"Get off me now or I will end you, I am not afraid to" said Kara, as she reached into her pocket and pulled out an object. Lena recognized it immediately but did not make any attempt to move, in fact she had to chuckle a little bit and pressed down her arm a little bit harder on Kara to keep her in place.

"I wouldn't be laughing if I was you, you might not know what this is but let me just say it could kill you if I wanted to," said Kara as she brandishes the knife. Lena had to admit that she was impressed on how prepared the girl came, unfortunately for her Lena cannot be killed by a normal dark object.

"You need to do your homework a bit more before coming after me, girl. But, I respect you for your bravery, and I see that you have come prepared for a fight but why don't we talk about this like civilized human beings."

"There is only one problem with that there was only one of us here that is human, isn't that right Lena," said Kara, who was still struggling to get free from her grip. But, Lena she kept on the pressure and she had more than enough to keep her pinned to the wall.

"I would rather not talk about this here if you don't mind," asked Lena. Lena hoped that she could convince the girl to talk about this, because she really didn't want to move on

Kara eyed her wearily before putting away the blade, "There is a good little place around the corner which is open 24 hours, and they make a great piece of pie".

Lena smiled, "Great, let me get you a cup of coffee and a piece of pie. And I promise I will explain everything," replied Lena.

Every self preservation instinct that she had honed over the years told her that this was a bad idea, that she should kill the girl and be done with it before moving onto a new place. But, there was something that was stopping her from ripping this girl's heart out, maybe it was the naturally curious human version of Lena saying that she should learn more about this girl before doing anything. Something within Lena whispered for her to give Kara a chance before she jumped to any conclusion; this was the first time that a hunter had ever given her a chance to explain herself.

She took her arm off of Kara's chest and let the blonde lead the way out of the alley, she followed closely behind her. Kara headed back the way that they had came, but at the end of the street instead of turning back towards the seaport district and club she turned in the opposite direction. After walking two blocks they stopped at a old diner.

She followed Kara in, the inside was sparsely populated but that was to be expected at this time of night. There was a big sign that informed patrons that they should seat themselves so Kara walked over to a booth in the far corner of the small diner and Lena slid into the booth across from her.

Before she could say anything, a waitress came over and said, "Hi hun is there something that I can get you?"

Lena motioned to Kara to order, since she didn't really need anything. "Can I get a cup of coffee and a piece of apples pie?"

"Sure honey, do you want that heated up and with ice cream," asked the waitress.

"Yea," said Kara with a chuckle, "is there any other way to eat apple pie?"

The waitress smiled and said, "Of course not silly me for asking, that will be up in a few minutes huh."

"Thanks," replied Kara with an infectious smile.

She turned to Lena and said, "What can I get for you, sweetie?"

"Nothing I am fine, thank you."

"Are you sure that I cannot convince you into a little pie, you look so skinny and pale sweetie," replied the waitress. Lena knew that she was just trying to be nice, her guess was that the woman was a mom and genuinely thought that she was helping.

So instead of getting mad at the woman she decided to use her compulsion. "No, thank you, you can just bring the woman her pie and then leave us alone."

The woman just dumbly nodded and just walked away, luckily Kara did not seem to know what she had done. There was something off about this woman, she knew to follow Lena to the club but she did not know about compulsion, Lena was going to have to figure out how much exactly she knew.

As the woman turned and walked away Kara turned and said, "Okay, I believe that you promised that you would give me an explanation if I let you go."

Lena could not help herself, she knew it would probably just antagonize Kara but she couldn't stop herself from laughing. "You let me go? Is that how we are remembering what happened back there, I am pretty sure that I had you pinned against a wall."

"And I believe that I had a dark knife pointing right at your heart?"

Lena smiled, and said, "Okay, fine if that makes you feel better, what would you like to know?"

"I am guessing, considering where I tracked you to you are a vampire correct? Was anything that you told me the truth the other day?"

Lena sighed, there was something about the way that they girl had that accusatory tone in her voice that made her upset. "Yes, I am a vampire," Lena said finding herself needing to defend her honesty to the girl. "I did not lie to you, I merely left out a few crucial details."

"Is Lena actually your name?"

"It is right now," said Lena. "It is the name on my birth certificate and social security cards."

Kara looked at her in disbelief, "Vampires have social security cards?"

Lena shook her head, no one ever thought of the small things, this sort of attitude was the biggest reason that her kind got in trouble. "Yes, you need a social security card today to do anything, even get a cell phone. I don't really use it much, but it is good to have in case someone does a background check on me."

