Neville's Secret Garden

...I love you....

Neville jumped slightly when someone was all of a sudden right next to him. Gosh. She gave him a fright. He smiled when he realized it was Audrey. "Hi." He said happily. "How have you been?"

Hehehehe Ted insisted.

Audrey smiled, "I've been great, you?" She leaned over and gave him a kiss on the cheek as she peered down at what he was doing, "Weeding?"

"I've been doing good." he said and smiled and then blushed when he felt her lips on his cheek. "Yup. I haven't done it in a while so there are quite a few." he said nodding. "Even though.....there are like 3 in total."

Audrey giggled and looked around the garden, "Well it's nice to see some parts of the castle aren't completely snowy."

Neville smiled and nodded. "Yeah, It's nice to come to my garden with my little bubble without snow." he said standing up and brushing his hands together to get the dirt off of them.

Audrey stood up next to him and went over to sit on the swing. "So what have you been up to?"

Neville went and joined her on the swing. "Nothing much, My best friend, Hannah." He said lifting his feet up slightly so they could start swinging. "Well she just came back to school after being sick and I saw her the other day." he said and looked over at her and smiled. "She said she wants to meet you."

Audrey smiled and was not the jealous bitch that she's been in my head this past few days. "Oh really? I'd love to meet her. What house is she from."

Neville smiled and nodded. "She's in Hufflepuff. I really think you would like her. She's super nice. And I kind of used to be madly in love with her."

Audrey leaned against him, "I'm sure I will, she sounds great." She cuddled into his side and watched the wind blow the snow around outside the bubble.

Neville smiled to himself as she cuddled up to him. "So, what have you been up to since the last time I saw you?"

Audrey smiled and leaned into him, enjoying cuddling him without him freaking out, "Not much. Working more on my potion. Small successes there, we've made it so we can control the sleep we just can't get the deep sleep part to work in conjunction with that."

"Well, that's nice." he said with a smile. "So, do you have like two potions now? One that can do deep sleep and one that can control sleep?" He asked.

She sort of shrugged and wrinkled her nose, "Sort of. It's the same base potion but with different variations I can make it do different things. I just have to figure out how to combine them without making it poisonous or it just becoming inactive."

"Ahh, I see. So if you just made someone take a drink of both of them.....It wouldn't work?" Good thing Neville doesn't want to be like a Pharmacist. He would kill some people.

Audrey giggled and looked at him, giggling again at his slightly confused look, "No," she gave him a soft kiss on the jaw, "It doesn't work that way. You can't combine them like that, it has to be one potion."

"Well...." He said and thought for a moment. "Why not? Isn't just like the same thing?" Neville would kill a lot of people if he had to make this potion and test it on people.

Audrey stopped herself from laughing again and sat up a little to look at him, still sitting close. "Well because it's like..." She thought for a moment, "Okay you know how some plants just can't be planted next to each other because they need different soils even though they're very similar plants?"

Neville nodded slowly. "Well yeah, but those are plants they are different." he said blinking a few times.

Audrey shook her head, "No, that's exactly how the potions are. Actually it's all because of the plants and other ingredients in them."

Neville blinked at her a few times. "Oh, So they are just like plants. Only some can mix."

Audrey nodded, she would get Neville to understand potions if it was the last thing she ever did. "It really is. So I just need to sort them out."

"Awww, I see." he said nodding. He still didn't understand completely. He wasn't a very big potions person.

Audrey shook her head slightly, that was enough potions for one day. Cuddling back up to him she stared out over the garden, "So have you decided where to plant those seeds?"

"Yup." he said with a large smile. "Right over there!" he said, pointing over to some empty soil with two pineapples growing. "Those pineapples should be ready soon and then I will have that whole area." He said smiling.