Ticks of a clock..
Pages on the calendar...
One blink, for everything to shift…
It seemed that the phone never stopped buzzing with updates, with requests, with complaints and she yearned just to throw the damn thing across the room and into the trash where it could rot in hell.
"Fuuuuuuck people, give me a fucking break already!" She groaned shouting with frustration and anger building in her with every second passing. She hadn't even heard the whoosh of her sister's approach at the balcony with her vocals raised. But the boots, oh she heard those. "Haven't you figured out yet Kara, that your damn shoes are a dead giveaway to your presence?" Her brown hues glanced over to a set of shrugging shoulders as the Kryptonian walked in to grab the last cookie out of the package, prepared to take a bite. "If you value your life, you will set that sugar cookie back in it's container."
"I'm starving! I just dealt with five calls of apprehension, robbery and rescue. My stomach calls for this sweet morsel." Once again she attempted to take a bite but flung her arm up to catch the pillow and hear the growl. "Half?"
"Dammit...fine.." The woman grumbled with her sister handing her half the cookie. "You are lucky I...oh for fucks sake! Give me ONE hour of fucking peace!" She shoved most of the cookie in her mouth to munch quickly and eat the rest swallowing it down roughly and getting up to go to the fridge.
"What's the matter Director? Someone getting on your nerves tonight?" The blonde chuckled but gulped then swallowed the rest of her sweet when her sister fixed her angry Danvers glare on her. "Sorry…"
"Tell that to me when my phone stops bloody ringing..ugh." She was about to pick the thing up she dropped on the counter until she heard a whoosh which forced several pictures to crash to the floor in their frames. "Thanks a lot Kara!"
After cleaning up the remains of her sister's exit, she had been forced to head into the office ten hours too early. But when her second in command approached with a grim look on her face she straightened her posture to put her boss expression in place.
"Director, we have a problem." Vasquez told her holding up a tablet to show Alex the info, pictures and footage they'd received. "We believe it might be a Cadmus facility. Worse...one with waaaaay too much kryptonite." She instantly scrunched her face in disgust as her eyes remained focused on the task in hand. When she looked up as if hitting the dial on a brainstorm, Susan pondered what exactly her boss was thinking. "Care to share?"
"Does Supergirl know?" She spoke firmly without any tremble.
"None of us have informed her."
"Keep it that way. We head out in ten." Alex told Susan looking at her in full agent mode. "Not one peep to her, you got it?"
"If she asks where you are?"
"Agents will tell her we are at a recruitment training facility. In the meantime, come with me so I can give you the Luthor's special gift for us."
"Dare I ask?" Vasquez laughed as the two of them walked quickly down the halls as she barked orders at a few agents whom ran to the weapons room to suit up.
"Let's just say...Winn's gift to me of armor got a whole new upgrade…"
Once they had headed out the Director sighed to shake her head to hold up her phone with Susan peering over with a smile on her face.
"Got ditched for Luthor and pizza to netflix and chill. Typical Kara." Vasquez laughed at her grumble about to add but Alex cut her off. "No, she doesn't know whom she also is. At least...not that I'm aware of."
"Ya know...your ex was pretty dead on with the whole ponytail and glasses thing."
"I honestly don't know how she gets away with it really." They came to a sudden halt after their four vehicles had rolled up the hill and both the Director and Commander jumped out to adjust themselves and activate their armor suits.
"Wowwwwww…...remind me to thank her for the awesome gear." Susan smiled and she watched her boss tap the side of her neck as the armor slid over her head with night vision shades for sight. "Seriously?"
"Tap twice and the night vision goes away and regular UV protection goes in its place."
Susan smirked to tap the rest of her suit on feeling the cool metal over her face. She turned to the Director as she widened her eyes realizing she could breathe soundly with her face covered.
"I'm gonna guess this has some built in air tank?"
"No. The suit has a separate vent and it circulates fresh air in. If need be it cuts off if the sensor picks up toxins or gases in the air storing up the fresh air to circulate through."
"I'm buying her lunch, coffee, or fuck I'll marry her with this." The woman beside her chuckled. "What?"
