Th penultimate chapter! Hopefully I'll get the last one written by the end of the day :)

Can't be more than four times

"I'm sorry, Kara, I was just angry and I don't have anyone else to talk to!"

Kara huffed, her eyebrows drawing together.

"You can talk to me!"

Lena sighed and gazed at her girlfriend from across the room.

"Kara it was you I was frustrated with. And I didn't want to talk about it with you just yet. So I kind of asked to see her."

Lena did not know how it had escalated to this. They had gone from a calm lunch to almost shouting in a matter of minutes.

She had invited Kara to her office for lunch as they were both free for once, but Kara had spent most of the time texting someone on her phone. Lena had let it pass at first; it wasn't as if she was completely innocent of using her phone while they were together. They were both busy people with important jobs, it was bound to happen, but this was getting ridiculous. Kara had barely said three sentences to her and Lena had almost given up trying to have a conversation.

"Kara!"

Kara looked up at her but Lena could tell her attention was mostly on whoever was at the other end of the phone.

"Who're you texting?"

Lena had made sure to keep her voice calm and controlled. Although she was angry at Kara for ignoring her she realised that Kara didn't know she was actually doing it.

"Oh...err, Alex?"

Lena's eyes hardened at the unsure tone.

"Don't lie to me, Kara. I know Alex is away with Maggie right now, there's no way she'd need to be texting you every second of the day."

Kara frowned, a crinkle appearing between her eyebrows.

"Okay, fine. I'm texting Mike, I think I mentioned him before? He's the new intern at work."

Lena bristled internally. Kara had mentioned Mike before, multiple times in fact. She always talked about how Mike was not a very nice person and the way he treats women is awful. So why was Kara texting him all the time? Especially if he was only an intern.

"And why does he feel the need to continuously interrupt our lunch date?"

Lena watched as her girlfriend shrugged.

"He's new here, I'm just helping him get used to the area and everything. Besides, it's only been a few minutes he's hardly continuously interrupting."

Lena blinked disbelievingly at Kara. Did she really think...

"Kara, you've been here for 45 minutes now."

Kara's expression dropped as she realised what Lena had said.

"What? No I haven't!"

Lena just glared at her girlfriend.

"Why would I lie? I have no reason to."

Kara became flustered as she scrambled for an answer.

"Yeah, well, it's not like you don't do the same thing!"

Lena was taken aback, what was Kara talking about?

"Excuse me? I've never ignored you for almost an hour to text someone, and definitely never a boy."

"No, but you have called Supergirl."

Lena felt numb. Then she felt angry. How could Kara say that to her? She knew how guilty Lena felt about that and now she'd thrown it back in her face after promising everything was fine.

"How could you-"

"Lena, I'm-"

They both spoke at the same time but Lena recovered first.

"No. Never mind. Please leave, Kara."

"But. Lena I'm sorry, I just-"

Lena shook her head, trying her hardest not to start crying.

"No, Kara. I'll call you later I promise but right now I just need to be by myself."

Kara looked like she was about to say something but eventually she just grabbed her things before making her way over to Lena. She kissed Lena's forehead with a softly spoken apology and left the office.

Lena stared after her for a few minutes before getting up and pacing around her office. Anger and sadness warred in her mind as she tried to process what had just happened. Lena knew that Kara hadn't meant what she said, but that didn't negate the fact that it had still hurt.

Lena poured herself a drink and made her way out to the balcony. Gazing out over the city, Lena was struck by just how big it was. Kara was out there right now, somewhere, probably back at work after Lena had coldly told her to leave. Lena couldn't see the Catco building from her balcony but she could just about see Kara's apartment. Supergirl was out there somewhere as well. Lena wondered about what she could be doing, maybe stopping a robbery, or saving a cat from a tree.

"I wish she were here."

She wasn't even sure who she was talking about, but she tried not to think about that.

Lena resumed surveying the city, her drink slowly disappearing. Just as she was about to head inside, Supergirl swooped over the top of the building and landed next to her.

"Supergirl!"

"Hello! I heard what you said, were you talking about Kara Danvers?"

Lena raised an eyebrow.

"How did you hear that?"

Lena thought she saw a slight blush on the hero's face but she couldn't be sure.

"One of my powers is superhearing. I'm here now, so what seems to be the problem?"

Lena shook her head.

"Kara and I just had a fight."

Supergirl frowned, although Lena noticed that she did not look surprised by the news.

"Oh. What about?"

Lena sighed heavily and downed the rest of her drink.

"I'm not even sure. She was ignoring me all lunch to text this guy Mike and then when I called her out on it she, well she mentioned you. And how I always end up with you somehow."

Lena watched Supergirl's face carefully. She didn't want to cause friction between Kara and Supergirl. Seeing no change in the woman's expression, Lena continued.

"I mean, she said it was fine but I can't help but feel guilty about the fact that we're probably verging on being slightly closer than friends should be. And Kara acted like she was fine with it and then she threw it back in my face earlier! I just don't know what to do, maybe it's because she's so caught up with this Mike guy."

Lena was aware that her explanation was not completely cohesive but it felt good just to say it out loud. Thinking back over their recent encounters, Lena realised that she did have a small crush on Supergirl although she had no way of knowing if it was reciprocated. Lena hoped it wasn't so she could get over it. She didn't want to be unfaithful to Kara, not at all.

