Chapter 7

Leo was alone at home a glass of scotch in his hand and a picture of Kara and himself in the other. Different times, they both looked happy. He had been oblivious then, oh how simple it was back then. He took another drink from the glass, he couldn't get Kara out of his head. No matter how much he desperately tried to cut his feelings out of him he couldn't. There was a loud clash of thunder followed by a spark of lightning brightening the living room. His thoughts were interrupted by a loud knock at the door. Leo set the picture down on the coffee table and his drink before answering the door. Who stood before him was someone he hadn't expected to see. "Andrea? What do you want?"

Andrea pushed past Leo and into his home. Not even waiting for him to welcome her in. "I need your help." She paused as she entered and then turned. "I need to break into the D.E.O."

Leo closed the door and shook his head. "What's the D.E.O?"

"Stop it! I know you've had government contracts with them before that's why I'm here."

Leo walked back toward the coffee table picking his glass up. "Okay, say we both know what the D.E.O is why does the head of a fortune 500 company need access?" He began to take a drink.

"I know who was behind the tidal wave that almost took out National City. I know because I work for them. But if I tell you who they are they'll kill me and you too. The D.E.O captured the agent that started the tidal wave, the people I work for want me to kill him before he can talk." Andrea explained to Leo.

Leo blinked, his head processing everything Andrea had just told him. He set his glass down and looked at her again. "Andrea, you come to my house and ask for my help to kill someone are you crazy?!" He raised his hand up, "You know I do know the director of the D.E.O what's to stop me from calling her right now and reporting you."

"Because I don't want to kill him I want to save him. He's important to me." Andrea admitted. She wouldn't come to Leo if she had no other choice. "I can breach the facility but Supergirl is guarding him personally and I can't get past her. You've worked for her before, maybe you can…"

He could see the worry in her eyes for this person she wanted to save. She cared for this man, whoever he was. She cared enough to come see him for help. Leo shook his head. "No. Sorry."

"Leo, I'm asking as a friend." Andrea pleaded.

"We're not friends." Leo said firmly.

She went over toward the coffee table and looked at the bottle of scotch on the table. Van Horne Scotch, the same brand they used to drink when they were younger. "We used to be…" Andrea sighed. "We used to be a lot more too." She saw the picture of Kara and Leo on the coffee table and as she picked it up to look at it. Leo came over quickly snatching the picture out of her hand.

"We used to be a lot of things…" Leo set the picture of Kara and him off to the side before he got another glass and poured some scotch in the glass for Andrea.

Being sent to a boarding school was something he had gotten used to. Of course when he had heard there was going to be a party over the weekend and parents were going to be out of town he ended up going. Going because he was pressured and ended up finding himself sitting in the corner of the main living room. He was sketching in the memo notepad he had on his lap. Leo wasn't much of a talker and yes there were a few girls at this party and some were very cute. He was forced out of his own thoughts as a girl stood in front of him. Dark hair, beautiful dark eyes, she gave him a small smirk, "You're the best looking guy here." She sat down on the arm of the chair he was sitting in, "I'm Andrea."

"Uh… Leo."

"Leo, well I didn't expect this party to be so boring… come on let's go find the liquor cabinet." She took his hand and pulled him up onto his feet. "Come on…"

"Huh… wait…" Leo began to protest but he ended up being pulled up onto his feet and following Andrea. They found their way into a small library and Andrea had found the liquor cabinet. Or perhaps she had already found it and just wanted some drinking company. She opened it and grinned before taking down a bottle.

"We aren't even 21…"

Andrea rolled her eyes. "Leo… its fine." She gently patted his cheek. She began to pour some scotch in two glasses. "Van Horne, is my father's favorite drink. It's top top shelf." She handed Leo one glass and then raised her own. "To new friends. And breaking the rules." Leo clinked her glass with his and took a drink. His eyes widened, it was strong and bitter but he enjoyed it.

"So you go to the girls boarding school across the way?" Leo asked.

Andrea nodded, "Yeah, and I assume you are in the nearby sister school." Leo gave a nod. "My parents sent me here to get a great education. Everything money can buy…my father runs a very successful business, so you know he's busy. I don't get to see him much. My mother on the other hand is in Paris right now. I don't interest her nearly as much as her friend the Baron. What about your parents?"

"My mother's dead. My father is remarried and I have an older half brother." Leo explained.

"Sorry… about your Mom…" Andrea frowned.

