Chapter 8

Leo was alone in his home, most of the lights were off but as he walked back toward the couch he stopped suddenly. He could feel the hairs on the back of his neck rise. He had the strangest feeling someone was watching him. No someone was here. "You can come out now." He turned and his green eyes rested upon an older woman. Wrinkles along her white skinned face, thin. Leviathan sent her? See seemed harmless, just an old woman who'd offer cookies if she truly wanted to.

"Give me the medallion." She cut to the chase, demanding the medallion back.

Leo pulled the medallion out of his pocket. "You mean this." He shook his head. "I don't think so." It was then that a gun fired, she had pulled a gun on him and fired twice. It if wasn't for his force field he would be dead no doubt. Apparently she wasn't so harmless as looks made her out to be. "I have the most intricate security system in the world. I know all about Leviathan."

The hand with the gun lowered to her side and she smirked lightly. "No one knows all about Leviathan. Leviathan is unknowable."

Leo narrowed his eyes. "I'm not afraid."

"You will be." Leo quickly turned to the tablet that held his security system and other systems for his penthouse. As he turned on the light the woman that he was talking to was gone. Apparently Leviathan had abilities that were unique to his members.

Hope soon walked into the living room his A.I companion stood in front of Leo. "She's gone. I've reactivated heightened penthouse security. You were right as always Mr. Luthor. Leviathan will attempt to retrieve the medallion at all costs." Her head tilted slightly to the side her voice held confusion. "Why would you provoke them over something of no value?"

"It has value to me. The medallion was special to my mother the fact that Leviathan wants it makes it useful." Leo rested his eyes over the medallion in his hand his thumb rubbing the medallion in small circles before he pocketed it. "Lex theorized that Superman kept every weapon that was ever used against him in a special facility… a fortress although he never found it I think Lex was right. I think the perfect dispersal device for project Non Nocere is hidden there gathering dust. Leviathan is going to help me find it."

Hope shook her head. "Please don't underestimate the danger of Leviathan, you should cancel the L-Corp event at the park. They will come after you."

A small smirk appeared on his lips. "Let them come. Supergirl will save me." Introducing Supergirl to Leviathan was the only way he'd be able gain access to this special facility Superman and Supergirl had access to.

Leo went ahead with the L-Corp event at the park. There was a small gathering of people and Leo went to the podium to make a speech. "Thank you all for coming on such a wonderful day." He paused briefly as the ground began to shake. Was that an earthquake? The rumbling stopped and he continued with his speech. "Running these trails has always been my favorite way to clear my mind." The ground began to shake more again but Leo continued. "it means so much to me that L-Corp could have a hand in preserving these grounds." However his speech soon came to an end as the ground began rumbling almost as if there was an earthquake and people at the event began to panic.

Nearby a man appear almost out of thin air. He seemed to come from the ground and materialize in a body. He growled and shouted at Leo. "You have something that belongs to me!" He moved his hands out toward Leo the earth responding to his motions. The earth broke shattering and shaking chunks of earth rose up and came hurling at Leo. Leo bolted off in a run.

He had underestimated Leviathan having a being capable of moving rock and earth. He skidded to a stop as he ran out of space to run. He looked down the cliff seeing nothing but water below. He turned back behind him and then opened the watch Kara had given him. He pressed the button once to single her and then proceeded to jump off the cliff. He jumped just in time as earth and rubble came hurling at him. Part of him wondered if Kara would come in time but his mind was soon put at ease as he was soon in Supergirl's arms.

"What was that!"

"Leviathan." Leo replied. Supergirl used her heat vision shooting a beam toward the man with Leviathan. Unfortunately it had very little effect on him and Supergirl quickly flew toward the D.E.O deciding to make an escape. She had to get Leo to safety and the find a way to defeat this knew enemy. Landing in the D.E.O Supergirl looked Leo up and down and then used her x-ray vision to see if he was injured, thankfully he wasn't. "What did this guy want with you?"

Leo shook his head. "I have no idea. He's definitely a threat."

Supergirl nodded. "Well this isn't the first time I've heard of Leviathan. We've encountered them before. Alex! Brainy!" Leo and Kara headed toward Alex and Brainy.

"What happened?" Alex questioned.

"Leo, was attacked by someone who could control the earth. They're with Leviathan."

