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Supergirl set Lena down and the Luthor stumbled a little as she regained her footing.
The blonde arched an eyebrow.
"Y'know, this isn't the first time you've flown with me."
Lena nodded as she blinked a few times.
"I know, but the first time I was unconscious and the second was more of a lift, than actual flight."
Supergirl chuckled and then looked at the safe house.
It was big, dark and boarded up.
Lena grimaced at it. She knew why Lex had places like this and it was never for anything good.
"Now all you have to do is rip those wooden boards off and we can go inside."
Supergirl nodded and walked forward, prising the boards off as Lena watched the wood snap with the alien's strength.
"Oh and Supergirl?"
"Yeah?"
I never thanked you for saving-" She stopped.
Supergirl didn't know about Lena's son but then she'd told Kara, but Kara would never say anything, would she?
"Saving what?" Supergirl asked as she tossed the broken wood aside.
"It doesn't matter."
Kara hadn't said anything, Supergirl didn't know.
Lena frowned as she started to think.
Maybe having Supergirl know wasn't such a bad thing. She could help protect Max and if God forbid, the worst did happen, she would be there within seconds to help.
Lena nodded to herself but when her eyes met Supergirl's, she saw a confused frown on the Super's face.
"Are you OK?"
Lena nodded.
"Yeah...there's just something I wanted to tell you, but it can wait."
"OK..." Supergirl said but she looked uncertain.
Lena stepped forward and they both walked through the doorway and into Lex's safe house.
Lena rubbed her arms self consciously.
"You OK?" Supergirl asked.
"Yeah...it's like I can still feel him here, y'know?"
Supergirl nodded and patted Lena's shoulder reassuringly.
"He's not here anymore Lena. it's only you and you are trying to be better than your family."
The Luthor gave Supergirl a kind smile.
"Now where would Lex hide an immortal chemical?"
"The fridge." Lena replied bluntly.
Supergirl raised a blonde eyebrow in her direction.
"The fridge?"
Lena nodded.
"Take a look."
Supergirl went through to the back and into some pokey little kitchen and a fridge sat in the corner next to a clearly unused oven.
She pulled open the door and found a few past it's sell by date food items along with a jar of what looked like black liquid.
Lena peered inside and screwed her nose up at the smell.
She nodded as Supergirl held the jar up for Lena to look at.
"Do you think this is it?"
Lena nodded.
"Most definitely."
Supergirl stared at the jar, like she was waiting for it to turn a different color or move or something and surprisingly, it did.
The black good moved like something was inside it and then turned into an ice blue color.
Supergirl's eyes widened.
"What's it doing?"
Lena smirked a little at the Super's reaction.
"When the Immortal chemical feels it's in the presence of an alien, it turns green but-"
Lena took the jar from Supergirl and it moved, turning red as it did.
"When it senses a human, it turns red."
Supergirl frowned.
"Why red? I thought if Lex hated humans so much, why turn into a color that symbolizes danger?"
"Red doesn't always mean danger. It symbolizes blood in this case. Aliens...well, I guess it turns green to fit with the whole martian aspect." She said with a roll of her eyes.
Supergirl took the jar back from Lena and started heading out of Lex's safe house.
Lena followed Supergirl back out and then stopped when the same winged demon landed right in front of them.
The grin he displayed was so wide, Supergirl wondered how it didn't split his face.
"You!"
"Did you honestly think that you could take something so valuable and just walk away?" It growled.
"Who are you?" Supergirl asked.
"Does it matter?"
"It's pretty low for an alien to be working as a lackey for a human." Supergirl wasn't sure if this was true or not but she wanted to get some kind of reaction out of the thing.
"I have to make a living somehow." It said with a shrug.
"Why were you after that little boy?"
"Oh, you mean her son?" It asked, pointing to Lena who stood, staring at the monster.
Supergirl glanced back at Lena and Lena opened her mouth to speak, to explain, to say anything that could make this OK again, when the demon lunged forward and knocked the jar from Supergirl's hands.
It rolled onto the ground but thankfully, it didn't break.
Lena went for the jar and grabbed it.
"I got it!"
The demon turned as Supergirl ran and grabbed Lena taking off into the sky.
Both Luthor and Super smiled until they heard the beating of wings and as Lena looked around, she saw the demon chasing them!
"Uh...Supergirl?"
The blonde glanced over her shoulder and she pushed on harder, trying to lose the demon but it was fast and it knew how to make the most of those gigantic wings.
Supergirl quickly tapped her ear piece."
"Alex?"
"Supergirl?"
"That demon thing? We found it."
"Where are you?"
"Flying and it's chasing us. Can you help?"
"Sure thing."
Within minutes, a couple of planes flew straight at the demon, blasting it with all the ammo they had. The demon dodged most of the bullets but luckily, one hit and it fell straight to the ground, literally dropping out of the sky.
"Thanks Alex. We're clear."
"Good. Now get your ass home. He might recover quickly. I'm gonna send a team out to track it and if it's hurt, we'll bring it back here to determine what it is."
"Ok thanks Alex and be careful."
With another tap to her ear piece, Supergirl focused on flying back to L Corp.
Back at L Corp, Lena put the jar in her own safe and let out a breath of relief.