Leo shook his head. "Thanks…"

Andrea attempted to make the conversation lighter. "So favorite movie?"

Leo blinked, "Back to the Future."

"What? Honestly?" Andrea laughed softly.

"That was a great movie. Fine what's yours?"

"Titanic, I saw it eight times in the theater." Andrea grinned proudly.

Leo laughed, "Really, why am I not surprised it's a romance."

"Screw you, and screw the haters we should all live like Rose." Andrea took a long drink of her scotch.

Leo raised an eyebrow. "So you wanna meet your soul mate only to watch him die tragically."

Andrea shook her head. "NO!" She sighed, "Rose, post Titanic. Rose Dawson, she went out there and grabbed life. Didn't waste a single moment that's my dream go everywhere, experience everything all while taking my Dad's company to the next level."

Leo smiled, "You sound very confident. Those are lofty goals."

"Leo…the key to getting what you want is confidence. Act like you already have it and no one will question you. So what about you, do you have any lofty goals?"

"Well more like impossible." Leo said though he didn't elaborate on his goal to Andrea making her lean forward in anticipation.

"You can't just say that and not tell me. You have to tell me." Andrea pressed.

Leo gave a nod, "My mother used to always tell me this story about the medallion of the Acrata. It's about this girl whose village was being ravaged by darkness so she went into the wild in search of magic that could help."

"What happened?"

"She finds the medallion of Acrata, and was bestowed great gifts so that she alone had the strength to bend shadow to her will." Leo used to love hearing the story from his Mother. She brought the story to life and was enthusiastic about it.

"Did your mom make it up?" Andrea asked.

"She found it in an old storybook, she was obsessed, she'd talk about it like it was real she'd draw the symbol everywhere." Leo of course was now drawing the symbol everywhere. It was one of the few things he had to remember his mother. It brought him comfort.

"Is that what you were doodling in your notebook?" Andrea pointed to the notebook he had in his other hand.

Leo nodded, "She said when I got older when things were better that we would go on a quest to find it… together." He slowly swirled the scotch in the glass and sighed, "It's stupid, I'm sorry."

Andrea took her hand and placed it against his arm. "No, it's not stupid. Sometimes these legends are based in fact and if this medallion is real I'll help you find it."

Leo looked confused, "You will? You barely know me, Andrea."

Andrea grinned, "Like Rose says, you jump I jump. Besides you're cute."

Leo had the Man of Tomorrow award in his hand and as he entered into Lex's office he smiled raising up the award in his hand and out toward his older brother. "Lex!" Lex didn't turn to face him. He stayed there sitting on the floor looking out the window. "What, do you only respond to the Man of Tomorrow now?

Lex huffed, "No, that's what they're calling him now. He's only been here two weeks and they already worship him." He waved his hand. "Leave it anywhere."

Leo walked over toward Lex's desk which was a complete mess. Papers everywhere, small technological devices here and there. "Well I'm proud of you." He set the award down. "Have you been sleeping here?"

"Of course I have I'm still working on several other –"

Leo walked toward Lex and cut him off. "That's not very healthy and no more talk about Superman." He sat down next to his brother.

Lex turned to Leo, "This Superman, so-called is unprecedented we just made first contact with and alien race. And I'll bet there are already more of them here and even apart from the existential threat that he poses to our entire species…" He paused and motioned to Leo, "Take you for example, champion fencer almost made the Olympics that is expertise that is earned over thousands of work hours."

Leo sighed, "He didn't earn it."

Lex nodded, "Yeah it's just a lucky gift from the sun!" He said disgusted, "I mean how can we measure up?"

"I don't have a problem with measuring but you I don't know…" Leo said attempting to make light of the situation. His brother had become increasingly more obsessed with Superman.

Lex shook his head and after seeing the smirk on his brother's face he sighed, "Don't… insults are pedestrian. You're better than that."

"Lex, you are a horrible brother and very hard to like but I do like a challenge." Sure things weren't perfect in their family but Lex was the only brother he had.

Lex stood up and after pressing a button on a remote he had in his hand down came a screen showing all vital information on Superman. "Good, because I've got one for you. From now on this is LuthorCorp." He motioned toward the screens. "I'm funneling everything into this."

Leo stood up and looked at the view screens. "But what about our other projects, you said if I came and worked for you that we'd help people."

"I think Spherical Industries is hiring."

Leo was stunned, "If I don't help you murder Superman you're firing me? This is insane your obsession with killing Superman. You need to stop this."

