Kara was setting up for a seminar two days later. She stood at the front desk, typing away on her computer when her phone beeped. The blonde looked down and smiled at it before hearing the door open. She frowned and wondered who it was, but used her super hearing to listen for anything suspicious.
Two grown men, looking to be in their thirties and wearing leather jackets walked in. One was clean shaven, around six feet tall with a head of grey hair whilst the other was slightly shorter with stubble and spiked brown hair.
Kara crossed her arms, getting defensive. She shifted her glasses on her face nervously, "May I help you gentlemen?" She asked them, "I have a seminar in ten minutes, but I'm guessing you are not students or you may need guiding in the right direction."
The tallest of the men scoffed, laughing, "Nah." He said, shaking his head, "I think we are in the right place. Tell me Ma'am, do you know where Lena Luthor is?"
"Miss Luthor works at L-Corp and this is a university. Why would she be here?" Kara tried lying her way out of it, before one of them pulled out a newspaper with a headline about Lena moving to teach at the local university.
Crap.
"Okay, why would I know her and why would I care?" She laughed, trying to worm her way out of it. She had no idea how to get out of this situation. She tried to think of numerous ways out of the situation and quickly looked up as a door opened at the back of the class.
It was Nia. Kara's heart was beating ten times faster now. She looked up and then saw them point their guns at the now terrified student.
"Kara?!" Nia gasped, looking at her lecturer. She then looked to her for help.
Kara's eyes were going between both Nia and the gunmen.
"We have leverage, Kara." The grey-haired man spat, before glaring at Nia, "You. Get down here now. If you try to run, we'll shoot you."
Kara looked up at Nia and nodded slowly, "Just come down, okay? You'll be okay." Kara tried to sound confident, but she had no way of getting out of this without Nia finding out that she was Supergirl. She glared at the two men so hard that if she wasn't wearing her glasses, she knew her heat vision would activate.
Once Nia was by Kara's side, she got in front of her, "I'll be damned if you hurt her. We don't know anything about Lena Luthor or where she works on campus, it's a big place."
"But you're all staff!" The other man spat before aiming his gun at Nia.
Kara tore off her glasses, "I wouldn't!" She growled, truly getting pissed. At this point, she didn't care about her identity. She was not going to let Nia get hurt.
The grey-haired man laughed, "Oh yeah, and what will you do?"
"Kara." A worried Nia gasped.
Kara briefly looked back at her, "They aren't going to hurt you, alright?" She then turned her attention to the men before her, "We don't know Lena Luthor okay? Just go in peace before something bad happens."
"Oh yeah, like what?" The guy spat, raising his gun.
Just as Kara was about to rip open her shirt, she watched the two men fall to the floor, unconscious.
Kara and Nia were both in shock, but Kara was more in shock because she didn't hear the door open at all. From the darkness emerged Lena, holding a tranquilizer gun.
"Are you two alright?" The Luthor asked as she walked down the stairs.
Kara nodded quickly before answering, "I…Yes, thank you for that."
Lena looked down on the two men with pure hatred in her eyes, "No one is going to hurt anyone, especially you two." Lena then glanced at Nia who appeared speechless, "Nia, right?"
Nia nodded slowly, "I-You shot them."
"With a tranquilizer dart. I've alerted the police, they will be in their custody soon, you're going to be alright Kara and I will protect you." Her voice was so soft and soothing, it made something tick inside of Nia. The young girl soon found herself holding back tears and before she could collect her thoughts, her mouth ran away with her, "It's been so long since I've heard the pair of you or even seen you together."
Both Kara and Lena frowned at her, "What?" They both said in unison.
Nia's eyes widened, and she clamped her hand to her mouth, "Well uh…" She said quickly, "I guess today's seminar is cancelled." She then knew she had to find a way out of her, especially now she had let something slip, "I gotta go…" She said, before exiting the room quickly, leaving both Kara and Lena more than a little confused.
"Uh-she must be confused." Kara said quickly, laughing, trying to relieve the tension that was now between them both, "I mean." She shrugged, "Two gunmen came in here and frightened her." Kara knew there was more to this, but if there was, she couldn't let Lena know that she had ways of finding this out.
Lena, however, didn't brush it off, "No…That wasn't just some off-handed comment…" She frowned as Kara put her glasses back on, "Can you talk to her for me and try to find out what she meant? This will confuse me for the rest of the month if I don't find out. Because to me…" Lena paused, "That sounded like a lot more has happened with us than just our friendship in the future."
