Chapter 10

With now dim lights besides the sun lamps where both Kryptonians rested to replenish their strengths, the harsh sound of two clicks were met in such an eerie time of night. Both women, green at brown, gazed at one another with a heavy sigh then stepped away from the throne style metal chair where the unconscious Director was bound. They didn't have a choice, not after the last episode of unexpected consequential power that a regular human shouldn't have obtained. Lena began to shake her head just as they heard the ding of a bell signalling the arrival of what she had been waiting on.

"Hang in there Danvers…" Maggie whispered with care and a deepening concern. Glancing away from her passed out ex she studied the two by the lamps as they quietly chatted. What she wouldn't have given for super hearing.

"Sam….you can't blame yourself for this." The blonde spoke with a determination for Arias to understand the circumstances.

"But I do Kar….I mean..if I had accompanied her.." But Sam watched Kara shake her head with pure conviction.

"She might have gotten you both if that was the case. Look how easily she got to me." Kara struggled with her words upon how simple the trap had been and her body shivered at the memories thinking if she shut her eyes it would calm but it didn't, it made it MUCH worse. Sam picked up on it immediately reaching out to take one of the blonde's shaky hands. It brought deep blue hues back alive and peering at her hazel green ones.

"Don't go there Kara. Don't let your mind go back there." Kara nodded listening to her friend. Both were caught off guard as a growl erupted from where the once unconscious agent rested but slumbered no longer. "Shit…"

"Such fools to think..I could be bound down.." All three women felt their jaws partially drop at the voice that slipped from Alex's body that wasn't all the Director's. Even worse, the cuffs that were meant to hold her in place were weakening and by the sounds of stretching metal both Kryptonians knew it was only a matter of time before they gave way and freed it's prisoner.

"Danvers….fight!" Maggie shouted as she came close to where the two Kryptonians were standing in front of them in a manner to protect them if need be. But who was she kidding..whatever was in her ex was WAY stronger than her! The person in Alex's body just put their head back laughing at the attempt then settling on forcing the metal apart more snarling at how much force it was taking but it was well worth the effort.

"Fight?" The look in those eyes that didn't seem to be Alex's haunted them and with the next words their world stool deadly still. "My mistress doesn't wish me to fight.." All three shivered at how their brave and noble warrior was broken until Lena came rushing in with a purple and green liquid filled syringe and needle in hand.

"Oh I think you do want to fight Alex….I think this bitch is trying to bend you and the agent the warrior I know would NEVER allow someone to take over her!" The Luthor shot back watching how Alex was way too close to breaking the cuffs. "Keep her down..I need to get this into her." Lena told her comrades and instantly they nodded with Sam helping Kara to her feet and Maggie rushing over. The snaps of chains brought a deeper concern as Alex began to snarl so very close to getting free.

"NO!" Kara yelled watching as her sister broke free suddenly and with the all the force they had Sam rushed behind to capture Alex's arms behind her where Maggie straddled her legs pinning them down as both women forced every ounce of strength in themselves to keep the woman forced down whom tried and tried to squirm out of their grasp.

"NOOOO let me go!" Alex growled loudly as she watched Lena bring the needle to her neck. "NO!"

"Kara….hold her head back!" Lena yelled and the blonde immediately lunged in to do what was asked of her all the while the Captain and Arias did their best to keep the Director down. Alex screamed as Lena slowly jabbed the needle into her neck then pushed the contents into her vein as the thrashing under them grew more fierce then suddenly stopped completely upon a loud gasp with eyes slipped back. The agent's body succumbed to the forced slumber becoming limp under them where they all sighed in relief. "Thank goodness.."

"Is it over?" Sawyer asked scared to get up for fear of Alex jumping up to attack them but nothing came.

"Lena..what was in that?"

"Something to get that bitch out of Alex permanently. I hope…" The rest of them hoped too.

The massive wooden and metal double doors were not so easily pushed inward as the small blue bulb swayed over the doorway leaving Lillian stumbling in the moment she was able to get through them to where she hit her knees immediately and pain erupted from the injury to her leg and scattered through her entire form ricocheting up her spine sending shivers of gut wrenching agony in its wake.

Glancing around she found her surroundings cast in darkness again until she heard what sounded like a gun being cocked and what seemed to be footsteps bringing her trembling heart rate spiking. It was then the lights began to glisten a sickly green which made her own stomach revolt immediately by it's glow. Instantly Lillian felt the bile rising in her worn throat which did nothing for the rest of her the moment a voice spoke that wasn't from some creepy doll on the screen.