Brainy snapped his fingers. "I'll see what I can dig up." He went toward the computers searching anything for Leviathan or this new attacker. The search soon provided efficient results. "I've found something very promising. Think god for selfie culture because of this generations' constant need to live-stream everything we've got a clear image of your attacker…" He brought up an image of the man who attacked Leo. "and I knew I'd seen that face before. Do you recall Antioch 526 AD."

Leo had his arms crossed over his chest. "It was an earthquake, it was the eighth largest natural disaster in modern history."

Brainy smiled. "Precisely, it's good to have you back Leo. A myth was born that this man was the cause, now of course scientists insisted that the natural disasters were natural but in an ironic twist of history they were wrong and the fear mongers were right. Several reliable sources place this man…" He pointed at Leo's attacker. "at the scene of the crime throughout history, Pompeii, the Yellow River flood of 1887, the Bhola cyclone even as far back as Noah's Flood this earth bender has been spotted."

Alex raised an eyebrow. "Excuse me, did you say earth bender?"

"How else would you describe him he literally manipulates the earth." Brainy shook his head.

Kara raised a finger up. "Wait… Pompeii Noah's flood I mean what is he thousands of years old?"

"Correct which means that he's an alien with powers of longevity this civilization has never conceived of." Brainy confirmed.

"No wonder people though he was a myth." Alex wasn't surprised, hardly anything surprised her these days. Why not an alien thousands of years old.

"With all this destruction his existence is still shrouded in mystery, he's managed to convince the world he doesn't exist." Leo slowly ran a hand through his hair, Leviathan certainly was clever. They'd made themselves a myth.

Brainy nodded. "Seems so, the word Leviathan occurs six times in the Hebrew Bible never once does it appear in any historical scientific literature."

Well now that they knew this attack was an alien how were they going to stop him. "So how are we supposed to fight a highly secretive thousand year old alien with powers that we have no idea how to beat?" Alex looked at Brainy first and then Kara and Leo for any options or suggestions.

This was his moment to carefully find out if the Supers had a secret place. "Well I know one person who spent his life fighting aliens both real and imagined."

Kara sighed, "Your brother."

Leo nodded. "I know most of his minor weapons are in Fort Summit but his truly horrendous ones they were all destroyed by Superman."

Kara shook her head. "That's not necessarily true a lot of Lex's weapons are in the Fortress of Solitude."

Leo blinked and looked at Kara confused. "What's that?"

Kara then realized that Leo had no clue what the Fortress of Solitude was. "Oh, it's a place Superman created. We keep things there that can harm us."

His brother was right, the place did exist. "Well you can just go to the fortress and I'll give you a list of every weapon that Lex ever created." He couldn't just volunteer to go willingly, giving Kara a list would make it seem he had no motive for wanting to go.

Kara looked at Leo. "Why don't you come with me, I mean there's no telling what weapons we'll encounter."

Alex gave a firm nod. "Brainy and I will stay here and we'll continue our search for Rip Roar and this earth bender."

Brainy nodded, "Supergirl, remember the strongest most potent weapon is knowledge so send me whatever you can find from the fortress database."

Kara gave a nod and then she smiled at Leo, "You ready for a road trip?"

This worked all too well but he couldn't be too eager. Kara couldn't suspect anything. "Are you sure me going is a good idea?"

"Of course why wouldn't it be?"

Leo sighed, "I don't know a Luthor in the Fortress of Solitude." The words didn't flow naturally, a Luthor in Superman's and Supergirl's Fortress?

Kara shook her head and trying to put Leo's worries aside. "It's gonna be great but you're going to need a jacket."

"What's wrong you've barely eaten anything?" Alex looked over at her sister as she was moving her Chinese food on her plate. The food had been there way too long and she knew how much her sister could eat. Something had to be upsetting her.

Kara frowned and then sighed. "It's Leo…I really need to tell him I'm Supergirl but every time I get the courage to I… I end up failing. I keep waiting for the right moment to tell him."

"You're stalling, just take a deep breath and tell him. What are you so worried about Kara?"

