Hey all, so I have had literally the worst craziest and most unbelievable week in a long time this week, but you know what made it that little bit more bearable? Your amazing responses to last weeks chapter! seriously thank you so much to all who read it and those who reviewed too.
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Night Flare: thank you for your review... yes sorry about that ending... it was mean wasn't it? Poor Kara, you are right, she needs her Lena! Yes on the show I always felt like they began building something great with Lucy being in the Superfriends then she just vanished and I hated that. So I wanted to build on that more and bring her back into the fold in a way that I felt would believable to the person she is- she always seemed very loyal, so I hope that is coming across well! Hope you like this next chapter, let me know what you make of it!
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FeistyMouse: Hehe, sorry! though kinda not- love it when you react like this... so was it as bad as I told you? Yeah Maggie has been looking out for Lena a lot, lets hope she will realise that and not just smack her one for the little Luthor comment... Oh I can tell you Dan-El will not be happy, neither will Lillian- but you will have to wait and see about what they do about it! Welcome to my favorite chapter! I can't wait to see what you make of it, its a bit different! Let me know what you think!
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AN: So- this one is my absolute favorite chapter that I have written for this story. Its very different and a little confusing in places but I find it adds to it, that's all I'm gunna say other than enjoy it and please let me know what you think!
Thank you to my amazing beta Jango27 for all your hard work on this long chapter again!
Warnings: Violence, references of child abuse and torture.
Reader info: This chapter has flashbacks in, flashbacks are speech that is being heard from elsewhere are all written in italics.
Chapter Twenty-One
"I don't know if you can hear me…"
"….if you can, then I need you to wake up…"
She was swimming again, floating.
Floating and swimming in a sea of white fog that seemed to go on for miles.
It was all she could see, she could hear the waves carrying her and the voices still trying to call out to her, but she couldn't respond- no matter how hard she tried.
"Alex said you rocked up in there all badass, with your gun out and telling everyone to get away from your girl-"
"You just had to do one better didn't you? Always a Luthor…"
She recognised that voice, and the person they spoke about.
It was familiar, almost comforting in a way. She wanted to reach out towards it and grasp it tightly. She wanted to use it to bring herself back out of the fog.
She couldn't.
Her hands, her arms- her whole body, felt like a dead weight.
Unyielding and unmoving.
"Maybe her Luthor genes are rubbing off on me,"
She felt her heart constrict at that.
The name and the tag it brought with it.
Luthor- she wondered if that would be the new way people said evil in decades to come.
She had been trying to make people see that she was just Lena.
Not a Luthor, but Lena.
"…you should call her little Luthor, she'll wake up just to smack you for it,"
She wanted to laugh at that, whoever said that knew her well. She would smack them for it.
One thing confused her though, what did they mean by wake up?
She had heard it before- couldn't they see she was already awake?
Her eyes were open- granted all she could see was this fog everywhere- but she was awake.
So why would she have to wake up?
Something in the distance caught her attention, her eyes moved far to the side to look. Far off in the distance was a white glow, a white glow that was getting bigger by the second. It was taking over the sky, and it was coming towards where she was fast.
It kept coming closer and closer until that was all she could see.
The fog was gone and had been replaced with a bright blinding white glow, so bright it caused her to close her eyes and welcome the darkness that the action bought.
She stayed like that for some time, floating in darkness now, until a noise caught her attention. As she strained her ears to listen more closely it sounded like birds.
Birds singing and chirping.
Slowly, as she peeked open her eyes, the brightness hitting her face caused her to lift her hand to shield herself. She paused for a moment and stared at her hand.
Her hand that she had just moved when only moments before she couldn't.
Moving it again, she brought it in front of her face and twirled it around. Yes- she was definitely moving her hand.
Slowly she sat up, her body complying this time and allowing her to do so as she looked around the room she was in. She recognised it instantly. It was her bedroom- her bedroom with the purple comforter and purple pillows. Her bedroom with the large balcony doors that were letting lots of sunlight shine in through the room and lighting it up brightly. Her bedroom that had small neat, yet messy piles of clothes on a chair to the side.
Looking at the clothes more closely, Lena frowned after noticing they were too small for her before her eyes widened in realisation as she remembered something important.
"Kara?!" she called out in panic, jumping up from the bed.
They were Kara's clothes, Kara's now smaller clothes- as Kara herself was now smaller. Her girlfriend had been turned into a child and been stuck that way since that incident. Though as Lena made her way into the hallway she had a feeling in the back of her mind that was telling her that this didn't seem right.
Something seemed off right now.
Her home was too quiet, where were Alex, Maggie and Eliza who had been staying with her?
Where was Kara?
Picking up her pace Lena walked faster making her way into the living room quickly and pausing at the door as she took in the sight before her. Kara was sat on the floor, drawing on some paper, it seemed, on her coffee table. Kara hadn't seemed to notice her yet- which was strange. Kara always seemed to just know when she entered a room. She would look up and give her that shy smile or would come over to greet her with a kiss or a massive hug while she was her childlike version as she was right now.
However currently she still seemed engrossed in her drawing.
Frowning Lena walked closer, her instincts telling her something was wrong, making her want to be closer to her girlfriend to protect her while she was vulnerable.
As she moved closer she noticed the room was getting brighter- almost whiter again.
Reaching the coffee table, she knelt next to her childlike girlfriend, placing a hand gently on the girls back. "Hey, darling," Lena greeted, "what are you doing out here on your own? Where is everyone?" she asked.
Kara shrugged, "I was waiting for you to be ready, you're the only one here Lena," Kara responded, still drawing.
Lena's frown deepened.
Kara seemed different. Looking at her closely it was almost as though she was slightly blurry, as was the whole room they were in. The feeling of something not being right was getting stronger as was the brightness around them.
"What are you drawing?" Lena asked, looking over Kara's shoulder to get a better view. As she looked at the image, something about it seemed familiar.
Suddenly Kara's head snapped up and she looked towards Lena for the first time since she had entered the room. Striking blue eyes met emerald and appeared to be staring into the bottom of her soul with an intensity that was much stronger than usual from Kara.
The room grew brighter still around them as they starred into each other's eyes until finally Kara answered. "I'm connecting the dots- can you help me?" Kara asked as bright white light flashed throughout the room at the same time as she spoke causing Lena to shut her eyes tightly and pull her girlfriend into her arms as though trying to shield her from the light itself.
