A/N: And here it is, chapter 8! I realized while writing this that the next chapter could be lengthier and that Lena's part in this is a bit short but next chapter is in her POV! Just as a teaser/slight spoiler, Lena's POV def has the SG reveal.

Kara could feel her heart beating loudly in her chest. It was one of those moments when it felt like she was living in a dream, that time both sped up and slowed down, all narrowing into one specific moment.

It was an indescribable feeling. She was experiencing an emotion she couldn't quite put her finger on.

She reached L-Corp Plaza bright and early the day after her talk with Alex, Clark, and Lois, not really giving herself any time to think or reconsider her choices. She needed to get this stuff out of her chest, put it out there, before she starts making up a reason not to.

Will she be making a mistake? She wasn't sure. But she was just about ready to make one.

She had hoped that Lena wouldn't be too busy just yet. She knew the CEO's schedule and routine pretty well by know and knew that despite always having early mornings, she typically only schedules a few meetings before nine. She was, however, wrong. Apparently, with the holidays came charity galas, plenty of board room meetings, and the usual stressful, breakneck pace that came with it.

She knew that James and Lena had a press meeting later that day, something the CEO had insisted on doing to correct James' mistakes. She did not know they were meeting earlier that day.

And judging by the huffing and puffing James marching out of the main building and into the main square of the plaza, it did not go well.

James looked like he was about to say something to Kara, but Kara – for many reasons both personal, professional, and Supergirl-related – decided to step aside and avoid his gaze. The message seemed to have been received as James backed off and went on his way.

Kara took a deep breath as she steadied herself for a second. She wasn't going to let herself be deterred. She came here for a mission after all, a mission she wasn't exactly prepared for – no pre-planned speech or anything, wanting to just let things come out naturally – but a mission nonetheless.

With renewed strength, Kara took another step towards the main building, only to run into Lena herself on her way out, with Eve close behind. "Lena!" Kara exclaimed.

"You sound surprised to see me, Kara." she noted, sounding quite amused. A smile was tugging at the corner of her lips as she opened her arms to welcome Kara into a quick hug. "But I believe the surprise is mine. I wasn't expecting you, but it's always nice to see you."

Kara made sure to give Lena a warm, hearty hug, knowing full well that she needed one despite marching on. Her heart felt that warmth, like all her worries was stilled for that brief moment, a wave of calm washing over her, only to feel that warmth disperse as Lena pulled away, her hands running down Kara's arms as she reached to hold her hands. "What can I do for you, Kara?" Lena then asked.

"Ah, Ms. Luthor, the thing at the children's hospital…" Eve then reminded her, trying to make sure her boss was on track with her busy schedule.

"Oh." Kara then said, a mixture of disappointment, anxiety, and fear in her tone. "I… I was kind of hoping we could talk."

This was it. This was only shot. Kara had a lot of pep talks overnight and she was all but ready to peel the band-aid off, take a leap of faith, all of it. She's build her confidence up for this and she doesn't go through with it, Kara just was worried she may never find the courage to do it again, let excuses pile up and chances slip.

"Well I always have time for you, Kara." Lena replied, before turning to her assistant. "Eve, why don't you go ahead and wait for the car. Tell Marcus I won't be long."

Eve nodded and was quick to her feet. Her expression when she left told Kara that she knew that Lena's "won't be long" line could mean somewhere between five minutes to an hour. Lena was a busy woman, but for Kara she always made time.

Lena turned to Kara and smiled as soon as Eve disappeared and ushered her towards the corner of L-Corp plaza where the second floor balconies jutted out of the main building. They didn't head back inside, telling Kara that while Lena was most definitely making time for her sudden appearance, she most definitely cannot forget or cancel her plans at the children's hospital. Instead, they hid under the shade provided by the balcony above them and away from the busy traffic of people coming and going between the different departments separated into the many buildings for L-Corp. It wasn't ideal, and Kara wished things could be more private given all that she was going to say, but she had to take what she could take. She figured she could break down everything she wanted to tell Lena, confess her feelings first, and tell her what was possibly the more dangerous of her secrets from her later in the day – Kara was most definitely giving herself a strict self-imposed deadline to not leave any room for getting any cold feet.

Kara took a deep breath, closing her eyes for a brief second. She could feel where Lena's hands rested on hers, her fingers grazing her wrists. She steadied her racing her heart the best she could. Some truths were hard to tell, and she was about to tell the hardest one of all. The one her subconscious was fiercely protecting, the one that would leave her the most vulnerable. The truth of her heart.

She could feel the fear stir up inside of her, along with a dozen other mixture of emotions. Kara was doing her best to keep them all silent. When she finally released her breath, her eyes meeting Lena's own, she could feel the truth threatening to slip from her lips with ease.

How, how could she have been blind from this?

The way she couldn't ever take her eyes off of Lena's, the way her gaze lingers to the spot where Lena was when she leaves a room, or even the way her very presence brightens Kara's day ten-fold… how? How could she have been so blind?

"Kara, what is it?" Lena pressed on, her voice so gentle that Kara finds it so hard to believe that she has the power, the control, to command any boardroom, crisis room, press room – any room to be honest – with a sharp and fierce confidence that rivals that of Cat Grant's.

"Lena, I…" Kara started to say, trying to regain control of her heart that was just ready to give way to the truth, her that yearned to be free. "This, this isn't the perfect time," Kara started to stay, fighting her urge to fidget nervously and instead taking Lena's hands into her own. "And maybe there will never really be one. But I… but something's been building inside of me and I needed to tell you. Y-you deserve to know, is what I mean." Kara went on, taking another deep breath.

"Okay… go on." Lena encouraged, looking at her completely lost as to where everything was going.

