Tuesday, June 13th, 2006

Title: Hands, knees and bumpsadaisy
Author: [info]apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: James/Lily, Harry, Sirius Black
Word Count: 694
Rating: PG-not much (For slightly smutty inferences)
Prompt: For [info]potterverse100, number 20 - animagus. Prompt table here. Chronological list here.
Summary: When there is a knock on the door Harry is delighted to see their visitor
Author's notes: For [info]chocolate_limes who is not only snowed under with revision, but also made me do it.

Hands, knees and bumpsadaisy )
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Sunday, June 11th, 2006

Title: Poor Dorcas
Author: [info]apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: James, Harry, Sirius Black
Word Count: 946
Rating: PG (I think the mention of character death would come there)
Prompt: For [info]potterverse100, number 23 - wands. Prompt table here. Chronological list here.
Summary: It's a normal afternoon in the Potter household until James hears a familiar, and unwelcome, sound.
Author's notes: I apologise if the unvoiced question towards the end is frustrating. All will become clear in the next story chronologically (whenever that appears).

Poor Dorcas )
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Tuesday, June 6th, 2006

Title: In love and in lust
Author: [info]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 [info]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 )
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Monday, June 5th, 2006

Title: Splendid synchronicity
Author: [info]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 [info]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 )
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Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Chronological story order

Because the prompt table doesn't follow a logical order chronologically, I decided to make a list of all my [info]potterverse100 stories in exactly that order. And because one day there will (hopefully) be exactly one hundred of them, I've hidden the chronological list behind a cut! )
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Sunday, May 28th, 2006

Title: Am I stupid?
Author: [info]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 [info]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? )
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Friday, May 26th, 2006

Title: Red and gold
Author: [info]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 [info]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 [info]potterverse100 fics; it's been a busy few weeks. But here we are ...

Red and gold )
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Thursday, May 4th, 2006

Title: Every cloud has a silver lining
Author: [info]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 [info]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 )
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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

I believe it's midnight in the Czech Republic - yay!

Happy Birthday to the lovely [info]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: [info]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: [info]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 [info]potterverse100.

Lily, the picture )

By the light of the moon )
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Saturday, April 29th, 2006

Crazy perhaps?

I think I've finally lost it! It's true, I am more than slightly crazy.

The second of two challenges I've signed up for! [info]potterverse100 is a 100 story claims community, where the stories are drabbles or short fics. I've claimed the Potter family (having been one comment too late for James/Lily), but can include Harry from conception! Yay!!

My prompt table, just in case you'd like to see )
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Friday, April 28th, 2006

Title: We'll see
Author: [info]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 [info]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 [info]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 )
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Monday, April 24th, 2006

Title: A small patterned box
Author: [info]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 [info]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 [info]xprincessbloomx (who had a birthday last month) and the other for tomorrow to [info]vanillacocktail - Happy Birthday. I hope you both like this.

A small patterned box )
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Sunday, February 26th, 2006

Title: Above the thunder
Prompt: above the thunder
Author: [info]apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Rubeus Hagrid, Peter Pettigrew, Petunia/Vernon Dursley, and of course the boy who lived - Harry Potter
Word Count: 1,225
Rating: G
Summary: Voldemort has found Lily and James, their friends are left to the aftermath
Author's Notes: Written for my seventh James/Lily prompt at the [info]7spells fanfiction challenge. My prompt table is here.

Above the thunder )
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Title: The white birds
Prompt: the white birds
Author: [info]apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: Lily/James and Harry Potter with Dumbledore and Sirius Black
Word Count: 1,222
Rating: G
Summary: The troubled times have finally got to James and Lily. However positive you are there are times when it can be hard to keep going.
Author's Notes: Written for my sixth James/Lily prompt at the [info]7spells fanfiction challenge. My prompt table is here.

The white birds )
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Saturday, February 25th, 2006

Title: Sleepwalk
Prompt: sleepwalk
Author: [info]apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: Lily/James and Harry Potter with Dorcas Meadows too
Word Count: 1,250
Rating: G
Summary: Dumbledore has finally given James a mission. What he was being asked to do didn't feature very highly on his list of priorities however.
Author's Notes: Written for my fifth James/Lily prompt at the [info]7spells fanfiction challenge. My prompt table is here. In true oscars style I have to say I couldn't have done it without the help and encouragement from [info]chocolate_limes.

