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Sorry I'm late! Little bit of life happened yesterday and I didn't have time to upload. Here it is though, enjoy...hopefully.
Supergirl lost
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Awkward
Kara stood with her back against the wall outside of the meeting hall taking deep breaths. Inwardly she was panicking, and it all had to do with time. The entire time she had been on this earth there had been two sides Waring inside of her. The part hoping her friends hadn't forgotten about her and were trying to get her back, and the part that hoped they had moved on. Gradually, as time had passed, Kara herself had moved on, but to know that it had only been two years for her friends while she had made this universe her home for the past four out of her nearly six years here.
To know that her friends hadn't moved on, had been looking for her, threw her off kilter in a way she hadn't thought possible.
Kara was in a good place. The pain of being stranded on this earth had worn off as she adjusted to her new life what felt like ages ago. If she was being honest right now, she was a little angry too, and that just made it all the more confusing
She had a makeshift family that she loved, close friends that she never had to hide any part of herself from, a loving girlfriend she never thought she'd have, and a life she was happy with and not just content. Right now, it felt like it was in upheaval.
The door beside her creaked open slowly and Wanda poked her head out. The moment the door closed, Kara practically leapt at the redhead and engulfed her in a hug as silent tears slid down her cheeks. Wanda was quick to action and moved them to a bench nearby where Kara could just sit in silence as Wanda soothed her conflicted mind.
Kara sniffled a little bit before drying her eyes five minutes later and looking at Wanda with her sapphire blue eyes.
"There's those eyes I love so much," Wanda whispered fondly. Kara choked out a laugh before sniffling a final time and the two separated while still sitting on the bench, still holding hands.
"I don't know what I'm feeling, Wanda," Kara whispered. "I feel angry, confused, sad, elated. For the first time in nearly six years, Alex is closer than she's ever been, the same with my other friends from my old universe. I'm happy to see them, but I'm also angry that they're here throwing everything off."
"I can't give you the answers you want Kara. I wish I could," Wanda said with a gentle smile. "But I can tell you that I will support you no matter what. I love you."
Kara smiled at Wanda's words before leaning in to kiss the redhead. It was brief, but it spoke more than could ever be truly said.
"I know. I'm just confused by all this I guess," Kara admitted. Wanda nodded.
"I feel like I should ask this, and I don't want you to take it the wrong way, but do you want to go back to your old world?" Wanda asked. Kara stared at her for a minute in silence before sighing and shaking her head.
"Honestly…No, but maybe for a visit, I guess? This is my home; I've built my life here. I have a family that I can truly be myself with here. I have no enemies that can kill me, no green rocks to poison me," Kara explained. In a small burst of insecurity, Wanda finally let Kara know exactly what was going through her head without directly telling her.
"But that world was your home, it was the universe where Krypton and Rao resided, you grew up there. If you wanted to go back…I'd understand," She said quietly while looking down and suddenly finding interest in the floor. Kara took a moment to realize fully what Wanda was actually saying, and when she did, she slipped her hand out of Wanda's and under the redhead's chin, tilting her head so she could look her in the eyes.
"I'm not going anywhere," Kara whispered as she leaned closer. "That might've been my old universe, but this one is my home now. It might've been my old earth, but you, Wanda Maximoff…You are my world," Kara whispered against Wanda's lips. The redhead shuddered in the emotions roiling inside of her.
Kara had lost so much in her life, Wanda knew that. Her first world was destroyed, and her second she thought was taken from her with no way of getting back. For Kara to call her her world…Wanda knew what that meant, and it made her heart swell.
The two kissed passionately before they were interrupted.
By Vision.
Phasing through a wall.
"Vis," Wanda said in exasperation. "We talked about this."
"My apologies Wanda. I assumed since it was a hallway beyond this door that it would be safe," He apologized.
"It's not that it's a hallway it's just I know you could hear us," Wanda explained.
