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sportivetricksTitle: Blooms Everywhere
Pairing: Neville Longbottom/Lily Luna Potter
Rating: Mature
Word count: ~460
Summary: Professor Longbottom gives Lily a brief Herbology lesson.
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adventdrabbles, Dec07prompt.
On the next-to-last Herbology class before the holiday break, Lily paid most careful attention to her tasks. When she got a 'good job, Lily' from Neville, she felt it like a physical caress.
She lingered after class under the pretension of helping him tidy up, still buzzing from his praise. Under her work robes, the whisper of her red chemise worked her nipples into hard peaks.
"It's not that I don't like plants, Professor," she said a little sheepishly, gathering shears in a bucket. "It's just that Potions are... quicker."
Neville swept the class's mess of pruned leaves into a pile with his wand. "I struggled with that," he admitted. "One second of bad timing, and..."
"Catastrophe," Lily finished for him, her eyes gleaming. She liked that rush, that bit of danger.
Neville chuckled. "Exactly." He gathered the leaves into a burlap bag and tied the strings in a knot with a deft swish that made Lily imagine being roped to his bed. Then he paced towards a table near his office, hands stuffed in his pockets.
Lily followed.
He put the table between them and gave her a long, unreadable look. "I like taking my time with things," he said.
Her heartbeat skyrocketed. Was the double meaning just her imagination?
"This, for example," he said, pointing to a large pot beside a few poinsettias. Another of his experiments, she supposed. The pot contained a single twig, gnarled and grey, and looked quite sad next to the showy red foliage of its neighbors. "It doesn't look like much right now, but the roots fill the whole pot. Wine-red roots."
She wondered if he was wearing the red jumper under his robes.
"There's plenty of time of play around," he went on. "Try a little of this. A little of that. Find out what it needs. What it likes." He ran one finger up the side of the twig, and it shivered slightly.
Lily felt an answering clench between her legs.
"And you keep on, day after day, month after month. And then, out of nowhere, it's putting off shoots." Neville had a faraway gleam in his eyes, though he stared straight into hers. "The shoots start to bud. Wet, sticky little pink buds. Very delicate."
Lily licked her lips.
"So hard not to touch them," he continued. "But you wait. You've done all you can, and you wait. And then... suddenly... they explode." Neville gave her a heavy-lidded smile, quite unlike any she'd ever seen on his face. "Blooms everywhere."
Her breath came hot and quick, her knickers soaked.
"Instant gratification isn't everything," Neville said. Then, shifting back into Professor-voice and busying himself once again with his tidying, he added, "Not to worry, that won't be on the NEWTs."
Pairing: Neville Longbottom/Lily Luna Potter
Rating: Mature
Word count: ~460
Summary: Professor Longbottom gives Lily a brief Herbology lesson.
Written for
adventdrabbles, Dec07prompt.On the next-to-last Herbology class before the holiday break, Lily paid most careful attention to her tasks. When she got a 'good job, Lily' from Neville, she felt it like a physical caress.
She lingered after class under the pretension of helping him tidy up, still buzzing from his praise. Under her work robes, the whisper of her red chemise worked her nipples into hard peaks.
"It's not that I don't like plants, Professor," she said a little sheepishly, gathering shears in a bucket. "It's just that Potions are... quicker."
Neville swept the class's mess of pruned leaves into a pile with his wand. "I struggled with that," he admitted. "One second of bad timing, and..."
"Catastrophe," Lily finished for him, her eyes gleaming. She liked that rush, that bit of danger.
Neville chuckled. "Exactly." He gathered the leaves into a burlap bag and tied the strings in a knot with a deft swish that made Lily imagine being roped to his bed. Then he paced towards a table near his office, hands stuffed in his pockets.
Lily followed.
He put the table between them and gave her a long, unreadable look. "I like taking my time with things," he said.
Her heartbeat skyrocketed. Was the double meaning just her imagination?
"This, for example," he said, pointing to a large pot beside a few poinsettias. Another of his experiments, she supposed. The pot contained a single twig, gnarled and grey, and looked quite sad next to the showy red foliage of its neighbors. "It doesn't look like much right now, but the roots fill the whole pot. Wine-red roots."
She wondered if he was wearing the red jumper under his robes.
"There's plenty of time of play around," he went on. "Try a little of this. A little of that. Find out what it needs. What it likes." He ran one finger up the side of the twig, and it shivered slightly.
Lily felt an answering clench between her legs.
"And you keep on, day after day, month after month. And then, out of nowhere, it's putting off shoots." Neville had a faraway gleam in his eyes, though he stared straight into hers. "The shoots start to bud. Wet, sticky little pink buds. Very delicate."
Lily licked her lips.
"So hard not to touch them," he continued. "But you wait. You've done all you can, and you wait. And then... suddenly... they explode." Neville gave her a heavy-lidded smile, quite unlike any she'd ever seen on his face. "Blooms everywhere."
Her breath came hot and quick, her knickers soaked.
"Instant gratification isn't everything," Neville said. Then, shifting back into Professor-voice and busying himself once again with his tidying, he added, "Not to worry, that won't be on the NEWTs."
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Date: 2019-12-07 04:52 pm (UTC)Lovely fantasies that Lily conjures up and now Neville's getting in on the act. Not so unwilling huh, just waiting from the right moment.
Instant gratification isn't everything Could be the tag line for this series. lol.
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Date: 2019-12-07 07:51 pm (UTC)Sorry? ;)
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Date: 2019-12-09 12:13 pm (UTC)Your comments give me life! <3