Of course Alex made it sound so easy but things weren't easy. "Leo and Supergirl don't have the best relationship… I've tried many times to make friends with him as Supergirl but he doesn't want it and I don't blame him I've said things to him that I regret. I just… I see red whenever Kryptonite is involved and Leo made Kryptonite the very thing that could kill me. I know he doesn't want to hurt me and without his help and with the Kryptonite we never would have defeated Reign." She set her fork down on the plate and turned to face her sister. "Alex when… when I'm with Leo I don't worry about being Supergirl I can just be Kara with him. I haven't felt that way with someone since… since Mon-El. Leo…makes me feel human. I don't want to lose him because… because of my failure to tell him the truth. He has known nothing but people betraying him and they have always lied to him to benefit themselves."

Alex gently took a hold of Kara's hand and squeezed it. "Kara, you need to tell Leo and if he truly does love you he will forgive you. He will realize that you kept your identity a secret to protect him. You lied to him because you love him and you don't want to see him hurt. You were not malicious in your lie. Sometimes you just have to take a leap of faith."

Leo and Kara walked into the Fortress of Solitude, the place was unbelievable and very beautiful. He'd never seen anything like it. The massive ice sculptures of two figures holding a globe was impressive. Part of himself felt insignificant in this glorious place. "Wow this is breathtaking."

Kara was beaming with joy being able to show Leo this place. She was proud of the Fortress and if always did remind her of Krypton. "It's our Krypton on Earth." Leo walked beside her as they walked into the Fortress but soon Leo was encased in a force field of ice.

"Kara, what's happening?" Had Kara suspected his deceit?

Leo's was soon answered by the Fortress as the Fortress began to alarm. "Intruder! Intruder! Luthor DNA detected! L-protocol engaged."

"L-protocol?" Kara waved her hands. "No no no no."

The Fortress began to demand to Leo. "Luthor, relinquish your kryptonite ring and your transmatter portal watch immediately."

This Fortress was impressive, how did it know he even had those items. "But I don't have a ring or a watch! I'm not Lex!"

"Hand over the weapons at once or the Fortress will take offensive action in ten seconds." Leo's eyes widened as the Fortress began the countdown. Was he going to die here before he even succeeded in his plans? Kara, would save him.

Kara yelled. "He's unarmed!" The Fortress didn't respond to Kara's plea however and continued the countdown. "I'll fix this." Kara quickly went over toward the terminal pressing buttons to cancel the L-protocol and Leo let out a sigh of relief as he heard the computer reply. "L-protocol terminated." The wall of ice Leo was trapped in soon collapsed and he was free.

Kara looked as though she'd ran over a puppy as she looked at Leo, "I'm so sorry I – I had no idea Superman would take such extreme measures."

Leo shook his head. "No, if Lex knew about this place he would do anything or kill anyone to get in here." It'd be chilling to know if Lex was in the Fortress of Solicitude, his brother would be like a kid in a candy store. However, that would be catastrophic and his brother would end up scheming more evil plans.

"Well you are not Lex."

Leo nodded, "You're not your cousin. We are miles beyond those two."

Kara smiled, "Yes we are. Come on let's keep going."

As Leo walked with Kara through the Fortress his mind was on his plan. He knew of one specific weapon that could help with sending Q-waves for Project Non Nocere. That was myriad. Leo wasn't in National City when that disaster struck. He'd have to get myriad and then use his transmatter watch to escape. Keeping Supergirl at bay would be another matter entirely. She would definitely come after him to stop him, he only needed to keep her at bay just until he succeeded.

Kara's voice pulled him out of his thoughts. "We're almost to the central database."

"Assuming the Fortress doesn't attack me again, thank you for saving me back there."

Kara sighed, "I shouldn't have had to but it does seem like dangerous saves are sort of our thing now."

Leo laughed softly, "Yeah it does, of course it used to be me saving you. Imagine I thought I was protecting my fragile vulnerable girlfriend."

Kara frowned, "I'm so sorry."

"Remember when we went to Kaznia and the jet was crashing and I was frantic to try and save us and desperate to save my girlfriend before myself… little did I know that my girlfriend could actually fly." Leo had been scared to death that he'd lose Kara on that trip. All he thought about was trying to save her and her she was indestructible and could fly.

"I'm so sorry I put you through that." She never meant to worry him like that. At least now, that he knew the truth things could be better between them.

Leo waved his hand. "No, it was impressive how often you saved me without me realizing… I mean you're an excellent actress." He'd been a total fool, so many times.

