from-james-to-lily:

i need a jily AU where james and lily are both first year graduate students

• james is a math major
• lily is a chemistry major
• lily is taking her midterm in class for her physical chemistry class
• it’s quite possibly the hardest class she’s ever taken
• why is there so much math
• why
• because of the exam, classrooms and times are rearranged and the typical statistical physics class that meets here was canceled
• but james, not reading the emails, saunters in twenty minutes late
• what an idiot lily thinks as she hears somebody walk in
• he doesn’t even realize he’s in the wrong class
• oh there’s a midterm? hm, i could’ve sworn it was next week
• the teaching assistant just smirks, hands him the 26-page exam packet
• james finds an empty seat and realizes he forgets a pencil
• he taps the redhead sitting next to him for a pencil
• lily looks up
• kill me he’s cute
• why are all the stupid ones cute
• she all but throws an old green pencil at him
• she goes back to problem three, confused out of her mind
• maybe i’ll just take up baking i could make a living off baking ugh why didn’t i study harder what does this symbol even mean again
• she doesn’t even notice he’s flipping through the pages, scribbling some answers and derivations
• an hour into the exam, he sits up and turns in the test and leaves
• does he just not care

  lily screams in her head how did he even get into this university

• finally, after the eighty minutes were up, she turns in her exam with utter defeat
• a week later, her professor announces the top score, a 96%, beating the rest of the class by solid 20% margin
• how on earth does anyone get 96% on that exam, it was impossible!
• her professor continues: “to a mr. james potter”
• the class of fifty looks around: who the heck is james potter
• after a moment of confusion and nobody claiming the test
• lily turns red
• that was him
• halfway across campus, james potter walks into his organic chemistry elective course with an old green pencil behind his ear
• man i hate organic chemistry