Its a Supercorp Life.
Tukma
Summary:
Nia has a vision that had her and the superfriends worried, this sparks a reveal setting the vision in motion, Brainy enlists the help of Cisco to get hold of Sara Lance and the team on the waverider to help with the situation. Nia is chosen to guide due to her powers and Sara removed Lena from the time line to give her the wake up call she needs to find her way back to Kara and the superfriends with a new perspective.
Notes:
I was hoping to get this finished before the 100th, it is the alternate version of my Its a wonderful life fic. instead of taking supergirl to the movies I am bringing the core principles of the movie to supergirl. Hoever I havent made as much progress as I wanted, I have two chapters ready and will be working over the weekend, if i manage to focus i may still get it out but if not, it will be finished nect week.
This is going to have more subtle changes that are more on a personal level to the characters.
(See the end of the work for more notes.)
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Chapter 1: Nia's Vision
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Nia's head snapped up as she gasped taking in a large gulp of oxygen to snuff out the scream that had been forming within her throat. She looked around and realised that she had fallen asleep at game night, that the vision she had was clearly sparked by the people in the room, it was a warning to the group sat in front of her. She took a few breaths to steady herself, wide eyed and sweating as she scanned the room to make sure they were all there. Brainy was still a little awkward around her and she saw his worried expression clearly torn between rushing to her side to comfort her as a boyfriend and mentoring her, to see what the threat is and help her work on the images.
As much as what she had seen made no sense, it wasn't metaphors and fragments, it was very clear it was so clear, yet it confused her more than any previous dream. On the love seat was Alex and Sam, cuddled up together if they noticed that she had fallen asleep they were too engrossed in themselves to be concerned. Although if what she saw was true Alex needed to worry and so did Sam. Kara and Lena were in the kitchen, Kara cuddled behind Lena as she was opening a bottle of wine and kissing her neck, Nia would have thought that Kara was not paying attention if she hadn't caught the sideways glance. They all really needed to come clean with Lena soon, after all she was dating Kara, and that had to be tricky only knowing half the story. J'onn and Ruby were playing a game at the table smiling and joking it looked like no one was planning on challenging her right now about her dream and that suited her fine.
How could she explain to her friends that she had just witnessed the Death of Lena Luthor, and what was more Kara stood and let it happen, she was right there and just watched as Lena was killed. Looking back to her friends she couldn't imagine anything that could cause that level of love to be wiped out. Even if Lena was hurt about finding out that Kara was supergirl, Kara would never abandon her. If Kara had flared she would have called for help she wouldn't just let Lena die, she would have at least gone to her, even as a human she would have thrown herself into the path of the bullet, tackled Lena out of the way, done something. The vision was clear as day, there were two thugs with guns and Lena was just standing there taunting them, telling her that they may as well just get it over with. Kara was just standing there, tears running down her face watching as the gun fired and Lena hit the floor. She didn't even take her to the hospital just waited until her last breath and then went to her and held her crying, the scream that came out of Kara's mouth, the blood curdling sound of a soul torn apart, a heart shattering into infinite pieces and hope lost had been the sound that woke her from the dream scape.
Nia was shaking and looking at the table in front of her taking her beer and having a long draw. Her brows furrowed and her face pale she sat and stared. No longer contributing to any of the conversation games, or even catching others' eyes. Her ashen forlonging look was too much for Brainy who finally fought his logical conclusion that Nia no longer wanted him to comfort her as they had broken up, moved over to the couch and placed his arm around her shoulder.
"Nia Nall, it is late, you look tired, please, let me escort you home"
Nia looked up at the touch and smiled Brainy was always so sweet, if he could have just been this, not gone over the top be so stifling they would have been perfect together they would have been still together, the comfort now was nice and she needed it but she didn't want to give him hope, they were just getting to a good place again, and she wanted to keep him as a friend. She nodded and stood to leave Kara's apartment saying her goodbyes as she made her way to the door. Brainy had ushered her out of the loft and down to the elevator heading out of the building and down the street they had made it to the Alley way and as they slipped off the main street to the side street Kara sped into view.