Suddenly, Lena was no longer flirty, and it unsettled Kara quite a lot. Yes, they flirted for fun all the time, but neither of them imagined anything that Nia could have suggested that her and Lena were once or will be a thing in the future. Neither of them imagined that, well not now.
After dinner a couple of days ago, Lena and Kara mentioned how perhaps being friends is better than being an item, but right here in this moment, neither of them were certain of what would or could happen in the future or past.
"I should go." Lena said, startling the both of them out of their thoughts.
Kara wanted to say something so badly, but no words surfaced. Instead, she just nodded and managed to say something, "I'll help the police with this."
Lena smiled sadly. She then turned on her heel and headed out.
In that moment, Kara was gobsmacked and a little mortified.
Tw hours later, Kara sat at her desk in the university, wanting to write an email to Nia, but she doubted that the girl would reply. Instead, she just nervously tapped her foot on the leg of her desk, deciding on what to do with the information that her possible daughter from the future is here in the present.
The Kryptonian let out a huge sigh, putting her head in her hands, only looking up when she heard a tentative knock on the door. When she looked up, her hands were still on her cheeks, but she quickly removed them when she saw Nia in the doorway, looking nervous, a smile plastered itself onto her face and she appeared a lot more confident on the outside while on the inside, her world was crumbling apart, "Nia! Please, take a seat." She said, pointing at the chair in front of her desk.
Nia nodded slowly and closed the door. When she turned to face Kara, she could see that Kara was pretending to be confident like nothing happened a couple of hours ago.
"You want to know what happened earlier." Nia began, taking a deep breath, "The secret I let slip. It's been nagging at you for the last couple of hours and probably will until you find out."
Kara's confident exterior now crumbled, "I…" She began, nervously placing a hand on the frame of her glasses, "I can't say that I haven't stopped thinking about it…I've been thinking about it quite a lot about it actually. What did you mean by it?"
"First of all, if Lena wasn't there we could have both been toast. You should have defended us no matter what." Nia said to her, suddenly getting defensive.
"You know who I am." Kara breathed out, this confirmed her suspicions.
"The point being, I came here to tell you the truth." Nia said to her, "I…I am your daughter…"
Kara paled significantly at this, suddenly finding it hard to swallow.
Nia then shrugged, "I should have helped you too…In the past or future….I am a hero, like you and like…Mom."
"Mom being, Lena?" Kara asked nervously.
Nia nodded slowly.
"Rao." Kara gasped, information sending her in a whirl, "Why…" She leaned forward, "Why tell me now?"
"Because in the future something…" Nia paused, "Something happens."
"To us? Lena? Me? Who?"
"There is all out war on both sides of the Atlantic. It wasn't alien against humans or vice versa. It was more humans and dictatorship that caused the war, a war that you started."
Kara laughed nervously, "A war that I started? Nia, I am many things but I would never-"
"A version of you. There will be a Russian version of you hidden away somewhere and she brings the world to its knees. The only reason I am here is because you-future you, gave me this." She said, pulling out a small button from her pocket, "We call it a world jumper, but mom-Lena…She changed it, so I was able to travel here because she knew I'd be safe."
"And the future?" Kara asked.
"It's still going to happen." Nia nodded slowly, "Yes, now I've told you, you will try anything to stop it. Nothing can Kara. I'm sorry, but one day you'll have me, and you will lose your future wife and all the world because of something that you cannot stop."
Kara felt incredibly threatened, fighting back both tears and fear that was lodged in her throat, "How do I know that you aren't lying? Lena and I have only just met, and we…we can't be a thing." She laughed nervously at that.
"You flirted the very first day you met, didn't you?" Nia said pointedly, making Kara blush.
"That has nothing to do with it."
"That has everything to do with it." Nia said sternly, "In the next couple of months, you will be the talk of not just this city, but this world. I really shouldn't be telling you this. I should just let it happen, but I couldn't keep this to myself."
"You really weren't lying-aren't." Kara scorned herself, "You aren't lying."
In that moment, there was a knock on the door. Nia was not surprised to see that it was Lena on the other side.
"What do I tell her?" Kara asked as she saw Nia stand.
"It was a mistake-or the truth…I mean, you're not good at that in the future while you're pregnant either." She sighed.
Kara frowned, confused about that statement too, but watched her leave anyway.
Lena looked at Kara and could see the confusion on her face, "What just happened?"
Kara waited until the door closed before she spoke. Swallowing a lump in her throat, she watched Lena sit down before replying, "We need to talk."
