For a moment everything stopped, the machines got back to their normal beeping as they watched how the black mercy crawled from Halley's chest to the ground shortly before the child's eyes opened.
Alex was the first person to react, approaching the child, who sat up in the bed while looking at everyone that was around her, pain in her bright blue eyes.
The five year old gasped when she saw the plant that rested on the floor of the med bay, pointing at it before looking at Alex as if she was trying to make herself understood.
"Hey, it's okay" Alex whispered brushing the kid's hair away from her little face, getting Halley to take a deep breath before observing every single one of the people who were in that room, the child was looking for someone.
"Mommy?" the question brought tears to the agent's eyes as it did with everyone else, it would be hard to explain her.
However, the child must have understood what they couldn't say, because the five year old broke down in tears while bringing her hands to her face to cover it as she kept crying so inconsolably, not even calming down when Alex embraced her.
Everyone else just stayed still not knowing what they should do, just looking the scene with a lump in their throats and their hearts in a fist.
Mon-El observed the scene fighting his own tears, knowing that Kara had achieved her mission, which was breaking his heart, but, also the sight of Halley like that was making a hard time for him as he wished he could have told her that everything would be alright.
Halley pulled away from Alex, tears still running down her cheeks as she looked at him before pointing to him, which made the agent to turn trying to understand what the child was meaning.
"You want Mon-El to come closer?" Alex asked making Halley to nod, so he approached them.
The five year old sobbed before throwing herself to his arms, which made him embrace the child with all the strength he could, keeping Halley as close as possible to him as the kid buried her face on his shoulder while she kept crying.
"Hey, shh, it's okay, kiddo" he whispered hugging her, a look of concern from Alex made him know that as Kara said, it wasn't going to be easy.
"Mommy was there" he heard the five year old whispered, causing him to swallow not knowing what to say, but feeling how the child gripped tightly from his t-shirt.
"I know, kiddo, I know" he tried to pull her away a little, but the five year old didn't let him. "I'm here, I'm not leaving you, okay?" he kissed the child's hair.
"Halley?!" they heard Kara's exclaimed, so all of them turn to the door to see the superhero standing there.
The child didn't doubt about getting away from him to stretch her arms towards her cousin, everyone in the room watching how the cousins hugged each other as some of them observed Kara as if she had come back from death.
Shortly after Alex had made sure that Halley was fine, all of them went out of the room letting the cousins time to be together.
However, Mon-El returned the room a few minutes later wanting to know how Kara was back and Mxyzptlk was back in his dimension. Both, Kara and Halley, were laying on the stretcher, the oldest kryptonian embracing the youngest one, who was with her eyes closed as if she was sleeping.
"Hey, How is she doing?" he knocked on the door getting Kara to look at him and told him to come inside the room. "Is she asleep?" he asked seeing how Kara shook her head while stroking her cousin's hair.
"She's been crying for a whole hour" Kara commented hugging tightly the five year old. "She's calm now, I guess" she whispered.
"Did she tell you anything about the dream?" he asked as Halley moved in her cousin's arms, her eyes still closed.
"No, she only told me that her mother was there" Kara answered. "There was a moment when I thought that I wouldn't accomplish it, but I tricked the trickster" the superhero smiled making him smile as well. "I'll explain you later, okay?"
"Sure" he smiled. "The only thing that matters now is for this little girl to be fine" he commented caressing the child's cheek, getting Halley to open her tired blue eyes to look at him, but closing them again shortly after that.
He smiled glad that the child was alive because after everything that had happened, seeing Halley embraced to her cousin was everything they needed to know that the child would be fine.
Alex observed how her sister sat on the stretcher while talking to the little girl, who hadn't slept at all during last night and neither Kara or Mon-El did.
The agent could tell that her sister was tired as well as Mon-El, who had picked up the child trying to make her sleep, but the kid rested her head on his shoulder with her eyes open as she didn't trust about closing them.
"Hey, How's Halley?" Maggie asked offering her a coffee.
"Thanks" she whispered not taking her eyes away from the child. "She hasn't slept during the whole night" she explained to what her girlfriend nodded slightly.
Both of them walked inside the room getting confusion in Kara's face, who watched them not understanding what was happening.
