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“Do you want to know my favorite thing about you?” Remus asked, carding his hands through the older boy’s hair as he played with a large, rainbow, unicorn pop-it.
“What?”
“I love how when you're doing something you like, no matter what it is, you get a smile on your face that nothing else can prompt.”
“Rem, I can’t smile.” Severus scrunched his face in confusion. “When I try I just look weird, and feel uncomfortable.”
“That’s just when you try and smile like allistics. Your smile is different.” He dismissed.
“What’s my smile like, then?”
Remus got a smile of his own, thinking about the ravenette’s happiness. “You pull your bottom lip in and sort of make your mouth like a line, but open a little so you can see your front teeth which stick out a little bit. And when you get really excited you close your eyes and shake your head really hard, while either flapping your hands or bending them up to where they sit next to your ears, but not on them. And you sorta squeeze your whole body close and squeal a little bit….I love it.”
“Oh, that….Isn’t that as weird, if not weirder, than when I try to mimic allistics smiles?”
“Absolutely not, it’s extremely adorable. And I mean that in the same way that you do when you say my wolf form playing with a stick is adorable.”
“You really like it?”
“I love it.” Remus assured. “I love you .”
“I love you too.” Severus replied, and if he squeezed his body a bit tighter, squealed quietly, then that was his own business.