Lord Technologies Warehouse

Lillian Luthor had always been a blunt woman. Ice water ran in her veins in place of blood. She had always been like that, but even more so with the imprisonment of her only son Lexington. She had blamed it all on aliens from other planets in general, an exploded planet called Krypton in general, and even more specifically someone called Superman.

But Lex was not the only person she had the closest thing to a soft spot in what could be called a heart for Lillian. Lena was adopted by Lillian's husband, the product of an affair that he had with woman who was a lobbyist. The woman was paid off and sent away, and after the woman disappeared, Lionel adopted Lena, and brought her to Luthor Mansion.

The relationships between father, daughter, son, and mother were strained to say the least. They had become even worse after Lionel died of mysterious causes, and Lex was sent to prison after he lost all sense of reality. After that, Lillian had her own going troppo moment, and the relationship between mother and adopted daughter. Even at that, she wanted for she and Lena to become closer. The problem was the fact that Lillian was very alien-phobic and Lena wasn't.

Maybe that is what happened. Maybe it all got to Lena. Maybe, Lillian thought, that all of the disagreements...loud ones...maybe she thought that she could find some permanent peace. Lena did take over the family business, remove the Luthor name and renamed it L Corp, and tried to do the opposite of what the family wanted to do with tech, media, and world domination. All Lena wanted to do was help people. That's why she wanted to partner with Catco, not to be a media mogul. She wanted to use media to help people. It's something her adopted mother could not understand.

Or maybe it was that she found out some of what Lillian was up to. The shadowy people that she was now attached to, like General Lane and Max Lord. And a few days ago, she learned a bit of what her mother, Lord Technologies, and some of the people attached wanted to do. And that Lillian wanted her to be part of that. It was at a dinner at a very nice restaurant that Lillian herself booked exclusively for that purpose. It was lucky for Lillian that it was private because when she found what The Plan was, Lena's exit was loud and angry.

That may have been what was running through Lillian's mind as she bolted from the building. She barked at her limo driver to get her to Kaiser as fast as possible. Could the plan have been what set Lena off? Was it something else? She didn't know. But Lillian knew two things, things racing through her head as the Maybach s600 Guard limousine tore through the streets of National City: One, a Luthor would never do such a thing. Two, no matter how much Lillian loved her adopted daughter, Lena wasn't a Luthor.

The hospital

Kara Danvers had left the building. Supergirl was in her place, maintaining her watch over Lena Luthor. The doctors had already told "Kara" that Lena was heavily sedated, so she figured that Kara Danvers could probably go home.

As Supergirl, the excuse you use was that she was checking up on the woman that she rescued. The doctors told Supergirl when Kara Danvers already knew: Lena Luthor was under heavy sedation after trying to make that jump off the roof of L Corp, not to mention a psychiatric hold of at least 10 days. Supergirl still wanted to see the woman. There was something about her, maybe her eyes, maybe something about her face, that fascinated her to some extent. She also knew that fascination carried over to both Cat Grant and Leslie Willis. And she knew that one way or the other, either Cara or Supergirl would have to talk with them about it.

The Maid of Might took out her her LG V20 to check any voice mails left for either Supergirl or Kara.

Indeed, there were a few...

From Alex: Sorry we weren't home last night...something came up. I told you about Maggie...well, we stopped off at...Kar, she's amazing...and Astra thinks so too. And I know how you and Cat and Leslie get along...we gotta talk when you get back...

Supergirl pinches her nose and hopes that no one pledges to protect anyone...

From Carter: Hi Aunt Kara. Just wondering when you'll get home. Mom and Les seem to be very worried. Is anything wrong? Oh, and Indi's been helping me with American history. She put me at Kitty Hawk with the Wright Brothers on VR. Oh, and Indi and Bizarro seem to be getting along fine...I mean Kiera...I'm still getting used. Text me...

Supergirl smiles. She loves Cat's kid. She feels for Keira and all she has going on. She knows tonight there may be some answers about Keira's identity. As for Supergirl's doppleganger pairing up with Indigo, there's a lot that brainiac has done, but in the last few weeks since this whole Bizarro thing came about, she's taken a shine to the walking computer program.

From Siobhan: Winn and I are going to food for less...ever since the change we've gotten hungrier and hungrier...want us to get something for you? Oh...and again...sorry about last Sunday night...

As much as Supergirl and the Banshee had fought in the past, and as much as she adores Winn, she has to admit that they do make a sweet, if odd, couple.

And as the Girl of Steel contemplates what is happening with the young woman she just saved yesterday, she wonders if she has a family like Kara Danvers has. Ok, it's a quirky mix of aliens, earthlings, enhanced humans, heroes and villains, but in the last year, they were there for each other. They were, indeed, family. And then Supergirl looked down the hospital corridor, and wondered about Lena Luthor. The Luthor family was well known and well feared. Kara knew about her cousin, Kal's, run-ins with Lex. Not to mention the Kryptonian girl's own run-ins with Mama Lillian. There was a difference between what Supergirl called family and what Lena may have called family. Wondering if things would have been different if she was around and environment that was more happy, more caring.

More loving.

But the the bell of the elevator and the thump of a woman's heels kicked her out of that wondering. She saw the woman coming down the hall, and when they got in eyeshot, they recognized each other. But instead of the unflappable woman of granite she was used to, there was someone with reddened eyes, and shaky hands and mouth. And only one question.

"Supergirl," demanded Lillian Luthor, "where is my daughter..."

TBC