Part XIV: The Easy Part
Alex's reaction was as predictable as it was amusing. Lena chuckled a little as she nodded. But then she said, "If you're worried about me knowing that because of my family… look into my eyes." Alex's expression went from fight-worthy to confused. But she indulged the Luthor's request. "I would rip into my own chest, and burst my heart between my fingers before allowing Kara to come to real harm when I could've prevented it. I know that sounds cliché, but I'm going to reveal something to you. Something that makes you part of a very exclusive club: the club of people who know what I am. And it's probably much smaller than the group of super friends and company who know Kara is the Woman of Steel."
For all of Alex's ability to take the curveballs that life tended to throw at her, this conversation was rapidly exceeding all expectations of oddness. But that didn't mean Alex was taking it lightly. She recognized Lena's expression as the same one that she herself wore when telling Kara about her sexuality, all those months ago.
"Lena, what are you talking about? And should Kara know first?" Alex asked with her undivided attention on Lena's very wide eyes. As if she couldn't believe the conversation was going either. Yeah, Lena was about to make a coming out speech of some sort, and Alex knew there was nothing she could say to stop her at this point.
"I told her some of it. The easy part," Lena said carefully. "And then I hinted at the not easy part, and…she burst into tears." Lena stopped at Alex's frown. "I don't know why."
Seeing no deception in Lena's words, Alex thought for a few moments before venturing, "Why don't you tell me what you told her, and maybe I can offer some insight."
Lena nodded. She looked down and said, "It's easier if I show you." In a movement faster than Alex's eye could track, Lena swiped the side-arm hanging on Alex's belt: an alien gun, capable of even knocking Kara or Superman out of the air in one shot. No permanent harm, but certainly not nothing.
Alex started, but Lena fixed her with an eye-rolling smirk, "Come now Alex, do you think your sister would let me leave the building alive if I lay a finger on you?"
Alex replied with more than a little trepidation, "I don't know. I don't think she'd do that, to you, no matter what." Lena's smirk disappeared.
"What do you mean?" Lena asked with genuine confusion, the gun limp in her hand, forgotten, the momentary tension between them gone.
Alex looked at her in a way Lena hadn't seen in a long time. A look that perfectly communicated: you're just not very smart are you?
Lena's confusion grew at the look Alex was giving her. She knows something I don't.
"You were gonna show me something?" Alex asked, with a slightly amused expression at Lena's cluelessness about how deep Kara's feelings went for her.
Lena sobered up, and did a three-sixty, confirming there were no cameras or people nearby enough to witness. She took a deep breath, and then very quickly turned the gun into the skin just under her collarbone and pulled the trigger at maximum setting.
A blue flash illuminated the corridor, Alex let out a gasp of surprise and concern. The weapon's report was muted, since the barrel was pressed into Lena's skin, and therefore not many sound waves escaped her flawless skin.
Alex's eyes grew very wide. Hold the fuck up, she's got flawless skin after a not at all nerfed shot from this thing? Even Kara can't tank a direct hit like that. With the barrel still smoking from the plasma emission, Lena lazily handed the little plasma cannon back to Alex Danvers.
Sensing a movement beyond the doors, Lena focused her vision through the surgery doors, something she resisted doing until now, and saw Dr. Shirai and a taller Asian woman a couple steps behind her. Both wore the same expression Lena associated with a far too long but productive day of work. Lena's attention was drawn back to Alex as she opened her mouth a couple times before managing, "How was that the 'easy part'?"