Chapter 2: You Always Find A Way To Surprise Me

A/N: I should probably be studying right now… I have a debate to prepare for, and 2 major tests. However, I find myself writing this and I live with no regrets. The song from CH 1 was Troye Sivan's Talk Me Down.

Waking up with the rays of the sun blinding her was something out of Lena's daily routine. Usually, she's up before the bright celestial body, and the rest of National City was. But then again, the events of the last 24 hours were short of the ordinary, so she relished in this extraordinary experience. Knowing she didn't have any pressing matters to attend to, she basked in the light and warmth of her surroundings for once.

"Good morning, beautiful." Reign said softly, effectively cutting off Lena's next possible train of thoughts. Lena almost forgot that Reign spent the night in her bed, as she was too busy trying to figure out what to do next for the day. Nonetheless, Lena felt surprisingly good about this fact.

"Morning, Rei," she said as she arched and stretched her very naked body which was only covered by the white sheet slowly sliding off her body. She settled back down, with a sigh on her lips, and turned to her side so she was facing Reign, who was now wearing her favorite, navy blue, M.I.T. shirt.

If Reign can point out one specific moment in her life that she would like to thank Rao for, the scene laid out in front of her very eyes right now was climbing up close to the top. Reign brought her hand to softly caress the CEO's face.

"How are you feeling, Lena?" Reign asked, as she tucked a strand of her back behind her ear, and let her hand rest on her cheek.

"I—I don't know…" It was the most honest answer she could give, which was surprising true. Lena Luthor, for once, did not know what to feel. How was one supposed to feel after bearing one's heart and soul to the possible love of their life, only to be rejected? Yet to end up back in the comfort of one's first love in the morning.

"I honestly don't want to think about it right now. I just want to treasure this moment, whatever it is between us right now." Lena told Reign without breaking eye contact. "Can we—can we do that?"

It took Reign a couple of minutes to let her request sink in. A few moments of trying to weigh what could this mean for the both of them. Yet, at that moment, all that Reign could focus on was how lucky she was to be given another probable shot with Lena. She could never refuse her anyway.

"Come here, darling." Reign requested, as Lena scooted over to her friend. Reign wrapped her arms around Lena, and buried her face in her hair.

"Of course, we can, my dear." Reign planted a kiss on her hair once more, and just stayed like that for a while. She broke the embrace, to hold Lena in arm's length. She tilted her head so that they're seeing eye to eye. "We're going to have to talk about… us soon though, okay?"

Lena gave her a nod, "okay."

"Now, why don't you go grab your dressing gown, and meet me in the kitchen after? Breakfast is waiting for us."

Lena just gave her another nod, but this time accompanied by such a sweet smile. That smile that she missed so much, over the course Rao knows too long. Seeing that smile did things to her stomach, weird butterflies effect. One that she blames for her being too sappy, and not being able to resist leaning in again to kiss her forehead, before she got up and made her way to the kitchen.

Lena was surprised when she entered her kitchen. If anybody told her yesterday morning that her ex would wake up in her bed with her, and cook her an enormous breakfast feast the next morning, she would probably have laughed so hard. But seeing Reign now, wearing nothing but her shirt, facing away from her, leaning on the kitchen island, makes her forget about the heartbreak she's been through. Heartbreak from her leaving, and the events with Kara yesterday.

The youngest Luthor sneaked behind her, wrapping her arms around Reign's middle, and opting to settle her head upon the shoulder of the young alien.

"Tell me what you're thinking right now, darling," Lena whispered smoothly. Reign closed her eyes upon the request, and smiled. It used to be their thing – they always ask what thoughts the other got lost to. They have long settled that if they wanted their relationship to work, they couldn't keep making assumptions on each other, so they always have to be honest and vocal about their thoughts and feelings. It brought back old feelings, that never really went away for her, if she was being honest.

"I'm thinking that you Lena Luthor should sit down on me and eat breakfast your breakfast that I really worked hard to prepare, then get in the shower, grab something casual to wear, then we'll go somewhere." Reign turned, so that she was facing Lena, who now wore her loosely fastened, grey silk robe.

"Sit on you while I eat my breakfast?" Lena smirked as she raise an eyebrow. Reign really meant for Lena to sit on a chair, which is not her lap. But hey when your ex who is also the love of your life is that close to you, and looked so beautiful, she couldn't help that there was little to no filter from her thoughts to her words.

"Did I just say that? Gosh, what must I be thinking?" Reign said mockingly as she brought her right hand to her left chest, to add a dramatic flair.

Lena laughed and drag Reign along, as she worked her way to the kitchen table. She sat Reign on one of her fancy chairs, and with a smirk sat on Reign's lap. She squirmed a bit on her spot as she tried to find a more comfortable position, albeit just to mess with Reign.

In front of them was a breakfast feast fit for the gods themselves. There was a plate full of bacon, another with eggs, almost a loaf worth if toasts, peanut spread, thinly sliced strawberries, and bananas on a bowl, and two huge mugs filled with the darkest coffee this planet could produced. Lena was pretty sure that most of the foods on the table weren't produced from her cupboard. She didn't have that much groceries stored in her house, anyway given that she's only home for dinner if she ever decided to eat before heading directly to sleep.