Opening her eyes again a moment later she could see instantly that something was different.
For starters the bright white light was gone again- which she was very happy about. Though as Lena took in her surroundings she realised she wasn't in her home anymore, Kara wasn't with her either which worried her.
She was standing now- not kneeling like she had been before. She was standing alone in a large bunker- a bunker filled with machines, bikes, cars and all sorts of equipment. The bunker seemed familiar she knew she had seen it before somewhere.
A noise caught her attention.
It was loud and sounded as though someone had just crashed through the roof, as she looked to where the sound had come from she could see Supergirl- she could see her Kara, her girlfriend.
"Kara!" she called out happily.
Almost at the same time as a voice behind her said, 'Supergirl! I can't believe you're here,'.
The voice caused her eyes to widen, they only widened more when she saw herself, her mother, Metallo and the real Hank Henshaw stand in front of her, having walked through her almost as though she was a ghost. It was then she realised where she was- this was one of Lex's war bunkers.
The same bunker that she had been forced to open so her mother could access its contents.
The same bunker that Supergirl saved her from.
This was the day that Lena knew for certain that Kara Danvers and Supergirl were the same person. This was also the day she understood why her best friend couldn't tell her yet and the day she realised she was okay with that. She was okay with waiting until Kara was ready for her to know.
"Kara Danvers believes in you," Supergirl responded, as Lena, Lillian, Metallo and Hank Henshaw walked up to her.
Lillian smirked, "Supergirl, you're just in time," she responded, lifting her one arm, "I've been wondering if these worked," she continued, activating a small device in her hand which beeped before she threw it at Supergirl.
Supergirl caught the device effortlessly before turning back to face them, she was about to speak before she started to cry out in pain clutching her ears and dropping the now vibrating device to the floor as she fell to her knees, eyes shut tightly. Lillian's smirk only grew before she and Metallo advanced on Supergirl again.
"Well," Lillian said, "that was easy," she continued sounding impressed yet almost disappointed as Supergirl lifted her head slightly to look towards her. "Wanna try more of these toys?" Lillian asked further with a smile on her face as she turned around to face Lena, almost goadingly.
"Don't hurt her!" Lena yelled out quickly, moving to run towards Supergirl but being caught by Hank Henshaw and held tightly keeping her back.
Lillian turned back towards Supergirl. "Sorry- she's got to pay for what her cousin did to your brother," Lillian responded. Supergirl cried out in pain again as Metallo came closer and grabbed her while Lillian turned back to face Lena who was still struggling against Hank. Lillian nodded her head to the side, signalling for Hank to throw Lena to the floor and for Metallo to haul Supergirl up.
As Hank threw Lena to the ground she hit her head hard causing her to fall unconscious as Supergirl was dragged away. "Lock Supergirl in the vault," Lillian ordered.
The scene froze.
It completely froze in place, with Supergirl still being in mid step.
Lena looked around herself in confusion, she could see herself on the floor unmoving. She could see Lillian with that evil looking smile on her face unmoving. Supergirl was stuck in Metallo and Hank's grip also unmoving.
"It was an important day wasn't it?" Kara's voice asked, breaking the silence of the bunker.
Lena looked around confused- the voice sounded close by, but she couldn't see Kara anywhere, as she looked back to the frozen scene before her she could see that Supergirl was unfrozen and had moved herself out of her captor's grip.
Lena watched as Supergirl came to stand in front of her, "I don't understand," she said, speaking more to herself than to Supergirl.
Supergirl smiled, before swirling in a circle in front of her, creating a gust of wind. As the wind died down she was not stood in front of her as Supergirl anymore- she was now Kara Danvers. "This may help make things easier for you," Kara said.
Lena only looked even more confused, looking from Kara back to the frozen image behind her.
"That was your memory of that day," Kara explained, "It froze because that is all you saw, it's all you remember. You were told what happened after by Kara… first she lied to you…then she told the real truth of how she almost died trying to save you, and would do so again if she had too."
Lena's eye snapped back to Kara's. "She?" Lena asked, "don't you mean you?"
"No, I mean she," Kara responds, "I'm not Kara, not really- I may look like her- but I am you," she continued. "I'm those inner thoughts you have every day, the little voice inside your head that you ask all those questions too," she explained, walking closer to Lena and tapping her forehead as she spoke. "The voice you ask; am I doing enough? Is there such a thing as a 'good Luthor'? Am I good enough for her?" Kara says pointing to herself. "Am I too much like her?" she asks further pointing to the froze image of Lillian Luthor. "Am I gunna go mad like Lex did?"
Lena laughed in response, snorting at the ridiculousness of it all. "Well they say talking to yourself is a sign of madness, so I would say I have already," she quipped, answering the last question.
"We are nothing like them, you know that- sometimes you just need some help remembering," Kara responded stepping around Lena to look off into the distance. "We have to go, there's still a lot to see and not a lot of time."
Lena looked back to the frozen image one last time before turning and following Kara. "Why isn't there much time? What do we need to see?" she asked confused.
Nothing was making sense.
"You already know why, you've just forgotten," Kara said she turned back to look at Lena, "Your mind is jumbled and confused right now- it's taken a hard knock so really it's not surprising- but you need to reconnect the dots and remember what is important to you. Not everything you see is going to be real- you will need to figure out what is truth and what is fabricated. Only then will you be ready."
"Why?" Lena asked, standing still. "Why am I seeing you? If you are really me why do you look like Kara?" she continued, crossing her arms.
Kara smiled, taking a step back towards Lena. "Because we know that we trust Kara more than we trust ourselves at times," she replied, holding a hand out towards Lena, "let me guide you back. Trust me."
Taking a deep breath Lena looked into Kara's eyes that looked the same impossible shade of blue they normally did. She knew this wasn't Kara- not really. She had known that the moment she saw her. There was something different, something disconnected. Kara seemed to have that blur to her like her younger self did earlier.
Even though she knew it wasn't Kara, she felt a connection and trust still there.
Taking a step forward Lena held her hand out and grasped Kara's tightly. As their hands connected another white flash filled the room causing her eyes to shut tightly once again.
"Lena- Lena wake up! Lena!" someone was yelling above her, shaking her gently. "Open your eyes Lee please," they begged, sounding close to tears.
