Luthor

Prompt: Luthor

The name Luthor was something that Lena had grown to hate the older she got; the more she learnt about what the Luthor name stood for and how people reacted once they found out she was a Luthor. There were five specific incidents where someone picked on her because of her name that were burned into the brunette's mind. While she can remember more of the hundreds of incidents, these specific five incidents haunt her dreams.

The first time someone picked on her for her last name was only a couple of years after she had gone to live with the Luthors. At the private secondary school Lillian sent Lena to, an older boy pushed her over and pulled at her hair, "Luthor scum" he spat, his saliva spraying all over her face "Oh wait, you're not a real Luthor, are you?". The venom in his voice was clear, even though Lena didn't know the reason for it.

The eleven year old brunette had no idea as to why someone would hate her because of her last name. Sure, Lillian was cold, distant and abusive towards her but she couldn't understand why other people would have an issue with her family? Especially as she had thought that both Lex and Lionel had loved her so much and at eleven, she thought that they could do no wrong. How wrong she had been.

The second time she can clearly remember was her first day at the then called Luthor Corp, only a few weeks after Lex had tried to kill Superman and had resulted in the the deaths of almost three hundred citizens. She'd been dropped off by her driver in the car park due to the large crowd that had been gathered outside the building for hours, chanting that she step down and holding signs that read 'Luthor scum', 'All Luthors must burn in hell" and even some with pictures of her family's faces on them crossed out on them. She was walking from her car to the below ground entrance to the company building when someone jumped out from behind a parked car, wielding a gun as they attempted to shoot at her. They missed, thankfully, but Lena was unable to shake the feeling that maybe they shouldn't have. The Luthor name was a curse and she didn't think that it would ever leave her free of it's grips.

When Kara revealed her secret identity to her, Lena couldn't help but hate the Luthor name. She had poured her heart and soul out to the blonde, telling her things she'd never dared to tell anyone before and when she found out that her best friend, someone that she loved with her entire being and way more than a friend loves another friend, and when she was told the blonde's true identity; her heart shattered into what felt like a million pieces.

The rational part of her brain knew that Kara had kept her identity a secret to try and protect her, but the larger, more irrational, part of her brain was telling her that Kara had used her, faked their entire friendship just to manipulate her into doing whatever she needed her to do; bending the brunette to the blonde's every whim.

After finding out Kara's secret, she drank herself into oblivion. Her self hatred was at an all time high, all because of her surname. It cursed her, following around her like a bad cloud and ruined everything she touched.

However, when Kara asked Lena out on a date, after they had patched up their friendship, by asking "Will you, Lena Luthor, do me the absolute honour of going on a date with me?", Lena's heart started to flutter, not only at the thought of going on a date with Kara, after she has secretly been in love with her almost from the moment they met, but also because it was the first time someone had called her a Luthor and not meant anything horrible by it. They had a wonderful date and when Lena was lying awake at night afterwards, she couldn't wipe the smile from her face.

The second time Kara had used Lena's surname that stuck in the brunette's mind was the first time Kara told Lena that she loved her. They had been dating for a little over four months, but had been friends for over three years before this point. They had just finished cooking dinner together when Kara randomly turned to her girlfriend and blurted out her declaration of love "I love you, Lena Luthor". The blonde had spoken with such conviction and with a huge smile spread across her lips that Lena was stunned to silence. She wasn't used to people saying they loved her, or even caring about her. However, after Kara let her process the words, Lena returned her admission, revealing that she too loved her blonde, Kryptonian girlfriend and admitted that she had done for many years. Kara often used her full name when she was talking to her whether joking around or telling her that she loved her and it made Lena hate her surname a little less.

The night that Kara proposed to Lena, was the third memory that made Lena feel a bit better about her surname. They had shared a intimate and romantic meal at Noonans, where Kara had ensured they were in a quiet corner away from the rest of the customers. They had talked and laughed, then went for a romantic walk down by the water where Kara had almost gotten down on one knee and asked her girlfriend to marry her right then and there, but stopped herself from doing so as she know that someone would have taken a picture and it would have been all over the news and internet and this was something that Kara wanted to keep private between her and Lena.