Lex motioned toward the door. "If you're not going to help me then you can leave. Don't waste my time brother."

"I am not going to let you kill him!" Leo pointed toward Lex before storming out of Lex's office.

He didn't know who else to turn to, sure Andrea was well his ex… she was also a friend. They had parted on good terms, they just weren't a good fit as a couple. While it was very fun, he had a lot of good memories of them together. Leo sat across from Andrea having lunch with her was a good excuse to see her and also get her help. She wasn't without her share of problems though. Andrea sighed, "We won't know how bad things really are for us until next week when the board decides to either push the launch of the phone or kill it completely. Papa's locked himself away in his lab till then. I've seen him bad before but never like this. The way he looked yesterday, it scared me." She shook her head and forced a smile, "Oh how about you, how are things going at LuthorCorp?"

"You're not the only one with family business problems. Lex is completely unhinged, his obsession with Superman is out of control. He'll stop at nothing to kill him and I am very afraid that a lot of people are going to get hurt or killed in the process." Leo admitted and Andrea's forced smiled faltered.

"Can't you stop him?"

That was easier said than done, his brother had complete control over LuthorCorp no matter what he did he couldn't force him out of the company and he wasn't making any headway in convincing him to stop. "He pushed me out. And Lex's latest plan is to seed the atmosphere with kryptonite."

"What is kryptonite?" Andrea asked confused.

Leo wasn't surprised it wasn't a term that was well known. "According to Lex its Superman's greatest weakness."

Andrea nodded, "Can he do it?"

"No not yet." That was a small victory but if he knew his brother that wouldn't stop him from finding a way to kill Superman. If it wasn't seeding the atmosphere in kryptonite he'd find something else. "First he has to figure out how to sublimate it into vapor but he has this mad theory that this ancient alien element is going to help him do that. I mean this element crash-landed on earth millions of years ago. All I need to do to save humanity from Lex's madness is find the element first." A small smile appeared on Leo's lips.

"You already found it didn't you?"

Leo's smile grew. "Thanks to you. Ok so do you remember your anthropology dissertation about the Aztec village that lived in the shadow of the volcano but never got covered in lava no matter how much the volcano erupted."

"And you think that's where the alien element is?"

Leo pulled out an envelope and handed it to Andrea. "I did an intensive satellite scan of the area and I found this."

Andrea pulled out what was in the envelope and her eyes widened. "It's that symbol you used to draw! The medallion of Acrata!"

"What are the odds that my Mother's story would lead me to the one thing that has the properties I need to stop my brother?" Leo grinned.

"It's crazy!"

"It's fate!" He took the second page out of the envelope showing a map. He rested his finger on the area they needed to go. "Alright so this is where the signature is strongest so we need to get to it."

"We?" She shook her head and waved her hands. "No no no no I can't leave right now my Father needs me."

Leo groaned, "I know but its three days tops I promise and you yourself said that the board wasn't going to be making a decision for another week." Andrea bit her lower lip and Leo pleaded. "Please my brother is in a downward spiral and I am the only one who can save him from himself but I can't do it alone. Alright, you studied this culture you know the area and the language. Besides isn't it what you always wanted to go out there and grab life. Come on what would Rose Dawson do?"

Andrea finally caved in and smiled lightly, "You jump I jump right?" Leo was in a bad spot and the least she could do was help him out. They'd been there for each other time and time again. She could at least be there for him now.

The Costa Rican jungle was humid, it was so thick in the air it felt like Leo was coated in it. The guide up ahead shouted something in another language and he turned to Andrea to translate. "He says its dead end." Leo wiped his brow with the back of his hand and looked up ahead seeing nothing but the side of a mountain. "Maybe there's a way around it or through it?" Andrea suggested.

Leo pulled out the storybook from his backpack and thumbed through the pages. "Wait… ahh here we go… 'and when the world around her turned to stone impenetrable by hope the girl looked down to the core and was shown the winding way'". Leo shut the book and looked down over the ground searching for something. His eye caught sight of a design, in stone. His hands brushed away some leaves revealing a snake carved into stone. "The snake, it's an arrow we go this way." He pointed in the direction it showed.

"That's impressive." Andrea grinned. They headed in the general direction for some time.

The jungle leaves were thick and he had to push them aside as they continued moving. "Proverbial X must be around here somewhere." The story only gave some clues as to what they were looking for. Still they had come this far, and if this turned out to be a failure then he wouldn't be able to save his brother.

