Prompt#11:Lexie is finally let into the part of her mothers'lives she never knew;the one which threatened to take Kara's life forever.

Once curiosity had set in,all she needed to find were clues. Nobody had exactly ever meant to tell her what had happened,and she wasn't a kid anymore. If she wanted to find out what had truly happened,she needed to do it all by herself. Lexie had looked through everything. Photos,documents,even prescriptions. She had looked through the studio of her mothers,but nothing. Now her last resort was to meet with somebody who could've helped her with it. There were quite the agents who had already been working at the DEO before she was born. Lexie had last resorted to interrogating Vazquez just yesterday,when she had passed by for God knew what,and now she was fuming. Vazquez hadn't said much,only bubbled something about addictions and an uncle she had no idea who he was,before basically escaping,trying to avoid anything else,and make an unfixable mess,for which she would've ended up being killed and fired surely.

It was the reason why she was pacing up and down as her mothers walked into the room,laughing about something.

They stopped mid tracks,looking at her.

Kara addressed her first.

"What's wrong Lexie?"

"Would you finally care to explain to me,how you ended up that way?"she enquired,pointing at Kara's wheelchair and oxygen.

Their smiles died on their faces,as they both went to sit down,with Lexie facing them.

Sooner or later this would've happened. They had waited for too long to say the whole truth about it. Their girl deserved to know it,but they had let too much time pass by,and buried the story into their memories,to keep her safe from the massive pain they had gone through. Carter and Adam knew enough,both the women had figured it would've been better for Lex to just go on without really knowing. Then again,though Lexie had never openly asked,she had shown to be curious as to why her mama had always been in a wheelchair ever since she had been born.

"I'm sorry,sweetie,we meant to tell you everything"

"When?What happened?"

Kara looked at Cat,and found strength into her look. It was the same strength which had carried her through the disease,as they sat both on the couch.

"Every year you have the DEO visit you,and everyday you get an injection of some substance I don't even know anything about. An addiction?Which kind of?"

"Kryptonite…and other stuff"Kara shut up,as it downed on Lexie.

"Stuff?Stuff like drugs?You're an addict?"

"Yes I was"

"Oh my God. Did you ever stop?Is that why you can't even breathe by yourself?"

"Lower your voice young lady I won't allow you to scream at your mother like that"added Cat,now quite angry.

"Excuse me,if I'm kind of disappointed. I didn't expect this to happen."

Lexie turned around and stepped out of the room,before climbing the stairs and slamming the door to her own shut.

Both their eyes did the same,before Kara's filled up with tears.

"She hates me"

"No honey she doesn't"

"She didn't even let me explain"

"She's just angry. Kara,parents are their kids'heroes. You're supergirl,for crying out loud. She's angry because she thinks we're perfect. We're not. We're not supposed to be."

Cat let Kara's head rest on her shoulder,as she shed bitter tears over the past again.


Lexie came out of her room around dinner,and looked around to make sure it was all quiet downstairs. It was,but it made her heart ache to see her mothers hadn't moved an inch from the same position since they had faught. Worry assaulted her right away,thinking it mustn't have been the most uncomfortable position for either of the two,also considering her mama had back issues. A lot too.

"Mom,mama"

The two looked up,with eyes still red,as Lexie sat back down,across from them.

She lowered her head,feeling ashamed at the way she had made them hurt.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you. I had no right to say the things I said"

Cat puffed,while Kara looked straight into her. Lexie felt pierced by that look. It was haunted,and glazed over.

"When your aunt died,the way I told you,my life went to hell,completely. She was the only person who had made me feel as if I belonged to this planet,when I was lost. I was young,and I had lost everything,she protected me. She gave up things for me. I felt guilty,as if I had taken away my sister and adoptive mother's lives myself. What you never knew,was how I got lost after she died. I got offered a substance,it did crazy things to me. All I wanted was…to die…I don't think there was a day in which I didn't wish to die"

"But you had mom and Carter"

"I did. But try to get me,at one moment I lost the two people who had made me feel at home when I got here. Try to understand what it would be like without us,Carter and Adam"

Lexie nodded. She could try to,if her ma put it that way.

"I got sick. One day it was too much,and my body gave up. I overdosed. My body was betraying me,your mother was there,but I knew I was killing her inside. Till I did. I died,as she held me in her arms. All...all I remember(she sobbed out,as Cat held her to herself)is that I wanted to live,because she made me wish to be alive after months of being dead inside,but I lost my life to it anyway."

"You died?"

"I did. But then I wasn't dead anymore"

"Why?"

"One way or another I was given the chance to reset time. I got to see you both grow up,as I hadn't the first time around,even if I had to give up something to stay. Some issues were resolved,but the disease I had given myself through using drugs left me paralyzed,and with impaired lungs. At this day,I don't know what my life expectance is,but I would do it all over again. For all of you."

It made Lexie cry. She had screamed at them without knowing what it had been like for them. She couldn't imagine what it must have felt like to want to live finally,and then have that choice taken away from you. Her mothers had always been funny and carefree people,but now she also knew how much pain lay behind what they had built.

She had been disappointed of course. Her family was full of heroes. She had thought they were invincible. But she wasn't supposed to be disappointed. If not to feel lucky they could still talk about it. Her ma had risked to not see all this happening. It meant they also had defects,not only perks. They had faught to have what they had.

Lexie stood up and by them.

"Can I help you back in mama?You must be uncomfortable after so long on the couch"

"Let your mom or me do the job. To me it's enough you're not angry anymore"

"I was never angry. Or disappointed. Just mad. I'm not a child anymore. I'm 13,if there's something of wrong,I want to know. I want you to trust in me,the way you always trusted in me"

"We never stopped kiddo. We never stopped. And I'm sorry if I put so much weight on you,if I asked things from you which were too much"said the younger woman.

"No way mama. You always let me be myself,that's why I trust so much in the both of you"she added hugging them both.

Kara was astonished with how much the sister she thought to have lost still lived into her child. Even with two simple words as "Trust you". She was glad Lexie didn't feel any sort of burden at the name she carried,but otherwise felt a great respect towards the woman she was named after. That they had managed to not let it weigh on her even with little things like giving her a different nickname;and above all that their daughter had accepted that part of their life. They knew it mustn't have been easy,but her level of understanding and maturity was something which had them proudly thinking about the woman she would've turned out to be.