Oh how you never know the ends to woven darkness when fires ignite the strands...
Chapter 1
The city's sky was filled with the glorious radiating view of a vast full glistening silver jaded moon and the twinkles of stars along the canvas of the night. It brought a smirk to the proud owner of CATCO whom sipped her crystal wine glass of red pleased by how things had panned out. It hadn't been easy, but with hard work and determination...and plenty of $$$$ the citizens of National City rested easily finally. Even more so she was finally out from the Putrid shouts at her last name. Her fellow men and women had seen her for the caring and protective angel she meant to be that wanted to rid the world of danger, devils and death. Even the various aliens among them came to offer their apologies, their support and efforts to further help build what she had wanted to accomplish.
The World Killer scene had finally been stripped out of the papers, and even the admittance of her beloved masked knight's identity had quieted. Now, there were new buildings starting their structure. There were homes for refugees, assistances for those in real need and not just greedy mongrels trying to reach out and snatch their bloody claws into the cookie jar to feed their habits. Even more so, her best friend had returned and with it there was something missing in the beautiful blonde's eyes.
She took another sip flicking her empowering green gaze from the atmosphere she glanced to upon her penthouse balcony turning to head in for the night until a loud horrific screeching cry came hurtling toward the deck of her balcony and she dashed out of the way just in time shielding her head with her arm shutting her eyes as the debree dusted her body still clad in her business attire. Coughing from the remnants in the air she wiped what was all over her from the crash upon her balcony from her face especially her eyes that opened and widened. In the crater created by the force of their descent, a familiar suit or at least what was left of the tattered and shredded material covered her unmoving form and she felt her breath caught in her throat putting a hand to her mouth.
The once sunlit long and smooth strands were mattered with crismon in them. The soft features of noble and honor were cut and bruised and it didn't take her long to realize how bad this was. She moved closer crawling carefully toward the fallen hero but suddenly stopped by what her green gaze landed on. Just a few strands were rested somewhat oddly over her face but it was enough for the Luthor to see JUST what it looked like. A pair of glasses…..oh….god..NO!
"No no no! Don't you dare Supergirl...don't leave Kara do you hear me?!" She lunged forward uncaring if she was hurt in the process she had to make sure and immediately went to the pulse point at the blonde's neck. She shivered praying silently to anyone whom would bloody listen even if it was the damned devil if they would just return the sun to her. Relief flooded her body upon the feel of a pulse, but it was so dangerously faint. She pulled her hand away trying her best to steady herself searching her body for her phone not finding it but upon hearing what sounded like a buzzing she glanced to the side and noticed the device with screen lit up and scrambled to snatch it. "Hello?"
"OH GOD LENA! ARE YOU OKAY?" The Luthor was grateful for the concern but she found herself shaking her head. "TALK to me Lee!"
"How fast can you get here?" She attempted to steal her resolve.
"Give me ten mins I'll be there. Are you okay though?"
"Go through the private entry Sam..wait…..is Ruby.."
"No, she's at a friend's house. Why?"
"Just get here Sam." Lena told her friend. Hanging up she went through her contacts and cursed herself for not having the elder Danvers' number in her contacts. "Shit." Cursing she growled and dashed back to the blonde's side carefully slipping a hand under the hero's head cradling it as she scooted closer until she had the woman's head in her lap. "Just hang in there okay?" She felt her eyes welling up with tears as the fierceness left her shaking form and she quaked with shakes all over along with the cascades of moisture trembling down the sides of her face. "Please Kara…..hang in there...please…"
"This stupid ****ing mechanical piece of…" Sam grumbled kicking the door as the private elevator finally dinged and closed with the woman sighing as she stepped back leaning against the wall of the metal box. "Well, at least she's got plenty of dough in the bank to make up for the damage whatever caused her place. At least...at least she's okay." She didn't sound okay though. Arias couldn't help the dwindling thoughts and concerns that stacked up inside her rattling brain. With the stop of the elevator and a ding the doors slid open and Sam instantly headed down hall in a walk until she saw out the vast entry window to the deck and gasped. "LENA!" Sam hollered driving her body into a full blown sprint as she used the strength she hadn't expected to have to burst through the main door and run toward the patio doors noticing the disaster left by what looked like cannon fire had struck her balcony. "LENA are you…." Sam slammed her body to halt upon seeing her friend sobbing holding an unconscious and badly wounded Supergirl practically in her lap. "Lee…." Green eyes bore into her trembling eyes.
"Call Alex..now!" The Luthor yelled practically sobbing it out and Sam couldn't understand what had Lena so broken before her.
"Call the DEO, yeah I got that…"
"NO! Don't just call the DEO Sam….CALL….ALEX! Call KARA'S sister!" Lena screamed at her friend as the tears trailed down her face faster. Sam studied her friend's face then looked down and looked carefully….closer.
