Severus is exactly the same as he was when Charles last saw him - a few days or a dozen years ago, whichever he'd like to go by. Poorly rested but unnervingly aware, striking in too many ways to be anything but ugly, taller than Charles but shorter than most everyone else. His expression is sharp as it usually is, but not quite critical. He wonders if Charles was expecting Erik.
"You haven't gotten back to me about the genetics labs," he says flatly, making absolutely no effort to disguise how flimsy and untrue that excuse to be here is. The alternative is 'expressing concern', which Severus is shit at, so he's not going to bother. "Do you remember who I am?"
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Severus is exactly the same as he was when Charles last saw him - a few days or a dozen years ago, whichever he'd like to go by. Poorly rested but unnervingly aware, striking in too many ways to be anything but ugly, taller than Charles but shorter than most everyone else. His expression is sharp as it usually is, but not quite critical. He wonders if Charles was expecting Erik.
"You haven't gotten back to me about the genetics labs," he says flatly, making absolutely no effort to disguise how flimsy and untrue that excuse to be here is. The alternative is 'expressing concern', which Severus is shit at, so he's not going to bother. "Do you remember who I am?"