Once back at their apartment, they had barely gotten through the front door when Kara tripped over her shoes; landing on her knees. Without thinking, she puts one knee up and pulls the ring out of her back pocket. "Lena Luthor, the love of my life. Would you do me the greatest honour of marrying me, and becoming my wife?" Kara had asked as tears of joy started to fall down her face as she also fell to her knees, grabbing Kara's face in her hands and kissing her fiercely.

"Yes" She had replied, unable to wipe the smile off of her face. "Yes, I will marry you Kara Danvers."

On the day of their wedding, Lena had been really anxious. She'd had no family to walk her down the aisle, unlike Kara who had Eliza, Alex, Alura and countless others and Lena would be lying if she wasn't at least a little jealous. Sam had been really excited to walk Lena down the aisle, Lena had chosen her as she was the closest thing Lena had to family; she is like a sister to her. All of Lena's worries were wiped from her mind when she saw Kara standing at the other end of the aisle in a deep navy suit and crisp white shirt with the top two buttons slightly undone. Lena had to stop herself from running down the aisle to be with Kara, but she managed to maintain her composure and she walks with dignity to greet the love of her life. After they had been married by the officiator, Kara turned to Lena and whispered in her ear "When I left Krypton, I didn't think that I would ever be this happy, but you Lena Luthor, have proved me wrong. I love you."

She softly kissed her wife's forehead only for Lena to interrupt her "It's Luthor - Danvers now, silly" she replied with a chuckle. Previously, she had thought that if she had never keep her last name, but thanks to Kara and her proud heritage, she encouraged her to keep her name, reminding her that now, the Luthor name only did good and that was something to be proud of.

After twelve painful and slow hours of labour, which to Lena had felt as if she had been giving birth for a week, her and Kara's daughter was born weighing a whopping ten pounds and three ounces. Lena had berates her wife for this, blaming the fact that their daughter shared her Kryptonian DNA and their super-human strength. Kara admitted that because Kryptonian babies were created and delivered via the matrix, they tended to be larger; something she forgot to mention to her wife when they were discussing Lena carrying their first child. "Look at her" Kara had whispered as their newborn daughter was put on her mother's bare, sweaty chest "She's beautiful."

"That she is" Lena replies, unable to take her eyes off her daughter who is already asleep against her chest.

When the nurse had asked if they had a name, Kara piped up "Lori El Luthor - Danvers." The nurse had complimented the name and left the new mothers alone with their new baby.

Lena sat, watching Lori sleep on her chest, as she thought about how she had never thought that she would ever have children, let alone pass her name down to them. It filled her with that fuzzy feeling that spread through her body when her surname was used for good or when Kara used it with a look of pure adoration in her eyes.

"You know it's strange, I know we used my egg, but I could swear that she looks just like you; especially when you're sleeping. Look at the way her nose scrunches up; it's just like you."

"If she has your appetite then the two of you might end up bankrupting me!" The brunette chuckles, stopping quickly when it pulls at her muscles.

Seeing the wince on her wife's face, Kara tells her that she needs to sleep which Lena protests to as she's never been one for sleep. "We're supposed to sleep when she sleeps now, that's what all the parenting books say. Plus, she'll be up soon wanting feeding and I can't do that so you need to be as well rested as you can be."

Begrudgingly, Lena fell asleep, her head filled with thoughts of her wife and daughter. Kara picked the sleeping newborn of Lena's chest, wrapping her up and placing her in the cot at the side of the bed before covering her wife with a blanket. Kara sat on the chair in between the bed and the cot, allowing sleep to take over her body.

When Lori woke up crying for a feed, Lena couldn't even be annoyed her sleep had been disrupted because when she looked at her daughter as she attempted to feed her for the first time, all she felt was pure happiness.

Although incidents of crimes against Lena because of her last name continued over the years, she no longer hated her last name. Sure, she hated the people she was supposed to call family who had ruined the name for her and her children, but she had done her best to make sure the Luthor name stood for something good. That was what the Luthor name would mean for generations to come, not sullied by those few who had done harm under it.