Annnd here ya go. I'm just going to let it speak for itself. Stay safe and stay awesome. -Commander

Chapter Five:

Kara made one last loop over Metropolis, super hearing trained towards the L-Corp office and actively listening to make sure this reunion wouldn't be interrupted, before swooping down to land on the balcony, purposefully making her footing heavy so the woman sitting behind the desk would know of her presence.

As the woman turned in her chair, green eyes meeting blue for the first time in ten years, Kara had to force her knees to keep her upright. She'd spent the better part of the night preparing herself for this, for seeing Lena again, reading over everything the woman had sent a few days before, and Kara knew that this would be difficult. The woman hadn't changed much, if even at all and as much as the Kryptonian didn't want to admit it, it seemed that ten years hadn't put a dent in the way she felt towards the youngest Luthor.

Kara waited patiently, arms crossed over her chest, for Lena to unlock and open the balcony door after the other woman suppressed her own, unknown moment of emotion. And it was like a flash from the past as Kara strode into the office, her heart pounding in her ears as she tried to keep control of the situation. "Ms. Luthor. I hope I'm not interrupting anything."

"What are you doing here?"

The Kryptonian took a look at the office, noting how much it looked like her old one back in National City, spinning on her heel slowly until she was face-to-face with her ex best friend, the mother of her child and the woman she was still hopelessly and madly in love with. "You really think that after yesterday I wasn't going to say something? That you could, what? Send those letters, lure Ali out here and then break her heart all over again? You honestly didn't think I was going to stand by and let that happen, do you? Because if you did, then you must have forgotten in these past ten years that our daughter means the world to me and I'll be damned if I let someone hurt her, let alone her mother."

"I didn't mean to hurt her."

"But you did. Again. How am I supposed to explain any of this to her? I didn't have the answers for her ten years ago, I still don't. The woman who left us, that's not the Lena I knew. The Lena I knew loved her family, loved our daughter. And I come home to find her sobbing on my couch because you rejected her, again. What the hell is wrong with you?!"

"I do love her, Kara. I never stopped. I didn't want to leave."

"Then why did you?!"

The blonde was surprised to see the woman's face fall. She'd been expecting defensive Lena, like a few moments ago, even angry and dismissive Lena, but not the seemingly small woman now standing in front of her. "I don't…it's a long story, Kara."

"I have plenty of time, and you wanted to talk, so talk."

"We can't. Not here. It's not safe."

Some of Kara's anger dissipated as she watched the brunette glance around the office almost nervously, her hands fidgeting at her side. Something was definitely off with the woman. In all the years that Kara had known her, Lena wasn't someone to just take it sitting down. She had always been outspoken and stood up for herself, it had been one of the things Kara had admired about her. And the quiet, dismissive woman she was looking at wasn't the same Lena she once knew. "Lena, what's going on? What do you mean it's not safe?"

"You should just go. If she finds out you're here…"

"I'm not, I'm not leaving you, Lena. Not if someone is threatening you."

Before Lena could answer her, from somewhere else in the building, Kara's hearing picked up on the sound of a voice she never expected to hear, her eyes instantly narrowing. "What the hell is Lilian doing here?"

The Kryptonian watched as the brunette's eyes widened slightly before the smaller woman was actively attempting to push her towards the balcony, her human stature getting her nowhere. "Go, Kara. Go now. Please."

Grabbing the brunette's hands, mostly to keep the woman from hurting herself and to catch her attention, Kara glanced between the closed office doors and Kryptonite-green eyes. "Lena, are you in danger?"

The CEO looked like she wanted to say something, but the sound of the elevator dinging at the end of the hallway seemed to choose silence for the brunette. "Not, but Ali is. Go. I'll try and get in contact with you soon. Just please, go. She can't find you here."

Kara wanted to say something, wanted to ask the woman again if something was going on, but Lilian's footsteps and voice were too close, so she slipped back through the balcony door just a second before the older Luthor stepped into Lena's office. The Kryptonian flew over to nearest building, keeping her hearing trained on the office.

"You look flustered."

"To be honest, Mother, I'm not feeling very well at the moment."

