Chapter 13

His brother had been consumed with Obsidian North's launch of their new Platinum VR Lenses. Lex insisted they both be there for this event he knew he was getting closer to members of Leviathan still, his brother didn't tell him everything. Lex kept his secrets. Everyone began to clap as Lex and Andrea gave a rousing speech. Leo was standing a bit further back he could see Kara was standing beside William. His eyes focusing on her, he hadn't seen or spoken with her since the night she told him she'd treat him like a villain if needed.

Leo knew about Jeremiah, knew he had died. Even if he wasn't her birth father he was still a father to her, someone who she'd grown close to. He'd been taken away from her, and from the rest of the Danvers family. Before the event was over Kara made her way out and headed to her office. Leo followed after her making his way through the crowd of people and down to Kara's desk.

He could see her sitting at her desk a picture in her hands as she looked upon a picture of Jeremiah. No doubt wishing she could see her father again. "Kara…" Kara's eyes rose she wasn't expecting Leo to be standing right in front of her. She set the picture down. "I heard about Jeremiah. I came to offer up sympathies." Leo glanced down toward his feet, this was harder than he imagined. Walking up to Kara, like this to tell her how sorry he was, he felt a knot in his stomach. The tension in the room was so thick it was almost hard to breathe. "Offer up my sympathies god I sound like an android."

Kara looked down at her hands covering up the photo. "No, you said it like someone who's afraid to confront the woman you said you loved. The woman who called you a villain."

He was afraid, yet he also could see how much pain Kara was in over the loss of her father. "You know I lost my mother when I was very young. And I…" The death of a parent was something that no child should have to endure and Kara shouldn't have had to go through this pain. Not this soon, her father had so many years ahead of him and it was all taken away in an instant. "I know that pales in comparison to the losses you've suffered, but I know it doesn't get any easier." For all the pain he'd caused her by the way he'd treated her and now this. "I'm sorry."

Kara let in a shaky breath. "Well thank you for saying that. That means a lot coming from you." She adjusted her glasses. She could see a glimpse of the man she love emerged and realized that she still hadn't gotten over him yet. He was still a part of her heart, her human heart and a part of her longed to have him by her side again.

Leo had a book in his hands and he handed it to Kara. "This helped me a lot with memories of my mother and other family difficulties." He had taken the book out of his brief case before he had come to CatCo in order to give to Kara. Building up the courage to tell her how sorry he was for her loss was difficult to muster.

Kara looked at the cover her thumb idly rubbing the edge of the book. "Well if it helped with Luthor family difficulties, I'm sure it will help me a lot." Her eyes rose up meeting Leo's and she let a small smile escape her lips. "Thank you." Perhaps he was coming around, perhaps he was rethinking his decisions. Leo gave a small smile back before he turned and left Kara alone.

Leo was waiting patiently in the cabin, if he knew his brother he'd show up here. He had the cure to remove the Harun-El Superpowers in his hand. Moments later Lex emerged from the transmatter portal, he was on his knees panting. Leo slammed the syringe into Lex's neck, removing the Harun-El from him. "No more superpowers for you!"

Lex groaned painfully and covered his hand over his neck where Leo had injected him. He turned then and laughed softly, "Leo! What a surprise."

"What can I say, Lex? You've become predictable." Leo was dressed in a black trench coat and slowly he placed his one hand into his pocket. He could feel the cold metal of the gun and slowly gripped the handle.

Lex lowered his hand from his neck and looked up at his brother. "I left the journal for you, paired it with the mural, hoping you would remember this place and show up when I needed you. You know, it just comes down to this, brother. You can only count on blood." He extended his hand out toward Leo, "Come on, give me a hand." Leo however pulled the gun out of his pocket and pointed it straight at Lex. Lex sighed. "Come on, Leo, this is no time for theatrics. We both know no matter how much you despise me, you're not ruthless enough to pull that trigger-" Lex was cut off as there were two loud bangs as the gun fired. He gasped as he felt the bullets hit him and he fell backward. He grunted looking down stunned and could see blood gushing out of his chest.

Leo swallowed hard. "The world will never be a safe place with you in it."