"I should have known that some disgusting vermin such as your kind would be responsible for this torture chamber I'm trapped in…." Lillian's eyes widened at that voice and felt her throat tighten even more at the realization. Then the green lighting increased and her body instantly felt the nausea strike her harder giving way to it's victory as she began to cough which hurt far worse with a cut out tongue and pained gums not to mention her wounded neck. "Kryptonite poisoning sucks doesn't it filthy monster..now...WHERE'S THE KEY AND WHERE'S MY MOTHER?!"

Lillian then looked up at the set of eyes passed the gun then further up at the massive mirror like ceiling as her own stained eyes widened. What was keeping her warm was none other than a cape her once icy blue eyes were littered in greens and darker blue hues and her face was mangled in cuts of green and red along with veins glowing of an eerie disgusting kryptonite green. Her hair was tattered and stained in blood but had more a blonde tone. Her gaze went back to the set of burning angered eyes now glistening with unshed held back tears.

Lex kept the gun aimed tightly on the repulsive filth before him as he aimed appropriately and fired into the hand that came up to reach for him watching the bullet blast through the bitch's hand as the animal before him shrieked and stumbled back gripping to their wrist with a hand that now bore a bullet hole through it. He clicked the gun again preparing the next round to be at the thigh then lowering it to the kneecap.

"I promise you….despicable monster….this one will hurt more and I have NO problem firing as many as it takes but since you seem to be ignoring my request…." Lex fired again and this time he laughed as the blood spattered his jeans his t-shirt and face watching as the disgusting rabid beast lunged at him to which he kicked the alien hard under the chin knocking the thing before him back a few feet. He then lowered the gun walking over and began kicking the filth before him over and over and screamed, "WHERE'S THE KEY!?" Another kick and another. "WHERE IS IT?!" Kick after kick after kick as he screamed the same demands for his freedom and when the animal quit moving he begun to check their pockets only to find the pockets with holes in them and chuckled. "YOOOU LOST MY KEY?!" Lex snarled and held the gun out once more and aimed it at the vile blonde focusing all his rage as static caught his attention and he turned his gaze to the doll upon the now lit up screen.

"Hello Lex." The man studied the monstrous thing on the screen determined to start his rants but stopped himself and tried to remember what his mother had taught him for years. Time his moves, learn the opponent's strategies, engage when right, inspect for weaknesses and use them to his advantage. "You have found the tools necessary to exact your revenge on that which you have deemed evil to you. But..is what comes through those doors really the evil you seek? I advise you to look inward, passed what the mirror shows you and learn to understand that evil comes in many forms when you know exactly where to look. Have you learned to understand whom is the true evil here? Can you see beyond sight, hear beyond sound, and speak without words to find the correct move? For the person who comes through the doors you will automatically deem a threat but I implore you to pay attention to your senses for if you don't the key to your survival will be lost by the actions of fools. Can you look within yourself and not only save one life but two, or…..do you feel only your life is worth the save here. Live or die, make your choice."

"What the fuck?!" Lex's head turned slowly to see the animal before him on their side crying and whimpering trying to reach out to grab his leg until he stepped back and took the gun with both hands aiming it at the creature at his feet. His gaze studied the blonde, or at least what was left of blonde and began to chuckle as he clicked the gun once more. "Last chance…..where is the key..where is my mother?!"

Lillian felt her world imploding by the sheer agony of endless pain as the bruises, burns, cuts, and bullet wounds sent her body into wicked and repulsive shock causing her body to tremble violently. She vomited out the bile and blood the drug that had been running through her, that now she understood exactly how whomever had captured them had turned her veins green and made her sick by the radiation of the green bulbs. Then she thought back to each test and shivered even more with a new found understanding as she gradually reached into her pocket where the pieces had been and no longer were sighing. Tears leaked out of her eyes and she wished to be able to tell her son she was sorry for every cruel and agonizing thing she'd ever done. Then, it dawned on her and maybe just maybe it would work. Reaching her fingers into what she'd puked she shakily went to write on the tiles next to her hoping to tell her whom she was not whom he thought she was.

Lex looked down and noticed what the creature was doing which only angered him more as he snarled and bent down to press the gun to the bitch's temple.

