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Hermione Granger (trustingnature) wrote in beyondthepages,
@ 2010-03-31 01:50:00

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!complete, 2023 08, ariana silver, neville longbottom

RP: Last Minute Preparations
Characters: Neville, Ariana
Time/Date: Afternoon, August 31
Location: Greenhouse
Warnings/Rating: PGish for innuendo etc
Summary: Neville is making some last minute preparations in the greenhouse, and makes plans for a fake!date
Status: Closed, completed

The was a small part of him that knew that he had spent way too much time in these greenhouses this week. Heck, this month. Or really, who was he kidding, this year but there was another part of him that was really devoted to plants, and really wanted to make the year great for his students. Herbology usually wasn't the first subject people thought of when they picked a favourite, and while he was okay with that, he wasn't okay with it being a student's least favourite subject. He enjoyed it, and he wanted to give the new students (and the returning students, for that matter) every chance to love it too. Which is why he was still there, even on the last day before classes started, finishing up some final details.

He was dedicated. What could he say?

Even still, it wasn't like it required much of his thought to finish pruning and watering, and fixing things here or there, and his mind started to wandered to the returning dead. He'd been informed, of course, of those who'd be returning to classes again and he felt vague butterfly-esque sensations that he'd be teaching James Potter, Sirius Black, and - for that matter - Remus Lupin. Not only was it one of the strangest occurances of his life, it was also incredibly intimidating.

(Not to mention unfair. James Po- James Sirius Potter had just graduated. Clearly, the universe was playing some sort of cosmic joke on them. But he supposed that was neither here nor there)

Neville did wonder if that was the reason he had gone over his course outline for the week for the 14th time that morning, but he quickly brushed that aside. If he didn't focus too much on his worries and insecurities, he could usually make them go away. Drawing his attention back to the plants, he continued his sixth sweep of the greenhouse.

Everything had to be perfect.

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teases_muggles
2010-04-04 07:55 am UTC (link)

Ari did smile at his reaction. Utterly adorable. She wondered sometimes if a big part of the attraction to him was based heavily in the assumption he wouldn't cheat on her. He wouldn't screw her over. He was a genuinely nice guy, and she felt he was safe. If she ever did stop fluttering around the issue and ask him on a real date ... maybe she'd see if there was anything there.

If not ... then she'd simply spent the past few years pining after someone who didn't reciprocate her interest. Nothing lost, really. She did think about pushing a little, teasing to get confirmation whether that was a yes or no on snogging ... but she thought she'd leave it alone for now.

"So then, I'll leave you to your own devices, and see you next weekend."

Well, throughout the week as well, but ... definite that weekend.

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trustingnature
2010-04-04 08:11 am UTC (link)

"Right," Neville said with a grin. "We'll deal with the little hell-raisers, and mourn the fact that just when we thought we had seen the last of James Potter we were graced with another one, get all of our lesson plans completely worked over because the foreign students are further ahead than ours and thus need different plans because they're answering all the questions and then... I can learn how to date?"

He laughed, outright, at the ridiculousness of it when he put it like that. But his eyes were shining, and he was definitely looking forward to it.

"Right, so, next weekend," he said, with a small half salute as though he were tipping an invisible hat. She had spoken as though she were leaving, after all. It was only right to let her go on her way, even if he was enjoying himself with some human interaction at the moment.

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teases_muggles
2010-04-04 08:16 am UTC (link)

"Sounds like you've got quite the schedule lined up," she replied with a soft laugh. "Goodnight then, Neville," she offered to him before she turned to retreat.

So, all right, that hadn't gone any way she'd had planned, but she was a little intrigued to see how their fake date went. She couldn't imagine he'd be interested in pursuing it past fake date level, but she could pretend with the best of them, and it would give her some nice memories.

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