AN/ Well its time to have Lena show off her soul brand and seek out Kara hope you enjoy

Supergirl had saved her again, and this time she was getting coffee at 11pm with Kara. Lena couldn't help but think that this was a very unlikely story that drinks coffee at that time of night. Something was different with the super though, Lena could see it and more than that she could feel a change. When she had caught her the heat coming off her hand was incredible but somehow it felt calming, and then she didn't seem to want to leave. Lena could feel the struggle in the super, knowing that she needed to go but being unable to leave. Did Supergirl feel their connection had something changed, maybe Supergirl was more open to Lena being her soul mate now, after she had helped her, maybe they would be friends. Of course Lena was infatuated with Kara and was still of the belief that Kara and Supergirl were the same person, but a unproven hypothesis is just conjecture and no self respecting scientist goes with a half backed theory without some proof, after all she wasn't a theoretical scientist.

With all that had been going on at LCorp Lena hadn't been able to give much time to the Labs, or her hypotheses, she sat at her desk for a moment and pulled out her laptop, she opened to the message board and saw there was a message, since the last look resulted in a game of cat and mouse she had disabled the connection to her cell and hadn't thought to look. Lena's eyes widened as she saw the message, there was her full soul brand on the page and a Gallic phrase. "Purity of heart" Lena couldn't help but laugh, it echoed around the empty office, Supergirl clearly had a strange sense of humour. It was clear that she knew what the brand said, surly if they were a match the two brands would say the same, but Kara didn't have one, so would Supergirl. Lena looked into Alien branding and realised that there brands were in fact no different they appeared after 12 years on the earth. Lena started to search Catco articles she was sure there was information on Supergirl arrival on earth, not an exact date but a rough year. A few mental calculations and Lena realised that Supergirl would have been her long enough now, thinking back to the meeting with Kara two weeks ago the brand had been pushing more, there was that Gallic writing, Lena cursed herself for not getting a better look. If Supergirl and Kara is indeed the same person then they would both now have a soul brand and that would explain the difference in behaviour. Maybe she hadn't rejected her she just didn't know.

Lena added some more evidence to her list but it was still all circumstantial, although she had noticed a scar on supergirls forehead that she hadn't seen before, she would need to check Kara although how would see get her to take off the glasses. Her buzzer went in the office, it was late and Lena didn't think anyone was in. When she answered it she heard Penny's voice, she was still apparently in the lab. She was wondering if there was a chance that Lena could go down to look at something she had been working on for the project. Lena smiled and decided that she would go, on the way down in the elevator Lena couldn't help but smile, she was growing fond of Penny, and she was a little worried that her workaholic nature was rubbing off on the girl.

When I arrived at the lab penny was a ball of excitement, she clearly had something that she felt passionate about. "Lena I am so glad you were still here, I mean, well you shouldn't be I know how much you work and you deserve time away but I am so excited" Lena smiled at Penny who was incredibly animated. "Unfortunate events kept me here tonight, but I would have probably been working any way. Well then, now that you have my full attention Penny, what is it that you have been doing in the lab so late at night?" Penny wasn't sure what event had taken place she had not left the lab since early that morning, between her normal work and this new side project she was engrossed. "You remember when we talked and I thought that it would be helpful if we could see and laser at the same time? Well I had this idea and I think it could be possible but I am not able to work it out and I thought maybe you would be interested in looking at it?" Lena raised an eyebrow and appraised the woman in front of her; this would indeed be exciting if it was possible.

Penny showed Lena a variety of possibilities, from AV glasses that could scan using an x-ray style vision with mounted laser at the pupil to direct the beam, she had not worked out how to trigger the beam or if eye movement could cause a waiver, she was also not sure if there would be damage due to exposure. She had then progressed to a drone style idea where there would be a laser operated by a targeting system controlled by a doctor who was able to see on a screen the MRI and line everything up triggering it, it would of course have to be made of plastic and mounted within the MRI. Penny took a steadying breath before giving the last option, I am not sure if I should suggest this, it's a bit out there and well it would be a augmentation to a human. "You remember that cyber thing that attacked LCorp, well I may have been able to create a possibility of creating a prosthetic eye that could generate the laser with pin point accuracy and I think with some further calculations it would be possible to create a way to see through using it" she took out a pair of goggles for Lena to see, these can see though things, it's not perfect at the moment but I created a way to manipulate the vision like we split light only energy".

Lena looked through the goggles, the vision was fuzzy and came in and out of focus but she could see flashes of bone, and blood vessels in her hand alternating with her hand as it was. She studied the goggles, "it's kind of like a heat vision night vision mix with some interesting dynamics, but it isn't stable it would need a interface to be able to differentiate the methods and modes, to focus it, we would be looking at a implant in the nerve centre of the brain too" Penny stood looking at Lena with her mouth open, she had seen her mind at work before but this was impressive, Lena was writing on papers as she was examining the glasses and looking at a variety of different setting and controls. "In future Penny lead with your best work, you don't have to build me up, sometimes the greatest advancements are made in morally grey areas, now I am not saying yes, but it has merit, I can't spare you from the current project but we can work on this a little in the evenings if you would like"

Although initially penny looked a little chastised by Lena she was soon smiling, they continued to work into the small hours of the morning. Lena eventually sent Penny home and instead of going home herself went up to her office for a nap before she was due to start her day, early meetings meant that she wouldn't be able to get back to the lab till later, and she was so excited about this prospect, if they could create a actual super eye they could have the ability to do on the spot x-ray seal internal bleeds on site and save lives that are currently being lost over travelling time. She knew however that there would be a military adaptation her mother had proven that but she needed to see if it was possible first.

