Veronika was surprised that Klaus had managed to build and renovate an entire house during the time that they had been back in Mystic Falls but somehow he managed to do it with help from his big bad hybrids and now the two of them were living together in some capacity. Although Veronika had acquired a little apartment of her own in town as her and Klaus could not be under the same roof as each other constantly as the two of them would end up killing each other. But walking into Klaus' house or rather mansion through one of the back doors Veronika was surprised to see one of Klaus' hybrids laying on the floor dead but what took her by further surprise was that all of the coffins were open. However she could see Rebekah along with two other males still in their coffin but standing talking with Klaus was someone who Veronika had greatly missed and was glad to see alive an well. Although the last time she had checked he was in a coffin. "Hello Elijah."

"Hello Veronika." Elijah greeted and Veronika made her way over to him and placed a kiss on his cheek.. She liked Elijah, always had as he had always been the easier to deal with out of himself, Klaus and Rebekah not to mention she enjoyed his dry sense of humour.

"I'm glad to see you, I've missed you very much." Veronika truthfully said before turning to Klaus. "So what's with the dead hybrid?"

"You'll have to blame me for that Veronika, I decided to surprise my brother and this seemed oddly fitting and poetic considering everything." Elijah vaguely said and Veronika raised her brown in confusion.

"I didn't undagger him and I'm not sure who did." Klaus clarified and Veronika took a sharp intake of breath that was very awkward. No doubt Elijah was a tad bit pissed off that the fact that Klaus had daggered him.

"Well I don't care who undaggered you Elijah. I'm just glad to have you back."

"Thank you Veronika." Elijah replied managing to raise a small smile.

"You must be feeling a tad bit stuffy after all those months in that coffin, how about taking a walk with me? That way we can catch up and Niklaus can tidy up this mess whilst we talk?" Veronika offered as she surveyed the damage done to the newly renovated house, clearly the two brothers didn't have the happiest of reunions. Not that she could blame Elijah, her and Klaus weren't always happy to see each other and when they got into a fight of some sort it was guaranteed something was going to be broken.

"Veronika…" Klaus began.

"Calm down Niklaus. I'm not going to run off with your brother. I just want to have a talk with Elijah, I think I deserve that given that you deprived me off his company for all these months. Don't worry we'll come back…" Veronika assured Klaus by making her way over to him and placing a kiss on his cheek before leaving with Elijah in tow. The two of them walked in quiet for a while to make sure that were out of earshot from Klaus and then Veronika decided to speak up. "He told me that you were looking for werewolves for him."

"Really?"

"Yes and I was silly enough to believe him. Although he didn't exactly tell me at first as Klaus sent me back to my apartment in D.C. just before the sacrifice, for some reason he thought it was unsafe for me to be in Mystic Falls. I didn't hear back from him for about a week, I was about to leave for Paris and he just turned up with Stefan Salvatore both of them covered in blood."

"–Stefan?" Elijah asked in surprise.

Veronika nodded. "It seems that Klaus' blood is the cure of a werewolf bite and Stefan needed it for Damon as such he made a deal with Klaus. He'd go with Klaus in exchange for the cure. So imagine my surprise when I saw the two of them together again, but things turned rather sour. The only reason why Klaus came to see me was to get some clean clothes and to tell me I had to go to Paris and you know me Elijah, I don't exactly respond well to demands despite the fact I was going to Paris myself. We argued and I left, we saw nothing for each other and I chose not to speak to him for two months but he showed up in Paris for my birthday. That's when he told me about the werewolves and trying to create hybrids. Then after that came the hybrids in Tennessee who died shortly after being turned."

"But Klaus does have hybrids, I've seen so for myself and he'd told me." Elijah began.

"He does. A witch in Chicago that Klaus knew told him several things that involved the original witch but a few weeks later when we returned to Mystic Falls, he discovered that he needed the doppelgängers blood to make his hybrids. As when he first created hybrids they went rabid and died within hours. When we were there I left him because I found out the truth about you and Rebekah, so I left him–" Veronika idly noted.

"You left Klaus?" Elijah said in surprise.

"I couldn't take the lies anymore, he was never truthful with me and keeping me at arms length until he suited him. I had enough and so I told him I was leaving him."

"Good. I assuming it made Klaus realize how invaluable you are to him Veronika." Elijah noted.

"Apparently so. We kept him touch and a few days later, he called to tell me that he had figured out how to ensure his hybrids survival. It required the blood of the doppelgänger who had survived the sacrifice." Veronika replied.

"Elena's survived the sacrifice? Is she–"

"A vampire? No. I don't know how they managed to do it but Elena survived, I saw her in Chicago and at first I mistook her for Katerina. Somehow she survived and apparently her blood was the key to the hybrids. Like I said I wasn't there at the time as your brother and I had gone our separate ways until I heard that Mikael was free." Veronika explained as they continued to walk in the dark streets.

"Yes, Klaus had explained that Mikael had been released and that we would no longer have to worry about our father hunting us down." Elijah said and Veronika couldn't decipher whether Elijah was relieved or upset about that face. During all the years that she had known him, Rebekah and Klaus, she had barely head any of them mention their father more than a dozen times up until he was contained in a coffin by a witch in the nighties. From what she knew barely any of them were particularly fond of their father."

"When I heard Mikael was free, I came back to warn Klaus but he already knew instead he told me that he loved me. Over five hundred years I've been weary of your brothers feelings for me, wondering if he felt the way I did and then it just came out, as if he had been saying it for years." Veronika wistfully said an a smile graced her face as she recalled the memory.

"We all knew how he felt Veronika but Niklaus has never been one to share his deepest of feelings with anyone. But we all knew that he was in love with you, it was obvious by the way he looked at you… 'She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she's not even aware of. She is like a trap set by nature - a sweet perfumed rose in whose petals Cupid lurks in ambush! Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She instills grace in every common thing and divinity in every careless gesture. Venus in her shell was never so lovely, and Diana in the forest never so graceful as my Lady when she strides through Paris!'…" Elijah recited and Veronika smiled, Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand was one of her favourite books as Klaus read the book to her one summer and quite often said that passage reminded him of her.

"I know you all did but I never believed in it myself, I thought it impossible for me to be loved in that way after everything but apparently not. Niklaus has made his feelings for me very apparent in the most recent weeks, he seems to make that promise of his to always make me happy a priority of his. I wish he wouldn't make such a fuss over me but it seems to please me. Niklaus claims it's what I deserve after being so patient with him and staying by his side whilst he was trying to break the curse." Veronika noted as she paused.

"He's right. You've been with him for five hundred years Veronika."

"I just wanted him to find what was always missing from him and now that he had Klaus seems to have found balance." Veronika began before she took a moment before speaking. "He's calmer.

"Klaus has you to thank for that, you're a good influence of him Veronika." Elijah noted which caused her to just shake her head.

"Oh I don't know about that, I've lead him astray plenty of times but I've noticed a change in him recently. He's become more open with me recently, Klaus doesn't keep secrets from me anymore, he tells me everything although he is keeping what's in that other coffin of his close to the chest. I have no idea what's in it and no matter how I much I ask, he won't budge. But there are secrets in most relationships, I guess…"