AN: Clarifying about the time difference between Krypton and Ammos.

Krypton is not really in the same galaxy as Ammos is, so their time is quite drastically different. A month passing on Krypton is only a week on Ammos whether you're on Arrakus or Themyscira.

Sorry if it was confusing earlier and if it still is, just ask me lol.

Chapter 21

Arrakian/Themysciran Borders

Kat sat on the lush green land of Themyscira watching the Arrakian army staring back at her. She was with about fifty other women. There was a definite demarcation line between the borders. Arrakus was a sandy country while Themyscira was filled with vegetation and beaches.

Kat looked to one of the Amazons in her group. They were split up in ten groups of five to cover more of the border. "Lea, I fear they will do something while we are sleeping," she said quietly so the men couldn't hear her.

Lea looked up and brushed the brown bangs from her eyes, "Then we shall not sleep."

"The Queen has told us to stay in our place, but I don't think King Amayn is so stupid to tell his men to strike at any time."

"You're right. He will lose!" Lea said sharpening her sword.

Margot had chimed in with them. Her wavy blonde hair was tied back into a ponytail. Slowly she walked over to Kat and Lea. "I do believe Princess Diana is no longer on the island and has been staying with those Kryptonians. Princess Donna has been aiding the General in training our sisters."

The two amazons nodded their heads in acknowledgment that Donna was helping. "Donna is a wise girl. She will have no problem aiding Phillipus," Lea added with a smile.

"Of course she will have no problem. Princess Diana taught her and she followed in her footsteps." Kat said and others agreed with her. "Also I do believe I've heard rumors that the King is soon to attack Krypton, but I cannot be for sure. I overheard in the market the other day."

Hippolyta forbade Donna to go near the borders in case she would be hurt or kidnapped, but Donna, of course, disobeyed her mother on several occasions and this was one of those occasions. She sat on the beach looking at all the tents the Amazons set up just three miles away from the Arrakian borders. She stood just listening to her sisters praise Diana and she groaned. She didn't want to listen to conversations about Diana anymore. Everything was always about Diana and it always would be about her.

Diana was the one always getting in trouble, not her. She didn't do many things wrong and Diana had disobeyed their mother many more times than she had. Diana had gotten married first, traveled first; well she had gone with her but only because she probably didn't want to be alone Donna thought. Now she was having a child and living on Krypton with other aliens, leaving all this mess behind for Themyscira to clean. This was definitely unfair. Of course this had not been Diana's entire fault, but some of it was her fault. Aline had caused most of it from the very beginning when her mother signed the treaty. There was also more Diana was not mentioning. She had stayed in the Arrakian palace more than any other Amazon before and she had seen what was inside and all their secrets possibly. Donna knew her sister was not one to snoop around, but she was rather curious and that got her in to trouble many times when she was younger.

Overhearing Kat and Margot talk of Amayn's plans to attack Krypton, Donna needed to tell Diana before anybody else. Of course she would tell her mother, but if she told Diana, at least she could make her feel a bit bad about this situation at hand.

Donna folded her arms and flew back to the palace. She needed to speak with Diana whether she liked it or not. She flew into her mother's throne chamber and her mother was speaking with Artemis about where to place the remaining Amazon soldiers alongside Themyscira. She saw her daughter fly into one of the balconies and storm to the control panel to pull up something on the screen.

"Donna, what are you doing?" Hippolyta asked as she started to walk to the computers.

Her daughter held up her hand, "I need to speak with Diana," Donna pulled up the Kryptonian El house and she waited for a response. She figured if she couldn't speak with her face to face, they could at least do it virtually.

Lara had answered the message and she was surprised to see Princess Donna staring back at her with an irate look. She saw Hippolyta and her amazons in the background looking just as shocked. What is going on here?

"Good afternoon, Princess," Lara said calmly. "What may I help you with? Is everything alright?"

Donna stared at Lara's big blue eyes and she didn't see anyone else around her. She appeared to be busy as her eyes would casually glance down at the keypad typing something.

"Good evening, your highness, where is my sister?" Donna said folding her arms, becoming a little more irritated that Lara wasn't making eye contact with her.

Lara looked up back at Donna, "Diana is asleep, princess."

"I need to speak with her. Could you go wake her?" Donna asked firmly.

Lara arched a brow and stopped typing and stared at the Amazon, "It is rather late here, princess. I am sure we can wait until it is morning here. Or perhaps you could tell me and I could pass it on for her once she wakes?"

