A void of silence fell over the apartment. The only noises that could be heard were the occasional cries and hiccups that escaped from Kara. She tried to say something to fill up the gap of sound, but as soon as she would try and open her mouth to speak, that voice would return.

The voice of Mon-EL was whispering in her ear. It was clearer than usual, though still hushed. Kara dared not to speak, as every word he spoke was telling her to keep quiet.

"You let yourself be vulnerable. Now nobody will let you be close to me, nobody will let you feel my pain. Did you not understand the connection we had? Now there's nothing keeping us together. You're slipping away from me, I can feel it. Do you want to leave me alone to suffer?" He spat out each word with a sharp venom.

Kara tried to block him out, to not listen to what he was saying. She tried to hand onto the words Alex had said. Kara tried to believe that she had saved Mon-El, but no matter how hard she tried, she just couldn't. She wanted to shout to Alex, beg her to tell her again, but she couldn't speak. She wanted to shout to the stars, beg them to show her where her lover was, but she couldn't see them. She wanted to cry to the ocean, beg it to swallow her in a wave of fierce cold, but she couldn't move to the water.

Her mind was like a tug-of-war rope. It was being pulled between her mind and reality, but the rope was about to snap and was only a few threads away from falling to pieces. Kara could feel her tears slow and then quicken. It seemed like an everlasting cycle fueled only by hatred towards not wanting to let the rope end up on the wrong side, but she didn't know which side it was.

"Just tell her to leave. She'll have to if you threaten her, you don't need her anyways. You could freeze her, show her how I feel. Show her how much I'm suffering and why you need to. She'll leave you alone then, she'll let you stay with me." Mon-El's voice continued in her ear. His words were like wood, keeping a fierce, angry flame ignited in her mind. The flame filled her with frustration, frustration towards how she couldn't have just gotten over him, towards how she couldn't have just simply expressed her problems, and most frustrated about how no matter what she tried to do or say, his voice would always be there.

"Kara?" Alex whispered into her sister's ear. Kara's sobs had gotten louder than normal, and Alex wanted to make sure she was doing more harm than help, "Is there anything else?"

Kara could barely hear Alex over Mon-El and her own sobs, "I…I…"

As Kara tried to speak, Alex wiped tears from her sister's eyes. She couldn't stand to see Kara in such pain. The only good thing that had come from Kara shutting herself out from the world was that Alex didn't have to see her suffer, which she now realized was most likely the point of it all.

"I…can't." Kara finally stuttered out the last word of her small sentence. She could barely breathe as she tried to focus on Alex's voice, only to have it buried underneath Mon-El's whispers.

"You're starting to…fall away. You're warming up…please Kara. I need you to stay with me…don't leave me alone." Mon-El's voice started to fall away with every word. He sounded as if he was gasping for air, begging Kara to being him a connection to life.

Kara's heart beat faster with every second. She needed to be cold, she needed to save Mon-El, but she couldn't with Alex here. She didn't want to do it anyway, she was hurting herself, but she was also saving him. Her chest felt heavy as it got harder and harder for her to breathe. The world seemed to spin around her, but not in the satisfying way it had when she had frozen her wrist. This was so much worse. It was as if she was standing in front of the stars outside, but also right in front of Alex. She hugged her sister tight, telling herself to never let go.


I guess that's the end. It's been a wild journey and thanks to everybody for being so patient with this chapter. I tore a shoulder muscle which took ages to heal and school work was building up. I decided to rewrite this chapter and use it as the last one. I'm not sure if it's the best ending I could have made, but for now it is. Goodbye and thank you.