"I think she might be taken with the way James is gawking with starstruck eyes for her. I kinda feel bad because...hey I might be gay, and she's mighty fine, but I think my sister likes her. Like, in the luncheons and dinners like date way but is oblivious to the calling cards."
"You think, wait...is your sister.."
"We never really discussed it but...Krypton had different morals for sexuality." Alex noticed her boys signalling to them. "I think it's time for action Vasquez."
"You got it Danvers." She responded as they charged their weapons they held. Susan with her two handed T-38 alien style gun and Alex with a dual copy upgraded of her favorite gun. "Let's go raid us a faculty.."
Both women laughed from the comedian they had been watching on the tv. As the raven haired CEO and Catco boss got up to get another glass of wine, she noticed a buzz come from her best friend's bag to turn and see Kara's phone on the table. She pondered this as she poured herself another red, shaking it off to return with a bowl of popcorn after she'd emptied her tabletop popcorn maker. Laughing she shook some salt on the buttered fluffy pieces returning to the couch.
"I swear Kara, you are a brutal danger to my diet." The blonde giggled to grab some popcorn from the bowl she tried to pull away not realizing how quick her friend had moved.
"Come on Lee..you like barely ever enjoy the gourmet of established goodies! I have to corrupt you somehow." Now the Luthor broke out into a bubbling laughter.
"My my Miss Danvers, you use the word corrupt in a solitary sentence to me? Ohhh you do not grasp how sinister I can turn that table darling." The blonde instantly gulped to curl more into herself after grabbing more popcorn which she accidentally dropped a few pieces on her friend that smirked devilishly. "She blushes..I'm accomplished."
"Maybe...we should watch something else." Lena laughed again to grab the popcorn off her lap and shove two pieces into her friend's mouth making her eyes widen.
"Nice save. You pick this time…"
They'd infiltrated the remains of the facility as agents rounded up the Cadmus soldiers they'd secured, leaving only the final floor that practically hung over the cliff with the position of it. The Director kept her aim solid with Vasquez beside her scoping with each step up checking for anything out of the ordinary. But that's when they felt a sudden quake then heard a blast that rocked the entire building.
"Fuck...I think someone just fired something…" Susan groaned looking down the agents on the lower level. "Anything?!"
"Nothin Commander! We got reports of no action outside and the same with the back entry and side doors!"
"Great." She grumbled looking up to see her boss now off the stairs and on the top floor. "Danvers...wait up.."
"I'm fine Vas. Nothin moving up here." But then what sounded like a loud pressure release and then noises like metal hitting the wall brought what was beneath their feet shaking again. "Fuck, what is that?"
"Not sure, but I'm sure as hell gonna find out." Susan sighed to looked down then back up at the Director. "I don't want you going up their alone boss."
"I'm fine Susan. Check on our guys." Vasque grumbled again to watch the stubborn Danvers disappear from her sight.
"Better be alright Danvers..or your sister will throw me into space."
"Nah...she will just raid your candy stash in the lockers." Vasquez heard her boss laugh.
"How do you know…"
"I got keys to the castle. I raided your salt water taffy." Bootsteps continued with a grumbly commander sighing then about to head down when another shake rocked her as she lost partial grip on her gun to grab at the stair rail before she fell off.
"Whoa...fuck it's getting strong…" Susan didn't get to finish as she heard several cracks then bends and she felt the stairway bend slightly forward and down with the most haunting scream piercing her ears. "ALEX!" She heard the crashes felt the structure bow forward and then wood and metal slapping against the rocks below the cliff. "DANVERS!"
One moment they were sharing embarrassing stories tossing popcorn at one another on the couch and the next…
The blonde shot up faster than Lena had ever seen her friend move to gasp and see the fear the alert and panic in Kara's face.
