Dragoncrest Cliffs The heart is something you can't control.

let's just keep this thread goin 5ever okay? XD I love Reyes so much

That means you are probably doing things right. Rosalyn replied with a small smirk, but her expression held a genuine warmth thinking of him as a father, of the grandchildren he'd shown. If he'd responded too quickly that he did, she'd have doubted his sincerity. Children were a lot of work, a lot of stress, a lot of pain, and entirely worth it.

She didn't like to hear that he was kept from him, however. About this Towhee. There's nothing that can keep you from your children, not even their mother. Not if you want to be in their lives. The only thing that's ever separated you and your siblings from your mother and I was your own choices. She gave a soft laugh. Sometimes they don't seem to need you. And then, sometimes, they come back. All you can do is be there when they do.

Though she knew something had happened, something that kept him, she also knew that it had been his choice to leave. And in her look, it was clear that it didn't matter. He could leave a thousand times and it would not change that he was her son - and her first, something entirely his own that no other would have. She saw none of his father in him and entirely too much of herself.