HALLEY'S P. O. V
"But you promised the ice cream" she complained while folding her arms over her chest.
Kara stared at her for a few seconds as if she was thinking about what to do, even though she could tell that her cousin was going to try to persuade her to do it other day.
She knew that Kara was busy, but she was just asking for her cousin to have a little break and go with her and Lena to have an ice cream.
"Okay" her cousin sighed while grabbing her hand and start walking towards Lena's penthouse.
She smiled happily once her cousin's best friend opened the door, no doubting about hugging the woman's legs, who crouched to her height to pull her into a hug.
"She wouldn't stop asking about the ice cream" her cousin commented as she smiled.
"Of course she wouldn't, you're raising her, I'm not surprised food is her happy place" Lena chuckled while ruffling her hair.
"Well, surprisingly, she loves veggies and fruit" Kara pointed out as she frown, she liked them, but that didn't mean that she didn't love other foods. "But right now she wants ice cream" her cousin laughed observing her face.
She was sitting beside her cousin, not even paying attention to what they were talking, but stopping eating while tensing when she heard Lena named Lex, her heart racing as she looked at her cousin afraid.
Kara seemed to understand what she was feeling as her cousin picked her up to sit her on her lap, embracing her tightly while trying to keep her as calm as possible.
"It's okay, baby" her cousin kissed her hair.
"What's wrong?" Lena asked kind of confused, observing her. "Is she okay?"
"She's suffering from panic attacks recently" Kara answered still keeping her embrace.
"What? Why?" her cousin's best friend questioned her.
However, Kara didn't get to answer because her phone rang, moment at which her cousin observed her not knowing what to do.
"It's James, I have to go" Kara said.
"But..." she was about to complain when Lena talked.
"I can stay with her" Lena offered to look after her while her cousin was gone, but she knew that Kara wasn't trusting Lena to stay with her.
"Yeah... Okay, but call me if something happens" Kara asked making both of them to nod. "Love you, baby" her cousin kissed her forehead before leaving.
"So what do you want to do?" Lena asked her as she shrugged, not really knowing what to answer.
She knew that her cousin wasn't okay with leaving her there, not after what had happened a few nights ago, and if Kara had had any other option, she wouldn't be staying there with Lena.
For the next few minutes she just stayed there finishing her ice cream, observing how Lena was reading something on her laptop.
"Could I see your arm?" her cousin's friend asked getting her to stare at her confused, but nodding a little. "It's still bruised" Lena commented while gently touching that zone.
"It hurts" she complained while seeing the woman nod.
"You don't have all of your powers, right?" Lena questioned, to what she nodded. "Which explains why you have such a bad allergy to kryptonite" the woman pointed out as she frown not understanding what Lena was referring to. "Okay, come with me, kiddo" her cousin's friend smiled while offering her hand for her to grab it.
Lena guided her to her lab, moment at which she froze, pulling from the woman's hand to stop walking as she was afraid of not knowing what was going to happen there.
She guided her left hand towards the necklace that she was wearing, wanting to be prepared to call her cousin just in case she needed it.
"Hey, hey, What's wrong, sweetie?" Lena asked kneeling down to her height, observing her face. "It's okay, I'm not going to hurt you, Halley" her cousin's best friend assured her as she looked away.
"Miss Luthor, I didn't know you were coming back so soon" she heard a woman's voice say as she observed the room, closing her eyes the moment she identified her.
"No, no, no..." she whispered trying to hide behind Lena, tears being contained in her eyes as the pressure over her chest increased.
"Halley, hey, it's okay" the woman embraced her as she started sobbing, trying to push her away from her. "Hope, leave us alone, please" she heard Lena say while letting go of her as she kept fighting against her.
She closed her eyes, trying to calm herself down, but not really getting it, so she let herself fall to the floor only to pull her knees up to her chest, her head resting on them.
"Halley, kiddo" Lena sighed sitting beside her, pulling her into a hug. "Try to breathe, sweetie" her cousin's friend whispered while rubbing circles on her back.
Little by little she started to calm down, leaning on the woman's embraced while keeping her eyes closed, feeling how Lena caressed her hair before increasing the strength of the hug.
"Are you feeling a little better?" Lena asked when she pulled away from her, nodding slightly. "Do you want to tell me what happened?" the woman questioned while tucking her hair behind her ear, but she shook her head. "It's okay, sweetie" her cousin's best friend whispered wiping her tears before getting up and offer her hand to get up as well.
Lena took her to a stretcher, helping her to sit down there as she looked down being afraid of what was going to happen.
"Okay, back to your powers" the woman said, to what she frowned. "Which ones do you have?" Lena asked sitting on a stool in front of her.
"I can fly, I also have... Superhearing, heat and x-ray vision" she answered trying to remember all the names. "And a little bit of superstrenght" she added seeing Lena nod.
"Do you know when you will get the rest of them?" that question made her shake her head confused, not understanding why Lena was so interested in knowing all of that.
"Kara always tells me not to tell anyone about this" she commented while bowing down her head.
"Because she wants to keep you safe, but you are safe here with me, kiddo" Lena assured her as she sighed.
"But Kara doesn't like when people hurt me because of her being Supergirl" she pointed out looking straight into the woman's eyes, being aware that her cousin was mad because of what happened the last time she had stayed with Lena.
"Of course she doesn't, because she loves you" her cousin's friend said. "But those people wouldn't hurt you if she wasn't your cousin" Lena told her.
