Hoped to have had this out the other day, basically what if Alex and Kara never patched it up after Homecoming, and it spirals from there. Hope you like it.
So Barry is in a bad place, Oliver is in a bad place, Kara is about to enter one, and the Legends are about to enter one too, these seasons definitely look like they'll end on low points for all four shows, don't they?
Also, an apology. I've got too much non fanfiction stuff as well as too many fanfictions tbh to read or write to keep to my update schedule, so I'll be tossing that out. I will try to update as often as possible however still.
Kara flew through the air of National City, hurt coursing through her body. She had lost everything in the past few days. Jeremiah was gone again, Alex hated her, Snapper had fired her and Mon-El and her had broken up after everything that had happened with Cadmus and Jeremiah. Why did life hate her?
"Supergirl?" A voice called out as Kara stopped in the air. Who was calling her?
Looking around, she saw that she was outside the L-Corp building, and Lena Luthor was stood there, looking at her in concern.
"Miss Luthor?" Kara asked, putting on her most authoritative voice.
"Are you ok?" Lena asked, concern on her face.
"I-I'm fine, thanks." Kara stated, pain flashing in her eyes for a brief moment, only a glimpse, but enough for Lena Luthor to recognise somebody suffering.
"Come in." Lena stated, a tone that brooked no argument, as she turned and walked into the building, Kara floating down and walking in behind her, cape billowing in the current as she walked through the door.
"So, what's the matter?" Lena asked. "I appear to be an agony aunt lately, with our mutual friend, Kara Danvers."
"W-What did the two of you talk about?" Kara asked, a slight blush on her face.
"Oh, this and that." Lena stated nonchalantly, smirking at the blush on Kara's face. As if she wouldn't know that Supergirl and Kara Danvers were one and the same. The trick for her was getting Kara to admit to it, she knew why she kept the secret of course, because she was a Luthor. She couldn't exactly blame Kara for that though. Enough times she wished she wasn't a Luthor.
"Oh really?" Kara asked, as she nervously stayed behind the CEO. She had already come to her earlier in the day to vent after Snapper had decided enough was enough and fired her, and she didn't want to have Lena see the mighty Supergirl brought down by something as human as emotions. Supergirl was meant to be above all that, an ideal for humanity to strive towards, just like Superman was. She wasn't meant to be sad, or angry, or full of rage. She wasn't meant to feel anything other than joy for what she did and love for humanity and those she protected.
"Yeah, she told me about the loss of her job, and I want to offer her a job, but I know I can't."
"Oh?" Kara asked with a small smile. She hadn't heard about the job offer, but wait, did Lena say she can't? "Why can't you give her a job?"
"I think it'd cause a conflict of interest." Lena said with a small smirk.
"What conflict?" Kara asked innocently before Lena closed the distance on the two of them and stood eye to eye with Supergirl.
"Well, you see, Supergirl, it's like this, Kara recently broke up with her boyfriend, did you know that?"
"I did." Kara said with a small frown, not knowing where this was meant to be going.
"Now, I don't want to hurt Kara, which is why I'm willing to wait, but if someone liked her, what would you recommend they do about that?" Lena asked with a coy smile as Kara flushed.
"Well, I don't know her that well, but I guess talk to her?" Kara said, wondering if she could inch towards the window and out into the night sky once again before Lena could trap her there, talking about her feelings all night.
"So I shouldn't just….dive in?" Lena breathed into her ear as she walked around Kara, brushing lightly against her suit.
"Well I-I don't know about t-that." Kara blushed and shivered as she felt Lena brush against her. "I say you should probably give her time and see what happens."
"Oh, I guess you're right, Supergirl." Lena said as she came to face Kara once again, before opening her arms for a hug. "You look like you could use a hug, Supergirl." She said, drawing Kara in before the hero could respond and wrapping her arms around her.
Kara blushed before instinctively wrapping her arms around Lena in return, breathing in Lena's scent as she felt Lena's hair tickle her nose. As she felt Lena soften into her arms, Kara noticed Lena pulling back slightly, confused, she looked into Lena's face, just to see Lena move forward, and gently press her lips to Kara's.
Kara was stunned as she felt Lena's lips softly pressing against her own, and she felt herself reflexively return the kiss, pulling Lena even closer as she felt her hands move up and down Lena's back and her fingers tangle within her hair, as she felt Lena do the same. As her brain reactivated, Kara pulled away suddenly, as Lena fell backwards due to the sudden movement.
"W-What's wrong?" Lena asked as Kara looked at her in shock.
