Prompt #38:The hardest thing is to let go.
Kara looked out of the window,her eyes transfixed by the rain,her arms sitting on the armrests of her chair. It was as if the sky had opened up completely,pouring out all the rain in the world. An hand befell on her shoulder and she brought her right up to hold it. She held onto it as if her life depended on it.
"We're ready Kara we need to go"
Yeah they had to. But how could she say goodbye to so many years in a few hours.
She rolled out of her room.
Outside of it,downstairs,Carter,Adam and Lexie were waiting for them with respective partners,the twins and Lily would've stayed home,at the penthouse,and been explained later what was going on. They didn't need to see this pitiful moment. So they had chosen Midvale. And to start from there his last walk.
It was closed. She couldn't see his face,but it was peaceful. Another life which had gone down fighting the right fight. She wished she could've carried the casket herself.
She was thinking of retiring.
She was 43,and being an alien she could've gone for a much longer duty,but lately she had been feeling low,and this,this had been the last straw.
She was indestructible but every fight left her without strength,exhausted.
He?He had fallen right in front of her. She had been there this time around. Go down like a hero,till the end.
Kara let them bring him out.
They followed on car till the cemetery. No religious burial for him. She couldn't even respect the martian traditions because she was short of knowing,or even less remembering them. Her mind was elsewhere.
She could only look at what she was leaving behind.
The DEO was burying it's longest director. She,a fatherly figure,their kids a grandfather,the only one they had known.
It put a damper on her already distraught mood when she realized that the rain hadn't stopped,if not it had grown,started over,faster than before.
They stayed there,all around the casket,under it,she wanted no um.
Cat tried to cover her up several times,but she pushed back every attempt.
She would rather feel this in her bones,than the cold she held inside.
Kara struggled to roll towards him for one last time,and she did.
Her eyes filled with tears again,and her face fell,as her hand trembled over the casket.
It was like awkwardly hugging him one last time.
"Please…please don't take him away. D-don't take him."
Cat walked to her and tried to hold her back still unsuccessfully.
"No…I'll stay with him,you can't take him away"
"Don't take her away,she's my sister. Aleex. Aleeex"
The same words screamed with 20 years of difference,the same pained screams over an oak casket. The same words which hurt and broke them in two everytime. Broke them in half.
Cat couldn't,so Carter and Adam went to her aid.
They rolled her away from the cas as much as they could,though her screams couldn't be quieted down.
She wanted to leave everything. It wasn't the time anymore.
It all hurt.
In those following days,the first after what had happened,she couldn't think about anything but what she wanted to do.
She wanted to resign,to leave it. Carter and Lexie had grown up,they could hold their own.
She was aware of what was to happen,but Carter had been at the DEO for more than 10 years,and Lexie had been wanting to do this for two years,ever since she had turned,she could stop her no more. Lexie was an adult,she could choose for herself. Her solace were the twins. Their childish wonder,and sense of living was great for them.
Today however,was to talk to her oldest two.
To give them and Cat the news.
"Ma,tell us"
"Cat,Carter,Lexie,I've been meaning to tell you this ever since H…you know. I've decided to resign my duties as Supergirl,in less than a year."
"Ma are you sure?"wondered Lexie. "You love it"
"I did. I do. And I know it's soon,but someday it was bound to happen. Now that Hank is gone I feel like a new era is to come. It's your time Lexie,if you feel up to it. I would never want to put such burden on you without you really wanting it"
Lexie stood up and bent in front of her,hugging her.
"You should never think it's a burden. It's an honor,and I'll try my best to keep the name up. Maybe wear a mask,so they'll think you're still the youngster you were when you began."
Kara laughed and swatted her lovingly.
"You're not wearing a mask"
"You laughed…and I probably won't. Supergirl was born without a mask,because she's an everyday person,with a family,and friends,and so she'll keep on being,ma."
"Cat?"
Cat nodded in understanding and sighed.
"I'll miss seeing you up there,and you'll probably miss stopping in front of the balcony"
"What do you mean Cat?"
"I'm resigning as well. I'll keep on owning,but I'm giving up my position as the CEO. I was supposed to,sooner or later. I'm getting old,and I want to spend all my time with my family,dive into this part of my life"
"Have you decided who's gonna take your place honey?"
"Not yet"
It had brought everything to silence again. But not for so long.
"No way we're letting this put a damper on the day. You're resigning,you're getting old"
"I'll have you know we still look very young mister"
"I was ready to say you had just stated otherwise"
Carter laughed
"Be careful Lexie,they might spank us"
"Our fault if we never did"added Cat.
