Kryptonian Nights 30
Deanlu
Supergirl is the property of DC comics and the CW. I am borrowing the characters for a little fun and storytelling. These are about the many facets of love.
Bonding
"Damn Alien!" Kara was thrown into the cell stumbling and falling to the floor. The Kryptonite emitters within the DEO cell on high drawing her strength away. Kara was beaten, bleeding, and dirty. She had been here a week. The DEO had been taken over by a faction of secret army intelligence. Kara had found out quickly that they were Cadmus. President Marsden could not help her right now as she was under suspicion of being an alien. Her Vice President, Jeremy Withers had been attempting to walk a balanced rode between Anti- Alien factions and Pro Alien factions. Supergirl had been taken into custody after a brutal fight with an alien that had tried to destroy not only National City, but also San Francisco. It had left the girl of steel weakened and unable to defend herself. The guard that had thrown her in brutally kicked her in the side repeatedly. He then closed the door. "Your kind is to blame for the death of my family. I hope you burn." Kara looked up at him in sympathy.
"I forgive you. May Rao bless you and care for your family in the beyond." Kara whispered.
"Keep your alien God to yourself you filthy alien." The guard spat turning on his heel and leaving. Four guards remained in the cell area to keep watch over Supergirl. Vasquez was one. She had not participated in the atrocities that had been suffered on Supergirl, but she had kept watch running interference when she could. Her face was covered in a half mask. Kara though would know her anywhere. The Kryptonian pulled herself up leaning back against the cell bed. Her energy levels were so low. She was seriously hurt. She hadn't seen Brainy, JImmy, Alex, Lena, Cat, Jonn, or anyone beyond Agent Lopez and Agent Vasquez. God she hoped they were okay. She wasn't going to make it this time. She pretty well knew it. The door to the holding cell area opened presenting her with a picture she never wanted to see. Lillian Luthor and Lena Luthor being pulled along by two guards.
"Here you are dear. You wanted to see her. Here she is." Lillian sneered as Lena was thrown forward toward the young Kryptonians cell. Kara observed that Lena had been beaten also. Her hair was dishevealed, clothes torn in places, and blood seeped from a cut on her forehead and out of her ear. Their eyes connected, but Kara didn't move. Lena was willing her to stay still even as their connection flared to full strength. Lena spoke quickly in Kara's mind through words and pictures she saw that Jonn, and Jimmy had escaped. Alex was still in charge, but was under close observation. Lena explained that she was trying to keep the insurgence into the DEO to a minimum. Kara needed to hang on. Cat and Brainy were being hidden away. They had started a rebel fifth column. Kara chuckled out loud at that, but even more. Lillian was here to use her mate against her. "What? Nothing to say to each other? How sad. I would think you loved each other more than that." Lillian's sarcasm dripping on every word. Lillian reached down grabbing Lena by her pony tail and focing her hand under her chin to make her watch. "I want you to see what evil you have decided to bed my daughter." Lillian nodded to the three guards with her. They entered Kara's cell pulling a syringe from a black case. It was filled with Kryptonite. Lena's eyes widened in horror. Kara's fell in acceptance. Supergirl looked toward Lillian and Lena.
"You may kill me Lillian, but there are horrors in the Universe that you cannot imagine. You think I am evil. I am not. I am a person trying to get by day by day. Do as you wish for you have condemned yourself and your planet." Supergirl uttered exhaustedly. The men grabbed her then. Supergirl put up no resistance. The entire syringe was injected into her body her scream of agonizing pain and horror echoing down the hallways of the DEO. She passed out in moments. Lillian laughing hysterically at her pain. She threw Lena into the cell with the Kryptonian.
"Enjoy your time with you MATE!" Lillian sneered as her daughter pulled her love into her lap. "She won't be around much longer. What with all the Kryptonite and torture. I think you should enjoy this small amount of time you have." The guards left even as Lena checked Kara's pulse and breathing.
"Supergirl, don't leave me." Lena whispered as her voice cracked. "Kara, please fight. Don't give up. I can see it in your eyes. Please fight for me. I promise when this is over I will take you away. Just you and me. Alone. Somewhere with full sun and no one to hurt us." Lena's broken plea breaking through to Kara's mind. "Please." Quite Suddenly Lena was pulled forward and out of the cell. She looked around her to fields of golden wheat heavy with surplus grain. Her head and body were supine to the ground under an immense tree. She moved feeling the warmth of someone below her. She looked down seeing Kara in all her nakedness wrapped around her. "Kara?" The girl of steels eyes slit open looking up at her. She smiled reaching up and wrapping Lena in a tight hug, her lips pulling her into a deep kiss. It was sometime before they broke apart. Lena rested her forehead against Kara's effused with warmth and love. "Is this real?"
