Kara started to get worried with every minute that past and her cousin and Mon-El wasn't there, knowing that both of them should be already at her loft, so she didn't waist more time and flew to the DEO.
She found Winn working at his computer, his eyes closed like if he was sleeping with his head leaning on his hands, his elbows resting on the desk.
"Winn" she whispered softly not wanting to freak him out. "Winn, wake up" she shook him by his shoulder, not getting anything. "Winn!" she shook him again, that time shouting.
Her best friend woke up startled, looking at her as if he didn't understand what was happening or which ones were the reasons why she was waking him up, narrowing his eyes as he stared at her mad, which made her laugh.
"It's not funny, Kara" Winn protested as she kept laughing at him. "What's wrong?" he asked confused, making her remember the real reason why she was there.
"Did Mon-El and Halley leave?" she asked seeing her friend nod. "When?" she questioned.
"When I texted you, an hour ago" Winn answered after looking his smartphone.
At that moment she tried to process the information, but all she could think about was that they were missing, her little cousin was missing.
She held her head trying to clarify her thoughts, her best friend observing her as if he wanted to guess what was happening, but she couldn't answer anything, she didn't know where she should start searching.
"I'm going to look for them, if they come back, tell me" she asked before leaping to the dark night sky.
She tried to calm herself down, maybe Mon-El was just lost and he didn't know how to reach her apartment, focusing in identifying her cousin's heartbeat as she kept looking for them from the sky.
After half and hour she was tired of flying in circles around the city and not finding anything, tears falling down her cheeks, desperately to find her cousin, not understanding who would want to hurt her now.
She was ready to go back to the DEO, however when she was about to do so, she saw something that caught her attention. She landed on a dark street, barely being visible her cousin's backpack and stuffed toy, which she picked up from the ground to watch them.
"Winn, someone has kidnapped them" she whispered through her coms with a lump in her throat.
When she reached the DEO J'onn and her sister were already there, moment in which she broke down, crying on her sister's shoulder, who was trying to calm her down.
"Everything's going to be fine, we're going to find her" Alex told her making her nod. "She's brave, Kara, plus wherever she is, she's not alone, Mon-El is there with her" her sister kept trying to reassure her, but the only thing she could do was nod.
"I have a camera that may have recorded what had happened there" Winn said walking to them with his tablet.
She watched the video in completely silence, her sister embracing her to prevent her to collapse, but how not to do so when the only thing she wanted to do was crying.
It was difficult to see the whole scene, but as far as she could see, those people wanted Mon-El, Halley just trying to protect him, being at the wrong place at the wrong time. They had taken her cousin and she wasn't going to rest until she would find them.
What if it was because of Mon-El's job? At that moment he had been beating people with debts for money, so it wouldn't be a surprise to know that it was any kind of a mafia.
"I shouldn't have trusted him" she whispered clutching her fits while turning to look at Winn. "I told you to take Halley home, not Mon-El" she snapped at her friend.
"How did I know that would happen?" Winn asked. "It could have happened anyways, What if they were just waiting randomly? Or even for her?" he questioned her as her sister stepped in front of her to pull her away from Winn.
"He's right" Alex said. "We don't know what happened, it may have not connection with Mon-El" her sister told her to which she nod.
"I'm sorry" she apologized to her best friend.
"It's okay, I know you're scared" he commented with a slight smile. "I'll try to track them, we're gonna find them" Winn said before leaving them alone and returning to his chair.
She looked at her sister while shaking her head, the only thing she wanted to do was to find her cousin, to hug the child tightly against her and promise her that everything would be fine. However, at that moment the only thing she was able to do was crying and ask herself why she didn't pick her cousin up from the DEO, maybe if she had done it, nothing of that would have happened.
The five year old woke up in a room she didn't recognize, barely remembering what had happened before that night.
She sat down on the bed, rubbing her eyes before looking around her trying to know where she was and why she was there. However, she couldn't avoid jump scared when she heard the door getting open.
"Don't be afraid, little one" a woman said entering the room as she tried to stay as far as possible of her. "I won't hurt you" the woman sat down at the edge of the bed.
She bowed down her head, her eyes closed as she tried not to start crying when she noticed that Mon-El wasn't there with her, she was all alone with that woman.
Tears fell down her cheeks feeling how the woman was getting closer to her, which made her breath with agitation, increasing when the woman caressed her face to wipe her tears.
She stared at the woman for a few seconds, her eyes opening widely when she recognized her. That woman was the same one to whom Alex admitted to have killed her mom, the one who said that aliens shouldn't exist, so she got away from her.
