Lena is cleaning off her desk when she hears a voice come from behind.
"Lena Luthor." She hears the women speak softly.
"I'm not seeing anyone right now." She replies, aloofly and rolling her eyes.
"I heard about your colleague, Mr. Spheer. I'm so sorry."
That got her attention. Lena turns around slowly, seeing the figure standing in the doorway to her office.
"Who are you?" She asks.
The figure steps into the light revealing a well dressed middle-aged woman. She takes another step forward and begins to introduce herself.
"My name is Rhea, I have a business proposition for you."
"Excuse me for questioning, but why should I accept?" The CEO asks the stranger in her office.
"Because if you don't something very bad will happen to your beloved Supergirl." The queen answers in a calm but menacing tone.
Lena clenches her jaw at the obvious coercion" This is sounding less like a business proposition and more like a threat." Lena replies coolly, crossing her arms as she spoke.
Rhea takes her arms out from behind her back and shows the CEO the necklace in her hands. It was a simple gold chain with a red square cut stone. The stone in the pendent was reminiscent of a ruby.
"I would like you to give this to your friend, Ms. Danvers. Tell her it is a gift from my son Mon-El."
"Who is Mon-el? If he has feelings for Kara I regret to inform you she is seeing someone." Lena says, that last bit making her feel a little sad, because how could someone not fall for Kara. "and why can't he give it to her? Why can't you give it to her?" She questions, curious about the older women's intentions, something not feeling right about this.
"Well, you see, my son got this necklace for her a while back, but cannot make the trip all the way out here. Since I had to come to National City on business, I offered to bring this necklace to her." She pauses for a moment and chooses her words wisely.
"Unfortunately, Ms. Danvers and I don't have the best relationship. I was hoping you could give it to her to insure she accepts it." The Daxamite beguiles, trying to play on the raven-haired woman's emotions.
Lena hesitates for a minute, eyeing the strange ornament, then reaches out to take the necklace "Very well," she smiles stoically. "I'll make sure Kara gets this." She walks over and sets the necklace on her desk.
"Thank you" Rhea responds and walks out of the CEOs office, not realizing Lena is cut off from her emotions unless it comes to Kara (or thinking about Beth in prison.) After a few moments, Lena picks up the necklace and looks it over carefully. Whoever this Rhea woman was, Lena didn't trust her, and she fully intends to study the jewelry before giving it to her friend.
After watching Rhea leave, Lena went over to look at the necklace. It was a truly beautiful stone that seemed to glow from the center, but subtle enough to suit Kara, something only someone who knew the blonde personally would choose. She opens the top drawer of her desk and carefully places the jewelry inside and closes it. Leaving her office with the promise of inspecting the jewelry in the morning
The Next Morning
The next morning didn't go as planned.
Lena walks into her office the next morning and sees Kara sitting on her couch with a white takeout bag and 2 cups of coffee.
"Hey Lena." The perky blonde greeted as the CEO walked in.
Lena smiles slightly and replies softly "Hi Kara" while continuing the trek to her desk "why are you here so early? If I may ask?" she questions.
"well I know it's been hard for you the last few days so I thought I'd try and cheer you up" she responds lifting the bag of donuts in her hand.
Lena smiles again wondering how the blonde always seems to improve her mood no matter how awful she is "and I wanted to ask you something" the blonde added.
While Kara was talking Lena sat at her desk chair and opened the top drawer of her desk to put her keys in. Kara pauses for a moment noticing the jewelry Lena had forgotten about.
"oh that's a pretty necklace, why is it stuck in your desk?" the blonde says in awe and reaches out and takes the chain right from the CEO's desk. No one noticed the blonde's veins glowing red.
"it's for you actually" Lena tells Kara
"Really? Lena, why?" the young hero asked perplexed as to why her friend would get her jewelry
"it wasn't me, your friends mother stopped by last night to ask me to give it to you"
Kara narrows her eyes at the necklace in her hand.
"Is that so? Did you get a name?"
"Actually I did, she said her name is Rhea and she said it's a gift from her son Mon-El"
As she spoke the CEO looked up at Kara and saw her jaw tense at the older woman's name, her hand clenched around the glad chain and she walks over to the corner of Lena's office where the trash can is located and let the jewelry fall into the basket.
"I want nothing to do with that women" with disgust in her voice
This shocked the CEO, she was surprised Kara could manage so much contempt in a sentence. Lena opens her mouth to say something but Kara cut her off.
"Back to what I was saying" the blonde continues "I wanted to ask you to come out with me tonight" the normally shy girl spoke brazenly.
"I don't know Kara, I have a lot to do here tonight" Lena responded, noticing something feels off about the blonde
The taller woman gives a fake pout that doesn't have the same effect as it used to.
"oh come on, I promise it'll be fun" she whines holding out the 'n' on both fun and on.
Something changes inside the CEO and she begins to worry. She tells Kara that she will meet her there at eight.
The blonde smiles "great" she responds but it isn't right, it's not the same 'sunshiny' smiles that she had grown accustom to, its darker, more mysterious and more seductive then she even knew the blonde was capable of.
