You and Alastor have been together for awhile now. The thing is you aren’t exactly an affectionate or emotional person. Alastor knew you loved him. You just never had a good experience with love. You would never say the word love. You would refer to people as “dear”, but not really in an affectionate way. Until one day

You: Hey love, could you hand me that you referred to him as love and he just stared at you with joy in his eyes. And everyone else in the room stared at you in disbelief