Kara had noticed the moment that Nia fell asleep and had been keeping a casual eye on her as she was in her dream escape. Lena had made her way to the kitchen to get wine just as Nia was pulled under, that was another in a long list of things that Kara didn't feel that she could manage to discuss tonight, she kept trying, kept making plans, Alex and Sam were always very supportive of all her attempts and never were hard on her when she couldn't manage it. She had almost said no to Lena, lied to her about her feelings, told her that she didn't have feelings for her and wouldn't go out with her, because she hadn't told her the truth.
As she had started to try to let Lena down softly her face, had started to fall and Lena started to apologize for ruining things, and throwing away their friendship for a infatuation, of course someone like Kara couldn't love a Luthor, Kara was unable to see Lena like it, just the face, alone, broke her heart, the words displaying how Lena felt about herself the way she really didn't think she was worth it. Kara couldn't take it, she pushed aside the nagging doubt and the truth and started the relationship. Sam and Alex told her that she needed to tell her that before they got too deep into a relationship Lena would need to know the truth.
They had been taking it slow, lots of cuddles and snuggling, nothing more than teen rated. Like now, Kara had gone over to distract Lena from Nia, and was holding her from behind, arms wrapped around her waist, head nuzzling into her neck, soft kissed and even softer voice, talking to her. The way Nia had woken Kara knew that there was something disturbing, she let them leave and then took out the garbage. Speeding to the Alley nearby that they would take on the way to Nia's place.
"Nia what is it? What did you see? Is it something we need to get the whole team on? I can disband the night if needed. I am taking out the trash at the moment so I have 5 minutes max."
Nia had not spoken to Brainy about it, she wasn't sure what to do with the vision that she had, she had not really been able to see anything other than this one scene, she didn't know what the run up to it was or if there was something that she could do to change it, after all she was a hero in her own right now. She looked at Kara and half raised a smile that looked more like an uncertain grimace than a smile but she tried.
"We don't need anyone its ok Kara, this is something very specific, and it only involves you and Lena. I saw an alley, Lena was walking and there were two men, you were there as Kara, and when the men shot Lena you didn't move, you stood and watched, and then you didn't even take her to a hospital you watched her die then well then you broke down."
Kara and brainy each had the same look of shock and disbelief on their face at what they had just heard. Nia understood the look all too well. It was exactly how she had been feeling since waking from this dream. Brainy was trying to calculate scenarios that would make this information make sense, you could see him rolling through them in his mind, playing different information over and over as his eyes flickered. Kara was clearly doing something similar her brows now pulled together creating the fated crinkle that would always adorn her brow whenever she was worried about something. She was biting her lip and looked at Nia.
"Was it me? Or supergirl watching"
Nia initially looked at Kara a little confused at the question she was one and the same, she was supergirl there was no other, but then she realised she meant who was there was supergirl in her suit watching or was it Kara the reporter Danvers, Nia thought about it for a moment, if it was supergirl there could have been some kind of Kryptonite stopping her getting to Lena, if it was Kara she could have flared or she could have been hiding who she was for some reason. Nia looked at Kara and didn't hesitate to answer, if her visions were clearer or in this case longer she may have thought twice about this but she just looked at Kara and smiled.
"It was the reporter that was there not supergirl."
"I have to tell her the truth, in your vision Kara Danvers doesn't save her, I mean what other reason could there be other than to protect my secret? To avoid it being used against us. I could see Lena sacrificing herself for me, she is just that type of person, not realising the bullets wouldn't hurt me. Maybe Lena knowing the truth is enough to save her keeping my true identity from Lena is clearly going to kill her, I need to tell her."
Nia watched as Kara worked through to the conclusion that Lena needed to know the secret based on the information that she stands and watched Lena die. Nia had an uneasy feeling in her stomach, a unnerving and relenting throbbing, like there was something more there was something that needed to be seen that was being overlooked. She didn't know what it was there was no information leading to this moment or leading from this moment, even if there was a few minutes then maybe there would have been something that she would collate and hypothesize from but there was nothing. No little symbol no clue of something that looked out of place, there was none of the normal symbology to give her direction just a very clear and concise vision, of something that she definitely didn't want to see.
