A/N- Hey guys, I've been watching Supergirl again, well watching bits and pieces anyway, that's the price I pay for not having sky hehe. Anyway, here's another Lena/Kara fic.
This time Lena has a bit of a shock for Kara or Supergirl (either one) but just how will Supergirl deal with the fact that although she has been keeping things from Lena, that the Luthor also has some secrets of her own?
Enjoy!
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GUARDIAN
1
"911 do you copy? We have a school on fire, we need help asap." The radio crackled to life in a stationary police car as Kara Danvers aka Supergirl walked past.
Immediately, she turned and ran the other way, ducking into an alley and changing into her Supergirl costume as quickly as she could.
She then took off towards where she could smell the fire burning the building full of children.
She realized it was worse than she'd originally thought.
Half of the private school was alight and there were still screaming kids inside. The fire brigade was there. urging people, parents and some of the teachers who had gotten out quickly to stay back and let them do their job.
Supergirl blasted the fire with her ice breath but her eyes widened when she saw that it wasn't working.
"What?"
A deep frown creased her brow as she tried again, still nothing.
What the hell was this?
Supergirl saw children at the windows crying and screaming and she swept into the building, trying to help as many as she could.
As she neared the window to take the first two out with her, she heard the fireman talking to his colleague.
"It's not going out no matter what we do and the building could collapse any second!"
This made Supergirl's heart rate increase significantly and she worked quicker, trying to get all the children out of the burning school.
She even managed three at a time and she smiled when she looked around.
At least the kids were safe.
Her red boots hit the ground as the people clapped and cheered.
A little boy ran forward, worry clear in his brown eyes.
"My friends' still in there!"
"What?!"
"Max! He hit his head! I tried to help him but-"
"It's OK. I'll find him."
Supergirl went back into the school and looked around, calling the boy's name.
"Max! Max!"
She went to the classroom where most of the kids had been and found nothing.
As she walked, a part of the corridor gave way underneath her and she manged to jump to the other side.
"Max!"
The fire was increasing and it seemed like nothing would put it out, even as Supergirl gave one last ditch effort with her ice breath.
It was clear that someone not human had started this fire, but why?
"Max!" Supergirl tried again.
Just faintly, in the classroom right at the end of the corridor, she heard coughing and she ran towards it.
"Max?! Is that you?!"
More coughing.
Supergirl ran into the classroom and grabbed the little boy who must be Max.
The school creaked and swayed as more debris fell down, one part narrowly missing Supergirl's head.
"It's OK Max, I'm gonna get you out of here."
The boy's eyes kept closing and Supergirl just hoped that he hadn't inhaled too much smoke.
Fire was all around them as just as Supergirl flew from the window, the school collapsed behind her.
She could hear the screams of the parents as the smoke covered her and the boy.
The boy's friend looked worried, tears in his eyes.
These children really were too young to be seeing something so tragic but thankfully Supergirl had managed to save them all.
When she landed, she called for a paramedic and they came over quickly to attend to the young boy.
Max's friend came over.
"Is he gonna be OK?"
Supergirl smiled at him as she crouched down to his level.
"He's gonna be fine. Don't worry."
Suddenly, the boy's eyes flashed amber and he grinned such an evil grin that it split his face as he morphed into something that definitely wasn't human.
"Damn." He said, his voice now a guttural growl.
Supergirl fell back as he took off into the sky, sprouting demonic looking wings and howling like a banshee.
She would really have to see the DEO about that one.
The people all around watched in horror as Supergirl watched with them. There was no point in going after it. She wasn't sure just how dangerous that thing was.
The Luthor children's hospital was packed with children being treated with burns and shock.
Crying could be heard as soon as Kara walked through the doors.
It hurt her heart to hear things like this but she could console herself with the fact that she'd managed to save them all.
She wanted to see how Max was getting along. The paramedics had assured Supergirl that he'd be fine but she wanted to see for herself.
Stopping at the reception desk, Kara smiled politely at the nurse on duty.
"Hi, I'm looking for Max. I'm a friend of his mother's and she asked me to check on him being as she's in another country right now."
Kara hoped the lie would work and clearly it did because the nurse told Kara that his room was a few doors down and to the left.
Kara nodded her thanks and went straight for it.
As she neared the room, Kara stopped when she saw Lena Luthor walking down the corridor.
Both women stopped as though they were surprised to see each other but then Kara remembered that Lena liked to check on the hospital from time to time to make sure everything was in order and of course after the fire, she would most definitely want to be here.
"Lena!"
"Kara, what are you doing here?" She asked not unkindly.
"I uh-I'm here to see a boy Supergirl saved. She wanted me to check on him."
Lena nodded.
"It's great that she was there. She saved basically everyone in that building."
"Well she does try." Kara said modestly.
"That she does and succeeds."
Kara just smiled.
"So have you been visiting the patients?"
Lena nodded.
"I like to make sure that they're being taken care of."
Kara smiled.
That was one of the things she liked most about Lena, she had a kind heart and even though everything about her spelled out trouble, mainly because of her name, she was caring and she wanted to make National city better in any way that she could. Kara could only admire her for that.
"Oh um, I'm having dinner later, if you want to join me." Lena said suddenly.
Kara nodded.
"Yeah sounds great. I have some stuff to do after here but then sure, why not?" She said with a bright smile.
Lena nodded.
"See you around seven?"
Kara nodded.
"Yeah OK, see you then."