Kara smiled almost a bittersweet smile. "I…" Kara started, before taking pause to let out a chuckle, her eyes landing on their intertwined hands. "I wasn't expecting this." she admitted. "Not any of it really. You kind of just appeared out of nowhere and into my life. You kind of just happened unexpectedly. I didn't know our paths would cross, or that we'd eventually become friends. I didn't. I was blindly chasing what I thought I wanted but that – in a way – already had with you. Or I guess, something that's already taken root and just blossomed without me realizing until… Until I can't breathe anymore, until every beat of my heart wasn't even mine anymore. It was out of my hands and out my control."

"Kara, you're not really making any sense." Lena replied, her head dipping low to catch Kara's attention, her eyes searching Kara's own for answers. A mixture of emotions flashed before her eyes, and Kara wasn't sure if it was fear and anxiety or confusion or hope.

Kara gave Lena's hands a squeeze and smiled to reassure her. No, Kara has no idea what will happen next. And no, Kara wasn't sure if her heart endure any heartbreak caused by one Lena Luthor. But Alex was right. Clark and Lois were right.

Lena deserved to know.

And Kara was ready to face the music, come what may.

Because she knew, she'll never stop loving her either way.

"I'm saying Lena," Kara started to say, her eyes looking only at Lena's this time. "I'm saying that everywhere in the world, everyone secretly wishes that they can fall in love with someone who was their best friend. And I should be lucky, instead I'm deathly scared. I thought I knew what I wanted, but I didn't realize what was until just a few days ago… until you essentially."

"Kara, what- are you…?" Lena tried to say, for once in her life she was a loss for words. But her eyes, oh they were clear as day. Realization shone behind them that she was getting Kara's message.

Kara nodded. "I know there's stuff with James. A-and I know, I don't have the right to just tell you who to choose. But I needed you to know. I wanted you to know. That," Kara started to say, closing her eyes and taking yet another deep breath. She didn't expect this to make her as emotional as she was getting.

"That Lena Luthor," Kara finally said as she released her breath, her eyes once again meeting Lena's, a sense of calm, relief, and freedom washing over her as the truth was finding its way to be spoken out loud and in the softest tone Kara had ever known. "I have found myself falling helplessly and irrevocably in love with you."

The world had stopped as soon as the words slipped out of Kara's lips.

A simple truth found its way shaking Lena's very core. A simple but powerful truth.

That Kara Danvers loved her.

She loved her, Lena Luthor.

And that Lena herself –

The thought never really fully finishes in Lena's mind as the main square of the Plaza was quickly littered with the Children of Liberty and their sympathizers, word getting out about Lena's plans with James and the press later.

They weren't pleased, they didn't want the man they took as their own token and symbol to get the chance to rewrite the twisted truth they had already set free to the world. Chaos filled the square as their attackers came with high-tech weapons that filled the air with screams and terror, explosions and smokes.

Things unfolded too fast for her liking right before her eyes. It was as if Lena was being whisked away from one scene to another. A blast occurred somewhere near where they stood from something that emitted some green energy, complete pulverizing one of the pillars that supported that balcony above them. Kara was quick to pull her away, walking towards the building. An aftershock coming from the blast had cut through the concrete of the pillar closer to where they stood, pieces crumbling from the cracked lines. A few more blasts occurred in different directions, the ground trembled and shook. The sounds of siren coming from the first wave of responders hung in the air as more blasts and shots were heard, smoke filling up most of her vision, the rest was filled by then sight of the part of the pillar still holding up the balcony crumbling, just as a piece of the concrete above them shifted, and cracked – debris falling everywhere.

"Kara!" Lena yelled in horror as the concrete above them completely gave way, screams filling the air. They didn't have time. She didn't have time to fully process anything, everything that had just transpired.

Lena's heart was gripped with fear as Kara pushed her down, her hands supporting her weight as she shielded Lena with her own body.

Then everything was dark.

Lena could feel her heart racing, threatening to jump out of her chest. She was still breathing, Kara didn't scream for pain. She didn't really feel any weight pressed down on her, although she could feel Kara's body inches away above her. She opened her eyes seeing only clacks of light coming from the darkness that surrounded her, catching random sounds of fighting and screaming coming from somewhere.

The light was growing, feeling her vision as she blinked a few times, still frozen in fear with what had just happened, as the light grew so did the smoke from the rubble and destruction that surrounded them. Lena stared in disbelief as Kara shrugged of what she surmised was tons of weight that had fallen on her, not of a scratch or injury, not an inch of pain in her expression despite looking so torn, despite her hair looking so disheveled, and despite her glasses falling off to the ground, inches away from Lena.

As Kara freed them from their desperate situation by simply pushing herself off the ground and sitting up in front of her, something had clicked in Lena's mind, her eyes staring at Kara's glasses-free face for the first time.

Oh.

Kara closed her eyes, and took in a shaky breath. For a moment that world had stilled despite the chaos that ensued. All Lena could wrap around her head was the revelation before her.

"I-I'm sorry, Lena." Kara simply replied, before unbuttoning her shirt, revealing the tell-tale blue of Supergirl's suit underneath.

Her vision was filled with a blur, as she let Kara whisk her away to safety, as far away from the fighting as possible, landing on top of CatCo's building. It had happened so fast that Lena didn't have a moment to let her thoughts catch up. As soon as they landed, Kara was quick to the skies to save the day.

Leaving Lena shaken, confused, and numb, staring blankly at skies as soon as Kara had disappeared.

Everything happened so fast, too fast, that she was left defenseless.

As thoughts, feelings, and emotions – all messy and irrational – came tumbling out of boxes buried in the deep recesses of her mind.

A/N Pt2: In a sense, that was cliffhanger-y because we don't know yet how Lena reacts. Well…

We have Lena and Brainy talking about boxes next chapter, so, that's a hint I think?