"Mom...I'm home." Alura called as she walked through the apartment. She pushed her glasses up her nose when she saw Lilian standing with Lena in the lounge.
"We can't have another alien in the sky Lena, I told you." Lilian sneered, turning to Alura. Her posture straightened and a small smirk formed on her face.
Alura looked confused as she looked at her mom from across the room, "What's- What is going on?" She asked.
"Mom is telling me that you can't be the new hero of National City."
"Well, it's not up to her. I'm an adult." Alura said nervously.
"That doesn't explain why you still live at home." Lilian said pointedly, before shrugging, "Well if you are so grown up, you should be independent."
"She lives at home because she is a teenager and my daughter." Lena said modestly. As Lilian turned around, Alura pinched her glasses and muttered, "Will you die already?"
Lena raised her eyebrows, with crossed arms and Alura realized she had been heard, "Oh, oh." She said with a nervous laugh, "Did I...Did I say that out loud? Golly!" She laughed, before seeing Lena glaring, "I will go to my room and do some studying." She said nervously before walking away.
"A teenager." Lilian said sternly, "You need a man in your life Lena." She said, turning back to her daughter.
"I'm perfectly content with the life I have. There is me and my daughter. I am happy with that."
"We need more Luthor off-Spring not...Kryptonian half-breeds."
Lena was quick to defend her own family's honour, "What the hell did you just call my daughter?"
"We will be in touch." Lilian smirked before leaving.
Lena sighed and stalked her way over to thr front door, before locking it. She huffed out a sigh, before swiftly making her way to her daughter's bedroom.
Once she reached the room, she saw Alura now dressed in only a vest and sweatpants, sat on her bed and looking down at her textbooks. She then briefly looked at Lena who was now standing in the doorway, arms-crossed before averting her eyes back to her books.
"You shouldn't talk to your grandmother like that." Lena said softly. She watched as Alura pushed her glasses up her nose, "Yeah, well...She deserved it."
Lena couldn't be bothered to get into the argument. She took a breath and changed the subject, "How is studying going?"
"It's boring, but it has to be done." She muttered, as she highlighted key words, "I would rather be up there, in the sky." Eyes still stuck to her book.
"Your face is all over the news. Your face and...Kara's costume."
"My costume." Alura corrected, smiling to herself. She then closed the book and looked at Lena. A deep breath, followed by a sharp exhale, "Mom...I am...I think I'm falling for someone and now I am Supergirl, how do I keep that a secret?"
"Your mom had the same problem." Lena smirked, before sitting beside Alura, "For the time being, you don't say anything. If you are serious about being Supergirl, taking on this role...It also means you have to make sacrafices to keep those you love safe."
"Like mom did?" Alura asked softly.
Lena nodded sadly, "Yeah, like mom did."
Alura got up from her spot and moved to where Lena was. She put her arms around her and hugged her, "I love you mom."
Lena smiled, keeping a firm grip on her daughter, "I love you too."
A moment later, there was a knock at the door. Lena frowned, "Who did you invite round?"
"Oh, Maggie." She said, pulling away from Lena.
"What did you-" Lena began, but her daughter was gone, now opening the door to Maggie. She smiled when she saw her.
"Little Danvers, I brought lots of pizza." Maggie smiled, holding four boxes of pizza in her arms.
"Detective Sawyer." Lena smiled, walking in from Alura's bedroom.
"Hey Lena! I brought drinks. I came to congratulate Little Danvers on her new venture."
After Alura put the pizza's down, she ran over and hugged Maggie, "You are the best!"
"You're welcome. Now, do me a favour. I wanna see you in that suit for real." She smiled.
Alura rushed off and came back seconds later.
Maggie's jaw dropped, and tears formed in her eyes, "You look amazing."
"Super." Lena emphasized.
"That too." Maggie smiled, looking down at the S. "Are you joining the DEO?"
"No she is not." Lena said quickly, "She is dedicated to her studies, and being a hero part-time for now."
Alura smirked and pushed her glasses up her nose, "I don't know about you guys, but I am really hungry."
"Yeah, we will join you in a minute." Maggie said with a small smile before taking Lena to the kitchen.
Lena frowned when Maggie closed thr door, "My daughter has super hearing you know?"
Maggie winced before poking her head out of the door, "Little Danvers!"
"Yeah?!" She called back with a mouth full of pizza.
"No using your super hearing okay? Or I will confiscate it."
"Understood!" Alura called back.
Maggie smiled and retreated back to the kitchen, "We have developed something at the DEO...We think we can bring Kara and Alex back."
Lena's face scrunched up with disgust, "It's been 18 years. No one should even be allowed that technology!"
"You kinda helped us out with it."
"The moleculer reconstructor..." Lena sighed.
"We can use what we have...piece them back together...Lena, we can bring Kara back." Maggie said, taking the Luthor's hands.
Lena pulled her hands away, "I've lived without her for so long..."
"As have I with Alex...We fixed Alura...we can fix Kara and Alex too."
"And we can all be happy?" Lena asked. voice faltering.
"We can all be happy." Maggie assured.
What the hell was Lena thinking? Alura would be happy to see her mom...but the past was best left alone...Lena had the life she wanted, yes it was without Kara, but she raised a perfect daughter.
She took on the role of becoming Supergirl.
Lena's heart ached, so many things got left unsaid.
This decision was tearing her apart.
"Bring them back." Lena said softly, before facing Maggie, "Bring them back." She said in a much sterner tone.
Maggie nodded, "I will."
Lena returned back to the living room and sat in a couch across from her, watching her gourge her way through what was now her second pizza.
She had so many of Kara's traits, why not give her the chance to meet her mom for real?