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It was almost normal the way they stepped into the prison, normal for a Luthor at least. But Lena was painfully aware that nothing was normal. She had shot her brother. He had been dead, she had tried to use Miriad and it was gone, all her research, everything was gone. Waking up with Kara and visiting the DEO all seemed like a bad dream. But, stepping into the prison with Kara in her super suit made her want to be sick.
"You didn't have to come" She bit as they passed through the fifth round of security.
"I wasn't going to let you do this alone" Kara sympathised.
"Believe it or not, I'm quite capable of visiting my narcissistic family on my own" Lena walked off following the guards in front of them. She didn't want to look at Kara let alone talk to her. Coming to the prison was just another reminder that her world had been turned upside down. That her life wasn't what she left. After all, Lex no longer existed in her world.
As they neared the cell she looked back to find Kara trailing along behind them. Her eyes scanned around carelessly with a whistle filling the hall.
"Wait here, I'd like to speak to him, alone" Lena ordered. She was surprised when Kara simply nodded leaning against the wall opposite. Lena stepped into the cell and gasped, it was very different from the cell Lena had visited 6 months ago. There were no furnishings, other than the bed and desk, nothing extravagant. All of his furnishings were gone right down to the globe decanter. He had his desk journals and books but nothing like what was in there before.
"Finally, I was wondering how long it would take you to come and get me," Lex exasperated, startling her from her reminiscing. He looked the same as he stood, still tall and lean. His beard as trim as always.
"Hello to you too" Lena greeted sitting at his desk with a look of distaste at the cell.
"You remember?" Lex asked more in confirmation than in question.
"Remember what?" Lena feigned ignorance. "I thought this was a social call, we would drink and you would tell me all of your escape plans"
"That bastard" Lex hissed under his breath. Lena smirked enjoying the moment before giving in. She had to get the answers she wanted.
"I remember I shot you" Lena stated, swallowing back her emotions at the memory, "You were dead, you didn't even beg me to save you"
Lex looked up with a frown before grinning, "Well played" He praised, "Yes you're right that did happen, but then some nice people brought me back to save the universe and in return, I got you and got to live and the deal was I wouldn't be in here" Lex rambled, "So, when can we leave?"
"Leave?" Lena's surprise laced in her voice.
"Yes leave"
"Well, whatever your deal was it hasn't exactly turned out the way you wanted it. In fact, my life has no resemblance of the one I just left" Lena informed him with a level glare. Lex frowned deeply at her,
"What do you mean?" Lex asked, slowly returning to his seat on the cot.
"Well for a start I didn't wake up in my bed and I wasn't alone"
"We really don't have time to discuss your sex life Lena"
"I woke up in bed with Kara, Lex, you know, Supergirl" Lena hissed. Lex's eyebrows shot to his non-existent hairline.
"Well, that is a development" He smirked, "Maybe you were more adventurous in this life Lena" He teased.
"People recall a life neither of us had, so what did you do?" Lena asked carefully. Lex shrugged,
"I made a deal with Monitor he made sure I got the life I wanted and you would get your memories intact" Lex explained. "That was it"
"Well, your deal clearly didn't come through because I doubt you would have wanted to be stuck in here"
"No, it definitely didn't. All that hard work and bribery, gone"
Lena sighed, "They're looking into a way to get us back to our universe but they said it could take months" Lena informed him.
"They can't, that was the whole problem. There is no 'our universe'. This is it, Lena, this was our second chance and I've been played" his temper rising with every word. "Now, you're going to speak nicely to your Kryptonian girlfriend and get me out of here" Lena frowned at his order and stood. She refused to be ordered and manipulated by him. Not after the last time.
"More like wife" Lena waved her left hand in the air before continuing, "Are you sure there would be no new multiverse?"
"Positive, the Monitor said the only way to make sure the Anti-monitor couldn't succeed was to go back to the dawn of time, fight him there, win and restart the universe and that's what we did. By restarting the universe, there was no one to create the multiverse"
"So we're stuck here?" Lena asked curiously,
"As far as I can tell. Now you could free your brother who could help you do look into this further or, if you're stuck here, help you get rid of the Kryptonian" He offered with a grin,
"I don't know Lex. I think one homicidal rampage is enough every five years, don't you? I don't know if National City could handle another"
"Lena" Lex shouted standing as she walked from the cell,
"Goodbye Lex" Lena called pleasantly,
"Lena, don't you leave me in here" He shouted in rage as the door slammed into his face.
