HALLEY'S P. O. V
"You look better than this morning" Lex commented entering the room. "I think you're ready for the next move" he said with a grin.
"Helping you?" I asked as he shook his head, understanding what he was referring to. "No, not that, please" I pleaded as tears were contained in my eyes.
"I see we both know of what I'm talking about" he smirked before asking two agents to grab my arms and bring me into that room as I tried not to panic. "Put her inside" he pointed to the pod that was opened.
"No! No!" I tried to fight them, but I was still not fully recovered from that morning and the kryptonite wasn't helping either.
"You're powerful, let's see how much energy you have, Kryptonian" he said approaching me. "Don't cry, it won't hurt" Lex smiled while wiping my tears. "I hope you don't care that much about Argo" he said as the pod closed.
At that moment I didn't avoid screaming, crying as I tried to get out of there, but I knew that there was none that could hear me.
It was dark inside that pod, the same tiny place where he put me when I was seven, the same one that had managed to appeared in every single nightmare ever since that day.
My heart was racing, my breathing was agitated and all I could think was that the walls were getting even closer, making the place even smaller if it was possible. I was having a panic attack and that day I didn't have my cousin to promise me that I would never come back inside the pod, because I was.
I closed my eyes in tears. I really needed someone to get me out of there, I wasn't sure of how long I would last.
LITTLE HALLEY'S P. O. V
They spent hours in Eliza's house, at that moment she was sitting on the couch watching a movie while Linda and Eliza were at the kitchen, hearing them both talking before walking back to the living room.
"Come here, sweetie" Alex's mother said stretching her arms to embrace her. "It's okay, you're safe, little one" the woman whispered kissing her forehead.
She put her hands on the woman's shoulder to pull herself away a little, not understanding what she was referring to.
"Eliza?" she heard her cousin asked, moment in which both of them got up from the couch as Red Daughter approached them. "Halley" Kara sighed relieved when she saw her, moment in which she tried to walk towards her, but Linda stopped her. "Don't hurt them, please" her cousin asked.
"I've been here for hours" Linda answered still retaining her.
She just stood there, observing both of them in confusion, afraid of what was going to happen, gripping tightly Eliza's hand the moment they started fighting each other, following really close every step they were taking, panicking when they flew out of the house.
Eliza tried to stop her, but the adrenaline that was rushing in her body made her use her super speed to run through the woods as she tried to get to her cousin before it was too late.
A scream escaped her lips the moment she saw Kara falling unconscious to the ground, being able to listen to her cousin's last heartbeats as tears were streaming down her cheeks.
Red Daughter, the same one who she had considered her friend during those past days, was standing next to Supergirl as if she was making herself sure that the superhero was dead. Eventually leaving, moment in which she ran to her cousin as well as Alex.
Her gaze focused on the agent that was in front of her, the name that she was about to whisper would reveal the superhero identity, even if none of her actions had already done it, so she waited until she heard Alex saying that she remembered, letting herself shake her cousin's shoulders while calling her.
She sobbed while holding her cousin's hand between hers, pleading for Kara to come back as Alex was doing the same, just asking her little sister not to go.
"Kara, please, wake up" she asked hoping to receive an answer, but breaking down when she didn't get it, hugging herself to her cousin's body while sobbing.
She was able to feel the cold that Kara's body was emitting, the ridigity from the hand that she was holding and the absence of a heartbeat, those that had calmed her down after every single nightmare, that had accompanied her cousin's calm voice singing that lullaby that would make her sleep.
She felt one Alex's hands on her back. The agent seemed to want to calm her down, but both of them knew that it would be impossible.
It had been three years since she had lost her mother, one of the most important persons of her life, but at that moment she was losing Kara, her cousin, who received her even better than she imagined, the same one that had been taking care of her for those past years, but most importantly, the one that had loved her like if she was her own daughter. What would happen with her after that?
"Alex, she's doing it" she heard Eliza exclaim.
She pulled apart from her cousin, her hand still grabbing Kara's while observing how the superhero was absorbing the solar radiation from all the plants that were around them.
Her cousin gasped for air while opening her eyes, Kara's cheeks a little flushed as she felt how ther superhero tightened the grip of the hand before looking at them and hugging them with all the strength she could.
She couldn't stop crying, still thinking that it was all a lie, that her cousin wasn't alive, gripping tightly to her cape when Kara stood up with her in her arms.
"It's okay, baby" her cousin whispered as she buried her face in her neck still crying.
"I was scared" she admitted in just a whisper, her cousin pulling her away a little.
"I know, I've been scared for days too" Kara told her. "But now you're here, you're safe and I'm fine, okay?" her cousin kissed her forehead before embracing her tightly again.
