A Thousand Innocents

People always talk about how sweet and gentle Lily Evans Potter was. Lily was not either of those things. Lily was fierce and vicious and vindictive and she was prepared to do whatever it took for her loved ones to survive.

OR: an exploration of what the friendship between Lily and Severus could have been, had Lily decided to let her inner-Slytherin out to play a few years earlier (because let's face it- it takes a hell of a lot of cunning and scheming to outwit a Dark Lord and she f-ing did it)