"Ah. Again, my apologies, but I thought it best since you were right in front of the door not to open it since Kara's friends and sister from Earth thirty-eight have been released from the cell and are now waiting by the door," Vision explained. Kara and Wanda both blushed before laughing.
"It's we who should apologize to you Vision. We didn't know you were looking out for us like that, thank you," Kara said with a chuckle. Vision inclined his head in forgiveness, the stone that made him who he was sparkling as it caught the fluorescent light of the hallway. Kara and Wanda both stood up as Vision watched them curiously.
"Time to face the music, I guess," Kara said in a low voice. Wanda nodded as she reached down and took Kara's hand.
"Whatever happens, I'll be with you," Wanda promised. It made Kara's heart leap for joy that Wanda would face down a potentially angry Alex with her.
"I believe I should warn you even if your hyper advanced hearing heard everything," Vision said. Kara shook her head, so he continued. "Miss Romanoff has informed your sister of the amount of time you have been on this Earth. She was visibly distraught at the news."
Kara nodded her head slowly. "Thanks Vis."
The red and silver android said nothing, instead staying silent and opening the door for Kara and Wanda to enter together. As soon as Kara was through the threshold, several pairs of eyes were on the two women, but the only ones Kara was looking at were Alex's.
The tactical-clad redhead let go of Lena's hand -a fact that Kara noticed and further reinforced that just how much she had missed -and launched herself at her blonde alien sister.
The two embraced tightly, not like how it had been on the helipad. It wasn't a desperate clinging that fueled the embrace this time, but a love from a bond that couldn't truly ever hoped to be put into words.
It was silent in the gathering hall; the councilors had left to give Supergirl and the Avengers some privacy. It was a little-known fact that they respected her the most out of all the Avengers.
"I never thought I'd see you again," Kara whispered as she put her hand near the base of Alex's neck, her sister from another Earth running her own hand up and down Kara's jacket in a soothing manner. The two sisters continued to cry for another minute, just holding each other in an embrace long over do.
"I fought as hard as I could, but she had kryptonite in her blood," Kara said as they broke apart. Alex laughed.
"That doesn't matter now. You're here, you're alive, and you're okay. The last two years have been hell for me and I'm so sorry it took so long," Alex said. Kara laughed before looking at Lena.
"I'm sorry I missed the wedding," She said with a watery smile. Lena chuckled as Alex froze with wide eyes.
"How did you-but-" Alex stammered. Lena took pity on her surprised wife and looked at Kara with a knowing smirk.
"As unobservant as I was with your identity, I'm glad to see that the same problem doesn't affect you. Oh, and also, we took plenty of video of the wedding," Lena said with a twinkle in her eye. Kara laughed, going so far as to throw her head back.
"I appreciate that," Kara said softly before looking around the room. "Come on. Let's get back to New York where I'm sure you'll be more comfortable. You definitely won't be getting home for at least a few days until the power grid is restored."
Only Lena seemed to catch the parts where Kara was talking about Earth Thirty-eight as if she was separate from it.
"You live here?" Alex asked in surprise as she entered the tower.
"Not really. This is more of a…temporary place, I guess you could say. The more active Avengers live in the upstate facility. This is mostly for guests and whatnot," Kara explained as everyone entered the top floor, which was still being repaired.
"So did the city or the government just give this place to you?" Barry asked. Kara chuckled as Tony balked at the idea as his suit unfolded on the landing pad, muttering something about 'government dirtbags getting anywhere near the tower.'
"No not at all. Tony owns the what? First or second largest tech company in the world?" Kara teased. She knew very well Tony had the largest tech company. Ever.
"Oh ha ha," Tony said as he stuck his tongue out. Lena looked like she had just opened the door to the candy store and Tony was the shopkeeper. Kara chuckled at Lena's hopeful expression before looking back at the guests from another universe.
"You seem to have made some powerful friends Kara," Alex noted. Kara looked at her sister.
"Yeah, I did," Kara said fondly, aware that she hadn't answered in any way that would satisfy Alex's curiosity.