"Oh…...no…"
"I know you have her number Sam….please….she needs to be treated badly! Her pulse is weak shes…" Nothing else needed to be said as Arias grabbed her phone and dialed the agent's now Director's personal cell. "Stay with me Kara….stay with us.."
"Have a good night Director Danvers!" A few of the boys yelled out waving to their boss whom leaned on the railing surveying their agency. Brown eyes had worried when a newer agent rather young with spiked hair came running up with a report about an explosion across town just as her phone had gone off.
"What is it?"
"Director...it came from here." The agent muttered pointing to a point on the tablet and the Director's eyes widened as she glanced at whom was calling her. "Boss?"
"Send a team over there...wait! Sam?" Alex felt her heart constricting as she was relayed news that had her legs feeling as if they would suddenly give out. She gripped the rail tighter pulling the phone from her ear as she yelled out. "Get me a med-e-vac chopper and team ready and two teams out of the garage NOW! Supergirl is down I repeat, Supergirl is down!"
"Lena?" Sam spoke carefully as she removed her own jacket and ever so gently draped it over the hero before them to keep her body warm. Arias felt her skin and instead of the warmth a Kryptonian would normally project, the flesh was cold. The wounds weren't subsiding and both knew Kara needed the lamps soon.
"You hear that Kara….your sister is on her way." Lena whispered to the unconscious woman in her arms she'd pulled further into her lap as the business woman stroked the blonde's filthy hair gently retreating from it as she tenderly brushed a hand along her face. "Please stay with us Kara.."
"How..how did you figure it out?" Sam asked as she lightly stroked one the woman's limp arms.
"I...I just put the pieces together when I saw her like this and….I mean put glasses on her Sam." They both sighed surprised when the Luthor's phone went off as Sam reached for it. "Just put it on speaker for me k?" As the woman slid the talk over neither even had paid attention to the screen. "This is Lena Luthor.." Lena did her best to sound professional but she was feeling anything but that at the moment. Then, the devil answered..
"Now now dear daughter of mine. Is that any way to say hello to your mother?" Green eyes widened then burned and narrowed and Sam noticed it immediately the way she held the fallen Super closer and tighter against her.
"What the hell do you want?!" Lena snarled but then gasped as the pieces came together right before her when she looked down seeing a faint evil green glow under the torn suit and shakingly reached up to pull back where Kara's family crest was to see the repulsive burned and carved symbol of Cadmus radiating green kryptonite that had even Sam feeling nauseous.
"Such a shame while the city you attempt to cater to was ransacked by Kryptonian monsters I didn't have a chance to meet the witch whom spawned the dear sweet Super in your grasp. Oh well, another time perhaps. Do you like my gift?" Lena felt like puking and Sam had to scramble back to keep from vomiting from the exposure to the substance their badly injured friend had been riddled with. "It's our newest batch made from something a few of my loyal Cadmus soldiers took from the precious DEO when they pretended to be their agents. I even got to do the honors myself. Oh how your brother would be so proud." A sudden blast caught both women's attention as what was left of Lena's phone burned into ash as her green eyes slid to the side to see what had powerfully ended the dreaded call.
"Alex?!" Lena yelled as the Director ran over quickly diving down as she dropped her favorite gun the Luthor had tinkered with a month prior making it even more powerful and adding two cuffs similar to her boyfriend's gauntlets he used as guardian to the suit Winn had made the agent before his travel to the future. "Alex….she's…"
"Alex she…."
"Get me a stretcher and my kit and bring my monitor and scanner over! Prepare the mask in case I need to use it to pump oxygen into her!" The new Director hollered and her DEO agents listened carefully scrambling to her requests and demands. Once their attentions were to get her the items she needed for the injured hero brown eyes filled with a damming worry. "What happened?" Lena explained the events with as much detail as possible and as they got the blonde no longer in her lap on the stretcher preparing to load it into the chopper she reached out and snatched Alex by the wrist. Green bore into brown and the fierce demand to accompany was there.
"I'm coming too." Both turned to see Sam standing with fists clenched. "You might need blood."
"You aren't Kryptonian anymo…" Sam snarled as her eyes began to glow brighter and brighter and brown eyes widened in disbelief. "Explain on way over. I'm calling for Ruby to be picked up."
"No, she's safe where she is. Keep her there. Keep her out of this. I'll explain it to her later."
"I'll have James take her to school at least and check in with her. Okay?" Sam nodded. As the badly injured Super was secured in chopper the doors were shut as Sam, Lena and Alex got secure in seats all surrounding the blonde's battered body.
"I'm gonna kill my mother for this.." Lena snarled as both women flicked their gaze to angered green orbs.
"If I don't find her first." Alex growled.
"Kara didn't do anything to her!" Sam stammered out which got Alex's eyes widening as shock hit her features. "Oh please, Lena figured it out before I did." The Director glanced hard at the Luthor.
