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Rose nodded sleepily, then snuggled closer"I missed you too, I'm lucky I only went to another where instead of another when." She was quite grateful for his assistance in undressing, her shirt had a lot of small buttons that were stubborn at best even when she was fully awake. With a small pang of a mix of guilt and disappointment, Rose was reminded that she hadn't spent nearly as much time as she had wanted to with him today. Something else she would rectify tomorrow, she'd think of something to do for him. Rose gently kissed his cheek and was asleep roughly half a second later.

Rose's dreams were a jumble of noises and images, some maybe from her experiences, others nonsensical and just plain weird. Parasols that sounded like bells when tapped, clouds that rained vivid green over a white field of flowers made of feathers. Eventually, she blinked herself awake and found that she was in the very pleasant position of being pressed against Cain. He seemed to still be sleep, Rose ran her fingers through his hair, content with this quiet moment. There was something a bit surreal about all this, actually being able to love someone without worrying about how she was going to let them go in inescapable future, just being able to become attached, it was something more valuable than all the books in the world. Rose lay there for a bit, thinking of something nice she could do for Cain. He had done more in the handful off days she knew him than most people did in a year or more. She couldn't exactly bake something for him, any book she could give as a gift was likely already in the library. Perhaps a bookmark that gave off light to read by? But he probably already had excellent night vision. Her mind drifted off to the first time they met. He had been bare footed, and seemed to somehow stub his toes at a frequency she had never observed before. A small idea struck her. It may take her a few days to put into action, but it was certainly something she could do.

Rose smiled in response to his greeting "Hello there." Perhaps she would've followed up with a few more words, but then Cain interrupted her train of thoughts. Not that she minded. He was a fantastic distraction. Rose let out an undetectable sigh when he stopped, but there would be other kisses later. In Rose' s opinion, Cain could probably stand to be a bit more selfish. He didn't seem to do much for himself besides reading books... Well that and show affection to her, he certainly did seem to enjoy even small gestures. Rose paused for a moment to consider his offer, she wasn't really a bath person, showers were more her style. The pressure of the water flowing over her had always been appealing than a soak. A slightly impish grin played on her lips as she got an idea, and voiced it " I think a bath would be nice, but might be better if a certain someone joined me." Rose laughed lightly "I might down in a tub that large, I never have been good at swimming." Pink started flowing to her face, she still wasn't quite used to asking things like this, despite all of the outrageous things she had done, a bit of her was still rooted somewhere in the eighteenth century.

Rose waited patiently, waiting for the sound of water rushing into the tub to cease. When Cain emerged from the door way, she could nearly feel his eyes studying her. For a brief moment, she wondered if he could feel her studying him. She has quite the view. Her blush intensified the longer it went on. When he finally broke the silence, Rose slipped out of the bed and walked up to him, she placed and hand on his chest and kissed him softly on the mouth. She nearly got swept away by kissing him again, but before she completely forgot what she was going to say, she stepped back slightly. " Thank you, you're incredibly handsome. I'm surprised you don't have a legion of hanger-on's."Her smile returned, but a bit broader this time, "I take it the bath is ready? "
(( Time skip ?))

