Yeah, it's a pickle isn't it? Macaque hasn't been so presumptuous as to see him and Wash being a family unit, nor that Wylan would necessarily want another parent, but the thought is there all the same. The potential. A future he could maybe have wanted, until today.

"Yes. When we first met. Until a little past finding out that he was interested in me. When I learned that, I had to rework my image of him entirely."