"But then I wouldn't have anyone to take care of me" she answered feeling tears in her eyes. "I don't want to lose her" she whispered as Lena approached her to embrace her.
"You're not going to lose her, kiddo" the woman kissed her hair still keeping her close as she closed her eyes trying to contain her tears, but not really getting it. "Oh, Hal, sweetheart, it's okay" Lena whispered looking at her with sadness.
She looked away before snuggling closer to Lena, just wanted to feel safe, her eyes closed once more as she kept herself calm in the woman's arms.
KARA'S P. O. V
She had broken the law, but she had done for her friend, kind of trying to save their relationship, but that didn't mean that what she had done was right.
She couldn't avoid smiling when she saw how Lena and Halley were sitting together while reading a book, the child smiling widely the moment she saw her standing there.
"Kara!" Halley exclaimed running towards her, so she kneeled down to embrace her cousin, picking her up.
"Hi, baby" she smiled kissing the child's forehead, her cousin snuggling closer to her. "Did you have fun?" she asked, Halley nodding excitedly. "Go get your backpack, sweetie" she left the kid on the floor, shortly before the eight year old ran to get her things. "How did it go?" she asked her friend while handing her the diaries.
"Thanks. Pretty good" Lena smiled. "We read, drew, colored... She even did her homework and napped for a little bit" her friend told her, to what she nod.
"Thanks for staying with her" she smiled at her friend.
"You know that it's not a problem" her friend assured her. "Bye, girls" Lena said once she was with Halley in her arms and ready to fly back to home.
She observed her cousin during the dinner, the child a little bit quieter than normally, so she couldn't avoid to worry about if something had happened that afternoon while the little one was staying with Lena.
"You okay, baby?" she asked sitting Halley on her lap, seeing her cousin nod. "Did something happen? Kryptonite?" she questioned.
"No" Halley looked at her while shaking her head. "She didn't hurt me" the child told her. "She just... She asked about my powers" the eight year old blurted out in just a whispered, to what she nodded while frowning.
She kept her baby cousin snuggled at her until the child fell asleep during the middle of the movie, moment at which took the kid to her room to tuck her in.
"Sweet dreams, baby girl" she kissed her forehead, smiling a little when she observed how the child embraced Saffire in between her arms. "Love you, Hal" she whispered turning off the light and closing the door.
She sighed remembering her cousin's words. What was her best friend up to?
"Lena? What are you doing here?" she asked while opening the door, her best friend stepping inside her apartment. "It's late" she pointed out still confused.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Lena asked her not bodering to answer her questions. "Why didn't you tell me that Lex had kidnapped her?" her best friend asked in distress.
"Um... How do you know?" she questioned confused.
"Lex's diaries" Lena answered while showing her the one in her hand. "When did that happen?" her friend was still making questions.
"Before we went to Kaznia" she answered. "I hoped that we would find her there, but he... He had everything planned" she tried to explain. "He wrote everything?" she asked, observing how her best friend nodded slightly, feeling her heart breaking.
"I don't think you want to read it, he did such horrible things to her" her best friend warned her as she was taking the diary from her hands.
She wasn't sure about what to do, about what she should do, however, part of her was aware that she needed to know in order to be able to help her baby cousin, so even though she didn't know if she would be able to do it, she started reading it.
Lex had treated her cousin as a subject for an experiment, he had done horrible things to a seven year old, things that managed to break her down as she couldn't avoid crying. He had been studying Halley's resistance to pain or how much time the child could be awake during the surgeries.
Lena hugged her the moment she started sobbing, not being able to keep reading it as she couldn't imagine her cousin's tiny body laying on a surgery table with all of those cuts.
"He cut her chest open to study her heart and she was awake, my baby cousin was awake..." she sobbed in her best friend's arms, barely locking her eyes with those bright blue eyes that observed them from the darkness of the hallway. "Halley" she whispered her cousin's name not wanting to scare her, but the eight year old just shook her head before running back to her room.
She ran behind her, knocking on the door repeatedly, waiting for her cousin to let her in, but she opened it when minutes passed and she didn't receive an answer.
"Hal?" she called her cousin while staring the room, the window was opened and the child not being seen. "Halley, baby, please, come out of hiding, it's okay" she assured the kid, but her baby cousin wasn't there.
"Kara?" Lena called her as she turned around in tears, her cousin was gone. "Everything okay?" her friend asked.
"She's gone" she answered in a whisper, trying really hard to calm herself down. "I have to find her" she said ready to leave, but Lena stopped her.
"Shouldn't we call Alex or the DEO?" her best friend questioned.
"Calm them while I'm looking for her" she nodded before leaping into the dark night sky.
She knew that her baby cousin was afraid of telling her that story, so the child probably had run away only to avoid having that conversation.
She closed her eyes only focusing on finding her cousin's heartbeat, but not being able to avoid panicking when she couldn't.
"Halley, baby, Where are you?" she questioned to herself only hoping that when she found that child, Halley would be alright.
Hi!
This is a shorter than the last two chapters, but I like it better with the cliffhanger of what has happened to Halley.
Lena and Halley. They're close, but Halley... She was warning Lena not to do anything to her or Kara would be mad.
When I saw the episode, particularly the moment when Kara gave Lena Lex's diaries, I thought I had to include it in the fanfic and since Lex used to write everything in those diaries, I supposed that he would write about her experiments on Halley.
So now Kara knows what he did to her and she's upset, but Halley... She doesn't want to have that conversation with Kara, not yet.
Thanks so much for reading, let me know what you think,
Ayrin