"And I'm sure it has nothing to do with your little visitor you had moments ago? This office is quite popular as of recent, isn't it?"

Kara heard the brunette's heart thunder much louder, causing the Kryptonian to frown. It wasn't Lilian that was threatening Lena, was it? The woman was a bitch, to say the least, and she's put Lena in harms way before, but she never thought she'd outright hurt her adoptive daughter on purpose. Despite Lilian's…methods…the woman has always seemed to care for Lena, if only just a little.

"I don't know what you're talking about, Mother."

"Don't play dumb with me, Lena. I have your office under surveillance, and my men were kind enough to notify me of the Girl of Steel's presence. How is Supergirl?"

"I wouldn't know. This is the first time I've seen her in ten years. You know that."

"Yes. However, you know what our deal included, my dear. And I'm afraid that today was your third strike. I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt, to try and change your mind and make you see reason, but I shouldn't be surprised that you've failed. You were always destined to disappoint and let people down. After all, what kind of mother abandons their only child?"

"You leave Ali out of this! I don't care what you do to me but leave her alone."

"That I can't do, my dear daughter. I'm sorry to admit that I was wrong. Keeping the girl alive has done nothing but prove to be a distraction for you and if you're going to run this company, there can't be any distractions."

Kara's own heart slammed around inside her ribcage, the blonde scurrying around her suit for her phone. Just as she found it, Alex's name popped up on the screen, and Kara's heart sank. "Alex? What's wrong?"

"Kar, I need you to listen before you do anything, okay? Ali's SOS signal went off a few minutes ago, but her tracker is offline. I've been pulling footage from her usual walk to school to see if…"

Tuning her hearing back towards the office, and realizing that Lilian had someone managed to slip away during the few seconds she'd been talking to Alex, Kara cursed under her breath. "It's Lilian. I don't know where she's taken her or why, but I know she did it. She's somewhere in Metropolis, I'm heading back now."

Thankfully, her sister didn't bother to question how she knew this information, only acknowledging it and was already barking orders to her agents before even hanging up the phone, making Kara immediately thankful for her big sister. Without her, Eliza and the rest of their family, Kara wouldn't have survived the past ten years.

Just as the Kryptonian was fixing to launch herself into the sky, her ears picked up her name being softly spoke, almost whispered and on instinct, Kara was back inside Lena's office and pulling the other woman into her arms.

"She has her. My mother…she…she's taken Ali."

Kara knew that there was still a lot for them to talk about, that she was still so angry with her, that there were things she didn't understand and holes in all of this that only Lena could fill, but for the moment she knew she had to push those things aside because their daughter was missing and all that mattered was getting her back.

Which is why without a second thought Kara lifted the brunette into her arms and took off back towards National City, her hearing trained on trying to locate her daughter's heartbeat the entire flight back over. But as hard as she concentrated, there was nothing but silence, so Kara forced herself to getting Lena to the DEO so she could help them with whatever they needed to know. That was the first steps towards getting Ali back.

When they landed just inside the DEO's "Super-friendly" balcony, Kara set the brunette down on her feet and prepared herself for what was coming, judging by the way her sister's breath hitched in her throat upon their arrival.

"What the hell is she doing here?!"

Kara took an involuntary step in between her sister and Lena, holding her hands out in front of her to keep the other brunette from reaching the CEO if need be. "I can explain, Alex."

"Ten fucking years and now she wants to help? When it's her own mother that's the reason why my niece is gone?"

Kara flinched at her sister's voice. She didn't blame Alex for being angry, she was angry herself, but now wasn't the time to air out this whole situation. Right now they needed to focus on getting Ali back. "Alex, do you think we all can go into your lab and talk?"

With a huff, her sister was off stomping off towards her lab, leaving Kara to glance over her shoulder and meet the CEO's gaze as she held out one hand, a peace offering. "Here's your chance to explain everything."

Thankfully, the brunette lifted her own hand and let it settle inside the Kryptonian's without missing a beat, Kara own tightening slightly around the woman's slender fingers at the contact. It was the first step in the right direction. The first step towards reconciliation.