'll know why! I hope you feel better now, hon.
ETA: As I'm allowed to use some previously written things for my challenge at potterverse100, I am going to make this the first of my one hundred stories about the Potter family from the time of Harry's conception - Prompt number 11: Future.

( We'll see )

Title: A small patterned box
Author: apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: James/Lily and Harry Potter
Word Count: 1,182
Rating: G
Summary: Prompted by her keepsakes Lily and James remember back to days gone by.
Author's Notes: Thank you to guesswork_ for the following suggestion in my plea for inspiration post: I've always thought about the content of postcards or letters or presents James might have sent Lily all those years he liked her. Like for Valentine's Days and Christmases. It feels to me like it's been a one-sided courtship for a while before she went out with him. What were her thoughts getting them?

I owe two birthday presents. One to xprincessbloomx (who had a birthday last month) and the other for tomorrow to vanillacocktail - Happy Birthday. I hope you both like this.

( A small patterned box )

Title: The Dark Prince
Author: apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: Sybill Trelawney
Word Count: 934
Rating: G
Summary: Sybill Trelawney is at the Hogs Head for an interview with Albus Dumbledore.
Author's Notes: Thank you to chocolate_limes for the following suggestion in my plea for inspiration post: Sybill: The set up for her giving the Prophecy, perhaps? I've always wanted to see someone write that scene. It was supposed to be a drabble. Whoops!!

( The Dark Prince )

Title: Love, Luck, Lust and Loss
Author: apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: Minerva McGonagall (aged 21), Tonio Vuela, Dora Concertare and a variety of other employees of the Italian Ministry of Magic
Word Count: 3,660
Rating: G
Summary: Back in Italy things are hotting up for Minerva and her colleagues. There is a hole to be plugged, hopefully before anything vital leaks one way or the other.
Author's Notes: A second story for millieweasley's history challenge **here**.

Part: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen.

Link to part fifteen

( Part Fourteen: Chapter Ten, Part I - Il mago inquinato )

Title: Promise?
Prompt: history repeats itself
Author: apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: Alice/Frank Longbottom
Word Count: 718
Rating: So very G(ish)
Summary: Alice doesn't like the thought of being termed famous
Author's Notes: Written as a second set of prompts taken from the lists over at 7spells This is the sixth of seven from my own personal challenge. My prompt table is here.

( Promise? )

Title: Don't think I don't know
Prompt: glass moon
Author: apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: Alice/Frank Longbottom
Word Count: 625
Rating: G
Summary: Frank and Alice take an evening away from the endless stream of work
Author's Notes: Written as a second set of prompts taken from the lists over at 7spells This is the third of seven from my own personal challenge. My prompt table is here.

( Don't think I don't know )

Title: An old fashioned business
Prompt: a broken circle
Author: apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: Alice Smythe and Frank Longbottom
Word Count: 659
Rating: G
Summary: They should have been so happy, if it hadn't have been for him.
Author's Notes: Written for my sixth Alice/Frank prompt at the 7spells fanfiction challenge. My prompt table is here.

I've never written Alice or Frank before, so this will be a series of seven short pieces each between 500 and 750 words.

( An old fashioned business )