"Powerful friends?" Tony said with an amused expression. "This coming from the woman who knocked out the not so jolly green giant, the woman who flew from New York to Great Britain in under thirty minutes, who singlehandedly brought down the HYDRA-carriers. Pffft, Powerful friends, I'm just the guy with money…who is also a friend."
"Aww see I knew you cared deep down," Kara continued to tease. Tony again stuck his tongue before flamboyantly waving a hand and exiting the room, but not before he was out of shouting range.
"Drama queen!" Kara shouted, smiling as she heard Tony laughing down the hall.
"You two seem close?" Alex said with a quirked eyebrow. Kara stared at her blankly for a few seconds before laughing and then laughing harder at Alex's confused look. Conveniently, Wanda entered the penthouse after having changed in Kara's tower room.
"Uh babe," Lena said, trying to hold in her own laughter. Alex looked at her wife in confusion. "Mister Stark is definitely not as close to Kara as you believe."
"Huh?" Lena snorted at her wife's question.
"I think we need to fix your gaydar," was all Lena said before giving a pointed look to where Kara was who had clearly heard Wanda enter the room. The blonde Kryptonian had a wide smile as she turned around and gave a quick peck to Wanda's lips before taking the redheads hand in her own.
"Alex, I'd like you to meet my girlfriend Wanda Maximoff. Wanda, this is Alex, my sister from Earth thirty-eight," Kara introduced. Wanda smiled politely, even though she already knew who Alex was, and held out a hand.
Alex looked at the offered appendage in shock at first before it quickly changed to surprise as she shook Wanda's hand. Underneath all the roiling emotions Alex was feeling, Wanda detected quite a bit of confusion before the acceptance came and Alex smiled brightly.
"I look forward to getting to know you," Alex said sincerely before letting go as Lena came up behind her and wrapped an arm around her waist.
"Oh right! Before I forget other introductions! Wanda, this is Barry, Cisco, Lena, Harrison, and…two people I don't really know?" Kara sort of finished introductions. The two unknowns stepped forward.
"Jay Garrick," the man with the silver helmet said with a nod. Wanda and Kara both greeted him before the woman spoke.
"Cynthia, but you can call me Gypsy if you'd like," the woman introduced herself.
With Introductions out of the way for the most part, Kara still had to introduce the Avengers, everyone moved off into the living room. Both Barry and Cisco were obviously marveling at the electronics set up, while everyone else kind of got together and left the two couples to talk.
"Go ahead," Kara said suddenly as they sat down. She knew what Alex had been dying to ask since they had gotten a moment to talk.
"What happened? The Daxamites all turned to dust but when we went to where the fight had happened, there was nothing there but several piles of dust and a smoking portal generator. You were nowhere to be found. Obviously you had gone in but- we didn't know-" Alex started to say but got choked up towards the end. She had thought for a month that her baby sister was dead.
Kara leaned forward and hugged her sister tightly.
"I'm here. I'm alive okay?" She said as she put her hands on Alex's shoulders and held her there and made her look her in the eyes. Alex nodded as she wiped a stray tear, the memory of how tough that first month had been still fresh in her mind. Kara took a deep breath before snuggling into Wanda's side and looking at both Alex and Lena before she spoke.
"Well like I said, Rhea had been poisoned by Kryptonite, I don't know how exactly that happened, but it did. Anyways, I hit her hard during the fight and she started to bleed. As soon as she did I became pretty weak, naturally, and she began to gloat as a portal generator was beamed down. Next thing I know, she's lifting me up, I have the remote in my hands to push the button for the lead dispersal device. She pushes me in and I'm too weak to fight it anymore, I push the button, she starts coughing and turning to dust, and then the portal closes. I don't remember anything after that other than Thor and Tony trying to catch me as I feel from the top of the tower unconscious," Kara said with a shrug.
Clint and Nat had heard the entire explanation as she gave it because they were in the kitchen making sandwiches.
"I think we can answer the missing gap," Clint said. Alex looked at them and Kara gave them a look to not say everything.