"Go well?" Kara asked looking up from her phone.
"Like you didn't listen" Lena sneered. Kara had the decency to at least blush. Walking out of the prison Lena sighed. She didn't know what she was to do.
"So, I think while Winn and Brainy are looking into the multiverse we do as J'onn says and lay low, see if we can find anything useful but until we get answers we're going to have to watch what we say here outside of our circle" Kara warned fidgetting.
"Do you even know how the ripple effect works Kara?" Lena asked wearily, growing impatient at the hero complex being demonstrated before her.
"Its a whole space-time continuum thing. If you shift this universe too much then we can do it on all the others"
"Yes, Kara, I am aware. You're going to have to do this better than I am. I can carry on my work in a semblance of normality you can't. So what are you suggesting, we play happy families?"
"Well, something like that" Kara admitted rubbing the back of her neck,
"If too many people find out we're not from here then we could mess something up in our own reality if, when we get back to it"
Lena gritted her teeth, her patience waring,
"You lie to me for years and now you want to play happy families?" Lena spat her anger spilling over. She wasn't shocked to see Karas own anger flare at the comment,
"You used Kryptonite on me and manipulate me for weeks so don't make out like you're innocent in this"
Lena clenched her jaw tightly that Kara could see the muscled tense. Lena's heartbeat was erratic.
"No, I'm not but I'm not going to pretend for the sake of you're friends"
"My friends! What about Sam and Ruby?" Kara asked, "They think we're married too"
"Don't guilt-trip me with Sam and Ruby, just because you're not getting your way Kara" Lena sneered.
"I'm not-"
"Because believe it or not, I don't need a god complex to make me feel important," taking a deep breath to calm herself she continued, "You can email my secretary when you have anything new" Lena spat as she walked away.
She was glad the DEO had flown her to the specialist prison in instead of letting Kara fly them over. Lena returned to the new penthouse that afternoon, and after the DEO agent dropping her off at the unknown building, she was determined to get through this without a murder charge or being checked into an asylum. She changed into her usual powerhouse dress and heels before making her way around the apartment.
She began in the bedroom, half of the closet was Lena's filled with dark rich colours, the other half filled with pastel colours.
Her side of the bed was clearly the right, her glasses and a novel sat on the bedside table. She hid them both away not ready for Kara to see that side of her. She didn't miss the small frame of the two of them, the one she had broken only a few weeks ago. She swallowed moving from the room, not willing to see what was on the Kryptonians side.
She turned from the room, her curiosity peaking as she opened another couple of doors. A guest room and a small box room that was stacked with boxes of books and things the other her seamed to want to ignore since moving to the penthouse.
She shut the door behind her making her way to the lower floors. The corridor of the main living space was filled again with another bath and the studio as well as two studies. Her own which looked similar to that of her office at L-Corp. She had a familiar white desk, a wall filled with tech designs some she recognised others she didn't. She made a mental note to come back to them.
She turned from the study to the other was obviously Kara's, its soft appearance made her anger bubble inside her. How had she done this? Just rolled over and put it all behind her? Lena shook her head exiting the office before looking deeper. She dug further in the living space. She found her purse, a set of car keys. A familiar buzzing of her cell made her walk back to the bedroom. Opening it up she found five missed calls from the office, another from Kara. A series of emails littered the scream but what made her breath hitch was the background. It was a photo she hadn't taken. A photo of Kara and herself, the blonde's nose was crinkled as she laughed at something. Lena's arm wrapped around her shoulder as she placed a kiss on her cheek. Quickly shutting the phone and depositing it in her purse she made her way down to the parking garage, the keyfob in hand. She had a company to run after all.