Andrea pointed, "Look Aztec serpent headed flowers…" She walked closer toward the flowers and knelt down beside them, "Doesn't the girl from the book fight the head of a snake?" Before Leo could respond the ground beneath Andrea began to crumble and Leo rushed toward her attempting to grab her but he was too slow. She had fallen in, and hit the bottom of what looked like an underground cavern. She screamed as she fell. "Leo!"

Leo could hear the guides screaming in fright. Leo looked down in the hole Andrea had fallen though and called out. "Andrea! My God are you ok!?" He could barely see the cavern was very dark.

Leo breathed a sigh of relief as Andrea called out, "Yeah still in one piece… I think."

Leo called back, "We'll make a rope ladder and get you out! Stay right there!" He motioned over toward the guides. "Rope, I need rope." He pointed toward the hole. "We have to get her out." One of them did manage to bring along some rope and Leo had them tie the rope to the base of a tree and threw it down the hole. He called down before heading down the rope. "Andrea! Andrea! I'll be right there!" He carefully climbed down the rope and as he got there Andrea rushed toward Leo hugging him tightly. "Are you ok? I was so worried about you."

Andrea's voice was shaking as she gripped Leo, "Yeah, I just want to get out of here." Leo hugged her back and as he did his eyes rested upon some carvings in the wall.

He let Andrea go and pulled out his flashlight. Shining the light over the wall, he laughed softly as he neared it, he'd recognize those designs anywhere this was it. "This is it… Andrea we found it. It's the medallion…these etchings they match the description in the story. My calculations were right. My mother was right." His fingers lightly touched the etchings and his eyes drew toward the middle of it but there was nothing. It was covered in spider webs and thick dust. "But where is it… it looks like it should be right here."

"Maybe someone got to it first." Andrea said.

Leo turned to look at Andrea and shook his head. "No it has to be here it's supposed to be here." He turned to look back at the etchings. "There should be some kind of trace… the satellites."

"Are fallible… you could have been picking up anything."

This couldn't be it, he was so close. He looked back at Andrea. "Okay… okay we'll keep looking we'll figure out who was here and when."

"Leo…" Andrea stepped toward him and placed her hands on his arms. "Look finding this place was hard enough… seeing who came before or after it's impossible."

Leo was crushed, "I was so close…" All he had to do was one thing to save his brother and he missed it completely. Would he even be able to save him from his obsession? Would it make any difference?

"I'm so sorry." Andrea said softly.

"'Against other things, it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death, we human beings all live in an un-walled city.' Do you know who said that?" Lex turned to his brother. Leo's head was still throbbing from the hit Lex had given him. He'd been knocked out cold and when he had awoken he found himself zip tied to a chair.

His hands strained against the zip ties. "Please, Lex, you don't have to do this."

Lex walked toward Leo, "I'm doing this for us, for the entire human race." He began to roll the chair Leo was tied to toward the windows of the office and knelt down whispering in his brother's ear. "Listen down below." Leo gritted his teeth as he felt his brother's hot breath against his ear. People were frantic and Leo could hear the screams even from up here. "They're already cheering." Lex straightened and stood behind Leo his hands resting on his brother's shoulders. "And it was Epicurus, by the way. An aphorism 230 years old, and yet still as apt as ever."

"You sound like a freshman philosophy major and you're going to kill millions of people. The world can't live under a red sun!" Leo attempted to get free again but it was useless.

"Neither can Superman. You see, brother, we as a people have become soft and fat, and stupid." Lex began and paused as he saw outside LuthorCorp was a police helicopter hovering just outside.

The police began shouting over the loudspeaker, "This is the Metropolis Police Department! Surrender!" Lex calmly looked at his wrist watch and pressed a single button activating defensive measures. The helicopter exploded in flames and Leo looked mortified.

"Where was I?" Lex asked as if he hadn't done anything wrong.

"My god, Lex, you killed them!"

Lex snapped his fingers, "Oh, that's right. We must put faith in ourselves, but instead, we look up to him, with big glassy eyes because we think he's invincible. It's my duty to dispel the world of that notion. And when he dies, they will finally wake up and see him for what he really was, a false god."

Leo swallowed thickly, "At least he's a good man."

Lex began to yell and gripped his brother's shoulders tightly, "He is not a man! I was the Man of Tomorrow, not him! Not him!"

"So it's all ego, then?" Leo then felt Lex spin his chair around so he was facing his brother.