"Telling you the truth was such a relief and I'm so glad that now we can be honest with each other and that all of that is behind us." Kara smiled.

Leo looked up into Kara's eyes and forced a smile. "Me too."

Kara motioned. "It's this way." Leo and Kara entered the room of the central data base and as they came to the main terminal Leo's eyes glistened.

"Is that a polyphasic quantum processor? They've long been theorized but I had no idea one actually existed." Leo couldn't help but express some joy at seeing this technology. The place was a marvel and it was a shame he had to focus on other plans.

Kara cracked a smiled, her boyfriend could be so nerdy it was cute. "I uh think it is. My name is Kara Zor-el I seek information on ancient earth bending aliens."

The computer replied. "The only alien matching that description comes from a sister planet of Krypton, Jarhanpur the planet was destroyed after years of civil wars. Five of its leaders fled one of those leaders has the extraordinary power to bend the earth to his will."

"How do we stop him?" Leo asked.

"There are weapons in the Fortress armory that can wound him, ones thought to weaken Kryptonians. Those created by Lex Luthor brother of Leo Luthor." The computed answered.

Kara gave a nod, "Thank you that's all we need. Well we better get to the armory if there are more of these aliens were going to need a really big gun."

If Leo could interact with the computer he could activate a defensive measure and have the Fortress keep Kara contained. That would keep Supergirl out of the way while he work on launching Project Non Nocere. "Yeah we should warn Brainy."

"Yeah." Kara went toward the computer to send a warning to Brainy.

"Do you mind if I do it. I've never interfaced with a quantum processor before it'd be a bit of a thrill." Leo suggested.

Kara grinned, "Knock yourself out." She stopped and waited for Leo as he neared the computer terminal.

With a few button presses the deed was done. The Fortress would act upon Suprgirl when he needed it to. "Done. Let's go."

The Fortress armory was filled with many weapons, a lot of them were designed by Lex. Leo would recognized his brother's work anywhere. Which one would be the most effective though? He still needed to find myriad as well. "This gun is so tiny." Kara had a small gun in her hands as she was examining it.

Leo made a disgusted look, "Yeah… Lex designed that to fit under his many human hair wigs."

Kara quickly set the gun down. "Ughh…"

"Yeah, so the computer said we need to look for something that will hurt Kryptonians seems to be a lot of that in here." Leo's eyes soon rested upon a weapon he didn't recognize. "What's this?"

"That is myriad my…my family created it."

"I was still in Metropolis when myriad hit. The news footage said it was pretty horrific."

"And reality was even worse. My aunt Astra and her husband turned all of humanity into mindless zombies in less than a second." Kara looked at Leo, "If there's one weapon in this room I could destroy it would be that one." The one weapon that had her family's name written all over it, she had to make up for her family's mistakes. Leo had told her he was doing the same years ago. He had wanted to make a name for himself outside of his family. To make up for the mistakes and Kara admired that about him. She could relate to him.

Leo picked up one of Lex's weapons. "Well this could be the ticket. It's a sonic cannon, it sends concentrated blasts of high-frequency ultrasonic waves at whatever you aim it at. With a few slight adjustments we can maybe use it to destabilize Rama Khan. I mean at least long enough to put the power dampening cuffs on him. It's designed for evil but perhaps we can use it for some good."

Lex was still his brother, he didn't want him to die, even if he was insane. Lex giving himself cancer from the Kryptonite was ironic, all in the hope of killing Superman. Leo found himself in the Luthor Mansion, cops rolling his brother in a wheelchair into one of the many rooms of the mansion. Leo stood in front of his older brother. "A stroke, huh? You wanted to see me in person that badly?"

Lex began to cough and slowly removed the oxygen mask from his face. "What can I say, brother? I missed you." A small smirk appeared on his lips. He looked very pale, Leo could tell he was truly ill. "They call this a mercy furlough."

Leo turned to the officer, "Thank you officer, that'll be all." They left Leo and Lex alone in the room though Lex was handcuffed to the wheelchair and they were just outside the door.

"They never let me out of their sight. As if I'd run away like a dog set loose from his leash."

Leo rolled his eyes. "Well, you would."

