Chapter 3 - heart-to-heart.

When Lillian Luthor headed to the living-room this morning, the last thing she expected to be confronted to, was the sight of her daughter and Supergirl cuddling, asleep on the couch. Kara was on her back with her arms around Lena who was laying on her, their legs were also entangled with one another. When the shock passed, Lillian shrugged her shoulders as she headed back to the guest bedroom, after all, it wasn't really that surprising.

Lena stirred slightly as she felt herself waking up, it has been a while since she has slept that well. She frowned when she felt the surface underneath her being unusual. She opened her eyes completely and straighten slightly. She was face to face with Kara, their lips were very close to each other and for one second Lena wondered what she would feel like if she kissed her, she slapped herself mentally after this thought but kept watching her best friend closely, she was so beautiful at this moment, well, she was beautiful all the time, but the particular sight she had in front of her at this very moment was absolutely breathtaking.

Lena is lost in her contemplation when Kara starts to wake-up.

"Morning," Kara says with a smile."Did you sleep well?"

"Better than ever." Lena smiles."I'm sorry to have fell asleep on you."

"No problem." Kara replies."I liked that."

"Really?"

"Yeah." Kara smiles.

They smile and stare deeply at one another, losing track of the time that passed when they're suddenly interrupted by the sound of someone clearing their throat. They're both snapped back to reality while they pulled away from each other as they get-up from the couch at the same time.

"Did I interrupt something?" Lillian says in a sneaky tone. "Do you want to take breakfast with us Supergirl?"

Lena glared at her mother while for some unknown reasons Kara's cheeks started to blush before her alien ears and her super-hearing heard a suspicious noise.

"Uh..Sorry...I...I have to go." Kara stutters."Duty calls."

One tiny second after that, Kara flew through the window and disappeared from their sight quickly.

Lena turned her attention back to her mother who was watching her with a smirk. "What?" she asked, irritated.

"Nothing." Lillian replies, still with this infuriating smirk. "So, breakfast? I can make you some pancakes."

"Since when you want to be all motherly with me?" Lena frowned.

"I told you I wanted to be better for you."

"Right..." Lena sighed. "Let's go for some pancakes then..."

After stopping a bank robbery, Kara headed to CatCo, smiling ear-to-ear when she was interrupted in her track by the ringing of her cellphone, "Alex! How are you?" she asks with an enthusiastic tone.

Alex who was at the DEO, could hear Kara's smile through the phone, which was something that warmed her heart. "I wanted to check if you were okay 'cause I didn't hear from you since yesterday, but you seem fine so..."

"I am more than fine Alex, it's like I can finally breathe again!" Kara says, ecstatic.

"I take that things are going well between Lena and you now?"

"Yeah...I think so." Kara replies."I slept with her last night."

"What?!" Alex frowns even though Kara couldn't see her.

"What...No, I didn't mean...I mean...We slept together on the couch...I was still in my Supergirl suit." Kara stammers.

"All right." Alex mutters. "What do you think about having dinner with me and Kelly tonight?"

"Can I bring Lena with me? I mean...If she wants to go with me."

"Um...Sure, why not? The more the merrier."

"Thank you, Alex." Kara says."See you tonight."

Lena was at L-corp, typing something on her keyboard when her cell phone vibrated on her desk. She smiled when she saw it was a text message from Kara.

"Hey! :D I'm sorry to have run away this morning, your mother is kinda scary when she tries to be nice, I mean scarier than usual. Whatever, Are you free tonight?"

Lena chuckles as she read, before writing her answer.

"Don't worry about that, she stills frighten me sometimes too. Besides you had important stuff to take care of this morning, I saw how you stopped the bank robbery, that was pretty badass. For you, yes I can be free."

At CatCo, Kara was working on an article when her phone buzzed, she smiled, guessing it was probably Lena who answered her, it didn't take long for her to open the text message. Her smiles grow wider as she reads Lena's answer while she felt like a comforting warm feeling in her chest.

":D Do you want to have dinner with Alex, Kelly and I?"

Barely two minutes after, Kara's phone buzzed again.

"I look forward to it, see you tonight. Have a good day."

After reading Lena's answer Kara could now feel like millions of butterflies were dancing in her stomach, and she could also feel her heart beating faster than usual. "What is happening to me?" she asks in her head. "I'm probably just happy to have Lena in my life again, yeah, that's just that...nothing more." She shook her head slightly before going back to her article.

Lena was getting ready for tonight, she had changed her outfits multiple times before opting for a stunning black dress who was clinging her in all the right places. She finished putting some make-up, while her mother was eyeing her suspiciously since a few minutes.

