melonknee

[melonknee]

to all the lions i've loved before

naboo. @ tda 

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Lily Evans love letters are her most secret prized possessions. She writes love letters when she has a crush so intense there's nothing else she can do. The four letters in total are Frank Longbottom the head boy from her first year, Remus Lupin her third year study buddy, Marlene McKinnon long time best friend, and the newest one. James Potter. When her letters somehow get out, after James has settled on a new girlfriend, the only person she can turn to for help is Marlene and her own letter. 

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So a good friend of mine from my roleplay circle was on the hunt for some good WLW marauders content and kinda complained about how the options were so slim. Which turned to me offering to write her something up, which spiraled out of control into be becoming obsessed with a Lily/Marlene To All The Boys I've Loved Before AU. Kind of an odd choice, since I don't think I've ever seen any Lily/Marlene content, but I was taken with it. I have a lot of tropes as inspired by the movie, fake dating is a given, and way too many cheesy nicknames but I think that's on par for the group of people who went by Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, & Prongs.
 

Top Billing:

Lily Evans: (17) Writing love letters to never be sent, content to let life pass her by
Marlene McKinnon: (18) Refuses to let Lily live life in peace at the very least
James Potter: (17) Just got over Lily Evans, generally confused

Supporting Cast:

Remus Lupin: (17) Still laughing at the idea of Lily thinking he was straight
Sirius Black: (18) Waiting for Marlene to come crawling back, not nearly the womanizer everyone makes him out to be
Dorcas Meadowes: (17) Suspicious of her roommates
Peter Pettigrew: (17) Just happy to be here

Extras: 

Madem Rosemerta: (21) James' new girlfriend, holding down a waitressing job at The Three Broomsticks
Frank Longbottom: (24) An auror. One of the recipients of Lily's earliest letter's, drafted when he was head boy her first year of Hogwarts
Alice Longbottom: (24) Also an auror. Frank's wife.

 

Lily wrote 4 letters to Frank, Remus, Marlene, and most recently James. These letters have gotten out, leaving her mortified having to face her seventh year cleaning up the mess of her long (thought to be) resolved feelings. Remus finds it amusing, Marlene is surprised, but not more than James. Who knows what Frank is thinking on the other side of the country, and caught up in the middle of a war. Since James has moved on, and Sirius and Marlene are in the middle of yet another falling out, the two girls strike a deal to solve both their problems. The only thing is Lily can't shake the thoughts that have been in her head since the day she wrote Marlene her letter. 

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