I am alive! and back with another chapter!
would you be mad if I said this was actually done two months ago and I just needed to finish the last three lines? I came back and finished it after catching up with Supergirl.


Hearing about Lena's life had been a joy to Atlanna, for the past two decades she had been absent from it, missing most of her daughter's important milestones. It occurred to her that it had been the same for both of her older children, she had left her eldest son at the age of three and her second son at the age of five, and her only daughter at the age of four. Atlanna sighed heavily, she had been a bad mother to all her children, how they could still love her as much as they do is a mystery.

The city tour Lena was giving her mother was coming to an end and Atlanna was slightly relived, as much as she loved spending time with her daughter, being exposed to an entirely different culture and environment made the Atlantean feel lost and vulnerable.

During the car ride, Atlanna had casually mentioned that she'd have to go back to the sea soon, making Lena's head whip around to look at her with surprise and sadness. "You're leaving again?!" The quiver in her daughter's voice made Atlanna's heart sink.

"No, Angel. I must simply go back to the water for a while before I come back to the surface." Atlanna shook her head to assure her daughter. "Atlanteans of higher status like me and your brothers can walk freely on the surface, but we must go back to the sea eventually. We would get sick otherwise."

Relief washed over Lena, thankful that her mother was not planning on leaving, her eyebrows rose at the last bit of information, however. "Brothers?! I have brothers?" Lena's stomach flipped.

"Yes, your eldest brother, Arthur, and your older brother, Orm." Atlanna smiled fondly. "They would love to meet you, they have been waiting for a long time."

"They know about me?" Lena's heart skipped a beat. They wanted to meet her too?

"Oh yes, after Arthur had found me in my exile, I had been allowed to go back to Atlantis and live a peaceful life with them." Atlanna nodded. "I've told them about you, and they were ready to send an army to the surface to find you, but the surface dwellers would think of it as an attack and it would have caused a war." Atlanna said. "The only thing I could have done was wait for you to come home, I did not know where you lived or how to find you, Arthur tried going to the surface to look for you in Ireland, but he had no luck."

Lena's mind tried to grasp the information she had just received. She had other siblings. Older brothers, who despite not knowing her or anything about her, were willing to go look for her themselves. She felt a sting of sorrow for Lex, he used to be the only family she had, she relied on him until she no longer could. she had truly felt alone after his arrest. And now, she didn't have to be, she had a family now.

"Would you ever come to Atlantis with me?"

The question caught Lena off guard, and she didn't how to answer it. Atlanna stayed quiet, patiently waiting for her daughter's response.

"I-… I don't know…" Lena trailed off. "I can't leave my work behind and go off as I please. And I'm sure I can't breathe under water."

"How come you can't?" Atlanna was confused. "Arthur is half human like you, and he is capable of everything an Atlantean can."

"Well, I haven't TRIED to breath under water."

Growing up, Lena had been afraid of large volumes of water. Seeing what she thought was her mother drowning in front of her had been a traumatizing experience that had her going to therapy for quite a long time before she even remotely felt safe bathing in a tub. Father and Lex had been supportive and comforting at least, but Lillian had been ruthless about the subject. Making snarky comments about how Lena should just grow up and get over it like an adult, like a Luthor, disregarding that Lena, at the time was only four years old. Little Lena was confused at the beginning, why was mother angry at her for being afraid? When she dared ask about the subject, she was met with harsh, cold and violent words that left little Lena with a painful stab at her heart and hot tears streaming down her face.

"Maybe you should just go drown yourself like your whore of a mother did, at least then you wouldn't be such a disappointment."

Lena never forgot those words, spat at her with such venom and hatred, she never understood just how hateful Lillian Luthor could be until she heard her utter such cruelty. Admittedly, Lena did see a flash of regret in her adoptive mother's eyes as she looked at her with blurry eyes and trembling lips, she never got to know if Lillian would have said anything else as she ran out with her quiet sobs shaking her small body. Lillian hadn't spoken to her for a month afterwards, and Lena had never been thankful for such an extended break from the disapproving gazes and reminders of how she is a disappointment to the Luthor name.

"Did your powers not awaken?" Atlanna cut her thoughts off.

"I… I don't really know." Lena admitted. "I never thought I'd have any, so I never cared to check." Atlanna hummed thoughtfully and Lena continued. "And I always avoided being around water unless it was in a bathroom."

Atlanna raised a hand and held her daughter's face, her eyes searched the deep pools of green for any signs of golden specks, she shook her head with a sigh when she found none. "You have not connected with the ocean yet; your powers remain slumbering. Although your biology should have Atlantean traits."