As her eyes slowly blinked open she could see Kara above her, a scared frantic look in her eyes that soon turned to relief as she saw that Lena had woken up. "Thank Rao," Kara breathed out causing Lena to frown. "- you fell hard- I couldn't get to you in time… I had to take care of him," Kara said, motioning to the side where there was the Kryptonian that barged into the room cuffed against the wall, "he won't be waking up anytime soon, I disabled the suit- I think he was from my aunt's army- I knocked him out and cuffed him- there was some Kryptonite cuffs in the trolley- I used those, it should keep him down," she continued, rambling on nervously.
This seemed familiar, it was almost as though she had seen in before.
Taking in her surroundings she realised she had.
She was in the DEO's medical bay, Kara was kneeling on the floor next to her in a hospital robe. She still had small amounts of bruising left on her cheek that hadn't healed right when they changed her back in to an adult. Something had gone wrong, something had caused Kara a lot of pain making her powers become out of control and causing her to pass out.
"You're awake," Lena muttered out in confusion as Kara helped her carefully sit up before pulling her into a side hug. Lena melted into the embrace noticing that this time there wasn't a blur like quality to Kara or to her surroundings.
She felt Kara hug her tighter and breathe deeply for a moment, "Yeah- I, when I woke up he had his hand around your throat and I just reacted… are you okay?" Kara asked, pulling back to look her over more intensely.
"I think so… are you? Your powers, they were out of control. What happened?" Lena asked, the question coming out easily and yet seeming familiar.
Almost as though she had asked it before.
Kara didn't respond right away, she looked towards the door before turning back to Lena, "I'm not sure," she responded. "All these- memories? I guess? They just started flashing in my mind and it hurt- it hurt so badly. There was this pressure that kept building and I couldn't stop it, Lee! I didn't mean to do what I did! I didn't hurt you, did I? Oh, Rao please tell I didn't… or the others… Where are they? I can see Winn and Eliza, but where's Maggie? Where's Alex?" she continued, rambling as she became anxious, looking back and forth from the door to Lena.
"What's going on out there?" Kara asked after a moment.
Lena sighed, using one hand to hold under Kara's chin, guiding her head back to face her before answering. "There was an army of what Alex thought was Kryptonians above us- she put the DEO into lockdown, but it sounded like they broke their way through. Maggie went to help."
"I have to help them- they won't stand a chance," Kara said moving to stand from the floor causing Lena to grab her arm and pull her back down.
Lena shook her head, "Kara no, look- I can't stop you from going but please think this through- you won't stand a chance either if your powers are not fully back," she said desperately trying to make Kara see sense.
Kara looked back to the door again, "Alex is in trouble though- I can hear it," she said turning back to Lena again, "I have to help her, she needed me to be strong, but I need you to believe in me. My strength comes from you and my family here on earth."
"I always believe in you, darling," Lena replied instantly, lifting a hand to cup Kara's cheek softly, "I just can't stand the thought of you getting hurt again," she continued, thumb lightly stroking the fading bruising.
Kara smiled lightly, leaning forward to rest her forehead against Lena's before pressing a soft kiss to her lips, "I've missed being able to do that," she commented.
Lena smiled before giving her girlfriend another quick kiss. "When you come back to me safely we can do this as much as you want," Lena responded, quickly pressing one last kiss to Kara's lips before pulling back. "Go get them, Supergirl."
Kara nodded lightly, breathing deeply before standing and walking to one side of the room where there was a cabinet with DEO issued clothes inside. Twirling and making a small gust of wind, that wasn't as quick or as much as she would usually be able to produce, she changed quickly into a pair of DEO grey sweatpants and a t-shirt.
"Not quite Supergirl yet," Kara commented, looking down at her attire.
Lena smiled as she climbed to her feet, using the bed to support herself before sitting on it and picking the gun up she had dropped to the floor. "It does seem more Kara Danvers than Supergirl style- but that is good thing, Kara Danvers is just as much a hero as Supergirl is," Lena said, placing the gun down on the bed next to her. "She's my hero."
"Lena Luthor- you, are my hero," Kara replied with a small smile as she moved towards the door walking backwards, "I love you- please stay safe?" she asked with a hand on the door handle.
"I love you too- but if you are not back in two minutes I am coming after you and that is a promise." Lena replied sternly leaving no room for arguments.
Kara only nodded in response before slipping out of the room.
Only moments after Kara had left Lena could hear crying. As she looked around the room for the source of the crying she could see that the room had an almost blur like quality again, making her wonder if this is what that other Kara had meant when she said some of things she was going to see wouldn't be real. Some would be fabricated.
What she had just seen seemed very real and had a real like quality to its look, but now the sounds she could hear came across almost distorted and the room itself had a glow to it.
Stepping down from the bed Lena made her way over to the door, as she did she could hear the crying getting louder, it was sounding almost like wailing between squeals and shrieks. As she opened the door and stepped out into the hallway she could hear loud smacks and loud shouting as well as the cries and squeals. The sounds were making her blood run cold as they sounded a lot like the description of something that had happened to little Kara. Something that made her want to protect her previously smaller girlfriend.
Following the sounds, she found herself outside another medical bay room. As she looked inside she could see Jeremiah holding her very childlike girlfriend's arm in a harsh grip as he brought a belt down on her backside repeatedly causing her to cry and shriek.
This wasn't her memory though.
She hadn't seen this- only the aftermath of it, so why was she seeing it now?
Why was she reliving something that she didn't witness or have a part in? Was this part of the fabrication Kara had been talking of?
As her mind tried to make sense of what she was seeing she winced. What was happening to Kara in her smaller body looked and sounded vicious- just like it had when Maggie had told her about it.
Lena frowned, finding herself growing angry.
She couldn't- no, she wouldn't- watch this and do nothing. Even though in the back of her mind she could sense this wasn't real and wasn't really happening right now she couldn't stop the instinct to protect her girlfriend from kicking in. Pushing her way through the open door she strode up to Jeremiah and Kara. She quickly took a hold of Kara's shoulder, pulling her back out of Jeremiah's reach and wrapping her arms around the little blonde, shielding her from being hit by the belt again with her own body.
Lena closed her eyes tightly expecting to the feel the pain of the belt hitting her own body.
Instead she felt nothing.
Opening her eyes, she let go of Kara and turned to look behind herself only to find that Jeremiah was gone. He was not anywhere in sight- yet Kara was still sobbing loudly as she stood next to her.
