Chapter 2

A/N: I was not expecting the response that this story got. Just... whoa. Thank you for feeding my ego through your comments. I really do appreciate it. I'm not sure how long this story is going to take to finish up...

3 bullets rung out in the air. 2 bullets missed, but one hits PSI in the shoulder.

PSI stumbled away from Kara, she gripped her shoulder in pain. She looks up at the Luthor and shot her a satisfied smile, "Are all Luthor's bitches? I was given specific orders not to harm you, you got lucky"

"The next one will go through your fucking brain" Lena threatened, she internally felt herself grin when she watched this blonde bitch, flinch under her intense glare.

PSI knew that the Luthor's were heartless, and as much as she wanted to snap the Luthor's neck, she was given strict orders not to harm the daughter. So, she left the situation alone and ran away with her hand gripping her shoulder.

The second that PSI ran away, Lena dropped the gun that was shaking in her hands and rushed to her girlfriend's side. She dropped down to the ground to calm Kara down.

Kara was shaking.

It was like she was having a nightmare, but she was awake.

"Kara, it's okay now, she's gone" Lena has seen Kara face terrifying aliens before, and none of them made her shake out of fear. Not like this.

"I c-can't" Kara cried out, she started pounding her own chest, hoping that oxygen would somehow enter her lungs. She shut her eyes and tried to control her breathing, but everything was hurting. She tried to stand up, but the room felt like it was spinning.

Her ears were pounding from the sounds of the earth. She could hear cars honking their horns, babies crying in the distance, people slurring angry words at one another.

But the worst sound that she could hear, was inside of her head.

People… her people to be precise, were screaming in pain and agony.

She could hear them all, begging someone to make the pain stop, begging someone to save their children. Pleading for Rao to spare their lives.

Lena could hear Kara's heavy breathing, it suddenly clicked in her head that Kara was having a panic attack.

"Kara, listen to my voice" Lena tried to speak over Kara's heavy breathing. Her girlfriend was literally shaking her arms, she was lucky that Kara wasn't thrashing around right now, or else she would have multiple broken bones.

"Lena" Kara cried out as she buried her head into Lena's shirt in an attempt to block out the sounds that were bombarding her ears.

Lena's heart broke when she heard Kara's voice crack under all the pain and sadness that she was feeling.

"Okay Babe" Lena needed to get her emotions under control, she couldn't afford to breakdown. She was a Luthor god damnit. She was practically trained to stay calm under any situation yet… seeing Kara is such distress, made her feel anxious inside.

Lena felt Kara's hand ball her shirt, she could feel the hot wet tears that were streaming down Kara's face, and she could also hear the uneven breaths that were escaping Kara's mouth.

"I… I can't breathe" Kara wheezed out, her vision was starting to blur. She wasn't sure if it was because of the tears or not.

"Kara, I know it difficult babe, but I need you to focus on my voice. Listen to me, listen to my heart beat" she reached down to grab Kara's shaking hands that were gripping her shirt.

She placed Kara's hand over her chest, "Do you feel that? It's my heart pumping blood throughout my body. Can you feel it? Focus on it babe, focus on the sound of my heart beat, nothing else"

Lena wanted to do nothing more than take away Kara's pain, but it was an impossible task. The only way that she could help her, is by being here for her.

She felt Kara's breathing starting to slow down, which was a good sign.

Kara, after a few minutes of concentrating on Lena's heartbeat, lifted her head up to look at her girlfriend in the eye, "Your heart is beating like crazy" she mumbled softly. Her throat and eyes were sore from crying.

Lena let out a soft chuckle, "Of course it is" how could her heart not be racing after Kara's panic attack.

Lena saw the tiredness in Kara's eyes, "Come on, let's get you to bed okay?" this wasn't the time to interrogate Kara on what triggered a panic attack.

She will ask Kara what happened tomorrow.

Lena helped Kara stand up on her own 2 feet and guided her to the bedroom. She gently tucked Kara into the bed and helped Kara get comfortable.

She knew that Kara's throat would feel sore after wheezing for air for the past 5 minutes. She started to walk out of the room to grab a bottle of water, but suddenly Kara's hand shot out to grab Lena's wrist.

She whirled around to see Kara's pale face, glistening with fear, "Hey" she spoke gently and softly, "What's wrong babe?" the real question is, what wasn't wrong, but now wasn't the time to be sarcastic.

