A rare kid!Severus pic where he's... actually happy? This was inspired by my and @levonsnape's roleplay. Excerpt below the cut, featuring adult Severus and Remus talking about a kid Severus in a magical garden. It's one of Severus' only happy memories of his childhood. This is primarily Levon's writing but theres a bit of mine in there too. I couldn't get the idea of a little Severus being serenaded by angel trumpets out of my head.
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"In fact, I believe it is my earliest memory. I was four years old. It was before my first accidental magic so things were better. Mam said I was so happy about this place that I finally started to speak."
Severus had never shared this memory with anyone, or that he'd not spoken a word until a late age. But as usual there was something about Remus that he felt okay to say some things. Why he should feel safe to do so he could not figure out given their past. But after he'd began to see Remus as a person instead of just the wolf things had changed.
To Remus, it was both cute and sad that here had been where Severus had first started to talk. "Really?" He asked softly. "What part made you happy enough to do so?" He wondered.
"The sound garden is where I spoke," Severus said. "It's up ahead, actually. We weren't allowed music in the house, Remus. It was the first time I had heard something so beautiful. I asked mam if we could stay there forever because it was "extraordinary" and she said, "Severus, how did you know that word?" But I had no idea where I'd heard it. Once I started to speak I did not waste my time on monosyllabic babble. I spoke like a tiny professor."
Severus paused at another shrub of a giant owl which tilted its head and hooted at him.
"The sound garden is up ahead, actually." He was eager for Remus to see it, or rather, to experience it. There were bluebells that tinkled like bells, french horn mushrooms that sounded like French horns, giant toadstools that croaked if you sat on them, angel trumpets that trumpetted, bleeding heart flowers that whispered "I love you", and tiger lilies that growled, and several others.
The corners of Remus' mouth lifted upwards though. A tiny professor Severus at four years old seemed adorable. "I would say that in and of itself is pretty 'extraordinary.'" Remus commented. He was glad they were apparently headed towards the sound garden; he was really eager to see the setting of this little piece of Severus history.
