When Lena arrived home Jess already had all of the books that she had requested in her room ready for her since then Lena had spent the past two days in the room looking through all of them. But, so far she had come up with nothing; Jess had come in a every three hours to offer to help but after Lena had turned her away several times so Jess had left her alone.

Lena had lost track of time by the next time that Jess entered the room. "Mistress, your next appointment is in half an hour with Ms. Kara Danvers from the Midvale Crier."

Lena looked up at the clock it had almost been 20 hours since she had started looking through the books with nothing to show for it. Hopefully Veronica was having more luck with this then she was, if she could find the vampire that had killed the girl she might get a clue about the mark on the girl.

"Thank you Jess, I appreciate it, please make sure that we have…"

"Coffee has already been put on, I have gone to the bakery and got a few pastries for your guest and I have set out a table out on the porch. It is a beautiful day, quite warm actually for fall."

Lena shook her head she should have guessed that Jess already had everything under control. "Do you have the file Jess?"

"I don't know what you are talking about Mistress," replied Jess perfectly without expression, however her dilated pupils gave away her lie.

"Jess, why are you lying to me?"

She sighed and said, "I am sorry Mistress, I was not sure if you had wanted me to or not usually you tell me to prep one. I am sorry if I overstepped my bounds but I just want to protect you."

Lena did not let it show but she was grateful to have such a loyal person. They were so rare in her life, "Jess, you did nothing wrong. You anticipated my needs and acted accordingly, you did a good job there is nothing to apologize for but if I could please have the file so I can get ready."

Jess nodded retreated for a second before returning holding a small file folder. "Any highlights?"

"Not really Mistress, there is nothing other than a birth certificate before she was thirteen years old. She went to college at Brown University before joining the New York Times, and quickly rose through the ranks winning a Pulitzer Prize before she was all of a sudden fired and ended up back in Midvale working for the Crier."

"This reporter just keeps getting more and more interesting. I wonder why there is such a gap in her earlier life, do you think she is some sort of supernatural being?"

Jess shifted from one foot to the other before replying to the question. "Well I have followed her for the past day but there was a period of time that I thought she was in her house but she disappeared. There is definitely something suspicious going on."

Lena nodded and said, "Thank you Jess, that is all for now, when our guest arrives please escort her to the porch and make sure that she is all set I am going to change."

Jess nodded and said, "If you need anything else please let me know." Then she turned and left Lena to herself. Lena sighed she never really liked reporters, due to her nature she had tried to keep out of the limelight as much as possible. But her curiosity about this blonde reporter outweighed her desire to remain in hidden, there was something about this woman. She felt like a moth drawn to a flame she just hoped that she would not get burned by the fire.

Lena quickly flipped through the file that Jess had worked up, it confirmed all of the information that Jess had just given her plus some other miscellaneous details about the reporter. But, it did not shed any light on the most important questions that Lena had about the woman. Namely, was she a supernatural and why could she not compel the woman the other day at the crime scene.

After a few minutes Lena figured that looking through the file anymore would not do her any good right now, so she put it down and walked out of the study and up the stairs to her bedroom. When she got to the top of the stairs she took a right and walked into her room.

She did not spend much time here because she had no need for a bed but she kept it just in case she ever had any mortal visitors open so she would not draw any attention to herself. It looked like something that belonged in a museum, it was perfectly preserved the way it was back when Lena had originally built the house. There was a huge four poster bed in the middle of the room, it would not have looked out of place in an 18th century house.

The only part that she added to it over the years was a walk in closet, as she slid open the door to the closet the lights came on automatically and lit up the whole closet. It was full to the brim of designer clothes and shoes, it was the one thing that Lena still spend a lot of money on, not only did she have to keep up appearances but she found a little bit of comfort in it, probably because she enjoyed it so much before she had died.

Despite having been alive for two millennia there was not much Lena spend money on; it was not that she didn't have the money to buy whatever she wanted. When you add up all of her different accounts and assets, under the numerous different alias she was a millionaire several times over but the fun of spending money on stupid things had stopped centuries ago, just like the over indulgence in many things.

Most vampires she knew spent too much time indulging in all sorts of vices, some did it because there was no one to stop them and they wanted to prove it. Others did it because they were trying to feel alive again, and fill that hole that they all had in them. But, Lena was different from most of her kind; they were all young in her eyes, immature, when you live as long as she has those tendencies tend to die away. Despite what humans thought being immortal was not all fun, and when you had lived as long as Lena had there was much more pain then joy. By this point in her existence there was not much to celebrate anymore

Lena was snapped out of her train of thought by the sound of a car that she didn't recognize that coming up the driveway. She turned and looked at the clock, 'She is early,' Lena thought to herself. She used her enhanced speed to grab an outfit out of her closet and quickly get changed.