Turning back to Kara again Lena could see the little girls face was red and wet with tears as more continued to fall down her cheeks. Kara was trembling where she stood with her one arm hugging the other to her chest. While looking at Kara she knew this wasn't real, even though she could touch her and feel she knew that this must be a fabrication. Lena sighed, quickly pulling the still sobbing child back into her arms. The girl was still Kara, and Lena wasn't going to ignore the fact that she was terrified and hurting right now- even if what she was seeing wasn't real at this moment in time.
"I've got you darling, it's alright. No more now, no more pain, I promise," Lena soothed, wrapping her arms tightly around Kara she began to rub one hand up and down her back gently, while using her other hand to softly stroke the little blonde's jegging covered bottom and the backs of her thighs. "Hey, I'm not going anywhere. It's alright, you're safe now. Just let it all out," Lena assured after feeling Kara nuzzle closer into her chest desperately as though she was trying to hide away.
They stayed like this for some time, Lena pressing small kisses into Kara's messy blonde hair with whispered assurances, while doing so she realised this was the same way she had comforted Kara in the medical bay shortly before they had turned her back to her right age and size.
Noticing how after a while Kara's cries had quietened some, Lena pulled back releasing the little blonde from her hold. "Let's get you out of here," she said, using her thumb to wipe away the tear streaks from Kara's cheeks only for them to be remade as more tears continued to fall even if Kara wasn't crying as loudly anymore. Smiling softly, Lena moved to stand before bending down slightly again and lifting Kara up into her arms. "You're okay, I've got you," she soothed settling the little blonde against her side. She winced slightly when Kara whimpered as she pressed against her bottom a little too hard. Readjusting her hold on Kara she pressed a kiss to little blonde's head as they made their way out of the room.
Stepping out the door Lena had expected to see the DEO's walls and hallways again but instead she was met with a different sight.
The room they now stood in was much darker than the room they had been in before. It was dark with a green glow to it that helped light up the walls a small amount allowing Lena to see a symbol.
A symbol that was repeated on every wall in the room she could see.
A symbol that see had seen before.
It was the symbol that had been on Kara's cheek after the events that happened at the superstore. The same symbol that she had drawn as a child when she had first arrived on earth and the same symbol that she had described from her nightmares. In fact, as Lena looked around the room more closely, her eyes now adjusting to the limited light, she realised that this room looked entirely like the room Kara had described from her nightmares. Machines filled the room, as did large containers filled with yellow liquid. The room had utensils lined up with green glows to them, vials were on one side of the room with different coloured liquids in.
Lena could hear whimpering, and as she looked down she knew it wasn't little Kara.
Even though Kara was still shaking, she had now stopped crying and whimpering as she hid away in the crook of Lena's neck clutching at her tightly with one arm. Pressing another kiss to little Kara's hair, Lena patted her back softly while following the whimpering sounds she could hear around to the one far corner of the room.
As she got closer Lena could see a bed in the corner.
Making her way towards the bed Lena froze when she could see who was on it, looking at the bed with wide unbelieving eyes. Looking down to the child in her arms she pulled the girl closer before looking back to the bed again to make sure what she was seeing was correct.
It was- Kara was on the bed. She was back to her normal size and age from what Lena could see. She was strapped down to the bed with green glowing cuffs and she was bleeding and whimpering. She was hurt badly from the looks of it.
But how was she here? How could both she and little Kara be here at the same time?
Another whimper caused Lena to unfreeze and rush over to the bed with the intentions of setting Kara free, however when she tried to undo the strap on one of Kara's arms she found her hand went right through it and Kara.
"What the-"
"She's not here- not really," Kara's voice sounded from across the room, causing Lena to look up in surprise. As Lena looked up she could see the Kara from before who told her she was here to guide her sitting on a table with her back to the wall, her legs swinging in the air.
Looking back down to Kara who was strapped down to the table she sighed looking sad. "We need to help her, I can't leave here like this." Lena said holding back tears.
"We can't," Kara replied softly, "she's not really here," she repeated. "Neither is little Kara- they're in your mind. You fabricated them both, but I think you already knew that."
Lena scoffed tightening her hold on the child in her arms again. "If she is not real then why can I feel her? How can I be holding her right now?" she asked in disbelief.
"You wanted to protect her. We always want to protect her. When you feel that strongly about something- about someone- it can make them seem real when they are not." Kara answered. "Your need to keep her safe allows you to make the fabrication life like- but it won't last long," she finished just before little Kara and the Kara on the bed faded away, vanishing from the room. "Your mind weakens the longer you hold onto these fabrications, you need to let them go or you will never connect the dots."
Looking around the room Lena shook her head and huffed in frustration. "You're making it sound as though I'm wishing to see these things. Why would I wish to see my girlfriend beaten as a child or hurt and strapped to a bed while weak and defenceless. I wouldn't wish that on anybody- let alone yo-her!" Lena yelled, becoming angry with the situation.
It made no sense to her and that was something she was not happy about. She spent her life making things make sense through science and reason and to now be stuck in a constant string of confused memories and scenarios was making her feel like she was losing her mind.
"I never said you wished for this," Kara responded, moving her arms to motion around the room, "but we fear it. It's why we told Kara she had two minutes before we would come and find her. We were scared something bad would happen to her."
Sighing, Lena made her way over to the table Kara was still sat on, "And did it? Did something bad happen?" Lena asked.
"I know just as much as you do." Kara said with a chuckle. "This is your mind, I'm just along for the ride and to point you in the right direction."
"That just sounds like a clever way to avoid answering the question," Lena pointed out, raising an eyebrow in suspicion.
Kara laughed, jumping down from the table to stand next to Lena. "Well, we are very clever," she admitted. "You know everything you need to already- you just need to remember it." Kara continued, holding a hand out, "I can help you with that."
Looking down at the offered hand Lena nodded and took it as she heard a yell in the distance that sounded oddly familiar.
"NO!"
"Lena look out!"
All she could see was a blinding whiteness once again causing her to close her eyes as a loud bang sounded in the distance. As Lena opened her eyes again she looked around noticing they were now in her L-Corp office, she also noticed that Kara was still standing next to her holding her hand.
"This is one of our favourite memories, it shouldn't be because we were hurt- but it is because we also gained something that day. We also started to realise something that day," Kara said, looking to the scene in front of them with a smile.