It was not that though, there was something else that was causing this feeling, the vision itself left an impression, a looming cloud about her friends heads that she would want to do anything that she could to change the course of that vision. She looked at Brainy who was standing shaking his head.
"Nia Nall I believe that there is only a 20.324% probability that telling Lena Luthor will change the outcome of this vision, previous information collated has told me that whenever it has been a choice of Lena or her secret Kara has always chosen Lena, the bullet she caught at the press conference, the flight she took as Kara when Lena was poisoned, the Mercy graves attack at LCorp, each time she has risked exposure to save Lena, she wouldn't watch her die to protect her secret, this can not be the information that your vision is pointing too."
Brainy had looked at the possibilities and had concluded that there had to be something preventing Kara from moving up to the point that Lena had passed away and that meant that Kara was unable to get to her. He was not sure what was so powerful that it would hold back Kara, she had fought her way through Kryptonite, Nth Metal, the Black mercy and had even found a way to cheat death and call the sunlight directly out of the earth itself to heal after her fight with Red daughter.
There is nothing that he could think that anything in the world would be able to withstand Kara when it came to her determination to save Lena. There was shouting heading in their direction and Brainy and Nia looked up to see Lena storming into the alley followed by Kara. Neither seemed to take any notice that Nia and Brainy were still there.
"I don't want any explanation Kara I don't want any information, you once said your name wasn't something that a member of my family should ask a member of yours, and now you want to give me your life history because it suits you. I don't want anything right now except a promise, one that you better keep or you and I will be over for good."
"Anything Lena, I will do anything I swear to Rao, on Alex's life, on my honour, on the house of El anything you want Lena you have it"
"Until I call you, you are not to come near me, you are not to text, call email, visit, talk to, save or in anyway make your presence known in my life, and I need you to swear it, on your god, on your sister on what's left of your home, I need time, you made a fool out of me and I need time"
Kara looked at her that did not go as she had planned, she had worked out how to tell Lena in a million different ways a million different times and never had it ever been like that, she had always been able to get out her thoughts, her apology her reasons, she had been able to soften the blow, that had not happened. She entered the apartment and was worried because of Nia's vision and went to talk to Alex and Jo'nn taking them to the fire escape to do so. She had been so focused that she had not even asked where Lena was.
She had just finished explaining Nia's vision, how she just stands there and does nothing that Kara Danvers is watching Lena die and just Lets it happen that she could only imagine the secret being the reason for this and she had to tell her. Jo'on was trying to caution her on the future information being imperfect, that sometimes it is possible to cause an event you are trying to avoid, or that sometimes it is a warning sent for you to prepare, that there was no need to make a rash decision. Alex laughed and shook her head.
"Telling Lena she is supergirl now would hardly be considered a rash decision they have been dating for about three months. Friends even longer, I mean how Lena hasn't worked it out already I will never understand Kara isn't subtle…"
Alex's face dropped and she cut herself off, looking at the movement from inside the bedroom, Lena coming out of the bathroom tears already falling down her face.
"...Lena I am sorry I didn't mean that the way it sounded, Lena please wait"
Kara had turned to see her as Alex was trying to make her wait she turned, she was bolting out of the room. Kara went after her heading into the hall, Lena didn't wait for the elevator she took the stairs, she had been telling her all the way down about being treated like a fool, betrayed, lied too, she asked Kara to give her space leave her alone just to give her time to process this. Kara was trying to remember one of her previously well thought out speeches was trying to get it out to make her see that it was never anything that Lena had or had not done it, was Kara being scared. She had never expected to find herself here, like this.
She had just promised not to be in Lena's life in anyway until she was called, she could be hurt or threatened, unconscious in a burning building unable to call for help, what would Kara do then, then the words from Nia's dream sank in, was this why, was it because she promised her, because she had said she would do nothing make no contact unless Lena called.