"I-You-We can't." Kara stammered out as Lena looked hurt.
"Why can't we? Is it because I'm a Luthor? I thought you saw past all of that, Kara!" Lena cried out. She thought her friend was better than that, that she wouldn't judge Lena based on her surname. She must have guessed wrong, obviously.
"It's not that, you know I'd never judge you on your surname, it's just, I just got out of a relationship, as you know, I'm not ready for anything else yet." Kara said, before she registered at Lena had called her by her name.
'Oh Rao.' Kara thought as she realised the cat was out of the bag now.
"I'm sorry, Kara." Lena said with a small sad frown as she took in Kara's shocked face. "I jumped the gun, I should have waited until I knew you were ready." Lena admitted.
"Lena…I don't know what to say." Kara admitted with a small frown. She hadn't expected this when she'd landed, that was for sure. She wasn't sure what to do with herself now.
"I'm sorry, it's ok, you should go." Lena stated softly as she turned to face away from Kara, refusing to let the young woman see the tears that Lena could feel pricking against her eyes.
Kara furrowed her brow, there it was, another person willing to just cast her aside now when she didn't fit into what they wanted, what they expected. Kara was sick of all of this, if she wanted to do something, she'd do it, and to hell with what anyone else thought of her or her actions. She was her own woman, why couldn't she do as she pleased like everyone else?
"No." Kara stated, making up her mind as Lena turned to look at her once more.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, no. I'm sick of people telling me what I should do, when I should do it. Why should others dictate what I should do?" Kara asked aloud. "And right now, what I want to do is…this." Kara finished, quickly closing the gap between herself and Lena and pulling the CEO in.
She smashed their lips together in a searing kiss, quickly allowing passion to take over, in seconds, Lena had begun to reciprocate and the two women just stood there, in the middle of Lena's office, lost to the world except one another, Kara's hands exploring Lena's back, Lena's hands trailing through Kara's hair, as their mouths parted and their tongues began to explore the others mouth, wrapping around one another in a dance of dominance, before Kara eventually acquiesced and let Lena's tongue take the lead. After a few minutes of this, as Lena began to feel breathless, the two women broke apart, both blushing bright red, Kara smiling sheepishly.
"So, I guess this means, you'll consider my offer?" Lena asked coyly, raising an eyebrow, a look only betrayed by the pink hue to her cheeks.
"You haven't made the offer yet." Kara cheekily said as she smirked at Lena.
"I guess not, how foolish of me. Kara Danvers, do you want to be my girlfriend?" Lena asked her.
"I'd love too." Kara smiled back at her. Finally, for the first time in a while, it seemed like something was going Kara's way because Kara wanted it, not because somebody else was telling her what she should or shouldn't want.
Kara felt herself getting lost as she stared into Lena's hazel eyes, and knew that if she spent too much longer there, she wouldn't want to leave at all that night, a scenario which wouldn't be all that bad in Kara's mind. Before her will could lose the battle against the intoxicating pull of Lena Luthor however, her phone began to ring.
"I've got to take this." She said apologetically as Lena smiled and gave her some privacy, walking out back onto her balcony to admire the setting sun.
"Hey, J'onn, what's up?" Kara asked, checking the caller ID.
"Kara, I heard about Snapper, why didn't you tell us that you were fired?" J'onn asked, worried. It wasn't like Kara to keep secrets, but if she was no longer at CatCo, perhaps she could be persuaded to take up a full time position with the DEO?
"It slipped my mind, with everything with Cadmus lately." Kara admitted. "I didn't want to be a burden anyway."
"You'd never be a burden, Kara." J'onn reassured her. "I was actually calling to offer you a position at the DEO full time, as Kara Danvers, not just as Supergirl."
"What would I be doing?" Kara asked, unsure as to how she would fit into the DEO.
"We can find you a place where you can easily fit in." J'onn told her. Kara was resourceful and intelligent, she could easily perform in any role she set her mind too, J'onn had no worries about that.
"Well, I'd be honoured to accept a position then, Director Henshaw." Kara stated with a smile as J'onn gave a small bark of laughter.
"J'onn is still fine, Kara." He told her as he hung up, he needed to go and sort the paperwork out for their newest recruit, and Kara probably had things to be doing still.
"Is everything alright?" Lena called as she re-entered the room.
"It's all better now." Kara assured her with a smile.
She had a new job and she had someone else who loved her, she already knew that she felt something for the L-Corp CEO, but until she was fully over Mon-El, she wanted to keep whatever this was strictly between her and Lena. Things were finally starting to look up for Kara Zor-El.