Chapter 2: Close to the Chest (Clock's Strike of 4 AM)
She took position, where somehow she knew she was meant to stay and set her beverage down on the desk. Her emeralds watched the rise and fall of Kara's chest gazing as the woman slept calmly and without the pains that had been inflicted on her finally. She smiled and couldn't help but let her eyes linger over all of what she'd never got to see before, as Danvers and as Supergirl. To say she wasn't surprised her best friend was absolutely breathtaking did no justice to all of the view she got now.
The blonde was in a pair of boxers and a sports bra so she could soak up as much of the sun lamp's rays as possible but the material over her was like a tease for Lena. Looking away she felt herself blush shaking her head smiling, grabbing her phone and going to her search engine. It had donned on her she hadn't yet got to hear the rest of the song that had been on Kara's phone. Sure she could just go into the woman's playlists but that was like a bridge of privacy to her. After all, she already felt like that line had been slightly crossed over but she was a business woman and she respected the privacy factor.
Lena punched in the lyrics on the bar and clicked the enter button on her phone. Her eyes went wide instantly. She went further and clicked on a youtube video of the lyrics and played it turning up the volume some accidentally skipping part of it.
"Shit.." She cursed but the minute she let where she had hit play she had put a hand over her mouth.
"I heard there was someone but I know he don't deserve you,
If you were mine I'd never let anyone hurt you, no no..
I wanna dry those tears,
Kiss those lips,
It's all that I've thinking about..
'Cause a light came on,
When I heard that song,
...and I want you to sing it again…."
Lena looked over to the beautiful blonde angel that was basking in the incredible glow of the sun lamps hue. She took her hand from her face and clicked on the play button after pausing it looking away unaware of the lips that had opened smiling.
"I swear that every word you sing, you wrote them for me.."
She spun her head around to where that angel had begun to sing for her and she noticed Kara's eyes still closed but that heavenly smile was there.
"Like it was a private show, I know you never saw me…
When the lights come on, and I'm on my own,
Will you be there to sing it again?"
"Kara…" Lena felt the tears run down her face almost instantly and when the blonde's head turned and her gorgeous unearthly blues caught her emerald ones she was beyond bespelled.
"Could I be the one you talk about in all your stories…
Can I be him…"
"Why do you have to make me cry darling.." She sniffled to chuckle wiping her eyes then she saw an arm lift up and off the sunbed with a hand turned upright fingers opened up. "Oh Kara…"
"Don't cry Lee. It's okay. I didn't mean to make you cry." The concern in her voice Lena had to instantly take away and she scooted the chair closer taking that hand offered squeezing it with her own. "Are you okay?"
"Am I…" She laughed rolling her eyes trying not to cry again. "Am I okay? You are the one I should be asking that to." She set her other hand over the one she held. "How are you?"
"Sore but...I feel like my cells are regenerating again." Kara looked away and up and the fear and sadness in her eyes instantly caught the Luthor's. "Does she hate me?"
"Who?"
"Alex. Does she hate me Lena?" The woman couldn't even fathom why on earth Kara would think that. Did she know that she'd been recorded? What did she know? What did she remember? "I'll understand if she does…" Neither of them were aware of the figure in the doorway.
"I could never ever hate you Kar." Alex approached as both women turned to see her walk up. "Susan is taking my place out in the field. She thinks it's best if I stay here and look over my baby sister." She pulled up the other chair and Lena took the hand over Kara's own off so Alex could put one of her own over her sister's. "You didn't deserve one damn thing that monster did to you do you hear me?"
"You…" Kara looked away shutting her eyes with nothing but tension filling her face. "You saw?"
"We both did." Lena added knowing it wasn't what Kara needed right now and when she looked at Alex she saw the woman mouth 'What the fuck are you doing' and the older sister had right to ask that so she clarified. "I think to keep that from you would be wrong. But what was done to you wasn't right either."
"You have always believed yourself to be this dark person that can't run away from her last name." Kara began with tears slipping out the corners of her shut eyes. "But that is where we aren't that different. My last name dispatched the wrong justice and it got my planet destroyed. My last name brought danger to all of you. My blood brought danger to you. I have to live with the sins of my family every day. My own family tried to kill my sister…"
"Kara…" Alex interrupted needing to. "I killed your Aunt." Lena looked into the Director's eyes for confirmation to what she said. Alex nodded. "I killed Astra and you didn't hate me."