"Alex...Alex!" She scrambled over to her bag digging into it with the Luthor approaching her in worry and uncertainty. Green eyes focused on the phone which she knew the model, it was a government issued one. That's when she really felt her best friend fall apart as she answered the phone. "Yes? Where? What?! Why wasn't I notified?! I don't care that it's Cadmus dammit!" Lena had barely ever heard Kara cuss but her body tensed at the one word she knew all too well. Her despicable mother's organization. How did Kar…
"Oh my god…" Lena backed up and in an instant Kara had flipped around to look at the woman. She noticed the tension the shaking and her wide eyes of shock that slightly shifted to betrayal then to anger and finally to sadness. She tried to say anything to make it better but that's when someone came over the line. "You...you're…"
"Rao...tell me where my sister is dammit!" Kara yelled into the phone and mouthed I'm sorry as she reached up to remove her glasses until…
Lena looked away; felt lied to, used, and played but that's when she heard the sobs looking back and into shivering blues that were in no way human. Glasses dropped from her friend's hand as well as the phone that had been in the other. But just as she was about to break out in a fit of spiraling emotion the blonde howled out in pure agony dropping to her knees.
Kara couldn't fathom to explain herself, she couldn't think couldn't breathe only to shake with heavy tears and continue to wail her pain. The moment she'd heard what had happened from Agent Vasquez, whom was supposed to have her sister's back, she crumbled to collapse in broken pieces that no one could possibly repair.
Lena wanted to scream at the blonde, wanted to yell with rage with betrayal even hate...but when she watched her best friend, whom had saved her life taught her pure goodness healed her heart numerous times without a care to her own Kryptonian safety, she could not dare lash out. Now, that very same angel, with a tainted history bled in destruction and despair, was torn beyond anything she'd ever seen. She lowered herself to the ground and pulled the blonde against her body wrapping her arms around her to hear the sobbing, cries and wails become whimpers then feel the violent powerful quaking of a woman totally destroyed.
"She….my sister...my...she's…"
"Sshhhh...I'm not letting you go...Kara…" Lena told her embracing her broken friend. "I'm here...Supergirl.." She whispered knowing the blonde could hear her which only made her cry even harder to whimper her apologies in which Lena just rocked them holding on to the blonde and promising not to let go…
To say that it was a miracle the woman was alive, had been short lived when she felt no heartbeat moments later. She lowered her dagger shook off the quiver and bow and brought the injured person's head back bringing her face down to the woman covering her mouth with her own. She blew two breaths, began a set of compression's, to breathe two more. She was just about to press on her body again when she heard the strangled gasp.
"There you are.." The dark haired warrior clad woman spoke calmly as her rescued began to move her limbs but unable to as she groaned. "You took quite a beating from the rocky shore. Rest." She let her soothing voice against the woman's ear lull her back unconscious as she took a sash to rip it apart then dip it in the liquid of the iron bowl. "Sleep, and you will be watched over."
She knew the woman was out once more with how her breathing had evened out. The assassin sighed ringing out the rag made from the torn sash as she started at the worst of the injured one's wounds. It wouldn't be a simple heal, but she would use the minerals and herbs she had to work with along with what was in her bag. She'd intended to find her lost lover here finding this earth not the same, not to save this broken woman from the shore. Resetting the bones had been the worst, but now her body could recover right.
As she continued to treat the cuts and bruises, wash away the dirt and sands, she wrung out the rag once more about to start at the woman's face but stopped suddenly to really look at this fighter for that is what she was.
Her body was tone, her figure so defined, arms built up just enough like a soldier. But she was sculpted with beauty and her face just as gorgeous. Even with the short auburn and brown hair, she was stunning. Her brown eyes slid around each feature of her face and they fell to her lips.
Just as quickly as she had been captivated, she shook it away to focus on the task in hand. This wounded warrior needed more, and she'd make sure she aided in her healing with everything she knew and everything she could offer..
To say Vasquez had been shocked with Supergirl's arrival was an absolute understatement when the caped hero held Lena Luthor in her grasp and Susan looked from the blonde to the raven haired CEO.
"She needs to…"
"Save the forms for later. I'll sign whatever I must. Where is her sister?" Lena kept herself professional but her voice betrayed her trembling with emotion. Susan looked to the concerned greens then to the tears trailing down the blonde's face. "What can I do? Use my resources if it helps you." She offered.
