This is part of the Disney Mothers collection I've been writing. This doesn't exactly follow the rules I've set for myself for the DM stories, but I still hope you like it. If you want one following the other stories' pattern, so to speak, just PM me.

Aurora tucked in her sleeping four-year-old, Gregory. The quiet little boy was very much like Aurora herself. He to learn about his family, and, ironically enough, sleeping. His beige colored skin was smooth and equal of color; his eyelashes were long, but complimenting. Aurora twirled her finger around a little, golden blonde curl as she pecked his forehead. She sighed as she closed Gregory's door. Why was her eldest, Hayden, a nearly complete opposite from his own brother? He was a bit of a rogue, Hayden. At eighteen, Hayden was a bit of a rogue. He did what he wanted, and was easily knew he was good looking, but was quite humble and sweet. He preferred quality than quantity, and inherited his father's love of riding horses. And, like his father, only one horse suited his preferences. It seemed he had both his parents' good looks thrust into his DNA. Everything about him was charming, handsome, and perfect in every girls' mind in the kingdom. There wasn't one girl in the entire kingdom who longed to be married to Hayden.

Aurora began to wonder where her eldest was, anyway.

Hayden Strongman was betrothed to Princess Loraine Margo, of Hillocks. She was not pretty in the Crown Prince's mind; she had hair that fell to her waist that was the color of dried blood. Her eyes were brown, with no depth in them at all. And her skin was yellowy, as though she had spent the night before throwing up. Her nose was too big for her face, it seemed; her mouth too small. Her eyes were medium-sized, but shaped too exotically for Hayden's personal taste. Her teeth were crooked and her lower right canine tooth cracked; her front left tooth was completely missing. Unfortunately for Hayden, he had to endure "quality time" with Princess Loraine for long periods of time. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if she was beautiful on the inside, too.

The Margo Royals of Hillocks had stayed for two weeks presently, and were staying for a month. Then the Margo Royals would return to their Kingdom of Hillocks and prepare Loraine about her move to Dalgen, where the Strongman Royals (King Hubert, Queen Daphne, Prince Phillip, Princess Aurora, Prince Hayden himself, Hayden's younger sister Princess Ellamar, and Hayden's kid brother Prince Gregory) resided.

The second day of Princess Loraine and her family's stay, Hayden asked his mother, "Why do I have to marry one who is ugly on both the inside and outside? Why can't I marry someone for love? Someone that I am so in love with, I could not stand to be away from her—the woman of my dreams...?"

"I wish, if anything else, that that were possible, lovey. Unfortunately, I can't do anything about it. I was betrothed to your father already when we fell in love."

"I know the story," Hayden grumbled bitterly. He had heard too often about how his mother had had a curse placed upon her, and she had met his father in a forest or something after sixteen years of growing up in a cottage and fell in love instantly. She had been raised by his godmothers, the Three Good Fairies, Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather. Then his father had fought for his mother after he had escaped capture by the evil witch Maleficent. Aurora had had the curse nearly fulfilled, after she pricked her finger on a spinning wheel and fallen into a slumber so deep only true love's kiss could break it. Then his father killed Maleficent and kissed his mother and they had gotten married. Quite soon after, Aurora found out she was pregnant, and a few months later gave birth to Hayden. Then, Ellamarth. Then Gregory.

"Who is it you're in love with?" Aurora asked, knowing her son all too well. He would answer at her next remark if he really loved this someone she knew he loved. He couldn't keep secrets for very long unless they were, well, a life and death matter.

"No one," Hayden replied, somewhat defiantly. He raised his defined chin, and looked at the floor.

"Naturally you would fail to answer. Hayden—if you really, truly love her—then marry her, for goodness' sake! But tell me—what is she like?" Aurora asked smoothly, folding her elegant hands across her lap.

Hayden fell into his mother's trap. Like always.

"Delta Goddard; the cook's daughter. Oh, but Mother, she has the most wonderful eyes. And red hair: it's not that dreadul red color, like the Princess of Hillock's is. She's ever so graceful, and kind, and has—no offense, Mother—ten times the singing voice that you have. And her touch is electrifying! We…we meet in a glen in the Forest of Dean, secretly after Saturday Luncheon. She, besides you, is the most wonderful person I've ever met," Hayden said quickly. He blushed, but didn't regret in the slightest telling his mother the love of his life.

"Delta Goddard. Well how wonderful, Hayden!" Aurora exclaimed. She knew that her son should marry Princess Loraine, for the good of the kingdom, but that for the rest of Hayden's life he would be unhappy. And Aurora also knew that Hayden would do something drastic, something that would take some serious "cleaning up". She was not sure if she was unhappy for her son, for she truly cared about his wellbeing. Delta was a wonderful girl whom Aurora thought was very beautiful. And, Aurora had to agree, she couldn't bear to have grandchildren from someone like Loraine Margo.