"What again?" she sighed in exasperation.

"You look like you're getting ready for a date." Lillian stated in a neutral tone.

Lena was so taken aback by this reply that she nearly dropped her tube of lipstick. "I...well, I'm not...It's just a dinner between friends."

"If you say so." Lillian smirked.

Lena sighed before taking her bag and closing-or more accurately slamming the door behind her.

Lena was in front of Kara's building since a few minutes, she was pacing back and forth, her heels clicking on the pavement, the thing her mother said before she left couldn't stop echoing in her mind,"you look like you're getting ready for a date." This thought makes her anxious, which didn't make any sense because it wasn't a date, not at all. She took a deep breath before heading to the front door.

At Kara's apartment, Alex and Kelly were already there, they were sitting on the couch when Alex asked,"So... does Lena will be there tonight?"

"She told me she will be." Kara replies as she looks down.

"Don't do that." Alex reprimanded.

"Doing what?" Kara frowned.

"Closing yourself off again... This morning miss sunshine were back but since we came here I can sense that something is bugging you."

"I'm afraid to lose Lena again." Kara sighed.

"Which is understandable after everything you've been through together." Alex says.

"What? You think she's still mad at me?" Kara asks, panicked.

"Kelly, you're in charge. I'm gonna get some booze." Alex says as she gets-up.

Kelly smiled kindly at Kara before saying, "We'll could talk about your fear of losing Lena at our next session but for now I think you should try to relax, and maybe having a real heart-to-heart conversation could be good for the both of you."

"You're right.I'm gonna..." Kara says before a knock to the door interrupted her."Excuse me, I have to..."

Kara opened the door and was amazed by the dazzling sight in front of her, "Wow, Lena you're beautiful, I mean...you look good, very good."

"Thank you...You too." Lena smiles.

"I'm still in my work clothes." Kara mutters.

"Doesn't matter." Lena chuckles."You're perfect whatever you're wearing." "Wait, why did I say that?" she asks in her head.

Kara was stunned by Lena's declaration, she chuckled awkwardly before Alex said,"Dinner's ready!"

After the dinner Alex and Kelly left together.

Lena was about to go too when Kara gripped softly her forearm as she asked,"Can you stay here for a little while?

"Of course." Lena smiles. "Are you okay?"

"Um...yeah...I just thought that maybe...It could be good for the both of us to talk about certain things." Kara stammers.

Lena could feel herself tense-up at this answer, since they find their way back to one another last night, they both consciously avoided any conversation that could have bring-up painful memories. Maybe it was now time to start taking care of their issues.

As Lena stayed silent, Kara says,"That can wait if you want, I don't want to pressure you to..."

"No, you're right." Lena interrupts."It's better to not putting this off any longer."

"Okay...Can we sit on the couch? It would be more comfy."

Kara was nervous, Lena could guess it by the way she adjusted her glasses, it was something her best friend always did when she was stressed or uncomfortable.

After they both sit on the couch, Kara took a pillow in her hands and pressed it against her, another indication of her current anxiety.

Lena softly puts one of her hand on Kara's knee while she says, "Kara relax, I know the conversation that's coming won't be the easiest we could have but I don't plan to push you away again. I just want to understand some things."

"All right." Kara smiles, relieved."Ask me anything you want."

"Well, I have something that kinda bug me since I came here...I thought that you wear glasses only to cover-up your secret identity, so, why do you wear them when you are surrounded by people who know who you truly are?"

"Well, wearing them make me feel more human. There is lead in them, that's stop my x-ray vision and help me better to cope with the over stimulation of the world. And also, that's when I start wearing them that I've really become Kara Danvers, so, I feel that's the glasses are part of my human identity." Kara explains. "Is there something else you want to know?"

"Um, yeah...We've briefly talked about this a few weeks ago, but I really would like to know why you didn't tell me the truth sooner. Because I can't stop thinking that you hid it 'cause I'm a Luthor and you didn't trust me enough 'cause of that."

"Lena it has nothing to do with your last name." Kara sighed. "I know you're nothing like your family, I just...I was scared some people would use it against you, I was afraid you would get hurt 'cause of me...and I didn't know how to bring-up this subject, I was afraid you would be mad at me for hiding this part of myself from you for so long and... I wanted to keep being allowed to be human with you."

"What do you mean? Lena frowns.

"When I first came here, fifteen years ago... I didn't want to be human...I didn't know how to do that, I didn't want to be part of the Danvers family. I just wanted to live with Clark and being a Super."