"Rei… are you feeding an army?" She asked as she prepared Reign a toast with peanut spread and bananas, and herself with strawberries.

"No, but I wanted to prepare extra to give to the homeless people I saw near your block."Reign replied as she picked out the toast Lena made for her. Lena's heart swelled over the amount of sincerity and kindness that Reign never fails to offer. It was the first thing about her that Lena fell inlove with. She guessed that some things just never change.

They fell into an easy banter over breakfast, talking about everything and anything except for what happened yesterday with Lena. Reign knew that she wasn't ready to talk about it yet, and that when she finally is, Reign knew that she will open up to her.

Their little bubble bursted when Lena's phone buzzed alerting them both to a text message. Lena's body froze completely when she hear the text message ping, already hoping and expecting that it was from a certain blue-eyed heart sunk when she noticed that it was just from Jess, her secretary.

Jess (9:27 AM)

Successfully redirected your agendas for today, Ms. Luthor. Hope that you feel better soon.

If Reign saw the disappointment in Lena's eyes when she saw who texted her, the alien made no movemto imply so. Instead she rubber Lena's back to attract her attention to her.

"Sooooo…I might, or might not have called our good friend Jess to tell her you might not be able to come in today…" Reign explained slowly, dragging her words that were anticipating Lena's outburst.

If it was anybody else, Lena would probably be mad at them for interrupting her own business. But she was emotionally drained from the day before, and Reign was her in National City, in her own house for crying out loud. And there's the fact that she just wants to forget the events of yesterday. So she just smiled, shook her head at Reign, and twisted her body so that she was sitting on Reign's lap but facing her. She clasped her arms behind Reign's neck and brought her face close to her friend's, foreheads touching.

"Okay," she ghosted the whisper, her lips so close to Reign's.

'Okay?" came the out of breath question of the alien. Trying to harness all her self control to not close the distance between them. If they were going to kiss, Reign decided that it has to be Lena who takes that step. She was the one in war with herself, and Reign will gladly follow, and respect what she decides to, even if she knows that the possibility of her heart being broken by Lena is high. She'll gladly take whatever Lena will offer.

"Okay," came the satisfied voice of Lena, as she got up from Reign and made her way to her bathroom. "As for your request, I'll now be taking my bath, and dress up in… casual clothes."

It took Reign a few minutes to snap out of her thoughts, as she watched Lena saunter her hips effectively tantalizing the young alien from remembering the way they calmed each other down in the bath last night. Using her scientist-given super speed, Reign neatly packed up what was left of their breakfast, changed into one of the few pairs of jeans that Lena owned, and a casual grey button-up shirt that she just randomly found.

She made her way down to the bright streets of National City, and found the place where she saw the homeless children when she was flying to Lena's yesterday. She didn't expect that there was more to them than what she thought. Giving out the packed food, she made a mental note that she needs to do something to help them, for a long term solution.

Remembering that the day ahead of her, Reign made her way back to the penthouse, calling certain people who had help her set-up her plans for today. When she got back, Lena, also dressed in jeans, and a nice, comfortable-looking emerald green shirt, was just about ready to go.

"You look beautiful, sweetheart." Reign sighed happily, just as she remembered how to breathe. "Do you still hate flying?" Came the smirk that followed.

Walking towards her friend, Lena grabbed Reign's hands, and led them to the balcony. Once Lena stopped, she realized how close they are to each other, and wrapped one of her arms around Reign's neck, and the other on the alien's chest just above her heart. She can feel the strong beat of Reign's heart.

"As long as it's with you, I'll never hate a single moment." With that, Reign took off to the sky because if she didn't, she swore she would have kissed Lena right on the spot.

They landed over in what looks like the entrance to a maze in the middle of a beautiful secret garden. The place was deprived of people, they were the only ones there. With that, Reign grabbed Lena's hand and led her to the maze. Amazingly, they got into the center, without getting lost. Lena noted to never race Reign in mazes, because it's obvious that the alien had the upper hand with her super vision.

Lena doesn't know how Reign kept on doing it - going out of her way to take care of Lena. She couldn't believe what lied in front of her. There was the obvious red and white plaid picnic blanket, and a pot of beautiful arranged flowers in the middle, an enormous weaved basket that she's guessing is filled with food, a blue cooler holding the drinks, and a speaker set-up a few steps away.

"Rei…" Lena started, not knowing what to say next.

Reign handed Lena a flower crown arranged with pink and blue flowers, and asked her to wear it as she dons hers with white flowers.

"You always find a way to surprise me." Lena told her. "Thank you."

"Today, my darling, is all about you." Reign leaned in and placed a soft kiss on her forehead. "Whatever you need. Come sit with me."

Lena was led to sit on the mat, as Reign unpacked the foods that she had her people prepare for her. There were various fruits and chocolate fondue, some marshmallows, biscuits, and slices of different kinds of cheese from France, champagne, and bottles of water.

