Fang looked at me, hope in his eyes, and I smirked at him. I save the huge emotional kissy-face for imminent death scenes. This probably didn't qualify.
In this excerpt, Fang reveals a moment of hope and connection with the narrator, as he looks at them with hopeful eyes. The narrator responds with a smirk, indicating a playful or dismissive attitude towards the emotional moment.
The narrator humorously remarks that they reserve their most emotional, exaggerated displays of affection for moments of near-death danger, implying that this scene might not be intense enough to warrant such dramatic gestures....