Lex shook his head. "Oh, bravo! You did it, Leo. You killed me." He raised his bloody hand up showing his brother. He hissed. "You finally proved that I've been underestimating you all this time. But, when I'm gone, who will be left to be proud of you? What, your friends?" He spat and struggled toward the desk crawling up near the chair. He pressed a single button on the control panel and over the view screens images of Kara using her powers appeared. "The joke's on you. It's always been on you." Leo lowered the gun to his side his eyes glued onto the view screen. No, this… this couldn't be real. Kara couldn't be… she couldn't. Lex continued. "Your friends have been lying to you from the start. Jimmy, Alex, J'onn, Nia Nal, that little alien runt Brainy. Even your own mother. They've mocked you, humiliated you, betrayed you. Every last one. Denial's a very powerful thing, isn't it? It's been standing right in front of you all this time. And you chose not to see it. Kara Danvers is Supergirl. Your girlfriend, is Supergirl! I'm about to die, but at least I lived without ever being a fool. You're left with no one and nothing." He growled before he coughed and soon collapsed onto the floor.

Leo pulled his eyes away from the screen. Why… why didn't you tell me Kara? Why? His eyes lowered to his brother's dead form. He pulled his coat off and pulled Lex's body up and carried him out and headed out in the forest near the cabin. He left Lex on the ground and went to the shed grabbing a shovel. His mind couldn't focus on what he'd seen. He was in shock, he didn't know how to feel other than the pain in his chest. The tightness in his throat.

He began to dig. He'd killed his own brother, he'd murdered him. Even Lex hadn't killed him, as horrible as he had been. He was utterly alone, no one on his side. Not Kara, or James, J'onn, Brainy, Nia, Alex. All of them had lied to him every day. Why did he even bother trying to have friends, find love? Everything he ever felt from relationships was pain, no one ever did anything sincerely. Not even Kara. Kara had her secrets, she couldn't even tell the man she said she loved the truth.

Leo pushed the shovel into the pile of dirt that was next to the hole he had dug and then grabbed his brother and layed him into the hole. He looked down as his hands stained with blood and dirt and they began to shake. What had he done? He let out a shaky breath and his hands gripped the shovel again pushing the dirt back over Lex's body.

"The brain anatomy of Patient 054 remains normal post-Non Nocere. The trial continues to exhibit positive results of Q-wave adoption." Leo stated as he was recording his notes on Project Non Nocere. He had a camera view of his patient, a man from the prison and so far things seemed to be under control. There was a lot they had to test however.

"Brava!" Leo turned as he heard his brother come from behind him. Lex continued. "You've always been so meticulous about your data collection." It was then that Leo's alarms began to sound and Lex raised an eyebrow. "What was that?"

Leo began to type a few things on his keyboard. "I use a Q-wave broadcast to remotely access patients' brain activity. It's being interrupted by an overlapping signal." How was that even possible?

"How could someone suppress Q-waves?" Lex asked as he looked at Leo's data on his computer.

Leo almost didn't believe what he was seeing as he investigated the signature that was interrupting his broadcast. "I recognize the signature of this interruption, it's Myriad." There was only one person who had access to Myriad and that was Supergirl. "Yesterday, I thought I had an honest conversation with Supergirl, and today I find out that she's using Myriad to interrupt my experiments?" He gritted his teeth, she was a hypocrite using Myriad when she would never let him use it. "The very device she told me was too dangerous for anyone to use."

"You saw Supergirl yesterday?" Lex asked and he saw his brother give a nod. He couldn't have his brother reconciling with Supergirl, he had to keep him angry. "I could always just go to the Fortress, if you told me where it was, and turn off Myriad before she interferes again."

"No, you'll set off the L-Protocol."

Lex smiled, "This is a new world. One where Luthors and Kryptonians work together. The fortress security won't be programmed to attack us."

"If she's using Myriad, I have to see it for myself." Leo walked toward Lex and extended his hand out toward his brother wanting his transmatter portal watch. "Besides, you at the fortress sounds apocalyptic."

"Well… then here you go." He placed the watch into Leo's hand and watched as his younger brother activated the portal and walked though to go into the fortress.

Being in the Fortress brought back a slew of memories, and the last time he was here things didn't end well. Sure enough there was no L-Protocol he would have been captured the moment he entered if there had been. His eyes soon rested upon Supergirl and she had Myriad with her. "You are using Myriad."

Kara turned, "Leo, what are you doing here?"

"Question is, what are you doing here, Supergirl?" He pointed toward Myriad. "I thought it was forbidden to use Myriad, apparently it's forbidden for anyone but you." Kara only thought he was trying to use Myriad for evil means. What made this an exception to her rule?

"There are people missing, dozens of them stuck in Obsidian's VR. I have to find them." Of course her reasons were justified, what made his goals different? Kara turned her back to Leo.

