KARA'S P. O. V
She had ended up wrapping her baby cousin in her own cape, keeping the eight year old in her arms as she continued to sing the Kryptonian lullaby that would always make Halley to fall asleep.
"How is she?" she looked up to meet Barry, who was observing quietly the sleeping child.
"A little bit calmer" she answered, her gaze focusing on Lex, who was walking toward them, which got her to embrace her cousin protectively. "Don't you dare getting closer" she threatened him.
"Don't worry, I'm not going to do anything to our savior" he chuckled. "I guess we need her, just as you need me, so..." Lex shrugged while smirking.
She felt how her cousin's body tensed, the child frowning while breathing with agitation, which got her to look at Lex, the little girl seemed to sense him there since Halley relaxed the moment he left.
"What's the story between you and Lex?" Barry asked kind of curious as she laid her baby cousin in a small mattress, hoping that the child would remain asleep before approaching J'onn, her friend following her.
"Hey, Can you look after Halley for a little while? She's asleep" she asked J'onn, who nodded so she walked away along with Barry.
"I didn't want Halley to hear us" she told her friend, who nodded slightly. "Lex kidnapped her a few months ago" she finally said again feeling angry about all the people they had lost and that man being alive. "He experimented on her, he did horrible things that has traumatized Halley. She's been having panic attacks ever since then" she explained not being able to look at him, tears threatening to escape her eyes. "She was doing better, I don't know how is she going to be after all of this" she let her tears fall down her cheeks.
"I'm so sorry to hear that" Barry whispered while embracing her. "I'll keep her safe as well" her friend pulled her away as she nodded a little.
She was grateful for having friends like Barry, because she knew that he would do what he said, we would keep Halley safe from Lex.
She hated being there, part of her feeling as if she was alone even if she wasn't, but she had lost too many people in such a short period of time and she was forcing herself to be brave just for her baby cousin.
Halley's scream got her to run to where the child was in panic, anger getting control all over her as she felt her blood boiling.
Lex was keeping the eight year old in between his arms, her cousin remained with her eyes closed as tears were streaming down her cheeks and her tiny body was trembling.
"Let go of her" she told him, Halley's eyes opening to look at her in panic.
"Why? I'm trying to calm her down" he answered while observing the child, her cousin was taking sharp breaths. "We were friends back in Kaznia, isn't that right, Kryptonian?" Lex asked her cousin, who barely nodded in between sobs.
"She's scared, please, let her go" she asked him again, really suffering for her baby cousin, her eyes turning red as she get ready to use her heat vision, moment at which they were surrounded by the rest of the team.
"If I were you, I wouldn't do it. You don't know if you're going to hit her" Lex warned while using Halley as a shield, so she stopped not wanting to hurt her.
"Don't you think you've done enough during the past months?" she asked him angrily. "You destroy everything you touch" she snapped at him.
"Are you sure it wasn't all your little lies, Supergirl? Or should I say Kara Danvers?" Lex asked with mockery, which made her frown as he finally let go of Halley to get up.
Her baby cousin didn't hesitate to hug her legs as she sighed relieved, keeping the child behind her while still looking at Lex.
"Come here, kiddo" Barry picked up the child, nodding slightly when she saw that he was leaving with her.
"I wanted to protect her from people that would hurt her" she tried to defend herself.
"Oh, come on, just recognize that it was because of her last name" Lex pointed out, J'onn stopping her as she was about to punch him.
"It was my secret to tell, not yours" she told him shortly before picking her cape and turning away to leave as she knew that she wasn't going to be able to control herself.
"Are you okay?" she heard J'onn ask, to what she shook her head, she needed to punch something. "Don't listen to him, Kara" he said.
"But he's right, deep down I know he is" she shook her head. "I never thought about it until she started using kryptonite on Halley" She admitted, being really upset. "I thought that if I hadn't told her, she wouldn't have hurt my cousin, then I learned that she would have done it anyway and that's what scares me" she explained barely looking at J'onn.
"It's okay for you to feel that way" he said as she frowned. "Lena took Halley away from you, it's normal for you to be upset and not to trust her as you did before" J'onn pointed out, to what she nodded.
