Kara flew directly to the location Winn had pointed out. It was an old building, possibly once a hospital. It was rundown and looked abandoned. Kara scanned the building with her x-ray vision. She could see several people inside. There seemed to be a group of men in the far right corner. Then she spotted the cell with a single body slumped in the corner. Lena! She thought. She swooped in with no hesitation.
"Let Lena go" she shouted at the startled group of men as she landed on the floor with a thud. They reached for their weapons, but with one quick breath, Kara had them scattering. Kara began making her way over to Lena before she heard a voice behind her.
"Well, well, I knew you would come" Lillian said slyly, stepping around the corner. "Nice to see you again Supergirl."
"Let her go, Lillian" demanded Kara, turning to look fully at Lillian, hands on her hips.
"Supergirl. No!" Lena called from the cell. "Just leave me."
"I'm not leaving you Lena" Kara said looking over at Lena. Did she really not want her? She thought. Was she still mad at her?
"Oh she can go" Lillian said, nodding for two of her henchmen to open up the cell.
Two men quickly scrambled to open up the cell door. Lena came running out and straight towards Kara. Kara opened her arms to Lena but inches before she could safely wrap them around her, she felt someone tug on her from behind, sending Kara sliding across the floor. Kara barely opened her eyes as she saw Cyborg Superman reaching down, grabbing her arm, and flinging her across to the other side.
"No Mother!" Lena yelled as she watched Kara slide to a stop at the far wall. "Leave her alone!"
"Please Lena, let mommy work" was the last words Lena heard before feeling herself lurch forward with a throbbing in her head and everything going black.
Lena woke up slowly. She felt warm blankets around her. She heard beeping. She could barely make out shadows moving around the room. Suddenly she noticed the hand holding hers. She looked to the left to see Maggie sitting on a chair beside the bed, gently rubbing her hand with her thumb.
"What? What happened?" Lena said in a whisper, attempting to sit up.
Maggie gently pushed her back down. "You need to lay still Lena. You have quite the bump on your head."
"But Kara, where's Kara?" she pleaded.
"Um…she's okay" Maggie said hesitantly looking over to the next room.
Lena turned to see Kara laying on the lamp bed, machines attached to her, Alex standing beside her looking at the monitors and then frowning as she wrote something on her clipboard.
"Nooo" whispered Lena. "What happened? I need to see her." Lena attempted to get up again, tears beginning to roll down her cheeks.
"Stop, Lena. You need to rest. We can talk about this later" Maggie said, gently pushing Lena back down again on the bed.
Lena was so weak, and her head hurt so much, she just couldn't struggle against Maggie and laid back down. She felt the tears fall. She put her arm across her eyes as she wept.
"She'll be okay, Lena. You need to rest. Just rest." Maggie said reassuringly, rubbing Lena's shoulder. And with that, Lena slowly drifted back to sleep.
Lena wasn't sure how long she was asleep for. This time when she woke up, Maggie was gone and everything seemed less chaotic. She looked over to see Kara still lying still under the lights. She gingerly rolled herself out of bed and walked barefoot over to Kara. She held back a sob as she looked down at her. So helpless. Wounds clearly across her face and arms.
Lena pulled the chair closer and sat down beside Kara, her head hanging low. She held her hand in hers, gently playing with her fingers, looking at the cuts and scrapes that she had never seen before on those hands. She closed her eyes, wishing for Kara to just wake up. "I'm sorry" Lena whispered. "I'm sorry I am a Luthor. I'm sorry I'm not good enough for you to love" she said, quiet tears rolling down her cheeks.
"For someone with such a high IQ, you know you are an idiot, right?" Alex laughed as she patted Lena on the shoulder.
Lena jumped at the touch. "Excuse me?" She looked disgustedly at Alex.
"Of course Kara loves you" Alex said walking to the other side of the lamp bed. "Kara has unquestionably no issue with you being a Luthor. This girl is absolutely crazy about you." Alex sat down on the other side of the bed. Kara looked so peaceful, but she desperately wanted her sister to wake up too.
"Then tell me, why was she so upset about Eliza knowing about us?" Lena turned to look back at Kara, "Why is she ashamed to tell her about us" she said softly.
"Gee, Lena! She's not embarrassed about you!"
"Sure sounded like she was" Lena said turning to look back down at Kara's hands as she felt tears well up again.
"No, trust me. Kara telling Eliza really has nothing to do with you." Alex couldn't help but laugh. "Eliza has a rule about dating. We aren't allowed to date anyone unless we have introduced them to Eliza first as a friend."
"Wait, what? So you are telling me you told Eliza first about Maggie beforehand?" Lena asked giving Alex a skeptical look.
"Not exactly." Alex said looking down and rubbing her neck. "Let's just say, both Kara and I suffered great disappointment from Eliza and it was the worst thing ever!"
"Come on, you guys are adults. How bad could it be?" Lena couldn't help but smile a little.
"Well she called me Alexandra for two weeks straight and she refused to bake Kara any muffins for the whole week she was with us, and then when she did eventually bake, Kara wasn't allowed to eat any of them!"
"Wow, gosh, that is bad" beamed Lena looking down at Kara knowing full well that preventing Kara from having Eliza's home-baked anything was like injecting her directly with Kryptonite.
"So Lena, you can see, Kara isn't worried about telling Eliza she is dating a Luthor, she is just worried that she didn't follow the Danvers house rule and will suffer the consequence. Just give Kara a chance to explain it to you when she wakes up." Alex said as she walked out of the room, patting Lena on the back again.
Lena sat there looking at the sleeping Kara before her. She really was the sweetest, most innocent, most genuine person she knew. She couldn't possible have Eliza being that disappointed with Kara. She needed to fix this and she had an idea.
She jumped up and hobbled barefoot after Alex. "Hey Alex. I have a plan. Can you put me in contact with your mother?"
"With pleasure" Alex said. She could tell that Lena had an amazing plan up her sleeve. "But first, I think we should get you back into bed."