Its a Supercorp Life.

Tukma

Chapter Management

Chapter 15: Epilogue - blended family

Summary:

Leaving the scene of the fight and working through the week, Lena had two family members to bury, Lena had a change of perspective, Kara finally reads her mothers Letter and Lena makes an announcement

Chapter Text

It had been a week since the explosion, Brainy had scanned the area and there were no life signs remaining, once the Kryptonite radiation was dispersed they searched the area to find a body. There was very little left of Lex, his biological body did not withstand the explosion, just the implants and the cybernetics were found, most melted and twisted in the explosion. They had collected all that they could find which gave Lena something to bury, the DNA confirmed it was once Lex Luthor. Lena had planned a double funeral for her mother and brother to take place quietly and they would be buried in the family crypt.

Lena had been throwing herself into work, the arrangements and anything that she could do to avoid thinking about the funerals, or that she was now the last Luthor. All the superfriends had tried to talk to her but the only people she was allowing to see her were Kon and Kara. the time spent was limited and she always found something else that needed to be done.

"Aunty Lena, please don't go back to work, I miss you everyone does and well, I know you're sad but you still have me and Kara, Alex and everyone."

Lena looked at the boy, not only was he all that she had left of her brother, but he connected her to Clarke, Kara, Sam by blood, she looked at him and smiled softly, she wasn't alone, she still had family, she pulled Kon into her and held him, and for the first time she cried. Kara could hear the exchange and although she didn't want to interrupt she wanted to support both Lena and Kon. she moved into the room and held both in her arms, Kon moving and Lena wrapping herself within Kara's arms head on her chest. She cried for a while as Kara held her close, Lena had told her before that loss does strange things to a Luthor, but Kara thought that this was just normal, she had distanced herself and now she was really feeling.

When Lena finally stopped crying she looked at Kara and wiped her eyes. She steadied her breath and calmed her nerves a little, she was finding everything harder than she thought she would.

"You know Kara it's been so long since Lex was the brother that I remember and I know I lost him a long time ago, that I shot him myself but this, I wasn't expecting to feel this. I miss him, how insane is that, I miss the man that has tormented me for years, has tried to kill me, and those I love and is, was completely crazy"

Kara held her close and stroked her hair, she knew that Lena would be upset, she had remembered the strange sensation when Astra had died. Her memory of the loving aunt that was her favorite, was what she was holding even up to the end where she thought she had gotten through to her. She was family and she loved her, even though the things that she had done were terrible.

"Lena, no matter what he did, he was still that boy you remember, and although he changed, that boy was still there in your heart and in your mind. He will always be there, and if you can get to a place where you can forgive the other things then that memory that boy can continue in your heart."

Lena looked at her and smiled, she didn't know how to do that but she had seen Kara go through loss, after loss and she always managed to get through, with Kara's help she would get through. She was most surprised with how much loss she felt for Lillian. Lillian's final words were still in her mind and she couldn't help but think that although they were very different and she would never agree with her mother, she did actually love her.

"Kara, my mother, she said something before she died, and I can't help but believe it was true which makes losing her now, that much harder. She whispered to me, that she was sorry and that finally she made the right choice when it came to her children, she had saved the good one, and given Lex her kryptonite not his."

Kara's eyes widened and looked at her she was not paying attention to the words of Lillian in the Legion ship, she was prying the metal men off Alex she was dealing with stopping her sister being crushed, she had been focused on that, the sound of the metal scraping, she had not focused on Lena. she looked at her and placed her hand on Lena's cheek rubbing her thumb over the raven woman's cheek bone.

"Lena, your mother was a unique individual, and she made a lot of poor choices, but she loved you we knew that, the baby truth seeker told us that, and she may have not been the mother you deserved for most of your life, but the last act she did, was as your mother, with love, she was unable to let you die and sacrificed herself for you."

Lena started to cry again, for the woman, for her mother, for the possibility that things could have been different, there was nothing that could be done now, but the way that Lillian had died and the words that she said, changed the way Lena looked at their history. Lillian may not have been loving in a traditional way, she may have gotten it all wrong, but she could see that she was always pushing Lena to be strong, independant and reach her full potential. She sighed and looked back to Kara.