Sleepwalk )
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Thursday, February 9th, 2006

For Kodjaz and Co

Title: Go on, mate
Author: [info]apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: Ron Weasley, Harry/Ginny Potter, various members of the Cannons and their supporters
Word Count: 3,772
Rating: G (unless images of sportsman stripping off turn you into an NC-17 wobbly blob)
Summary: After the war was over, Ron found himself playing Quidditch for the Cannons
Author's Notes: On Tuesday this week [info]kodjaz, [info]manynames and myself were lucky enough to attend the ladies' night of the Cardiff Devils Ice Hockey team. [info]kodjaz and [info]manynames (who'd not been drinking - no of course not) suggested I might write something for Ron! Thanks to [info]manynames and [info]chocolate_limes for help with finding names, etc

Go on, mate )
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Saturday, December 24th, 2005

Christmas Fic!

Title: A Little Bit of Inspiration
Author: [info]apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: James, Lily and Harry Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and someone else quite important
Word Count: 3,894
Rating: PG-13 (I think)
Beta: [info]manynames who oversaw my writing at a moment's notice, thank you! Also thank you for the menu advice and Swedish customs from [info]millieweasley
Summary: It's James and Lily's first Christmas since being parents. The Christmas they'd expected is cruelly taken from them when James's parents succumb to a virus, Lily's parents had already died just before Harry was born.
Author's Notes: To grant Christmas wishes that I saw on two wishlists. If this also grants yours then please consider it as your gift too. So for my friend who wishes for James and Lily with a dose of baby Harry (but not too much angst - and I hope it doesn't have) and for my friend who asked for people to go out and grant other's wishes, here is a Christmas fic.

About two weeks ago [info]millieweasley and I were talking about customs in our own countries and Jessica told me about the Swedish custom of leaving a bowl of rice porridge outside the door on Christmas eve night in thanks to your 'house elf' and in the hope that he will take good care of you over the coming year. From there the idea of a Swedish Christmas meal was born.

A Little Bit of Inspiration )
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2005

Mind Your Own Business, Boy

Title: Mind Your Own Business, Boy
Author: [info]apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: Harry Potter (aged eight), the Dursleys with mentions of Arrabella Figg and her friend Audrey Bessemer
Word Count: 1,424
Rating: G
Beta: [info]manynames
Summary: Harry has displayed some worrying behaviour at school. His teacher wishes to raise it with Petunia Dursley
Author's Notes: A third young Harry story to go with It Really Wasn't my Fault and Under the Stairs. This one should really be the first in the trilogy with the other two following on in the order they appeared.

Mind Your Own Business, Boy )
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Sunday, November 13th, 2005

Under the Stairs

Title: Under the Stairs
Author: [info]apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: Harry Potter (aged about ten) with mentions of the Dursleys
Word Count: 1,439
Rating: G
Beta: [info]manynames
Summary: Harry has lived under the Dursley's staircase for a long time now. He doesn't mind it quite as much as they think he does.
Author's Notes: [info]nerdraeg suggested not writing Harry's dreams for another young Harry story. I hope memories don't reduce you to a gooey mess, Maddie! Acts as a companion piece to It Really Wasn't my Fault

Under the Stairs )
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Friday, November 11th, 2005

It Really Wasn't my Fault

Title: It Really Wasn't my Fault
Author: [info]apostrophe_ess
Disclaimer: Everything belongs to JKR, I merely gain from playing these games in her playground.
Pairing/Character: Harry Potter (aged about 9 or 10) with mentions of Dudley, Vernon and Petunia Dursley
Word Count: 1,041
Rating: G
Summary: Having found Harry on the canteen roof something has to be done about it.
Beta: [info]manynames
Author's Notes: The first part of this was sitting, forgotten, on my hard-drive. I found it earlier today and decided it should be finished.

It Really Wasn't my Fault )
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