Kara gave her a once over before continuing, "You are dodging my question, what is your real name the one given to you at birth."

Before Lena could answer the waitress was back and bringing them their coffee and pie, placed the coffee and pie in front of Kara and walked away without saying anything else to them. "The name that my mother was Morgana, but I was never terribly found of that name or her for that matter," said Lena with a sad smile.

"I am sorry if I brought up a sore topic," Kara said quickly seeing the look on Lena's face, a genuine look of sorrow on the blonde's face.

Lena laughed and said, "You are weird for a vampire hunter, asking these questions. Most don't want to know too much about the things that they are killing. You must have nerves of steel."

Kara eyes bulged comically in her head and said, "Oh no, I am not a vampire hunter!"

"Why are you following me then, and how do you know about vampires?"

Kara looked around for a second, clearly not expecting Lena to ask these questions of her. "Well, at first I was merely following up on the story that I was doing on you, but the fact that you are the newest person in the town right when that girl showed up dead got me to digging a little bit deeper. I decided to do some research on the Luthor family and that was when I stumbled upon it."

"The Crier has extensive records of all of the old newspapers all the way back to the founding of the town, and as I was looking through them I found a drawing in one of the earliest papers of the head of the town and the picture looked exactly like you, not just similar but exactly like you. That was when I got interested in you, this was not enough proof of anything but that did not mean I was just going to let it go."

"So, I kept looking through the old records, and after that first leader of the Luthor family died at a very young age, there was not much in the way of records for the Luthors for the next one hundred or so years, the family lived here but there was nothing remarkable about them which was weird since they were the founding family. That was until the start of the revolutionary war, when I young Luthor woman named Morgana came to protect the town against attacks by the British. There was no drawing of this Luthor but the description that was provided by the reporter was spot on for both you and the original Luthor, and again she died very young.

So, again I kept looking and this time I did not find any record that looked promising until 1909 when a another young Luthor came back to town with her female lover and they threw the most extravagant parties and all of the rich and famous from Metropolis would come all the way here to come to these parties. Again, this Luthor was an exact match for you, and they died in the influenza outbreak."

Lena had to admit that she was impressed by the research that Kara had done, and whether she would admit it to Kara or not she had been onto something with all of this. She had come back to Midvale once every generation, but maybe she did not keep as low of a profile back in the day as she might have wanted to.

"So, I decided that this all was too much of a coincidence so I should follow you. So, earlier tonight I waited for you to leave your house and I followed you to the vampire club in the city, and that it when it all clicked together."

Lena was going to kill Jess when she was done with this"That still does not answer the question about how you know so much about vampires, most people don't even know that they exist outside of the hunters."

"I don't remember much about my early life, but I am a witch; my coven was completely destroyed when I was a very young child and that was when I was found and adopted by the Danvers who were not only archeologists but they were also very interested in supernatural beings."

Lena nodded, it all made sense now there was no way that an average human with no prior knowledge would be able to connect all the dots in her life. Now Lena just had to find out whether this going to be a threat or not. She was not used to other parts of the supernatural community knowing her identity.

"So, you were not the only one doing research I did some research of my own. What is a Brown educated, New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter doing working for the backwater newspaper like the Crier?"

Kara shifted in her seat, "Well, my editor at the Times and I had differing opinions on what is considered news. I refused to publish something that they wanted published and I was let go as a result. It was a good thing I guess, I got to come back and take care of my mother because my father had passed not too long before and my sister got a new job in National City and could not visit as often as she used to."

Lena nodded as the girl talked, despite everything Lena did not feel any ill-will or malice coming from the woman sitting across the table from her. "Lena, you still have not answered my original question how much of what you told me was true?"

"All of it, Lena Luthor graduated from Princeton, Harvard Business School and MIT. Then, I really did found L-Corp and it was sold to Wayne Enterprises. Not like I needed the money, one of the good things about living for so long is that you have plenty of time to make money. But, that is merely only one of the 'lives' that I have lived."

"And the story that you told me about you being adopted into the Luthors?"

Lena sighed and said, "That was a half-truth. My earliest memories were living on the street, stealing food to survive, my parents were already dead by that point. When I was four I stole from the local king and I was caught. He adopted me into him into his family, and his wife did make me feel like I was not welcome in the house. But, that was a long time ago back in Ireland where I am from originally."

"Okay, so how old are you?"

"I am 27 years old."

Kara chuckled and said, "No, I meant how long have you been on this earth?"

