I really should be working on my other works, but this little gem of a chapter just popped right into my head after a rather rough day and I thought; what better way to deal with a rather shitty day than to write something. And this is the end results. I may just leave this as a one-shot, or I might make it a short 5-chapter story, I will leave that up to you, my devoted readers.

And side note...Katie Mcgrath, man kinds greatest artwork. That is all

I Will Protect Her

Chapter 1?

Kara's P.O.V

I feel it start to happen, I feel my legs grow weaker as I push absolutely everything that I have into my laser vision that I have aimed at the hostile alien's chest, its only weak spot. My legs finally give out and for only the second time in my life do I feel the sharp jarring pain that Alex felt every time she skinned her knees when we were kids.

Just as I think that I can't keep this up I see the alien finally fall with me before toppling over clutching at his chest. I watch as DEO soldiers rush the crippled alien and restrain it and throw it in the back of their unmarked van before rushing off in the direction of the DEO. It's quite impressive just how quick and efficiently they work, finishing their task within minutes.

I try and push myself to stand when I spot Alex and Maggie walking towards me but all I can manage is to make it to precariously balancing on one knee.

"Supergirl?" Alex says, her hands grabbing my shoulders helping me to stand to my full height, which... yea that wasn't a good idea...oh my why is everything spinning. I feel Alex leading me to one of the DEO vans.

I sit down on one of the benches as Maggie shuts the door quickly effectively shutting out all of the outside noise. "Kara?" Alex's face comes into focus before me. "Kara are you okay?" She grasps my face between her two hands.

I swallow thickly before I nod. "Yea," my voice is hoarse and cracks with each word. "I'm fine, I think I just solar flared that's all."

Finally, Maggie speaks, her voice just as worried as Alex, "You don't look too good Little Danvers."

I wave the two of them off, "I'm fine, I just want to go home and sleep for about three days." I say hoping like Rao they let me go home and worry about debriefing tomorrow.

"Kara, you solar flared, you are vulnerable, you need to come back to the DEO and go through tests before recovering in the sunbeds." Alex said, ever the voice of reason, and normally I wouldn't fight her, but I really just wanted to go home and cuddle with my girlfriend... secret girlfriend... yea that sounded a million times better than the sterile walls of the DEO.

"Alex," I say as sternly as I can, which is laughable since I can barely sit up by myself. "Take me home, end of discussion."

And I see she wants to fight me on this, and I don't blame her, she is just doing her job as the protective big sister, but this is a fight she will not win, and Maggie senses this. "Alright Little Danvers," she says squeezing Alex's' shoulder softly.

Alex looks royally pissed off but she nods before hopping into the front seat while Maggie hands me my back-up civilian clothes, that I slowly put on as Alex maneuvers the van checking for tails before pulling into the DEO parking lot next to Maggie's patrol car.

"I can take her home Alex. They're going to need you in there with that..." Maggie waves her hand comically. "That thing in there. Go, and be safe." She says before kissing a worried looking Alex.

"She really should be under a sun lamp..." Alex huffs. "Okay, come straight back once you get her settled down?" Maggie nods, and as she walks around the car to get behind the wheel Alex leans down through my window and takes my hand. I take that opportunity to squeeze as hard as I can, it's not every day that I don't have to worry about breaking her bones. "Call me the second you think you need to okay Kara?"

I can only nod and give her a weak smile before Maggie starts the car and slowly starts the journey towards my apartment. We ride in silence even though I can almost feel the questions that Maggie is dying to ask me. Thankfully she was silent and just let me stare up at the rising moon.

As we pulled up to my place I turn to Maggie, "I have it from here thanks for the ride Maggie," I say as I gingerly slide out of the car.

"Kara...no you live on the third floor in a building with no elevator," she protests about to get out of the car.

"No, Maggie I will be fine," I feel a blush start to ride in my cheeks, I know full well why I don't want Maggie to help me upstairs. Looking across the road I see her car and know that she is already upstairs waiting on me, and I know that she couldn't help herself when she turned on the news and saw the brutal fight. I know she has spent the last few hours with tears in her eyes waiting to hear from me, to know that I was okay, that the news capturing me falling to my knees didn't mean that I was dying.

Before Maggie could protest I walked through my buildings front doors and dragged myself up the first floor before slumping against the wall and sliding to the floor. I wait several minutes, to ensure that Maggie wasn't going to follow me before I pull out my phone and dial the number at the top of my favorites.

When I hear the line connect I speak, not letting her get a word in. "I'm in the stairwell, p-please come h-h-help me, I am so tired." My words slur with exhaustion and I can only nod to myself, fighting sleep as I hear a door two floors up fly open and muted, hurried steps make their way towards me.