"I still want to see the good in her" she whispered, not wanting to give up on her best friend, but knowing that she would not be able to trust her again around Halley. "Anyway, I don't even think that we'll have our Earth back, so it doesn't really matter" she shrugged. "I should check on Halley" she told him before walking to where her baby cousin was with Barry.
The eight year old was a lot calmer than before, sitting in between Barry and Sara, with her head over Barry's chest as she smiled widely because of one of Sara's jokes.
"Hey, look who's here, Hal" Sara pointed at her, getting Halley to look at her for a few seconds before running to hug her legs, so she picked her up.
"Are you okay?" she asked while pulling slightly away the child, who nodded.
"You?" Halley asked, staring directly into her eyes.
"I'm fine" she answered, her cousin nodding slightly.
"I love you" the eight year old said with a slight smile while snuggling closer to her.
"I love you, too" she answered in a whisper before kissing the child's forehead, they needed a way out from there.
HALLEY'S P. O. V
As the time passed everything was harder. Barry had disappeared trying to find a way for them to get out of there, so everyone had lost their hope about getting out from the Vanishing Point.
She was sitting on her cousin's lap, her head resting on her shoulder as tried to focus on Kara's heartbeat, just wanting to be as calm as possible, kind of scared about them staying there forever.
"You okay, kiddo?" Kara asked while pulling her away a little, nodding slightly with her gaze focusing on Lex while frowning, she couldn't stand being one more day at the same place as him.
Kara had become a lot more overprotective than before after the events with Lex, not leaving her by herself at anytime, which, honestly, she appreciated.
"Are we going to be here forever?" she asked while looking directly into her cousin's eyes, Kara staring back at her as if she wasn't sure of what to answer.
"Now I understand why you're the Paragon of Innocence" her cousin pointed out with a small smile. "I can't promise you that we will, but I can't assure you that we won't, it's complicated, baby" Kara answered her question while pulling her into a hug.
She closed her eyes. Kara's words were hopeless, though she knew that her cousin was trying to reassured her, so, even if it was just for a few seconds, she wanted to believe that they would not be there forever.
"Hey, Ryan and Lex want to talk to all of us" J'onn told them, to what they got up from the floor to approach to where the rest was.
She stood next to her cousin while holding tightly to her hand, barely being able to look at the man she had in front as flashbacks of everything he had done to her were assaulting her.
"I'll go" J'onn said, getting her to look at him confused, for the first time paying attention to whatever that was happening.
"No, we lost so many good people already" her cousin told him. "Thanks for volunteering, Lex" Kara added while staring at him, taking him by surprise.
"Me? Why not the child? We both know that you would want her to have more chances of surviving" Lex said as her cousin tried to keep her behind her.
"Start it up" Kara asked Ryan, who nodded slightly as Lex got ready.
"If this works..." Sara started talking.
"We get out of here. We defeat the Anti-Monitor. We find a way to get all the people we love back" her cousin completed the sentence as all of them were waiting for it to work.
However, when Lex didn't disappear, she felt how her cousin tighten the grip of her hand, again they didn't have anything.
It was a noise that made them moved shortly before Barry appeared, falling to the ground after bumping into a wall, getting all of them to run to where he was.
Everything was confusing, barely understanding what was going on, hiding behind her cousin the moment someone else appeared there, which was impossible since they were the last survivors of the multiverse.
"Oliver?" she heard Sara asked, for the first time daring to look at that new person, it was him.
However, it didn't mean that she would come out of hiding, because it was still kind of scary, he was different, so when he asked for her to approach him, she had a really hard time letting go of her cousin.
Oliver crouched to her height, their eyes meeting as she tried to control her own tears, remembering the last time she had seen him.
"It's okay" he whispered, slowly reaching to touch her face. "You have a really important mission, Halley" Oliver told her. "You have to convince the Monitor, so all of this won't happen, Can you do that?" he asked her, to what she nodded slightly. "Good. I believe in you, kiddo" he whispered as she felt a huge weight over her shoulders, it was a huge responsibility.
"So the Kryptonian child is the one that's going to prevent all of this?" Lex asked, getting Oliver to nod. "Great, we're all doomed, she's not really talkative" he commented.
"She doesn't need to talk, just by touching him, she will transfer the information" Oliver explained standing up as she approached her cousin.
"I'm obviously going with her" Kara said while grabbing her hand.
"Traveling to an alien world, I'm in" Ryan offered himself as well.
