Fourteen
I was currently reminded how stubborn Libby could be, only this one I couldn't recognise, I couldn't see any part of the woman I love in that person and it scared me. Could she have really become this? "Just give us the damn answer," I snapped finally. She stared at me and shook her head, I flew out the window and to Libby's apartment, I climbed through the window and saw Kelly sat on the sofa. I grabbed her arm and we flew back out, she was struggling against me but I didn't care. We arrived back at the DEO.
"There was no need to man handle me," she snapped. "I see your okay, now where is my sister?"
I pointed to the field and she stumbled towards it, "don't touch it," Lila said quickly.
"Kelly," I heard old Liberty say. Kelly looked at her confused, she came over and stroked her cheek. "It's you."
"I casted a spell to bring past and future Liberty," Lila said. "Without you it was the only way to move her, if anyone else touches it they got electric shock and if Clark or Kara go near it, they get kryptonite."
"What about me?" She asked.
We all shrugged, "you need to accept your magic."
"Don't ask me to do that Clark," she said. "I can't, not now not ever."
"Then you will die," we all turned to look at old Liberty and her eyes widened.
"What?" Kelly asked.
"Should not have said that," she mumbled shaking her head. Kelly stormed up to her and grabbed her arms, "you are exactly as I remember."
"Tell me," she whispered. "What happened to my sister?"
"She cannot be released from that force field keeping her," she said.
She took a step back and Kelly grabbed her arm, "there's more, I can see it in your eyes," Kelly said. "Tell me, what is happening to my sister?"
"She's being reminded of her greatest pain."
My heart dropped immediately, I knew exactly what her greatest pain, "she doesn't have a greatest pain," Kelly snapped.
"She does," I heard a quiet voice say. I turned to look at the younger Libby who had spoken for the first time. "We all do." I looked away, I couldn't deal with thinking about that right now. I couldn't think about how in that moment I would always believe I had failed her, despite not even knowing her until then. "We never quite dealt with it either."
I turned away from them all and closed my eyes, "you know don't you?" I heard someone ask. "Clark. What happened to my daughter?" I looked at Lila. "When did this happen?"
"She had just turned 16," I said. "I'm not saying anything more, it's not my thing to tell." I walked towards the field and stared down at her. All I wanted was to help her and she wouldn't even let me do that stubborn girl.
"Let's move this somewhere more private," I heard Kara said. I was glad that she was getting people away from Libby.
I heard a cough, "I remember this moment," older Libby said. "Well not this moment, in my version mum didn't cast the spell." I stayed quiet I had so much I wanted to ask but I knew the consequences, "I also remember you were angry about what I did, going into this field. You have to know, the world could live without me, they couldn't live without Superman."
"They have Supergirl," I shrugged.
"Clark it's not the same," she said. "You know that, whatever you feel for us, it doesn't change Earth is your number one love. Earth comes first. I can't tell you what you want to know."
"You don't know how you got out?"
"When the ultimate power was destroyed," she said. "So either I died, which I didn't, or Kelly did. When I finally woke it had been 5 years and everyone I knew was dead."
"What?" I asked shocked.
"You, Kara, Mon-El, Kelly and my parents were all dead," she said. "That's why I reacted the way I did, you aren't in my lifetime none of you are. I can't help you because I don't know how. Just Clark don't let my whole family die."
"You said the ultimate power died?" I asked. She nodded, "what about if it was reconnected."
"Kelly has to accept her magic," she said.
"Does she though?" I asked. "Guys I have an idea!" I yelled. They came rushing in and I turned to face them, "we need the ultimate power" Kelly sighed. "Look, you have the power to glamour yourselves, turn one of the Liberty's into Kelly and maybe the field will let Liberty go. We have 2 options, the ultimate power has to die or be reconstituted."
"It has to be me," Old Liberty said "We can't let any harm come to little me, my future can be rewritten our pasts can't be. Whatever happens you have to protect the younger one because if she dies we cease to exist." They all looked at her shocked and I couldn't help but chuckle, now that was a Libby thing. "This may not work and it may kill me."
"No," Lila said. "You may be from the future but you're still my daughter."
"It doesn't matter if she dies," I said. Even saying the words killed me because although she was older she was Libby. She looked at me and nodded, "we will still have this Libby, and something told me she wouldn't mind dying to know that she was going to have a better future."
"She told you," Kara said. I nodded, "well let's make sure if this goes wrong, we actually manage to save the future."
"I call upon ancient powers, to mask me now and in future hours, who I was, I am now another. Take the face of my dead sister." White swirls appeared and I was no longer staring at Liberty I was staring at an almost identical Kelly.
"I'm dead?" Kelly asked. "In the future?"
"Yes," she said. "Everyone died, there was no out in this, I woke up 5 years later and everyone I knew was dead. So even if I die trying this, I'm okay with that. I'm sorry I can't give you the answers you want but deep down you'll all know when the right thing happens." She stepped forward and placed her hand on the bubble, a moment later she froze as ice began to surround her, "remember blood is the answer." She was completely iced over I walked over and looked at her, she was now back as her own face.
Kelly's POV
I stared at the older Liberty who was now frozen, I knew what I needed to do, "give me 10 minutes, I have an idea," I said. I ran a hand through my hair, I knew what I needed to do. "Orb me back to Liberty's apartment." Mum nodded and a moment later I was stood in her apartment, Liam was laid on the sofa. "I know what you are."