"No, it's science." He walked away from Leo. "I want to see if the Kryptonian pretender can bleed. Even gods can die." It was then that the door burst open and police rushed in guns pointed at Lex and Lex raised his hands up in surrender. "You'll see. Everyone will see. And then, they're gonna thank me." The police cuffed Lex and roughly pushed him out of the office.

A police officer freed Leo from the zip ties and looked down at the younger Luthor. "Mr. Luthor, why did your brother turn the sun red?"

Leo rubbed his wrists painfully, "Superman."

Before he could say anything else he heard an all too familiar voice. "Mr. Luthor won't be answering any other questions without a lawyer present." Her long beautiful red hair and striking green eyes, beautifully tanned skin.

Leo stood up and soon found the red head's arms wrapped around him tightly "Jess… I'm such an idiot. I thought I could save him with what…. magical thinking."

She pulled back slightly, "You believed in the good in him that means something."

Leo sighed, "Does it?"

"Look let's get out of here. Let's head out of town for awhile. I have that conference in London. Come with me." Jess suggested.

Getting out of Metropolis, away from all of this could help. So Leo went with her and for the first time he wasn't thinking about his family or the mess back home. "Ok you were right. I needed this." Jess was striking in a dark green dress, which only made her eyes stand out even more.

"It's nice to see you smiling again." She kissed his cheek.

Leo grinned, "You go be charming I'll get us some drinks." He kissed her cheek before heading toward the bar. He didn't get too far when he noticed a familiar figure dressed in red. "Andrea?"

Andrea turned and her eyes went wide. "Leo…I had no idea you'd be here… I-I didn't know that you were in London."

His eyes then saw what was around her neck, a gold chain and hanging around it was the medallion. Andrea gently covered her hand over the medallion but Leo had already seen it. "What…what's that…I knew it. The medallion was there and you're the one that took it even though you knew how much it meant to me. Why?"

Andrea shook her head. "Look there are things that I couldn't…that I can't tell you."

Leo's voice lowered. "You looked me in the eye and you lied to me. I trusted you more than anyone in the world and you made a fool out of me. You know I expect this kind of betrayal from the Luthors, but not you."

"Leo, please." Andrea begged but Leo narrowed his eyes.

"There's nothing you can say. We're done." Leo snarled. If wasn't for Andrea he might have actually had a chance to stop his brother. Stop Lex from killing people, but no she lied right to his face. He never would have betrayed her, but she did without so much as a second thought. Then Lex, he never thought his brother would have fallen so hard and so far. Going as far as turning the sun red just to kill Superman. He was a fool to think he could convince him otherwise and when Lex had knocked him out and tied him up he already knew he'd failed.

Leo was frantically packing ignoring Jess for the most part but she wasn't giving up. She was as feisty as ever and was standing right there while he began to shove clothes in his bag. "Ever since London you've been a completely different person! You barley talk to me and now you're leaving Metropolis! Leo! Don't shut me out! Talk to me! Tell me what's wrong!"

Leo looked up from packing. "It's my responsibility to make up for the stain my brother left on the world to do something good."

"We were going to do something good together! What about our company!?"

Leo's eyes looked toward the television and pointed toward the newscast. It was all over the news Supergirl stopping the myriad attack. "You see this! This is why I need to be in National City! There are people doing good there who are trying to help. If I stay in Metropolis I will always be the younger brother of the egomaniacal lunatic but if I go to National City I can be the Luthor that shares his home with a Kryptonian. That helps her put the world back together instead of tearing it apart."

Jess sighed, "You know I can't leave Leo."

Leo looked down and slowly his eyes raised up looking back at Jess. "I'm not asking you to." She was a supportive girlfriend and Leo couldn't ask for a better one. He needed to do this and he could tell by the look in her eyes that she didn't expect him to do this. To leave everything behind, to leave their relationship behind.

She understood he'd been though hell, with the events surrounding his brother. "So you are choosing to redeem the Luthor name over me… over us Leo please talk to me you can trust me." She loved him, cared for him. All Jess wanted was to work this out, but Leo was pushing her away. He was pushing everything away.

"I can't trust anyone anymore." Leo shook his head. That was his mistake, trusting in people. People will only betray you in the end, trust was an illusion. Technology, now that was something he could trust.

