Author: Ashley

Title: Losing Your Inhibitions

Rating: M - Mature

Part: 14/16

Pairing: Mon-El and Kara Danvers (Zor-El)

Word Count (Chapter): 1,961

Summary: "Alex sighed, 'Kara, we…we don't know what's wrong with him yet. We thought it might be Red Kryptonite too, but I sort of hit him with the gun we used on you and it didn't change anything. He's still…sick." She was silent for a moment, eyes drifting off to stare at nothing. 'Did he do this to me?' she asked quietly as the thought finally occurred to her." - Mon-El comes across an object that effects him in the same way that Red Kryptonite effects Kara. What kind of trouble can he get himself (and Kara) into?

Disclaimer: I don't own Supergirl, DC Comics or anything related to such things. The ideas, dialogue and plot points were inspired by the show, but they are my own. Plagiarism isn't nice. Please don't steal my ideas.

A/N: Oops.

I'm sorry this took so long to get out. I wish I had a better excuse, but I just got lazy and then got busy and then the fandom just got depressing and I was severely uninterested in editing and posting anything.

But fear not, I'm back (I haven't stopped writing in my downtime either) and hopefully won't ever take a month to update an already completed story ever again :)

Chapter Fourteen: "Did he do this to me?"

Wednesday

Alex woke early, her back sore from sleeping all night in the hard chair she'd pulled up next to Kara's bed. She moved toward her sleeping form, running her hand across her sister's face, checking her temperature as she looked at the screens beeping quietly around her. She'd slept through the night and looked to still be pretty knocked out. She had been exposed to Red K for a long while, the tiny rock being in her presence for likely most of the day.

She quietly left the room and walked into the DEO lab, sighing heavily as she passed through the door. "Winn, please tell me you've got something."

Winn looked up from the microscope having gotten into the lab early as well. "Alex…I uh," he paused.

Her eyes were wide as she pulled up a stool and sat across from him at the opposite side of the examination table. "You…? You found something?"

"Remember the rock that was found outside of that CADMUS location we were searching all those months ago? The minium?"

Alex nodded with furrowed eyebrows. "The one you were studying?"

"Yeah," he agreed. "And remember how I said that the red portion of it seemed too dark to be minium. Almost as if it had been altered or something?"

"What are you getting at, Winn?"

"So I knocked off a piece of the red stuff and was studying it under the devices we have, but it seemed familiar somehow. The chemical makeup of the red portion wasn't the same as traditional minium or lead tetroxide. I mean, I'm no geologist, but this minium was definitely altered."

"And you think CADMUS had something to do with it?" Alex asked.

"I definitely think they had something to do with it. The chemical makeup of this minium piece was familiar and I realized that it's an awful lot like the makeup of Kryptonite. Kind of like Red Kryptonite." He pulled up something on the laptop screen next to him. "This is Red Kryptonite from the last time we studied the rock before putting it in storage."

"Okay," Alex nodded as she looked at the digitized chemical formula on the screen. Winn flicked through the windows on the screen.

"This is the chemical makeup of your standard minium." He clicked again. "This is the chemical makeup of the chunk I took off the minimum rock we found." He moved to have the windows side by side on the screen. "And this is Red K next to this red lead piece."

Alex's eyes flicked back and forth between the two screens. "They look very similar." Winn nodded. "This is fascinating Winn, but what does this have to do with fixing Mon-El?"

"Well, I've analyzed his blood…" he said before pausing.

"Winn," Alex put her hands on his shoulders. "You need to get to your point!"

"This modified minium mineral," he paused to chuckle. "Try saying that three times fast."

"Winn!"

"Sorry! This mineral is in Mon-El's blood."

Alex blinked at him. "What'd you mean it's in his blood?"

Winn took her to a microscope. "Look in this. This is Mon-El's blood from the time he was sick with the Medusa virus…when we took his blood to make sure it was clear."

Alex looked through the eyepiece of the microscope. "Okay," she nodded.

"And this," he pulled her toward a second microscope, "is his blood now. The only thing different about it, is that the mineral is now in it."

Alex leaned back and away from the microscope. "How did this even happen?"

"Well…" Winn started as he rubbed at the back of his neck with his hand. "About a week ago I was examining the rock and Mon-El came in here," he continued. "I told him that I thought the rock was lead and that he shouldn't touch it." He paused. "But I think I might have left him alone with it…"

"Winn!"

"I'm sorry, Alex, but J'onn called me and Mon-El was waiting for Kara anyway! I thought he'd be following right after me and-"

"No, Winn! You figured it out! This is it! This is his Red Kryptonite. Red Lead. However it came to be modified, this is what's making him act like this. It has to be."

"We're going to have to figure out how to reverse it," he said.

"You're going to have to figure out how this mineral was modified."

"How the heck are we going to do that?" Winn asked, eyebrows raised high.

"We did all this for Kara when she was infected the first time," she shrugged at him. "I'm sure we can do it again for Mon-El."

Kara's eyes fluttered open and focused on the ceiling above her. She recognized the light fixtures immediately, having spent way too many hours inside this very med bay. She moved to sit up and Alex rushed to her side after having just walked back into the room.