"We haven't found her. Not...ye…..t.." Vasquez hadn't seen the Super move but one moment she was standing straight and the next she could feel the balcony rail against her back that was pressed into it. "Super….girl…"
"You were supposed to have her back! WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED?!"
No agent daired to move, not even Lena could with the outburst none of them had ever seen from Supergirl. This was rage and agony molded together and as Kara cried still pinning Susan to the railing she began to break down once more and crumple to the floor releasing Vasquez.
She instantly bent down to console the Super but she knew there wasn't much she could do. Instead she looked up standing once more to yell out.
"FIND THE DIRECTOR! I DON'T CARE WHAT IT TAKES! FIND HER!"
Two sunrises had came, with waves coiling to crash along the shore as two sunsets filled the sky with their prismatic blend of painted colors with the sky growing dark once again.
She ventured back into the cave seeing the woman awakening from the long slumber her body seemed to need. But as her eyelids slid back and her gaze first came into view brown met brown and rivers of so much was left unsaid. She looked at the woman she'd been caring for, so unlike her other skills her other traits, and saw fear and confusion in those chocolate waves glistening with the torch's dance of the fire she'd made once more for night's chill.
She walked to the other side of the cave to shrug off her quivers and bow from her back and pull back her hood and mask opening herself up to the view of her rescued. When she finally felt it safe she turned to the woman whom was attempting to sit up groaning and wincing from each pain no doubt she felt completely.
"Most of the crucial wounds I tended to first." She told her, going back out of the cave to retrieve the catch she'd gotten and walk back in and over to the boiling pot where she poured water in. "You will need strength for movement. Here." She handed her a stone carved cup filled with herbs. When the woman hesitated she felt her resistance to stay walled up stay neutral slipping with the way this injured warrior looked at her. "It is safe, I have drank it too in times of wounds from altercations."
"What…" She shivered and gasped to grab the blanket that had covered her naked body that she just now realized had been stripped clenching to the strangely soft material holding it tightly over her chest. "Why?"
"Because…" She knelt down still holding the cup to be eye to eye with this beautiful woman. "Your wounds were in places torn, places bleeding and bruised. They needed to be cleansed to avoid infections in the lacerations." She held out the cup once more to once again see the hesitance. "I will show you, no harm." Bringing the cup to her lips she tilted it to take some of the herbal remedy into her mouth. Then she set it down still carrying the fluid behind her lips as she reached out to grab the woman's chin quickly that she saw her gasp and gained her chance.
She instantly brought her lips over the woman's own parted ones dripping the blend from her lips as it splashed onto her tongue. She closed her mouth firmly over the short haired beauty's dribbling the rest in about to pull back but as she looked into this warrior's eyes she saw a sliver of appreciation and then trust as she heard the woman swallow what was in her mouth. They shared a look far different than one of a scared woman rescued and her rescuer, with the air changing as the fires crackled.
She knew she shouldn't, she knew it was a bad idea with this stunning creature wounded and in need of time to heal, but it was too tempting to pass up. The dark haired assassin crashed her lips over the shocked yet suddenly moaning woman's lips with sparks of electricity running through both of them engulfed in the fires of such intensity. Then the lips she pressed against began to move and it was then she realized the kiss was reciprocated. The dance of their embrace became a throw of passion and what felt like pent up frustration.
This woman kissed with such rich hot fervor and she couldn't help return the offer as her hand came up to touch her rescuer's face feeling the softness along the side to travel her touch up further and stroke her fingers through this savior's hair. It was just as soft and she hadn't even realized she'd been falling down when her back was softly lowered onto the blanket just as soft as the one that had once covered her. When the kiss broke and she looked up with their faces inches apart she spoke softly.
"Alexandra…D...Danvers..." She added unable to stop the full name spilling from her lips for some reason.
"Alexandra…" The woman's voice was heavenly and Alex felt herself shiver in the warmth of it. "I am Nyssa." Nothing else was said as she leaned down to embrace in a kiss once more hovering over her, still clad in her warrior clad attire, but left with no care in the world by the call of the temptation for their lips to play along one another's again.
They would share explanation later. They would learn more of each other later. They would worry about everything else...so much later...