"It's okay, we're here to stay with her so you guys can rest" she explained to her sister.
"I don't want to leave her" Kara said refusing to leave.
"I know and you don't have to, you can lay down there a try to sleep" she told her sister pointing to the other stretcher.
"I'll be leaving to my room, call me if something happens" Mon-El said laying the child on the stretcher. "She's asleep" he commented.
"Mon-El, wait, Can I talk to you?" Kara asked making him nodded, so she saw how both of them walked away from the room.
Seconds after that, the five year old opened her eyes looking for her cousin, tears falling down her cheeks while observing them.
"Hey, kiddo" she smiled picking up the child, who leaned her head on her shoulder. "Are you tired?" she asked seeing the kid nod. "What do you think about sleeping?" she questioned gently brushing the child's brown hair.
"No" Halley shook her head almost crying again.
Her heart broke seeing how the child sobbed, but managing to calm her down, whispering reassuring words in the kid's ear.
"Hey, I brought some coloring books and crayons" Maggie said while entering the room, getting the child to look at her.
Alex sat down the kid on the stretcher as Maggie left all the supplies in front of the little girl, who started coloring a dragon, letting her and Maggie help her.
The three of them kept doing that until the five year old started to be sleepy, because her head fell to the side as the child's eyes closed. A few of minutes after the kid was deeply asleep with her head resting on the agent's shoulder, who had kept her embrace during the past minutes.
"She's asleep?" Kara asked in disbelief, smiling when she nodded. "Then I can rest" her sister commented laying down on the other stretcher and soon both kryptonians were asleep.
Her cousin hadn't slept for two nights straight, only sleeping a few hours at day, which for now seemed to be enough for the five year old, but noticing that her cousin was grumpier than the days before as the child was all the time complaining about everything.
However, Mon-El and her had decided to talk to the child once Halley was awake from her nap, so both of them were sitting on the couch at her apartment waiting for the little one to wake up.
Halley's barefoot were listened, so both of them looked at the child when she appeared at the living room, a sad glance broke their hearts.
"Come here, baby" she whispered while sitting her cousin on her lap, embracing the child tightly. "It's okay" she caressed Halley's hair as the child buried her face on her neck and started crying.
She just embraced her cousin as tight as she could, feeling how the kid's body trembled because of the sobs, which made her wanting to cry too, not really being able to watch how her baby cousin was suffering.
She looked at Mon-El only to find pain in his eyes as he caressed Halley's hair, it was also hurting him to see the child like that.
In spite of everything, they had decided to talk to the five year old, hoping that the child would understand what they were going to tell her, because she really wanted for the kid to be fine with it.
"Hey, kiddo, we want to tell you something" she brushed her cousin's hair away from her little face, Halley's blue eyes looking directly at hers. "You must have noticed that you've been seeing Mon-El around for more time during this past days" she started saying without knowing how to continue, so she looked at Mon-El, who nodded for her to continue talking. "We're... Um... We're dating" she finally said getting a confused glanced from her cousin, who looked at her before looking at Mon-El.
"Dating?" the five year old asked not really sure of the meaning of that word. "Boyfriend?" Halley whispered questioning her, which made her smile while nodding.
"Yeah, that's right, but it has to be our secret" she told her. "Are you okay with that?" she asked, to what her cousin didn't answer as the child just hugged herself against Mon-El chest, gripping his t-shirt with her two little hands.
She smiled when she saw how Mon-El welcomed the five year old in his embrace before looking at her with a smile and gestured her to snuggle with them as well, so she did, keeping her cousin between them as she felt how Mon-El wrapped his arm around her waist to keep her close.
The three of them stayed like that for a few seconds, Halley smiling and giggling for the first time in two days when Mon-El lifted her before kissing her forehead and embrace her tightly once more.
She observed how both of them were playing together, being glad that her cousin had accepted that new change in her life.
Hi!
I know this chapter is quite shorter than the last ones, but I didn't want to start a new story line in this chapter, only to end the black mercy one and introduce that Kara and Mon-El are finally dating. Halley is so welcoming with Mon-El, I love the relationship I have created for them.
Thanks so much for reading, let me know what you think,
Ayrin