National City was a different feel from Metropolis. It was a nice pace to not have everyone judge him. If he was still in Metropolis he'd be constantly reminded of what Lex did. He didn't know anyone other than some reporter from CatCo. She was nice enough but he was determined to keep their relationship professional. Making friends was his mistake before, he wasn't going to let that happen again. He had his laptop open, working on spreadsheets for L-Corp was exhausting. At least he had some decent food he could order. "Leo."

His eyes raised and he smiled lightly, "Kara, hi."

The blonde stood in front of his table. "Hi, it's really good to see you. Are you waiting for someone?"

Leo shook his head, "Not today, I'm swamped with spreadsheets. What about you?"

"Oh, I'm actually meeting my sister here she loves it she makes us order every appetizer on the menu…" Kara then began to laugh softly and looked down at the ground before back up at Leo. "Actually I'm lying I'm the one that orders all the appetizers."

Leo smiled, "It sounds like fun." Sounded like her and her sister were close. He thought he'd have that with Lex, how wrong he was.

Kara adjusted her glasses and gently bit her lip, "Yeah, look I heard you when you said you didn't want to connect with anyone but I've been the new kid in town and I put my guards up too but I was miserable and if I hadn't let someone in… my sister actually I think I would have drowned in it." She paused as her phone dinged and she looked at the text message she received and frowned, "Oh… and I guess my sister has to work. You do too I'm sorry. I'll leave you alone." Kara began to walk away.

Leo gently tapped his fingers against the table. "Kara…" Kara stopped and turned toward Leo. She looked so happy a moment ago, looking forward to eating all the appetizers she could. Now the poor woman looked crushed, and Leo caved in. He gave a small smile. "Don't be ridiculous you can't eat all those apps on your own why don't you join me."

"Really?" Kara's smile widened. Leo gave a nod. It was absolutely adorable how happy she got in just a few moments. "Okay but… I'm warning you people have been underestimating how much I can eat for years." Kara said as she sat down in the chair across from Leo.

"Oh, game on!" Leo smiled. What was the harm, she was sweet and he rather enjoyed it when he saw her.

Leo and Andrea were sitting down at the couch each with a glass of scotch in hand. "Every time I look at you I'm reminded of all the horrible things I've done."

Leo snorted, "Funny every time I look at you all I remember is pain." He finished the last bit of his drink and set it down on the coffee table.

"I mean for so long I've wanted to tell you the truth but I was scared."

"That medallion was the only thing that could have stopped my brother and you knew that." Leo didn't even know why he was still letting her be here. She seemed insistent despite his refusal, she seemed determined to make him understand.

"Everything I did, every decision was to save my father's life."

Leo shook his head, did she forget how insane Lex was. "My brother was a homicidal maniac a lot of innocent people are dead because of him, because of you!"

"I am well aware of how much blood is on my hands and I'm so sorry." Andrea began pleading again. She had to make Leo understand, why she did what she did. She couldn't let Russell die.

"Just because you say you're sorry it doesn't make everything better. Okay, how am I supposed to believe you now?" She could be lying to him right now. He wasn't going to put his plan at risk, for Andrea.

"Because you were right all along. It was magical." Andrea then stood up and walked toward a wall of Leo's apartment and to his amazement Andrea vanished. Leo straightened and stood up suddenly. He stepped forward his eyes looking for Andrea. "Leo…" He turned hearing Andrea's voice behind him and saw her appear out of the shadows.

His mouth dropped and he could remember the lines from the storybook that his mother had read to him all those years ago. "She had the strength to bend shadow to her will. It wasn't a metaphor about overcoming darkness it was literal."

"It came with the ability to move through shadows." Andrea explained.

"And you've had this ability the whole time?"

Andrea shook her head, "It's not a gift it's a curse! I never. I never wanted to betray you but my father he, he was going to die. So I did what I had to do but it cost me the love of my life and my friendship with you." She pulled the medallion out of the collar of her shirt. "Taking this from you was the biggest mistake of my life I know I've done terrible things but this is my chance to do something good. Please you have to believe me."

"I believe you." Leo sighed, "I'm tired of people hurting each other, doing harm."

"So you'll help me."

Leo gave a nod. "You jump I jump right."

Leo knocked over a glass table and then a few chairs. He straightened and looked at Andrea. "Now, here's how this will go. I'll handle Supergirl. I'll jam all incoming signals. I recently developed a device that can incept a single thought into the surrounding area, do no harm. Plant it at the D.E.O it will disable all agents that get in your way. I'll control it from here and then the D.E.O is yours."

