Veronika was bored, to put it lightly. She hated small towns and she was particularly sick of Mystic Falls after two days and wanted to go back to her apartment in D.C. already. But what kept her from leaving was the constant reminder that Klaus had promised to spend two days with her without mentioning the curse and Klaus was a man of his word – most of the time. So she stick to her current mission for now but Veronika wasn't stupid, not that anyone suspected that she was but she knew there wasn't something Klaus wasn't telling her about why he had sent her here. He was always so damn sneaky and kept things close to the vest and it would be easier to get blood from a stone then to get Klaus to reveal anything he didn't want to. So Veronika would be patience and wait until Klaus decided to fill her in but if her patience gave out, she'd use her given female talents to convince Klaus. Which is perhaps what she should have done when Klaus had asked to her to go to Mystic Falls to see what the Salvatore brothers were up to. Apparently it was a lot of something although Veronika didn't know what as she was keeping her distance as not to alert them to her presence. Out of the two of them Damon seemed like the wild card of the two seeing as how passive Stefan seemed but according to Klaus, Stefan was a true ripper. He of all people would know, so she accepted that explanation until proven otherwise. As Veronika idly sat watching the Salvatore house from the woods she got the surprise of a life time when she saw someone very familiar walk into the house and she quickly got out her phone.

"Hello Veronika, I'm surprised you haven't called sooner. I assume you've called to complain about your boredom?" Klaus said over the phone.

"I'm sorry to disappoint you Niklaus but that isn't why I'm calling you, I have a surprise for you that I'm dying to share with you." Veronika quipped as she smiled into the phone. She could not believe her luck and neither would Klaus, in fact now she was glad that Klaus didn't get her the Mona Lisa, as no painting no matter how valuable or as much as a masterpiece was would top the feeling she currently had.

There was a sigh from the other end of the phone. "Nica, you know I don't like surprises."

"Trust me Niklaus, you'll like this one." Veronika teased over the phone, Klaus was never one for a surprise due to his control issues and the need to know everything that was going on. It was one of his few weaknesses and one that Veronika loved to exploit. "You won't believe who I've just seen… Katerina."

Silence. There was nothing but silence on Klaus' end of the phone and all Veronika could hear was the sound of deep breaths being taken until Klaus was ready to speak again. "Are you sure?"

Veronika would have replied with a sarcastic and rude comment of some sort if she didn't know that it would piss Klaus off. They had been looking for Katerina for five hundred years and when she wasn't looking for her, Katerina just up'd and appeared. "Of course I'm sure, I've had that face engrained in memory for over five hundred years and she is my sister. It's her Niklaus, we've finally found her after all this time…"

"Well done Nica, I suppose you'll want an extra day and something else as a reward for your magnificent work. I'd been more than willing to get you the Mona Lisa, if you still want it…" Klaus said with a small chuckle and Veronika sighed to herself internally, things were so much more fun for her with Klaus when he wasn't being so cranky.

"Actually I'll pass…" Veronika began, as much as she loved to spend three days in idle bliss with Klaus and have the Mona Lisa in her possession, there was something else that she wanted now. "But there may be something…"

"Veronika I may be many things but a mind reader is not one of them." Klaus retorted, partly pleased that he would not have to go and steal that bloody painting that his Little Petrova was obsessed with. Although he did acquire something for her that would keep her happy until they went back to see the Mona Lisa at the Louvre.

"Katerina… Please? I just want to scare her and see the look on her face when she realizes that I've been alive for this whole time. I promise that's all I'll do, I know that I'm not allowed to kill her unless you say so." Veronika hastily added.

"Okay sweetheart but just don't give anything away otherwise that will spoil everything." Klaus warned. "Then you go straight back to D.C. is that clear Nica?"

Veronika squealed with happiness, this was going to be fun, fun and even more fun. It made the five hundred years of waiting, worth it but really she'd really be satisfied when she saw the arrogant and manipulative smile fall off her sister's face. "Of course darling, I just want to say hello and exchange a few pleasantries."

"Have fun then." Klaus replied and moments later the phone dropped and Veronika tucked it back to her jacket and ran to the Salvatore house and quietly crept in. She knew that she would have no problem coming in because she knew that there was no owner for her to get an invitation from. Which meant she could enter all she like,

"I just need the truth, just once." A male voice stated as held a very familiar brunette's head in his hands and Veronika recognized it to be the eldest Salvatore; Damon from all her surveillance of them over the past two days.

"Stop, I already know the question and its answer. The truth is... I've never loved you, it was always Stefan." From her advantage point Veronika could see Katerina/Katherine detangle herself from Damon and once she had finished, Veronika watched her sister make her way to leave that she took as her sign to go. There was no way she was letting Katerina walk out of here after that stellar performance.

"Now wait just a minute." Veronika began as she walked into the Salvatore house parlour. "This party isn't over until I say so and I don't say so, in fact it's far from over."

"Who are you are? And what are you doing in my house?" Damon demanded but Veronika ignored him in favour of her sister whose jaw had dropped to the floor in more ways than one. To say Katerina Petrova or rather Katherine Pierce was shocked was an understatement.

"Zdravei Katerina, or should I say Katherine? I hear you've been going by that these last few hundred years but you will always be Katerina Petrova to me; my sweet yet troublesome sister."

"Sister?" Damon demanded and this time Veronika did acknowledge his presence, after all this was his house they were standing in otherwise and it would have been rude to ignore him for much longer.

"Katerina I'm almost ashamed that you didn't tell anyone about me but never mind, you did think I've been dead these last five hundred and seventeen years up until now so I'll make the introductions." Veronika began sweetly before turning to Damon. "A pleasure to finally meet you Mr. Salvatore, my name is Veronika. Veronika Petrova and I'm Katerina– I mean Katherine's big sister."

"Nica… You're alive?" Katherine began slowly.

Veronika smirked, as she saw the look that she had been waiting for in her sister's eyes; shock, disbelief and maybe even a hint of happiness. A part of her even thought that Katerina was going to cry, which she would have enjoyed as well as Klaus. This was the moment she had been waiting for and it didn't disappoint. "Technically not since 1492 but yes in a manner of speaking I am alive but enough about me…"