"Of course, I would." Lex began to chuckle and then groaned in pain. "But I can't I'm numb top to bottom. My guts are in knots, there's blood in my-"

Leo cleared his throat, "Okay, that's enough." He injected a needle in his arm gathering a blood sample.

"I'm dying."

"I know." Leo tied a small makeshift bandage over Lex's arm where he had taken the sample and bought the blood sample over toward some medical equipment to test his blood.

"That's it. You know?" Lex expected some other response than a simple I know from his younger brother.

"What do you want me to say Lex? You want me to cry? You've only mentioned it at the start and the end of every phone call for the last six weeks." Leo had ignored most of his calls at first but his brother was persistent. Leo had to eventually answer or he'd just keep calling.

"I'm not used to needing help. It's weak, pathetic. I'm pathetic."

Leo's eyes fixed onto the monitor, Lex's results from the blood sample appearing on the screen. "Your white blood cell count has stabilized. You're not gonna die today."

"I won't die tomorrow either if you finish the Harun-El serum."

Leo's eyes fixed onto his brother. "I'm not risking human lives on an experimental untested drug." Besides he hadn't been able to remove the super powers from the drug. Giving his brother powers was a horrible idea.

"What was the point of pulling strings to get you D.E.O resources if not to test your drug on humans?"

"I didn't ask for that. And if Colonel Haley knew you were behind it –"

Lex shook his head. "She doesn't. No one does."

"Except the person whose strings you're pulling."

"But now I wonder if you didn't wanna just pull up a front-row seat to watch me wither away and die." Lex began to cough into a handkerchief.

Leo crossed his arms over his chest. "I'm not the one who accidently poisoned myself with Kryptonite in a quixotic attempt to kill an invincible man. And while I do find the irony that you now need black Kryptonite to cure yourself just delicious, you are my brother, Lex. I do want to save you. Besides, how can you pay your debt to society if you're already dead?"

Lex began to chuckle the chuckle bringing out a coughing fit again. "hum, now there's my brother."

Eve soon rushed in the room. "Leo and Mr. Luthor! I'm sorry to interrupt –"

"That's okay, honey. I'll take a flat white. And you can call me Lex." Lex winked at Eve. "It's easier to write on the cup." He made a writing motion with his hand.

Leo raised an eyebrow at Lex and then turned to Eve. "What is it Eve?"

"It's James. He's been shot. He was at CatoCo in his office and someone shot him. He's been brought to the hospital." Eve said quickly.

Leo's eyes widened. "My God! Is anyone else hurt?" Was Kara safe? Who would want to hurt James or even Kara? He had to force himself to not overreact. He didn't know all the details and worrying about that would not help anything.

Eve shook her head. "I don't know."

Leo was busy modifying the sonic cannon but he wasn't sure how he was going to get a hold of myriad. Supergirl was right beside him and there was no way he could get it with her watching him. He soon felt the ground rumble his eyes looked up at Kara. "Is that…" Did Rama Khan find them here?

"It is, stay here get the gun ready." Supergirl turned and left Leo in the Fortress armory. Once he was alone his eyes lingered onto myriad. He could just take it right here and right now. Supergirl would be busy with Rama Khan. What if, she couldn't defeat him on her own? He could hear fighting in the distance and shook his head he had to help. Leviathan was too great of a threat to not deal with.

Leo finished the modifications on the sonic cannon and ran out with the gun toward where Supergirl was fighting with Rama Khan. When he entered he saw Rama Khan kneeling on his knees and he slowly stood up. Leo grinned, "Forget about me." He raised the sonic cannon up and fired a beam straight into Rama Khan's chest. Supergirl blew a blast of her cold breath at him. With both of their attacks it seemed to keep him at bay and the only thing that Rama Khan could do was slam his fist into the ground breaking the ground.

"You won't survive me again Kryptonian!" He hissed before he disappeared his body transforming into small particles of earth and vanishing into the cracks of the ground. Supergirl turned only to find Leo was gone. "Leo?" Where had he gone. Kara called again. "Leo!" She took off heading back to the armory and as she entered she saw him, "Leo…" As he turned however he had myriad in his one hand. Kara stopped in her tracks. "Why do you have myriad?"

Leo swallowed thickly his eyes looking at myriad and then back at Kara. "Well you caught me. I have myriad because I'm using you. Like you used me."

