Brain hugs, FTW
I am??!! Awesome. *iz humbled* I have so many WIPs just waiting to be finished, I should really get on that.
I can tell you exactly what I loved about that paragraph: the way Regulus was idly playing with his wand, making tiny little hearts pop out of the tip (hello, Freud!) while he conversed with Severus. It was a bit of foreshadowing that made the firehose scene terribly funny and tender, since Sev was literally being doused with love. I was not expecting the added force. *nods*
And it's so true that we never can know when we will see our loved ones last. That parting scene was particularly touching because Regulus KNEW he was probably going to die and still didn't make a scene, I think because he wanted Sev to have deniability when the Dark Lord questioned him about his absence. Very touching.