"Ok Lena I Promise but please just wait here one moment ok, just give me one moment."
Kara took off in a haze and was back in less than a second with a watch. She had popped to the DEO to get one for Lena, a signal watch, she left a note she didn't really have time to sign it out, she was sure Alex would understand.
"I said I would stay away I have sworn on Rao and my house I cant betray that, and I swore on the life of my sister. These things are so important to me, but more than that Lena you are important to me, I… I um, I don't want to ever live in a world that doesnt have you in it, I know it may not seem like it but I, um I love you. If for any reason, you don't have signal, you can't call out, or you need me just open this and press the button, this will alert me immediately and I can follow the sound, wherever you are. Please Lena, just in case."
Lena took the watch and headed down the alley past Nia and Brainy her face was a mixture of stoic CEO and the most broken person that Nia had ever seen, it was the eyes, the jaw was clenched the lips pursed into a line, but the eyes, they showed all the pain that Lena was holding inside. All the hurt she was breaking and there was nothing that Nia could do to help her, they had not gotten close enough for Nia to go after her, the only person she may listen to was Sam, they had always been close, she watched her leave, Nia wanted to correct this, her vision had caused this, somehow Lena had been hurt, all of Kara's plans had sounded so perfect, so romantic, how could they have had this effect on Lena, everyone in the group believed that Lena would listen to Kara, to hear her, and that she would be ok.
Looking at her as she walked away pounding her heels into the pavement as she walked with purpose away from the small group, she was anything but that. Nia looked at Kara, who also had two distinctive emotions playing over her face, hurt and anger, Nia didn't think that she had ever seen Kara truly angry but here it was, unbridled rage just below the surface.
"This is your fault, you and that stupid dream, you should have worked it out before you told me about it, look whats happened, I have just made the promise that will leave me powerless to help her. You have just set in motion the very thing that leaves me watching as she is killed in front of me, was watching my planet destroyed in front of my eyes not enough? Rao protect Lena, Please"
With that Kara took off into the sky, a second streak Nia could only imagine as Jo'nn following her as best he could. Nia shocked and upset at Kara's outburst crumpled to the floor. Brainy knelt and wrapped his arms around her as best he could to try and comfort her. Alex and Sam entered the alley too, clearly Jo'on was keeping tabs on the situation and now they were all in the alley. Brainy doing his best was still no comfort to Nia, who was cursing her gift, under her breath. Sam and Alex looked at the two huddled on the floor, Alex knelt in front of Nia and lifted her chin.
"This isnt on you Nia, this was my fault, I was flippant and sarcastic, Lena heard and took it the wrong way, I should have known better than to speak like that. We are going to need to take it in turns keeping an eye on Lena, to make sure the rest of your vision doesn't happen, and you need to see if you can see more."
Nia nodded and looked at Brainy. He was clearly thinking and was working on a variety of scenarios once again. This time he looked at the director and at Nia, both of his friends were taking responsibility for this, and they were going to be working hard to rectify their mistakes, the only person that Brainy knew that could truly help with a problem like this was on the waverider.
"Alex I think that we could get more clarity if we had outside help. There is a 70.839% chance that the actions of tonight have set the chain of events leading to Nia's vision, in that vision none of us are there it is Kara only, who will not do anything, we have even seen why, now if you would allow us to consult with Cisco using the communicator I believe that we could ask Miss Lance to help"
Alex's brows shot up, she hadn't seen sara since Barry's wedding, her cheeks reddened and she bit her lip, she hadn't hid this from Sam but she always felt uncomfortable in the blondes presence. She was not planning on being there for a visit any time soon. Sam squeezed her hand and nodded giving her a kiss and asking her to get Ruby home to bed, she was going after Lena, she needed to have someone in her corner, Kara may be well on the way to being her sister but Lena was already that, she had not left her, she had not betrayed her trust, she had saved Ruby and her, even now she was still protecting her.
