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Title: Term of Endearment
Challenge: Vive l'France!
Word Count: 100

"Your grandmother - is she all there? Mentally, that is."

Remus frowned. "As far as I know. What makes you think otherwise?"

"She called John a cabbage for no discernible reason." Severus glanced over at the cot. "Then she started to tickle him."

"A cab - " Remus rolled his eyes. "You're too literal. Mon petit chou means 'my little darling' - "

"What's so endearing about a cabbage?"

"How would I know? It's - " Remus groped for the words. "It's an idiom."

"Utterly ridiculous." Severus peered down at their son. "His head isn't that round."

Remus gave up.