Common Colds

Okay, here we go - the first of my holiday Harry Potter fics. I'll do a master post at the end of the month, as really, it's part of an anthology.


Title: Common Colds

Author: author_by_night

Rating: PG-13

Summary: Rejected by her sister and abandoned by her friend, Lily finds herself alone Christmas Eve. She is joined by a classmate with whom she rarely interacts (unless he's offended her), and realizes he, too, has nowhere to go.

Characters: Lily Evans, Sirius Black

Ships: Established future Lily/James

Notes: I've taken some liberties with canon; her timeline for a certain event might be different from mine, but I felt mine worked best for the purposes of this fanfic.

I would like to thank my beta readers, aggiebell90 andvix_spes for their help.

( Common Colds )

As always, constructive criticism is welcome.

You know how you feel when you find your diary from sixth grade and flip through it?

Reading your old writing has the exact same effect.