"Kara, this is Imra Ardeen, my wife."
Kara POV:
It replayed over and over in my head. His voice, the voice I had longed to hear for over seven months, repeating the line. Over and over.
My wife, my wife, my wife. It wouldn't stop. I would wake up some times from dreams of Mon el, dreams of what would have been our wedding day, turning into theirs. I would walk down the aisle, Alex by my side, and exchange the vows with Monel. But then I wasn't up there, instead I was in the crowd, watching the love of my life and the love of his connecting in marriage, in kids, in forever. I would wake up crying. I would wake up hurt.
For over two weeks I had tried to make sense of the situation to no avail. No matter how many nights I survived, no matter how many days I watched them in the DEO, my mind refused to accept the truth. He wasn't mine anymore, he was hers. Alex tried to console me, with both of us having broken hearts it wasn't easy. We would spend most of the night watching old movies, drama, comedies, action, anything but romance and anything but musicals.
It was weird how even though I wasn't accepting the facts, my life continued. I was still a reporter, still Supergirl, still an agent of the DEO. I would still go out and live. But I was hollow inside, and seeing them didn't help.
Imra and Monel were, whether I liked it or not, living at the DEO, living together as man and wife in the DEO. I had to see them every day, converse with them and work with them. I had to be friends with them. I had to tolerate them. They were here, and they weren't going anywhere.
Two weeks. Two weeks of torture. Two weeks of the rest of my life.
The DEO was quiet this morning, having already stopped a car chase and a house fire there wasn't much going on in National City. Winn sat by the computer, typing away, Alex and Jonn talked by the monitors about any upcoming threats and Monel stood by a computer screen, going over the current events of the past seven months.
I sat too, swinging around in a chair waiting for any alerts on the big screen. Looking back at it, it wasn't the best idea to take today as a day off from work. Lena knew that Monel has returned with a new girl and was extremely supportive, giving me as many off days as I wanted, but with nothing to do I was stuck in this room with the man I wanted to avoid. It wasn't working out.
"I am so bored!" Monel shouted suddenly, causing Winn to jump in his seat. I would have laughed at the smile that spread across Monel's face. I would have.
"Well Monel, as sorry I am for your boredom, until you are up to date with all the mission files of recent months, your field work days are over." Jonn answered in his usual calm tone.
"Blah blab la bla blah." Smiled Monel. He looked over to me, the smile disappearing. He held my eyes for a few seconds before looking away, a guilty look in his eyes.
With my face turning red I quickly got up to leave the room to compose myself, before Winn spoke.
"Wow, wow, wow, team we have a hit!" He called, bringing all of us over to his screen which showed a large map with a red hue blocking the view in the right hand corner. "Mr Winn over here has found us a snack, a high percentile of Beta Radiation in the Central Desert forty miles from mid-town." He was grinning now. "Suddenly appeared with no warning, can someone say possibly alien?"
"High level of Beta Radiation?" This from Alex. "That's used for screening and medical purposes, what is it doing out in the desert? Do any alien races have any specific uses for it?"
"Not that I know of, but from what I can tell this dose is incredible high in electron count and rising in each moment. The mass of the radiation should not be able to hold such a large dosage." Winn answered.
"Probably best to check it out." Jonn decided. "Supergirl travel there this instance and let us know if anything seems alien."
"On it." I said walking towards the exit.
"Wait, wait, doesn't she need back up?" This from Monel. "I mean we don't know if this could be dangerous, it isn't something you see every day."
"You haven't finished the case files." I said, not looking him in the eye. "You're not authorised for field work."
Monel looked hurt by my words, but what could he expect. Did he really think I wanted to spend any more time with him than was necessary?
"For a routine stake out he will be fine." Jonn decided. "Backup could be helpful."
Unable to argue I nodded and carried on walking towards the exit, fully aware of the shadow of the man I once loved trailing behind me.
The desert looked as you expected it to be, wide, long, yellow. Nothing new or out of the ordinary. The air smelt the same and the sun was clear, nothing to describe as unique.
Monel stood slightly behind me, he was crouched down to the floor, feeling the sand for anomalies. I, standing next to him was x-ray visioning the area to find nothing.
Beta radiation, what we were called here for, wasn't making any difference to the environment, no trees were dead or plants crisped, if the scanner was right the radiation was being contained. But by what?
"It normal." Monel said, standing up. "Absolutely no difference in anything. Shouldn't something be happening?"
Before I could answer I felt something under my feet. Light and small but something. Definitely something.
"Monel, something isn't r-"
BOOM!
A noise loud and piercing filled the air. Low pitched and deafening it sent us both to our knees covering out ears.
"What the-!"
Before an explanation, in front of us appeared a blinding light, white and purple and red and black, bright and growing, expanding whilst the noise continued. It hurt, geez it hurt.
The light seemed to move and focused around a spot about 100 metres away from us. In the centre was a miss-formed figure, round and long. The light moved around it, moved through it, moved with it, as if the figure was controlling it.
The sound and light carried on climbing, reaching unbelievable heights and depth. Over to my right Monel was on his knees, his eyes twitching and ears bleeding, my hands were starting to feel numb as well.
Just as we were both about to all to the floor, the light and sound began to retract, slowly at first but then all at once. In its place it left a circle, black and smoking, about 12metres in diameter. The circle was filled with odd and unusual markings, all burning and smoking.
But what left me stunned wasn't the markings or the strange vibration in the air, it wasn't the piercing ringing in my ears. What left me stunned was the figure in the middle of the circle. A human.
A girl with long golden hair reaching her slender waist lay in the middle of the circle. Her pale skin lit up by the sunlight and her tall, athletic body curled into a ball. Her eyes were open and showed her piercing green eyes, her chest was rising slowly.
"Supergirl, Supergirl, come in, can you hear me!?" Jon's voice rang through the radio.
I looked over ta Monel who was staring at the girl of maybe seventeen, he looked up at me, confusion and disbelief in his eyes.
"Yeah, yeah I hear you." I answered not taking my eyes off the girl. "Um, we found something, something new."
For all around us the world was up in smoke, the ground and air burning. All, except the girl.
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