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She went into work early the next day and locked herself away in the lab, working on her contained suit, only stopping for a drink and to answer Winn's texted with a date and time for an interview if he was interested.
She had been in the lab for six hours when Sam came up along side her, dressed in her old lab coat.
"Where are we?"
Lena smiled to herself and pointed to the blueprint. "The nano-tubes are exploding whenever I hit the button."
"Maybe nano-tubes aren't the way to go," Sam suggested. "What if we used fluid mechanics?"
"What do you mean?"
"Nanites, they can be programmed to mimic an almost fluid metallic structure, it will give you more range of movement and more protection. Not to mention put a neural interface in your mask and give you the ability to scan your environment, amongst other things." Sam suggested. "Eventually we can come up with a synaptic connection so that you can control the bots, they will do and become anything you so much as think."
"You've been thinking about this?"
"More than thinking," Sam smiled, pulling out a rolled up blueprint from her pocket. "I've been working on blueprints for the suit."
Lena looked over the blueprint.
"This is incredible," Lena whispered.
"It will take us a few days if we start now."
"We?"
"Well, yeah, who else is going to keep you company in this dingy lab?" Sam grinned.
"I thought you would be out with Alex."
"No, that's tomorrow night,"
Lena's head whipped to Sam, who had a little smile on her lips. "Good for you,"
"Mm, maybe you can finally ask Kara out."
"It's different with us," Lena murmured. "I have too much going on right now."
"You will always have too much going on,"
"There was a cross species on the loose again, Sam. That's not something I can just ignore and go out with the prettiest girl I've ever seen."
"Hey!"
Lena rolled her eyes. "I don't look at you like that,"
"You looked at me like that plenty fine when we were fifteen." Sam quipped.
"I was young and naive."
Sam attempted to punch Lena's arm, but Lena easily danced out of the way. "I'm hiring Winn."
"Yeah?"
"He's coming in tomorrow for an interview, but just speaking to him the other night, I know he will be good here."
Sam hummed, picking up the little square containing Lena's potential new suit.
"Let's use this as a casing."
They worked for hours, both hunched over their respective tables, only being pulled out of their bubble when Lena's spider-phone rang.
"Hey," Lena greeted. "Is everything okay?"
"Just checking in, there was another break in so I'm heading over now to have a look."
"Maybe don't, it's dangerous. The Black Cat doesn't play nice."
"Well, I'm inside now, there's no going back." Kara reasoned.
"Miss Danvers," Lena sighed, pulling off her glasses. "I will be there as soon as I can."
"You don't have to, I'm sure-" There was a yelp, then a clatter of Kara's phone hiding the floor.
"Kara?" Lena quickly ripped off her lab coat and hoodie, leaving without explaining anything to Sam. "Kara!"
"Spider, how are you?"
Lena's stomach churned at the sound of Felicia's voice. "Felicia, don't you dare hurt her."
"I don't know, I think I could have a little fun with her."
"I swear to god, Felicia-"
"I was never much for religion, you know this."
Then Felicia hung up, and Lena stuffed her phone into her pocket and pulled on her mask.
She was there in minutes, swinging through the hole in the window Felicia had cut, rolling and coming to a stop just in front of Felicia, who had Kara in a choke hold, her claws digging into her neck just enough to draw blood.
"Easy, Felicia," Lena straightened slowly, holding her hands out toward her. "Let her go."
"She's been snooping, Spidy." Felicia murmured, eyeing the girl in her arms.
"Yeah, that's kinda what she does. Huge pain in the ass," Lena said, and Felicia noted the fondness in her voice.
"No," she gasped in mock surprise. "You and the little reporter? I'm almost jealous, what about what we had?"
Lena rolled her eyes. "Come on, Cat, let her go and I'll let you leave."
"Will you come after me?"
"Of course," Lena little out a little sigh when Felicia released Kara.
"Good," she smirked sharply, making her way over to Lena, the hand that wasn't holding the painting pressing against her stomach. "I have missed this, sweetie."
Then she was gone, and Lena quickly rushed to Kara's side. "Did she hurt you?"
Kara shook her head and straightened, eyeing Lena. "So, you and the black cat?"
Lena tsked. "It was nothing."
"Didn't sound like nothing," Kara arches an eyebrow at Lena.
"We had a... thing." Lena shrugged. "It was brief and she fucked me over in the end."
"Really? She doesn't seem the type."
"What were you thinking?" Lena scolded, ignoring Kara's little jab. "I thought we had a deal."
"I didn't think she would still be here,"
"What did she take?"
"The most expensive thing here."
"And she's going to sell it off within the hour." Lena sighed, turning away from Kara before wheeling back around and throwing her hands up. "Why would you put yourself on the line like this?"
"You mean like how you put yourself on the line fighting that cross-species." Kara shot back. "My sister told me the state you were in after that fight, and how detective Arias was saying that it almost killed you last time, yet you went in there and fought it."
"He would have torn up the city, the Black Cat almost killed you for a painting." Lena snapped. "You're worth more than that."
"I was trying to figure out what was going here, what she wanted."
"She's an art thief," Lena said. "She wanted anything in here."
"Everything in here is worthless, it doesn't make sense."
Lena released a long breath, rubbing her hand over her mask covered face. "I need to go after her."
"I can come with you," Kara offered, attempting to move toward Lena but stopped when she held up a hand.
"Go home, Miss Danvers." Lena ordered. "I think you have your story."
