"Why is Mon-El not coming?" she asked her cousin really upset after hearing him say that he wouldn't come to Kara's party.
"Um..., he needs to work on his ship, baby" Kara answered making her pout.
"But, Why?" she insisted getting her cousin to look at her, understanding what she was wanting to say. "Is he going to leave?" she asked with tears in her eyes.
"I..., yeah, he will, but he's gonna stay here for a while, okay, baby?" her cousin kneeled down in front of her.
"Could I ask him to come?" she questioned hoping for Mon-El to accept the invitation if it was her who asked him.
"Um..., sweetheart, he loves you so much, but I don't think he will come" Kara tried to convince her that he wouldn't do it, but she still wanted to ask him.
"I wanna try" she told her cousin, who sighed while shaking her head.
"I don't think it's a good idea, Halley" her cousin shook her head.
However, before Kara could say anything else about it, she shouted Mon-El's name and ran towards him to hug his legs, but being picked up by him, so she snuggled to his chest.
"Hi, kiddo" he kissed her forehead.
"Would you come to Kara's party?" she asked hoping for him to accept the invitation, but losing her smile when he sighed.
"I... I don't know, kiddo" he answered.
"Please" she begged looking directly into his eyes.
"I'll try, okay?" he caressed her face before embracing her again, hearing how her cousin whispered a 'thank you' as Mon-El shook her head keeping her as close as possible.
She closed her eyes while embracing her neck tightly, missing all those time she had been with him.
With every second that passed, she was losing hope, every time her cousin opened the door she waited to see Mon-El at the other side, but it was never him.
She felt tears being contained in her eyes when she saw Lena entering the loft, but still not trace of Mon-El, which was making her believe that he wasn't coming to the party.
She wiped the tears that were streaming down her cheeks before running to her room, laying in the bed with Saffire hugged in her arms.
"Halley, baby" she heard her cousin calling her while knocking in the door, turning to look at her. "Oh, baby, it's okay" Kara whispered sitting on the bed to embrace her.
"He's not coming, is he?" she asked between sobs, pulling herself away a little to glance her cousin's eyes.
"I'm so sorry, baby" her cousin kissed her hair. "He might have been caught up fixing the ship, kiddo" Kara tried to excuse him.
She just kept herself hugged to her cousin as she sobbed, feeling upset with him because she really knew that he wasn't coming, that he had told her that so he wouldn't hurt her, but he did anyways.
"Hey, you remember I told you about Ruby?" her cousin asked, to what she nodded. "She's here, she's talking to Alex, Do you want to meet her?" Kara questioned her.
"Yeah" she barely whispered wiping her tears.
"Okay, come on, change that face, kiddo" Kara tickled her making her giggled before standing up and offering her hand. "Hey, girls, I brought Halley" her cousin crouched beside her when they were next to the couch. "She's Ruby, say hi, baby" Kara pointed to the girl as she whispered 'hi' shyly.
"Come here, kiddo" Alex smiled opening her arms, so she walked to her, sitting her on her lap. "We were talking about Supergirl" the agent told her making her smile.
"She's the best superhero ever!" she exclaimed with a huge smile on her face.
"I agree, way better than Superman" Ruby smiled at her.
After having dinner she sat on the floor along with Ruby, who was helping her to color one of her coloring books.
She had to admit that she was having fun playing and coloring with her, so she couldn't be sad when Sam said that they should leave.
Alex was reading a book to Halley trying to get the child to fall asleep, but the little one was still making questions about everything she was hearing of the story.
She frown when she heard that someone knocked on the door, confused when she saw who was standing on the other side of the door, so she approached to open it.
"Hey, What are you doing here?" she asked Mon-El kind of mad at him because of how her cousin had been feeling during the whole night. "You know you're late, right?" she looked at him, seeing him nodded.
"I know, I'm sorry" he apologized.
"I only want the best for her and you hurt her tonight, she was really upset, just for the record, I'll protect her from anyone who can hurt her even if it's you" she told him disappointed.
"I deserve that, I really lost track of time, I'm sorry" he apologized again. "Could I see her?" he asked.
"I should ask her first" she answered him. "Come on in" she let him entered the loft.
She walked to her cousin's room, watching the child with her head leaning on Alex's shoulder, still awake and making questions, so she smiled before approaching them to get their attention.
"Hey, Mon-El is here, kiddo" she told her cousin, who just looked at her. "He's sorry that he couldn't come before, so if you want to see him..." she tried to explain her.
"Can I see him?" Halley asked.
"Yeah, you can, it's your decision" she answered observing how the child nodded excited jumping off of the bed before running to the living room.
By she got there, Mon-El was already with Halley in his arms, embracing her as tight as he could while apologizing again, that time to the little one, who just nodded slightly.
"Are you going to leave?" Halley asked breaking the silence, pulling herself away from Mon-El as she got the chance to look at his eyes.