"Yes. I understand it all Alex. I'll sign all your fucking forms so will Sam. Right now, we have to focus on getting Kara better." Lena felt her body tremble as she reached out and peeled back what had caught her attention before now showing it to the eldest Danvers. She glanced up as brown eyes pooled with moisture then burned like wildfires. "You know Alex….gotta say, you being Director has its benefits." Lena and Sam watched as the short haired agent in charge had to scuffle away to puke into a can as her entire body quaked just as Lena's had when she first discovered her mother's gruesome 'present'. When eyes of brown met her green orbs once more there was a storm forming in those eyes and Lena had every intention in helping Alex let it loose on whom deserved it most.
"What...do you have..in mind?" Alex spoke with a conviction to sentence the monster responsible for this ominous attack on their beloved sun. She broke her gaze from the Luthor she trusted to take one of her sister's unmoving hands into her own carefully looking down at the damage knowing had badly everything must have hurt Kara. How could she have not known that this happened?! Didn't they have a tracker on Supergirl for this reason after the last attacks Cadmus had enacted?! "I'm so sorry Kar….we will get you better okay? Get you all fixed up and then I'll order an insane amount of chinese food and you can have all the potstickers you want okay? Just for you.." Alex felt her eyes pooling with tears threatening to pour down her face again and she did her best to fight them as she glanced back up and growled which caught both women off how beastly it sounded. "You said….me being Director has its benefits..right?" The Luthor gulped nodding. "What benefit is that?"
"I think….it's time Lena.." Sam chimed in glancing from the Luthor to agent to Luthor smirking. "..we invited mother dearest…..to a gathering." Eyes of the Arias met the burning eyes of the Director's. "She hasn't met me yet." But Lena was about to protest when Sam held up her hand to stop her friend right there. "Oh don't worry. I won't be there. Not in person anyway." Now the Luthor was curious. "Let's tend to Kara first. I'll explain later." The three nodded all in agreement as the chopper landed and the door was pulled open with the Director commanding her teams while Supergirl was carefully lowered with stretcher and then rushed toward the med area where both Lena and Sam knew all too well but followed.
"I…" Sam turned to study the tear filled eyes of the Luthor and her pained expression. "She was always there Sam..whether as just my beautiful sunshine or my protector. I never put the pieces together right." The sigh brought Lena stopping her words as she turned to meet Sam's shaking eyes. "Sam?"
"I know it was Reign Lena..but….it was MY hands that did that to her. MY body...during that fight. I nearly killed our friend Lee..our sister!" The Luthor knew it was Sam's time to crumble and as the sobs came she held her friend close as she too let it all go.
From the confines of the rail she watched with pained eyes the two sobbing women then flicked her faze back to the med bay and the lamps surrounding her baby sis. The Luthor had been right about Alex having all the power now, the authority. She could make the calls. She was in charge of all decisions though she knew she had to answer for them eventually. But right now, her sister lay under solar healing and hopefully it ridded her body of the venomous toxins Lillian and Cadmus had used on Kara. Slowly she shook her head and steadied herself as she stepped away from the railing and headed down to meet up with them. Sam heard the approaching agent immediately.
"Alex?" She spoke shakily.
"Director.." Lena muttered attempting professional but hearing the shakiness in her voice. Brown eyes met them both and motioned with her head for them to follow her and so they did as the three walked into her office as the Director walked over and turned on monitor as a view of room their injured sun was currently resting in came on the screen. "Alex?"
"Al…" Sam started but watched as the rather stunning yet tense creature before her tightened her muscles sitting in her chair behind her desk then leaned forward and it was as if she was a powerful tiger studying her prey behind the glass while running claws along it to weaken its strength. Brown eyes were filled with rich and dark intention with no room to argue and Sam felt herself swallowing hard by this transfiction.
"What did you have in mind for her Lena.." Alex brought it up once more but this time the way she said it brought shivers through Arias. But then turning to see the Luthor's posture Sam was taken aback by how her friend smirked and licked her lips.
"She's right." Lena's lips curved into the most sinister grin as she looked over at Arias. "She hasn't met you."
"We've gone over that." Sam explained then really studied both women. "Okay, you both have the most…...evil of looks on your faces." Turning back to the Director Sam heard the auburn short haired beauty chuckle.
"I think it's about time….ole Lillian Luthor was introduced to what the finest chemistries, technologies and skills we three have to offer can provide." Then the Luthor joined in on the cackle and Sam glanced to Lena with curious eyes and a raised eyebrow.
"Come again?" Arias asked. Then Lena leaned forward to take the strange puzzle box off of the Director's desk and set the colors and combos correctly into place with each twist and turn.
"I think it's time...we have her…..play..a game….."
Haven't we all contemplated ways to exact sinister ploys upon the Cadmus leader that makes us ALL yearn to rip her head off? Why not...find a new way to amuse ourselves. Whom wants to play?
-Enigmea- }:)-