Part 5

They eventually arrived at the airport and quickly entered the private jet Elijah had reserved.

The ride would be long enough so they took this opportunity to get to know each other better. They were all facing each other, with Back-up lying between them all.

Veronica told them more about her, how she started investigating the people that came in her life after Lilly's death, how she spent the few months since October 3rd sharing her time between over studying and solving her best friend's case, sometimes taking breaks to solve other smaller cases that would pay her enough to buy herself her camera or her computer or even to fix her always breakin car. She could see pride on their faces and she liked it, she wanted them to be proud of her.

"The funny thing is… Lilly always told me that I shouldn't wear yellow cotton dresses, that it wasn't who I was… It took her dying and this horrible party for me to finally listen to her and wear the kind of clothes she wanted me to wear." Veronica confessed, knowing that her father and uncles probably wouldn't get it.

"I get it… But when you live as long as I have, you'll learn to recognize who people really are immediately. Lilly sounded nice though…and smart." Rebekah replied.

"She was great… Well, she wouldn't settle for great, she wanted to be called Fabulous… and she was." Veronica then smiled, remembering Lilly and how she had haunted her for the past year.

"What is it?" Elijah asked her.

"I've been thinking… For the past year… I've seen Lilly quite often… She was kind of guiding me, giving me comments on what was happening, showing up every time I needed her… I figured it was the product of my imagination, something I had subconsciously created to concentrate on solving this crime but then…" She started and stopped, looking at them.

"You think maybe she was really a ghost or a spirit?" Kol asked her.

"Would it have been possible, even if she wasn't supernatural?" She asked back.

"Of course." Elijah nodded.

"If the past thousand years have thought us anything is that anything is possible." Klaus told her gently.

"Will she stop coming now that her murder is solved?" The new Mickealson asked.

"Who knows? If she wasn't ready to die, which is very possible given her young age and what you told us about her, she might stick around a while longer…" Elijah explained.

"You might see her more often now that you believe in the supernatural and that you're a part of it. Since you're more open to it..." Kol added.

"The irony is that I believed everything so quickly because of the fact I saw Lilly so much before…" Veronica replied.

"Didn't I tell you that you were special and fabulous Veronica?" Veronica heard and jumped before she turned to the voice and saw Lilly sitting in Kol's lap.

"What is it?" Klaus asked her.

"Lilly… She's here… She's sitting on Kol's lap…" Veronica said before she looked at her best friend's ghost and said "I've missed you."

"Don't worry Veronica, I'm not going anywhere. You're so lucky though, your father and your uncles are so hot…" Lilly told her best friend.

"Lilly!" Veronica complained with a chuckle and a blush.

"What is it?" Rebekah asked her.

"Lilly said that I was lucky because my father and my uncles are hot." Veronica announced.

"Your father might be the hottest though." Lilly said, still sitting on Kol's lap.

"If my father is the hottest then why are you sitting on Kol's lap?" Veronica asked while the rest of them chuckled and Kol frowned.

"Because I'm trying to be decent. Your witch grandmother told me that if they drink a bit of your blood they'll be able to see me too, always." Lilly told her best friend.

"Lilly said that my grandmother, a witch, your mother, told her that if you all drank a bit of my blood you'll be able to see her all the time." Veronica told them.

"Do you want us to?" Rebekah asked her.

"I'd love to, yes." Veronica replied and so they all drank a bit of blood from her wrist.

Kol, who had been told Lilly was sitting on his lap had still been surprised to see her and it made him jump. The dead girl simply laughed as she stood and went to sit in the free chair by Rebekah.

For the next few minutes, they all got to know Lilly a bit before the ghost said that she had to go and would come back later, that she'd never be far from Veronica.

"So, that was Lilly... I like her." Rebekah declared.

"Too bad she's dead, she's hot." Kol added before Elijah slapped him behind the head.

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As the trip continued, Klaus was also very open and honest with her and he did tell her that he had made a few enemies along the way. Veronica kept her possible comment to herself but the thought that, just like her father, she had made a few enemies did cross her mind. Like father like daughter they said…

"Will there be some of your enemies in Mystic Fall's?" Veronica asked him.

"Yes, a few of them but they're pretty harmless… I mean, I'm still alive aren't I?" He asked her with a smile.

"You did cut it pretty close brother." Kol reminded him.

"Maybe, but now that they know that because of the bloodlines they'll die if they kill me, I'm safe. Beside, I think that the fact that I didn't kill them in retaliation will prevent them from trying anythign else, especially since I could kill them all in the blink of an eye." Klaus replied.

"Why are we going back there if you have enemies? Shouldn't you go somewhere new?" Veronica asked her father.

"I… I'd like to see if there's a way to reform some kind of friendship with Stefan Salvatore before I go somewhere else." Klaus told her.

"And he'd like to win over Caroline Forbes. I mean, she is, after all, the only one he's been capable of loving for a long time…" Rebekah teased her big brother.

"Really? Who is she?" The younger blond asked.

"She's a vampire, only a little over 18, she was changed about a year or so ago… She's beautiful and always cheerful…" Klaus started to say but he was cut off by Rebekah:

"She has the worst taste in friends. I mean, the stupid Doppelganger is her best friend and she's dating one of Klaus' hybrids."

Veronica took out her computer and started looking for the girl who had stolen her father's heart through the same PI database she used before.

"She seems decent… A sheriff for a mother, I can relate to that… I'm not a big fan of the magazines she reads anymore but I know that Lilly also had a subscription to those… I might be able to become friends with her, bring her closer to you…" Veronica commented while they all looked above her shoulder to the computer.

"You really are full of resources, aren't you?" Elijah commented.

"This is pretty handy, yes." Veronica nodded before she started doing researches on the other people they had mentioned so she could know more about them.

So... Lilly's here...

I won't make her come back like I did in previous stories I wrote. She'll remain a ghost, but it doesn't mean that she can't find love with another spirit...

A few of you asked me about Wallace... This story starts in the same year Lilly died, Wallace arrived later, the next year. So he's not in Neptune yet and won't be in this story. Sorry.

Tell me what you think in a review please!

Lorelei Candice Black