Authors Note: Hey everyone! First, I want to apologize for going two weeks without updating, I had bad computer problems and due to the holidays, I wasn't able to get it fixed until a few days ago. I plan to be on time from here on out every Saturday. On another note I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, Hanukkah, etc. and if you don't celebrate anything, Happy New Years Eve! Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter and I'll see you on the other side!
Chapter 2
"Like hell you are; you have no proof that Supergirl killed the Mayor!" Alex snapped, standing boldly in front of the old man. The other soldiers and agents were observing the situation in awe. It was like seeing two titans getting ready for battle. Murmurs of caution and humor floated the area, General Lane on the other hand was not amused.
"I have all the proof I need Danvers, and you have no business in the matter." he said coldly.
Before Alex could counter his statement, J'onn stepped to her side, now blocking Kara from Lane and saying, "How did you get this case General?" the martian had little tolerance for the man before him, but did his damnedest to remain formal.
"Mayor Caine was a personal friend of mine, I informed the President that I would be best fitted to carry out the investigation, no matter how obvious the culprit is." He said glancing at Supergirl.
Kara mentally scoffed at the idea of Lane having friends. To everyone he seemed more of a leader then a friend or partner.
"So you're letting your personal feelings towards Caine's death cloud your judgement. I bet you didn't even try to look for any evidence before you came in here and accused Supergirl." Alex remarked. The men and women looked to Lane, thinking that could be Alex right. Lane only shook his head.
"I don't let my FEELINGS cloud my judgement Agent Danvers, I knew the second I saw Mayor Caine's body that it was heat vision that killed her."
"That doesn't mean that Supergirl was the one responsible for-" Alex started but was quickly interrupted.
"Who else could it be? Huh? Non and his army are gone, no other threat we know of has that kind of ability, and I do have evidence!" J'onn and Alex stiffen at this, and Kara is listening intently with her heart pounding against her ribs.
"Last night Supergirl came to the Mayor's office demanding to speak with her. The conversation quickly escalated and they started to argue. Caine demanded for her to leave and in return, Supergirl punched a hole in the door. Supergirl stormed out, stomped the pavement and flew off."
Kara winced as a sudden flash of pain coursed through her head. She saw flashes of the mayor, yelling. She remembered being absolutely furious with her but not knowing why. Alex looked completely baffled at this news.
"That doesn't prove anything, why would she just leave and come back later to kill her? And who was this witness anyway?"
"Her secretary. He was in the room and reported the whole incident to me this morning."
"Yet he didn't see the murder." Alex countered. It was clear as day that Lane was growing impatient with this constant back and forth battle of wits, so he put a stop to it.
"Agent Danvers enough. I am not here to argue with you, I am here to give Supergirl a one hour notice until she is to be thrown in one of these cells!" Lane barked. The trio in front of him was confused, one hour notice? Kara was the first to respond, gently pushing Alex and J'onn out of the way and asked, "What do you mean one hour notice?"
Lane frowned at the blonde and said, "The President has asked me to give you time to get your loose ends in check and say goodbye to loved ones, if you have any. Personally I think she's being too gracious, but I won't over mind her authority. In one hour Supergirl, my men will arrest you and you will not retaliate or they will use force, understood?" Kara looked at Lane and the rest of his troops and gave a sigh of defeat and nodded her head.
With that, Lane walked off and his soldiers went to stand on front of all the exits with what Kara assumed were Kryptonite weapons. Kara turned to look at her friends and wasn't surprised to see Alex's look of fury.
"This is ridiculous! Who does he think he is to just come in here and accuse you of murder when he barely has enough proof!" Alex spat. J'onn and Kara took a step away from Alex, usually when she got this mad, she started throwing things and she didn't ever aim very well.
"Alex calm down, we'll figure something out but for now you can't go around raising hell." J'onn said gently. The brunette did not meet his gaze and only folded her arms. Kara walked to the older woman and put a hand on her shoulder, trying to calm the fiery woman down. To her luck it was working and Alex's look of hatred faded and she welcomed Kara's hand.
The silent moment was soon interrupted when they heard a familiar voice behind them, "Hey, what's with all the army guys?" Kara turned and there stood her friend Winn, with a confused look and his usual friendly grin. Kara returned the smile quickly and went back to looking defeated.
"Guys? What happened?" Winn asked. It was J'onn who spoke up.
"General Lane is here to arrest Supergirl for the supposed murder of Mayor Caine." Winn looked completely dumbfounded at this news. "Why would he think Ka- sorry, Supergirl murdered the Mayor?"
Alex scoffed, "That's what we've been asking. He thinks that she was killed with heat vision and because of that, he started pointing his finger at Supergirl."
"But that-"
"We should discuss this away from everyone else, I don't want anyone eavesdropping." J'onn said with caution. Alex nodded, "My lab, it's closer and more private than your office." Alex, Winn, and J'onn all walked on Kara's sides; shielding her from everyone's eyes. As they entered Alex's lab, the brunette noticed that two soldiers were following them and looked as if they were going to stand guard in front of the door and Alex was none too pleased about this.
"If you two stand outside this door, so help me God I will kick your ass!" she hissed. The men were fairly bigger than the agent but they were warned prior that she was not someone to mess with so they stepped back.
