"Do you want kids?" I asked tentatively. "It's just you've never said anything before." Kes paused as he kicked off his pants. His eyes were guarded when he replied. "Don't you?" "I do. I think I do. Not yet, but one day." Kes stared at me steadily. "Do you want kids?" . My poor boy still didn't believe that I'd stay. Why should he? No one in his world ever had before."