"Same" Lex said, getting Kara to look at him. "Come on, you know you don't want to risk getting me out of your sight" he pointed out as her cousin sighed.
"I don't want you near my cousin" her cousin told him, to what he nodded.
It was Barry the one that took them to the Monitor planet, barely landing well as her knees hit the ground hard.
She felt a hand gripping tightly her arm, for a moment wishing that it was her cousin, but when her blue eyes met his, her whole body shivered as she tried to get rid of the grip.
Lex started walking while pulling from her, which only got her to screaming, hoping for her cousin to hear her.
"What do you think you're doing?" Kara asked, landing in front of them, which got Lex to stop walking. "Let go of her" her cousin asked, but he didn't do it.
"Well, I'm taking her to Novu" Lex answered.
"What are you up to, Lex?" Kara quedtioned, starting to get angry.
"Universal domination, of course" he smirked while letting go of her.
"No!" she screamed while observing how Lex attacked her cousin. "Kara!" she called her, hoping for the young superhero to get up from the ground, but when her cousin didn't do it, she started to panic.
She tried to get closer, but being stopped by Lex, who grabbed her arm to turn her around, her gaze not meeting his, just closing her eyes as her vision became blurrier because of her own tears.
"What are you doing?!" Ryan asked once he approached them.
"I'm so tired of answering that question" Lex murmured while attacking him as well, still gripping her arm. "And now let's go" he smiled, pulling from her, fear controlling every single cell of her body.
"No! Wait!" she tried to resist, dropping to her knees the moment they passed beside her cousin.
Lex didn't say anything, he just scooped her up as she kicked against him, sobbing, screaming, begging for someone to hear her.
There was a moment when she stopped fighting, because it didn't matter, he wasn't going to leave her alone until he reached his own goal.
"Hey, kid, look at me" he asked while leaving her on the ground, but she refused to do so, only to get him to hold her face in between his hands. "Do you remember what I told you back in Kaznia?" Lex asked her, to what she nodded, still not looking at him. "Okay, What was it?" he questioned her.
"Not to let the enemy see my weaknesses" she answered in just a whisper.
"Then, Why are you still crying?" Lex asked, to what she shrugged, she was scared of him. "You know I hate Kryptonians, but right now I have all my hopes on you, so, come on, we have to find Novu" he said while taking her by her arm to force her to walk.
She stared at her feet once they were in front of the Monitor, not wanting to do whatever Lex was planning, barely paying attention to whatever he was telling Novu.
"Come here, kid" Lex called her, but she shook her head, refusing to do it.
"Halley, no" it was her cousin's voice the one that got her to turn, running to hug at her. "You okay, baby?" Kara asked, to what she nodded. "Mar Novu, do not trust this man" her cousin said letting go of her. "Last time you took me by surprise, it's not gonna happen again" Kara assured him before asking Ryan to get Novu and her away from there.
"Xneen!" the Monitor exclaimed while kneeling down next to the woman Lex had knocked out before.
"Listen to me, whatever you do, you can't open that portal" Ryan told him.
"The hairless man warned me" Novu answered.
"No, this is not a warning situation, it's not do it by any circumstance" Ryan said before looking at her. "Um... Halley, come here" he called her, so she did, slowly putting her hand over Novu's.
It lasted a only a few minutes, her eyes closed while being able to listen the fight that was taking place in the next room.
"Hey! Stop trying to kill each other. We got through to Novu" Ryan told them.
KARA'S P. O. V
Fighting against those demons it was hard, but it was even harder when she was focusing on her baby cousin, making sure all the time that the child was fine, knowing that Halley was doing her best.
"Halley!" she exclaimed after being able to observed how the eight year old fell to the ground.
However, before she could approach her, it was Kate the one that picked up Halley, making sure that the child was okay.
"She's okay" Kate told her once she was by their side.
"Thanks" she smiled while observing the child, her cousin had a few scratches over her face. "It's okay, kiddo" she whispered having to defend both of them from one of the demons.
She smiled, feeling proud when she saw how her baby cousin nodded slightly before continuing to fight, but sad at the same time, When had her cousin grown so much?
Once the fight was over, she found herself with the eight year old in between her arms, kissing repeatedly her cousin's cheek as she couldn't contain her happiness for everything to be turning out as it should.
