Forever his
Marcus walked past his brothers and their guard after their return to Volterra, striding past everyone in the guard and walking to the one place he wanted to be right now. No-one tried to stop him anymore, they were used to this behaviour. He would never be the same Marcus they once knew. The Marcus they once knew was loud and rambunctious at times. But not anymore. He spent his time there now. Ever since her death it had become where you could find him. The Sanctuary. Her Sanctuary. It was actually a little garden that she had raised with love and care. Ever since she'd been gone he'd taken over looking after it. It was a quiet peaceful place where he would sit and read and spend as much time as he could there. He felt closer to her when he was there.
So now he sat; by the roses and contemplated everything of the past few days and the people he had seen. He saw the look on the young (by his terms) vampire and his newborn wife. He remembered the look in his eyes as he looked at her with such care and love and admiration. Then to see the look same look reflected on her face. It nearly ripped his cold, dead un-beating heart apart. She looked oh so much like her. He remembered every part of her was so beautiful, no one, not even a vampire could even come close to matching up to her.
Sure, the young newborn was beautiful but she was just a mere mortal compared to the Goddess he once held in his arms. They were similar but his Goddess was so much more stunning, one wouldn't be able to utter a single word if they were to see her for a few moments. Being "dazzled" by her obvious beauty. With her long flowing mahogany hair that curled all the way down to her lower back; her full plump lips that he loved to kiss; the small delicate nose that could sense smells sp far away even the strongest tracker had trouble detecting it.
He sighed wistfully remembering her beauty and the feel of her in his arms. But she was just as beautiful on the inside as the out. If not; more. She held such great care for all things around her; be they human, vampire, plant or animal. She hated having to hunt humans. She went through a phase where she refused to drink because she felt so guilty about destroying their lives. She had gotten so weak that he had worried she would be lost because of it. In the end she gave in after seeing how distraught he was and she would do anything for him. If only she had lived then maybe she would have been able to try this new "vegetarian" diet. But even feeding on animals would not have been something she liked.
She was too kind for that. She said that every animal should be treated with love and respect and showed great care for others. She would often sit in this very spot by the roses and listen to the sounds of nature. It would sooth her she said. He laughed at her way of thinking and would often tell her to live a bit more which she would jokingly reply "we have eternity for that". He would run off with his brothers again and come back to find her by the roses once more. She was listening to nature as she said and her enhanced senses were even more so then the average vampires. But as he thought; she was far from the average vampire. She was much more.
He remembered many times he had tried to sneak up to her in this garden only to find out at the last minute; she'd known he was there all along. One of those times came to memory as he dove deeper and deeper into his past.