-=Thank you JKR, for permitting us our fun. Your characters are more fun than a pack of paper dolls. (I know I'm letting my age show.)=-

AN/ This chapter begins in September. Cheap Thrills and my Princely Deeds stories, are parallel stories, that intersect. This is a different sort of story.

Princely Deeds

Pain Blooming

Light filtered through the glass roof in a greenhouse. To help cool himself in the stifling heat he wets his hair and face at the tap.

His fingers softly brush over the top of seedlings in flats.

Pain blooming, Neville leaned back against the work surface, arms crossed at his sides. He pulls off his dragon-hide gloves, cradles his head in one hand and hugged himself with the other. Silently crying and shaking, he gripped himself harder with his free arm. Students pass the greenhouse chatting merrily.