"What if truth can tell us what we need to do?" Lex asked as she frowned.
"Being what?" Kate questioned him back.
"Use what's left of the book to fuel the flames" he answered.
"How do we all use the book?" Barry asked.
"We focus" she answered, but everyone else was still confused. "We focus on humanity, truth, love, destiny, honor, courage, innocence and hope" she explained grabbing her cousin's hand to keep her by her side.
She closed her eyes with the flash of light, confused, not understanding what had happened, but feeling how her baby cousin gripped even tighter to her hand.
HALLEY'S P. O. V
She had been really confused about what was happening, but at the same time happy of finally being at home, not being able to contain herself when she saw Alex waiting for her outside the school.
"Kara!" she exclaimed while letting go of Alex's hand before running towards her cousin to embrace her.
"Hi, baby" Kara picked her up, keeping her embraced as tight as possible. "Are you okay?" her cousin asked, getting her to shrugged her shoulders, it was confusing.
"Why does everyone believe that he's good?" she questioned while pointing to the screen, her whole body shivering.
"I don't know" her cousin answered in just a whisper.
"He came to school and everyone cheered him for winning something he shouldn't have" she told her cousin, who pulled her away a little.
"Did he say anything to you?" Kara asked, gently brushing her dark hair away from her face.
"To stay quiet" she answered, her cousin sighing.
"Okay, So you think he's evil, too?" Alex questioned her, to what she nodded. "What is going on?"
That was the exact same question she was making herself, knowing that her cousin was doing it as well, but still not understanding how Alex was able to defend him after everything Lex had done.
"I know you're both confused, I was too" J'onn said while approaching them. "But it happened" he explained.
"Why are we the only three that remember everything?" Kara asked.
"What are we that they are not?" J'onn asked back.
"Paragons" her cousin answered.
"Wait, What?" Alex stared at them confused.
It was J'onn the one that tried to explain her, but ending up to give Alex back her memories from what had happened before.
During that evening they all learnt that they were in a new Earth, place where all superheroes had been fighting against crime together, which was even more confusing than before, but being really happy when she saw Barry at the DEO.
However, when a few demons attacked them, they new that it was required for all of them to fight again against the Anti-Monitor. They couldn't let that earth suffer the same way the other's did.
KARA'S P. O. V
"Kate, hey, I'm glad you were able to come" she smiled at her friend, Halley running toward them to hug Kate's legs, taking her by surprise, which made her laugh.
"Um... Hi, kiddo" Kate smiled while ruffling the child's hair, who smiled back at her.
Halley ended up sitting on her lap during most of the night, the little girl was really clingy and she couldn't be mad at her for that, since she understood perfectly that the child was trying really hard to process everything that had been happening recently. It was a lot to take even for herself.
She knew that her baby cousin was scared about Lex being able to hurt her again, she was too, but she would try her best not to let him.
"Kara?" the eight year old asked while walking into her bedroom, getting her to sit up in the bed. "I can't sleep" her cousin whispered.
"Come here, baby" she patted the spot right next to her. "Did you have a nightmare?" she asked as Halley climbed onto the bed, Saffire in between her arms.
"Yeah, we were back at the Vanishing Point" the child answered in just a whisper as she embraced her tightly.
"I know, that scares me as well, sweetie" she gently brushed her brown hair away from her face. "But we're at home, okay?" she told her.
"But... Lex and..." Halley stared directly into her eyes, she was able to find fear in her bright blue eyes.
"He won't hurt you, I promise, baby" she promised her baby cousin. "And now let's try to sleep, Hal" she smiled laying down with her cousin in between her arms.
"I love you" Halley whispered while snuggling closer to her.
"Love you, too" she whispered back. "Sweet dreams, baby girl" she kissed her cousin's hair, hoping for the events not to have changed the sweet little girl she remembered.
Hi!
It took me a while to know what I wanted to write and the changes that I would have to make, so I've been writing and rewriting all of these scenes for the last few days.
I think the most exciting thing is that all heroes are living in the same Earth, so they can team up whenever they want. However, Lex being good? I don't know how that's going to work, though it gives me even more plot for Halley.
I'm still figuring out how all the changes might have changed teen Halley, so if you have any idea for that fanfic, just let me know, I will appreciate it.
Thanks so much for reading, let me know what you think,
Ayrin