"I never used you." Kara was stunned it was as if someone had flipped a switch with Leo. He was tense almost defensive.

"Do you remember when you finally told me you were Supergirl. You were weeping, big crocodile tears. Well I wept real tears. Bitter tears of you for weeks before." After all this time of hiding his true feelings, faking the smiles.

Kara was floored her mouth was open slightly in shock, "What I…. I thought…. How long had you known?"

"I found out the day I killed my brother."

"Leo, you didn't kill Lex that was me." She motioned to herself. "I watched him… I saw him fall."

"You saw him fall but did you see him land? Did you see him die? I did and let me tell you it wasn't pretty."

"That's impossible."

"Anything is possible when you're a Luthor. Lex used his transmatter portal watch. I knew exactly where he'd go. The cabin we'd go to when we were children so I was there waiting for him. I had the gun ready loaded I could feel the weight of it in my hands." Leo's fist clenched. "Every fiber in my being rebelled but I- I didn't want to do it but I knew I had to because if Lex lived the world wouldn't be safe my friends wouldn't be safe… you wouldn't be safe." His eyes fixed onto Kara she was panicked her breathing was hard and it seemed Leo had taken her completely by surprise. "So I forced myself to pull the trigger." Leo gritted his teeth. "I shot my own brother in the chest. His final words to me were, that I was a fool that my girlfriend and that every friend I had was lying to me. With his dying breath he told me that you were Supergirl!"

"Leo, you have to believe me that I never meant to humiliate you." Kara took a step forward making a motion to take Leo's hand in her own but he stepped back.

Leo shook his head. "No, when I came to this city I promised myself that I would never trust anyone again and then I met you. And you chipped away at my armor with your warmth and your earnestness and you convinced me to trust in people, in friendship again and against my better judgment I did. All the while telling you about my Achilles heel, betrayal. I confided in you that everyone in my past had betrayed me and about how much it hurt to have someone you love lie to you and betray you I spelled it out to you over and over again. Essentially begging you not to violate my trust begging you not to prove once again I was a fool. You reassured me that you would never lie to me and you'd never hurt me. But all the while there was never a single honest moment in our relationship."

"No, no that is not true." Kara shook her head.

"No, I killed my brother for you! For our friends! Don't you understand what you've done!" I killed him for you because I was scared to lose you and yet I had already lost you. I just never knew it. Leo could feel his eyes well up with tears the pain and his anger exploding to the surface and he held nothing back.

Kara looked down sniffling and her blue eyes looked up at Leo. "When you found out why didn't you come to me right away? So I could explain." He wouldn't kill her, yet he never thought he'd be the one to make her feel this pain. Make her cry, her eyes were welled with tears and as he looked at Supergirl he could see the woman he loved emerged. The strong superhero was gone and it was just… it was just Kara. Her voice breaking as she tried to speak, to him beg him to understand. Ask for forgiveness, for understanding. How could she understand what she'd done? What he felt? He was a fool for letting her in his life. For loving her…how was he supposed to move on without her?

"Explain?!" He had come to National City to make amends for the Luthor name. What better way than to help a Kryptonian then trying to kill one. Supergirl was inspiring, strong, filled with hope. It was enough to make him wonder about himself. He'd make efforts to try and help people. At first things were fine and then came Supergirl's criticism. His used of Kryptonite and making Harn-El, he was a scientist it was his instinct to investigate. Yes, Kryptonite was very dangerous in the wrong hands and he understood her fear regarding that substance still without that, Reign wouldn't have been destroyed. Harun-El's curative properties were groundbreaking, and the super powers were an effect he had tried to contain. Supergirl did not approve of him making the substance.

And then there was Kara, the reporter he'd grown fond of. The woman he would protect with his life. She'd been by his side, always seeing the good in him when others thought he was the next Lex Luthor. She promised to always stay by his side and to always put her trust in him. Leo had struggled to open up to her, it was not something he was used to but Kara had always been there. She was like a pillar of support. Soon he didn't feel like he had to convince her of who he was, he could be himself. Leo had fallen hard for her and then it all came crashing down for him.

His mind was in constant conflict, Supergirl was Kara. They were the same, and for the first time in his life he wasn't sure which woman was real. That this woman, who he thought was two different people was the same woman. He had loved Kara with his whole heart and also Supergirl.