Donna was becoming impatient with this woman and she rolled her eyes. "Your majesty, I need to speak with her. Alone."

The Kryptonian sighed, "Please wait there." She left the room and Donna saw her disappear into a long hallway.

Lara came back with a sleepy Diana moments later. It must have been one in the morning there. She saw her sister was online and wanted to talk with her. Diana was left alone in the control room. She yawned and then stared at her sister looking pretty upset she was woken up. Her hair was in a loose braid and she wore a knee length gown.

"Donna, what is it? Lara-El said you wanted to speak with me," she folded her arms standing in front of the screen. She saw her mother in the background. It was around mid-afternoon she gathered on Themyscira.

"I overheard one of our sisters talking near the borders today," Donna began.

"You went near the borders?!" Hippolyta shouted in the background. Diana's eyes darted to her mother then back to her little sister. Donna ignored her mother.

"What did they say?" Diana asked.

"Amayn is probably going to attack Krypton and I don't know how or when, but even if it is a rumor I thought you should know," Donna said and Diana put a hand over her mouth. She turned behind her and saw Jor and Lara were standing there with furious expressions.

"Attack Krypton? That boy is ludicrous, we shall be prepared for him," Jor said and took off. Diana saw Lara standing there alone and then she disappeared in the hallway as well. Turning back to her sister she sighed.

"Thank you Donna, I…I need to go now, and mother, please don't be angry with her," she called out before the screen went black.

Diana walked through the hallway to see Lara pacing back and forth talking with her husband and she stood at the doorway. Both saw her and stopped talking. Diana knew exactly why Amayn wanted to attack Krypton. He was angry at her and angry at the Kal for taking her. This was all her fault and she felt like wherever she went it was a disaster and this was just making everything worse.

She felt like she wanted to help, but she didn't know what she could do. Listen to yourself Diana, you're an Amazon, born and raised, and acting like you have no courage is despicable. Your mother and sisters would not be proud of you.

She thought most of her sisters already looked down upon her anyway for marrying a man and now this? Hera, help us all.

"Perhaps I could help. I did have access to the Arrakian archives." Diana said and Lara looked at her then at Jor.

"That will help us," she answered in a cold voice.

"I also trained their army. I should know all their planned tactics." She took a step forward and the two aliens relaxed a bit. They didn't need to get angry at Diana. They were already angry at their son and her so no need to get even more upset over something as sensitive as this.

Lara sighed and rubbed her temples, "We will start in the morning. Go back to sleep, Diana," she shooed her away and Diana left the room quietly.

"Donna, you went to the borders and you have information that we do not know about?" Hippolyta came up to her daughter a little irritated at her.

"I thought Diana should know first, I'm sorry mother. It's a rumor but that's a pretty large rumor!" she spat out and put her hands on her hips.

Hippolyta turned and paced, "That is not a rumor! He hates the Kryptonians! Of course he is going to attack them! Since we are together in this, the Kryptonians andThemyscirans, we need to work together on this. And quietly!"

Donna agreed, nodding her head and then made an exit from the throne room, opening the doors. The amazon guards were surprised she came out. They didn't see her go in.

A week passed on Krypton and Jor and Lara had their military alerted that the Arrakians might attack Krypton and they were to be ready. Their dome they had been working on had been sped up double time to get it up and running in the next two weeks. Kryptonians were so sure of themselves that nothing would happen for a while until Amayn would openly attack them.

Diana came out of her room and saw several servants walking quickly in the halls and running passed her. She backed against the wall so she wouldn't be hit. She wore lace up sandals and a black gown with a slit in the front, exposing her calves and knees. Finally she saw Kal at the control panel looking over blueprints of that dome their team of scientists were working on. She approached him carefully.

"Morning, Diana," he didn't take his eyes off the screen.

"Morning. How is the dome coming along?" she looked at the screen and saw the Kryptonian scripture everywhere. She couldn't read any of it.

His finger pushed on another screen and a smaller one appeared, giving a list of formulas. "Very well. We should be finished in the next two weeks I am sure."

"I am so sorry about all of this." She said solemnly.

Kal turned and took her hands, "Diana, it's not your fault."

"Yes it is, Kal! If I would have never come here…if we would have never…" she stopped there. He kept staring at her.

"Would you stop it?!"

Her eyes met his and she saw a flash of red in his eyes. Fearing his sudden emotional change. He saw a bit of Lara come out in him. He was usually calm like his father but she saw Lara in those eyes.