That had been almost a month ago.

Now, Hayden was sitting down by a creek talking with none other than Delta Goddard. She was sobbing hysterically into his shoulder, actually, and his arms were around her.

"Please, Delta: tell me what is troubling you. I can't bear to see you like this," Hayden pleaded, stroking her gentle, curly, flaming red hair.

"Oh…I don't know w-what we're g-g-g-going to do, H-Hayden!" she exclaimed, her face still tucked into his shoulder. Delta truly loved Hayden, more than anything. But would he still love her when she told him the news that had sprung upon the young couple? They had only known each other as long as Cook Goddard had worked at the Castle: a year. And already, they had claimed themselves for one another, and would soon…become…

"Parents. W-We're g-going to be parents, H-Hayden," Delta said after calming down. She felt her beloved's arms tense around her. Delta felt as though she were in the arms of a stautue rather than an angel.

"Hayden?" she asked quietly, timidly, after several moments. Hayden wanted to laugh: it seemed as though she were afraid that he himself was upset with her, the human form of Aphrodite.

Hayden sighed in relief. He relaxed his muscles and kissed her forehead.

"You're sure?" he asked.

"Yes. I saw a doctor last week. I'm apparently four months along. The servants suspect w-what I…what I…what state I'm in. But naturally, I told Cleo," said Delta softly. Cleo Mark was Delta's best friend, and a middle-aged woman in the castle. She was a handmaiden to Princess Aurora, and had been the midwife to Aurora when both Hayden and Ellamar were born.

"Four? But…what about your clothes—have your father and friends not realized that…they're beginning to get tight? Or are they not?" asked Hayden concernedly. He didn't want any trouble for her. He could handle anything thrown at him, but he did not want her to ever be hurt.

"As I told you before: they suspect what predicament I'm in. But I love our child, so dearly Hayden. My love for you and him or her is equal, and never ending. But what ever shall I do?"

"You? 'I'?" asked Hayden angrily.

"You wouldn't think I'd let you bear my burden," Delta said matter-of-factly.

"This is mine," Hayden stated. "My child I mean."

"Of course!"

"My responsibility, therefore. I'm not going to let you struggle wholly by yourself raising my child."

"Our child, Hayden."

"I knew you'd say that," Hayden teased, playfully kissing her intimately on the neck.

"No, no, no. That was what got me into this mess in the first place," said Delta. "I think it will be best if we stop...associating like that. Embracing, hugging, kissing. You should know that anything more than kissing isn't allowed for people like me. And if I'm going to say goodbye, then I want it to be easy."

Once again, anger flared up in Hayden's stomach.

"Delta, please. I love you, and I assume you love me back—I'm not going to let you hurt yourself this way. The thought of you alone, and I to marry that horrid Loraine of Hideous is unbearable," said Hayden, his arms still wrapped tightly yet gently around Delta. He kissed her soft, velvet cheek.

"So you don't want to marry Princess Loraine?" Delta asked, her voice breaking from struggling to repress laughter. Hayden kissed her on the nose.

"You know perfectly well what I mean, Miss Goddard," Hayden said, standing up and taking her by her delicate hands. They began to waltz to their matching heartbeats. Forever they wanted to stay this way, but both knew it was too good to last.

"Yes, I do. And I will love you forever. I promise--no, I swear to you that I will never stop loving you the way I do now," she whispered, placing her hands and head on his chest. While one hand stroked her soft hair, the other was placed at the small of her back.

What they didn't know was that this was the last moment they would have like that.

Author's Note: Here is what I think my characters in this story look like, courtesy of .com. Yes, I had a lot of fun on that site.

Edit: I don't know what happened to the links, but if you want you can go on morphthing .com and morph the listed actors/actresses together.

Hayden to look like this: . (Tom Cruise and Hayden Christensen)

Delta to look like this:. but with like a violet-magenta-and-purple-ish iris, with flecks of gold. (Emma Watson and Rachel Weisz and Natalie Portman)

Loraine to look like this: . but ugly

And incase you're wondering...

Ellamar to look like this: . (Nicole Kidman and Amy Adams and Alessandra Ambrosio and Almudena Fernandez)

Aurora to look like this: . (somewhat. I imagine her much, much, much more beautiful. Even though I think Belle is the prettiest.) (Jamie-Lynn Spears and Amanda Michalka and Bar Refaeli)

Phillip: . (Chris Pine and Hayden Christensen and Chace Crawford)

Gregory: . (Nicole Kidman and Hayden Christensen)

And vote for which two celebrities should be Hayden and Delta's baby's "parents", or which two I should morph to make the baby look like. PM me two celebrity names and I'll see which ones are submitted the most!