Why hadn't she told him earlier? What made him different than James? Or J'onn or even Brainy? Hell what about Nia Nal? He had been her friend at first and then her boyfriend, and all while he opened up to her she was lying to him every day. Every single day. What made things even worse was that he was still in love with her. Beneath all the pain it still lingered and he let his pain consume him.

Kara could only see pain and hate in his eyes. She had to find a way to get through to him. "If you hate me so much why not out me at the Pulitzer party? Why pretend to still be my boyfriend this long?"

"Because I wanted you to experience what you did you me, feel what I felt." Leo said firmly.

Kara began to take deep breaths. "I understand your pain and your fury and… and your right. I made a big mistake maybe the biggest mistake of my life but please Leo, please don't leave the Fortress with myriad. Please don't let my mistake push you to do something terrible. You are a good person."

Leo shook his head his hand waving in front of him. "No, no you don't ever get to tell me who or what I am again!" His had reached into the pocket of his jacket and pressed the button on the device to active the Fortress Defenses.

"Intruder! Intruder!" The Fortress alarmed and encased Supergirl in a force field of ice with Kryptonite weakening her.

Kara groaned her hands shaking as the felt the effects of Kryptonite. "Did you reprogram the Fortress defenses to attack me?"

Leo bit his tongue before he slowly answered. "Yes, I rigged it to answer to this button I have in my hand." He raised his hand up showing Kara.

"Are you going to try and kill me?" Kara's fears rose to the surface. Leo wasn't acting at all like the man she had fallen in love with. He was a completely different person and it was her fault.

Leo sighed, "No, Supergirl I'm not going to kill you." He placed his hand in his pocket getting the transmatter portal watch and pressed the button opening the portal. His eyes raised up looking at Supergirl one last time. "I'm not a villain, you shouldn't have treated me like one." He turned and walked in through the portal. Deep down part of him knew, she was his soul mate. She was the only one, the only one he wanted. The only one who understood him despite all he had done. All the pain he had caused her, he wouldn't judge Kara if she never forgave him. Leo missed her… and without Kara it felt like part of himself was missing. The only thing that was left in him was just pain and all he wanted was for it to go away.

Leo had no other details what transpired at CatCo other than James being hurt. What if Kara had been shot or worse? He swallowed thickly, don't over react. He knew nothing yet. Of course as soon as he saw the blonde standing by the nurses station he rushed over toward her. "Oh, Kara, thank God you're okay." He enveloped her in a tight hug and she squeezed him back. "I heard what happened at CatCo, and I wasn't sure." He stammered.

Kara pulled back slightly her hands resting on Leo's cheeks. "I'm alright. No one else was hurt, just James."

Leo gave a nod. "Is he all right?"

Kara frowned, "They're about to operate, but his, um, his spine was badly injured. We don't know what's gonna happen. He's upstairs, but they said he can't have visitors yet."

Leo pulled back from Kara his hand running through his hair and sighing. Brainy and Nia walked up toward both of them. "What exactly transpired?" Brainy inquired.

Kara sighed, "All I know is that he was shot in his own office from behind. They used a hollow-point bullet. It… splintered." Leo saw Alex off to the side and he went toward her.

"I can't believe anyone would hurt James."

Alex shook her head. "I know… but finding who's responsible is not my major concern." She placed her hands on her hips before staring straight at Leo. "You and I both know the limitations of modern medicine. I mean, even best case scenario would leave James paralyzed. Your serum could heal him entirely."

Leo grimaced, "Or it can kill him. It's not ready Alex, I can't summon a breakthrough though sheer force of will."

"Then how is it that every time I've seen you work under pressure, you have done exactly that? Leo, you have all of L-Corp, and you have the D.E.O at your disposal. I mean, there must be some resource that you're not utilizing."

Of course he felt for James but using an untested drug on him. Alex had asked him and he knew how close of a friend James was to Kara and Alex. James was a good man, he deserved better. Instead he was fighting for his life, on an operating table. "Keep me updated."

Author's Note:

Sorry this chapter took so long to come out. This was a difficult chapter to write as it was very emotional and I've done a lot of analyzing of Leo/Lena. Hope you all enjoy the chapter.