Vera's Nursery

**Vera's Nursery** is a nursery created by Niklaus Mikaelson for his daughter Vera Mikaelson. It is located in a room between Klaus and Andrea's bedroom in the Mikaelson compound. It was first shown in *A Closer Walk With Thee*, when Klaus revealed the nursery to Andrea to assuage her fears regarding what would happen after Vera's birth and to invite her to continue to live with him and raise their child in their home, to which she exepted.

## Occupants

Vera Mikaelson (current)
Sam Mikaelson (former)

## Throughout The Originals Series

### Season One

In *A Closer Walk With Thee*, Klaus informed Andrea that he wanted to show her something. He then took her the bedroom off of Andrea's room to reveal the nursery he had created, complete with a painting of the French Quarter he painted, a wooden cradle, dressers, a crystal mobile, and multiple stuffed animals for their daughter to play with. When Andrea seemed happy with the nursery, Klaus asked her for details regarding her confrontation with Mikael's ghost earlier in the evening, but Andrea assured him that Mikael didn't say anything about him that was true. Just as Klaus was about to leave her to her thoughts, Andrea stopped him and kissed him passionately.

In *From a Cradle to a Grave*, Andrea recalled a memory between herself and KIaus sometime prior to *The Battle of New Orleans*. In the flashback, Klaus came into the nursery and found Andrea writing a letter. Klaus began to tease Andrea about writing a love letter to him but their conversation was interrupted when Vera started kicking Andrea forcefully from the womb, and Andrea urged Klaus to put his hand on her stomach so he could feel it for himself. When he did, he was so stunned by the realization that he was going to become a father that became overwhelmed and left the room. Andrea then revealed that she was writing a letter to Vera herself in order to describe how happy and excited she and Klaus were to finally meet her. Once newborn baby Vera was rescued by Marcel from Lafayette Cemetery, Klaus brought her to her nursery to sleep. Andrea and Vera then were able to spend some quality time together in the nursery before Andrea ultimately made the decision to fake Vera's death before sending her away while the rest of them made New Orleans safe for her to return again. Right before Vera left with Klaus to be taken to her aunt Rebekah to live with her for the time being, Elijah pricked Vera's thumb with a pin in order to draw a drop of blood so Andrea could drink it and complete her transition into a hybrid, saving her life in the process. Mother and daughter then spent their last moments together in the nursery before Andrea sent Vera away with a bag containing the letter she had written, in case Andrea never got to tell her the story of her conception herself.

### Season Two

In *Rebirth*, Elijah was in the process of taking Vera's crib apart when Andrea returned home from the Bayou and found him packing it up. She immediately demanded that he stop, and when Elijah explained to her that it was the appropriate time for them to move on in order to ensure that the rest of the city continued to believe that Vera was dead, Andrea insisted that it was still her room and that she would decide when it was appropriate to clear it out. That night, after Andrea, Klaus, Elijah, and Marcel had taken down Francesca Guerrera and the Guerrera Pack, Andrea became so overwhelmed by the reality of taking so many fellow werewolf lives and "acting no better than a vampire" that she angrily began to break the crib into pieces. When Elijah begged her to stop, Andrea argued that she knew he looked at her differently now that she was a hybrid, and lamented the fact that she went from being a mother to being a monster.

In *The Devil is Damned*, upon learning that Vera was still alive, Jackson began working on the crescent-moon-carved cradle that he had begun to build using wood from the Bayou when Andrea first started living in the encampments the previous year. Once the cradle was finished, it was moved into the Mikaelson compound between *I Love You, Goodbye* and *They All Asked For You* following Andrea and Jackson's wedding and Jackson's subsequent invitation from Klaus to live at the compound with them. Once Jackson had moved in with the Mikaelson family, he and Andrea spent the majority of their free time in Vera's nursery so they could make up the time they lost with her when they sent her to live with Rebekah.

In *Ashes to Ashes*, Vera was laying in her cradle in her nursery when her great-aunt Dahlia, who had been incapacitated when Klaus (who was magically linked to her) daggered himself with the golden dagger, magically created vines with black dahlia flowers that eventually covered all of the walls of the nursery. The vines then wound their way around the cradle itself until one of the thorns was able to prick her hand and take a drop of blood from her so Dahlia could attempt to link herself to the child.

### Season Three

In *You Hung The Moon*, Andrea returns from being cursed and takes Vera to live with her across the street from her former home in The Abattoir.

In *Savior*, Andrea is seen allowing Vera to play with a thousand-year-old relic in her former room.

## Appearances

* *A Closer Walk With Thee*
* *From a Cradle to a Grave*
* *Rebirth*
* *They All Asked For You*
* *Ashes to Ashes*
* *Savior*

## Trivia

* Vera's Nursery is connected to Andrea's bedroom and is right across the hall from Klaus' bedroom, or it used to. Andrea moved into Klaus' room and thus she was closer to both of them. As a result of this proximity, Andrea and Klaus have both referred to the nursery as Andrea's room.
* Klaus designed the nursery so that Vera could live with her family in a safe home.
* The painting Klaus painted in *Moon Over Bourbon Street*, hangs on the wall of the nursery.
* The crib that Jackson built for Vera also eventually replaced her first crib once it was finished. This crib was first seen in *The Devil is Damned*.
* As of *You Hung The Moon*, Vera no longer lives there.