"Yes, as real as we need it to be. We are still back in the cell. They can't remove us from each other now. We are joined as one. We can stay here for as long as we need." Kara whispered kissing her love slowly. Lena fell into the kiss loving her wife slowly, deeply as the sun advanced along the sky. Hours later Lena woke from a gentle sleep. Kara was now dressed and gently shaking her. "Come. Dress and walk with me." Kara asked her wife. Lena nodded dressing in the Kryptonian robes that laid near. They were white with a royal blue stripping undertone. Lena walked along a natural path with Kara. Hand in hand giggling as Kara whispered softly and kissed her.
"You said this is real. Yet, we are still in holding back at the DEO. How?" Lena inquired catching the young Kryptonian chin with her hand. Kara Zor-el smiled down kissing her mate.
"When we were joined in the Kryptonian bonding ceremony it allowed you to speak with me and feel my emotions sort of telepathically. However, it also allows us to kind of step out of our minds. Out of time. Don't get me wrong. We are still there suffering. We've just left for now." Kara responded even as they approached a place that was high above the trees. A tree top bungalow presented itself near a rocky outcrop with a waterfall. Kara led Lena to a wood elevator with a rope pull. Lena climbed aboard next to Kara. Kara pulled the rope making the elevator rise. Once at the top she looped it to the stop and helped Lena off. It was perfect. An airy large one room sectioned off into a bedroom, kitchen, and open family room. Off to the side behind a bamboo divider was the bathroom with a large tub.
"How is this possible? How is this beautiful place possible?" Lena soft voice echoed in the room. Kara Zor-el stepped up smiling and leading Lena to the breakfast counter of the kitchen where cut fruit, vegetables, and sliced meats waited along with white wine sangria. Kara poured her wife a glass of the sangria.
"Tell me what you feel?" Kara asked as she sipped her wine. Lena took a moment to have a bite of celery and think. She looked over at Kara as the Kryptonian had begun to munch on the food waiting for her answer.
"I feel loved. Very deeply, completely. I feel a warmth that is more than physical...it's emotional...soulful. Those places that felt empty...damaged…" Kara listened letting Lena form her words and thoughts. "Feel whole...healed. But only with you. I feel right." Lena finally said as Kara came up behind her wrapping her arms around her.
"Together we are whole. Not physical togetherness. Together here." Kara whispered into Lena's ear while placing her hand over her wife's heart. "Here." Kara's hand moving to her head. 'And here." Kara whispered as her arms squeezed tighter pulling Lena against her indicating the soulful feeling. "They can never separate us Lena. For we will always be together here and beyond. We are one. It's what your mother and others do not understand. Severe our bodies from each other, torture our mind and emotions, but they can never cut the bond that joins us." Lena turned within Kara's arms their left hands joined the bonding bracelets glowing like fire.
"One. Always" Lena affirmed to her kiss filled with acceptance, love, and trust.
Nine weeks later…
"President Marsden sends her thanks to you and the rest of the DEO." Cat Grant stated as she walked next to Alex Danvers, Director of the DEO. "Cadmus has been expunged from the military as best we can. Senators Harris and Jacobs which started this mess are in deep freeze. Lillian Luthor has been returned to Colorado Prison. We are still mopping up multiple areas. Vice President Withers has gone above and beyond for all of us. He is working now to make sure this doesn't happen again." Cat stopped Alex pulling the eldest Danvers off to the side. "I cannot imagine how hard this has been for you. I cannot know the toll it has taken, but know this Alex Danvers Olivia and I trust you beyond a shadow of a doubt." Alex nodded not taking any soulas in the statement.
"Thank you." Alex responded not feeling the words in any way. Both women continued on to the medical branch. Kara and Lena hooked up to IV's which delivered nutrition and medication. The sun lamps beat down on them working to restore their health. They both looked thin, ill, and not the women they were before the happenings of the last three months.
"Will they recover?" Cat asked running her hands along Kara's face down her should to her hand.
"We don't know. Kara's body if fighting off a raging infection from the broken bones and lacerations to her internal organs. Lena is in the same shape." Alex stated as she checked the latest readings.
"How long have they been like this?" Cat asked examining the bruising that ran down Lena's face, neck, and under the medical top she had been dressed in after treatment. They both looked like they had been ran over by a bus, the bus backed up over them, and then ran over them again. Alex sighed walking up next to her sister.
"Since two weeks after they were taken into custody. The minute they were put together they could not be separated. When they pulled Lena away from Kara she began to seize and hemorrhage. Kara also showed the same signs. So Lillian kept them together and tortured them together. She began not only injecting Kara with Kryptonite, but Lena also." Alex took a deep shuddering breath. "Kara died three times. Lena once. They were brought back, but I am afraid the damage is done. Their bodies are alive, but it's like their souls are no longer within. I want them back Cat. I want Kara's dorky words, massive appetite, and assuring smiles. I want Lena's smirks, her sly calculating words, and her sisterly encouragement. This cannot be it." Cat pulled Alex into one armed hug as she held Kara's hand. Both women wept even as the heart and brain machines picked up pace. Kara's fingers squeezed the hand that held hers. Cat stopped hugging Alex.
"Kara? Kara?" Cat broke away turning to Supergirl and watching as the hand twitched. Lena now moaned as Alex rounded to her bed.