He turned to look at me, "what?" He said.
I sat on the sofa wrapping his arms around me, I looked at him, "you've been silent since Liberty left to look for Clark," I said. "You've been pushing the magic thing and you wasn't freaked out about it." He nodded, "you're an angel," I said.
"I am," he said. "I also couldn't tell you. I was confused when they sent me into the army but I fell in love and I only just found out who my charge was. You and your sister are my chargers." I nodded, "I'm sorry Kelly, it doesn't change the fact I love you."
I stood up and pulled him with me, I pressed my lips to his and kissed him softly, "I love you Liam, the fact you are an angel doesn't bother me, I get why you didn't tell me and so you found out I was your charge that day?"
"Yeah, they said I would need to make myself known because you'd both need some kind of guidance," he said. "Also I asked your sister why you gave up your powers."
"I don't want to talk about it," I said instantly. I hated thinking about the little girl I had managed to lose, it was why I binded my powers and it was why I joined the army, at least then I knew I could do some good.
He wrapped his arms around me and I felt us orbing, despite having that power it was still weird when I orbed. I looked to see us in front of a house, "I asked your sister about her and I went tracking her down, you didn't fail that little girl Kelly. The information you left helped the police find her." He pointed through the window and I couldn't help but smile and there she was playing with another little baby. "She came home almost immediately after that information. You didn't fail her Kelly."
I felt a tear slide down my cheek and quickly wiped it away, "she's just one, what if I can't protect another one?"
"You'll always lose an innocent Kelly," Liam said. "Being at war taught us that, the guilt of not being able to save people. Right now you can save somebody, you can save a whole lot of somebodies."
"What if doing this kills her?" I asked quietly. "I don't want to lose her, I see the toll fighting demons takes. We're getting married, can that even happen?" I ran a hand through my hair and moved away from him. "My sister is literally living her worst nightmare over and over and I think can we get married? I can't have magic."
He wrapped an arm around me and we was orbing again, I saw we was back at the apartment, "you are blocking something, you are leaving something out, what are you so scared of?"
"I knew about the Black witch," I said. "Binding my powers I thought that would stop her, I thought you know if the ultimate power never came to power, we'd be ok. I didn't know she'd already tried to kill Liberty. I'm the reason she's like this now, I kept quiet because it was easier than dealing with the fact I never wanted to be a witch."
"Kelly that makes you human," Liam said. "Many witches fall off the path and that is why whitelighters are sent to them to make sure they are led back onto the path. When you left for the army Clark was there with your sister, none of this guilt is yours too bare."
"What do I do?"
"You know I can't tell you as your whitelighter," he said. "As your boyfriend and fiancee you know if you don't do it, you will carry this guilt with you. What else are you scared of?"
"You know the history of the black witch, yes?" I asked. He nodded, "they were once three sisters, each of them powerful alone but together they are the ultimate power at least until she killed them. I love my sister."
"I know you do, and she loves you that's why she doesn't push the magic issue to much," he grinned. "You can do this Kelly. I believe in you and all you need is a little faith, you can do this."
I nodded, I walked over to the kitchen and opened the cabinet and found the chest I was looking for, I walked over and wrapped an arm around him, "take us to the DEO, it's time to get my sister out of her own personal hell."
I felt us orbing and in an instant we were at the DEO, I was going to have to get used to that again. Mum looked at me confused, "how did you orb?" She asked.
I pointed my finger back at Liam, "he's an angel," I said with a chuckle. "Our whitelighter although he just found out the night Clark went missing. He's here for us both, just he wasn't meant to accidently fall in love with me, but you know."
"What's in the chest?" Clark asked.
"There is only three ways that my powers can be unbound," I said. "By Liberty's death, her saying the spell, or a potion, and lucky for my forward thinking sister she created the potion when she bound them." I opened up the chest and pulled out the potion, I placed the chest on the floor and I looked at them all.
I pulled the cork out and drank the potion, I grimaced she could have made it taste better. I heard a tingling sound, "look," Liam said. I looked up and blue and white swirls appeared above my head, my magic. "It looks magical outside of you, just remember the same when you have them inside you."
I felt the magic coursing through my body as it entered me, I smiled. "Do you have your magic back?" Clark asked.
I smiled, I thought of the force field an in instant a blue bubble appeared around Liam and I. I put it back down and thought of my levitation power and I began floating off air, "I have my powers."
"Do you have your big power though?" Mum asked.
I thought of a sunshine over ice Liberty and she slowly began to melt, "Also after this I am going to kill her because she knew the moment she stepped into that bubble." They all looked at me confused, "she said you can't. She knew I could or would, or she at least she hoped I would."
I walked towards the field as I was about to place my hand on it, Clark grabbed my arm, "how do we know you won't just replace her?" He asked nervously. "Or you'll be both be trapped there?"
"You have to have faith Clark," Liam said. "She knows what she is doing."
He let go of me and I placed my hand on the field and put my force field up at the same time. I pushed forward I could feel the power behind the field trying to penetrate through the force field. I grabbed Liberty's hand as soon as the connection was made the field went down, I pulled her out of the field dropping to the floor next to her. She was out cold. I slapped her around the face and she stirred. I lifted my hand just as it was about to make contact I felt myself being throw backwards. I landed on the floor with a smack.
