Disclaimer: Unfortunately I do not own Supergirl or any of the characters and themes, this story has been written in the purpose of fanfiction only and is not a claim on the content from the show or comic in any way.
Synopsis: Kara's been feeling off since Psi's attacks on her mind, with more fears than she admitted being used against her. After an accident can she stop those fears from resurfacing? Can her loved ones help her overcome her fear's and bring National City's hero back? Or will she become lost in the trap of her own mind.
Relevent information: This story is set after season 3 episode 2 Triggers, but has changed from cannon before it and will change from cannon after it. Kara and Mon-el did not date in this story, there were friends only, Mon-el left with his parents to rebuild Daxam. Lena and Kara are established as dating in this story, Lena also already knows about Kara being Supergirl, as for when and how that happened you will find out through out.
Pairings: Main pairing is established SuperCorp Relationship, but will be more of a Karalena like friendship in this story, reason as to why you will find out. There will be strong Danvers Sisters moments and a close Kara/Maggie friendship in later chapters as well as plenty of Sanvers! Possible further pairings to come
Warnings: The themes in the story will at times be dark and may be triggers for some readers, full warnings will be given at the beginning of chapters where relevant. The rating of this story is M for Mature, though the content to explain this won't be obvious until later chapters.
Chapter One Warnings: Violence.
Small Problems Of The Mind.
Chapter One.
"Urgh."
"Ow…"
"My head…" Lena mumbled, her hand coming to her head, she winced and quickly pulled her hand back as pain shot across her forehead and she felt something wet on her hand.
Blood.
She was bleeding.
What the hell happened? Lena through to herself.
She remembered that she and her girlfriend Kara Danvers were having lunch together.
Kara had been telling her of the emergency she had attended as Supergirl last night, it was the first big emergency that National City had had since Psi's attacks on the banks last week.
Kara had been noticeably clingier since Psi's attacks on her mind, and Kara was already a cuddly girlfriend to say the least. When Lena has questioned her on this matter she had told her how she had been feeling a bit off, not a solar flare off, more she was distracted and unsure of herself.
"Goddamn it!" Lena heard a male voice shout from just inside her office at L-Corp, then followed the sound of what Lena thought was a slap, then a small whimper.
Who was in her office right now? Come to think of it, why wasn't she in her office? Why was she outside?
Carefully Lena rose from the floor, using her assistants desk to support herself as she did so.
Jess must have gone to lunch, Lena thought to herself as she slowly made her way toward the office.
"You broke it! Stupid girl! It wasn't meant for you! Millions of dollars down the drain because you got in the way! Well I hope you are happy with yourself! I should teach you a lesson about minding your own goddamn business!" The male voice hollered getting louder and angrier by the second.
Then the sound of what Lena thought was a slap was heard again, it sounded harder this time, followed by a whimpered cry.
Lena recognised the voice.
It was that jerk, Morgan Edge.
Now she remembered.
Edge had come barging in while Lena and Kara were talking, he started ranting and raving pointing what looked like a pun at Lena. Saying how he would make sure she was unfit to run the company, that there was no way she was going to get the upper hand over him by buying CatCo out from under him.
Kara had pushed Lena out of the firing line at the last minute, the force of the blast from the gun sending all three of them flying in different directions.
That must be how she ended up outside the office.
But what happened to Kara? Was that who Edge was screaming at right now. Was it Kara? Why would she be whimpering though, he couldn't hurt her could he, Lena thought her mind racing.
Quickly Lena made her way into the office, almost freezing completely at what she saw.
Almost.
In front of her stood Morgan Edge, a cut above his eyebrow bleeding badly, his suit torn from the blast.
Currently he was towering over a small blonde haired and blue eye child who looked as though she could not be older than five.
Edge was holding roughly on to the child's one arm with one hand, while his other hand was raised as though he was about to strike her.
Was that the sound Lena heard, had he been striking a child? Lena thought to herself angrily.
As Lena stared at the scene almost frozen to the spot she could see the one side of the child's face was red as though she had been hit, tears were running down her face as she struggled to free herself from Edge's grip.
Looking into her eyes Lena could see the small girl was terrified and confused, that wasn't all that she saw though.
Those eyes. Lena thought looking at the girl, I know those eyes.
"Let her go!" Lena yelled causing Edge to falter, his grip on the girl loosening some as he turned to face her in surprize.
"Now!" She demanded further not liking that Edge had still not lowered his hand completely, nor that he still had a rather tight grip on the girl.
Suddenly security burst through the door rushing in behind Lena, causing her to sigh in relief and Edge to raise his hands once he noticed that he was about to be surrounded, letting the girl go.
That's where Jess must have gone, Lena thought.
She could now remember that she had asked her assistant to go and get security after she had rushed in after Morgan Edge trying to stop him from entering the office in the first place.
Lena watched as the small blonde girl shrunk back into the wall cowering as security surrounded Morgan Edge leading him out of the office as instructed by Jess who had entered after them.
"Make sure the weapon is taken from him and bring it to the labs before you hand him over to the police, and find me detective Maggie Sawyer." Lena ordered her eyes still on the child with blue eyes she knew all too well, watching as the girl tried to make herself look as small as possible by hiding against the wall.
"Jess, I need you to call Agent Danvers, ask her to come immediately." Lena asked dismissing her assistant with the task.
Lena waited until Jess had left the room to carry out her order before slowly approaching the cowering blonde who was hiding her face against the wall now.
As Lena got closer she could see that all the girl had on was a red and black stripped sweater that looked far too big for her, it was so large on her it looked almost like a nightgown.