"Stop saying sorry, that isn't going to fix anything and you know it. It is not your fault that your husband is an idiot. Of course none of this would have happened if you never came here, but seriously even if you didn't come here, don't you think Amayn would have started a war with your people anyway? He is senseless." He began again, "He probably would have started another war with Krypton down the road as well. It is not your fault; you do not need to keep blaming yourself. The whole universe is not going to blame you for one little mistake you did."

Diana looked at him and was speechless. He really had something to say didn't he? She knew that everything wasn't her fault, but she felt a big part of it was, but honestly, the Arrakians are not friendly people. She felt her eyes getting watery, but she wasn't going to cry, no way, especially not right now.

"And don't start crying, please. I can't deal with your emotions right now." He turned and faced the computers again.

Her mind went blank and her fingers laced together, suddenly becoming fidgety she turned on her heel and left the room quickly. She rounded the corner and almost bumped into Kal's parents. She looked up at them with teary eyes and she walked passed them going to a separate floor so she could be alone.

Lara and Jor looked at each other concerned that Diana had left in a state like that. They turned the corner and saw their son was working on the blueprints for any mistakes and adding formulas in.

"Kal," Jor said aloud. He turned and greeted his parents. "Why is the princess sobbing?"

He sighed, "She's just upset over this war her people and our people are having with Arrakus."

Lara frowned, "Did you make her cry?"

He turned and looked at his mother. Why would she care if he did that anyway? He didn't make her cry, she cried on her own! "No, mother I didn't."

"Then why is she so upset? I have not ever seen her cry before."

He looked at her incredulously. Seriously? She cries a lot and he didn't know how to handle her sometimes. He didn't know how to comfort her. He wasn't of that nature, or was he? He started to feel bad if he was the reason she started crying now. Kicking himself inwardly he hit his forehead.

"She cries constantly. I don't know what to do with her, mother."

Lara looked at her husband, "Would you go check on the ships on level twenty seven?"

He nodded and abruptly left the room, leaving his son and wife alone in the control panel.

"Kal," she began. He was still looking over the prints.

"Hm?"

"Kal, look at me," she was standing beside him. He paused and looked at his mother. "I have seen expecting mothers pass on Krypton from other planets before Kal-El. They are different than our 'expecting mothers' here. They are ah, emotional. I do not know what you said to her, but maybe she is feeling terrible about this situation because a lot of it is her fault."

"Exactly! So why should she keep having to apologize to me and to you and father? It will not solve anything that she has done."

Lara unfolded her arms, "If I do recall, you made this 'problem' happen too. You both are liable. Possibly she is apologizing because she does not know how else to help, Kal."

He stopped and thought for a moment. Thinking over what his mother just said. He rarely had these kinds of conversations with his mother, but she seemed…right?

"She is exiled from Arrakus, no longer Queen and she is not in her homeland. She is here in unfamiliar territory. Diana does not know what to do with herself. It is up to you and all of us, like we promised Hippolyta, to take care of her while she deals with the Arrakians. I am counting on you especially to maintain your promise." She saw the look on her son's face and he seemed a bit shocked she was saying this to him. "If you argue with her it won't solve anything. So stop being negligent and face your problems, Kal!"

Kal looked to his brunette, blue eyed mother and sighed. He let his hands cover his face, "What do I say to her?"

"Why don't you go find her first?"

He looked up from his hands, "I know where she is. She's in the greenhouse."

"Then I suggest you go there," Lara said, putting her hand on her son's hand assuming he would go and she would take control of the panel while he left.

He nodded and left the room.

Reaching the greenhouse room he saw she was sitting on the bench with her arms folded and facing the window looking out at the city.

Diana heard him come in and she steeled herself, wiping her eyes and kept looking out to the city. He stood in front of the bench.

"May I sit here?"

Diana shifted herself over and he sat down beside her. She wasn't really angry with him, what he had said was true and she didn't know how to cope with it at all.

Kal cleared his throat, "I, ah, I spoke with mother," he said first. Diana turned and looked at him with a puzzled look. "She said whatever I said to you was wrong and I should apologize to you."

"Your mother? Your mother asked you to apologize to me? Do not make me laugh," she scoffed, shifting in her position to get more comfortable.

"Yes, she did. I told you she doesn't hate you, but anyway this isn't about my mother. This is about me, about you, about us. I didn't mean to upset you the way I did. It's not that I don't care about your feelings, it's just…they're so overwhelming at times." His elbows rested on his knees as he leaned forward.

Diana replied dryly, "Well I'll try to be less overwhelming next time," she stood up and leaned against the wall closer to the window.

