Chapter 7
Taking steps back to slump down into chair eyes filled with the painful elements of storms upon everything explained to her. It was no wonder the Elder Danvers had retreated to the other room to settle her sister back into bed with Arias' help. But brown met hazel when Sam returned to lean against the wall with arms crossed but shaking and it didn't take long for Sawyer to realize the other Kryptonian wasn't faring very well with the rundown of everything.
Maggie put her head down putting her hands to her face to try to bury herself into some lost abyss to avoid the tears that threatened to leak down her face with all the news. Once Lena had explained how bad Alex had crashed, their trip to Midvale, the rise of Reign and the whole world killer problem all the while them discovering the entity was in Sam, Maggie was floored. Through the recap Sam had to step away as her shakes got worse and brown eyes flickered toward her noticing the woman was crying and escaped out to the back patio area to try to recompose herself. Sawyer turned back to the Luthor raising her head to meet those emerald eyes.
"She blames herself." Lena explained sighing. "She had no control, that thing broke her, weakened her and terrified her. We almost lost her completely to Reign. If it hadn't been for Kara and her frat brat ex, I wouldn't have had a way to at least separate them. But….I almost lost my best friend, my sister….my home. Kara was going to stay on Argo City with her mother, Alex was going to lose her sister..but I guess they say…..everything happens for a reason." Maggie nodded. "Sam gets scared when her strength shows, her..Kryptonian side. It reminds her of what Reign did to Kara that night. Sam actually thought they would hate her, blame her. Neither of the Danvers did. I certainly didn't." Lena hadn't realized the woman had slipped back in ever so quietly until she approached them both her arms uncrossed hands in pockets of her jeans.
"I think..I will always hate I wasn't strong enough to fight her during that time..that I couldn't protect Kara when she was at her weakest because of my hands." The three of them heard stumbling as the Director came in stopping as she entered. "Alex.."
"She's resting. Your hands are not of pain Sam." The elder Danvers locked her gaze to Arias whom gulped then saw the warmth in those beautiful brown eyes. Lena interrupted the moment between them with a silent apology she'd save for later to offer.
"How is she?" Alex's gaze slid from Sam's reluctantly then sighed shaking her head.
"The wound, that hideous mark on her chest….it's not healing under the lamps Lena. There has to be more to…..t….to…" Alex's eyes slid back into her skull as her body dropped suddenly with a hard thud unaware of their scream of her name.
"ALEX!"
"Shit…." Sam had barely been able to catch her before her head hit the floor and was grateful for her speed then as were the Luthor and Sawyer. "Alex?" Lena instantly reached out checking her pulse sighing with relief at hearing one as Maggie reached out to lightly pull back a lid and notice her ex's pupil.
"Not good…" Sawyer muttered as Lena's head turned on it's side then carefully turned the Director's head looking closer at Alex's neck on the side. Green eyes shivered. "Lena?"
"Look." The Luthor told both of them whom glanced to the side and noticed the peculiar piercing slightly curved and the angry black streaks as if Alex's veins had blackened around that area.
"It looks like…"
"A branding." Maggie snarled finishing Arias' thought. "That bitch must have done that to her at the bar." A low deep growl erupted from Sam as both women looked at her and noticed the burn of red in her eyes. "Uh….."
"Sam?" Lena tried but watched as the Kryptonian slowly cooled the gaze down then shut her eyes only to reopen them as they were almost pitch black as midnight. "S...Sam?"
"If…..he has them…..they...BETTER suffer..!..." Sam growled as the bite in her voice grew deeper and some of the color returned to her eyes and she slipped her arms under Alex's unconscious form lifting her easily to retreat to the bedroom where the other Danvers rested leaving both Lena and Maggie still on the floor completely floored by all that just occured.
"I need to make a call." The Luthor muttered as Sawyer instantly handed her the phone.
"Call him….whatever it fucking takes..I want both Danvers okay..no matter WHO it takes to sentence for this." Maggie ruthlessly told Lena. "I understand now. Whatever help you need beyond the badge….you've got it." Green eyes studied the brown burning even deeper into a blackened state in Sawyer's eyes as she used the last call she got sending a cryptic message to her friend hoping that what she needed they would still be able to retrieve.
"You BETTER get us the fuck out of her Lillian!" Roulette yelled as the other woman strapped down kept cussing and whining leaving Sinclair to practically roll her eyes several times then all three women heard creaking of gears and her eyes widened by the sight as she in turn began thrashing harder. "GET ME THE FUCK OUT!"
Lillian was before the boxes and studied all three carefully thinking trying to ignore all the bitching behind her looking at the three statues then turned to walk as best as she could over to the other woman she didn't recognize not to gaze at her but at the three keyholes and study the shapes.
"Look…..I don't know what the fuck I did to you..but….please get me outta here.." Lillian glanced down for a moment to meet Tasha's eyes then flick her gaze back up to the three holes. "Pleeeease…" The whining was better to her than the cursing and shouting at her by Roulette. There has to be a pattern here. What the HELL am I missing?! She then made her was over to Sinclair whom started to shout louder at Lillian which did her blown out eardrum no good as she grabbed the gag to shove it between her lips and bring her finger to her lips to warn her to shut up. Roulette got the hint growling and narrowing her eyes nodding. Once the gag was removed she lowered her voice.
"How can I help?" Sinclair asked as Lillian went to speak and found herself unable to with no other way to communicate except pointing to the keyholes. "What, cat got your tongue Luthor?" That enraged the Cadmus leader whom flat out hauled back and punched Roulette hard only to wail out from her throat holding the hand that hurt so badly now saturating what her hand had been wrapped in in red and green as she bled all over. The other woman that had started crying began to laugh out at the action.
"So fucking appropriate of a punishment. Now….I'm guessing, now this is just a guess, you can't talk correct?" Lillian sauntered over to her to study keyholes again nodding. Both heard the timer beeping louder with the countdown alerting them of the situation. SHIT! I only have ten minutes left to figure this out! "See no evil, hear no evil..speak no evil." Nodding she gazed into the woman's enchanting eyes watching her sigh. "You cannot speak." Lillian's eyes widened as the realization hit her and she stumbled over to the boxes. "I'm gonna lose one of my senses...fucking choose!" At least this broad has SOME common sense to her.. She thought and popped open one of the boxes hoping it was the right one grabbing the key inside and dashing as quickly as she could back over to the woman. "CHOOSE!" Do you think it's that fucking easy bitch?! If Lillian chose wrong…..she'd have to endure the one or ones left.
Holding the key she reached up and prayed that the key she was putting in the hole was in fact the correct one as she braced herself before she went to try to turn it with seven mins left on the timer. Slowly turning it she felt relief hit her as a light between the picture of the monkey and the keyhole glowed blue. Lillian noticed neither of the other two holes close and felt a huge weight off her only to watch a set of machines lower over the table and she stepped back about to head back to the boxes until she heard Roulette's bitching.
"LILLIAN! FREE MY ASS LUTHOR!" Sinclair barked loudly as both women heard a scream just as a set of headphones were slapped over the woman's ears that Lillian had thought she chose right only to watch a set of drills come down and towards her head. Tasha's skull was drilled into just as the noise in the headphones was turned up causing blood to ooze out from under the earmuffs. "Fuck…." Lillian stumbled back over to the boxes glancing from See to Speak as she reached out to one and grabbed the key to make her way over to Roulette..