Looking out over the variety of cars she hesitantly pressed the button. A familiar flash drew her eyes to the car. And she was thankful Kara hadn't gotten to her other self about reliability and cars. She slipped into the Audi grateful she at least had a sport sedan and not an SUV mom car that Alex had. After fiddling with the sat nav to take her to L-Corp, she was grateful for the silence. Even the mild normality of sitting in traffic. Not that she would, normally she would have a driver. She shook her head at the thought as she pulled into her space.
As she walked into her office she was floored by the sight of Jess working happily at her desk.
"Oh Ms Luthor, thank god. I was getting worried and then I thought you might have been working from home. Then, I worried that Ms Danvers had whisked you off somewhere. I know she likes to surprise you but Japan doesn't like that excuse-"
Lena simply held a hand cutting off Jess's panicked rambles.
"It's fine Jess. I just got caught up on something" Lena admitted, she missed Jess blush. "Can you clear my schedule for the rest of the day? I have something urgent to take care of"
She didn't wait for the nod of confirmation before slipping into the office. She had a lot of questions to answer.
Across town at the DEO Kara hovered around desperately waiting for something.
"Look Kara this is going to take a long time, let's just leave Brainy and Winn to it" Nia tried,
"I'm going to find Alex, you should go back to work, I'll be there tomorrow I promise" Kara dismissed lightly, Nia nodded walking off. Kara walked into the lab to find Alex at a microscope a flashback to before she was the cool DEO agent she was now.
"You must miss the field huh?" Kara offered as she sat on a stool.
"You have no idea," Alex chuckled, "How're you holding up?"
"Better I managed to get J'onn to check that our time together was all still the same" Kara sighed relieved. J'onn had done his best but Kara knew it would take a while for their time together to be sorted back to normal completely. If it would ever feel normal again, Kara questioned
"I know it must be scary Kara" Alex sympathised, "Even more that, Lena isn't who she is in my memories"
"She hasn't changed since coming here but I know it's going to be hard for her" Kara admitted,
"It'll be hard on you both, you just have to trust each other" Alex smiled gently patting her arm,
"That's easier said than done" Kara stated, making Alex chuckle.
"We have a situation downtown," Winn called.
"I can send a team" J'onn offered,
"No, it's fine I feel like punching something" Kara admitted.
Arriving downtown was no different than normal, except some random woman waving her glowing stick around.
"Look could you, just not today, please?" Kara pleaded as soon as she landed.
"You will feel my wrath" A burst of lightning struck Kara forcing her back.
"Sorry, sorry she's mine" Kara felt a hand pull her to her feet to come face to face with Barry Allen in his Flash uniform.
"What're you doing here?" Kara asked curiously,
"Well, she's mine, so I thought I'd take care of her" Barry shrugged, "Wait, what're you doing on my earth?" He asked before realising, "Oh, we're all?" He trailed off, making a spinning motion with his finger symbolising that he realised they were all together, as Kara nodded.
"Oh damn, ok I mean I can take care of this if you want?" Barry offered,
"Would you mind? My universe didn't exactly turn out anywhere near the same" Kara explained,
"Give me five and we can catch up over coffee?" Barry offered, Kara nodded and monitored as Barry very quickly dealt with Weatherwitch Kara would later find out she was called. As soon as she was firmly in the back of a DEO car. Kara sat with Barry in Noonans, back in normal clothes. Kara finished explaining her day, exhausted just retelling it.
"Wow, that's, wow" Barry gaped at her,
"Yeah and now I have to pretend until we sort this mess out" Kara huffed,
"So everyone thinks you're married? Including your closest family?"
"Yupp"
"Man, that sucks" Barry sighed over his coffee,
"Hey, should you really be drinking that?" Kara asked curiously,
"Oh, it's decaf" Barry reassured.
"So you got any pointers?" Kara asked curiously,
"Not really, I mean you guys are just gonna have to try but my honest opinion is that given we're both here and I'm sure Sara and the Legends will be in DC is that this might be it"
"I was worried you were going to say something like that" Kara huffed.
"But look, I can get Cisco to look into the Interdimensional Extrapolators if you want?" Barry offered,
"Yeah, that'd be great, my guys had never even heard of them"
"That doesn't look promising" Barry muttered before shrugging, "So, Lena huh?"
"Please don't Barry"
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