Andrea took the device Leo handed to her. "Sounds like a plan. Good luck." She vanished into the shadows then leaving Leo alone. Leo had his tablet just behind the couch and positioned himself on the ground before pressing the call button on the watch Supergirl had given him. He then layed on the ground and waited for Supergirl, it didn't take her very long. He soon heard her voice calling frantically. "Leo! Leo!"

Leo grunted and slowly sat up he held his head with one of his hands. "Ughhh… Kara…" He looked up at her and pulled her into a tight hug. "Thank god you're here… It was horrible they were here one minute and gone the next… it was like a shadow…" His one hand slowly pressed a button on his tablet activating the jammer.

"Are you alright?" Kara pulled back looking at Leo.

He gave a nod. "Yeah… I'm just glad you came when you did…" He grunted as he stood up and Kara protectively hovered over him. "I'm just a bit sore… I'll be fine."

"Do you know why they attacked you?" Kara asked concerned.

Leo shook his head. "Hell if I know. Have you ever encountered someone like this before?"

Kara gave a nod. "Yes… unfortunately I have. This shadow attacked the D.E.O. tried to get our prisoner. They must have come after you and were going to use you to get to the prisoner. I'm sorry…"

Leo shook his head. "Kara, it's not your fault. Things happen, I'm alright."

Kara then titled her head as she was using her super hearing and turned to Leo, "Alex is in trouble stay here!" She quickly flew out the window and headed back to the D.E.O. He did all he could to buy Andrea any time, he'd know soon enough if she would be successful or not.

Leo left the penthouse and went to the lab where he said he'd meet Andrea. Eventually she appeared and she wasn't alone, there was a man with her. He had several mechanical augmentations attached to his body. Andrea handed Leo the device she had used in the D.E.O. "It worked and I got Russell out of there. Thank you." Andrea had Russell sit down in one of the stools in the lab. "Leo, I honestly don't know how I can ever repay you."

Leo placed his device down on the lab table. "You can start by giving me the medallion."

"I can't…" Andrea replied and looked straight at Leo. The lenses in his eyes were soon glowing a bright green. "You'd incept me to give you this?"

"Much worse… Russell pick up the scalpel…" Russell stood up picking up the scalpel up on the nearby table. "Now hold it to your carotid artery and press slowly." Russell did as Leo told him. Leo didn't want to kill Russell and he was sure Andrea would cave in before anything happened.

"Please, Leo don't do this." Andrea said firmly. Her eyes frantically moving from Russell to Leo.

"Then give me the medallion." Leo's eyes narrowed.

"This is what you wanted this whole time?"

"I helped you save Russell now I want what I deserve." Leo pressed.

"I was desperate my father was weak he was going to die everything I did I did for love."

"That's what hurt the most, I cared about you more than anyone else in the world and I never would have betrayed you." Leo's voice was low and he was firm, Andrea could tell he was serious beyond all doubt. He would have Russell killed if she didn't give him what he wanted.

She pulled the medallion from her neck and slammed it into the palm of Leo's hand. "I told you this thing is a curse." Andrea hissed.

Leo set the medallion down on the lab table. "Our friendship was the curse… Russell put the scalpel down. Now go, both of you."

Andrea walked past Leo and took Russell's hand. "You are a bastard Leo." Leo ignored what Andrea said his hand picking up the medallion again. Andrea and Russell vanished in shadow. His thumb began to rub along the medallion in small circles, he'd finally found it.

Hope walked up toward Leo, "Mr. Luthor?"

Leo handed the medallion to Hope. "I want you to scan this."

Hope gave a firm nod. "Right away Mr. Luthor."

Leo picked up the Obsidian Lenses he had in the lab and placed them in his eyes. "Begin simulation." He was in a grassy field and his eyes rested upon a young little boy. It was himself, carefree his thick black locks of hair blowing in the wind. He was laughing as his mother was chasing him. "Not so fast Leo…" She soon caught him and spun him around. "I got you!"

"I found it mother…end simulation." Leo swallowed thickly as his eyes welled up with tears. He removed the lenses and placed them back into the container they were held in.

"Mr. Luthor preliminary tests confirm any properties the medallion may have had are gone."

Leo cleared the tears out of his eyes with the back of his sleeve. "Doesn't matter can you translate these markings…" He took a deep breath and awaited the translation. It spelled Leviathan. "Now access the memories of Eve Teschmacher and tell me everything she knows about Leviathan."