"Like what?" Lena questioned.

"Have you ever been shot or stabbed?"

"Fortunately, no." Lena raised an eyebrow.

"No human weapon will harm you, only Atlantean blades and such will pierce your skin."

Lena's eyebrows shot up in surprise. Well that was nice.

"So, if I take a knife and press it on my finger, I won't bleed?" she asked, itching to experiment with her new-found knowledge about herself.

"No, but you shouldn't do it on purpose anyway." Atlanna said knowingly.

"Tell me more about what I could do." Lena requested eagerly.

"Well, your body has a high tolerance for low temperatures and your eyes adjust to seeing in the darkness of the sea, you can breathe and speak underwater." Atlanna listed absentmindedly. "Once your powers awaken, you'll be able to communicate and command the sea creatures, some Atlanteans have the ability to manipulate water."

Lena listened in fascination, it was hard to believe she had spent her entire life away from something so great. Her mind formulating different ways to test these new powers and their limits. Her thoughts were replaced by a sudden need to know how she had come to get them in the first place. How did the Queen of Atlantis lay with her father, Lionel Luthor?

"Mother, how did you and Father meet?" Lena mentally scolded herself for sounding like a child, but remained quiet, waiting for her mother's response.

"My story goes beyond just your father, Angel." Atlanna smiled kindly.

"Tell me." Lena urged.

"Very well then." Atlanna nodded. "It had started about thirty years ago, I was to be married to a king and produce him an heir, I had refused and fled Atlantis in hopes of running from the fate that awaited me. I managed to outrun a small group of guards as I left the kingdom but unfortunately for me, I was injured in the process. The sea had taken me away and delivered me to my first love, Tom the lighthouse keeper." Atlanna paused to smile fondly at the memory of the man who held her heart. "He treated my wound and allowed me to stay with him, we fell in love and a year later we had brought a child to the world. We named him Arthur. The three years I stayed with Tom and Arthur were the happiest years of my life, but my husband found me and attacked our lighthouse, promising an army the next time he sends for me. I couldn't endanger my family any longer, so I had to leave and go back to my kingdom."

"Arthur was only three years old." Atlanna sighed. "When I went back, I had conceived another boy, Orm. He was to be the King of Atlantis after his father's passing. The king kept me to look after Orm as a child, but I had learned of his plan to rid of me, so I fled once again. Orm was only five at the time." Atlanna's face fell as she mentioned abandoning her two children. "Following the sea, I ended up in Ireland. I stayed there for two years, hiding from the Atlantean guards patrolling the sea. I made a living in the town on the other side of the mountains, I gathered fish from the ocean and sold them in the marker for a living. And then I met your father…"

"He was a good man, really. Lionel had been visiting the country for a business trip, as he told me, the city was a bit far from where the town was. He said that his business deal had been successful and so he and his companions planned a celebratory trip to the country. I met him as I had been preparing to leave for the night, he insisted I join him in the tavern, and I saw no harm in doing so. We sought each other's company for the remainder of his trip and as he was about to leave, I told him I was baring his child."

Lena frowned. Not only was she a bastard child, but she was the result of some flings too?

"Lionel was conflicted, he told me that he had a wife and child and that he must return to and so he couldn't be with me. I was upset with him for wanting to turn away from his unborn child, from me. But he promised that he would contribute as much as he could. He never came to visit, not even when you were born but he gave me money to care for you, built a house for me to raise you in, it was just you and I."

Lena leaned back in her seat and sighed, rubbing at her eyes. She didn't know why that surprised her, she knew she was a bastard child, Lillian did not go a day without telling her that she was a mistake, a slip up on her father's part. She felt foolish thinking that her father may have loved her mother enough to want a child with her, Lena was proved wrong again and again and Lillian was always right.

"We're here, Miss Luthor." The driver rolled down the window separating him and the passengers behind him.

"Very well, thank you,"

"Make no mistake, Angel, your father loved you. And he loved me. His love wasn't enough for him to stay but it was enough to take you in during mu absence" Atlanna said before Lena left the vehicle.

Lena paused and briefly remembered something Lex told her before he was taken to jail. It was the last memory she had of her real brother. The brother she loved and not the monster he became.

"I want you to know with certainty, that where I came from poison, you came from love."

Lena released a shaky breath and stepped out. "come along, Mother, we have much to discuss."


Tell me what you think in the comments pls and don't be afraid to call me out on my bad math if you actually calculated the years and ages Atlanna was telling. I'm actually leaning towards a ship now and I'll tell what it is in the next chapter, hopefully.
Now I go back to lurking and not updating for months. Bye :).