Author's note : Sorry for the delay, work was kind of crazy lately. To all of you who keep reading, sharing, following, favoriting and reviewing this little story, thank you very much and enjoy !

Winter 2017

After Alex's had talked some sense into her, Lena had texted Kara, saying that she was sorry for how things went and that she wanted to talk to her. The CEO had given herself five days to get her life back on track before seeing Kara again. She had stopped drinking, had successfully testified against her mother in court, and finished putting the L Corp current affairs in order. Now, Lena was waiting for Kara to come. She had asked the superhero to stop by her office after work. The CEO was so impatient and anxious that she was waiting outside her office, pacing in front of her double door, thinking about what she was going to say to Kara. Lena was glad that Jess had asked to go home early this evening or she would have witnessed her boss's strange behavior and the CEO really didn't need any more gossiping about her personal life right now, especially with her mother recent escape from jail. Finally, after what felt like an hour but must have been less than ten minutes, Kara showed up around the corner. The reporter walked up to Lena but stopped just a few feet before reaching the CEO, not sure where they stood in their relationship. She decided that she would let Lena set the pace.

-"Hey" Kara said shyly, smiling nervously at Lena.

-"Hi" Lena answered sighting in relief. She had spent the whole day afraid that the Kryptonian wouldn't come. "Come in" she added, holding the door open for Kara.

-"Kara, I..." Lena started to say when the blonde beat her to it.

-"I'm sorry"

-"What ?" the CEO asked confused. "For what ?"

-"When I heard about your mother escape and everybody started saying that you probably helped her I thought I would come see you, for, you know, support, but then I remembered that you told me to give you some space and that you wanted to talk to me today so I thought that I should wait, not drop in on you unannounced you know ?" Kara rambled in one go.

-"Hey" Lena said gently, taking Kara softly by her shoulders. "Breathe. It's ok."

The Kryptonian exhaled loudly. "Sorry" she apologized again, pushing her glasses on her nose and smiling awkwardly at Lena.

-"Stop" the CEO replied, letting go of Kara's shoulders. "If someone should be sorry here it's me". She sighted and looked at Kara. "I shouldn't have said all those things to you last time. I didn't mean them." She took her friend's silence as an invitation to continue. "Talking about that awful summer and all that was going on with my mother and Cadmus just brought back painful memories and I... took it all on you. Sorry."

-"So you don't mind me being Supergirl ?" Kara asked softly, looking at Lena expectantly. When the CEO had stopped giving her sing of life, she had been afraid that she had lost their friendship forever, before it could even blossom into something more.

-"No. I have no problem with you being Supergirl or an alien" Lena reassured the reporter softly. "I'm not my mother Kara" she added to lighten the mood and smiled.

-"So you don't hate me ?" Kara felt the need to ask. She believed Lena but she needed to hear it.

-"What ? No !" Lena replied without hesitation. At that, Kara's body relaxed, telling Lena that the blonde believed her. Then, an idea flashed suddenly thought the CEO's mind. If this was an honesty talk, she should better go all in. Kara told her about her secret identity after all, so now she could at least return the favor by telling Kara how she really felt about her.

-"Kara, I could never hate you because, for a very long time now, even though I realized it only recently, I'm...

The door of her office opened suddenly, cutting off her confession loudly.

-"Maggie !" Kara exclaimed in surprise as her sister's girlfriend and two police officers entered Lena's office. "Did you find Lilian ?"

-"No we didn't" Maggie replied. "We're actually here on official business Kara, I think it would be better if you waited outside while I talk to miss Luthor."

-"No ! Lena interrupted. "I want her to stay." She hoped she didn't sound too desperate but since the police walked in, she had this nagging feeling that something bad would happen. So, better to keep a superhero in close range, just in case.

Kara must have seen the panicked look on her face because she reassured her with a quick "it's ok". Then, the reporter put her handbag down and crossed her arms on her chest, like Supergirl before a fight. Kara didn't meant to seem so offensive to Alex's girlfriend but she was growing really tired of that witch hunt against Lena every time Lilian did something bad, especially now that she had finally reunited with her friend again.

And then, as Lena feared, all went down. Maggie showed them a video footage of the CEO retrieving Metallo's kryptonite heart from her personal safe and arrested her. Lena denied it as much as she could, but Kara had to let Maggie take her friend. Even if that video had "set up" written all over it for Kara, she knew what an incriminating evidence was and what police protocol it generate.

Since Lena had been arrested and vanished from prison shortly after, Kara had started to lose her patience a little more with each passing hour. She had to defend Lena's innocence from everyone. Alex, Winn, J'onn, James, all of CatCo, everyone. How could they not trust her judgment on this ? She had known Lena for a very long time now, the CEO would never team up with her mother ! Seeing all of her family and friends treating Lilian's and Lena's escapes from prison as if they were complotting together all along, was frustrating Kara excessively. Every minute that passed waiting for the DEO to locate the two Luthors, Lena's life was more and more at risk, which increased Kara's worry exponentially. Lilian had never loved her daughter, so there was no doubt that if the older Luthor would have to hurt Lena to achieve her goal, she would do it. Kara was sure of it.

Kara decided to evacuate all of her frustration by kicking an enormous roc in one of the DEO's training room. She was almost done reducing the giant bloc to dust when she heard Winn say to himself upstairs : "Kara was right". She was behind Winn's back in a flash, making the poor man jump when she asked him what he had found.

As soon as Winn had finished explaining that the video footage was indeed a fake, a computer started beeping, telling that it had located Metallo's kryptonite signature.

-"Did you find it agent Schott ?" J'onn asked, entering the operating room, followed closely by Alex.

-"Yes !" Winn exclaimed enthusiastically. "Wait, there's something weird" he then added, starting to press the keys furiously. Alex was the first to react upon seeing the bar chart on screen :

-"Metallo's kryptonite is becoming highly unstable."