"You had to Alex. She was going to kill J'onn." Kara tried to sound strong through that response but deep down it still hurt. She often wondered if there had been another way, but if Alex hadn't her Aunt may have killed her sister and Kara would have committed murder just to avenge her. "I tried to hurt you, kill you on red k…"
"No." Alex got up instantly and reached over snatching her sister by the chin forcing her to face her and Kara's eyes opened to look into the Director's solid ones. "You were drugged. I don't blame you for that. Don't you ever think I do." She broke contact to look at Lena whom had been quite surprised by the information but she understood even more. Alex looked back and into Kara's eyes locking her own on them. "My family tried to kill you. That is no family to me. That is nothing what family is Kar. Remember? El Mayarah."
"Stronger Together." Lena spoke softly adding with both women looking at her. "Lex's files had it in there. I wanted to know and then I heard it mentioned by Winn at one point here. We ARE Stronger Together."
"Lena is right Kar. Now...I need to ask you some...things.." Alex nodded to the Luthor whom stood up gripping Kara's hand tightly. "What do you remember?" Neither of them expected the floodgates to burst through then. They'd never heard Kara cry so hard ever in all the years of knowing her..
Dark blues of intense lust peered over his body after dismounting him when he'd passed out from sexual exhaustion. He was quite the stud between the sheets, well...all over his apartment was a better description of their playtime. Kayla glanced at the clock on the microwave as she walked in buck naked to his kitchen impressed by the sheer organized and cleanliness of his place. She smiled seeing the dial turn over to five. She'd let him sleep for a little longer.
Kayla walked over to her bag to retrieve the little black rectangular box from it setting it on the counter untying the straps on it pulling back the lid. She chuckled softly and quietly as she pulled out the small syringe shaking the liquid in it that had the wire-like little chip in the tube. There lain the problem, he was only sleeping and poking the stallion would wake him right up. She set the syringe back down.
"Guess I'll have to use the ace up my sleeve." She snickered reaching back into her bag to retrieve the dropper and small vial filled with a dark mixture. Kayla licked her lips unscrewing the tiny cap then putting the dropper in it to fill it. Putting the cap back on she held the dropper and walked back down the hall to the bedroom to quietly approach the head of the bed and ever so gently tilt the man's head back. "Three drops in each nostril should do it." She whispered as she squeezed the ball then decided to go with four. Better safe than sorry.
Kayla stepped back instantly as she heard him suck in air through his nose seeing his head move slightly with an arm raising up but then a groan released from his lips and that arm dropped immediately. Ten more minutes and the drug would take full effect. Retreating back to the kitchen she waited out the time frame going to his fridge for a beer opening it inside to avoid any unnecessary noises smiling setting the cap down on the shelf bringing the bottle to her lips. Nothing wrong with a little drink beforehand. Kayla pulled one the small wipe packets from the box to assist with when she needed to find a vein for her plan.
She paid attention to the time setting the bottle down after taking another big drink grabbing the syringe and going back to his bedroom. Just to make sure he was completely out Kayla set down the syringe out of his view and turned on his alarm on his clock with the music blaring to life from the radio. He didn't even flinch. "Hmm hmm perfect." She adjusted it to a station of her liking, hard rock, opened the packet retrieving the wipe and grabbed the syringe uncapping the bigger needle. Now was the fun part.
Kayla turned the man's head and wiped an area on the side of his forehead right near the hairline. When she saw a vein pop she grinned pushed on the plunger twice as the needle squirted out some then lowered it to the nice little vein she saw chuckling as she sung to the lyrics of one of her favorite Ozzy songs. "Mmmmm one obedient Cadmus soldier coming right up." She pierced his skin slipping the needle deeper then pressed on the plunger injecting his skull with the drug and the slender needlelike programming wire chip. "Now, one little half hour for it to attach fully to your brain stud...and you'll be mine for good."
She pulled the needle out once all of it was injected and then wiped the area with a tissue seeing a little blood drip down and she dabbed that too pressing over the area waiting for the blood to stop. It was a side effect of using a much thicker needle but it was the only way she could get the chip into him. Them's the breaks. Kayla hummed another tune as she watched the clock on his radio then tossed the syringe across the room climbing back over the bed to straddle his body and awaken his rather well sized friend. The drug wouldn't disturb that part of him in the least. Once he woke up she'd be ready and he'd be raring to go for another round of fun and more. Kayla and Cadmus owned his ass now.
Seven in the morning had rolled around and Vasquez and the teams out on patrol were coming up empty on the hunt for their two escaped prisoners. They had just pulled into an abandoned factory when one of their vehicles windows had shattered from a rather heavy duty weapon's round with the piece of shrapnel falling between two agents in the jeep. Susan watched a soldier pick it up and show it to her and she snarled to hear her teams slam on the breaks after spinning their vehicles sideways to cover them all from any other gunfire.