"Wait a minute, Clark Kent is Superman?" Lena frowns.

"Um, yeah...I forgot to mention that, sorry." Kara says.

"I guess it's another thing I should have seen." Lena mutters.

"Whatever." Kara sighed." After a while I finally accepted the human part in me, I'm not only Supergirl, I'm also Kara Danvers. All my friends know that I'm Supergirl but you didn't know, so that's makes me feel allowed to be more vulnerable with you. You didn't expect me to be the hero who saves the world, all the time. You make me feel normal."

"I will never ask you to fix everything. It's not fair to expect someone to do that." Lena says.

"I'm happy we're on the same page on that." Kara smiles. "Kelly actually helped me to remove all that weight that I used to have on my shoulders, I'm better now...I really would like to know how you are doing now, Lena?"

"I'm good." Lena says with a smile."And I forgive you for...everything."

"I'm glad to hear that." Kara smiles."But I wasn't talking about us. I was meaning...How are you doing with your… emotional bleeding?"

"Well...I'm...I think I have to accept that I'm gonna feel like this forever, nothing could ever change all the things that's happened to me anyway."

"You can't change the past but you can heal from it and move forward, and you deserve to do that." Kara says, taking one of Lena's hand in her.

"I don't know how to do that." Lena sighed."I think I'm kinda terrified to try another therapy and ending-up being disappointed again and hating myself even more."

"You don't have to be afraid about that." Kara says, rubbing softly her thumb over the top of Lena's hand. "If that's can make you feel better I can even go with you."

"Really?"

"Yeah." Kara smiles."That's what friends are for."

Lena was turning in her bed for the thousandth times of the night, even if she was getting better since she got Kara back in her life, her chronic insomnia wasn't getting better. She was so exhausted but couldn't get any sleep, She wanted to cry, and she felt stupid for it. After three hours of berating herself for anything she could feel, her anxious agitated brain finally agreed to give her a few hours of peace.

The next morning, Lena headed to the kitchen and found her mother cooking,"What are you doing?"

"Waffles." Lillian smiles.

"Aren't you tired of playing the role of the perfect mommy?" Lena scoffs.

"When are you going to trust me?" Lillian sighed.

"When you'll give me good reasons to do it."

"I have a gift for you."

"Awesome, it's keep getting better." Lena says, sarcastically while she sits down on a chair.

Lillian puts a waffle in a plate in front of Lena before leaving the kitchen.

Lena observes the waffle suspiciously before taking her first bite.

A few minutes later, Lillian came back in the kitchen with a huge teddy bear.

"Is that..."

"The same teddy bear you had when you were little? Yes." Lillian smiles.

"The one you took away from me when I turned seven 'cause I was suddenly become too old for this silly thing." Lena says, bitterly.

"One of my many mistakes, consider this as my way to apologize." Lillian says, handing the teddy bear to Lena.

Lena contemplated the teddy bear while she stroked its soft fur before saying, "It's gonna takes more than a teddy bear to gain my entire trust but thank you...I appreciate it."

"You're welcome, maybe that could help you sleep better."

"I hope so." Lena mutters.

A few days later, Kara and Lena were seated in Kelly's waiting room. Lena was anxious, she couldn't fool Kara, no matter how much she would have wanted to. Kara was able to hear her heart beating faster than usual while her hands were slightly shaking, she took Lena's hand in her while she says,"It's gonna be okay."

Lena smiles before saying,"You don't have to wait for me here while I'll be in there."

"I know I don't have to but I want to." Kara insists.

"You truly are the most wonderful best friend I'll could have asked for." Lena smiles.

"I can say the same thing about you." Kara says while she pulled a lock of brunette hair away from Lena's face and tucked it behind her ear.

They stared deeply into one another eyes when Kelly opened the door of her office, snapping both of them out of their reveries.

"I guess that's my cue." Lena mutters before pulling away from Kara.

Kara watched Lena disappearing into Kelly's office, she remembered what her therapist taught her, she couldn't save everyone and fix everything, but she really hoped she could at least make Lena feeling a bit better.

Lena is sitting silently in front of Kelly, she doesn't know what to say, or more accurately, there was so many things that needed to be said that she doesn't know where to start. "I'm sorry." she sighed.

"For what are you sorry for exactly?" Kelly asks.

"For sitting here like a wordless idiot."

"You'd be surprised about how many times that happen, so you're not an idiot. People often don't know what to say the first time they come here, so let's start simple." Kelly smiles. "If I ask you, what do you feel? What's the first thing that come into your mind?"

