HALLEY'S P. O. V
Kara had decided to left her with Lena after receiving a call from Alex and, at first, she was excited about it, but not anymore, not after the woman had taken her to the lab.
She stared at Lena kind of confused, not really understanding what the woman was about to do or even say.
She trusted her, but, at that moment, she couldn't avoid being scared of her, of her experiment, part of her afraid about how her cousin was going to react to that.
Lena had put some electrodes on her head and chest, before sitting her in a stretcher and surround her by red sun lamps, which were starting to make her feel weak.
"Okay, everything's ready, Miss Luthor" Eve or Hope, as Lena called her, said too close to her, getting her to start breathing with agitation, the woman was about to touch her.
"Walk away from her, Hope" Lena asked, being her who approached her. "Everything is going to be fine, okay?" her cousin's best friend grabbed her face in between her hands as she stared directly into her eyes, still afraid. "It won't hurt, I promise, kiddo" Lena told her, but she wasn't sure if she should believe her or not.
The woman stood in front of her, nodding slightly towards Eve before looking back at her, Lena's eyes turning to a greenish color, similar to kryptonite.
She started feeling it slowly, a headache that was increasing as the seconds passed by, but that was managing for her not to be completely able to control her mind and body.
"It worked" she heard Eve saying while she was gaining consciousness.
"Good, now let's try without the red lamps" Lena said, switching off the lights.
That time when Lena's eyes turned to that green color, she didn't feel anything different, just staring at the woman without understanding what was going on, what was her cousin's best friend was studying.
"It didn't work, something is blocking it" Lena commented before turning to look at Eve. "Bring the box, do not open it until I tell you to" the CEO asked Eve, who nodded before leaving, only to return with a metal box in her hands. "Okay, let's try one last time, kiddo" her cousin's best friend tucked her hair behind her ear. "Open it"
The moment that box was opened, she started feeling nauseated and dizzy, her skin turning paler as her veins were starting to get a greenish color, so she could be sure that there was kryptonite inside that box.
She couldn't focus on whatever was happening around her, just trying to keep her breathing as normal as possible, letting herself falling to the stretcher in pain, her whole body was burning.
"It hurts" she complained staring at Lena in tears, her cousin's best friend nodding slightly before closing that box.
"It's okay" she heard Lena whispered before losing consciousness.
She woke up laying on a bed, barely recognizing the bedroom, but knowing that she was still at Lena's penthouse.
A few lightning lighted up the whole room, however it was when the thunder sounded, when she couldn't avoid panic, getting up from the bed only to find where Lena was.
"Lena" she called her cousin's best friend while walking to the kitchen, getting the CEO to look at her, but she stared to the other woman, Kara's boss.
"What's wrong, sweetie?" Lena asked her as she approached her. "Are you scared because of the storm?" her cousin's best friend questioned her, to what she nodded. "It's okay, kiddo" Lena grabbed her hand.
"She's Kara Danvers' child" the woman commented. "Why are you staying with her?" her cousin's boss asked.
"Kara is a friend of mine" Lena answered as she felt observed by the woman. "Since you don't let Kara bring her to CatCo, she has to look for other options" her cousin's best friend explained, gently stroking her hair. "And now leave, Andrea"
"I'm not leaving, not until you accept my request" the woman answered as a new thunder sounded, making her to grab Lena's hand a little bit more tighter than before.
"Are you okay?" Lena asked, observing her.
"Scared" she whispered as her cousin's best friend kneeled down to her height to embrace her. "I don't like storms" she told her.
"It's okay, sweetie, you're safe" Lena tucked her hair behind her ears. "Why don't you go back to sleep? It's late, kiddo" the woman said while standing up before grabbing her hand and start walking to the couch.
She wasn't tired, but she didn't have time to deny it, since Lena helped her laid down as she felt how her eyes were starting to close.
"Sweet dreams, sweetie" the woman kissed her hair shortly before she fell asleep.