Then I see her, her green eyes so full of concern. "Kara?" She whispers as she takes my face in her hands. "You should be with Alex at the DEO recovering," she harshly whispers and I know, I know she is mad at me but I just wanted to see her, I just wanted to sleep next to her with her arms wrapped around me more than I wanted to sit under a bright lamp for hours on end.

"Please, Lena, I just want to sleep." My hands weakly grasp at her wrists. I can see in her eyes that she wants to be mad at me but a small buried part of her is happy that I chose to recover in her company. And I know, I know that is something that she struggles with, even after months of a steady relationship, that I chose her, that I will always choose her over everything, she is my priority.

"Okay...okay," she whispers as she hoists me up by my arms, throwing one of them over her shoulder before we begin our slow ascent up to my home. It is slow and it is painful. I can feel that I have nothing broken but man am I sore all over, it feels as though all of my muscles are spasming and I tell Lena this.

"Once we get you situated in bed I will get you a glass of water that should help loosen up the muscles and some aspirin." She says as she opens my door.

"And pot stickers?" I ask weakly, even though my hunger isn't at the levels that it is when I haven't solar flared, I find myself still hungry after such a long fight.

"Already here, I ordered them before I saw the fight on the evening news. Come on I will bring them to you after I get you changed and in bed."

"I can manage to change myself." I say weakly, knowing full well that I won't win this fight.

"Just...just humor me Kara please. It's the least I can do after I watched you get thrown into building after building on the news." She says and I can see the tears forming in those beautiful green eyes giving them the look of jade, and while the sight of her eyes is beautiful I swore when we started dating that I never wanted to see her cry hurt too much when she was in pain.

I only nod in response as she goes about helping me change, get under the covers and brings the two of us dinner in bed. As we eat she tells me about her day of board meetings and final proposals for a gala fundraiser for the Luthor Children's Hospital that is set for next month... and it's while she talks about some of the children she met after the hospitals completion that reminds me why I fell so deeply in love with this completely misunderstood woman. After a minute I realize that she stopped talk and was looking at me with a nervous grin.

"Why are you looking at me like that? Do I have sauce on my chin or something?" I hear her insecurities in her questions, that if I look at her to hard I will find reasons to leave her behind like everyone else...yea that's never going to happen.

I shake my head. "I just..." I feel my cheeks heat up, making her smile widen just a bit more. "I just love you so damn much."

She chuckles, "You must have really hit your head hard Ms. Danvers if you have resorted to cursing." She laughs as I gently push her shoulder. When our laughter slows down I see her worry flare back up.

"I'm okay Lena, I promise. Nothing is broken, I solar flared at the end of the fight so, I am just sore. A good night sleep in my own bed with my secret girlfriend will be all I need for now."

"You solar flared?" I nod, I know that she knows what it is but there was something behind her eyes, something almost feral behind those green orbs and they darken.

"What's going through that big brain of yours sweetheart?" I swallow thickly when she licks her lips and her eyes dart to my neck. And then it clicks and I feel my neck and face heat up yet again, damn this woman I think fondly.

"So... you are just as human as I am right now?" Her hand travels to her chest, just below her collar bone, where hidden under her shirt is a small bite mark I left on her the night before. I see her mind wander.

It became abundantly clear not long after we started dating about 6 months ago that Lena wanted to mark me, to bite me and leave a mark to let everyone know that I belonged to someone, that I belonged to the youngest Luthor.

"Lena..." I say just before she leans down and runs her tongue over my pulse point just before she bites down, it is borderline harsh but I can't get over the pleasurable fact that I can feel Lena's teeth sink into the skin of my neck. I can't stop the moan that escapes.

"I have wanted to do that since the moment you walked into my officer by yourself." I hear her mumble as she trails more kisses along my jaw, nipping here and there before her lips connect with mine. "Tell me to stop, Kara. Tell me you are too sore and tired..."

And I know that this is her giving me an out for tonight, a way to tell her to stop without having to actually say it, but I can't, I can never seem to turn this woman away.

"I..." I gasp as she sucks at my collar bone, her hands tangled in my hair, mine grasping the bed sheets out of fear of hurting her...then I remember, no easy task when I have one Lena Luthor doing everything that she can to make sure that I can't think clearly. "I do-don't want you t-to stop..."

She chuckles then and it is almost evil the way she looks at me with pure desire behind her eyes as she leans back in to leave yet another mark just below my right ear...

Three Days Later

Kara's P.O.V

Walking into the DEO three days later I walk straight to Alex's office. I called her the morning after I solar flared and told her I just needed a few days to myself, to recover in my own way before going to the DEO to use the sunbeds. Most of the marks Lena left on my neck are gone save for the one spot she kept visiting below my right ear. So, I made sure that my hair covered the mark before walking towards Alex.