Lena sighed and said, "Okay, first let me ask you this. How much do you know about vampires?"

Kara paused for a moment, "Well, Vampires are magically reanimated human corpses which are inhabited by the spirits of the deceased person and who closely resemble the living human they were before their transformation. Vampires feed and survive on the blood humans, and they can also transform other humans into vampires by sharing their own blood with them. Vampires share a special bond with their sire, and if the sire ever dies so does everyone that they sired as well as anyone their children sired."

Lena smiled, "Wow, I am impressed. But, have you ever thought about how the first vampires were created if you need to have vampire blood in you when you die to be made into a vampire?"

Kara looked at her for a moment seemingly contemplating what she had said, "Well, not really."

Lena smiled, "Well, I think that we have to agree that there always has to be a first, right?" Kara nodded her head in agreement, "Well, I was born more than two millennia ago in Ireland and I was one of the first vampires. I was turned by a very powerful witch who used an immortality spell on me to turn me into a vampire."

Kara looked dumbstruck and said, "So, you are basically the mother of all vampires then?"

Lena laughed and said, "Not quite I was not the only one who was transformed, but yes I have many children all over the world. To be honest I am not even sure how many vampires can trace their lineage back to me."

Kara just sat there unable to say anything. After a few minutes of silence Lena said, "So, what now?"

This snapped Kara's attention back to Lena, "I just have one more question, look me in the eyes. Did you kill that girl and dump her in the river?"

Lena sat forward in her seat, looked straight into Kara's blue eyes, there was that fire again in them. Completely different from her own ice cold calucating eyes. "No, I did not kill that girl. It was a vampire by the name of Mike Matthews who killed her and the rest of them on the order of someone else to cause trouble for me back in Midvale."

"How do you know this?"

"That is why I was at the vampire club today," replied Lena. "The owner helped me track down this Mike Matthews so I could question him."

"Did you find out who ordered him to do this?"

"No, he did not know anything about the person who hired him," replied Lena, debating in her head about whether she should tell Kara about the mark that she found on the body.

As if Kara was reading her mind she said, "What about the markings that were on the body?"

Lena decided, against her better judgement, to lie to the reporter, she didn't want to reporter to keep searching after answers and get herself. Lena was hyperrational for a vampire, most of her kind would not be as kind to Kara snooping around their business. "Those were puncture marks from fangs, that is not going to help us find the vampire who is behind this since they are probably Mike's."

Kara looked at Lena and shook her head, "I really thought that we were not going to lie to each other anymore Lena. I saw the other mark on her body."

Lena kicked herself for lying to the girl, she just digging this hole deeper. "Okay, yeah I saw it and I was researching it. But, Kara I really think that you should just let this drop, most vampires do not like outsiders even if they are supernatural to mess in our affairs. And we have seen that this particular vampire is willing to kill to make a point."

"No, this is my town too. I want this to be a place where supernatural beings can live in peace, and this vampire is ruining that. Now what did you find out about that mark."

Lena sighed, she really did remind Lena of her not just her physical appearance but also her personality was the exact same as well. "Well, honestly nothing much yet. I recognized the mark from somewhere but I can't place it. I am currently working on researching the design, if you want you can come over tomorrow you can feel free to look through all of the books that I have."

"Okay, that will be great. Now that we have that out of the way if you don't mind I am going to eat my pie."

Lena shook her head, "So, just like that we are all set."

With a mouth full of pie Kara said, "Yeah, sure, you seem like a good person so why not? Is there something that you are not telling me?"

"Well, I am sure that there are things that I am not telling you, but a girl has to keep somethings to herself. Now eat you pie, it is late and I am sure that you want to get home and go to bed."

Kara smiled, "So, then as far as I am concerned we are fine, you seem like a good person and I am always one to trust someone until they give me a reason not to," said a smiling Kara as she started to devour the pie with astonishing speed as Lena signaled for the waitress to come over so she could pay the check. As Kara finished her pie Lena stood up and said, "do you want a ride home?"

"That would be great, I think someone was following me so I left my car back in Midvale."

Lena chuckled, "That was probably Jess, and I think I am going to have to have a conversation with her when I get back about the meaning of stealth surveillance."

Kara gasped, "You had your assistant follow me?"

"Yes, but only because I wanted to see what you were up to, but it was not much good anyways. Now are you ready to go back?"

"Yes, this has been a long couple of days."

"Great, follow me," said Lena as she lead the out of the diner and back towards the club.