KARA'S P. O. V
She had asked her sister to pick Halley up from Lena's apartment as she finished a few articles and prepared a little surprise for her baby cousin.
"Again! Again!" Halley exclaimed while jumping up and down in her new Anna's dress, which got her to laugh as her sister sighed.
"Not again, Kara" her sister asked her as her baby cousin pouted, she couldn't say no.
"Okay" she smiled putting again the new Frozen's song, getting Alex to frown. "What? She likes it" she pointed out, observing how Halley was dancing around the living room.
"It's the fifth time" Alex told her. "Since when she's fan of Frozen?" her sister asked her.
"Since we watched the first movie, she loved it, so now she's waiting impatiently for the new one" she explained, not being able to stop smiling while watching Halley dancing and playing with Comet. "Look, at her, she's happy" she pointed at her baby cousin.
"You're taking her to the cinema?" her sister asked, to what she nodded. "Please, tell me that you won't dress up as Elsa" Alex looked at her with a pleading look as she smiled as little.
"Do you think it would be weird?" she asked, getting her sister to nod. "But..." she was going to try to defend herself.
"She's a child and it's cute, you, on the other hand, it's weird" her sister told her as she frowned. "Thank God I'm not going to be there" Alex commented.
"Why not? You could be Olaf" the eight year old approached them, looking directly into Alex's eyes.
"I'm not really into that, kiddo" her sister answered Halley while tucking the child's brown hair behind her ears.
"Would you come if we don't dress up like the characters?" her cousin asked, understanding that Alex was kind of ashamed of them dressing up as Disney characters.
"Hal, kiddo" her sister sighed while observing how kid was looking at her with puppy eyes. "I'll be there, probably not dress up as Olaf, but I will go with you two to the cinema" Alex answered getting the child to smile widely before hugging at her.
"Why don't we watch Frozen so Alex can remember the movie?" she asked her cousin, who pulled away from Alex while nodding excitedly.
After making some popcorn, the three of them sat on the couch, observing how her cousin was sitting in between them while watching the movie so quietly, barely eating popcorn.
The eight year old ended up asleep in between her arms, her little hands forming into fists to hold onto her t-shirt as if the child was afraid of whatever she was dreaming about, which made her frown.
"Everything okay?" Alex asked after observing her.
"Yeah, I don't know" she answered while caressing her cousin's hair. "Something is off with her, Lena said that she was asleep during the attack, but what if she wasn't?" she questioned, since she had been observing that the child was a little bit more clingy.
"Maybe she wasn't, but what matter now is that she's fine, whatever that shadow was, it didn't attack her" her sister told her while gently caressing the child's face.
She nodded. Alex was right, Halley was fine and she should be focusing on that, even though, part of her, kind of believe that something else had happened.
HALLEY'S P. O. V
She grabbed her cousin's hand while listening to Brainy, feeling how Kara caressed the back of her hand when she tighten the grip.
It had barely passed a few months from the last attempt of World domination and, at that moment, they were afraid of something similar happening.
"So how are we supposed to fight a highly secretive, thousand-year-old alien with powers that we have no idea how to beat?" Alex asked as Kara frowned.
"Well, I know one person who spent his life fighting aliens, both real and imagined" Lena answered as her cousin opted to pick her up, knowing where the conversation was heading.
"Your brother" Kara pointed out while hugging her tightly.
"I know most of his minor weapons are in Fort Summit, but his truly horrendous ones, they were all destroyed by Superman" her cousin's best friend commented.
"That's not necessarily true" Kara answered while shaking her head. "A lot of Lex's weapons are in the Fortress of Solitude" her cousin barely whispered the name, Lena staring at them kind of confused about what Kara had said. "Oh, it... it's a place Superman created. We keep things there that can harm us" Kara explained.
"Well, you just go to the Fortress, and I'll give you a list of every weapon that Lex ever created" Lena told Kara.
"Why don't you come with me? I mean, there's no telling what weapons we'll encounter" her cousin offered as she pulled away a little from her.
