Lucy sat with Lori in a café. The young teen had her hands wrapped tightly around a really hot mug of hot chocolate. Lucy frowned, but as Lori didn't know that she had powers, she decided to leave it to Kara and Lena to explain it.
The youngest Lane took a deep breath, "Your mom and your dad have been fighting?" She asked softly, "It's none of my business."
"They were going to figure it out, whatever they had going on…They were going to fix it." Lori gasped. Tears began spilling down her cheeks. Lucy sighed, and she reached over to take her hands, and managed to grab one, "Your mom and your dad love you so much Lori."
"I know, I know…I've just…Ever since the shooting, I have felt so unsafe. Supergirl hasn't been any help, twice. It seems like she helps everyone else other than me." Lori broke down once again and put her head in her hands, "It feels like all of this is my fault!"
"You can't believe that because it isn't true and deep down, you know it isn't." Lucy said softly, "None of this is your fault. It feels like it is because you are hurting. Your mom loves you."
In that moment, the door to the café opened. Lori looked up and saw her mother stood there. She looked just as hurt as Lori felt. The young girl ran into her mother's arms and held her tightly.
"Oh-Lori, not too tight-" Lena gasped, before the realization dawned on her. The Luthor glanced at Lucy who was standing there. She crossed her arms and gave Lena a look. A look that told her that Lori's powers had only just started working.
"Hey." Lena said softly to Lori, before kneeling down to her, "Let's get you home, and Lucy can come with us and we will watch movies." Lena tried to sound cheerful, with a warm smile on her face.
"That sounds like an amazing idea." Lucy agreed, keeping a cheerful tone on everything, despite the situation. Lori nodded as Lena wiped her daughter's tears.
The people around the Luthor kept away, deciding that she needed her privacy after everything that had happened.
Later that evening, Lena stepped outside on the balcony after both Lucy and Lori had fallen asleep. Lena took out a cigarette from a box that she had hidden away for a while. She grabbed a lighter from her back pocket and ignited the poison on a stick.
She sighed heavily before breaking down in tears, unable to keep herself together. The Luthor sank to the floor, folding her body in on itself. Moments later, she felt arms wrap around her and cried even harder.
"You're not alone." The voice spoke to her, "You will never be alone." Kara kissed Lena's temple. The Luthor clung tightly to Kara and carried on weeping.
Once Lena had calmed down, Kara poured the woman a glass of wine and sat opposite her at the table on the balcony. She then moved behind Lena and draped a nightgown that she found, over her shoulders.
"We fought this morning." Lena began. "I was convinced that we could fix it."
"What did you fight over?" Kara asked softly.
"He saw us kissing that day." Lena said to her, locking eyes with her, before leaning forward, "And Lori has her powers. She hugged me earlier and almost crushed me."
Dread crept up Kara's spine, "How will we explain this?"
"The truth."Lena said coldly, "I'm sick of lying and scheming my way through child deserves the truth."
"When do we tell her the truth?" Kara asked.
"Now. I know it seems like an awful time, but she already wants to know who her dad is. Kara." She said softly.
Kara nodded slowly, holding back tears, "She deserves the truth."
Half an hour later, Lena gently coaxed Lori awake, along with Lucy.
"Hey honey, Supergirl wants to talk to you." Lena said softly to her.
When Lori's eyes found Supergirl, she glared at her, "I don't want to see her."
Kara sighed heavily. She grabbed a kitchen chair and sat opposite her, "Hey, I know you blame me for not saving your dad and I get it. I really do." Kara swallowed hard.
Lori glanced at Lena and noticed her shaking. Now she was concerned, "Mom, what's wrong?"
"There uh…There is something that we need to tell you." Lena said nervously. Lori sat forward and took her mother's shaking hands in her own. She got Lena to look at her, and when she did, she hated the way Lena was looking at her.
"Have I done something?" Lori gasped, feeling like she was in trouble.
"No. No." Supergirl gasped, "You're not in trouble."
"Someone tell me what is going on!" Lori snapped.
"It's your mom…" Supergirl began, "Your real mom."
If Lori wasn't terrified before, she was now. She looked at Lena for help, but Lena could no longer look at her.
"Lori." Lena began, her voice shaking heavily, "I'm…I'm not your real mom…Supergirl is."
Lori laughed nervously, "Okay, you're pulling my leg."
Kara sighed and grabbed a paperweight from the table, "Crush this."
Lori held the rock-like paperweight in her hand, shaking. She shook her head, putting it down, "Lena is my mom. My mom is mom!"
Lena refused to answer or even look at Lori, breaking her heart in the process. As tears fell down Lori's cheeks, she reluctantly picked up the rock and closed her palm around it. Lori audibly gasped as the rock broke into little pieces.
"Your hearing probably isn't showing yet, and your flight probably isn't either. Lori, you are half-Kryptonian and half-human." Supergirl said to her.
The little Luthor stood up, having no idea what she was going to do, "Why did no one ever tell me?! Why have you lied to me all my life?!" Lori snapped at Lena.
"Because I didn't want you to know." Kara said quickly, standing. She could see that Lena didn't have the strength to form words, but she also sensed that something else was wrong but she had bigger fish to fry right now, "I didn't want you to know. When you were a baby, I gave you to your mom because I couldn't handle having you."
"Why?! Was I too alien for you?! Kara?!" Lori snapped. Lena snapped her head up at this. Lori shouldn't even know her actual name. When Lori saw Kara looking confused, she laughed wickedly and carried on, "I figured it out a while ago. I'm not that stupid. Maybe mom was if she didn't recognize you for however long it was-"
"I think that's enough." Lucy interrupted.
"I don't even know you!" Lori snapped at her. The teen walked across the room and picked up the first object she could find and threw it on the floor. She grabbed the family photograph of Lena, Robert and her and threw it down. It smashed with an echo. Her glasses were then torn off and then she used her heat vision to burn the object.
After the teen left the apartment Kara walked over to the fire and put it out.
Lena stood up and walked around the room, "She hates us both."
Kara sighed heavily, "Two powers that are working…She'll probably go out and get her flight to try and work, but that's the last thing that begins working."
"And yet you don't seem very concerned." Lucy snapped, "Go Kara, go after her."
Kara looked at her best friend, "Will you be okay?"
"I've just told my daughter that she doesn't belong to me." Lena sneered, "What do you think?"
Kara took this as her cue to leave, and so she did.
Lena walked around the apartment and trashed it right before Lucy's eyes. Lucy had to force Lena's arms to her chest from behind to restrain her and to get her to calm down. Eventually through exhaustion, Lena fell asleep on the floor in Lucy's arms.
Lori however, sat on the top of Catco, crying her heart out. She felt like she had lost so much and she felt like she couldn't handle it anymore.