"Kara…"

"Alex," she started, tears already in her eyes, the memories of yesterday quickly racing through her mind. "Was this…how did this happen again?" she asked, her voice low as she tried to balance herself in a seated position. She was just so dizzy.

"I…we don't know yet," she answered.

Well, they had a pretty good idea though, having found that tiny red rock in Mon-El's pocket.

Suddenly Kara's teary eyes widened. "Mon-El!" she shouted as loud as her tired voice could, her arms reaching out to grab a hold of her sister. "He's sick! We have to help him! Did you help him?"

Alex sighed, "Kara, we…we don't know what's wrong with him yet. We thought it might be Red Kryptonite too, but I sort of hit him with the gun we used on you and it didn't change anything. He's still…sick."

She was silent for a moment, eyes drifting off to stare at nothing. "Did he do this to me?" she asked quietly as the thought finally occurred to her.

Alex cringed. "We think he stole the piece of Red Kryptonite from the storage room downstairs. We noticed that it was missing yesterday. When we caught him, we found it in his pocket…he said that he'd put it in the pocket of your cardigan…the one that got stuck in the motorcycle wheel…"

Kara blushed lightly, remembering what had happened before the sweater had caused their crash.

"I need to go talk to him," she stated firmly as she moved to swing her legs off the bed.

"No, Kara," Alex shook her head as she tried to stop her. "He's not acting like himself. I don't think you should talk to him when he's like this."

"Alex, I've been talking to him for days. Something has been wrong for a while. I knew there was something wrong and I didn't help him before. I have to help him now." She got Alex to move aside as her feet landed on the floor, but she wobbled and Alex had to help catch her.

"Kara, you need to rest. You haven't healed yet."

"I'm okay," she assured her sister as she continued to try to get her legs to cooperate.

"Kara, I need you to get back into this bed and rest. Right now," Alex demanded.

Kara huffed loudly as she slid back into bed. "Okay, fine, but I'm seeing him soon."

"I'll take you there in a little while. Just rest, please."

"Where is he?"

Alex sighed. "We're holding him in containment. We don't know what's wrong with him yet, so we have to keep him there so he doesn't get away. We took some blood to find out how to help him. Winn is still trying to figure out an antidote."

"How'd you get his blood?" she asked, eyes wide.

"To get him here…I had to shoot him. Lead bullets."

"Alex!"

"Kara, I had to. We didn't know what else to do or how to get him back here. We used the red sun lamp to dampen his powers and we took some blood. We only strapped him down for a little while. He's fine now. We took the lead out. He's healing, but he's still…he's got this red in his eyes…like they're bloodshot, but then his irises, they just light up. Winn is working on it. We'll figure this out. We'll help him."

Kara nodded worriedly.

"We'll fix it, Kara. Just…fix yourself. Lie back and relax and let us work on this one for you." She smiled at her sister as she tucked the blankets in around her. "I'll come check on you in an hour. Call me if you feel worse or strange or anything. Okay?"

Kara nodded again, "Yeah."

"And I uh, I brought you the spare clothes you keep in the locker. I noticed you were still wearing those…that…lingerie…and thought you might be more comfortable changing out of it," she cringed as she pointed to the clothes sitting on a nearby table.

Kara blushed darkly as she nodded at her sister.

She waited for Alex to leave, listening to her footsteps as she moved down the hall. When she was sure she was far enough away, she kicked at the blankets, feet swinging off the edge of the bed again. She had to find Mon-El. She was fine. She just needed to see him; to help him. The same way he would do for her if the situation was reversed. At the very least, she had to find out why he did this to her.

Her feet landed quietly on the floor, a nearly silent thump as she tried to get her bearings and stop herself from falling over. She changed her outfit, relieved to actually get those uncomfortable panties off her body. She peeked out of the med bay before quickly moving down the hall, wishing that she had her superspeed back already and could just race there.

She got to the DEO containment room, pausing at the closed entry door, bracing herself for what could be on the other side. She remembered the things this Mon-El said, the things he did to her, with her. She took in a deep breath before she found herself opening the door and stepping inside.

"Winn," Alex said as she rushed into the room. "Kara's awake. We gotta move. She's itching to see Mon-El and we should probably try to reverse whatever happened to him before he says something to her that he shouldn't."

Winn nodded, "I think I know how they did it."

Alex's eyes widened. "You do?" she questioned excitedly. "Already?"

"I mean, I sort of have an idea. It looks like CADMUS was trying to combine minium and Kryptonite. I don't know what catalyst they were using, but Kryptonite is radioactive. It looks like some weird chemical reaction took place and it formed a Red Kryptonite version of lead for Daxamites."

"Literally Red Lead," Alex shook her head.

"I don't know if the reaction fully occurred; hence why the whole rock is only partially red. I was with Mon-El when he was around it. He didn't seem any different…like Kara is by just being in Red K's presence, but if he touched it…maybe cut himself on the edge because lead is sharp enough to cut his Daxamite skin, maybe the particles got into his blood stream? Either way, I assume it has the same kind of reaction as Red Kryptonite does with Kryptonians. Losing your inhibitions, rash decision making, dangerous behaviour."

Alex nodded. "This is great, Winn. This means that we can do what we did when we created the antidote for Kara. Please get working on it ASAP. I'm going to fill J'onn in and we'll get this moving. We'll fix him."

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