Halley kicked against the agent that was holding her, feeling how he tighten the grip, her eyes closed to prevent the tears to slide down her cheeks as she kept listening to her cousin's screams.
The agent sat her on the bed before leaving the room, making her whimper when the door slammed, she couldn't though about being locked in that room again, it brought so bad memories from Fort Rozz.
She cried putting her knees up to her chest, letting her head rest on them as soft sobs escaped her lips, tears streaming down her cheeks as she remembered her cousin tied to that stretcher, only hoping for Kara to be fine.
When the door opened again, she did what she had always done when her father would have entered the room, she hid under the bed spreads as she kept crying.
"Come out of hiding, little kryptonian" the woman ordered her, so she did not wanting to make her mad. "Good, we're going do some test" Lillian told her when she looked at her, her big blue eyes brighter because of the tears.
Lillian picked her up from the bed before leaving her on the floor and grab her tiny hand, starting walking down a hallway, her head bowed deep in her own thoughts, not really wanting to know where they were going, not after having seen her her cousin being harmed.
The woman sat her on a chair before sitting in front of her, her gaze still looking at the floor scared of look up at her, but being obligated to do so when the leader of CADMUS grabbed her chin.
"It's okay, little kryptonian" Lillian caressed her face like if she was trying to calm her down. "Which powers do you have?" the woman asked as she bit her lower lip nervously.
"I can fly and... I have super-hearing" her voice trembled while answering the question.
"Anything else?" the woman asked making her shake her head. "Okay, let's see how it works" Lillian sighed signaling for some agents to approach her.
Soon she was surrounded by four agents, who were putting electrodes in different areas of her tiny body, most of them on her chest, while the others were at her forehead, arms and legs.
She looked at Lillian not understanding how that was going to work, if it was going to hurt her or not, but the woman approached her and crouched down her height only to take off her earrings, which caused her to cover her ears with her tiny hands when she started listening every sound too loud.
"I want you to fly" the woman told her, so she tried.
However, her mind was focused on the sounds and everytime she tried to fly, she ended up falling to the ground in pain, her headache was increasing until the moment when she started sobbing and begging her to stop.
The last time she hit the ground it was her head which did it first, pain spreading all over as she started sobbing with more strength than before, looking at the floor to see her blood all over it, which made her touch her forehead until she found the wound.
"You're more human than I thought" Lillian commented crouching down to her height. "You bleed" the woman touch her forehead.
She held her gaze for a few seconds before blowing her head, feeling how an agent picked her up, so she was ready to go back to that room. However, she couldn't avoid being surprised when she saw that the man was taking her to the other way, which made her try to kick.
"It's okay, you're going to be safe" he said calming her down, her head leaning on his shoulder completely tired.
"Halley" she heard her cousin naming her, so she turned her head finding Kara and Mon-El inside of a cell.
"You have to come with me" the man said opening the door of her cousin's cell, who stood up confused, not trusting him. "It's me, Kara" he took off his hood revealing his face.
"Jeremiah" her cousin embraced him before getting away from him and kneeling in front of her. "You're going to be fine, baby" her cousin picked her up to hug her, her face buried in her neck as she started sobbing. "Mon-El!" Kara exclaimed scaring her every sound was still too loud.
She was left on the floor because her cousin tried to help Mon-El to get up and guide him to a stretcher, place where Jeremiah tried to remove the bullet that was in his leg.
Kara carried her in her arm while holding Mon-El with her free arm to get out from there. Her cousin placed her on her back before grabbing Mon-El and with her last strength leaping to the sky, taking them to the DEO.
She watched how her cousin fell to the floor exhausted, agents approaching them to help, so soon the three of them were at the med bay, Kara and Mon-El laying down on the stretchers as she was sitting in a chair waiting for a doctor to stich up the wound on her forehead, which caused her to cry because of the pain.
"Papa!" she exclaimed while seeing J'onn walking to her.
"Hey, kiddo, you alright?" he asked gently brushing the hair away from her face, making her nod slightly. "I'm glad you are" he smiled embracing her.
"Halley?! Where is Halley?!" she heard Kara asked, demanding an answer, so J'onn walked up to her.
"Calm down, she's here, she's fine" he whispered when he saw her covering her ears while watching her cousin relaxed.
J'onn left her on the stretcher with Kara, who did not hesitated to embrace her with all the strength she could, her head resting on her cousin's shoulder with her eyes closed.
"You're safe, baby" Kara kissed her hair. "I'm so sorry, none will never hurt you again" her cousin whispered softly.
"It's not your fault" she look straight to her cousin's eyes. "You saved me, you're my hero" she tried to smile, kissing Kara's cheek.