He stayed on the bench, "That's not what I meant."

"It's what you said, Kal." She sniffled and wiped her cheeks with her fingers.

"I'm sorry, alright. I don't know how to deal with you sometimes. I don't know anything about pregnant women. I don't know a lot about you. We have skipped a few steps, I believe."

She turned and looked at him still leaning against the wall. "What is my favorite color?"

"Excuse me?" he arched an eyebrow.

"Just answer the question." She egged him on.

"Crimson…" he was a bit confused.

"What is my favorite flower?"

"Orchids. I don't understand what this has to do with anything."

"What do I always do when we play chess?"

He smiled, "You eye me until I move and look to see if I am cheating then when you lose, you blame me for cheating."

"And what do I always do at exactly 3:05pm every day?"

"Read for an hour and fourteen minutes and then fall asleep."

"Then every Thursday and Friday I will come bother you to-"

"…To go into the city because you are bored and we will spend exactly twenty three minutes in each store and you buy exactly three items from each store, sometimes four."

Diana smiled and he was looking a bit miffed. "I think you know me well enough, Kal."

Sighing he stood up, "I am sorry."

"I'm sorry for being difficult sometimes."

He was about to say something, but decided to keep it to himself, remembering his mother's words. As they walked out of the room together Diana asked, "Am I really overwhelming?"

Kal just smiled and didn't answer that question. But inwardly he said to himself, more than you'll ever know, Diana.

Arrakus

Amayn had sectioned off a part of the palace specifically for science experiments. He had a team of special chemists, the best in Arrakus in his palace. He came into the room with a mask on and looked at all of the women and men working on their stations, some writing and some organizing liquids, which he had no idea what they were.

He approached one of the women and looked down at her table. She had a flask of a chemical that was sealed very tightly. It had a label on it, "VirusKr"" he picked up the bottle and inspected it. It was a clear liquid –so clear it looked like water.

"Is this what you have been working on for the past few weeks?" he asked the female chemist.

She nodded her head, "Yes of course, your highness. It is still a bit experimental, though. I am not sure how it will react."

"Well then I suppose we will wait and find out, right?" he set down the flask and exited the room taking off the mask. He spoke to his adviser, "I need a ship to Krypton in the next two days. Have Lisal and Maje find clothing to match the Kryptonians. I don't want them to be discovered there."

"Of course your majesty." His adviser wrote down exactly what needed to be done and disappeared to find the female and male chemists in their bedrooms Amayn had assigned for them.

Shufa came walking next to his brother, "Amayn, what are you planning to do to the Kryptonians now that Diana is with them?"

"Our team of chemists has combined a deadly virus from a poisonous plant here in Arrakus along with Kryptonite. I am sending one our two best chemists to Krypton in two days to deliver the virus to contaminate their water system."

"You realize that won't affect Diana. She is not Kryptonian," Shufa said.

Amayn hit the back of his head, "The plant will! She is not immune to every poison here on Ammos. Many have died from eating that plant accidentally."

"Ouch! Okay, okay, I see, damn. Is that all you're going to do? You know that will only slow them down until they come here? Those Kryptonians find cures for almost any disease."

"I realize that. That is part of my plan. I have more for them, just you wait and see."

"You're too cryptic, Amayn," he shook his head at his brother.

Amayn had one of the oracles from the Arrakian city come in. she was regularly coming to the palace every hundred years for his father and his ancestors to predict what would become of their kingdom. His father had kept this secret and hidden from everybody but except his mother, for a long time.

He had asked her to come in and Shufa was in the room this time. He wanted to know everything. Xedea was nowhere to be found in the palace. The brothers didn't seem too worried about her and that she would somehow turn up somewhere.

"Oracle, so good of you to come here on short notice," he helped the blind woman in the chair across from him. "My father, King Cuzar, has kept files on the Amazons for a very long time. He had been keeping this from everyone for quite some time. It is a picture of Princess Diana, Princess Donna and a young girl with black hair and blue eyes." He gave the printed document for the Oracle to place her hand on it.

"Oh I see. I have told this prophecy to your father and grandfather before. They refused to believe me."

"Believe what?" he leaned in closer.

"That a prince and a princess would marry, but that would fail and a child would be conceived and with this conception, the child supposedly tears empires apart, destroying many lives in the process. The kings did not listen to me."

"I knew it! That harlot. This is her daughter, I told you Shufa!"

Shufa held up his hands. He didn't want to get involved with this, not any more than they already were anyway.

