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She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
Lord Byron
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It started with a smile... I guess that's how all things like this begin. She smiled at me and I'll be damned but my undead heart skipped a beat. She is the mother of my brothers child and she has me feeling all kinds of things. Little wolf; that is what klaus calls her and it's fitting. This girl has taken her place within our family, taken up the vow of always and forever and fights for us. Every enemy that we have is now hers. All of us love her, even klaus in his demented way cares for her. Elijah loves her and I can not take my eyes off of her. She is in my heart.
When my niece was born and I hid with her for those months I was at my happiest in my long life but still I ached for her mother. I aches to smell that musky scent of swamp mixed with the sweet smell of perfume that is Hayley. What have I become? How has this girl changed my being so much that I feel weak? It is as though I am human again. I have not felt pain or aching like this in so long, I long for her. In a thousand years of life no one has made me feel like this not even marcel. Marcel felt like the calm before an autumn storm with Hayley made me feel like a forest fire. All my senses heightened around her, everything felt like to much and not enough at the same time.
The visceral love she has for Hope ignites me even more. She has what I long for, is is what I long for. She is right there within my grasp her and hope could me mine. A family within a family. Of course klaus would protest but how I wish I could put my happiness before his need to be in control. He would dagger me ten times over before giving us his blessing. Nothing would allow us to be together. I have resigned myself to love my beauty from afar, to play the role of aunt to my lovely niece when in reality every time I close my eyes I dream of Hayley hope and myself holed up behind a white picket fence. Our own little family. After all us girls have to stick together.