Rose was braiding Cain's hair, she stood behind him add her fingers deftly manipulated his hair into a simple braid. She wasn't quite sure how the previous events in the tub, and then the surprisingly fun incident of drying off led to this, but it somehow happened. His hair wasn't soft, but it didn't feel coarse either. It somehow felt like a thousand strands of flexible glass, incredibly smooth, but still thick and clearly strong. She tied off the plain braid with a bit of silk cord, no bow, but instead a simple knot that came undone only when pulled at. It had been a bit tricky, her fingertips were quite wrinkled from what she was sure the longest bath she had ever taken. But now both of them were somewhat dressed, her shirt was still unbuttoned, and he was missing one. Well she was certainly not complaining. The braid finished, Rose wrapped her arms around his waist and placed her cheek against his. "Braid's complete. Seems a bit formal somehow though." Rose paused. Then spoke about something she had been considering since she got her pants on. It hadn't crossed her mind before at all, but it was something she had to tell him if things were going to continue the way they had. " If you're worried about me somehow having your child, rest assured that I am completely barren. I haven't had a cycle since I was nineteen, and either way I came down with a serious infection a few years later. It would require extensive, invasive surgery that is impossible with the current standing of technology, plus hormonal treatments that are again, impossible until technology returns to where it used to be. " Rose paused again, to steady her voice, it was starting to waver slightly, this was not her favorite topic at all, it was only given out in a need to know basis, and Cain needed to know. But this caused a question for Cain to pop up and out of her mouth before she could consider it properly "Could a vampire father a child in the first place anyway? "

If Cain was trying to comfort her, he was succeeding. He smelled fairly of whatever he had put into the bath water, it was quite appealing.Truly, Rose wasn't particularly maternal, if children were going to enter the picture it wasn't going to be for a very, very long time. It was still a bit upsetting to her though that she could never have a traditional family, but if that was the price that she had to pay, then what was done was done. You can't change the past, only the future. Rose looked up at him with a small smile, "That's quite sweet of you, but do realize you need to take yourself."Rose kissed him on the mouth, just a sweet simple kiss. "So I assume that if I told you that occasionally spoiling you would bring me great happiness, you would let me?" Before he could respond, she kissed him again "I certainly hope your answer is yes because that's what I have planned today." Her smile had returned in full force, today was going to be a fun.

Rose's eyes widened, her eyebrows disappeared beneath her bangs 'You already started planning?" Her expression softened, "Thank you. That means a lot to me. " without any further ado, Rose walked to the state bedroom/temporary lab to investigate these plans. Rose gingerly picked them up, not quite sure what she would find... Rose studied the plans, they were quite good, neither to big nor small, a mix of concrete and tile flooring, adequate ventilation, a half-bathroom with a shower stall, there was just two things missing. "Would it be possible to have an incinerator if sorts here?" Rose tapped an empty corner "And for a stainless steel tub about seven feet long and two feet deep and wide mounted into the cabinetry with a large drain, and three faucets evenly spaced along its length? " Rose paused "Well I guess it's more like a custom sink now that I think about it..." large basins were handy, they could be used to grow things, from plants to crystals, and for keeping bodies under running water to clean out fluids, or to chill them. The latter uses for the basin/dunk were unlikely to come to pass, but the island supposedly did have a bit of a problem of criminals and such. If her research called for it, it wouldn't take much imagination on where she was going to acquire specimens.

Rose shook her head "There's nothing else." With a smile she added "be glad that nuclear chemistry never or physics never tickled my fancy, particle accelerators and heavy uranium aren't exactly safe. Well neither is alchemy, but I won't level the courtyard unless I go looking to do so. " Rose considered the question of live subjects or dead ones. Well, nothing she was currently investigating was currently far along enough yet to warrant tests of that magnitude... "I probably won't need a subject for a while, but if the need does aside, it would be best if they were alive, conscious as well, and as undamaged as possible. That way I know what the results are of my own doing." There was a particular spell she was trying to develop that should result in her in essence simulating the effects of Ebola, but without the virus and the incubation period. "Don't worry about me performing immoral experiments either, I..." Rose paused trying to figure out the best way to word this. "There was an incident, well a string of incidents..." Rose let that particular sentence die. "Let's just say my curiosity for quite of few things has been satisfied already. I'm not particularly proud of the way I handled some trauma, but that one was the worse. I don't remember much about the experiment themselves, but I still have a book filled with the overarching results. " Rose hadn't read the inside of it since the war ended, it was almost as if a different person was writing in her hand. Needles to say it gave her the creeps more than anything else, it was one thing to read about atrocities, it was another to carry them out yourself.