"Hand me a pencil, please," the Oracle was reaching around for a pencil and Amayn gave her one. She flipped the paper over and started to draw a young girl's face with almond eyes and dark straight hair. She had full lips much like Diana and the same face as Diana. he looked at the drawing and nodded his head.

"I see. We need to stop this immediately! Thank you oracle for coming." He helped her up and gave her a token for coming to see him. His guards handled the rest.

"This must be stopped."

Krypton

Kal and his parents had been working with the scientists for the last two weeks and Diana mainly kept to herself as she couldn't do anything to help them. She didn't understand their math, formulas, language, so she usually observed and Kal suggested she stay inside. He didn't want the public to really know that she was living here and that was beginning to become a problem for her because she was constantly bored. She had seen the inside of the palace many, many times, explored each room, except for the locked ones. She wondered what they had in those rooms. Right now she could use that enhanced vision, she thought.

Diana, reaching the end of her fourth month she was growing very tired every day and usually stayed in her room to rest and take naps. Nobody really bothered her unless it was important or she needed to get up for something. Not letting herself sleep too long she set an alarm for herself so she wouldn't have trouble sleeping later in the evening.

Reading in her bed Diana fell asleep twenty minutes into her read. She had the book draped over her hip and the lights were on. Her legs curled up closer to her body. Resting her hand on a now more prominent bump than before she rolled over onto her other side. A few moments passed and she felt fluttering inside her lower abdomen and her eyes shot open. Letting her hand rest there for a few silent seconds and a subtle kick slid across her palm. Diana smiled and sat up and brushed her hair quickly to tell Kal, or find him, wherever he was.

Smoothing out her navy blue gown she slid open the door and called out his name, looking for him in his room and the hallways but couldn't find him. Diana saw Lara was at the table by herself, eating lunch.

"Princess," her eyes looked up to see an excited Diana. "Kal and his father are at the dome inspecting it. They should be back any minute now."

Diana had a look of disappointment on her face. She wanted to tell Kal that their baby finally moved, but he wasn't here. Still, she had a smile on her face and Lara looked at the young princess and smiled.

"What is with the excitement, Diana? Why are you in such a hurry to find Kal?"

She didn't know if she could tell Kal's mother this. What would she say? Would she just rub it off as something that didn't seem to matter? Diana wasn't sure, but she sat down across the table from Lara.

The queen eyed her carefully and let out a small laugh from Diana's smile widening on her face by the minute.

"Don't hurt yourself, now." She picked at her food and read her tablet while she ate.

Diana didn't let that comment upset her instead she kept smiling and she put her elbows on the table. Lara stopped eating and put her fork down just staring at Diana.

"You're really starting to make me feel uncomfortable. Why do you keep staring at me with that smile of yours?" Lara folded her arms furrowing her brows in confusion.

Diana swallowed and let her smile die a bit before she started to finally talk. "Well," she took a long pause. "The baby,"

Lara leaned forward unfolding her arms. "What's wrong?" Becoming concerned for Diana. If anything happened to her and the baby Kal would kill her for leaving her in charge. She didn't even touch her and…wait, she's not done.

Diana eased the El woman and smiled, "Nothing is wrong," she reassured the queen.

Lara's face expressed relief and she relaxed back into her seat. "Then what is it?"

"The baby finally moved and kicked my hand. I felt it!" Diana pointed to the spot on her palm where one of the child's limbs came in contact with her hand.

Lara's eyes looked into Diana's womb and saw her child was indeed moving around and she smiled, remembering when Kal was a baby. Although she didn't carry him within her body, she watched him grow in an artificial womb. It wasn't as personable as Diana's situation, but it was something to see. Her eyes met Diana's and she still had that excited look on her face. She wanted her to converse with her, talk to her about it. She was alone, they were both alone. Diana didn't have her mother or her sisters around her at the moment so Lara took this as a moment that Diana was trying to share with her and make it special.

"I…that is special, Diana," Lara smiled nodding her head. Diana wanted her to say more. "I don't know what to say to you. I cannot relate," she shook her head.

Diana didn't know what to say at that point and then she switched chairs getting closer to Lara. Although Lara looked like she was ready to get up and back away, she stayed in her spot unclear of Diana's actions.

Lara and Diana stared at each other for a long time. Neither one said anything. Lara looked down then back up to Diana, slowly unfolding her arms and letting her hand hesitantly reach out towards Diana.

