Something inside Caduceus was instantly soothed by Caleb telling him he needed him. Not in the selfish way he thought he would feel a few moments ago, but because Caleb needed him and he was here. It helped a lot. He could take care of Caleb. He was a carer, that seemed to be his function in life, to care for what was alive, to care for the dead, to make sure potential was reached through nurture.
"You have so much potential," he said out loud without intending to. It was the next thought, the next thing to cross his mind. But since it was out now, Caduceus powered on. "I want to make sure you reach that. I want to make sure you're as powerful as you can be, to make sure you do everything you want to do. And I guess sometimes that means I have to stop you and feed you-" Caduceus swallowed around the new lump in his throat. "-and bathe you, and take you to bed-" It was difficult for him to not sound aroused, the crack in his voice that made it deeper, the way his heart was still fluttering beneath their hands.
Caleb really didn't need to ask for a kiss. The moment he paused Caduceus was closing the small space between them, kissing him eagerly. "Right now there's nothing more that I want. If I think of something then I'll let you know. So far I've just been discovering a lot of things about myself, things I like that we're doing kind of accidentally. I don't know what I might learn if we...tried new things." The prospect was a little alarming to him, if only because the whole idea of his sexuality was so new. He'd opened a door to a hidden part of him, and there was so much to uncover.
He could cast his mind towards the books Jester had sometimes read aloud when they were all resting, he could think of the things in there, but right now none of them stirred much in him. Perhaps because he had no experience to go along with the words. Nothing to tell his body or his brain that that was something to be desired and enacted.
"Oh, yeah, they'll keep. They'll be fine for a while. We'll see how hungry you are after you've had a sleep," he nodded, his cheek brushing against Caleb's head as he did so. "I love you so much. I'm going to take good care of you."