Lena spent the next two weeks alternating between the board room and the Lab excited but slowly becoming more frustrated, she seemed to be struggling with focus and her mind seemed less sharp. She found her thoughts drifting to Kara and Supergirl sometimes separate sometimes together as one. She was tired and making mistakes, she started to wonder if maybe she was getting sick, it wasn't possible Luthor's didn't get sick. It was only 630 in the morning Lena hadn't mean to sleep in her office again but as she was awake she made her way down to the Lab and penny was there, she looked nervous. "Is everything alright Penny, are you sure you want to work this early?" Penny looked at Lena, she was worried how her boss would take what she was about to say but she felt she needed to tell her the truth. "Lena I am worried about you, over the past few weeks I have noticed that there have been mistakes and errors in what you have been doing, at first it was a small slip, forgetting a minus sign or something and although I don't pretend to understand your calculations, I do understand math and this doesn't actually add up" when Lena saw what Penny was referring to she was shocked, she could clearly see her mistake well there were more than one, it was the lack of focus Lena could do this differential equation in her sleep but the error would have caused the laser to misfire and with the perpetual energy it could take out the entire building.

Lena smiled at Penny, "I have been feeling a little off and unfocused, it's like my mind is there but behind a fog somehow, maybe I need to get checked over, thank you for bringing this to my attention Penny" Lena saw Penny relax, even though they had been working together for a month, Penny still seemed anxious around her, but she was relaxing again, Lena placed her hand on Penny's shoulder "shall we take this morning off?" Penny smiled, "it's been getting worse over the past two weeks Lena, since your accident, I know Supergirl saved you, I saw the picture of her holding you, it was quite sweet, oh um so sorry I shouldn't have said that. Um but well everyone thinks you two are kind of cute together and good pairing I guess, there is even a tag for it, like the super Luthor good pair, I am rambling um, but since then you have been well I don't know, not you exactly, well you but somehow less you, does that make sense" Lena was trying to listen to Penny but the rambling was making her mind wander to a bubbly reporter she hadn't seen in two weeks, and it was making her heart ache, and her back too, Lena had never had any issue with her brand acting up at the thought of Kara before. "What picture are you referring to Penny?"

Taking her phone out of her pocket Penny called up the image and showed it to Lena, it was a little grainy but it was Lena being held by Supergirl floating by the balcony of L-Corp and her hand was on the small of Lena's back, she remembered it but the placement worried her. She recalled the sensation and the heat and her research on the soul brands, if Lena was correct and Supergirl was her soul mate she could be suffering from soul sickness, a strange half life style issue where one of the soul mates accepted the bond but the other didn't, did Supergirl unintentionally bond with her, there was defiantly heightened emotions and the correct placement of the supers hand. There was only one way to test this hypothesis and she needed some help "Penny I need to ask you to do something for me, but you can never tell anyone what you see, can I trust you Penny?" Penny nodded she was a little concerned but wanted to help Lena. Lena un-tucked her shirt revealing her lower back, there was nothing to see and penny was a little confused at first. "Lena what am I looking at?"

Lena gave instructions to penny there was a small raised lump on her spine just above the Lombard region, Penny needed to place a scalpel under to and make a small incision, once that was done the small inhibitor could be removed. Penny's hands were shaking as the small device popped through the incision, as it did Lena's soul brand appeared as if out of nowhere. Penny gasped at the sight before her, the brand was not recognisable to her and it was half black and half blue. "Lena, this tech is amazing it completely obscured your brand, wow. Oh sorry I think I know what's wrong with you, your brand is part bonded" Lena had confirmed two hypotheses, she had soul sickness and Supergirl was indeed her soul mate. Pulling her shirt down and taking the image inducer from Penny, Lena smiled "Thanks Penny I think I need to go, there is someone I need to see"

Lena wasn't going to see Supergirl she was going to Kara; she could prove her hypotheses definitively if she saw Kara, without seeing Supergirl first. She knew that the super had unintentionally bonded with her, and if she was suffering from the sickness the only way to relieve the symptoms was to be in the presence of the mate, for permanent cure they would need to bond completely. If the symptoms lessened around Kara then Kara was supergirl. I had Frank pull the car around and I went up to my office, a quick change and an email to Jess regarding cancelling my day, when I saw an email from Jack and an invite to the launch of new tech. I didn't really want to see Jack right now but I would need to attend, even if it was just to check the competition. Frank drove over to Kara's apartment and I hesitantly made it to the apartment after a few failed attempts. I knocked on the door, "Kara are you grief baking?"

Lena sat at the breakfast bench and couldn't help but watch Kara, the brand was acting up again, pushing and throbbing, Lena looked at Kara like a lioness stalking pray, she was so concerned that she was being possessive and somewhat creepy, she blurted out about Jack and his invite. Kara offered to attend as her best friend, Lena's heart sank a little, she was attracted to Kara and she knew it, the feelings she was having right now were not platonic, but if that was all she was going to be able to have with Kara she would accept it. Kara was feeling better, like she could float away effortlessly, she was a little thrown by Lena's comments about Jack but she was with Lena and it felt great. She grabbed her bag and coat, and Lena said that she was her favourite, Kara floated lightly behind Lena as they exited the flat. Lena knew the truth and was hoping Kara would say something when she didn't Lena asked Kara, "what's your kryptonite?"