"LAST….. CHANCE!" He shouted with all the command left in his voice his own hands shaking now preparing to pull the trigger. Lillian wrote in blood S then O. She felt the gun barrel pressed harder against her skull and she did her best to write and N but as she slightly glanced up she saw the shock all over his face then pain then a fueling fire of relentless rage. "YOU TOOK HER FROM ME YOU MONSTER!" Lex….I love… The sound echoed the room as the last of Lillian's breath dispersed into the air as blood splattered all over Lex and his heavy breathing and the body before him stilled finally. From the shuttered breaths became pants then chuckles then laughter and then screams as he looked up at the reflection of his own and the body upon the floor dropping the gun now spent of all rounds. Suddenly the static permeated the room once more and his eyes shot up to the screen. The doll had returned to look from the body to the side then to him. "I WON! GIVE ME THE K…...e….y…." Lex felt his eyes widen as his body dropped upon its knees and the breath left his throat now caught.

"Hello Lex. Evil comes to us in many forms and some in which we learn from those around us. Some we learn amongst ourselves in our inner demons. You had, unfortunately, been taught of evils at far too young of an age by the greatest evil of all, hate. Your mother, the Queen, taught you moves to eradicate all evil by the games of hatred and madness and by doing so you became her King only when you could provide to her castle. In doing so you became so devote to her ways, her principles and methods you never truly moved for yourself anymore. You became a puppet on a string for her to pull how she saw fit. You had been freed of that with the arrival of your sister but the Queen would not stand for such a power shift and so once again you were bound to the laws of the Queen. But now Lex, you have truly became the King for now there is no Queen to aid you."

"What?" Lex watched as the doll disappeared from the screen as his eyes widened upon what was on it..his mother. He watched from the beginning then to each game and finally to where a camera was positioned after Lillian had been blasted by the vents to be covered by a timed released cape so very similar to a Supers' cape. Lex then looked to the ground and studied the three words written out in blood. SON. His own mind unwound his heart crumbling under the realization of what he had done. "NO!"

"For the lesson here, was not about killing the evil that you saw in others..but rather, destroying that evil in yourselves that you only saw in those around you when all you had to do was look directly in a mirror and you would see where evil truly existed. You were meant, Lex, not to kill…..but to save.."

"NOOOO!" Lex screamed with his body trembling violently now gripping to his dead mother howling out his pain.

"The key to your freedom resided in the combination only the Queen knew. The moment her heart monitor turned off this video was to be played. You had a chance of freedom, but now this room will be a tomb for you both. It was about Living, Lex Luthor, not dying. But now….you will never be heard from again. They will never find your body. Farewell Lex..Checkmate." As the screen went dark the Luthor felt his own darkness closing in as he lifted his head to release his fury.

"FUCK YOU!" Lex shouted angrily as madness finally dug into him as he ran to the doors shut kicking and punching trying to ram them but to no avail. Tears poured down his face as screams kept coming through every hopeless blow at the doors and walls as the lighting that once permeated the room faded leaving the blackness playing at both the living and dead..

Slowly eyelids lifted as blurs were the first for her vision but gradually they began to take shape until eyes were resting over her and the Director felt herself smiling. Instantly relief flooded through all of them. Alex felt arms somewhat tightly hug her and it brought relief to herself knowing her little sister was doing much better. Sam was next to hug her. She felt the love of both Kryptonians in that embrace as she turned her head to find Maggie in the doorway waving and Lena sitting in one of the chairs close by.

"Wha….I miss…" She spoke with a bit of a rasp but it was the Luthor whom chuckled shaking her head to roll her eyes. "What?"

"Nice to have you back Director." Lena smiled. Alex nodded then glanced back to Sawyer in the doorway. Green eyes studied the ones between the exes and she stood to look at Sam whom made eye contact with her. "Hey Sam, Kara…..can I talk to you two about my findings on her wounds?" Arias nodded as did the younger Danvers as they both hugged Alex once more then walked passed Maggie only for Sam to stop and give a look to the Captain.

"I got it." Maggie spoke and Sam nodded continuing her exit of the room. She slowly made her way to the bed to flop down in the chair next to it. "Had me worried Alex..had us all worried Director." She respectfully corrected herself.

"That bad?" Alex asked watching the look on the woman's face and couldn't help but smirk. "Damn, I wanted that strength too.." Maggie's eyes widened in shock.

"No..you don't need to be that strong Danvers, shit! I could barely keep you pinned!"

"Had me pinned did you?" Alex snickered and Maggie rolled her eyes then chuckled nodding. "Damn, I missed all the fun."