"I only want to make you some questions, okay?" the woman told her, making her nod slightly not really sure what she should do. "First one, What's your name?"
"Halley" she answered scared of what would happen is she didn't answer, seeing her smile while nodding.
"I should introduce myself, shouldn't I?" the woman chuckled. "I'm Lillian" she told her. "How old are you?"
"Five" she barely whispered.
"Okay, Can I asked you about your family?" Lillian asked to what she nodded. "Who do you live with?" the woman questioned directly, so she doubted about her answer.
"With my cousin" she answered, frowning, she was starting to believe that the woman was trying to get some information from her.
"What's your cousin's name?" the woman asked, which she decided not to answer, she wasn't going to endanger her cousin by saying her name. "Okay, I've heard that you like coloring" Lillian said approaching a kid's table where she put some crayons and papers for her to color. "Feel free to use them" the woman told her shortly before approaching the door to leave.
"Where is Mon-El?" she asked getting down of the bed.
"I can't answer you that, not yet" the woman answered before leaving and closing the door.
"No!" she screamed when she heard the door getting locked, trying to open it as she called for help.
After a few minutes she let herself fell to the floor with her head between her hands as she started crying again, Was Mon-El still alive? She wasn't even sure that they were at the same place, so how to know that he was fine.
She wanted her cousin to be there with her, embracing her tightly while promising that everything was going to be fine, that they would get out from there. However, the only thing she could was not losing hope and believe that Kara would find them before it would be too late.
"Anything?" Kara asked approaching her friend, who shook his head. "Keep working, I'm going to go out to look for them" she told him walking to the balcony, but her sister stopped her by grabbing her arm.
"Where are you going?" Alex asked pulling from her to get her to turn. "You should be resting" her sister looked at her seriously.
"I can't, plus you should be too" she answered frowning.
"It's my job, the DEO is looking for them" her sister pointed out.
"Well my job is to take care of my cousin and I lost her" she snapped starting to get mad.
With that said she got rid of her sister's grip and flew to the sky, all the tears that she had contained during the last night falling down her cheeks.
It was dawning and they didn't have any news about where they could be, feeling how she was getting nervous by every second that passed.
A sharp noise made her loose control, almost falling against the ground, which caused to stop.
"Hello, Kryptonian" a woman's voice pierced her ears.
"CADMUS" she whispered surprised.
"Got it in one, and Do you know why we call ourselves that?" the woman asked before answering. "CADMUS was the very first Greek hero"
"If you think your a hero you're crazier than I thought" she hissed.
"I'm inviting you over, we already have two guests waiting for you, your daxamite friend and your sweet little cousin" the woman told her, making her close her eyes, Halley couldn't be there. "But if you tell anyone where you're heading, they die. If you refuse to come, they die" she started looking for where they were while listening. "Come to me, Supergirl, but I should warn you, in the myths, CADMUS was really only famous for one thing, he killed the monsters" the woman claimed.
Just as the woman finished speaking she flew to the place were from where she was hearing the signal, breaking into an abandoned building.
She couldn't think about Halley being hurt by those people, being tested and locked in a cage, so she could assure that she was going to find her no matter what she would go through.
However, she knew it was all a trick when she got face to face with the real Hank Hensaw, who had been alive during those past years working for CADMUS, trying to fight him, but ended up not being victorious because she fell unconscious.
She woke up inside of a cage, Mon-El sitting in the cage next to hers observing her, which made her look for her cousin, but not finding the child, so she got up to have a better look of the place.
"Where's Halley?" she asked hoping he would know.
"I don't know, I haven't seen her since we were inside the van" he answered, but not giving her time to say something. "I'm sorry, I told her to run, but she refused to, it's my fault" Mon-El apologized as she turned to look at him, he had tried to protect the kid. "I should have..."
"No, it's not" she interrupted him. "They kidnapped you to get to me, I'm the one who has endanger my cousin" she claimed blaming herself for everything that was happening.
"Supergirl" the woman's voice was present as the same time one of the doors was opening. "I don't believe we've been introduced" she observed her while the woman was approaching, she had seen her before.
"I've seen you before in Lena Luthor's office. What were you doing there?" she asked confused.
"I might ask you the same. I don't like the idea of you around my daughter" at that moment Kara realized who that woman was.
"You're Lillian Luthor. Lex and Lena's mother" she whispered.
"I'm a lot of things. A doctor, a patriot, a mother..." Lillian rambled.