Lena turned to look at the scene as well, remembering it instantly and knew that Kara- that she- was right. While this wasn't a happy memory and she had lost a part of herself that day- she'd found another, and it had opened new doors regarding her growing friendship with Kara at the time. The day Supergirl told her that Kara Danvers believes in her was the day that Lena knew for certain who her friend was. That was the day that she stopped feeling angry that her new friend was possibly lying to her and accepted that there was probably a good reason Kara hadn't come clean.
This day though, was the day that the lies stopped, the day both she and Kara decided to truly trust each other with everything.
Lena was sat on the couch while Kara sat next to her. On the desk in front of them there was a vase of flowers that were beautiful, she had just been speaking about how her mother had reacted when Lex had been taken away and put in prison. "-That's how I feel. Cold, and calm… until I think about Beth dying in jail and then I feel warm for a minute."
"You're in shock, Lena," Kara responded, maintaining eye contact.
"No," Lena said shaking her head. "Loss does strange things to my family, and I've lost a lot of people," she continued, eyes watering.
Kara shook her head, looking Lena in the eyes again. "Well you're not gunna lose me," she assured.
"I think when I feel things again," Lena began before pausing to collect herself, "I'm going to be very, very afraid," she continued before pausing again, "about the person I might be."
Kara looked at her for a moment before shifting on the couch, moving closer to sit right by Lena's side. She wrapped an arm around the back of her best friend's neck in a loose embrace. "You don't have to be afraid," Kara said softly as Lena rested her head on the blonde's shoulder, lifting her own hand to hold onto Kara's. "I'm right here," Kara continued, using her spare hand to pat and rub at Lena shoulder that's closest to her, "and I'm not going anywhere," she finished, shaking her head again.
Lena lets out a watery single laugh in response, "Promise?" she asked.
Kara moved closer, resting the side of her cheek against Lena's forehead, "I will always be your friend…and I will always protect you. I promise."
They were quiet for a moment, as Lena tried to work through how she was feeling in her mind and Kara held her together, protecting her from her own thoughts- just like she had promised.
"The promise I just made- that will never change, I need you to know that," Kara spoke again after a silence, feeling Lena nod against her she continued, "and I need to tell you something- about me." she continued, breathing deeply before pulling away slightly to sit next to her best friend as Lena watched her with a questioning look on her face.
Kara looked at Lena for a moment before taking another deep breath as she slowly pulled her red and black stripped sweater up, pulling the item of clothing over her head and setting it down on the couch next to her. She didn't look to Lena yet, instead she took her glasses off, and let her hair down.
She gulped before looking up to Lena, hair down, bright blue eyes on full show and her Supergirl suit covering the top half of her body, "I'm her, Supergi-"
"-I already knew," Lena interrupted, placing a hand gently upon the symbol on Kara's chest causing a blush to appear on the blonde's cheeks.
Kara sighed, looking down, "I kind of half expected that you might," she admitted before looking up again. "I'm sorry," she continued, "for not telling you sooner- it's not because you're a Luthor, or I didn't trust you, or anything like that," Kara said quickly, beginning to ramble nervously. "It was just you saw me as Kara, and I liked that. When people know, all they see is this," she continued pointing to the symbol on her chest, blushing again as she realised Lena's hand was still gently tracing the symbol. "They don't see Kara- not the way you do, or you did. You said Kara Danvers was your hero and I loved you for that! I loved that you thought that about me and that you didn't need me to have powers or anything like that. I didn't want you to see me differently," Kara said, hanging her head in shame.
"Kara-" Lena began only to be cut off.
"-and then I was scared you would be angry with me, and I guess I still am 'cos you're not saying much and- oh Rao you are, aren't you?"
"Kara," Lena tried again, only to be cut off once again.
"You probably hate me right now and want me to leave but you can't say so, because you just said you are worried about when you feel again,"
"Kara I'm-"
"which I guess means you have kind of numbed yourself right now and-"
"KARA!" Lena said louder, this time managing to stop Kara mid word and mouth open, the sight making Lena chuckle softly, "It's okay. I'm not mad," she assured after realising she had the blonde's attention.
Kara closed her mouth not responding at first, she still looked worried. "It's okay?" she asked, sounding unsure.
Lena nodded in response, her hand dropping from Kara's chest now.
"You're not angry?" Kara asked further, still sounding unsure.
"I'm not angry," Lena repeated. "If anything, I'm relived there are no more secrets between us. I know, and you know that I know… I'm happy you told me, that you trust me. It means a lot to me- even if I can't show it right now."
Kara moved her hand as though to fiddle with her glasses, before pulling back to tug at her sleeve nervously instead once realising she wasn't wearing the glasses causing Lena to smile at the action. "As happy as I am though, you should probably redress- just in case anyone comes in," Lena said.
"Right, yes, good point," Kara said, using her super-speed to quickly redress. After finishing, she turned back to Lena to see her watching her in awe, a thoughtful expression on her face, "Sorry," she mumbled self-consciously.
Lena shook her head slightly, "Don't be," she said. "It's just- my gala makes a lot more sense now." Lena continued as Kara blushed bright red, fiddling with her glasses for real this time.
As they watched the memory play out Lena couldn't help the large smile that crept onto her face seeing Kara so flustered and nervous around her. It had taken Kara a long time to get used to Lena's teasing- still till this day Lena could render her girlfriend a blushing stuttering mess at times.
"It's cute, how nervous she was around us in the early days, isn't it?" Kara asked from beside her. "It's endearing but was also worrying back then- how quick she would think we were angry with her."
Lena laughed. "The first time we kissed she thought I was going to sue her, she didn't even register that I was the one that kissed her- she was so scared."
Kara smiled. "It's good you're remembering," she commented. "It means you are starting to connect the memories again. You need to keep remembering all the little details…. why was she scared? How did we make it better? What did she say? That's why this memory important, this is when we first knew that we could like Kara as more than a friend, and this is when she learnt she didn't have to be afraid of us."
"It's not good, and I think you probably know that. I'm still not sure if you can hear me, but if you can, you need to know this… It's been days now and the longer it takes for you to wake up the less chance there is for you to still be you..."
"That's Maggie," Kara says in response to Lena's look of confusion. "She talks to us most days, tells us things that have been going on and keeps us in the loop even though we aren't there right now."
Lena looked around the room searching, trying to see where Maggie was but cannot see her anywhere in the room. "Where is she? Why can't I respond?" Lena asked in concern.