"That was a little close for comfort."
Supergirl nodded and the two women stood there in silence for a little while.
"Listen Supergirl, about that boy you saved and that demon said he was my son, he's right, he is. But-"
"You took precautions to protect him. It's alright, I understand."
Lena nodded.
"I even went so far as to not telling my best friend about him."
Supergirl nodded.
"You mean Kara?"
Lena nodded.
"She'll understand."
"I know but I told her that-" She stopped herself rather abruptly.
"If I say this, you won't tell her, will you?"
"No. Of course not." Supergirl assured her but her heart was hammering in her chest.
Lena licked her suddenly dry lips.
"I told Kara that the reason I didn't tell her about Max is because I was protecting him and that's not a lie, I am but...it's not the real reason I kept him a secret from her."
Supergirl nodded as she listened and for a second, she felt guilty that she was listening to this. Lena didn't want Kara to know and she didn't know that Supergirl was Kara, it seemed a little unfair, no matter how badly she wanted to know Lena's reasons.
"Lena, It's not that I don't care, I do but maybe you should just be honest and tell Kara the truth, whatever it may be."
Lena rolled her eyes.
"That's what her sister said." She muttered.
Supergirl nodded.
"Well she's right. Just tell Kara. Shes understanding, you know that."
Lena nodded.
"Yeah, she is."
"Well I'd better get back but you're ok?"
Lena nodded, forcing a smile.
"I will be."
"Good. It'll be OK Lena. I promise."
"I know and thank you, again."
Supergirl left the Luthor in her office as Lena sat down at her desk.
She glanced over at her safe and tapped her nails on the desk.
After a little while, she got up and walked over to it, pressing in the combination code and taking the jar out of the safe.
The liquid inside turned red at her touch and she smiled a little.
As psychotic as her bother was, Lex really could be incredible. It was just a shame that he used his intelligence for all the wrong reasons.
Lena studied the liquid, wondering how this stuff actually worked when her glass window smashed behind her and Lena ducked as she screamed. Her grip on the jar was tight but as the demon flew right into her office, he snatched it from her grasp, almost breaking her wrist in the process.
"What was the point in trying to be bribe you, when all we had to do was wait for you to find it and then take it from you?"
Lena stared up at the demon, her voice shaking slightly.
"Who do you work for?"
"Ah, now that would be telling. But if you doubled my fee, you could keep this."
Lena glared at it.
"You're bargaining...you must be in league with my mother." She said, her nose turning up in disgust.
"You're a smart one. She wants you to work with her Lena. All you have to do, is use this and then you could become more powerful than any other human, even more powerful that the aliens."
"Why does my mother want it?"
The demon shifted and turned into an image of Lilian Luthor.
"Because I was going to give it to you Lena. I wanted you to become immortal because then you could spend eternity trying to make the world a better place for humans. I have caused you so much pain Lena, that I wanted to give you a gift. This gift."
Lena backed away. She knew it was her mother's words and the intent behind it.
"This is you're way of trying to make amends? By trying to kill your own grandson and then by bribing me?"
"The plan was never to kill Max, Lena. My demon friend here would have gotten him out and taken him back to me. Then... I would have bribed you." Lilian answered with a chuckle, trying to turn holding her grandson for ransom into a joke.
Lena let out a snort of derision.
"How motherly of you."
"I knew you wouldn't come willingly, so I needed something to...help you along. I would never hurt Max you must believe that."
Lena shook her head.
"You have used me multiple times, I wouldn't put anything past you."
"Are you passing up this chance to become Immortal?"
Lena nodded.
"I am."
Lilian sighed.
"Very well."
She then turned back into the demon.
"Maybe there's something else you want far more than immortality."
Lena straightened and raised her chin.
"There's nothing."
The demon grinned.
"Or...someone."
It then changed and Lena stared in a mixture of shock and awe as Kara stood before her.
"Is this what you want Lena?" It said, using her voice.
"Don't..."
"Don't what? Lena, I'm right here. I'm so close. Take the chemical and we can be together."
Lena frowned.
"Why would I need to take that to be with you?" Lena questioned.
Kara smiled and walked towards Lena, taking her hands in her own.
"I know you've kept Max a secret from me, Lena but I also haven't been too truthful."
Lena frowned as she looked into eyes she knew and loved so well.
"What do you mean? What does this have to do with the Immortal chemical?"
Kara then changed into Supergirl and Lena stared as the girl of steel smiled back at her.
"The one who saves you? The one who is always there just by chance? It's me Lena. I'm Kara and I'm also Supergirl and if you take that chemical, you would be my equal and we could spend an eternity helping people, together."
Lena shook her head, trying to turn away.
"No. I don't. It's not true. It's not true-"
"It is true and I love you Lena." Kara/Supergirl told her, cupping her cheek before pressing her lips to the Luthor's.
She knew it wasn't her. That it couldn't be her. Would never in a million years be her but still Lena closed her eyes and kissed 'Kara' back.
She felt Kara grin against her mouth and Lena knew that if anyone in the whole wide world could make her do anything, then it was Kara. Demon version or not. It was enough for the Luthor.
A/N- Uh oh, that cat is out the bag! But what does that mean for Lena and Kara now? And just what will Lena do now that she knows?
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