Kara bit her lip nervously, she hated how petty she was going to sound, "Please… Please don't leave me" she mumbled softly.

"You really think that I'm going to leave after everything that just happened?" Lena asked with a soft smile, she wasn't living with Kara so she understood why Kara was afraid that she would leave, "I'm not leaving you Kara, I'm going to grab you a bottle of water and I will be right back"

"Promise?"

Lena wandered if the blonde bitch, who Lena was planning on murdering for hurting her girlfriend, said something to Kara that made her doubt her love for Kara.

"Always. I'm never going to leave you" She reassured. Kara nodded her head and let Lena go to grab a bottle of water.

Lena couldn't help but laugh at the irony of her situation.

She had never been in a serious relationship before.

The main reason being that she had way too much baggage for anyone to handle.

But then she met Kara.

The sun who literally lit up her world.

When she first met Kara, she thought there was no way that smiling Kara could ever handle her emotional baggage. There was no way that Kara could understand the pain that she went through… but that wasn't true at all.

Yes. Lena had demons. But Kara had more demons tucked away in a small chest that remained hidden in the depths of her heart.

She walked back into the bedroom to see Kara still awake, she assumed that Kara was waiting for her to come back.

She placed the bottle of water on the drawer next to Kara's lead glasses.

She climbed into bed and instantly wrapped her arm around Kara's warm body. She felt Kara snuggled into her chest, she waited a few minutes to make sure Kara was actually asleep before allowing the darkness to succumb her.

-00—

Lena woke up feeling cold. She was used to this feeling. There weren't many times that she could say that she woke up with a body next to her.

But for the first time in a while, she yearned for the warmth of someone's body. No, not somebody…Kara's body.

She opened her eyes to find Kara's side of the bed empty, her mind instantly went to the worst place possible. Kara could have been kidnapped in the middle of the night, but how could she sleep through that. She was pretty sure that she would wake up if someone was kidnapping her alien girlfriend.

Suddenly, a wave of smell hit her nose… was that bacon?

Lena swung her legs over the bed. Her feet made contact with the cold tiles and she wrapped her arms over her chest as she felt cold.

Kara's apartment was always cold. Kara had the tendency to leave the windows open, she assumed it was because Kara always needed a window open in case someone was in danger.

She walked out of the bedroom and was not prepared for what was waiting for her in the kitchen.

Flowers, pancakes, potstickers, bacon, orange juice, kale smoothie and even more flowers were overflowing the counter kitchen.

"K-Kara?" Lena watched as her girlfriend whipped around, wearing an apron that had puppies all over It and holding a spatula in one hand.

"Lena!" Kara exclaimed happily, she placed the spatula down into the sink and took off her apron.

Lena raised an eyebrow at her, she walked towards the counter and took a seat, "What is all off this?" she asked as Kara made her way over to her.

"I… I wanted to apologise for last night" Kara muttered softly, Lena was confused. What did Kara have to apologise for?

Oh hell no, Kara was not going to apologise for having a panic attack… right?

"Apologise? For what?" Lena didn't think that Kara did anything wrong last night.

Kara fiddled with her glasses, "For…everything that happened last night"

Lena couldn't believe that Kara was apologising for having a panic attack, a part of her wanted to scream at Kara telling her that there is nothing to apologise for.

She decided that screaming wasn't the best route to take right now, "For the panic attack?" she questioned, she watched Kara's body tense at the word, but she nodded her after a few seconds.

"Yeah. That" Kara mumbled, if she was being honest, she felt a little embarrassed that Lena witnessed her panic attack.

Lena didn't want Kara to feel ashamed for having a panic attack, there was nothing wrong with it, "There's nothing wrong with what happened. You can talk to me"

Lena was hoping that Kara would take the bait and tell her what was on her mind, but instead Kara nodded her head and leaned down to kiss her on the lips.

Lena wasn't going to complain about the kiss, instead she stood up from the chair and immersed herself into the kiss until Kara suddenly pulled away, "What's wrong?"

"Do you smell that?" Kara asked looking around the room, suddenly the burning smell hit Lena's nostrils.

Lena suddenly pulled away from Kara and ran to the stove where Kara's cooking bacon was on fire, "Kara!" she screamed at her girlfriend with annoyance.