"After you fell through the portal, Tony left to call Nick and let him know what had happened because we had just finished up fighting off an alien invasion of our own. Nick, the director of SHIELD before it collapsed, came and escorted her, with Tasha and I as security, to a top-secret lab where she could heal," Clint said. He didn't miss when Alex tensed up at the mention of a government agent, director no less, taking her sister to a secret lab.
Alex's head would probably explode if she knew the full truth.
"From there its pretty much history," Nat said as she moved to sit by Kara on the couch she and Wanda occupied. "Clint and I helped her assimilate to this world after we discovered she wasn't from here." Nat's grin turned teasing as she looked at Kara.
"Then, little miss Blondie goes and throws all the months of hard work that went into hiding her by getting a picture snapped of her over an oil rig where she rescued Stark and the President from a bad guy," Nat teased.
"Okay. How many times do I have to tell you that it was an accident! It all worked out in the end anyway," Kara reminded with a laugh. Nat chuckled as she nodded.
"Anyways, Fury and I knew that SHIELD would never stop looking for her, so we decided to introduce her to the world. Fury had Tony make the suit, I made sure the headpiece was made, and she went on an introductory Superhero spree from D.C to here by stopping a mugging, several car accidents, and rescuing the beloved Fluffy the snake from a tree," Nat concluded with a smirk. Alex laughed at the last part.
"Another snake named Fluffy!" she exclaimed. Kara made a face and nodded, clearly not amused at the reminder of Fluffy.
"Don't forget her first big hero moment," Clint reminded.
"Which one? With SHIELD or the world?" Nat asked. Kara groaned in embarrassment as Nat and Clint were essentially going through her greatest hits album of superhero moments.
"Well who can forget her floundering around the agent in charge after Greenwich and trying not to tell anybody that Fury had sent her," Nat said with a smirk. Kara noted that they didn't mention Coulson by name.
"Oh har har Nat. You're so funny," Kara rolled her eyes sarcastically. Everyone just laughed.
"That sounds like the Kara I know. Nice to see that some things haven't changed," Alex teased. Kara mock glared at her sister before looking at Nat and giving her the 'go-on' gesture, knowing Nat wouldn't really stop either way.
"The big hero moment was when HYDRA came out of the woodwork. HYDRA were these Nazi guys from World War two who just refused to go away. They had infiltrated SHIELD and turned dozens of agents without anyone even knowing it. Anyways, Fury introduced Project Insight, a pre-emptive strike against the enemies of the world and people who sought to do harm. The very basic idea was to stop terrorists before they could even commit acts of terror," Nat said grimly.
"Yeesh. I thought people were innocent until proven guilty," Barry said. Steve, who had come up the elevator, agreed.
"Anyways, so HYDRA tries to take over, tries to capture Steve. He escapes and we manage to figure out HYDRA's plan with Kara's help. We kidnap one of their agents, interrogate him, he tells us about their plans for project INSIGHT, which is unsurprisingly to murder a lot of people and take over the world. They send out their best soldier, who we found out is Steve's friend from the war, to kill or capture us before we can stop them. Thanks to Kara, we're not captured or killed, and we meet up with the guy we all think is dead, and plan to destroy the Heli-carriers before they can be launched. Kara did all the heavy lifting for that. She took down three massive Heli-carriers by herself with all the HYDRA crews onboard while the rest of us helped end the threat inside the Triskellion," Nat said with pride as she finished the story. Everyone looked impressed.
All except Alex.
"What?" She asked tightly. Kara looked at her sister.
"What what?" She asked.
"What did she mean you took down those whatever carriers with all the crew onboard, kidnapped and interrogated people?"
Everyone in the penthouse got deadly silent at Alex's question. But it wasn't just Alex's question. No. It was way her voice grew tight in disappointment and anger that truly got everyone quiet. Tony thankfully unknowingly ended the awkward silence as he walked in.
"Alright, I got sixty pizzas from all over New York! Who's ready to dig in!" He shouted as several tower staff brought in the multitude of Pizza boxes.