"A liar, a kidnapper, a killer" she interrupted her. "Does Lena know about Cadmus? Does she know who her mother really is?" she asked.
"And what are you to my daughter?" Lillian questioned back.
"I'm a friend" she answered.
"I've heard that before" Lillian sighed walking to the other part of the cage, so she turned to look at her. "Years ago, Superman came to my son, Lex, and promised him the world. A new dawn for mankind. Lex believed him, poor thing. And then he watched as your kinsman infected this country with his propaganda, as his power became unchecked. And when Lex tried to take that power back, Superman convinced the world that Lex was evil" the woman related. "My darling boy. My genius son" Lillian shook his head. "An actual Superman, behind bars for life. Because you and your kind will stop at nothing to poison the Earth" the leader of CADMUS accused her.
"You're out of your mind" she told her.
"We'll agree to disagree" Lillian smiled walking again.
"Where's my cousin?" she asked directly.
"You'll see her soon, but first I need you to be human for a little while" Lillian told her as she shook her head.
"You want me to solar flare? That's never gonna happen" she answered while seeing how Lillian was raising a gun.
"I can't hurt you, but I can hurt him" Lillian shot Mon-El in his knee making him fall to the ground.
"No! Mon-El!" she couldn't avoid screaming.
"We've been studying your friend. He's powerful, but has a very bad lead allergy." Lillian explained. "Say you'll do it and I'll let him live. Or I could just put one in his heart right now" the woman threatened her.
"No! Okay, okay! I'll do it! Stop!" she screamed surrendering herself.
"Please, don't" Mon-El looked straight at her eyes, she was able to distinguish the pain.
"I'm not gonna let you die" she told him, before looking at Lillian. "Give me the helmet"
She couldn't avoid screaming while using her heat vision, it was really draining all her energy from her cells and she wasn't sure how long she would stand it, falling to the floor when she solar flared.
Lillian crouched down her height before grabbing her to help her stand, observing her with curiosity and superiority, like if she was proud of herself because the helmet had worked.
"Thank you" the leader of CADMUS slapped her making her hit the floor, but grabbing her again as she was testing blood in her mouth. "It worked" Lillian smiled touching the blood of her lip. "Take her"
She felt to agents grabbing her by her arms to drag her out of room to another one, screaming for Lillian to let her cousin and Mon-El leave.
They forced her to lay down on a stretcher, her wrists being tied as well as her head, watching Lillian approaching her with a needle in her hands.
"I suggest to relax, all will be over soon" the woman said as the needle pierced her skin.
"You said I would see my cousin, Where is she?" she asked demanding an answer.
"Okay, bring the child" Lillian asked an agent, who returned into the room with Halley gripping his hand.
Tears slid down her cheeks when her cousin's bright eyes locked with hers, being able to find fear in them, Halley muttering her name while trying to get rid of the grip of the agent to run to her.
She wanted to get up and approach her cousin, but no matter how much she tried, she didn't get it, so she looked at Lillian like begging her to let her embrace the kid, seeing how the leader of CADMUS was enjoying the situation.
"Enough, take the child to the room" she heard Lillian saying to the agent, who nodded while starting walking, her cousin screaming and pulling towards her.
"No! Halley!" she screamed watching how the agent picked up the kid before leaving the room. "No! Where are you taking her?" she asked concerned about her cousin's safety.
"I said you would see her, not that she would be with you" Lillian told her with a smile. "Why would I want to give her back to you? Now I have the opportunity to know how your kind works" she closed her eyes while hearing her saying that, not being able to think about her cousin being harm. "I believe she doesn't have all of her powers yet, does she?" the woman asked, but she kept silent. "Don't worry, I will not be too hard on her" Lillian smiled. "Take her to the cell"
Again two agents grabbed her by her arms to drag her to the cell, pushing her inside before leaving her and Mon-El alone, so she crawled to sit as close as possible to him.
The daxamite observed her curious when she started crying, like if he wanted to know what they had done to her, so he could understand the reasons why she was crying that way.
"They took her away" she whispered between sobs.
"Halley?" Mon-El asked.
"She's not coming back, Mon-El, she's not coming back" she sobbed shaking her head.
It was her fault, everything was her fault and now she wasn't even sure if she would see her cousin ever again, so the only thing she was able to do was crying and blaming herself, if the hadn't been for her, Halley would be safe.
Hi!
I decided to make this chapter a two parts so it wasn't too long. Kara has found her baby cousin, but Lillian is not going to make things easy for them. Will Kara be able to safe Halley?
Thanks so much for reading, let me know what you think,
Ayrin