Her slender pastel hand was placed on the side of Diana's belly and against her palm she felt a soft movement on her palm. Lara's lips out stretched into a warm smile. Diana noticed that Lara wasn't giving one her sarcastic smiles or one of her forced cold smiles. She was smiling genuinely.

Another kick came to Lara's hand and her eyes widened and she looked up to see Diana's still serene face. Coming closer to Diana Lara still grinning, "Hello little one."

Kal and Jor came into the room. They were back from inspecting the dome and they saw Lara and Diana sitting closely at the table. The men looked at one another a bit confused at what was going on. Kal especially looked confused as he saw a smile from ear to ear on his mother's face.

"Mother, we're back." He announced.

Lara looked up still smiling, "Hello."

Kal smiled nervously, "what are you two doing?" he rounded the table and saw his mother had her hand on Diana's belly. Now he was even more confused.

Diana looked up and saw him looking worried and nervous. She smiled, "Kal, your baby!" she pulled his hand to where his mother's was earlier.

He waited and saw the look on the two women's faces and found it awkward he was in the middle of them. When he finally felt it he looked down and pulled back his hand.

"Kal, this is so charming," Lara said putting a hand on his shoulder.

Kal couldn't believe what he felt. It was one thing to watch his baby inside Diana, but to feel it was something else. He placed his hand back where it was and waited. All four waited and then a smile came to his face.

"So does this mean I can look…and touch?" Kal asked Diana teasingly. Diana's face deadpanned and she hit him on the arm.

Two Hours Earlier

A small ship landed on Krypton in midday. Maje and Lisal stepped out of the ship. It was on a secluded part of Krypton luckily. They would travel into the city. Lisal's hair was in a bun and she wore a white suite with black boots. Maje wore a circlet around his hair and a suit to make Lisal's. Bringing in small vials with the poison they put it inside their suits.

The two Arrakian chemists walked through a smaller city getting close to the capital. Amayn told them to be discreet. As they passed others, no one seemed to think differently of them but they occasionally got odd stares. They didn't have the same eyes as the Kryptonians or hair tecture just by looking at it and they were shorter than the average person on Krypton. Sneaking away they both had memorized a map of Krypton's water system and were headed into that direction.

Stopping behind a large structure, it appeared to be behind this enormous dome they had built far into the city. It was a secluded dome as well.

"What is this?" Lisal asked.

"It looks like a very powerful generator is what it looks like." Maje said and they crouched down and unlocked the security code for their water system.

Lisal put on some gloves and carefully unplugged the vial and gave it to her assistant and he poured it down the pipes and the clear liquid appeared to look like water, except its viscosity. Pouring four more down the pipes they had sealed everything and set the code back to what it was.

Acting like nothing was wrong the two chemists left the scene unnoticed. The two saw the Prince with the King in front of the large generator and they made sure to tell Amayn everything that happened. For now all they cared about was getting back to their ship and not being caught.

Kal was now kneeling down and all four still in the same spot at the table. His mother kept tapping at the baby and all had warm smiles on their faces.

Lara felt her head start hurting so suddenly and she put her hand on the side of her head trying to ease the pain.

Jor crinkled his brows and came next to his wife. "Lara?"

"I'm fine," she looked at her hands and they were slightly shaking. Now all three of them were looking at her. She grabbed her glass of water and drank from it, but it fell to the ground as she felt sicker when it hit her mouth. Instead of spitting the water out, she swallowed it.

"Mother?" Kal stood up and looked at her face. She was paler than usual and then he noticed her hands had strange markings on them. They looked like red spider webs? He bent down and looked at the water on the floor. It didn't really look like water. He looked at it better with his vision and saw the water was laced with Kryptonite and something else? He couldn't make out what it was.

"This water has been poisoned!" he picked up the glass carefully and stayed clear of the Kryptonite liquid.

Slumping in her chair Lara fainted and Jor caught her. Diana stood up and backed away as Jor had an unconscious Lara in his arms. Kal looked at his mother saw she had some of those spider web looking markings on her face as well and her complexion was not healthy-looking.

"Take her to the physician," Kal told his father and he carried her to their physician a few floors up from where they were.

Diana stood there shocked and thought if she drank any water today, she didn't think she did.

An hour passed and Kal waited outside looking at his mother. She was still unwell and she was sleeping now. Diana came down the hall to greet him. She sat down next to him.

"She will be alright, Kal."

"There's only one person who could have done this."

Diana knew who this was, "Amayn." They shared the same look of hatred and then stood to look at Lara still in the bed with her arms by her side.

AN: Such a happy moment ruined...ah.

RR ~