Day 103(2nd time)
She had spent the whole night mulling over what had just happened. She was back,and time had rewinded like in one of those movies where protagonists got to do things again,and fix them so it wouldn't end up with them alone,or similar things. The insomniac night hadn't helped with her aches. But those she knew all too well. And her presence here had to come with a toll,a toll she was still waiting for and knew would've come soon. If she hadn't brought anybody else from the other side,which was great because nobody needed to deal with that,it had to be something else. For now she would just look at Cat and enjoy the look of sheer calmness in her eyes. But she needed to see Hank as soon as they were back in the city. Their honeymoon was over,and together with Carter,they had all piled up in the car to go back to the penthouse. Not much she remembered from what she had seen happening down here,but her mind held the distinct memory of Cat leaving that house and selling it off out of grief. They were just snippets,all she could remember now was the flight which had basically brought her back to the beginning and things she had seen,only witnessed and savoured from afar,she could even recall the time she had spent with her parents and her sister,she knew she had been taken away and this was part of why she was here.
Kara felt like Hank could have understood where she came from,and that he had probably figured it out in the future she couldn't remember only thing was that it seemed to be interesting even with no recollection of it,and she wanted to be present now that there was another chance on the game table.
The ride was taken with silence,listening to the endless playlist,and Cat actually driving for once,but she was grateful to be there again,and thankful when she managed to not let it slip yet that she sort of knew enough to want to hurry back so that something could still be done. Cat would've known soon enough. The first time it had only been a matter of mere days,where the disease had grown quickly,and she had died without them really knowing what to do. Now she knew where Max Lord was hiding,and if they had found it they could've put their hands on that little something which had been denied to her the time she had died.
The anger she had felt against him was solely second to the one she had felt towards her uncle Non. On one side she could accept it as long as it had been her and not her family to be hurt,but on the other side she was mad at him for having missed so much,that she didn't want to waste this opportunity to tell him in the face how much of a shitty person he was and maybe even force that antidote away from him.
He had watched her waste away ,even made an antidote as a sort of mockery,but maybe the researches had brought an halt to the last part of his plan,for which he had had to leave in a hurry in the hope to not be caught by the DEO. This time around,if he had been found,there would've been no salvation.
It was a couple of hours before they were back to the penthouse and she slipped back in bed,already pretty exhausted. Kara was aware of the early signs of what was killing her and went in with no problem,but carrying the phone with herself.
She spoke to J'onn for a very long time,throughout which she shortly explained what had happened and thanked every deity he didn't call her crazy. He really had to have seen a bit of too much to not say anything and elt her talk. And he also promised to visit soon,so that they could've discussed such a thing better than simply talking over the phone.
Her memories were a matter to be left to a second moment.
When the call was over,Kara slipped fully into bed,and tried to get in tune with the sounds of the house. Those days of sickness had played with her powers a lot,but they had never fully left her till the very last ones when even breathing had been hard.
At the very beginning,what she perceived were things she knew all too well,but halfway through her scanning of sounds around the house,new,old,some she had hardly ever noticed,her ears started ringing.
She was reminded of her issues as a child. But this was different.
Whereas back than she had been hearing a bit too much,whatever she was earing was starting to fade away.
It was like a bomb had gone off in her head. Like the bomb she had detoned in the sky some months ago. One of Max's creations too,which had almost killed her as well. It had blown and next time she had woken up there had been ringing in her ears.
Kara brought her hands to her ears,and tried to remember if it had been one of the symptoms,but again she came out empty ended. She knew all too well what her symptoms had been,this wasn't it.
But it did add up to what she had thought. Everything was coming back,everything had it's toll.
She could take it,if a way to be saved could be found.
Now her mind was clearer than when she had first faced this day,and she could think better.
She called out to her newly made wife and Cat came running in in a way she had gotten used to when she had been sick,and grabbed the pad on her bedside table to write what she needed to convey to her.
They needed the DEO and she knew something that could be done.
Cat looked stunned at first,but she didn't add anything else,as they went back to their car not even two hours after they had come back to the penthouse;headed towards the DEO and maybe finally holding a solution to all her problems.