Kara superspeed to the kitchen counter and quickly blew out the power with her breath, "My bacon" Kara pouted tearfully as she picked up her completely blackened and burnt bacon.

Lena rolled her eyes at her girlfriend, "Kara, what have I told you about leaving the stove on"

"I didn't mean to, I just forgot" Kara replied as she tasted the burnt bacon to see if it was still edible, but it definitely was not.

"You did not just try eating the burnt bacon" Lena said with disgust, she snatched the burnt bacon out of Kara's hand and took the frying pan with her to the bin.

"I didn't want to waste food" Kara replied as she grabbed her orange juice to wash away the burnt taste in her mouth.

"Well who's fault is it that the bacon is burnt?" Lena retorted as she chucked away the bacon and put the frying pan back into the sink.

Kara passed Lena her kale juice, "Yours" Kara replied as she gulped down her drink.

"Mine!? How the hell is this my fault?" Lena shouted

"You distracted me. You can't expect me to pay attention to the bacon when you walk in with those… beautiful green eyes of yours" Kara argued back, earning Lena to smirk at Kara's compliment.

"You think I have beautiful green eyes?" Lena teased, she placed her kale juice onto the table.

Kara gave her a confident smile, "Well… yeah" she muttered as she leaned in to kiss her girlfriend again. But before they could go any further, there was knocking at the door.

Lena let out a groan of frustration again, why the hell did people like interrupting her?

She looked around the room, looking for the gun that she dropped the other night, "Where's my gun?"

Kara lowered her glasses to see her sister and Maggie on the other side of the door.

"It's just my sister and Maggie. Plus, you know how I feel about guns in our apartment"

Lena froze at Kara's words, she had just said 'our' apartment.

Kara didn't seem to notice the effect of her words, she walked over to the door and greeted her sister and Maggie.

"Hey" She said enthusiastically, she didn't forget about the argument that occurred the other night. But she simply didn't want to bring it up, "Did you guys eat already?" she knew that she had to bombard her sister and her girlfriend with questions in order to avoid speaking about the conversation from last night.

"Nope" Maggie said as she entered Kara's apartment, she looked at the stack of food on the table, "Damn, are you throwing a party or something?"

"Why does it smell like… burnt bacon?" Alex asked as she followed her girlfriend into the kitchen.

Lena shot Kara a glare.

"Seriously Kara? That's the 10th time this month" Alex said as she sat down on the counter that had flowers on it, she wandered why there were flowers overflowing on her counter, but she brushed it off because she knew that it was Lena's and Kara's weird way of communicating.

"Just because you're fireproof, it doesn't mean we are" Maggie said as she grabbed the plate that Lena was handing to her.

"Exactly what I've been trying to tell her for the past few months" Lena muttered under her breath, "Not that I'm not happy to see you guys here, but why are you here so early in the morning?" she wanted to spend some time with Kara, just the 2 of them.

Alex bit her lip nervously, and Kara adverted eye contact with Alex as much as possible. This didn't go unnoticed by Lena.

Lena looked at the 2 of them, and then back at Maggie who seemed to have better idea at what was going on. She watched Maggie roll her eyes in annoyance.

She felt like she was missing the bigger picture, but before anyone could speak up, Kara's and Alex's phone started to ring.

"Thank God" Lena heard Alex mutter under her breath

"Oh thank Rao" Kara mumbled as she superpsed to the bedroom to grab her phone and then came back, "There's an emergency"

Kara disappeared and then reappeared back into her super suit, she walked over to Lena and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek.

"Be safe" Lena would never get used to this, the feeling of constant worry and concern.

"Always" Kara replied, she returned her attention back onto Alex, "Do you…Do you want me to fly you to the scene or…"

Lena didn't understand why Kara was acting so hesitant around her sister.

"Ummmm… well I think it would be quicker if you flew me there… I mean if you don't mind of course" Alex replied back nervously.

Lena caught Maggie rolling her eyes for the 5th time.

"Of course. Why would I mind? I don't mind. I only mind if you mind but since you don't mind I don't mind" Kara rambled

"We should probably go" Alex kissed her girlfriend before following Kara to the window.

"God, those 2 are complete idiots" Maggie mumbled under her breath as she ate the piece of pancake, "But Damn, little Danvers can make a mean pancake"