After getting the CEO to agree the reporter told her that she had to go to work and walked out of the office. Lena sat there for a while just thinking about the events that transpired over the last few days and in a moment of peace she allowed herself to cry
This was going to be the end of the chapter but I decided I wanted it to be longer
Anyway Lena has reconnected to her emotions
Kara texted the Superfriends and told them to meet at Lux at 8 o'clock. When everyone showed up that night Lena notices that they are all dressed to the nines and for the first time she doesn't feel over dressed in the presence of Kara or her friends. Lena has on a blood red dress that fits her form perfectly, Kara a skin tight navy blue dress cutting off just above her knees. Alex and Maggie are both wearing tight dark jeans and their leather jackets, Alex has on a loose fitting V-neck t-shirt while Maggie has a light button down on. All the men are wearing black pants and button down shirts, James has on a blue shirt, Winn black without a tie and cardigan and Mon-El purple.
Kara walked over to the bouncer, she leaned down to the shorter woman's ear. The group watched as the door security blushes, the women then reaches over and unhooks the rope, ushering the group in. the Superfriends take a moment to take in what happened and follow the blonde inside.
The young hero leads them down the stair to the main floor of the bar. They look around and notice women dancing on stage, a piano in the middle of the floor and enough booths to seat everyone working in the DEO. They were about to place a drink order someone shouts from behind
"Kara?"
Everyone turns to their left and they see Lucy Lane sauntering towards them.
"Hey guys" she says, her smile growing larger as she goes over to hug everyone, even if Kara's hug was only half-hearted.
"it looks like there are two new faces here, Major Lucy Lane, but you can call me Lucy." She says reaching towards Mon-El first.
He accepts her hand "my name is Mike, I'm Kara's boyfriend" No one notices they eye roll from the blonde standing in the back, but Lena heard her mutter "not for long" then reaches out for the younger Lane's hand "Lena Luthor" she says. There is a moment of silence before Kara speaks in a bored tone.
"Yea, yea, you're a Luthor and you're a lane neither of you are your older siblings so let's get on with it and do what we came here to do." She pauses for a moment "let's have some fun"
That's when the owner of the club walks over "a woman after my own heart if I do say so myself" he spoke in a welsh accent and smiles a devilishly charming smile towards the kryptonian. Kara looks at him and smirks, then the song changes
Hello, Hello baby you called
I can't hear a thing
I have got no service
In this club you see, see,
"I love this song" Kara says wrapping her arm around Lena's waist, pulling the CEO closer she drops her head to the shorter woman's ear and asks her to dance. Lena's mouth goes dry and she nods following Kara to the dance floor. Along the way the young Luthor decides that the best way to figure out the change in Kara's demeanor is to play along so she starts to dance. Kara stands behind Lena and presses her front into the raven haired woman's back and starts to rock her body. The hero then drops her head and nuzzles the CEOs neck, who in return bits her lip. The Superfriends all stand there watching the two interact on the dance floor five of the six have hanging jaws while Mon-El started to seethe, he walks up behind Kara and clears his throat. The blonde rolls her eyes and straightens out.
"Can I help you Mike?" she asks irritated, enunciating his name.
"I don't think it's appropriate for my girlfriend to dance like this with anyone but me, especially not another woman."
Kara gains a dangerous smirk and it finally clicks for Alex why Kara hasn't been acting right.
"And why is that Mikey?" she asks in a condescendingly sweet voice "afraid she might be better?"
Alex gets the attention of the two men standing next to her "it's Red K" she whispers. "I have a solution but I need you guys to make sure she stays here for a few minutes." And she ran out.
"No, because you're my girlfriend and no one else can touch you" Mon-El says as he reaches out to grab Kara's arm. Before the young Daximite got the chance the Kryptonian grabs his arm and wrenchs it behind his back. She then gave him a half-hearted shove that sent him to the ground.
"Well then I guess you're single now" she says in a dismissive tone. She then grits her teeth and in a louder voice starts to put the man down "I am so tired of being treated like you own me, I am my own person and I got by just fine without you. I do not need a whiney self-serving man child who thinks he can make me do what he wants because he has a dick."
Lena notices the blonde's hand clench into a fist. She puts a hand on the taller woman's upper and tilts her heads so she can speak directly into her ear. "Kara, honey why don't we get out of here" and starts to rub her hand up and down the blonde's arm to soothe her.
The owner walks over to the trio that made a scene, Mon-El still on the ground. "As much as I love a good action scene, I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to leave. My friend here" he gestures to the short blonde behind him "Detective Decker, doesn't approve of public brawls and I would hate to see such pretty faces behind bars"
Kara scoffed and mumbled under her breath "as if she could take me" only heard by Lucifer who looked at the blonde. Then takes Lena's hand, puts the other up in mock surrender and walks out of the club.
Lucifer reaches down to help Mon-El laughing at the man that got humiliated by the blonde. "I'm going to have to ask you to leave as well for killing the wonderful buzz we had before you interrupted" and the Devil walks off.
James and Winn get Mon-El out following Maggie and Lucy who had already run after Kara and Lena.
When everyone gets outside they see J'onn standing stoically off to the side Kara writhing on the ground with Alex and Lena kneeling next to her and a giant gun discarded near the building, they had just missed the blood red cloud that dissipated from the blonde's body.