-"This is not just unstable" Winn intervened. "It's going to blow."

Just like my stress level, Kara though. She heard J'onn asking Winn about her anti-kryptonite vest but she was done waiting. Lena needed her. Now.

-"No, there's no time" she interrupted them hastily. "I have to go now or Lena dies" she added and flew away.

It all happened so fast. As soon as Kara had landed, Lilian had tried to incapacitate her with an alien grenade, then, Metallo had started firing green lasers everywhere with his kryptonite heart, thus shortening Kara's intervention time considerably. J'onn had joined her just in time to free her from Metallo's grip and help her evacuate with Lena in her arms before the explosion.

Now, Kara was pacing in front of the glass walls of the DEO lab, waiting for Alex to finish examining Lena. The kryptonian couldn't care less about Lilian and cyborg Hank getting away again. What mattered most to her in this moment, was knowing if Lena was OK or not. Finally, Alex exited the room :

-"She's fine. She will be out for a few minutes more but no concussion"

-"Thank Rao" Kara said, sighing with relief. She hugged her sister goodbye and entered the lab to take Lena home before she woke up and saw the DEO facility.

As Supergirl was flying with Lena in her arms, she realized that she didn't know where the CEO actually lived. She had been in Lena's office countless times but never in her house. Or was it an apartment ? A villa ? Kara finally decided to take the Luthor at the L Corp office. With the excessive amount of time the CEO spent there working on saving the company's reputation, it was as if she lived in it anyway, Kara thought.

Lena felt a slight breeze against her face and opened her eyes. She was welcomed by a beautiful starry night sky, although a little blurry. She supposed that seeing stars was the result of being knocked off and that it would pass after some rest. So, she closed her eyes again and pressed her face deeper in what she thought to be an incredibly warm and soft hospital pillow.

When Kara put Lena down on her white couch, she saw the CEO shiver and curl up. Supergirl didn't know if the office had a blanket stored somewhere but she was sure as hell that she wasn't going to invade Lena's privacy by looking through all the closets and drawers in the room with her x-ray vision. As she was looking around her for a solution, her eyes landed on Lena again and she noticed that the brunette had gripped her cape in her sleep. Kara smiled. Why hadn't she thought about that ? She removed the cape from her suit and spread it over Lena. It wasn't as if the CEO didn't know about Supergirl's identity anyway. Kara bent over, kissed Lena on the forehead and flew to her apartment.

The next day, Kara came to work late. That fight with Metallo has exhausted her. But what had really made difficult for her to wake up this morning was that she spent most of the night writing a very laudatory article about Lena. After last night rescue mission, Kara had been so happy to have been right about Lena all along, and above all, to know that all of her family and friends have no choice now but to agree with her, that she started to write immediately. The inspiration comes much more easily when you write the truth Kara discovered pleasantly. As the Kryptonian entered the CatCo building, she headed for her office to do some layout work for her article before showing it to Snapper. Nothing had prepared her for the sight that greeted her when she opened the door of her office.

Flowers. Flowers everywhere.

Kara smiled. They were all plumerias. That pretty much gave her the identity of their expeditor. She took a look around. The room was literally overflowing with the white flowers, from her floor, to her different shelves, the windowsill... Her desk was surprisingly spared by the beautiful invasion except for one single bouquet. The reporter walked to her desk and took a closer look. There was an envelope attached to it with "Kara" written on it. She opened it and started to read the letter it contained.

Dear Kara,

Thank you so much for your help last night. Even if I had clearly underestimated my mother madness and cruelness, I wasn't afraid. I knew you would come to my rescue because you never stopped believing in me since the first day we met. So, what I'm trying to say is that Supergirl may have saved me but Kara, you are my hero. Always have been.

Do you remember what you said to me when you discovered that my mother was behind Cadmus ? You came to my office and asked me to be my own hero and that is exactly what I'm going to do. I can't let you save me again and again. It's time that I return the favor. We both now that you'll never be safe as long as my mother is free. That's why I'm going after her.

I know what you're thinking right now. That I shouldn't put myself in danger like that, that I'm acting reckless again but the truth is that I'm the only one who can find her. Even if my heritage often brought me more trouble than joy, I am a Luthor. That means that I know how my mother think, what drives and motivate her. I also recently discovered that I'm the only one capable of opening some of Lex's old facilities.

Please Kara, don't try to find me. I need to do this alone. I stayed out of my mother's life for too long because it was easier to pretend she didn't exist than face the disgusted look she has every time she looks at me. But now that she's following Lex's path and hurting people, hurting you, I can't stand by doing nothing. Forgive me for telling you all of this with a letter but if I had to say goodbye in person, I would never have left.

I hope it isn't too late to say that I love you,

Lena.

A few minutes later, somewhere in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

Juan couldn't believe his luck. The girl of his dreams was finally alone. Every day after college, he would sit in this café to do his homework while enjoying a fresh coke. And every day, Inés, a girl of one of his classes would be sitting at the table on the back studying with her friends when he would enter. Juan had a crush on Inés since the beginning of the school year but he never dared to ask her out because she was always surrounded by friends or people of their class. Juan didn't really fear rejection but he would prefer it to be private than public.

Today she was sitting by herself for the first time. As Juan stood outside the café, looking at Inés through the glass windows of the building, he chastised himself for not bringing flowers or something. In his defense, he couldn't have known that today was going to be THE day. He took a deep breath and prepared himself to enter the café when something landed at his side. He looked at the ground and picked up a bouquet of white flowers. He didn't know what type it was but they were beautiful. It was a sign. He had to ask her today. Juan looked at the bright blue sky, thanked the angel who had brought him this beautiful bouquet, and entered the café, more confident than ever.