"You need to remember, you'll know in time," Kara assured. "Come on, we should keep moving," she continued, offering a hand to Lena once again.
Lena eyed the offered hand wearily. "Will that flash happen again when I take your hand?" she asked.
"See, I told you we were clever!" Kara replied with a smile. "If it helps you can close your eyes first- that way you won't see it."
Huffing in frustration, Lena closed her eyes and blindly took the offered hand, keeping her eyes closed the entire time and not opening them again until she heard a soft chuckle to the side of her.
Peeking one eye open, she could see they were back in her home, in the living room. She could hear music playing from the kitchen. Looking to Kara, she could see her indicate to go and take a look and slowly, Lena made her way over to the kitchen doorway and looked inside.
Lena stood in the kitchen by the stove cooking bacon. Kara was behind her, holding her from behind and swaying them both softly as the song 'One Day Like This' by Elbow was playing quietly from the radio.
Out of the corner of her eye she could see Kara was now stood next to her as they watched the scene play out in front of them, "This was the most relaxed she had been since Psi," Lena said not taking her eyes of the peacefulness of the scene. "It was the first night she hadn't woken up screaming in a week and the first time she willingly ate without having to be asked first… she wasn't okay, but she was getting there."
"Until Morgan Edge came along," Kara continued for her, making a shot like sound and a gun shape with her hands.
Lena was about to reply when she suddenly felt a small body collide with her legs and grip on tightly cuddling into her, "I thought you said she's not really here?" Lena asked in confusion.
"She isn't- but maybe just humour the kid and give her a hug, you know it's what she wants. We like looking after her, we're good at it," Kara responded before turning to look at the scene playing out in front of them again.
Kara had just stolen Lena's spatula and was now using it sing along while Lena laughed at her girlfriend's antics shaking her head.
Meanwhile Lena bent down to pick little Kara up into her arms, settling the little blonde against her side, she swayed her while rubbing her back softly. "I like this one the best- we were happy here," Lena commented after a moment, turning to watch the memory again.
"You should go closer and listen- really listen," Kara says pushing Lena forwards slightly with a hand on her back. As Lena stepped closer see tightened her hold on little Kara, dropping a kiss to her hairline before watching the memory play out in front of her.
Turning off the heat to the stove Lena pushed the pan with the bacon in to the back away from the hot hob to let it cool slightly now it had finished cooking. She placed the spatula she had wrestled back off Kara on the side and turned to face a pouting Kara.
Stepping closer to her girlfriend, she brought the reporter into her arms and swayed her in time to the music slowly, making the pout slip from her face and turn into a look of content as Kara relaxed into in Lena's hold.
Turning her head slightly Kara nuzzled her face into Lena's neck, breathing in deeply.
"You seem more yourself again today," Lena said softly after some time, still swaying Kara in her arms as she rested her chin on Kara's shoulder.
Kara hummed in response, melting further into the embrace. "They weren't as bad last night, I actually got some sleep… I always sleep better when I stay with you, you help my mind relax," Kara mumbled into Lena's neck.
"That's good- you needed to. Even the Girl of Steel needs to rest," Lena joked, slipping a hand underneath Kara's sleep shirt to lightly scratch her girlfriend's back with her nails.
Lena smiled as she felt Kara go limp in her arms letting out a happy sigh. "You still should have woken me though… I take it you did have at least one dream?" she asked, getting a nod in response. "I promise I'll try and be home in the evenings more often than I have been… things will settle down again after Sam starts...but you still need to wake me if you have the dreams again- I don't want you to have to get to the state you were in on Wednesday ever again just because you didn't want to wake me up," she finished.
As Lena watched the memory, she found her mind thinking back to that Wednesday. It had been a bad day, a really bad day. The dreams had been building throughout the week and Kara had been struggling with them. When Wednesday hit Kara's body and mind had been unable to take anymore and that was the day that Lena witnessed Kara having a full-blown panic attack and had to try and calm her down the best she could. It took hours, and neither of them managed to get back to sleep again afterwards. It was that night that Lena learnt her girlfriend's dreams were not just about her home exploding but about being stuck in a lab and experimented on. They had stayed up all night talking about the dreams Kara was having, Lena had been exhausted the next day and Kara had felt incredibly guilty.
Feeling little Kara wriggle in her arms, Lena set her down the floor and watched concerned as she ran off back into the living room. "It's alright," Kara told her, "it's just time for her to go soon, keep listening- what she says here is important. It's what we came to see," Kara instructed as Lena turned back to watch the memory play out again.
"I didn't need to- honestly," Kara responded, "You must have felt me wake up because you wrapped your arms around me tighter and I fell straight back to sleep," she continued. "You made me feel safe enough that I didn't need to wake you, I knew you were with me… You make me feel more connected to earth- just by being near you…it makes all the noise in my head stop and makes me stop feeling the world constantly going around… nothing helps me feel more at peace then when I am with you… remembering everything again so vividly scares me, and then those dreams just confuse me as I don't know why I am having them… but when I am with you I can just forget about it all and just be Kara again."
Feeling a hand tug at her pants leg Lena turned away from the memory and looked down to see little Kara at her side again. She was holding a piece of paper in her hands. "For me?" Lena asked. Little Kara nodded in response, holding the paper up higher for Lena to take.
"Thank you for helping me connect the dots again," little Kara said, moving closer to hug Lena's legs before fading away and vanishing.
Lena looked back up to Kara in confusion. "It was her time to leave, she doesn't need to be here anymore- it's almost our time as well," Kara told her.
"I remember this," Lena said looking down at the picture in her hands. The picture showed Lena sleeping on her back, face to the left-hand side, a gentle smile on her face. The picture had been coloured gently, giving Lena's face an almost angelic glow to it. One side of the picture had a bed of water that had the reflection of the moon and starry nights sky in it. "Kara did this on our first proper date, she thought I fell asleep as we were star gazing…I still haven't told her that I was awake the whole time as she sang that song."
Taking a step closer, Kara took the picture from Lena's hand. "She's made us look almost angelic," Kara commented with a smile, "Who would have thought it, eh? An angelic Luthor," she quipped. "They say artists draw things how they interpret them- Kara sees a lot of light in us… she's been drawing a lot recently, since we started dating her… might be interesting to see how she interprets herself- before and after the dreams began," Kara said further, looking up to Lena and offering a small smile, "oh- you may want to close your eyes now."