Leo shook his head. "There are other ways to find people, than Myriad." He raised his hand upward. "I can think of four off the top of my head, but you, you do what you want!"

Kara sighed before she whipped her head back toward Leo raising her voice. "What I'm doing is finding people your brother disappeared!"

"Do you have any proof that it was Lex?" Leo paused waiting for Kara to respond. "Humm, no? I didn't think so. You just return to your default position of blaming a Luthor. You did tell me you'd treat me like a villain."

"If you acted like one, yeah, I did say that." Kara's voice was firm. "And right now, you're trespassing, and I don't have time for this. You need to go." She backed away from Leo, she had to find those people. If that meant bad blood between Leo then so be it. She had to take the risk, people's lives depended on it.

"I'll leave when you stop using Myriad." Not like Leo could force her to stop and the odds of her listening to him were slim.

Kara shook her head. "That's not gonna happen." Why couldn't he understand that she had no other choice but to use Myriad? And here she thought he was coming around yesterday. What a weak and human heart she had.

"To think that I was sincere with you yesterday..." This was pointless and yet he always wanted to come back to her. Why was he always tied to her despite all she had done? "I guess you're used to being two-faced." He activated the portal on the watch and left Kara alone.

Kara continued to text him as he was making his way back into town. "Are you still coming to game night?"

He texted back. "Yeah I'll be there soon. Got held up at L-Corp." He changed into a fresh pair of clothes throwing away his blood stained shirt and pants before changing into some jeans and a t-shirt. He walked into J'onn's place and as he entered his eyes rested upon his friends. Friends… they kept everything a secret from him.

Kara was the first to speak, "Hey!" She grinned and raised her hands up in the air in victory at seeing Leo.

"There he is!" Alex grinned.

They were all positioned nearby playing a game, their faces filled with joy and huge smiles plastered on their faces. J'onn grinned. "James will be here soon and then the whole family will be together."

Brainy raised his wine glass in the air. "Huzzah!"

Kara stood up and went to meet Leo by the door. "Where've you been?"

Leo felt as though he was in a daze, and he knew right now he couldn't dwell on his feelings right now. He didn't know what or how to feel. He'd lost everyone in one fell swoop. All when the truth came out. He forced a smile and motioned to the paper bag he had in hand. "I didn't know what to bring so I brought red and white."

Kara grinned, "Yes! We could always use more wine." She greeted Leo with a kiss before making her way back over toward the group.

Leo set the wine aside where they had other bottles and made his way over to sit next to J'onn the only open spot at the moment.

"Now that you're here, we can divide up and play Catch Phrase." J'onn suggested.

Kara sighed, "Yeah, J'onn is making us switch up the usual teams." She normally teamed up with Alex but Leo would always be her other choice.

"My house, my rules." J'onn insisted.

Kara motioned to Leo, "But, uh, you're with me, right?"

"Always." Leo forced another smile. At least he used to always be with her. Now, now he didn't know what to feel. Except feel the betrayal and the pain of Kara not trusting him with her secret.

Kara gave a firm nod, "Good. I'm gonna get some more wine." She stood up taking her glass with her and went to pour more wine. She'd put off telling Leo for way too long, the longer she put it aside the harder it became to tell him. She smiled at Alex as she came to stand next to her.

"Hey, you're not upset that Brainy's just killing it over there with this game, right? Cause you know we're gonna take him down."

Kara nodded, "Uh we're gonna cream him."

Alex grinned, "Yeah."

Kara turned taking a look at Leo he was happy, she hadn't seen him at ease in such a long time. Of course Leo was good at pretending to be fine, it was a talented Luthor trait. Kara bit her lower lip. "But… no, I'm, uh… I'm worried about Leo. I have to tell him the truth. I can't keep it from him anymore." She had to tell him tonight, even though it pained her to reveal the truth she needed to tell him. No more lies.

"Leo's been through hell. We finally got to a place where it sort of feels a little normal again, so, I don't know maybe you just let him enjoy the evening before we take it away." Alex suggested, between all the drama with Lex, they all needed a night where they could enjoy themselves. It had been so stressful the last few days especially.

Kara nodded and sighed, "You're right. Not tonight."

Author's Note:

This was a short chapter, so we have one more chapter folks! One more to cover the Season Finale and then set up our own season six. Next chapter I'm going to change some things around. It's exciting, we are soon going to be stepping out into the unknown soon. Will work with haste to finish the next chapter.