Vasquez kicked open the door grabbing her fully charged alien rifle engaging her suit as the armor covered her and one of her team grumbled he wanted one too.
"Agent Vasquez...the man firing is one of ours!" One of the agents yelled and she grit her teeth under the mask cursing. "What do we do?!"
"Who else is there?" She spun around to position her gun over the dash firing back.
"Three total! One of ours two of theirs!" He fired too as did the rest of his team.
"We have the TR-7 in ours boss! We can load it and fire that with a gas projectile!"
"Do it!" Susan called out firing again praying that she didn't shoot her own agent. They hoped it wouldn't come to that but just as she saw two of her agents prepare to fire all three that had been firing at them put their hands on their heads and stepped forward getting on their knees to surrender. That's when she noticed the other two beside the agent were navy. "Hold fire! Shit...I don't think those other two are Cadmus.."
"Don't shoot! Please!"
"We thought you were them! Those Cadmin freaks!"
"Vasquez?! It's Jirach Ma'am!" The agent called out getting onto his stomach as they all came out from behind the vehicles surrounding the three with guns aimed. "I don't know…"
"We have something here that will help get your heads clear boys. Tony, have you seen any of them since?"
"No Agent Vasquez." He spoke as all three of them willingly put their hands behind their backs to be cuffed. "I saw a woman though. She was the one that made my head start to throb. I had to rip out my com. Sorry."
"Could you explain to me who you guys are?" One of the soldiers spoke as they hoisted him and the other two up to their feet. "I appreciate ya not killing us."
"We can explain everything to you at base. Listen, could I get your names?" Susan asked with both men nodding.
"Lieutenant Daniel Purinn. This is Sergeant Ron Hurgo." He let her know. "Thank you for coming for us ma'am." Susan groaned.
"Special Agent Vasquez, no more ma'am got it?" Both men chuckled nodding. "We will check out your credentials at base but...you only had the weapons?"
"We woke up and found them and when we heard you roll up we assumed you were the ones that jumped us. Sorry about that Special Agent Vasquez. My apologies for firing on you. Our radios, our phones, all our communication devices were gone when we woke. No transportation was here. We figured stay put and Tony let us know he was an agent but couldn't specify anything else."
"Let's get you loaded up in our van and I'll ride with you and fill you in on what I can. Let's go agents!" Everyone saddled up to return to the DEO with the three they'd detained and rescued.
Their eyes were scanning all ten of their monitors where they had their cameras set up clicking their glasses together to snicker and gleam at the chaos they had made. It had been far too easy to disassemble their organized agency and Jeremiah grumbled slightly at the filthy animal his daughter had a hand on.
"Relax Jeremiah. Soon she'll be back at your side and be working with us to destroy that disgusting creature." Kayla shared turning her head with blue eyes filling with pride as a suited up Guardian approached them unmasked stepping behind her to wrap his arms around her waist kissing her neck. "Been a good boy James?"
"I showed our men how my suit works. They should have something similar up in a few hours. I also gave them some tips on the weapons. The rounds I stole from the DEO should give us an up on the disgusting kryptonian. They didn't even question me when I went in." He smiled and tossed Jeremiah a box about as big as his gloves and the man grinned to see that it was lead. "That's the new batch of kryptonite. Seems not all of their agency trusts aliens."
"Good. I will give this to my chemists to work on immediately. Anything else?"
"Oooooo brought me a present did you?" Kayla smiled as James unwrapped his arms from her to take the sheath off his back and open it up. She grabbed the handle and laughed as she slid it out of the case running her fingers along the green blade. "I like it."
"Thought you would baby. Want to know something funny?"
"What?" She turned to him kissing him and he quickly returned that kiss to break it smiling to her like she was everything to him.
"That sword is what Jeremiah's daughter had used to try to kill that ugly mutt."
"My my I love your present even more. Maybe we can add the new formula of kryptonite on it to strengthen it."
"Anything you want Kayla. Shall I go back and gather anything else?"
"Nah. This is perfect." She smiled stroking the blade. Everything was going even better then they had planned. "Do me a favor though honey...get Kent to come to one of our locations for you. We need to get one varmint out of the way first." It was Jeremiah's turn to laugh then as he offered his mug to Cadmus' Guardian.
"Why thank you Jeremiah." James took it taking a sip as his eyes widened, with the other man nodding. "Is this Hawaiian?"
"You guessed it. I have a friend in imports. Gets me the good kono."
"I'll stick with my whiskey boys thank you." All three of them laughed to watch the cameras monitors. The DEO was absolutely clueless to their location and preparations. Soon they'd know and by the time they did, it would be too late..