Waking up from the Gray Mercy was a nightmare. It made her nauseous, and her head was pounding like a metal head's drum set, but when she opened her eyes and saw Kara crying, everything else went away and she rushed to her side.
"Kara? Baby?" Lena asked as she stepped tentatively closer.
"I'm a monster. I ruin everyone's lives, Lena." Kara cried. "How could I be such a selfish coward? I-I'm not good at anything, Lena. I'm a terrible sister, a worthless lover, a horrible writer, and a terrible friend. Whether those things wee real or not in there, it's all true, and now you see it too."
Lena's heart ached as she shook her head. "No, no Kara… None of that is true. You're the best of all of us."
Kara shook her head. "We shouldn't be together, Lena. I don't deserve you."
Lena began to panic… this was not how she expected this to go. "STOP IT!" She yelled, her voice shaking with the fear that she might still lose Kara after everything they'd gone through the past two months. "I went into that gray mercy to save you because you are the love of my life. My soulmate. The other half of me. You don't get to say you aren't worthy of me when it is me that's unworthy of you. If you don't want to be with me, it's got to be because you don't want me, not because you think that you are undeserving of me."
"I… I don't know if I can handle this right now." Kara croaked out, tears gushing from her eyes.
"Oh, baby… If I had known how you were feeling… If I had known that you think so little of yourself, I'd never… I'd never had made you take care of me the way that I did. I'm so sorry, Kara, but I will make this up to you; and I will never disregard your feelings again. I swear to you."
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It hadn't been easy to round them all up, especially not the Queen Of All Media, but she'd managed to do so in less than twenty-four hours and she was quite impressed with herself.
She stood in a room filled with the people that loved and cared for Kara the most. Alex and Eliza Danvers, Clark Kent and Lois Lane, Cat Grant, Winn Schott, and James Olsen… Everyone that could help with Kara's terrifying insecurities. She just hoped that this would help Kara, because living without Kara being happy was starting to kill Lena.
"Now that I've gathered you all here, I need to ask you something." She paused and waited for all the confused loved ones to silence. "How much do you love Kara Danvers?"
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As soon as Kara reached the loft she heard the heartbeats… 8 of them including Lena's… She was confused but as soon as she opened the door it all made sense… Clark and Lois were there to substitute her dead parents, and the rest were all there to have an intervention of sorts… Most likely to confirm what Kara already knew: She was worthless.
She opened her mouth to protest, but Lena wasn't having any of it and spoke first. "Please just sit down and listen. That's all I ask of you, if you still feel the same about yourself afterward, we can get you on anti-depressants. I'm not giving up on you, even if you aren't my fiancée any longer."
"I don't need anti-depressants, Lena." Kara said sadly. "I just need to be better."
Alex let out a sob. "No! Kara, you're perfect, it's us who should have seen this. We're the ones that need to be better, not you. You are the most amazing, intelligent, kind person I know. I'm so thankful that you came into our lives."
Eliza nodded. "We both are sweetie, we love you so much, and we never want you to think otherwise. You're a blessing, Kara, and we love you with our entire hearts. We wouldn't change a single thing about you, or our lives with you."
Kara swallowed back tears. "You don't… blame me for Jeremiah?"
They both shook their heads. "Absolutely not! Kara, what happened was not your fault, it was the D.E.O.'s fault for not taking care of him properly. Nothing about his death was on you, Kar' we both know that and we don't want you to blame yourself either." Alex said.
"She's right. Honey, you've done nothing but bring us joy since you first stepped onto our porch. Never doubt our love for you, Kara. You're one of the best things that's ever happened to this family."
Kara ran over to them and embraced them both in a group hug, tears of sadness mixed with tears of joy, and Lena felt like she finally, finally did something right by Kara.
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The rest of the next two hours went surprisingly similar, all of the people there loved Kara unconditionally, and they all made it known as clear as they possibly could that Kara's insecurities were unfounded… Especially Clark; who went as far as arm wrestling Kara to prove that she was the superior Kryptonian between the two of them.
Now, it was just Kara and Lena, standing on opposite sides of Kara's living room, with only one question on Lena's mind.
"How are you?" She asked nervously.
Kara sighed. "Overwhelmed, but over all I'm feeling a lot better."
Lena smiled, her heart filling with happiness. "I'm glad. You deserve all the happiness in the world."
Kara shook her head. "I know that I had every right to be hurt because of what I thought had happened with you and Jess, but I still want to ap-,"
"Don't." Lena shook her head, stopping Kara dead in her tracks. "Don't apologize. I'm tired of you always feeling bad about things that weren't your fault. I knew what was going on, and although it destroyed me, I'm not an asshole. You did nothing wrong, it hurt like hell, I'll admit that, but you still did nothing wrong, and I won't have you believing otherwise."
Kara smiled. "You're amazing, Lena."
"So are you, Kara. I just wish you saw yourself the way I see you." Lena admitted sadly.
Kara stepped closer to Lena. "I love you." She whispered.
Lena's breath hitched as Kara's hands grabbed her hips. "I love you too. More than anything." She avowed, praying that this was finally the moment she'd been wishing for from the very beginning. That this was Kara's moment of realization, and that she would take Lena back.
Kara smiled. And leaned in to press a tender kiss on Lena's forehead. "I have things that I need to work out before I burden you with a relationship… Do you think you can wait for me?"
Lena's heart fell, but she understood that Kara just needed time… Time that Lena would give her without a second thought. "Darling you're never a burden to me, but I understand and I will wait… I'd wait an eternity for you."