"Better that you did." The Director went to sit up slowly testing her stamina grateful to find herself not as weak as a kitten though she still felt like someone had punched her a few times with a battering ram. "Alex….." Sawyer felt her words caught in her throat as she gazed in beautiful chocolate orbs warmed by how she spoke her name. I have no right here..shit Sawyer, come on grow some balls its Alex! Maggie felt the war waging on in her head and it was as if the agent in front of her was studying the battle by the raised brow. "I'm glad you're okay." That was a cop out you fucking coward!Unable to keep the antics up she rose from the chair tempted to step closer to the bed but nodded instead. "You, you just be careful from now on okay?"

"Mags…" Alex piped her jaw shut at the slip up as Maggie quit moving toward the door only to stop then turn. Their gazes met once more.

"See ya around Danvers…" The Director felt her heart constricting as the woman whom had her heart for so long once again walked out yet another door and it seemed as though she drug it out with her in battered shambles.

"Alex.." Kara, Lena and Sam had been out on the veranda enjoying the crisp night air until Arias had picked up on the distress long before the other two and Kara went to move to but Sam turned back to her. "No..I got this Kar. Let me, okay?" The blonde nodded and then Arias chuckled for a moment glancing from Lena to Kara shaking her head.

"What Sam?" Lena quirked an eyebrow wondering what had her friend snickering.

"Both of you are so oblivious it's soooo cute it's disgusting.." Sam laughed then headed in to tend to Alex whom she rushed instantly to the bedroom upon hearing the first whimper from the woman whom she felt her own heart beating wildly for.

"So….Supergirl.." Lena sighed holding a glass of red wine in her hand swirling it's contents.

"Yes..boss?" Kara smiled deeply shaking her head as she leaned on the balcony wall gazing out at the city. From the corner of her eye she noticed Lena look her way then lean the same taking a sip of her drink. "I'm really sorry Lee.."

"Water under the bridge Kara. I'm….I'm just glad you are okay.." Lena felt both of their gazes fall on one another then and she couldn't help but drop her shoulders and put her head down. "What Lex did…."

"Not your doing Lena." Kara told her reaching out to cup the gorgeous woman's chin then lightly graze her thumb along a cheek. "Definitely not your doing." Green eyes bore into a set of beautiful cerulean blue hues and Lena felt herself getting lost in them uncaring how deeply she fell. With a slight flicker of recognition in those eyes Lena felt herself gulp as her heart hammered away in her chest.

"Are you okay?" Kara instantly nodded but Lena shook her head and reached out to brush fingers along the side of the blonde's face tenderly. "No, are you?"

"Bad dreams..scares..but…..I'm getting there. Because of you, I'm getting there."

"I'm glad we finally got that putrid mark off your chest." Blue eyes shivered attempting to pull away but it was as if Lena had empowered her own gaze to lock Kara's. "Don't hide."

"At least the shard is out now. I don't think anyone else would have known where to look for that." Lena smirked rolling her eyes as Kara lifted a brow. "What?"

"Blame my friend. He figured it out probably before I did." They both pulled their gazes away to glance up at the starry sky.

"Are you okay with…." Lena didn't even have to answer the blonde as she reached out with her free hand and laced her fingers with Kara's. The moment their fingers intertwined it was as if both their hearts began to beat in sync and the Kryptonian picked up on it immediately smiling.

"I am." Nothing else had to be said between them as they scooted closer to one another getting lost to star gazing.

"Well?" Alex asked as Sam relinquished her gaze and smiled nodding with the beautiful Director lounged in her arms on the bed.

"Well…..I think we might have to call out a double date soon." The elder Danvers sister let out a good laugh at that pleased at the answer nodding.

"Deal." Looking up at the gorgeous woman that held her, that had come in when she'd been sobbing to scoop her into strong arms and whisper sweet nothings of pure assurance, she felt complete. They had talked about Ruby, about gatherings and future dinner dates. All the while planning for a future with their crazy kooky little group they called family.

Watching from the confines of his studio sitting upon the bench a man with crisp yet wholesome eyes glistened with pride upon the sent pictures he'd received of Lena and her comrades. Pleased by the outcome he smiled then gazed over at the screen where one crazed and wild Luthor hopped and skipped inside his tomb completely oblivious to the dead body of his mother or the carnage he'd caused. He lived in his own hell now, only to perish eventually to venture into another one. Thus…..was the game.

Until next time!

-Enigmea