She owed Lena the same, and she was going to get it by Rao even if she tried to push her away. Alex squeezed back and smiled at Sam kissing her softly before handing over her keys to Brainy, she couldn't help with the contact, she had to put Ruby first so Brainy was on his own as was Ruby right now she apologised and headed back to the loft to get Ruby and take her home.
Brainy told Nia to wait on the top of CATCO, he figured that would be big enough for the wave rider to land on and somewhere easy to spot from the sky. He headed off to the DEO and using Alex's keys entered her office, unlocking the draw he took out the small communication device and called through.
"Earth one, please come in Earth one, Cisco Ramon this is Querl Dox, Earth 38, we have a quandary that is effecting Kara, and we need some advice from an expert, would it be possible for you to contact the legends? I would very much like to talk to Miss Lance."
Sitting in his Lab in star city, Cisco was wondering if they would ever be done trying to track down all the potential loops, and alterations, that had occured due to the last change in the timeline, luckily for him he had already created the program to do so and he was well on his way to a comprehensive list of things that may need to be rectified. He sat back in his chair putting his feet up on his desk. When the communicator shone, and then came to life. Someone had exemplary timing. He moaned to himself that he was finally putting his feet up.
He listened to the message, and was honoured for a moment that he was being called to help Kara, until he realised he was being used as a multiverse operator again. Did no one understand that he was a genius, that he was able to track fluctuations across multiple timelines and histories with a push of a button, but no, something happens, call a hero in not the tech guy.
It wasn't that he was bitter, he was always happier when he didn't have the vibe powers after all they had completely corrupted a variety of doppelgangers. He just would like the common courtesy of being asked, or maybe a little small talk first, but this was Querl Dox, he guessed that was actually quite polite and expressive for him.
"Star labs, Cisco, what's up with my favorite kryptonian?"
Brainy was irritated by the delay after all Nia was waiting on a roof, however it didn't matter how long it took he had a meeting time and place for Sara, she had a time machine. He didn't understand the reasoning behind the phrase but Eliza had once said you catch more flies with honey than vinegar, not that he had any idea why people wanted to catch flies in the first place, but she always said it to get him to do the social conventions that he forgot. He took a breath and looked at the device.
"We have a future seeing Naltorian on the team, her visions are normally a little difficult to interpret, but the latest was very clear, the vision was of Kara watching her love die and doing nothing. The vision itself has triggered events that we need to understand and rectify. For this we need to have the waverider and Sara, on top of CATCO at nine pm on the 10th February 2020, she will be meeting Nia Nall."
Cisco sat up and scratched the back of his head, the vision started the process that meant that it was a process that needed to happen, like the newspaper of Barry's it was designed to spark a course of actions that didn't work out quite how people expected, but without the Looming threat the path to the end would have been different and there would have been an outcome that no one wanted, there was something here that needed to be learned, he wasn't sure that Sara would be able to help with that, but if anyone could have a look into where this vision came from or was headed it was her, it was against the vision of the Waverider but for Alex's little sister Sara would bend a rule or two, as long as she didn't cause any splinters.
"Gotcha, I will pass the message on, say hi to Kara and Alex for me. Remind Alex that I need an invite to the wedding"
Brainy signed off and locked away the communicator, looking at his watch it was nearly nine now, sara would hopefully be landing any moment. Nia stood on the roof of CATCO and waited, she felt a little silly just standing there because there maybe someone who can help her from the future or a different dimension that may or may not agree to visiting. She had never met Sara or seen the ship but she imagined that she would spot it if it landed. It was nine, she would wait a little figuring that if the woman made the trip through the dimensions she should give a little leeway although it was a time ship she thought that punctuality would be significantly easier. Nia looked around nervously as what looked like an opening in the city view leading to stairs appeared in front of her. A blonde woman wearing a grey jumpsuit stepped out of the opening and looked at Nia.
