It wasn't so much that he loved her, or that he grew up. It was that he was. And that he became. And that he grew. Well, she did too, in the end.

It's all about unintended consequences and healing a broken girl. Or breaking a healing girl. And discovering if the legends were right about Pandora's Box.

Her name was Mrs. Figg, not just Arabella. And she kept cats to chase away the empty shadows that mocked her for her loss.

Even the sunniest of afternoon lakeside conversations carry the shadows of foresight. Perhaps because the sun illuminates the weeds already taking root... Particular moments, sisters in italics, radical ideologies and the second wave of feminism.

Roman legend, mythical creatures, a not-quite-whirlwind romance, and how one Remus Lupin became friends with one James Potter. An unorthodox story about how Remus Lupin became acquainted with lycanthropy, and how he gained his family as a result.

James Potter. Lily Evans. Sirius Black. Bellatrix Black. Remus Lupin. They all, and the pieces that brought them together, had to start somewhere. Let's try the beginning. Prequel/companion piece to The Dream, CAN BE READ ALONE.

A canon story, with how Remus came to be so alone, what brought James and Lily together, what pushed the headstrong Black over the edge, why we never heard from Lily's friends, and what a not-quite-other-character had to do with it all. Side of JPxLE.

ON HIATUS. Lily Evans never HATED the Marauders, she merely didn't like them. But when Voldemort takes an interest in the muggleborn Head Girl, James is the first to help her. When circumstances change, how will Lily adjust to this side of James Potter?