"Some people long for a life that is simple and planned,
Tied with a ribbon…
Some people won't sail the sea 'cause they're safer on land,
To follow what's written….."
It rattled them both greatly when impenetrable skin was pierced by a needle to start an IV and how quickly everything had tumbled downhill. Both women shook with terrifying realization when the agent had been able to slip the tiny piece of metal through the arm of her sister and into a vein. It hadn't even needed to be a kryptonite one. Brown eyes trembled as the color practically left her face upon the vitals showing up on the readers bringing the Luthor to a halt from where she had been pacing.
"She….shouldn't be this way…." Lena spoke with her voice barely a whisper but she knew the agent had heard her.
"I shouldn't be able to get a needle in….that…..easily.." Alex felt her vocals trembling as her hands did with the rest of her body following suit. She heard the scoff of the boots the woman was wearing as she lifted her head and gaze away from the shakes to meet green shivering eyes so full of mind bending agonizing pain. "What did she…"
"The crystal she was holding…" Lena started, trying to compose herself enough to finish the sentence. "It….wasn't...any rock..it was….something akin to..black kryptonite.." Alex's brown eyes widened with the news. "Somehow, that substance….can...split….forms.." The Luthor couldn't speak anymore shutting her eyes tightly as her own body trembled terribly and tears started to form so she thought if she shut them hard enough….they wouldn't fall. How wrong she was as they came down her cheeks like a heavy storm and the cries out hit next sending her body collapsing to the ground in raked sobs. "I don't…..understand…..why…"
"But I'd follow you to the great unknown…"
"How pitiful…." Both women stopped their tears upon the putrid voice that filled the air and both felt their bodies tense with those words raising up and off the ground as if just that had refueled their strength. Brown and green narrowed their gazes on the cackling woman in the box as they moved even closer with their fists tightening shut. "...what a pitiful sacrifice to make, for a person whom never truly existed anyway." Reign laughed laying back on the med bunk as the Luthor slammed her palm hard down on the emitter and green filled part of the evil woman's body bringing her gasping but still smiling ominously.
"What….the FUCK are you talking about?!" Alex growled demanding an answer from the beast inside the beauty.
"She figured out somehow….that if she could split me from Samantha that….she could save her.." Reign spat out somewhat disgusted. "But….you would need a REALLY big power source to do something that deviously clever."
"Oh…"
"No.." Lena finished for Alex stumbling back as her fingers uncurled and her entire body shook by the notion hearing a gasp from the agent knowing right well the older Danvers had figured it out too.
"She gave that...tiny...little...pesky shard…...all that Kryptonian power. Such a shame too.." The agent's body tightened at that and shot her gaze burning at Reign whom had the audacity to grin. "..once I get free, I'm going to walk over there and burn it into dust with my power and then all that sacrifice…..for just poor little weak Samantha..will be..for nothing."
"Off to a world we could call our own….."
"NO!" Lena yelled furiously as she turned up the kryptonite and turned up the thickness of the power in the walls until neither could see the woman laughing before them. The Luthor at the table shaking her hands flat on the surface her back to the agent as she lowered her head and the tears came down hard then. Alex saw it and righted herself enough to stumble to the woman falling apart before her.
"Hand in my hand
And we promised to never let go…
We're walking a tightrope..
High in the sky
We can see the whole world down below..
We're walking a tightrope.."
"Lena…" Alex was able to finally get the one word out, the name but it didn't even fare in comparison to the pain both women were enduring. The agent felt her whole world crumbling upon the notions the World Killer had explained and she couldn't understand why her sister would…. "Why.."
"Alex.." The Luthor was trying to gather her wits about her but she knew it was meaningless upon learning what they had. Until….the full picture started to gather in her mind and it left her heart emptier than it had ever been. "I...I know...why.." Brown eyes so full of rage, sadness, and several mixed emotions lifted their gaze upon the answer perhaps neither wanted to but needed to hear. "To save Sam…" Lena started.
"To save Ruby...save them both.." Alex continued swallowing hard the words. Lena nodded.
"To….stop Reign…" The Luthor continued.
"To save us all from the World Killers….." Alex stumbled out of shaky vocals and watched the Luthor slam her fists hard against the table as she broke completely down.
"To prove to me Alex…..to prove I could be a hero like her...to….to prove….KARA I NEED YOU!..." Lena screamed out in an agony of heavy rupturing tears crumbling with the agent holding her as the machines monitoring the fallen blonde quit the steading beeping only to blar to life with one long horrifying noise alerting both women that flung up at that dreadful sound spinning around and dashing toward the bed where one fallen hero gave her final breath.
"Never sure, never know how far we could fall…
But it's all an adventure, that comes with a breathtaking view..
Walking a tightrope….with you..
Ooo...ooo...ooo...ooo..oooo…."
As cerulean blues came into view under heavy lids lifted they glanced out at stars that littered her surroundings and the feel of the soft plushness under her body brought the understanding of where she was and she sighed knowing eventually she had to accept what had occurred. She knew then, by the voice that filled her ears that was oh so familiar and she prayed to Rao they would ALL be okay….especially the woman she'd loved with every fiber of her being.
"Hello…..little one.." Kara felt the tears silently slip from her eyes as she smiled and shut her eyes once more.
"With you.."