It was another 12 hours until Kara eventually woke up. She sat up so fast, it would have given a human whiplash. Her first thought was or Lori. Was She okay? Was she alive? Just as the thoughts began whirring in her mind, Lori called her name.
Kara spun around and was horrified to see her daughter in a cage. Lori hardly fit in there, she was hunched in on herself and appeared to be crying. Kara rushed over to her, "Hey Lori, Lori look at me. We are going to get out of here. I know you never meant for any of this. You were pissed off and I get it. You wanted someone to listen to you. I'm going to get you out of here."
Lori managed to get on her knees somehow after a lot of fidgeting, and she looked into Kara's eyes, "Mom-"
"You're sorry, I know." Kara sighed as she fidgeted with the lock on the cage, "I should be able to yank this off. Why haven't you tried to pull it off yourself?"
Lori lifted her wrist which had a glowing green bracelet on the end of it, "I found it on me when I woke up here."
"Right." Kara growled as she tried to yank the door off herself, "Nothing is working."
Lori sighed, "You're pissed."
"Damn right I'm pissed! You turned to the woman who killed Robert! Or did you forget that ever happened?!" Kara snapped, "This is where being a stroppy teenager gets you! Especially if you're Kryptonian!"
"RAO!" Kara yelled, hitting the metal full-force. Nothing budged. For a long moment, Kara had her back turned towards Lori. The teen spoke up, "I can't make up for this. Especially if anything happens."
Kara scoffed with a laugh, "Damn straight." She then turned to her, "Why Lori? You've done some idiotic things but this? You set up a trap for me! Me of all people. You should have known what she would do."
"I just wanted my life back. My life with me and mom."Lori said slowly, fiddling with her hands nervously.
"What was this Lori? What was your aim in this?"
Lori remained quiet, before Kara angrily stepped up to her, "You better tell me what the hell is going on here or we are both going to end up dead! Lena isn't here now, I am! Either way, I am your mom by default and you can't change it! I never wanted to come between you and Lena! You were happy and had the world! None of this is my fault! No matter how much you believe it is!"
"I wanted you dead!" Lori snapped, "All of this! I set it up! I just-I never realized that I'd end up in my own trap."
Kara laughed cynically, "Don't worry. After all of this, I'm going to leave your life." Her face then snapped back into a stony expression, "The only thing is, it will break your mom's heart because she loves me in a way that she always has. If you hate me that much, I'll go."
Lori fell silent.
What had she done?
Back at L-Corp, Lena was sat drinking a scotch in front of her chess board. She looked up as Lilian walked in, "Where is my girlfriend and my daughter? I know you have them both, so where are they?"
"Having some mom- daughter time. Did you know that Lori set up a trap for her mother, and she only ended up trapped in a trap that she made by herself." Lilian said smugly.
"What do you mean?" Lena said with a frown, "I get that Lori can get angry, but she would never want to hurt Kara."
"I beg to differ." Lilian scoffed, "Your daughter came to me herself and told me all of her plans. Once she did that, I was steps ahead of her. Now they are both talking among themselves. Kara will end up hating Lori and Lori will be begging for her mother's forgiveness."
Lena stood up, anger fuelling her, "This is sick! I get it, she is a stroppy teen but she just wouldn't do that."
"She came looking for me, actively. She came to an alien fighting ring, spoke to Roulette and Roulette brought her to me. We had a very long chat and I said that I would help her. Lori set it all up, only I added an extension and now they are having a very long heart-to-heart."
"You let them go. It's been almost a day. We can sort it out as a family."
"Lori can go, but I must make sure I honour her wishes." Lilian said to her.
"I don't follow."
"Lori asked me to get your girlfriend killed and that's exactly what will happen."
Lena felt fury throughout her whole body, "Maybe she doesn't mean it now. I taught her how much family matters and I know she won't want this, maybe at the time, but now I know for a fact she will be sorry."
"Maybe, this will teach her the consequences of her actions."
Lena shook her head and growled, "Not like this. She loves Kara, I know that. She sure knows the consequences of her actions by being locked up some place."
"Beg." Lilian said to her after a moment.
"What?!" Lena hissed.
Lilian shrugged, "Well, you want them both to be alive by the end of the day. Beg."
"Luthor's do not beg, you taught me that."
"Unless their child is in trouble. Their abomination of a child is in danger." Lilian hissed, "I should have made sure that one bullet killed you."
"Lex is back in prison. That's one thing I'm really happy about." Lena grinned, "Now." She sneered, "Let my child and my girlfriend go."
"You make me sick. I'm so ashamed of you."
"Let them go mother." Lena growled.
"Beg." Lilian sneered.
"Never."
"Fair enough."Lilian sneered, "Your so-called girlfriend and daughter will never see the light of day again." She said, flicking a button on a remote control.
Lena's heart was in her throat, "What-what was that? What did you do?"
Lilian took a breath and held up the remote control, "This my dear daughter, has just turned on deadly Kryptonite emitter. The levels will rise, eventually suffocating them both."
"How long do I have?"
"Look, you either beg or they die. What sort of a mother are you if you let your child die under circumstances that you can so easily prevent?"
"I'm never going to beg you for anything."
"Then, two people you so dearly love will die. What do you care more about Lena? Them or your precious pride?"
Lena glared at Lilian, "You're not going to get away with this."
"Oh, but if you don't beg for their lives, I already have." Lilian said smugly, "So what's it going to be?" She said, pulling out a gun and pointing it at her, "You or them?"
Lena couldn't believe what was happening. She couldn't exactly run out of this situation either. She stared at the gun, and glared at Lilian, "You kill me, Lori loses the one mom she has known for all of her life. You don't, Lori loses her biological mother or her life too."
"Oh what a twist of fate this is." Lilian laughed, "She has another mother either way. You just choose, which mother is more worthy?"