"Halley..." she tried to talk, not feeling that that was the best moment to talk about it.
"No, it's okay" Mon-El smiled while shaking his head. "I'm a hero at the future, I would love to stay here, but sometimes heros have to make sacrifices..." he started talking, but being interrupted by Halley.
"Like Kara did when she sent you away?" her cousin asked.
"Yeah, kiddo, I can't leave them, can I?" he questioned making Halley to shake her head. "I will always remember you, no matter where I go, I promise, How can I forget my best friend?" Mon-El tickled the six year old, who giggled. "I love you so much, kiddo, just remember that" he kissed the kid's forehead.
"I love you, too" Halley smiled widely before leaning her head on his shoulder and close her eyes.
She observed how the child ended up falling asleep in his arms, Mon-El cradling the six year old while whispering reassuring words in Halley's ear just to keep her asleep.
She let him tuck Halley in bed, her cousin embracing Saffire while curling into herself as Mon-El kissed her forehead.
"Thanks, I appreciate that you've came" she told him just before he left.
"It wasn't a problem" he smiled. "I should be heading to the ship, see you tomorrow, Kara" he said goodbye leaving the loft, making her sighed.
For the first time in a long time, she had believed that something could change, at least for her cousin sake.
The six year old was griping her cousin's cape with all the strength she could as tears were running down her cheeks, sobs escaping her mouth as she looked directly into Kara's eyes begging her not to go.
She had listened to what Alex had said about the Kryptonian and she didn't want to loose her cousin, afraid of something happening to Kara.
"Sweetheart, I need to go" her cousin kneeled down, but she shook her head not letting go. "Halley, baby, it's gonna be okay, let go, kiddo" Kara asked her.
"Don't go!" she screamed getting Kara to embrace her. "Please..., don't go" she begged sobbing on her shoulder.
"Honey, everything is going to be alright, I'll be back just in time to celebrate Christmas' Eve, okay?" her cousin pulled her away a little.
"I don't want her to hurt you" she cried not having a good feeling about it.
"She will not, I'm Supergirl, remember?" Kara chuckled wiping her tears with her thumb. "I love you baby, I'll be back, I promise" her cousin kissed her forehead before embracing her one last time.
"I love you" she whispered shortly before her cousin pulled away from her and flew away.
Soon after that a team leaded by Alex went to the fighting scene, the same one that Winn was trying to distract her from, as if he didn't want for her to listen or know what was going on.
Mon-El sat down with her to draw with her, giggling when he tickled her, not being able to stop laughing when he turned her upside down. However, when everything went silent around them, they both stop playing, Mon-El keeping her close as she felt her heart racing.
He let her on the floor just to make sure of what was happening, but her heart skipped a beat when she watched a stretcher being wheeled into the med bay.
Kara. Her cousin's name crossed her mind a few seconds before she started running wanting to confirm that it wasn't her.
Everything clouded around her when she saw who was laying there, Alex's concerned voice barely echoing in her ears as she walked up to the fallen superhero, standing tiptoe beside the stretcher.
She observed her cousin starting to cry, Kara was really hurt, she could see a wound on the hero's forehead as well as blood all over her face, spreading from her mouth.
"Kara..." she called her cousin, breathing with agitation when she didn't get an answer. "Wake up!" she shouted patting on her cousin's arm. "Please, Wake up!" she tried again between sobs. "You can't leave me..., please..."
"Halley, baby, I need you to move" Alex told her putting her hand on her shoulder, but she moved away wanting to stay close to her cousin.
"We're losing her" she heard one of the doctors say.
"Halley, please" Alex tried to pull her away. "Take her outside" the agent asked shortly before Mon-El scooped her up to take her outside the room.
"No! No!" she tried to fight against him, but his grip was strong, so she was forced to lean on his chest. "She can't die! She can't leave me!" she shouted while kicking. "I... I don't want to be alone" she sobbed finally surrendering herself.
"Calm down, kiddo, she will be fine" Mon-El whispered rubbing circles on her back. "She's strong, Halley, she's a fighter and she will come back from all of this, sweetheart" he embraced her tightly.
She didn't even nod, she just kept sobbing with her gaze still focusing on what was happening inside the med bay.
Kara had promised her that she would come back, that they would be together celebrating Christmas' Eve and at that moment she was really afraid about losing her cousin.
Tears flooded out her blue eyes as she hid her face in Mon-El's neck, not really wanting to know what would happen if her cousin died that night.
"It's gonna be okay" he kissed her hair as she tried to nodded really wanting to believe his words, everything feeling dizzy around her shortly before she passed out on his arms.
Hi!
I love Halley and Mon-El's relationship, I really like writing their scenes, but Halley and Kara..., I love them together, they do really need each other to live and now that Kara is hurt...
Thanks so much for reading, let me know what you think,
Ayrin