"Can I go with you, too?" she asked looking directly into her cousin's eyes, who nodded before kissing her forehead.
"Brainy and I will stay here, and we'll continue our search for Rip Roar and this Earth-Bender" Alex added, getting Kara to nod.
"You ready for a road trip?" Kara asked Lena while leaving her on the floor before grabbing her hand.
"Are you sure me going is a good idea?" her cousin's best friend asked.
"Of course. Why wouldn't it be?" her cousin frowned.
"I don't know. A Luthor in the Fortress of Solitude?" Lena commented, insecure.
"It's gonna be great" Kara smiled. "But you're gonna need a jacket" her cousin pointed out.
She couldn't avoid being excited the moment they walked inside the Fortress of Solitude, admiring everything with a huge smile on her face.
It was the second time she was there, since her cousin had taken her there to show a little bit more about Krypton and the truth was that she was really amazed by that place.
She was still holding her cousin's hand the moment a cube made of ice locked Lena inside, identifying her as an intruder and threatening with attack her, so Kara tried to stop it as she observed kind of terrified the whole situation.
"Sorry. I... I had no idea Superman would... would take such extreme measures" her cousin apologized as the three of them started walking toward the main control.
"No, if Lex knew about this place, he would do anything or kill anyone to get in here, so..." Lena tried to give it less importance than it had as she shivered.
After listening a few information about the alien, they went to the armory, holding tight to her cousin's hand when she heard Lena asking about the one weapon that had cost her mom, Myriad.
"I think I was still in Metropolis when Myriad hit" Lena commented. "The news footage, though, it was pretty horrific" her cousin's best friend pointed out as she looked away trying to contain her tears, it had been her parents the one that had created it.
"And reality was even worse" Kara said while gently stroking her hair. "My aunt Astra and her husband turned all of humanity into mindless zombies in less than a second" her cousin explained before taking her in her arms. "If there was one weapon in this room I could destroy, it would be that one and I know that Halley would do it, too" Kara pointed at it.
She hid her face in her cousin's neck as the first tears were streaming down her cheeks, Kara trying to calm her down while whispering reassuring words in her ear.
She remained in her cousin's arms, just with her eyes closed while listening how both of them talked about a sonic gun, but being left on the floor the moment the floor shook a little.
"Stay here" Kara asked them before running away.
From that place they were able to hear the fight, feeling how her breathing was getting even more agitated with every second that passed and her cousin hadn't come back, panicking the moment Lena left her there alone.
However, she shook her head the moment she observed how Lena took Myriad in her hands, confused about why her cousin's best friend would interested in that weapon.
"Why do you have Myriad?" Kara asked while frowning.
"Well, you caught me" Lena smirked while showing the weapon. "I have Myriad because I'm using you, like you used me" the CEO told her cousin.
"I never used you" Kara answered confused as she approached her cousin.
"Do you remember when you finally told me you were Supergirl?" Lena asked. "You were weeping. Big crocodile tears" her cousin's friend commented. "Well, I wept real tears. Bitter tears over you weeks before"
"What? I... I thought... how long had you known?" her cousin asked as she hugged herself at Kara, who was embracing her back.
"I found out the day I killed my brother" Lena answered as her heart skipped a beat, being relieved, if Lex was dead, she was safe. "Lex used his transmatter portal watch, I knew exactly where he'd go, the cabin we loved when we were children, so I was there waiting for him." the woman started talking. "I had the gun ready, loaded. Every fiber in my being rebelled, but I... I didn't want to do it, but I knew I had to because if Lex lived, the world wouldn't be safe, my friends wouldn't be safe. So I forced myself to pull the trigger" the CEO explained. "I shot my own brother in the chest" Lena admitted. "His final words to me were that I was a fool, that my best friend, that every friend I had was lying to me. With his dying breath, he told me that you were Supergirl" Lena continued talking.