"Did she say why she was texting this Mike?"

Lena rolled her eyes.

"Yes, apparently he's new and doesn't know a lot about National City so she's helping him. And honestly that's just the kind of person she is but she basically ignored me the whole time. Maybe I just feel a little bit neglected...at least if we're fighting she's talking to me"

Lena missed the guilty look that flashed over Supergirl's face as the Kryptonian moved closer.

"Lena...I'm sure she didn't mean to ignore you. Maybe you should call her later?"

Lena nodded but did not verbally respond.

"What would you do?"

Supergirl looked over at her, not understanding Lena's question.

"What would you do in this situation? If your girlfriend, or boyfriend I suppose, had unintentionally ignored you?"

Supergirl looked pensive for a few moments as she thought the question over.

"I suppose I would tell them how they had made me feel because I wouldn't want to let it get to me."

Lena nodded. She would do that this evening when she called Kara.

"Are you going to tell her I spoke to you?"

Supergirl shook her head.

"Not if you don't want me too."

Lena gazed at the Super as she though about what to say to Kara later. There was something oddly comforting about being in the superhero's presence, like Lena could just be herself. Not Miss Luthor the CEO of LCorp, or the poor sister of madman Lex Luthor. Just Lena.

"How is it that you're seen apart from Superman and yet people just see me as Lex's sister?"

Supergirl sighed heavily.

"I'm not, not really. People still compare me to him, all because of the crest we wear."

Lena frowned, she didn't realise it was a crest.

"I though it was S for super?"

Supergirl chuckled and looked down at her chest where the bright red crest was emblazoned.

"Most people do. It's the crest of the House of El, our family. Not that he remembers them. He was just a baby when we left."

Lena was stunned. All this time people had just assumed it was an S. She realised that Lex probably knew because of his past with Superman. She would have to see if he had any notes on the heroes.

"I thought Superman was older than you?"

Lena watched as a dark look crossed over the other woman's face before she gave a tight smile.

"He is. Although technically I'm almost 13 years older than him. I was sent to Earth to watch over my baby cousin but along the way my pod got knocked off course. I ended up in the phantom zone for 24 years. By the time I got here he was all grown up and already Superman. He didn't need me."

Lena was struck by the bitterness that coloured the last of Supergirl's words. Whatever the phantom zone was didn't sound good but Lena couldn't fathom how hard it must have been for the blonde to adjust on Earth.

"Did he not want to learn about his culture?"

Lena had tried her hardest to find out about where she came from. Her birth mother was Irish so Lena had spent seven years of secondary school in Ireland at a boarding school. She had even studied at university there for a year in an effort to feel closer to her mother.

Supergirl sighed heavily.

"No, he never bothered, or wanted, to learn. He is essentially a human with powers because all he knows is Earth but I'm an alien, even to him. Does that make sense?"

Lena nodded, she understood the distinction.

"That must be hard. And there's no one else from Krypton?"

Supergirl shook her head, her eyes raised skywards.

"No. Well, my aunt and uncle were here for a while but they're…gone. Aside from Kal and I, I don't know of anyone else. Not on Earth anyway."

"Kal?"

Supergirl frowned and muttered something under her breath.

"His name is Kal-El. His Kryptonian name. He has an Earth name too but I can't tell you that."

Lena nodded. Intellectually, she knew that they weren't called Superman and Supergirl but it had never occurred to her to think about their actual names.

"And what about you? What's your Kryptonian name?"

The blonde shook her head and laughed.

"I never changed mine. It's not particularly common but my name sounds Earth-y enough. Besides, when Kal got here he was a baby, the people who took him in named him."

Lena nodded silently, that made sense. She idly wondered if Lex had managed to figure out Superman's identity. She imagined not or he would've exposed the hero.

"What happened?"

Supergirl turned her eyes from the horizon and made a confused noise.

"To Krypton? I know you had to leave, and I've heard bits from Lex but I'm not inclined to trust his words."

Supergirl sighed, her eyes going back to the horizon but Lena could tell she wasn't really seeing it.

"It's gone. It… the core was unstable. Our people mined the core for energy so often that Krypton could no longer support itself. Nobody knew except my parents. They put me and my cousin in pods and sent us to Earth. I had to… I watched my planet explode."

Lena was speechless. How awful. There was nothing she could say to offer comfort.

"And your aunt and uncle?"

Supergirl gave a humourless laugh, but Lena sensed it was tinted with sadness.

"They found out. Astra, my mothers twin, found out the core was unstable and tried to speed the word. She and my uncle were sent to Fort Rozz, for their 'crimes'. When my pod left the Phantom Zone the prison was dragged with it, bringing them to Earth. They're dead now."

Lena's heart broke. She could almost feel the grief rolling off the blonde in waves and yet the Super didn't shed a single tear. To lose your whole family like that must be devastating. She understood to an extent, Lex wasn't dead but she had still lost the brother she grew up with.

"I…that's…I'm so sorry."

Supergirl smiled.

"It's okay. I made my peace with it a long time ago."

Lena nodded. Tentatively, she wrapped her arms around Supergirl's waist, trying to offer what little comfort she could. The hero rested her head atop Lena's. Lena didn't know how long they stood like that, each wrapped in their own memories.

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