This was the same sweater her girlfriend had been wearing earlier, the blue eyes were identical to her girlfriends.
"Kara?" Lena asked quietly as she slowly crouched down in front of the girl when she had got close enough to be within arm's reach. She watched as the girl peeked out from her hiding spot against the wall and scanned the room quickly before her eyes settled on Lena's.
It was then Lena noticed this girl had the same small scar above her one eyebrow that her girlfriend had.
This must be Kara, Lena thought to herself, the similarities were too much for it not to be, but how had this happened?
Her question was answered when the girl in front of her nodded, leaving her safe place by the wall to stand as close to Lena as possible.
This is insane. I must have bumped my head really hard and passed out, I must be dreaming this whole thing up right?
There was no way that her girlfriend, Kara Danvers, who was also Supergirl, could possibly be standing in front of her as a child right now.
"You're hurt." The girl, Kara, said quietly, her one hand reaching out gently to Lena's forehead bringing Lena out of her thoughts as she watched the small crinkle appear.
The one and only Kara Danvers crinkle.
"it's alright. I'm okay." Lena assured, while lifting her own hand to catch Kara's smaller hand in her when she saw the girl looked as though she was about to cry, not liking the small tremor she could feel while holding her hand.
"Lena…" Little Kara said as she all but jumped at Lena wrapping her small arms around Lena's neck and clinging on tightly, her head hiding in the crook of her girlfriends neck.
Well at least she knows who I am, Lena thought to herself still utterly confused by the situation as her arms automatically wrapped the smaller Kara to catch her.
That's something good right?
"What happened? I don't understand one minute I was pushing you out the way of a bullet, the next I'm like this!…and…he hurt me Lena! He hit me…and it hurt…why did it hurt? How did it hurt? Why am I so small now? Why do I feel so different? Lena! I don't understand…I'm…I'm… I'm really scared…." Kara began to ramble into her girlfriend's neck trailing off at the end with a small sob.
Lena reacted on instinct, using her one hand to check the girl would be covered by the sweater before lifting her up into her arms and standing slowly from the crouched position she was in.
After being sure that Kara was secure in her hold Lena began to rub one hand up and down the girls trembling back, while clutching her tightly to her with her other hand as she began to pace around the office.
"I've got you darling. You're okay. We will figure this out, I promise. Everything will be okay." Lena soothed, resting her chin atop the blonde's head that was nestled into her neck while continuing to rub up and down Kara's back slowly.
She was just as confused and just as scared as Kara, she had no idea what happened and how to fix it, but her freaking out right now was not going to help matters.
Right now Kara was scared just like she had said, terrified even, that much was obvious.
Lena could feel her shaking, she could feel the tears that fell against her neck, she could feel how tense the girl was in her arms, she could feel the small puffs of breath against her neck as Kara struggled to control her breathing.
Lena knew of the panic attacks Kara had last week, she also had witnessed one a few days ago after Kara had awoken from a nightmare about the day her home exploded.
She knew the signs of an oncoming panic attack from having them herself when she was younger and from witnessing the one Kara had the other night.
She could tell Kara was close to slipping into panic, and she needed to make sure that didn't happen.
"You're okay Kara, I've got you. I need you to take some nice deep breaths for me." Lena said as she stopped pacing the office and gently swayed the girl in her arms.
Lena could feel the tension slowly begin to leave Kara's small body as she swayed the girl in her arms from side to side still gently stroking up and down her back.
"Deep breaths darling, come on, copy me." Lena instructed, still not happy with the girls breathing.
"In." She instructed taking a large breath in herself and waiting for Kara to do so as well.
"And out." Lena instructed further releasing her own breath then waiting for Kara to do so as well.
"There you go, keep going for me." She continued, starting to rub small circles on the girls back rather than just stroking up and down as she continued taking large breaths in and out for Kara to follow.
The room was quiet for some time, the only sounds being those of Kara's crying easing and Lena's soft reassuring mummers, while her breathing slowly calmed.
"That's it, deep breaths. Good girl, just keep taking nice deep breaths for me, alright? Alex will be here soon, Maggie too. Then we will go to the DEO and figure out what happened, okay?" Lena said, sighing in relief as she felt Kara nod her head into her neck.
Lena continued to sway Kara gently, still rubbing her back in small circles as she felt the girl begin to relax into her arms, her head dropping to Lena's shoulder feeling secure enough to stop hiding against her neck.
"So…this isn't exactly the lunch date I had in mind today." Lena said with a smile her hand leaving Kara's back to wipe away the drying tear tracks running down her face.
Kara giggled quietly, her one hand starting to play with Lena's long brown hair while her other arm was still wrapped around Lena's neck.
"You probably shouldn't talk about us dating in public at the moment. People might get the wrong idea considering my…erm…size." Kara said, her voice sounding raspy from the earlier crying, as well as higher pitched than normal.
Lena laughed lightly in response leaning forward to kiss Kara's forehead before pulling back again, watching as a small blush coloured Kara's one cheek the other already being an angry red thanks to Morgan Edge.
"That's probably true. Good thing it's just you and me for now."
Author Note: So, here's the first chapter, please let me know what you think! Edge is such a jerk right?
Also just to let you know I love Supercorp even thought its not cannon! like seriously, this story cooked itself up in my head due to this and I have so many ideas running around here you could possible expect a load of one shots and so on being added sometime to my profile page as my mind cooks up more Supercorpness, I'm a big Supercorp/Karalena fluff fan...
But yes, hope you enjoyed, let me know what you think, I know this idea of a story has probably been done before but let me know if you think I should keep going and any thoughts you have :)