"I feel like I'm constantly bleeding emotionally." Lena replies.

"Since when do you feel like this?"

"Since I found out that Kara is Supergirl. I forgave her but I feel like it's opened a lot of wounds that I'd rather forget. I guess...She screwed my abilities to compartmentalize my emotions." Lena sighed.

"Before we go further, could you clarify what do you mean by compartmentalize your emotions?"

"Well I...I put them in boxes...Like... I imagine my body is full of boxes and I put all the confusing feelings who could stop me to function properly in them, and then I divide them in two categories, in one side there's the feeling that I plan to deal with later when I'll have the time and the energy for that and on the other side there's the feeling that I don't want to face, ever, and so, I shove them so deep down that I even forget they exist."

"I see." Kelly says."I understand more the emotional bleeding thing. No matter how much you can be strong it's impossible to spend your all life bottling-up your emotions, there's always a time when everything crash down and I think that was is happening to you right now, so, putting your feeling into boxes and shoving them deep is the most unhealthy coping mechanism someone could ever have."

"That's the only one I know." Lena says as she looks down.

"Well, I guess it's a good thing that my job is to help you find healthy coping mechanism, then."

Lena looks-up into Kelly's direction and with the way she is looking and smiling at her, She instantly knows that this therapy is gonna be different, Kara was right. She's relieved and more hopeful than ever.

After her first session with Kelly, Lena was walking down the street with Kara when her best friend asked,"So, are you okay?"

"Not yet." Lena said."But I will be, soon."

"If I can do anything to help you get better, tell me." Kara smiles.

"What about a movie night at your apartment?"

Lena is sitting on the couch while Kara is searching a movie for tonight in her DVD collection, when she asks,"Do you have something precise you want to watch?"

"Anything you pick is fine with me." Lena smiles.

"Okay, how about a Disney movie?"

"I should have seen it coming." Lena chuckles.

"Have you already seen Frozen?"

"I don't think so." Lena frowns.

"We need to correct this mistake now." Kara says as she grabbed the DVD.

"This is my favorite Disney movie." Kara says as she presses on the button to start the movie.

"I thought it was Lilo & Stitch?" Lena frowns.

"True. So, this one is my second favorite."

At the end of the movie, Kara sniffed before turning to her best friend who was crying too and asking,"So, what do you think?"

"It's one of the saddest movie I've ever seen." Lena says as she wipes her tears.

"It's not that sad." Kara says while she reached Lena's cheek with her palm to wipe the last remaining tears.

"I think it is." Lena insists. "Imagine having powers that you have no idea how to control but being forced to hide them anyway."

"Oh, I can imagine that very clearly." Kara chuckles nervously.

Lena frowned before understanding what Kara was meaning,"I'm so sorry, Kara...I didn't realize."

"It's okay." Kara smiles.

"I can't imagine how hard that must be for you to live your day-to-day life and having to hide your true nature."

"It was extremely hard when I suddenly landed here, but I can manage that better now." Kara says. "It just gets painful again when I get close to someone and I can't be truly myself with them."

"I'm glad it doesn't have to be like that anymore between us." Lena smiles.

"Me too." Kara smiles."I just wish I've told you the truth about me sooner."

"I know."

After a few minutes of silence when the two best friends were staring at each other, Kara asks, "Do you want to get back home or do you want to watch another movie with me?"

"I don't want this movie night to end now." Lena says, softly.

"Me neither." Kara smiles."I let you pick the next movie."

After the second movie of the night, Kara turned her attention back to her best friend for asking her what she thought about the movie, when she noticed that Lena was deeply asleep on the couch. She gets up quietly to turn-off the TV, trying to not make too much noise.

After she was done, she stared at her best friend, wondering what to do. Lena looked so peaceful that Kara didn't have the heart to wake her up. She didn't want to let her on the couch either, after pondering her decision for a few minutes while she contemplated the beauty of her best friend, Kara decided to carrying her delicately to her bedroom.

After laying her gently on the bed, she tucked her comfortably under the sheets before installing herself on the other side of the bed. Before turning off the light and trying to sleep, Kara took the time to observe Lena, at this moment she realized that Lena Luthor was the most stunning woman she has ever seen and probably also the most radiant living being of any planet.

She slowly puts her palm on Lena's cheek before caressing it softly while she thought,"How it's possible to be so beautiful?" She didn't understand what she was feeling, she shook her head before slightly pulling away from Lena and turning off the light, she really needed to get some rest.

Thanks for reading this story. I'll be happy to know what you think of this chapter, so, as usual, reviews are greatly appreciated. ;)