"Kara! Are you feeling okay?" She rushes towards me. "Do you have any of your powers back yet? What the hell have you been doing the last three days?" I can hear the bit of hurt in her voice that I hadn't asked her to help me while I recovered at home but I knew that she was with Maggie in safe hands.

"I'm okay Alex. I'm not sick, no broken bones, I listened to your advice and just spent the last three days in bed recovering."

And that was true...I spent all three days in bed... recovering...from multiple orgasms...

I clear my throat and look away from Alex's curiously probing look when she sees the blush race up my neck. "What's going on?" It is a simple question with so many answers.

"N-nothing! I ju-just came by to lay under the sun lamps for a few hours before I go back home." I nervously make sure that my hair is still covering the mark Lena left below my ear.

She looks at me for a moment longer before walking me to the med bay. "You know the drill." She says as she starts to fiddle with the setting and I start taking my blouse and pants off leaving me in my sports bra and boy shorts. "Winn worked on these the pass few days and upped the radiation so that an hour under the lamp is about five hours under a regular sun. If we work at it a bit... OH MY GOD!"

I hear Alex yell out and turning around I see her staring at me with her jaw wide open. "What?!" I ask thinking she might have shocked herself on the mechanics of the machines. I hear a door behind me open and Winn exclaiming, "Oh my god Kara are you okay?!"

Turning to face him I see him with a similar look about him as Alex. "What in the name of Rao are you two going on about?" I ask Winn who raises a hand to scratch behind his neck, a nervous tick of his.

"Kara, you said that you were only sore, you didn't tell us that the alien took to your back like a rabid dog!" Its then that Alex decides to inspect my back, reaching a hand out to touch the marks that I apparently have. I hiss at the touch and quickly turn away. "Kara your back is full of scratches and bite marks, you could have an infection setting in!"

Looking over my shoulder I inspect what they are so worried about, turning to a mirror to get a better look I see why they are so worried...

Lena really took every chance she could get to leave her marks all over me...looking back at Winn and Alex I immediately know they want an explanation as to why I didn't come straight to the DEO...oh boy, I was standing at the moment in time that I was dreading; revealing to my friends and family that I was in a serious relationship... with a Luthor they will say, then general arguing ensues...

Man, I really wish Lena was here with me for this...

"O-okay, this isn't from the alien Alex...it...um..." I stumble through, I have no idea what to say, or how to explain this away or in a way that prevents them from being angry...

Thankfully...in a way... Winn interjects. "Oh my god, Kara got some while she was gone!"

I rush to Winn and slap my hand over his mouth and shush him. "Keep your voice down," I whisper harshly.

Taking my hand away I turn to Alex, I can see in her eyes that she is going over all the pieces... and finally they all click.

"It's a woman," she states. "Those are scratches from nails...That's why you have been sparse since for game nights, and when I come over your apartment has a slightly different smell to it; its perfume..."

"Alex..."

"Why didn't you tell me?" I see the hurt color her eyes.

"I... I just wanted to bask in the first real relationship that I have ever had, I wanted to let it grow without every one interjecting their opinions. That and well...s-she is nervous and I don't want to rush her... I-I don't wan-want to lose her Alex."

"Kara," Winn says softly. "Why would you ever think that our opinions about this person would ever be...bad? If she makes you happy, then she is awesome by my books."

I never look away from Alex's eyes, I know that she has figured it out, she is just waiting to see if I have the guts to lie again. I sigh heavily. "Because you all already have your preconceived notions about her. First sign of evil deeds she is at the top of your list... I just wanted to protect her, even if it's from my friends and family."

Silence engulfs the room as I move my gaze down towards the floor. I can feel the anger rolling off of Alex in waves.

"That's why you wanted to go home? She was there...that means she knows who you are, and I take it that means she knows about the DEO?" I simply nod.

"I'm still slightly...very confused," I hear Winn say.

"Well go on Kara, tell him who you decided needed protection from us," more hurt on Alex's side. "From your family."

I feel tears and fear fill my eyes as I look Alex straight in the eye before saying with complete conviction and devotion; "I am in a strong and loving relationship with Lena Luthor. And nothing you say or do will stop me from always going home to her. Nothing."

It was in that moment when you could hear a pin drop that Winn drops the clipboard within his grasp, and suddenly I know that I am going to have to fight to keep Lena in my life, her insecurities will flare up with a vengeance when Alex inevitably confronts her.

These people, my friends and family don't understand just how much Lena's rough business woman exterior hides a wounded young woman who believes she doesn't deserve the love and devotion that I feel for her.

"I'm in love with Lena and if I need to, I will protect her from you, with everything that I have."

A. Grayson