Lena didn't have time to react, before she could even register the suggestion a bright flash filled the room causing her to lift her arm up to shield her eyes. It wasn't until she heard the steady beeping of a heart monitor that she removed her arm and saw she was back in a room she had already seen before.
She was back in the medical bay at the DEO, Winn was still unconscious on the floor and Eliza on one of the beds hooked up to the medical equipment. A Kryptonian soldier was still restrained with Kryptonite cuffs to the one side of the room near where Lena could see another version of herself clock watching closely, a gun clutched in her hand.
"Lena," she heard being called from outside, moving to the doorway Lena peaked through the closed blinds to see Kara outside leaning against the wall. Turning back to the scene in front of her she knew this was part of her memory from the way the image looked.
It had become easier to see what was real and what was fabrication.
Leaving the real memory, she stepped outside the room to talk with Kara- with herself- who she knew now was also part of the fabrications.
"Whatever is going on in your head right now- you have got to fight it and find your way back… We can't lose you to this, we need you… As selfish as this may seem we need you to help us bring Kara back as I don't think we will be able to without you."
As Lena listened to the voice echoing down the hallway, she came to a realisation- none of this was real right now. In part, even the memories were fabrications of themselves. "I'm not here am I, not really- I'm like you, and little Kara, the Kara we saw in that room… it's all a fabrication isn't it?" Lena asked.
Kara nodded in response, pushing away from the wall to come closer, "Physically we are with Maggie right now- that's why we can hear her talking. Your mind was damaged, and you needed time to real, to re-map, to connect again... You have been on the same loop for days now trying to protect people who aren't here. You needed to let them go so you could see and hear what was real and what wasn't, so you could connect the dots again… Connecting the dots of what really happened that day is the only way to leave."
"What if I don't want to leave? What if I want to stay here? Back in that memory where Kara is happy, where I was happy," Lena said as she looked down the hallway where a shout of 'for Malron' was heard.
Kara smiled sadly. "The flashes are getting longer and brighter, if you stay that will continue- until it's permanent and we will be lost here forever… I think you already know there is a good chance if we become lost, then Kara will too."
Lena took in a deep breath and then shakily exhaled it. "Y-She- won't be there when I wake up, will she?" she asked.
"We already know this too, and we have for a while now," Kara replied with another sad smile, "The image you created in your mind may have been a fabrication, but it is an image we know could be truth somewhere. We know she is in danger, and she needs us- they need us."
"We need you, little Luthor. We're still missing something. Something big- something important."
"…I need you to believe in me. My strength comes from you and my family here on earth."
"…You make me feel more connected to earth- just by being near you…
"Lena Luthor- you, are my hero,"
"Remember Lena- the things she said are important, all of them. Everything regarding her love for you is important as is your love for her," Kara continued before turning to look at the door behind Lena, where Lena's memory is still playing out.
The two minutes were up, standing from the bed Lena clutched the gun tightly and moved to the door. She took a breath before peeking out from the blinds to find the hallway empty. Turning back, she glanced to Winn and Eliza one last time before opening the door and stepping out into the hallway, closing it shut softly behind her.
Lena watched as her memory-self walked past them, carefully down the hallway before turning back to Kara, "Do I follow her- me?" she asked.
"Yes and no, you need to become one with her- connect with her," Kara answered, "if you walk up to your body and touch her, you will become her… Then you just need to let the memory play out- live it and live," she explained turning to watch as Lena's memory-self continued to make her way down the corridor, checking behind herself every often. "You won't remember this- not all of it. The memories will be there, but you won't remember me and the journey we went on… it's probably better that way."
"I'll say- it's less likely I'll go crazy that way," Lena sassed in response.
Kara laughed shaking her head, "True," she agreed, "though I am always with you if you need me- I'll be there to answer all the questions you ask will yourself… guess I'll see you on the flipside," Kara said with a smile before she faded and vanished.
Taking a deep breath Lena rolled her neck from side to side. "Hang on Kara, I'm going for you," she said to herself before making her way down the corridor in search of her memory-self. As she continued to walk she could hear the faint sounds of beeping up ahead and Maggie's voice talking to her once again.
"We need you to wake and help us connect the dots."
She chuckled to herself at that, of course that saying she had heard all throughout this had come from the detective, she should have realised to begin with.
Now she had two things to smack her for when she woke up.
As Lena caught up to her memory-self she took another deep breath before holding a hand out to touch herself on the back. She always thought the saying give yourself a pat on the back was ludicrous, but now physically doing so, it had a whole new meaning to her.
She felt a strange sensation, almost like a pull, and before she knew it she wasn't looking at herself anymore, she was looking through her memories eyes and could see Alex and Maggie laying on the ground. She could see agents wounded and some most probably dead all over the hub. She could see Kara being held down to her knees by a man with a scar on his face and she could see more of the soldiers wearing the same suit as the man cuffed in the medical bay room behind him.
Lena looked down and clicked of the gun's safety lock, taking a step closer into the room. "Let my girlfriend go, now," Lena growled out, eyes hard and angry as she aimed the gun to the back of the scar faced man's head.
"That won't work on me," he replied with a smirk while staring down at Alex, "not while I am wearing this suit," he continued as Lena walked around to face him, still holding the gun out in front of her and aimed towards him. She fired once, quickly, her aim was spot on and she hit the blue Kryptonite on his suit front, that was allowing him to be immune to the effects of the green Kryptonite, shattering it to pieces. Though the bullet didn't hit the scar faced man the effect of the green Kryptonite was instant, and he began to have trouble staying standing.
The soldier to his left stepped forward eyes glowing bright as though he was about to use his heat vision, until the scar faced man held up a hand, "Wait," he commanded, causing the soldier to step back, his eyes returning to normal. "I want to meet my baby sister's girlfriend, I've heard so much about you, Lena Luthor."
Lena's eyes widened at the words just as Alex gasped in surprise.
"Baby sister?" Alex asked, "Kara is your sister?" she asked again incredulously.
He chuckled in response. "Well, if we are being all technical about it, half-sister," he said pulling Kara closer to himself by her neck. "I wouldn't be angry with little sis, she only just remembered herself," he continued squeezing her neck tighter causing Kara to try and cough against his hand.
"Daddy dearest decided to completely erase me from her mind, she's always been a fragile little one," the scar faced man said further, disdain could be heard in his voice.