Once settled they ended up talking about science, and art, and the galaxies out there. continued to tell her about their new projects that their developing to help out aliens. Of course, Reign was proud and impressed of her every accomplishment. How could she not? Lena shared the same passion as her to help people out in need, without expecting something in return.

Reign ended up lying on the mat, with her head on Lena's lap as she gently stroke it and they silently, but comfortably admired wonderful garden they're in.

"I missed you, Rei…" Lena said breaking the silence. "I-I never thought I'd see you again…"

"I missed you too, Lee" Reign replied, still laying down on Lena's lap. She reached for Lena's face to caress her cheek, and looked her intensely in the eye, meaning every word she said. In the background, their song started to play softly.

Heart beats fast

Colours and promises

"Dance with me." Reign requested as she got up from her spot, and offered her hand to Lena, who accepted.

How to be brave?

How can I love when I'm afraid to fall?

Reign led Lena away from the picnic mat, towards the spot near the speakers. Lena placed both of her hands behind Reign's neck, caressing the exposed skin gently, as Reign held her closer with both of her hands on Lena's hips, never breaking eye contact.

But watching you stand alone,

All of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow.

This was the story of how they fell in love. They swayed to the slow beat of the violin. Their eyes communicating everything they never got to say to each other.

"I have died every day waiting for you," Lena whispered, echoing the lyrics of their song.

"Darling, don't be afraid. I have loved you for a thousand years," sang in response. Eyes shining as she looked at the most precious woman in the whole of the galaxies with love and regret.

"I'll love you for a thousand more," they sang together, chuckling when they both realized they said it at the same time. They held each other a little bit tighter, and when their foreheads met, they swayed a little bit more gentler. Marveling in the fact that they're together, in that beautiful moment.

"I-I think I'm ready to talk about what happened the other day." Lena said whispered without making a move to step back. She meant to finally talk to Reign about what happened between them, but she knows it's not the time. Not until she explained her situation with Kara.

"Are you sure? We don't have to if y-"

"I am." Lena effectively cut her of.

With that, She grabbed Lena's hand and slowly nodded, urging her to continue while silently promising not to interrupt while she spoke.

"I-I met this girl. " Lena started, training her eyes at the spot on the mat where Reign was lying down on just a few moments ago. "Amazing, kind-hearted girl who always put others first before herself. She even sometimes forget about herself. She's so smart, I know, even if she doesn't really shows it. She pretends not to know about quantum physics, but I caught her one time solving some equations, and when I asked her what she was doing, all she told me that she was doodling because she was bored. SHE WAS SOLVING QUANTUM EQUATIONS, REI! Anyway, she's a reporter at CatCo, and after she interviewed me for an article, we developed a friendship. I guess you can even consider us to be best friends. Her name's Ka-Kara. Kara Danvers saw me. Not as my hard biting CEO persona that I try to maintain publicly, but she saw through me. Rei, she didn't even want any favors from me, she didn't have an ulterior motive, not even my money."

Reign had an inkling that whatever happened to Lena had to do with someone breaking her heart, but she never realized how head over heels she was for the girl that hurt her. Reign didn't voice out her thoughts though, just smiled at Lena to let her continue, even though she's dying quietly.

"She made me feel like I'm human again, after all the years I've tried to hide away from the world, to build my fortress, my walls inside of me. To protect my heart. I don't know she did it but somehow she bypassed all my security and managed her way into my heart. Not that I minded." Lena smiled fondly, remembering her sweet Kara. "We've been together for almost a year now… and at first I didn't mind all our cancelled date nights, or the times when she just mysteriously disappear in the middle of the night, out of thin air, and comes back like nothing happened when she smelled like somebody else's perfume. I didn't even brought up the fact that there were things in her apartment that weren't hers, which was obviously her friend's. I tried not to be bothered by these things. I mean she has her own life after all, as I have mine. But… when I came over the other night to try and surprise her for our anniversary with a night in because I knew she had a hard week, and she was probably working really hard to try and meet her deadlines that's why she had to cancel on our date night, I-I found them… being busy…with each other."

Reign clenched the other hand not holding Lena's hand. How can somebody do this to someone as precious as Lena?

"I-I ended up walking out of her place, and I went back to my penthouse and I didn't realize I was calling you. I-I just didn't know what to do." Lena sounded so broken, and in the verge of breaking down again as she reminisced the emotions of yesterday. Reign was trying to add all the pieces up, noticing how Lena never said anything about them breaking up. Unsure, she had to ask.

"Lee…" Reign sounded scared.

"Hmm" she raised her eyes to meet Reign's stare.

"Whe- when you left, before you left.. Did you.. Did you break up with her?" Lena's silence was all the confirmation that Reign needed.

E/N: Dun-dun-dun-duuuuun! Hello there, Mr. Cliffhanger. Ha! Sooooo guys, I heard alot of people wanted ReignCorp to...reign (ha!). So do you guys want to see Reign and Kara battling out for Lena's hand, or do we ditch Kara and go for the fluffy ReignCorp with a side of angst? Or is it the other way around? Hmmm..

BTW, the song's Christina Perri's A Thousand Years. See you all tomorrow! - LuthorAndDanvers