August 6, 2011 in the Tangi valley in the Wardak Province of Afghanistan, Katherine Pierce had gorged herself on the newly dead bodies of the Afghanistan Forces. The truth is she has been on the run for so long she Didn't even know where she was and her hunger was controlling her actions. Katherine was just about to bite down one a body when she hears a disembodied women's voice say, "Be sure there dead… I don't want anything leading back to me!"

Lifting her head from the body Katherine asks the stranger speculatively, "Why should you care!"

Stepping out of the shadows a five foot three, one hundred and ten pound women who moved with the grace of a big cat on the hunt started baring fangs telling Katherine in a taut tone tone of voice, "First I am allowing you to feed in my territory… without tribute!"

"Second I am much older and stronger then I look" the women told Katherine in a honeyed tone.

Katherine could hear the threatening undertone to her tenor as she stopped feeding if only for a moment.

The stranger started gathering all the US Troops together not that that this went unnoticed as Katherine stated in a honeyed tone, "Saving the best for yourself… I see"

The stranger was not amused by the comment as she stopped what she was doing walked up to Katherine looking at her square in the face, her pupils dilated and then contracted as she told Katherine in a silvery tone, "Stop feeding and be silent… do not move until I tell you to"

Katherine did exactly what the stranger commanded she stopped feeding and found herself unable to speak or move. Katherine's mind shifted into overdrive as she realized what just happened thinking, Only an Original can do that... who the fuck is she!

"Katerina Petrova" Said the stranger in as strident tone, "If this is the way you treat people I can understand why that other Hybrid wants you dead"

Katherine froze in her tracks thinking I never told her who I was… what the hell?

Only then did her host's last statement register as she thought, other Hybrid… Klaus is the only-

Lightly laughing laughing the woman said in a honeyed tone, "Klaus Mikaelson is the first Hybrid made by magic…"


Moments later turning her attention back to the US Troops she constructed 30 pyres putting the dead bodies atop them and anointed their bodies with some kind of oil. Taking one of the radio's from the Seals she hit the call button stating "I am standing watch over your dead… they will be treated with the respect they have earned… ask for Lilly at these coordinates at noon on the morrow.

Lilly took a torch and lit all the other bodies aflame.

In Katherine's mind she was screaming, that was my meal!

Lilly just smiled and said, "That was a meal, I allowed you to have…"

Turning her attention back to Katherine the stranger stated, " you may speak"

In that moment Katherine realized one thing, whoever Lilly was she was not someone to you wanted to piss off.

"To answer your question… I am not an Original Katherine , I am thee Original…"

Lilly's eyes started glowing as she told her "Unlike Klaus Mikaelson I actually am the first Hybrid"

Katherine was interested in Lilly commenting in a toneless matter-of-fact voice, "Its midnight… we have some time to kill"

"You want to know more about me… do you" Lilly Said razing her brow, "Why not… the world has changed so much in the last 9 Millennia"

Katherine sat there slack-jawed asking in a wobbly voice, "D-Did you say 9… M-Millennia!"

"I was born in Mesopotamia in the regain called Sumeria 9863 years ago… because I can shift my form they thought me a god… "

Looking right at Katherine, Lilly started to change, as the transformation started Katherine could hear the crackling sound of shedding scales as Lilly's face becoming the perfect copy of Katherine's and her hair color changed and grew longer matching hers. Even her body contours matched Katherine's

As Lilly spoke her voice was an exact match to Katherine's as she said in a silvery tone, "As I told you… I can physically change my form, to my knowledge I am the only vampire in history who can do this."

Lilly thought to herself, Let her think I an the only one, for now she is not ready for Drake yet"

Katherine's mind was still reeling from the tale Lilly told her not to mention the fact that she morphed into Katherine on the spot with little or no effort. Her mind was working racing when it suddenly hit her, her name is Lilly… she is 9863… Lilith!

Lilly pretended not to hear her true name in Katherine's mind

An overwhelming sense of curiosity and fear hit Katherine as said in a soft tone "Now to test the theory…"

Katherine said, "Lilith…" in a flat matter-of-fact tone of voice.

Grinning Lilly looked at Katherine and said in a quiet yet silvery tone, "I see my secret is out… do not not to use that name unless its an emergency"

"and call me Lilly"

Katherine looked as her new friend and asked quietly "Would you mind changing back to your own form… it's unnerving, especially since were not blood"


"Their coming to desecrate the bodies" Lilly spat. Looking at Katherine Lilly said "Wait here…" Her pupils dilated and then contracted as she said in a commanding tone, "Do not feed on the bodies I want you to guard them until I return"

Katherine watched as Lilly stripped right in front of her, her skin tone darkened to the color of Ash and bone barbs grew out of her forearms and head, and then she was gone. Off in the distance Katherine could hear the disembodied screams of men as they died. Lilly was back just as quickly as she had vanished. Katherine looked at Lilly asking her quizzically, "How many?"

"100… Al-Qaeda & Taliban they will never find the bodies" Lilly told her.

"You went through 100 men in 5 minutes?" Katherine muttered.

Smirking Lilly told Katherine sarcastically, "I haven't fed in 5000 years!"

Laughing nervously Katherine said in a sarcastic tone, "You are Dangerous!"

"Did I need to state the obvious…?" Lilly said in a flat dead tone of voice.

"Katherine" Lilly smiled as she told her in a honeyed tone, "I never had to evolve… like the great white shark I was born to be the perfect predator"


Sunrise later that morning Katherine watched the naked Lilly standing in the sunlight when she realized something Lilly was not burning and she was not wearing any jewelry, absentmindedly fingering her own necklace Katherine asked in an inquisitive tone, "How?"

Stretching in the sunlight Lilly said curtly, "As I told you I never had to evolve I was born the perfect predator that means I can walk in the sun."


Noon that day representatives from a nearby base approach to see their dead laid out exactly as the voice told them. The Chaplin that accompanied them was also an amateur historian and archaeologist as he said in a stunned tone of voice, "These rights have not been observed since the fall of Mesopotamia…"

Katherine gave Lilly a sideways glance waiting for her to make the first move. Using Infrasonic Speech Lilly told her, "Be Still… We do not want them looking at us to close!"

As the U.S. contingent left Lilly said in a matter-of-fact tone, "Get ready to leave… this Mystic Falls you told me about sounds intriguing... however we have a stop to make first!"