The funny thing was that Lena could barely hear her approach the door, and if Lena hadn't know better she would have assumed that this reporter was a vampire as well. She could hear the woman's heart but it was very different from a normal human, this just proved to Lena that she needed to dig deeper about this girl.

Just then there was a knock at the door and she heard Jess moving over to the door to open it. As Jess opened the door she said, "Good Morning Ms. Danvers, you are early."

"Yes, I am I apologize I like to arrive ahead of schedule. I can wait in the car if Ms. Luthor is not ready yet."

"No, that is fine, she should be down in just a few moments if you would like there is some coffee and pastries on the table on the porch."

"Thank you very much," replied Kara as she stepped into the house.

Once Lena had heard Jess lead the reporter out to the porch she waited a few minutes until Jess came upstairs to inform her that the reporter had arrived, she did not want to raise any suspicion by going down to soon and risk the reporter catching on to her enhanced abilities. Jess knocked on the door to the bedroom and said, "Miss, your guest is waiting for you out on the porch."

"Thank you very much Jess, I appreciate it," said Lena in the way of a dismissal of the girl for now.

"No problem Ms. Luthor I will be here; if you need anything please let me know."

"Thank you Jess I will," said Lena as she headed down the stairs. Once she got to the bottom of the steps she turned and walked out to where the young reporter was sitting. As she walked through the door she saw the reporter sitting in her chair drawing in her book waiting for her.

The rays of the morning sun hit her hair she noticed that the reporter looked an awful lot like her. She had a same flowing blonde hair, same infectious smile, and same bright blue eyes, the eyes that looked at the world with joy and amazement, the eyes that looked like the sea off the coast of Ireland on a clear autumn day. Lena caught herself staring at the reporter until she finally noticed Lena's presence, stood up and extended her hand, and said, "Good Morning Ms. Luthor thank you very much for allowing me to interview you."

This snapped Lena out of her trance and she reached forward to shake the blonde's hair, "Oh, no problem, I am just surprised that you want to interview me, please by the way please call me Lena."

"Okay, Lena, feel free to call me Kara. As for the interview you are the last of the Luthors, and for better or for worse they are the founding family of the town. So, are you ready to get started?"

"Sure, just let me get a cup of coffee here, please sit down and make yourself comfortable," said Lena as she motioned to the seat that Kara had been sitting in previously. "Would you like a cup of coffee?"

"Black would be great thank you, I have had a long past day following up with the police on the progress of the murder investigation."

Lena had to suppress a smile the girl walked right into the topic that was of the most interest to Lena. "Oh, yes, how is that going; do the police have any leads?" she asked as she poured some coffee in one of the cups and handed it to Kara.

"Nothing that I am sure you don't already know after your conversation with the chief of police the other day. They are still trying to ID the body that seems to be taking them a little while, she is definitely not a local my guess is that she is from National City especially given all that is going on there with the missing girls. They have confirmed that the cause of death was that she bled to death but they only found a few small puncture holes on the body which seems a little strange."

Lena nodded, taking in all of the information with this new information it seemed like her best bet at this point in finding out about the situation would come from anything that Veronica could dig up. "But, enough about that the question that a lot of people have been asking is about the newest addition to our little town."

Lena smiled and said, "It must be a very boring town if I am the most talked about topic in the town. But, I have always said give the people what they want so ask your questions Miss Danvers."

Kara smiled, there was a twinkle in her eyes as she pulled a pencil out and looked down at her notepad, "I like to just have a conversation with my subjects I feel like it flows more naturally that way so I will just start and we will see where it goes from there. Okay?"

Lena nodded, "First of all why don't you tell me a little about yourself, just some basic background information to start off with?"

Lena smiled, "Of course, my name is Lena Luthor, I was adopted by the Luthors when I was four years old, I am 29 years old, I was born in Metropolis; I lived there most of my life. I am an engineer by trade; I graduated from degrees from Princeton, Harvard Business School and MIT. I ran a small company for a little bit, which I sold right before I moved to Midvale."

"Oh, that is interesting, I was adopted as well but when I was much older, I was thirteen when I was adopted by the Danvers. They were really great to me over the years, Eliza and Jeremiah were archeologists I guess that is why I decided to go into journalism believe it or not; I feel close to them because both journalists and archaeologists uncover the truth and give a voice to the voiceless."

Lena interest was piqued, "That is a very interesting way to look at it, I never would have thought about it that way. But, it is true they both uncover secrets of people, one of dead civilizations and the other of the living."

Kara was practically bouncing in her chair she was nodding her head so fast, "Yes, exactly, there are not many people who agreed with me but that is exactly how I think about it. But, enough about that I could spend all day talking about that, so what was your adopted family like, the Luthors?"