"Lena? Come on Lena. Open your eyes." Alex hit the call button for Hamilton and the others. The door to medical burst open flooding the room with personnel. Hamilton was at Kara's side instantly as Cat backed up.
"Supergirl can you hear me. Come on. Supergirl speak to me." Hamilton called out as she pushed several meds into the IV while Alex worked on Lena.
"Can you all shut up! You are too loud." Lena growled out as her hand went to her head. She felt disoriented suddenly thrust back into the real world assaulted by agonizing pain, throbbing, and nausea. "Alex? Is Kara back? Is she awake?" Alex looked toward her sisters bed where Hamilton worked on her trying to pull her back.
"Hamilton's working with her. Just give her time." Alex said even as Lena pulled herself up. Alex attempting to stop her. "No Alex, you don't understand. You must pull me closer to her. Please. Alex it's important. Alex please!" Lena plead with her sister-in-law. Alex knew something was wrong. Alex nodded motioning to three agents. They pulled Lena's bed closer with the help of the three other agents. The side was pulled down as Lena pulled herself to Kara.
"Kara, please. Come back." Lena leaned her forehead against Kara's. "Please, I know you wish to stay. I know I want to stay there too. We have responsibilities Zrhueiao. Come back to me. Come back to Sol. we will walk with Rao and Yuda again, but please come back now." As Lena plead her case she opened her connection with Kara guiding her back to her home...to Lena. Kara's eyes opened immediately recognizing her love a smile spread across her face.
"Zhao!' Kara whispered as all watched. "My beloved." Then the pain hit Kara as a low moan issued from her lips. "Oh Rao! The pain Lena."
"Supergirl, on a level of one to ten with ten being the worse what is your level?" Hamilton asked readying the syringe of pain medication.
"Nine." Kara tried to work through the noise, nausea, and dizziness. Lena pulled herself the rest of the way into Kara's sun bed snuggling into the Kryptonians side. Alex came close pulling up the side of the bed. She worked on Lena while Hamilton worked on Kara stabilizing both. "You owe me another round in the hot tub love. That was dirty pool bringing us back here after your orgasm." The entire room became silent. As the two lovers talked. Lena smiled with the thoughts of their last moments in paradise.
"You know I will always use my means to convince you of the greater good. Not to mention I did promise a month or so away in the sun." Lena reminded the Kryptonian. Kara smiled remembering the place Lena had told her about. "We will walk with Rao and Yuda again Kara at a time of our choosing. I will never leave you alone." Lena whispered as she drifted into a healing sleep.
"Te threiadh. Ni threiadh. Daorrehgh Uldif." Kara whispered as she fell asleep and the pain receded. Cat Grant moved forward seeing Alex smile.
"What did she say?" Cat asked Alex having listened intently to the conversation the couple had in front of them all. The elder Danvers smiled.
"My Lineage. Your Lineage. Joined forever." Alex softly spoke as she looked up at Cat. "A reminder that nothing will break them apart. Nothing will interfere with their love." Cat looked at the two so relaxed now and flush with life where for weeks they looked like they were at death's door.
"What were they talking about walking with Rao and Yuda?" Cat asked as she watched Lena grimace in her sleep even as Kara pulled her tighter to her. Lena's face relaxed as both settled deeper into sleep. Alex sighed hoping it wasn't what she thought.
"If what Kara and Lena were talking about is what I think it is. We have a greater concern. The two have been absent in soul from their bodies for they were on another plane of existence. They gave up and left us. Their bodies have been reacting physically, but they have been gone mentally and soulfully. Kara tried to explain it to me once long ago. Her mother's AI explained it too. I don't know how it works, but if true. They have in essence lived in paradise for the last several months abandoning their bodies." Alex moved around the bed to Kara side. She leaned over kissing her forehead and whispered in her ear. "Don't you go anywhere. I want to spend time in the sun with you. I want you to meet my future daughter, if I can ever get that far. I need you Kara. I won't let you down again." Alex went to move when a hand reached out and grabbed her pulling her close.
"You have never let me down. I love you. I'll be here when you return." Alex's tears fell softly against her sisters cheek. Kara squeezed her tightly and then let go. Cat moved over to take Alex's place. Kara's eyes cracked open the question in her eyes relaying to Cat.
"You are safe. Olivia is safe and still President. Though she won't be running for a second term. I'll be returning to National City to buy back CATCO. Lillian is in Prison. Cadmus while not totally gone has been put under control and eradicated as best we can. The Anti-Alien groups have been labeled terrorist organizations. Your friends are safe though they have gone through the fire. You are safe. Thank you for staying. I'm so sorry Kara that you and your mate were tortured. Please let me know if there is anything I can do." Cat stated firmly as she kissed Kara's cheek. Kara nodded closing her eyes now that she was sure she was as safe as could be. She would protect her mate. She would not be separated again like she had been. Lena moved tugging on her shirt as her hand moved below it to the bare skin.
No matter the time here they would have more in the after life. Rao and Yuda's promise was true.