"You Nia Nall? Cisco said Kara needed some help, and I would be meeting Nia, he didn't say that she was so cute, I would have worn my other suit if I had known. How is my friend Alex, I heard she was off the market, such a shame, she is hot"
Nia blushed and looked at the woman how on earth did she just appear and why didn't she feel the ship landing. It wasn't just the unexpected arrival that caught Nia off guard, Sara was exceptionally forward, she knew that her and Alex had a thing? that Sara was a lesbian? but she had never actually met her and figured the stories were exagerated. They were most definitely not. Nia nodded shyly and moved towards the woman with her hand out to shake Sara's and looked up at her.
"Hello yes, I am Nia, thank you for coming"
"Ok come on in Nia, don't worry I dont bite, unless asked and well you dont look like the kinda girl that is going to ask, unfortunately, look don't worry I am here to help, I promise my best behaviour, unless you ask me not to be, which I can guarantee you would enjoy"
Sara pulled her closer using her outstretched hand and threw her arm around her, leading her into the ship that was not visible except for the steps. As they entered the ship Sara directed her into a room and perched on the desk, legs crossed in front of her and arms on the table. Directly in front of her was a chair, Nia watched her gaze and she sat in the chair, the blush only growing, this woman clearly knew how to make people a bizarre mix of excited and nervous aroused and powerless all in one swift movement. Nia had never thought about exploring ideas of being with a woman, as a boy she had known she was a woman not a gay man, but this woman could make anyone question themselves. She swallowed and looked at her.
"I had a vision, normally they are very disjointed and we take time to piece them together, but today it was like watching a small video, complete in its detail. Only sharing that with Kara made her do something that I think has set the ball in motion towards the vision, and I don't know why."
Sara thought for a moment and looked at the woman, if this was the type of vision she thought it was for a purpose. Now it generally meant that something had to happen to show people the truth of a situation and she had come across it before where it needed a change of mindset, not a change of the actual event. In Barry's case it was allowing an alternative Flash to be the one that died. Barry needed to allow someone to sacrifice themself for him, which was hard for him, as it meant that he was placing his life first, something that he never did running through time like a fool not knowing what he was doing. In this case it would be one of the people in the vision.
She asked Nia to describe the vision completely she did, how Lena just allowed herself to be shot, refused to ask for help from Kara, and as such Kara had stood and watched. She was not in her super suit, was Lena trying to keep her secret? Standing she looked at the timeline that contained Lena Luthor and watched the extracts of her life.
She could see her, the hurt vulnerable woman that was strong and fierce on the outside, but did not believe her own hype. She had been hurt over and over, loosing her mom, living in a abusive home, denying her sexuality because of a homophobic xenaphobic mother and a masogonistic homicidal psychopathic brother. Sara actually felt sorry for her, she knew what it was like to have that much hatred towards yourself.
Nia patiently waited for her to finish what she was doing, being pulled into sleep once again as another dream followed. This time there was less clarity, she was there in the alley watching Kara and Lena, they were at an accidental meeting, Kara apologizing she didn't know she would be there, then the men, there were still two with guns. Nia was out of sight of the men but wasn't taking them down why wasn't she helping. She then saw the guns on Lena, heard some threat something about Lillian, Lena saying to get it over with. Then there was a confused collage of tears and death, tears and hugs, lena dying living it was too much for Nia and she woke with a start. Looking around pulling herself up in the chair.
"Your adorable in your sleep Nia, very cute indeed, but i think that there is something more to your dream now. You need to fill me in."
Nia did her best to compose herself and explain the difference in what she had seen. Sara nodded and listened to her. She was sure that Sara's intervention was the reason for the disjointed nature of the ending, and it would all rest on the shoulders of Nia. She smiled and offered her a glass of water.
"Ok so I have an observation you need to tell me if I am accurate because it is the basis on what help I can offer. Lena, her and Kara have had a bit of a difficult road, dating men that were not good for them. They are finally together, but both of them have some kind of crazy notion that they are not good enough for each other, Lena more so now she knows the truth about our blushing reporter. I think that it is Lena that needs to know that she is good enough to be with our super friend. That is a massive shift in her mindset and it is not going to be easy."