"Well it I am not going back to work, I guess I should get ready for the funeral."

Lena changed and when she left the room and entered the living area, everyone was there, ready to accompany her, her heart swelled as she saw everyone, there wasn't a single person in that room that had any love for Lex or Lillian, this was her family being there for her, they were there to support Lena. They all left for the funerals and after the service they returned to Kara's loft. Lena to her surprise found Clark to be the one that she was talking to the most. Although their relationship had become something different he also had a lot of memories of the good Lex. it was nice for her to have someone to talk to about the person he was, although the irony doesn't escape her. The one person with good memories of Lex was the one that he blamed for all his issues and his spiral into madness, if Lex could have been more like her and embraced the Super, maybe everything would have been very different.

Kara looked around the room filled with everyone that she loved on earth and she thought about her own mother, she was alive and on Argo and she had left her a letter. She had forgotten all about it, between training for a fight with the Luthors, training Sam, looking after Kon and then the past week, she slipped out of the room and headed to her room to read the words that her mother had written to her. When she read it she smiled, it was almost like her mother knew that difficult times were ahead. She walked in and smiled at everyone, coughing a little to get their attention.

"I would like to share something with you. My mom wrote a letter to me and I forgot about it until now, but I think that her words should be heard by everyone."

Every one quietened down and Kara walked over to Lena placing her hand on her shoulder as she started to read.

"Dear Little one,

I have been spending time with Kal and Lois, they have baby Johnathan and are planning to come back to earth, I am happy to have had this time with them, and would love time with my only daughter. I know that time has passed between us and Earth is now your home. I have listened to the stories of my amazing daughter and her wonderful family.

I am glad that you have not only your adopted family but the blended family that you have created for yourself. I understand that you have found love, and that you have started expanding your family with new heroes and people from the future, not to mention the continued support from your martian space dad.

El-Mayarah is our family's motto, Stronger together, blood may not bond you but the bonds you have formed in creating your unique blended family are as strong as any bond in a family, and you are all stronger together, I hope that one day you will bring your new family to Argo.

Be happy little one, I love you always"

Kara was choked up as she looked around the room to the faces of her family. That is what they were, and her mother was right, they were all stronger together. Her family may not be growing in a conventional way but it was growing, and she was so happy to see everyone's faces smiling back at her. Lena listened and looked at Kara, then Alex and Nia. She also had something to tell them.

"Well we have a blended family and in the last week while I have been at LCorp I have been working on the ability to expand our family genetically. I have managed to get the Matrix working, there are two options, I can combine the DNA and create a embryo, this can be implanted into you or gesticulate in the Matrix, the children will be able to have two same sex parents, and the sex of the child will also be something that I can control, I have found a way to implant the genetics of the two into the matrix and create a baby."

There was excitement in the room, Nia finally had a way to have a child and carry on her lineage, Alex could have the child that she always wanted. Kara was containing her own excitement, she couldn't think of anything that she wanted more than a baby that was her's and Lena's. Everyone was excited and chatting as the news sunk in, Lena looked up to see Kon slipping out, she went through the window onto the balcony.

"Hey Kon what is wrong?"

He looked at her sadly and shrugged, he was starting to get that teenaged apathetic behaviour down to a tee. She smiled and moved closer sitting on the railing and looking at him.

"You know just because I can now create other children doesn't mean that we are replacing you, you are still our family, and you Kon are all I have left of my brother, he may have not ended up the way I wanted but I loved him so much and I love you too"

She smiled at him and gave his shoulder a little nudge. He looked up, his eyes glistening a little as he looked back at her, she was his favorite, and he didn't want to lose her.

"If you have a baby of your own, you wont need me anymore, you will be too busy"

Lena pulled him closer and ruffled his thick hair, laughing a little and kissing him on the forehead.

"Kon, I dont need you now, I love you and want you in my life, and that will never change, I am not planning on children, not now, maybe not ever I will always want my nephew though"

Kon was smiling brightly, out on the balcony cuddling into Lena, inside Kara's heart and face fell, she loved Lena and didn't want to be with anyone else, hearing that Lena didn't want any children weighed heavy on her heart. That had broken Alex and Maggie up and she didn't want to have the same thing happen to her and Lena.

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