Lena left then, finding Black Cat on top of the roof of L-Corp, were they used to meet before.
"You were out of line hurting for her," Lena growled, swinging her fist at Felicia's smug face.
"Take it easy, Spidy, I didn't hurt her." She said, dodging most of Lena's punched and kicks, giving a few punches in.
Lena hit faster and harder until she got the best of Felicia, pinning her against the wall by an arm to her throat.
"Lift your mask, sweetie, we can make this interesting."
"I mean it, Cat, you stay away from her."
Felicia smirked. "She will never love you back, Spider. They never do, people like us are unloveable. You know this, you've experienced it." She said. "Look at Sam, as soon as she found out she dumped you. And Veronica, she couldn't love you. And Leslie, she ended up dead."
Lena's hold slackened, and Felicia slid her hand to Lena's waist and pulled her flush against her.
"People like us don't get to fall in love, we don't get the girl, or the happy ending. I'm destined to a life of crime and your destined to wear your body and mind down to dust saving a city that hates not only the hero you and the real you."
"I don't believe that,"
"That's where you and me different, your hope makes you miserable."
Felicia moved Lena's arm away from her neck, tucking her thumbs under her mask and pulling it off, and Lena let her.
"Life is more fun when you use this power for what you want, and not for good."
Lena opened her mouth to reply, but when Felicia was kissing her, her clawed fingertips digging into the back of her neck as Felicia spun then around and pinned her against the wall.
"Come on," she whispered against Lena's lips. "Like the good old days."
Lena caved, kissing Felicia, her own hands sliding up that back of her leather cat suit.
She only snapped out of it when Felicia tug on the zipper at the back of her suit.
Lena pushed her away, shaking her head as she wiped at her mouth. "Fuck off, Cat."
"I'm here whenever you want to give in, Spider." Felicia threw her mask at her, moving to pick up the painting but Lena webbed it and pulled it toward her before she could.
Felicia, surprisingly, smirked back at her. "I've always loved this little dance we do."
Then she was gone, leaving Lena in the silence to overthink her words.
Kara was gone when she dropped the painting back off, handing it off to the police, not bothering to hang around for he usual banter.
She settled on top of L-Corp, her feet dangling off the edge as she tried to clear her head.
Lena was so far inside her own head that she didn't hear the door to the roof open and close.
"It's a pretty skyline."
Lena startled slightly but didn't turn around at the sound of Kara's voice. "How did you get past security?"
"I'm friends with Mikey." Kara explained.
"I'm not really in the mood, miss Danvers."
"I know, I just came to apologise." Kara said, and Lena could hear the nervousness in her voice. "I should have called you before I went in there."
"Yeah, you should have." Lena agreed, peering over her shoulder at Kara, any and all angry she still had melted away, and she turned on the spot and hopped over the wall. "I'm not saying you should call me for the glory, or to be a part of whatever is happening. I don't want you to get hurt, miss Danvers. You are a good asset, you have information I would otherwise not has access to, and I want to protect you."
"I have never had someone in my corner like that before." Kara admitted. "Even my sister, she has my back but she shelters me from everything, but you, you are willing to work with me. I just- I find it hard to trust people."
"Me too, for obvious reasons."
Kara nodded, staring down at her feet. "I just wanted to apologise, I will leave you to it."
"You don't have to leave," Lena offered. "I'm just trying to clear my head but being left with my thoughts isn't a good idea right now, they are all too fresh."
"Sure, okay." Kara agreed, both of them settling on the floor, their backs against the wall.
"So, you and the Cat."
"That was a mess," Lena sighed. "But maybe she was right."
"About what?"
"She said tonight that people like me and her don't get love, don't get happy endings." Lena explained letting her head fall back against the wall.
"That can't be true,"
"My first girlfriend ended it because she couldn't deal with me going out and risking my life, my seconds girlfriend couldn't love me because I had this huge secret, and my third girlfriend ended up dead because of me." Lena spoke in a detached voice. "So I think it might just be true."
"You and her are completely different people. And those girls before, they were wrong. And the one that died, that isn't your fault, I don't care how it happened, it isn't on you."
"I broke her neck," Lena said, her head hanging. "Vulture dropped her from the top of CatCo. I tired to save her, I did. And I should've known but I didn't think. I would never have reached her in time so I webbed her chest and stopped her from falling to her death, but the G-force snapped her neck."
"I'm so sorry," Kara whispered, placing a hand on Lena's thigh, and squeezing. "But, Spidy, that wasn't your fault. You done the only thing you could have to save her, her death is on the Vulture."
"I was so happy when I stopped her from falling inches from the ground, then I got to her and she was just-" Lena swallowed thickly.
"I'm so sorry," Kara said. "But I think you are entirely deserving of love, if not more deserving than most because you are altruistically good person, you deserve to be happy, and that will come to you."
"I hope so." Lena murmured.
They sat in silence for almost ten minutes, before sirens blaring in the distance cause Lena's attention.
"That's my cue," Lena sighed, getting to her feet.
"Hey," Kara said, prompting Lena to peer back at her ver her shoulder as she hopped up onto the wall, crouching in her stereotypical pose. "Don't wear yourself out for this. I understand you feel like you have some sort of responsibility but killing yourself protecting this city, it's not worth it, and you deserve better."
"This city is my home," Lena said. "I have to protect it."
Lena jumped before Kara could say anything, following the sound sirens.