Nia nodded and agreed with Sara that Lena always seems to take the negative feelings about her and her family to heart and never takes any of the praise when she is doing things that have saved the world over and over, she always managed to find a way that it was her fault that the problem was there and she was just cleaning up a mistake of her or her family. Sara nodded, she knew what it was to clean up after those you loved, she had seen Lena's life and the woman tried everything to save her own brother, she failed but she tried again and again. It reminded her of her sister, she had a lot in common with this woman and knew that it took alot for her to break that cycle.
"Ok so here is what we are going to do, I am going to take adult Lena, and the new born Lena on to the Waverider. Adult first to preserve her memories and I will take her just as the thugs you mentioned are coming for her. Once she is on the Waverider I will go back and take baby Lena just after she is born. This will completely alter the timeline. Lena will have no idea what has happened, the Waverider is out of time so she will not be affected. You will be left in the alley with your powers , your mind will be protected, you will be able to remember both timelines. You may be a little disorientated, but you will be Lena's guide. You will help her see that she is worthy of our super, so she doesn't choose to die so Kara doesn't reveal herself."
Nia Listened how was this going to help, how would seeing a world where she was never born give Lena the feeling that she mattered? Wasn't this going to affect the time line wouldn't it change history. Isn't this the exact opposite of what they are supposed to be doing on this ship? Nia was full of questions, but it appeared that was enough talking for Sara who had gotten up and headed to the door.
"While in National City I have to go to the Alien bar I have heard so much about it. If you want answers to the questions you still have you are going to need to come and drink with me"
Nia reluctantly agreed to the visit to the bar and followed Sara off the ship and down from the roof to the bar. Nia showed her to the Alien bar and took their normal booth, not that the rest of the superfriends would be there, she felt a little on edge, this woman was dangerous. They talked for a few hours and Sara got more sexual as she drank. Luckily there were plenty of people that she could choose from, although Nia's thoughts about her were starting to make more sense the more she drank. This was not something that Nia needed, she wanted to focus on sorting out the problems that her friends were having. It was definitely not time to explore any confusion with her sexuality.
She found that she was going to hold the memories, guide Lena around to show her that she is important and that her past acts not only prove that she is important and good enough to be with Kara but that the loss of her would be detrimental for the future. Nia left the bar and Sara talking to a red headed alien that was more than happy to accept her affections. Sara was going to contact her when they were in time for the operation. She laughed and said if it was christmas she would scrooge Lena's ass but a wonderful life principle worked any time of the year it just looked better with snow on the ground.
Nia arrived home and googled the reference after all a film from 1949 wasn't exactly a current reference but then she supposed that spending your life bouncing from the wild west to the future and across multiple universes current is relative. She watched the movie and saw how the life of one man had a knock on effect to so many other people and that the choices that he made changed a whole community. She supposed that in this little rendition of Wonderful life she was the angel, the film was actually amazing and couldn't help but wonder what lives have been altered by her and if there were people who would be better or worse off because of her decisions.
The decision to tell Kara about her dream had definitely caused distress within her group of friends and she started to see her role as penance for what she had set in motion. The next few days were a blur of CATCO more hero training with Brainy and Lena watch. She was never alone even if she couldn't see the people watching. Sam took more than others, mainly because she was her best friend and wanted to be there for her. Alex too took a good number, but she was only on duty when Sam was at work so that she could still get time with her.
Nia spoke to Alex about the information from Sara and the plan, she wasn't too keen on the idea of Kara being outed in front of two thugs working for Lillian but they could all be there waiting and find a way around it. Two weeks had passed there had been nothing from Sara, no obvious movements of Lillian and no attempts on Lena. Kara had also not heard anything and the paragon of hope was starting to look a little hopeless.
Then it happened, Sara contacted Nia, she gave her a location to be and a time, and told her that today was the day. Nia spread the information, if whatever Sara had planned didn't work none of the friends were willing to give up on Lena just yet. Nia hoped that whatever she needed to show Lena would be enough, both Kara and Lena were miserable without each other.