After closing the door and closing the blinds, Winn was the first to ask, "What are we going to do? We can't just let them arrest Kara!"
"There isn't anything we can do Winn. Kara doesn't remember anything and we certainly can't go off of that to get her acquitted of the charges." J'onn spoke.
"So you're just giving up?" Winn shouted.
"Hell no! The last thing I want is for Kara to be thrown into a cell next door, but I'm just trying to lay out the facts. Kara has no memory. Mayor Caine is dead. And Lane is hell bent on bringing Supergirl down."
"Well there has to be something, can't we go over what evidence he has and try to buy some time?"
"Winn it's not that simple. Lane knows how close we are to Supergirl and he won't let us anywhere near this investigation." J'onn argued. Winn opened his mouth to object but nothing came out. He knew there was no point in fighting the situation, but he sure wanted too.
"Thank you Winn, for trying but J'onn is right. There's nothing we can do." Kara stated.
"Kara you can't say that, we can make some calls, we'll get you - " Alex started.
"Alex stop" Kara hushed. The blonde took her hand and looked at her with a sad expression, "You can't keep trying. We both know that there is a chance that I killed Mayor Caine and if I did, then I need to pay for that. Memories or not." the alien turned to look at all of them and said, "Besides even if I didn't, I trust you guys to find the truth."
"Kara we can't lose you." Winn said. Kara chuckled, "You'll be fine, it's not like I'll be far away, just a couple doors down." No one laughed at her joke. Not only was Kara going to be locked up in forty minutes but she was giving in to the idea of it.
While Winn and J'onn argued about how to settle this all, Alex was lost in her thoughts, reminiscing of the day she took Kara out for a road trip when she got her first car at 16.
It wasn't anything fancy, and Alex insisted on buying it herself instead of Eliza helping her. She was so excited that she wanted to take Kara for a road trip during their summer off from school. Kara said she could just fly them to wherever it was Alex wanted to go but that idea was shut down instantly.
They packed enough stuff to last them for the four day trip and then they took off to Central City. Kara was chatting Alex's ear off for the first few hours but the brunette didn't mind. Kara's chattiness was one of the things Alex loved about her, even though she could barely get a word in edgewise.
The first day of driving went by smoothly, with the two of them stopping at night to sleep in the car. The smooth sailing however was cut short when Alex didn't pay attention to the fuel meter and the car stopped on a back road.
While Alex was busy banging her head on the wheel, Kara was out and listening for any nearby help.
"Alex there's a city down the road!"
The young brunette only stopped long enough to ask, "How do you know that?"
"I can hear some cars and people duh." the blonde sassed. Alex quickly hopped out of the car and hugged Kara, "That's great! Now we can go get a tow truck if they have one, I'll go run down there and you stay -"
"Alex, it's a good four to five miles away, you can't run that distance it'll take you forever!" Kara interjected.
"Fine then why don't you just fly there and I'll stay with the car." Alex asked.
"I'm not going to leave you here all by yourself Alex, you're coming with me."
"Kara someone has to stay with the car, what if someone breaks in?"
"We're in the middle of nowhere, who is going to break in? I mean unless that snake in the bushes over there can get in -"
"Snake!? Okay fine let's just go now!" Alex quickly said running over to Kara's side. Alex would never admit this to anyone but she used to be terrified of snakes as a kid, only Kara knew that. The blonde laughed and gently picked Alex up and flew off to get help.
It wasn't long before they found a nice mechanic who offered them a ride back to their car with a container with enough gas to get them back to the city. They left the next morning and continued on to Central City and Alex constantly looked at her fuel meter the rest of the trip. They never even told Eliza about the whole ordeal.
Alex always loved that memory. Even when nothing would have happened to her, Kara refused to leave Alex alone.
That's just the thing, Kara would never leave Alex alone in any situation.
"Alex?" Kara's voice snapped the brunette out of her memories and she gazed at the alien questioningly.
"Can I borrow your phone? I need to call Eliza before I leave." Alex stared at Kara for a brief moment before pulling her phone out and handing it to Kara. She didn't say a word and walked over to her desk with her back turned from the rest of the team.
"I still can't believe your going through with this." muttered J'onn. While dialing her foster mother's number, Kara reassured him, "It's okay J'onn, I'll be fine." J'onn only shook his head and hid his furious face away from the Kryptonian.
Kara mentally smirked at his disapproving look and turned to the door, not wanting to cause another out burst of complaining.
"I'll be right ba -"
*Pff*
"Ow! What the…" Kara's vision started to blur and the ground felt as if it were moving in different direction, and her words became slurred, "Whaa. What was dat?" she muttered before her legs gave out.
Before she could hit the ground, a set of arms caught her and Kara couldn't quite make out who's face she was looking at but when her eyes focused enough she could tell who her catcher was.
"Alex?"
"I'm sorry Kara." was all she heard before her eyes shut into darkness.
To Be Continued.
Ending Note: And there ends the second chapter of 'I Won't Lose You.' Again I want to apologize for the two weeks of no updates but I'm going to do my best to make sure it doesn't happen again. Like always, I'll release chapter 3 next Saturday a little earlier then I did with this one. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and I also hope everyone has a happy and safe New Years, and until next time!