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"You have no need to be jealous, Hayley. You are still Hope's mother at the end of the day even if she gets excited over a present," Rebekah tried with a sigh attempting to stifle Hayley's petty jealousy over a simple gift for the little girl.
It was a gift at the end of the day. Hope had plenty of them over the years, and not just for special occasions. Hayley tried to always splash out on Christmas since the secret sender didn't send any presents any other time of the year.
"It is not jealousy, Rebekah. It's just difficult to get Hope to sleep without reading Little Red Riding Hood to her and that Wolf teddy needs to be on the nightstand keeping watch. She is getting too attached to these items and letters. What if one day that person dies and can't send them, then its up to us to deal with the aftermath." Hayley tried to express her concern without the obvious simmering jealousy overtaking her.
She knew the jealousy was irrational, especially over something so silly, but it was the way her daughter talked about her special gifts and the light in her eyes that shone brighter when Hope was painting with Klaus ended up making her emotions worse.
It was frustrating, really.
Hayley could only remember being this insanely jealous years before when she met Tyler Lockwood and all he could talk about was his perky, blonde, cheerleading vampire girlfriend.
Kol flashed off to the door as soon as it was knocked, returning with the pink and white polka dotted box with a matching pink ribbon and passing it over to Klaus and Hope who sat next to each other on the sofa.
"The last time you were this obsessed over something was that tasty little thing." Kol waggled his eyebrows suggestively at Niklaus, amused by the way his brother tensed up and froze for a moment before recovering and opening the box. Not quick enough though for an Original to notice a splash of emotion shadowing Klaus' eyes.
Klaus was gobsmacked once he opened the gift. He pulled out the big brown leather book and placed it on his lap. The ancient covering on it had a beautiful gold engraving of a wolf howling.
Noticing its importance, Jackson came over with an intrigued look on his face.
Miss Hope Mikaelson,
"Wolves are like me, Misunderstood, Beautiful and Wild. Never able to be tamed. The epitome of freedom. All we want is to be accepted and loved for who we are."
-Unknown.
"Maybe the wolf is in love with the moon and each month it cries for a love it will never touch."
-Unknown.
"An old Cherokee told his grandson: 'My son, there's a battle between two wolves inside of us all. One is evil. It's anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies and ego. The other is good. It's joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness and truth' The boy thought about it, and asked: 'Grandfather, which wolf wins?' The old man replied: 'The one you feed.'"
-Unknown.
"Even a lone wolf is full of hope and freedom."
-Unknown.
All my love.
Jackson explained to Klaus and Hope that it was wolf genealogy book and that the lineage was actually derived from Klaus' father's' clan, including both Klaus and Hope but also some descendants that have survived and were still alive.
Klaus also noticed a spell to verify his wolf bloodline slipped into one of the pages to pacify his extreme paranoia.
Klaus, Jackson and Hope spent the rest of the afternoon talking about wolves, Klaus slowly starting to bond with the other father figure in his little girl's life as Jackson offered to help find his wolf family.