Rose was shaking a bit from crying. He told him as he watched him walk closer through blurry eyes. He backed up a step more. Tears trailing down his cheeks. He couldn't see him moving. Just saw him bend over which meant the little one was now in the crib. He felt his hand taken and was crying more when he finished speaking. Shaking his head. "I like being a boy. I am a screwed up boy. I wish I wasn't a girl inside. I like how I look inside but no one will like that I am not boy inside." He says. He really thought this as that is what his mother said one year. The year he started having periods. He didn't get them anymore to where he was bleeding like that but he still had them to an extent. He was pulled closer and looked up at LeStat as he spoke. Biting his lower lip. Blushing and looks at him. "You don't think I am a freak?" He says in a questioning and hopeful voice. Blushing a bit more. "You are a dad because you and I have Sophie." he points out shyly. Feeling him wiping the tears away and no more fell. "You will be a good father. I have seen it with my own eyes." He says softly. Blushing more as he heard his last words. Turning the color of a beet. Speaking in a shy tremor of a voice. "I think you are very h-handsome." he stammers a bit in shyness. Laying his head on LeStat's chest. He didn't know LeStat's heart was pounding in excitement. Even if he had known it wouldn't register or even begin to make sense that the reason why was because of him and his strange birth defects.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">Ethan moved his middle right pawn forwards. Looking at Higaru. "Yeah. Well that was until the other day when he saw Rose for the first time. Then today he approached Rose." he says softly. "He wasn't as strangely obsessed. Rose told him no a few times. The fourth or was it the fifth time...? Either way he got really bent out of shape. He didn't seem to realize he really said it. Sounded it out and it was funny to watch. He later came with lots of guards carrying three bouquets of Rose's favorite flower, buttercups, and presented them to Rose to get him to talk. It was humorous." He tells him the rest of what happened. "I think Rose is affecting LeStat more than either of us will know for a while." He looked at the maid. Chuckling a bit. "I don't think you would like a new brother. Might get one worse than LeStat can be." He looked at the maid as she  was looking at him funny. His silver locks brushed out of his face. "Some thing wrong?" He asks. The maid frowns. "No you just look like the late master of the guards. Probably just my imagination." she says. Bowing and resumed her chores.</span>