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shirasade's request. :)
Oh, and a special thank you tobaisleac, kiltsandlollies, and starfishchick who inspire me and feed my monsters.
Untouchable Face
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It was the memory of Dom’s eyebrow that first sent Billy to the anatomy book. Even now Billy can see it rise from across the room and knows that this is Dom’s right occipito frontalis at work. It’s sliding under the dermis and pulling the eyebrow toward the hairline in response to one of Orlando’s wild notions.
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When Dom’s head is bowed and his face concentrating over rewrites, those muscles are there too. Billy knows those lines between Dom's eyebrows are glabellar furrows caused by a contraction of the corrugator supercilii pulling the forehead in and the frontalis down.
And if Peter keeps coming with the rewrites they are in danger of becoming a permanent addition.
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Dom's laughs always start in his eyes first. With that wicked crinkling at the edges. Billy knows this is a contraction of the orbicularis oculi and the zygomaticus working together to bring the smile to Dom’s eyes.
Billy knows the name for the start of Dom’s smile is a lateral canthal rhytide, as if that could come close to capturing it.
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During breakfast in the dining hall if Dom looks up and sees Billy coming through the door and his lips tug in that soft half-smile, that’s the zygomaticus too. And the labiis, levitor and depressor both, working together to move Dom’s lips as he says “Morning Bills.”
And with all that working against him, is it any wonder Billy can’t do anything but smile back?
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He even knows that it was that same levitor labii that caused the sneer he felt against his lips when he finally summoned up his courage and kissed Dom behind the trailer. When Dom’s arms pushed him away and he shook his head in either disappointment or disbelief it was that muscle that pulled Dom’s upper lip into the derisive face that still chases Billy. There had been the glabellar furrows again, and a slight frown, the depressor anguli oris pulling Dom’s lips down, as he had asked,
“Why’d you go and do that, Bill?”
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Billy knows all the workings of Dom’s face and the pulls of every muscle on his heart. He’s taken every one of Dom’s expressions in his memory and broken it down to the very bones. When night comes and sleep won't come Billy calls to mind each muscle and sees it working in Dom’s smiles, frowns, laughs, confusions and disappointments.
Because this is what he has now, and he knows to make the most of what he’s got.
shirasade's request. :) Oh, and a special thank you to
baisleac, kiltsandlollies, and starfishchick who inspire me and feed my monsters.Untouchable Face
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It was the memory of Dom’s eyebrow that first sent Billy to the anatomy book. Even now Billy can see it rise from across the room and knows that this is Dom’s right occipito frontalis at work. It’s sliding under the dermis and pulling the eyebrow toward the hairline in response to one of Orlando’s wild notions.
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When Dom’s head is bowed and his face concentrating over rewrites, those muscles are there too. Billy knows those lines between Dom's eyebrows are glabellar furrows caused by a contraction of the corrugator supercilii pulling the forehead in and the frontalis down.
And if Peter keeps coming with the rewrites they are in danger of becoming a permanent addition.
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Dom's laughs always start in his eyes first. With that wicked crinkling at the edges. Billy knows this is a contraction of the orbicularis oculi and the zygomaticus working together to bring the smile to Dom’s eyes.
Billy knows the name for the start of Dom’s smile is a lateral canthal rhytide, as if that could come close to capturing it.
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During breakfast in the dining hall if Dom looks up and sees Billy coming through the door and his lips tug in that soft half-smile, that’s the zygomaticus too. And the labiis, levitor and depressor both, working together to move Dom’s lips as he says “Morning Bills.”
And with all that working against him, is it any wonder Billy can’t do anything but smile back?
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He even knows that it was that same levitor labii that caused the sneer he felt against his lips when he finally summoned up his courage and kissed Dom behind the trailer. When Dom’s arms pushed him away and he shook his head in either disappointment or disbelief it was that muscle that pulled Dom’s upper lip into the derisive face that still chases Billy. There had been the glabellar furrows again, and a slight frown, the depressor anguli oris pulling Dom’s lips down, as he had asked,
“Why’d you go and do that, Bill?”
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Billy knows all the workings of Dom’s face and the pulls of every muscle on his heart. He’s taken every one of Dom’s expressions in his memory and broken it down to the very bones. When night comes and sleep won't come Billy calls to mind each muscle and sees it working in Dom’s smiles, frowns, laughs, confusions and disappointments.
Because this is what he has now, and he knows to make the most of what he’s got.
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