...
Seven o clock rolled around and as Kara made her way to L corp, her phone started ringing.
With a little frown at who would be calling her, she answered quickly without checking the caller ID.
"Hello? Kara?"
"Lena? Oh hi, is everything alright?"
"Yes it's fine. Listen, I know you were heading over to L corp but do you think if I gave you the address you could come to my house instead? I know it's a pain but I don't have a lot of other options."
"No that's fine. Um so what's the address?"
Lena rattled off an unfamiliar address and Kara memorized it.
"Make sure you get a receipt and I'll pay you for the cab here."
Kara looked around.
"It's not in walking distance?"
"Not exactly no. I'm a Luthor, I guess my father thought it was better to have a home outside of National city. Y'know, somewhere I could retreat to if the people didn't like me." She added with a nervous chuckle.
Kara nodded her understanding.
"I understand. I mean I have-" Kara cut herself off. There was no way that she could tell Lena about the fortress of solitude. That would really mess things up.
"You have what?" Lena pushed gently.
"My...my-my sister's place. It's like a second home." Kara lied awkwardly.
"OK, well I guess we all need a place like that sometimes."
"I agree. So I'll be over in...well however long it takes for the taxi to take me." She laughed.
Of course, Kara had no intention of taking a taxi, she could just fly over as long as she landed before the Luthor's home. It wouldn't do any good for Lena to see her land right outside her window.
"See you soon Kara. It's not far really." Lena said, trying to make Kara feel better about what she thought could be a long journey.
It took Kara all of ten minutes to locate the Luthor residence and land just before the looming double gates.
A guard stood on watch in a box that looked big enough to be a comfortable sized shed.
Kara gave him a polite smile.
"I'm er Kara Danvers, here to see Lena Luthor."
The guard pressed something in his ear and Kara could Lena's voice on the other end with her super hearing.
"That's fine James. Let her in."
The guard nodded, pressed a button in the shed like thing and the gates opened up.
Kara smiled a little and then walked through gates, onto the tree lined path.
It took about maybe three minutes for Kara to walk up and see the huge house bearing down on her.
It looked dark, mysterious; then again, what did she expect from a Luthor house?
She walked up the few steps to the door and used the huge lion headed knocker.
A few seconds later, Lena answered.
"Hi Kara, so good to see you." She said, wrapping the blonde in a warm hug.
Kara hugged her back and realized how safe she felt despite being stuck in the middle of nowhere.
"I'm sorry you had to come out here but I hope you'll enjoy dinner just the same." Lena said with a smile as she closed the door behind Kara.
The blonde looked up at the high ceilings and the dark wood work.
"Your home is beautiful."
"Thank you. It actually belonged to my father. He must have known that sooner or later I would move to National City. He always said that the house was here if I wanted it."
Kara nodded as she listened.
Lena lead her through to the lounge and Kara almost chuckled when she saw pizza boxes, and two tubs of ice cream set out on the table as a movie, which they both liked and had seen before, was on the title screen on the TV.
"I thought you'd like this more than whatever I could cook up, which isn't much." Lena said, scratching the back of her neck.
Kara smiled at her friend.
"This looks lovely Lena. Thank you."
Lena smiled, clearly pleased.
A noise upstairs caused both of them to look up.
Kara frowned slightly.
"I thought you were here alone."
"I am. I'll go check it out." Lena said hurriedly, brushing past Kara.
"I'll come with you-"
Lena swiveled round on the stairs.
"No! I mean, no... it's fine Kara, honestly, it's probably a window I left open or something."
Kara frowned slightly but let her go anyway.
It didn't last long because the next thing Kara knew, she was upstairs, hunting round, trying to find what had made the noise, she also was trying to find where Lena had gotten to. The place had quite a few rooms and Kara had searched most of them.
She was just about to enter what looked like the bathroom when she heard Lena's voice.
"No, you'll be fine here. You're safe, I promise. I wouldn't let anything happen to you."
Kara frowned slightly and moved towards the room where Lena was, the door was slightly ajar.
Kara peered inside and saw Lena sitting on the edge of a bed, her back to the door.
Kara pushed on the door a little, making it creak involuntarily.
Lena's head whipped around and Kara ducked out of the way.
"Kara?" Lena called out.
Kara bit her lip and cursed herself for following the Luthor up here. She should've just stayed downstairs.
"Uh...yeah?"
Lena flew out of the room and shut the door behind her.
"What are you doing up here? It was a window open after all, it had blown back against the wall, that's what the noise was." Lena lied.
Kara didn't like being lied to and she fixed the Luthor with a serious look.
"I heard you talking to someone."
Lena's eyes widened slightly for only a second.
"N-no I wasn't. I was-"
"Lena, I know there's someone in there with you. I don't need to know who but I don't understand why you're lying to me."
Lena hated the hurt look on Kara's face and she nodded, her face showing an expression of defeat.
She then put her hand on the door handle and gestured for Kara to follow her inside the room.
The blonde did and she stopped in the doorway when she saw the boy she'd rescued earlier from the burning school.
Lena stood by his side and turned around to look at Kara.
"Kara, this is-"
"I know who this is. I-Supergirl saved him earlier today. He was in the hospital. Why is he here Lena?"
Lena licked her lips as the little boy looked up at her and she gently smoothed his hair back.
"Kara, this is Max. He's my son."
A/N- Hope you liked that little shock hehe. Let me know what you think and if I should continue.