"Well," said Lena, debating on how much of the truth that she should reveal to the reporter. But, looking at the honesty that was in the reporters eyes she decided to tell her more then she had originally intended. She looked down at her hands and said, "They were fine, I never wanted for anything. I got the best education that money could buy, got everything that I ever wanted. My father was nice enough when he was still alive. However, the demands that they placed on me could get overwhelming at times, and my adoptive mother Lillian made sure that I always knew that I was not a real Luthor like the rest of my family. I would never be good enough for her."

It was not really a lie, when Lena was younger, before she was turned she was taken in by the Lord's family. However, she fell into that awkward position of not really being a part of the Lord's family, and everyone knew it. His wife had never really liked her, and made sure that she knew it. It was a painful time, but it was better than starving on the street and living in the house with them formed her into the person that she grew up to be.

She looked up at Kara, and she could see the pity in her eyes, and it made Lena mad at first who did this human think that she was. She was not some poor sap that needed her pity; she was one of the most powerful vampires and by extension beings that the world had ever know. But, then after second when she looked closer she thought she saw something else, not pity, but maybe sadness, genuine sadness for her plight. Lena did not think that she had ever had anyone feel for her before in her life.

So she continued, "So, when I went off to college I never really looked back, I got my three degrees, and started my own company to prove to them wrong."

As she talked Kara jotted down notes and as she was writing Lena saw it again that passion and drive that she had seen in her eyes when they were talking the other day at the crime scene. "Wow that is amazing. What did your company do?"

"We were a tech company nothing too exciting there, but we did make some of the chips that are used in computers and held a couple of different patterns so I guess we were worth something to Wayne Enterprises," said Lena with a shrug.

Kara stopped writing for a second, "Wait if Wayne Enterprises bought your company, what was the name?"

"L-Corp," said Lena as she took a sip of her coffee.

Kara looked up from her pad and said, "Come on Ms. Luthor everyone knows that the CEO of L-Corp is…"

Kara stopped, and Lena continued "Riley Lachlan? The reclusive millionaire genius? Yes that is me, my middle name is Riley and my original last name before I was adopted by the Luthors was Lachlan."

Kara just sat there for a second and Lena could not help but smile, there were not many people other than Jess who knew the true identity of the bmllionaire owner of L-Corp. "Why did you tell me that? You do know that this interview is on the record?"

Lena smiled and said, "Yes, I do, I have spoken to one or two journalists in my life Kara. I have given you a choice Kara and I truly believe that life is just a culmination of all of the choices that we make. Right now you have a choice to make, you have the power to break a huge story it might even be enough to get your job back at the New York Times."

Kara started to stammer something before Lena held up her hand and said, "Let's move on but before we do let's just that I am just a woman who is just trying to live her life out of the spotlight, I might be a millionaire but at my heart I am just a simple woman trying to live a peaceful live and this town looks like as good of place as any. If the short month that I have been her it feels like I have come home."

Lena smiled and bit her lower lip, "Kara you seem like such a good person, I will not tell you want to do but I hope you can find it in you to just let me live in peace."

Kara had stopped her stammering and looked Lena right in the eye the fire back in them, and said, "You are testing me aren't you?"

Lena batted her eyelashes and said, "I have no idea what you are talking about, now I believe that we are in the middle of an interview do you have more questions."

Kara shook her head and said, "Okay, play coy with me if you will Miss Luthor. You will just have to wait to see what I publish."

"I look forward to it Ms. Danvers."

Lena and Kara ended up talking for more than two hours before Kara finally excused herself with a thank you and a promise that Lena would get to read the story before it was published in the Saturday edition of the paper. During the interview they had both gotten to know a lot about each other, the one thing that Lena did not learn was anything about Kara's nature. But, she did learn that she really enjoyed spending time with the reporter, she was very kind and attentive and good at her job. Lena felt more like she was talking to a friend then a reporter.

After Kara had excused herself Lena went to go check on Jess. "How was the interview Mistress."

"It was fine Jess, there is nothing to worry about. She seems like a good person, I doubt she is the person that we are looking for, but I want you to keep an eye on her, I want to know if anything strange happens. Report back everything to me."

Jess gave Lena a knowing look but Lena refused to acknowledge it. "Yes, Mistress I will watch her. By the way Veronica called when you were with her she said that she might have found out some information that might be of use to you."

Lena perked up at this, "Why didn't you tell me this sooner."

"I didn't want to bother you during your interview, you seemed to be enjoying yourself."

Lena glared at Jess, "Well then what did she say, did she find out who is dropping dead bodies in my town?"

"She did not say Mistress, she said it was for your ears only."

Lena sighed and said, "Fine let her know that I will meet her wherever she wants, when you have done that get to following Kara."

"Yes, Mistress."

Jess left Lena to make the call over to Veronica leaving Lena alone with her thoughts. She decided that she might as well finish the last couple of books that she was not able to before her meeting with Veronica so she turned on her heels and headed back to her library. But, all she could think about was the blonde reporter with the fiery blue eyes.