The lab of the DEO wasn't offering much to the woman who worked herself to the depths of the ground where she felt she had been pressed darkly into through the whole scenario. Even with the assistance of Agent Schott whom she took both pity on yet felt an anger with, she continued the trials through scope after scope, formula after formula. Yet once again she was met with complications and it frustrated her to no end. It wasn't until she heard the automatic door opening to the lab did she lift her darkening green gaze up pausing for a second to study the stunning yet provoking agent approaching.
"Any luck?" Agent Danvers asked, hoping Lena had reached some breakthrough to right the damage of Reign and return Ruby her beautiful mother that Alex had found herself missing more and more though she hadn't quite understood why. In the quiet of the moments in the base her throbbing eye from the latest attack, the one on Ruby's life, brought an anger deepening with every hour. She had been lucky, hell Ruby had been lucky. If she hadn't been with the agent….no, she wouldn't go there. Alex returned her focus to the Luthor.
"We better hope that when they return….it will be with what I need to help separate Reign from Sam. I'm unable to without it Alex. I...I'm sorry." Lena felt this nagging guilt overtaking her with how quickly things had tumbled downhill. Even worse the accusations she had thrown at Supergirl….someone whom had countlessly risked her own Kryptonian life to save hers, she had pitched her anger at. She had lost all hope in the girl of steel with her rage her feelings of betrayal but….she'd been just as ruthless and selfish. She'd been mute and tried to save Sam on her own when she should have come to them. She just feared Sam's life if it had been dropped into the DEO's hands. Now, the regret was there. The stupidity of her decisions, left now to slap her hard in the face and punch her in the gut. Seeing the look in the agent's eyes she knew Alex felt deeply for her friend. She wished Kara was there right now, wished for the blonde's arms around her and her whispered words of reassurance. How she wanted her here.
"I hope they make it back soo….." Alex was cut off as the doors opened and Supergirl and Valor entered the lab with the blonde holding out a strange container. Her body deeply relaxed seeing her sister safe but something was different. There was a stone gaze in Mon El's eyes there was a determination in Kara's. She almost slipped with the itch to run to Kara and hug her but instead steadied herself acting as professional as she could. "Supergirl, you returned."
"I have." Alex felt the strength the power in those two words and she slid a glimpse beside her studying Lena's eyes whom had noticed the change to the hero's demeanor. It was then both heard another set of boots and the two parted way. Brown eyes widened with the approaching stranger instantly reaching for her gun gasping with trembles through her body until she noticed the emblem on the woman's chest. She suddenly slid in front of Lena protectively raising the gun until she felt the stir in the wind and noticed the blur then the deeper red and deeper blue before her met with the powerful orbs of crystal blue. Her own sister had put herself in front of Alex's aim. The agent felt her balance tilting not understanding until she saw something in Kara's eyes gleaming 'trust me'. "Wh…..what?"
"Lower it Alex." Kara said and the agent slowly did bringing a green gaze from Alex to Supergirl.
"What's going on?" The Luthor asked with a thousand questions rattling in her brain. It was then this beautiful woman dressed in a suit so similar to Supergirl's minus the colors stepped forward from walking around the blonde. Lena's own eyes widened until she saw something in the woman's beautiful green eyes. It reminded her of her best friend's eyes, the warmth, the tenderness two orbs held.
"Are you Lena?" Green eyes slightly trembled as her body felt a strange yearn to run to tense but instead relaxed some as she nodded. "Thank you." The woman reached out softly bringing a hand up to the Luthor's cheek. "The names we are bred with not born with, we all attempt escape from. I see something in you Lena, something I know my daughter has seen more than anyone else on this planet." Green eyes trembled even more. "I see the uncertainty and fear in your eyes dear one. But I also see the bravery and selfless acts of a hero as MY daughter Kara tries to be and has been for this city, this beautiful Earth." Lena felt her eyes widen even more as the realization slammed into her like a powerful freight train as she stumbled slightly until the woman before her helped her remain standing. With the words spoken both heard the drop of the gun hit the floor the agent had been holding and a heavy shuttering sob. The eyes of the woman helping steady the Luthor turned to meet watery brown ones.
"You…..you're…." Alex tried to mutter out but her words were lost to her as tears draped down her cheeks and she felt as if she'd been struck with the sword she'd used on the dangerous Kryptonian that night. The woman turned her head back to the woman she helped backward and onto the stool in the lab kneeling slowly meeting green eyes filled with so many mixed emotions leaning in to whisper to her.
"She couldn't tell you whom she was…..she couldn't let you endure the darkness she has Lena. She didn't want to lose you, like she fears she has already. You both have been in the depths the claws of the shadows of your last names. These names don't define you, it is what you show by your actions that give you meaning." The woman stood up as her daughter walked closer to the Luthor and she to the agent in tattered tears. She could hear the pain in her child's voice and it stung so. It wasn't for her to interfere with, not right now. Instead her gaze was on the woman before her. She noticed the power this so called agent had through the tightness of her muscles and her convictions of the past and present actions. Slowly she stopped before the agent and softly slipped her arms around her stroking her hair as she pressed the human's head to her chest. "It is alright Alexandra Danvers...it is alright.." She spoke calmly and soothingly as she heard the cries and whimpers from the two women behind her. She felt the shakes of the fragile soul in her grasp. She treaded carefully. "You gave her an honorable passage to peace my dear….I do not blame you whatsoever." It was important this child knew how much she appreciated her actions. "You gave my precious Kara HOME, you gave her FAMILY. You brought meaning and strength to her through her darkest of moments. You Alex…..are her biggest hero, and for what all you have done for my daughter….you are mine too." They broke apart as Alex finally stood a little straighter yet still a little shaken noticing her sister and her best friend hugging tightly in a set of massive tears and apologies. She slid her brown eyes back to the woman before her, the one whom had held her as she cried and broke. "Do you know who I am?" The agent nodded swallowing hard.
"You're….Alura." Alex spoke as the woman smiled. "But….you were….how?" As Kara and Lena approached them with an arm draped around one another wiping their eyes Alex studied her sister's mother's expression.
"I am here to right the wrongs of my husband, and help you save this planet from the killers whom threaten us all. I am here to give Kara…..my beautiful daughter, what is necessary to protect those she loves, those she cares for and believes in." Alura explained turning to Lena meeting her watery gaze. "I will help you create what can save Samantha from the monstrous entity Reign." She then turned her focus to her daughter. "Kara…...the truth is, you CAN be both. You became both when you became her sister. You became both when you saved her from that crash. You became both when you created bonds with these people. You CAN be Kara Danvers AND Kara Zor-El." Blue eyes shined with a glisten of unspoken emotions and Kara felt a hand slip into her own knowing by the scent of her perfume the beat of her heart the warmth of her shaky hand whom it was. "Let's save this Earth and its people...shall we? Supergirl….."