She stared at her cousin with sadness, Kara was trying really hard to contain her tears, but not really getting it, so she couldn't avoid hugging her even tighter than before, being upset about everything that was happening there.
"No, that's not true" Kara shook her wanting to defend herself.
"I killed my brother for you, for our friends! Don't you understand what you've done?" Lena shouted scaring her, her cousin stroking her hair.
"When you found out, why didn't you come... to me right away, so I could explain..." her cousin asked, crying.
"Explain? Yeah?" Lena asked surprised.
"If you hate me so much, why... why not out me at the Pulitzer party? Why pretend to still be my friend this long?" Kara questioned.
"'Cause I wanted you to experience what you did to me. Feel what I felt" Lena answered as her cousin sighed.
"Is that why you've been using Halley?" Kara asked, to what Lena frowned. "You used kryptonite on her" her cousin said.
"It was a small amount, it wouldn't hurt her" the CEO commented, getting her cousin to shake her head.
"That small amount could kill her" her cousin pointed out while putting herself in front of her, protecting her.
"I would never hurt her, I'm not my brother" Lena answered even more upset.
Kara just shook her head as if she wasn't sure of what she should do, staring at her for a few seconds while trying to smile at her, but she knew that her cousin was broken inside.
"She asked me not to get mad at you because of the kryptonite and, even though deep down I was, I trusted you. I still do it" Kara said, pointing at her before walking toward Lena. "I understand your pain and your fury, and... and you're right. I made a big mistake, maybe the biggest mistake of my life, but please... Lena, please don't leave the Fortress with Myriad" her cousin begged in tears. "Please don't let my mistake push you to do something terrible. You are a good person!" Kara tried to reason with her best friend.
"No, you don't ever get to tell me who or what I am again!" Lena yelled at her as ice cube locked Kara inside with kryptonite.
She did not know how to react, staring at Lena afraid before running to punch the ice cube, tears streaming down her cheeks at the sight of her cousin being inside of it without fighting as if Kara had admitted that she was the one to blame for all of that.
"Halley, baby, stop, you're going to hurt yourself" Kara asked when she whined, her knuckles being bruised and with a little bit of blood. "It's okay, kiddo" her cousin smiled at her as she continued crying, shaking her head.
No, it wasn't okay. She needed to find a way to break that ice, moving away from Lena's touch when the woman put her hand on her shoulder.
"Are you gonna try to kill me?" she heard her cousin ask as her own fear increased, staring at Lena in tears.
"No, I'm not going to kill you, Supergirl" Lena answered. "I'm not a villain, you shouldn't have treated me like one" the woman said while opening a portal there before approaching her again, trying to grab her hand, but she refused.
"No! No!" she screamed trying to pull away, wanting to stay with Kara.
However, even though she wanted not to leave her cousin alone, her body stopped listening to her brain, walking to Lena when the woman called her, grabbing her hand to walk through the portal, being aware of what had happened the moment they were at Lena's lab.
"Kara!" she exclaimed trying to run back to the portal before it closed, Lena stopping her as she started sobbing.
The woman kneeled down to her height to embrace her as if she was trying to calm her down, but the truth was that she was scared of her, so she pulled away from the embrace, not even looking at Lena in the eyes while thinking for a way to help her cousin.
She didn't have time to react when Lena pierced in her neck with a needle, falling unconscious a few seconds later.
Hi!
The reveal in the last episode was amazing, so sad for Kara to be left alone at the Fortress without even fighting.
I still don't think that Lena is a villain, but I don't think taking Myriad from the Fortress was the smartest choice.
It has been a hard chapter to write because I didn't know how well Halley would fit it, also it's difficult writing the reveal scene from the point of view of a eight year old. At first I thought about Lena leaving Halley at the Fortress, but it was obvious that Halley would fly to the DEO looking for help. So I thought that Lena would take her with her only because of the knowledge Halley has about Myriad.
Thanks so much for reading, let me know what you think,
Ayrin