"Aww..., I'll be a hero as long you're safe" her cousin hugged her close to her.
Soon after that, Kara, Mon-El and she were back at her cousin's loft, running up to sit right next to Mon-El once she was changed into her pajamas, making the daxamite smile slightly while hugging her.
"Here, it's all clean" her cousin handed her Saffire, which she hugged happily.
"Who's hungry?" Alex asked entering the apartment with Winn and James.
"Oh, yes, food!" her cousin exclaimed taking the potstickers from Winn's hands. "You want some?" Kara offered them, so she nodded taking two, biting into one barely chewing it to swallow it, she was starving. "Hey, baby, take it easy, okay?" her cousin asked worriedly ruffleling her hair.
She nodded trying to be calm and start chewing correctly the food, but soon she didn't have anything else to eat, looking at the oven impatiently for the pizza to be cooked, even though she wasn't really into it, but she was so hungry that it didn't really matter.
She saw Alex walked out of the loft, which made her frown, Was she leaving? So she got up from the couch and walk towards the door.
"Pizza is ready!" Kara exclaimed. "Go get Alex, kiddo" her cousin told her, so she nodded opening the door only to reveal Alex looking longingly to the hallway.
"Alex, come on in, pizza it's ready" she told her.
"So quickly?" the woman asked picking her up. "Let's have dinner then" Alex said with a smile, her stomach begging for food. "Is that your tummy, little monster?" her cousin's sister tickled her making her laugh while nodding.
Alex sat her down on a chair, her cousin putting the food in front of her, which made her smile before starting eating while watching everyone there, they were all a huge family and she knew that they all needed each others.
Kara smiled when she saw her cousin asleep hugging against Mon-El, the child's head resting on his chest, who was embracing Halley, stroking the kid's hair to keep her calm.
She didn't want to break that moment because for the first time in the last few nights, she was able to see her cousin completely calm and sleeping peacefully. However, it was time to tuck the kid in bed, so she approached them slowly, seeing how Mon-El smiled staring at the child he was embracing.
"I'm taking her to bed" she whispered seeing him nodded. "You're good with kids" she commented while picking up her cousin not wanting to wake her up, the child's head falling to her shoulder.
She laid down the kid, putting her cousin's little stuffed toy next to her before tuck her in and return to the living room, where everyone was getting ready to leave, well, everyone except her sister.
A few minutes later they were left alone eating ice cream and watching a movie, she being more focused on every sound that Halley could make than in listening to the characters talking.
"What's wrong?" Alex asked getting her to look at her before shaking her head. "No, something is bothering you, What is it?" her sister questioned.
"I'm worried about Halley" she finally admitted. "I don't know what they did to her, she hasn't spoken either about it" she explained looking at the bedroom. "You know, CADMUS wanted me, they kidnapped them only to get to me, but..." she kept silent for a few seconds. "Lillian had something planned for Halley, she was going to test her, but I'm not sure if she got it" she told her sister feeling that everything that had happened was her fault.
"Well, she's fine, you're fine and Mon-El is too, that's what really matters" Alex said embracing her. "That little girl look up to be like you, she's so brave... She's a little Supergirl" her sister told her making her smile. "You saved her, Kara, you did" Alex assured her.
She barely nodded, knowing that if it hadn't been for that day when she learnt that Halley existed, the little girl could have been anywhere, even still at Fort Rozz.
She was trying to be a good role model for the child, but it wasn't as easy as she thought it would be, but she would keep trying to get it. However, she would be the one to blame if something happened to the little one only to get to her.
Soon her sister left too, so she decided to get to bed even if she wasn't tired, just wanting to embrace and comfort Halley.
She stumbled over her cousin's backpack, which she picked up from the floor, frowning when she realized a drawing almost falling out of it. She couldn't smile while admiring it, Halley had drawn them both, her wearing Supergirl's suit, but which made her cry was reading what was written below, "Best cousin in the world".
That little girl believed in her and she couldn't let her down or she would never be able to forgive herself.
She let the backpack with the drawing inside next to the desk before laying down next to her cousin, who moved kind of scared opening her heavy eyes to look at her.
"Shh, it's okay" she whispered hugging her, her cousin's leaning her head on her shoulder. "Try to sleep, baby" she kissed the top of her head.
Halley nodded getting sleppy by every second that passed until the child was fast asleep, so she stayed still hugging her cousin.
"Love you, kiddo" she whispered kissing Halley's forehead.
Hi!
This is the second part of the chapter. They escaped of CADMUS, but Kara is going to be obsessed with knowing where her cousin is all the time from now on.
Let me know what you think, thanks so much for reading,
Ayrin