Once they were at Eliza's house, Kara sat on the couch with her still being embraced, her head resting on her cousin's chest as she listened to her heartbeat.
She felt betrayed by Linda, she hadn't expected for her to try to kill Kara, at that moment she couldn't trust her anymore. However, there were new tears in her eyes when she saw the image of Lex with Red Daughter dead in his arms, she might not trust her, but she couldn't not hate her.
"I have to stop him" her cousin got up from the couch, sitting her there to approach Alex.
"Kara, you barely escaped with your life" Eliza pointed out as she panicked, running to grabbed her cousin's cape.
"And he has a weapon that killed Red Daughter" Alex added.
"He did experiments on her in Kaznia. He knows how to take her down, but he still needed Red Daughter to kill me" Kara answered.
"You died" she whispered looking directly into her eyes, Kara observing her for a few seconds.
"But I survived. And Lex doesn't know that. That's to my advantage" her cousin explained.
"Lex and the President have succeeded in convincing the people that all aliens are dangerous. That Supergirl is the enemy" Eliza said. "And Lex is the hero"
"Well, I guess it's my job to show them who Lex really is. Show them the truth" her cousin wasn't to give up so easily.
"I just fear that the people won't listen" Eliza complained, afraid of everything that would happen.
"No, I will not let fear win" Kara shook her head. "And with my sister by my side, anything is possible" her cousin smiled.
"No! Don't go!" she tighten the grip of the cape, tears filling up her eyes as her cousin picked her up.
"It's okay, baby girl, I'll be back" Kara kissed her forehead as she shook her head.
"Hey, Why don't you stay here for the night?" Eliza asked to what her cousin nodded while embracing her as tight as possible.
KARA'S P. O. V
Halley stirred in her arms, tears streaming down her cheeks before the kid screamed, so she picked her up and walked down to the porch, sitting on a chair while cradling the seven year old as she settled herself to observe how the sun came up.
"Shh, it's okay, you're safe" she whispered kissing her cousin's forehead, the child starting to calm down.
She remembered teen Halley's words, those about the PTSD and the panic attacks, so she couldn't avoid being afraid about what her cousin was feeling, not knowing how everything he had done to her, or even the image the child was obligated to watch that last night, would change the little girl that she had in her arms at that moment.
She had barely slept at night, Halley constantly waking up to make sure that she was still with her, plus all the nightmares. It had been a long night.
"Hey, Have you slept?" Alex asked sitting beside her.
"No, you?" she questioned back.
"Not really, everytime I closed my eyes I saw you dead" her sister explained as she looked away. "How's Halley?"
"Scared" she answered observing her cousin, who was deeply asleep.
"I can't believe I didn't know she was kidnapped" her sister shook her head while caressing the child's hair. "Wait, so that girl you told me that was Astra's daughter..." Alex said.
"That girl is Halley from the future" she told her. "And Lex kidnapped her as well, so now I'm afraid that he might have killed her" she explained remembering the video she had seen when she was at Kaznia.
"How did she get here?" Alex asked as she shrugged her shoulders, that wasn't clear yet. "We should get going back to National City" her sister commented as she nodded, they should.
She looked at her cousin with worriness, not knowing how Halley would react to them actually leaving, afraid that while they were out there, something happened to the child.
The seven year old moved while opening her blue eyes to look at her, tears contained in them as she wiped the ones that had managed to escape.
"Good morning, baby" she smiled before kissing her forehead.
"Don't go" Halley whispered gripping her t-shirt.
"It will be okay, sweetie" she embraced her tightly. "I have to do it, I'll be safe" she tried to convince her, but Halley shook her head again.
She sighed. It was going to be difficult, but they really needed to get going back to the city, so, even though it was hard, she really hoped for Halley to understand that it was necessary.
She landed in front of the building were Lex had all those pods, her mind still focused on the battle that they had had before.
After Red Daughter sacrificing her life for hers, she had continued to fight Lex, but he had managed to dissappear as she hoped that he wouldn't come back, even though she knew that it was impossible, that he would do it.
She walked inside the building only to find all the aliens that were inside the pods talking to each other, all of them around whatever that was happening in the middle of that room, from where she could hear Nia talking.
She managed to approach them, but closing her eyes when she did. Halley. The girl was laying on the floor with her eyes closed, Nia performing CPR to the teenager as she felt her own tears falling down her cheeks. She couldn't lose her.
Hi!
I remember crying with the Danvers sisters scene when I first watched it, then I laughed because of Alex and the grass. However, the next day after watching the episode, I knew that I wanted to write little Halley in it just to add more drama, so I've been really waiting for being able to put it in chapter. I hope you have liked it.
Thanks so much for reading, let me know what you think,
Ayrin