Lena's eye twitched as she saw the person who was apparently Kara's half-brother squeeze her girlfriend's throat tighter again before she pulled her trigger again aiming a bullet right at his forehead. At the very last second, he ducked, using super-speed, causing the bullet to fly over his head and hit one of his soldier's, whose suit had already been deactivated in the earlier battle, the Kryptonite bullet hitting him in the chest and making him fall to the ground instantly.
"I like your girlfriend, she has spirit," he said as he leaned in closer to Kara whispering in her ear something that Lena couldn't make out.
She didn't need to hear it to know it was bad, Kara's reaction altered her to that.
She saw as her girlfriend's eyes widened in fear and panic while she tried to pull away from his grip and she knew what was coming, she knew this was it. She had heard it before and as much as she wanted to try and control her memory, so she could move out of the way she knew she couldn't. She had to follow the memory and let it play out to wake up.
"NO!" Kara yelled eyes wide, "Lena, look out!" she screamed out at the same time as the scar faced man's eyes turned red and his heat vision shot out shooting into the ceiling.
Then there was darkness.
No white flash, no brightness- not even any pain.
Just black, darkness and a voice calling her name in the distance followed by the steady beeping of medical machines.
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Alex sighed angrily as she looked at the board of information they had made so far. Currently she was in J'onn's office with J'onn, Winn, James and Eliza looking over the notes in agent Tamara Corz's hidden files in more detail. It didn't matter to her how many times they looked over these notes and how much anyone tried to even slightly attempt to justify Tamara's actions.
She was still a traitor, and that made angry- no, livid.
She had trusted Tamara and left her alone with Kara when she had been little and vulnerable.
Though Tamara may not have hurt her little sister physically she did enable others to hurt her, and she did terrorise her little sister's mind when she was already in a fragile place.
Alex knew she shouldn't let her anger get the better of her, but she couldn't help but think it was a good thing that Tamara was already dead- as she had no idea what she would do to her if she had happened to still be alive right now.
She could hear Winn and James talking to her one side and could see J'onn writing more on the board at the front of the room, but she couldn't react to it.
She was stuck in her own mind, going over everything she could think of to do with Tamara and how she interacted with Kara that day. She was beating herself up for not seeing it. For not seeing something was wrong when her friend had been so insistent that she have some time alone in the session with Kara.
Her thoughts were interrupted by a sudden loud crashing noise and shouts coming from in the DEO's barely repaired hub, turning quickly her eyes widened at the sight she could see through the window causing her to stand from her chair.
"Lucy?" James asked in surprise at seeing his ex-girlfriend stood in the DEO's hub.
She looked terrible.
She was covered in dirt, sweat and blood- even though from a first glance she didn't appear to be injured herself. She was wearing a uniform they couldn't recognise and was standing with her back to them as DEO agents were circling around her.
Winn walked closer to the window in confusion as he saw Lucy holding a gun- that she had taken from a DEO agent- out in front of her. "Why is she aiming a gun at Superman?" he asked incredulously as Alex ran out of the room a hand on her own gun but not drawing it yet.
She motioned to the other agents in the room to stand down after seeing that Lucy's hand was shaking. They didn't move until J'onn ordered the same thing from above just outside his office while he looked down at Lucy sadly.
They hadn't seen each other in a long time but he could tell something was seriously wrong here, not just due to Lucy's appearance but the way in which she was acting.
It wasn't like her to be this- unhinged.
"Lucy, I need you to lower the gun," Alex said calmly, standing next to her friend and glancing from her to Kal-El, who she noticed didn't look much better than Lucy. He was sweating and kneeling to the floor where he had crash landed upon arrival. He was panting hard as though exhausted.
Lucy didn't respond or react to Alex's voice she just continued to stare at Kal-El with anger and disbelief in her eyes. "You left her there," she whispered.
"Who?" Alex ask softly placing a hand on Lucy's arm and beginning to slowly force her to lower the gun, "who did he leave?" she asked further, taking the gun from Lucy's hand and holding it on her other side away from her reach.
"Kara," Lucy replied breathing deeply, eyes burning with anger.
Alex's eyes widened as she heard her little sister's name, "Kara? You were with Kara? Where is she?" she asked frantically, "where did you leave her?" she asked Kal-El, her voice becoming dangerously low.
"He left her at the mercy of the same monsters who had been torturing her and manipulating her mind for days!" Lucy yelled out, her voice cutting into the silence like a knife. "We were going to get out- all of us… but you…" she continued, pointing at Kal-El, "-you left her there alone!" she screamed out in anger. "She's right, you do always abandon her," Lucy whispered after a silence with a disbelieving laugh.
She looked around the room and shook her head. "You may be Superman- but you are no hero. You disgust me," she said through gritted teeth before pushing her way past the DEO agents and leaving the room in a silent shock.
Alex watched her leave before turning her attention back to Kal-El, looking at him she narrowed her eyes, breathing deeply as she slowly began to walk closer towards him.
"Alex," Kal-El said, "I can explain," he continued holding his hands up, "I didn't have a choice- they would have recaptured all of us if I hadn't left. I didn't want to-"
"-you didn't want to what? Leave my little sister alone with people who hurt her!" Alex cut in yelling loudly.
The anger she had been feeling for the last hour sat in that room was bubbling to the surface with this new information being added on top of it.
She felt like the anger was taking over.
Looking down at the gun she had taken from Lucy she wanted to shoot Kal-El with it so badly right now. She knew it wouldn't kill him- but looking at how weak he seemed, it would definitely hurt him.
He left Kara there to be hurt from the sounds of it, why shouldn't she hurt him back?
She knew why, Kara would be so angry with her- she idolised her cousin. She wanted to be just like him, though in the back of her mind Alex wondered if that was still the case now he had abandoned her all over again.
Still, Kara would not like her shooting Kal-El, and as she glanced around the room she realised the DEO and her friends may not be thankful for her doing so either.
Taking a deep breath, she glared down at her little sister's cousin. "You better hope that we get her back safely," Alex growled before she lifted the gun up and smacked it down hard into Kal-El's forehead making him fall to the ground and groan in pain.
She looked down at him in anger before walking away in the same direction that Lucy had done.
Kara wouldn't like her shooting him- doesn't mean she can't hit him- hard.
AN: So... how did you find it? Please let me know :)