Robert's funeral
The day was dull, dark and rainy. Lena stood on the left side of the grave with Lucy, while Lori stood on the right with Kara. Just as the coffin was about to be lowered into the ground, Lori ran over to where Lena, her, mother was standing.
It had been two weeks since the pair had last seen each other. Two weeks since Lena placed her hand on Lori's throat without hesitation.
Somehow, and Lena didn't understand why, Lori came to her.
The Luthor felt a warm hand wrap around her own. She looked down at Lori and for the first time that day, she noticed what her daughter was wearing. She knew that even after two weeks, she had picked up on Kara's fashion, donning dark red jeans and a tucked in dark blue shirt which was covered in little black dots.
Kara saw the way Lena was staring at Lori, and was looking for a sign, anything that would tell her that Lena still cared enough to be there when her daughter needed her. She heard that Lena was getting therapy and was also told by Lucy how much she missed having her daughter around.
"I've missed you." Lori spoke. Her voice was quiet, timid. The blonde adjusted her glasses, her eyes finally met dark green ones, "I know that it's been hard but you're getting better, right? When you're ready and when I'm ready…Maybe we could try again."
Lena only scoffed, "You left that night Lori, you couldn't face me because you were too much of a coward."
Lori fell silent before speaking again, "Your walls are up, I get it, you don't want to be hurt."
"You've been hanging around Kara too much." Lena bit back, "You both believe in happy ever afters…You always see the good in people, and I'm here to tell you that the world isn't like that."
Kara was listening in to the conversation and sighed a little too loud.
Lena glared at her, "That was not a conversation that you should have been listening in to."
"All she wants is you Lena." Kara said with urgency, "She misses you. She wants her mom, please put your bitterness aside especially today."
"Mom of the year award goes to you." Lena snapped at Kara, "You haven't even been there for the past thirteen years and yet you seem to be doing a better job than me."
Kara fell silent, she wasn't doing this. Not here, not today.
For the rest of the service Lori stood uncomfortably beside Lena, and after, she vanished around the side of the church leaping into the air.
As Lena was walking down the gravel when Kara approached, be it, rather angrily.
"Kara, I really do not have the time to do this." Lena laughed harshly.
"No, you never have the time. You only have the time and every moment you have pushing that girl away when she never did anything wrong." Kara hissed, pulling on her arm, making Lena turn to look at her, "Get your head out of your ass and look at what is in front of you!"
Lena crossed her arms, "We argued one night, I was drunk-"
"You strangled her and then she came straight to me because she was terrified! She had nowhere else to go!" Kara snapped, "I don't know why you are like this."
"I'm jealous Kara! I'm jealous that out of all the people she turned to, she turned to you! And she despised you for what? Five minutes?!"
"She has a good heart." Kara said quietly, crossing her arms, "And she's never not going to forgive you for this. She just wishes that you could hug her. Kiss her goodnight...She wants you to tell her that everything will be okay. I may be her mother by biology, but you raised her. You raised her and you are the one that she chooses to call mom."
There was a moment of silence between them.
"She'll be waiting. She will be ready when you are but…Don't leave it too long because this…It's tearing her apart." Kara said, before walking off.
The night Robert died…
Kara floated above Catco, staring down at Lori. She sighed heavily as she landed on the roof.
She slowly walked over to Lori and sat beside her, "Hey."
"Why are you even here?" Lori snapped, "You haven't been there all my life, why bother now?"
"I didn't bother because…With my life as Supergirl…Bringing you into the word and raising you… I soon realized was going to be dangerous…" Kara took a deep breath, "I gave you to Lena because she is my best friend and I trusted her to the ends of the Earth and knew that she would be a great mom."
"She is a great mom." Lori retorted, "She has always been there for me, even when there was a work load at L-Corp, she was always there. I have bad dreams, she's there, I fall and hurt myself, she's there…And even when I'm struggling with homework, she instills a faith in me that I guess others might envy."
Supergirl shrugged, "She sounds like a great mom."
"I can't go near her now I know the truth."
"Blood…" Kara began, "It doesn't bond us…On my planet that was a belief, that blood bonds us all…" She paused, watching as Lori stood up. She looked up at her, "I saw the other day when you came into my workplace that your mother had raised you correctly. You have manners and you know exactly what to say at the right time. I've realized that just because blood bonds us…Blood doesn't make us."
Lori frowned.
Kara laughed nervously, "I am your mom, but I'm not who you see as your mom…Lena, as far as you are concerned, is. That doesn't bother me at all. I don't want you to stop calling her mom just because you know the truth of your biology. I have no right to that title, not yet anyway."
"But you are my mom, my real mom."
"Do you see me that way?" Kara asked her.
Lori was quiet for a second.
Kara got to her feet, "Your powers are going to develop and I will be your guide and if you ever wish to call me your mother, or if you never do, I'm not going to hold that against you. Lena raised you, Lena is, in your eyes your mom and I am not ever going to try and stop you from being her daughter."
"I have to forgive her. She is broken…She didn't mean for any of this, she just did what you asked her to do years ago. I reacted in a way that was selfish…I'll go home and help her like I always did…I'll be my own hero."
Kara's heart skipped a beat, a small smile gracing her lips, "Who taught you that?"
"A friend once told mom to be her own hero and mom told me whenever I was feeling down that I can't be anyone else but myself. Having powers doesn't change that. I could choose to use my powers one day but for now…I like being human…" Lori said, staring into the sky.
"What are you going to do now?" Kara asked her.
"Go home and help my mom. She has always been there for me and I'm never going to give up on her, even if she pushes me away. I won't stop."
"That sounds like a hero to me." Kara smiled.
"Thank you…Kara." Lori said to her with a smile.
"What are friends for?" Kara replied with a smile before Lori leapt into the sky.