Seven hours passed since the whole incident. Lori was taking a while to come around. The Kryptonite had more of an impact on her, giving her flu-like symptoms. She stayed asleep for a very long time and had a very high fever. Two yellow sun emitters sat either side of Lori, fuelling her energy back up to the way it was and healing her.
Kara sat beside Lori, stroking her hair gently. Yes, she felt very betrayed by what Lori did but she knew Lori was angry at the time. Though she knew, that doesn't excuse what she did. Kara sighed heavily, "You are more of a Luthor than your mom...as hard as that is to believe..."
Kara looked up when Winn cleared his throat. He stood in the corner and smiled sheepishly, "How is she?"
Kara smiled a little, "She's very ill. I wish I could help her, right now I feel helpless."
"She'll bounce back." Winn said enthusiastically, "She's half Super, half Luthor. She will be okay."
"I'm beginning to believe she is more Luthor than...Me." Kara said with a shrug.
Winn frowned, "How so?"
"She set that trap up." Kara sighed, "I won't tell Lena that, but she did. She turned to Lilian when things got bad and for a moment, she actually wanted me dead."
"So she deals with her problems in a way that she shouldn't. It doesn't mean that she doesn't love you Kara." Winn sighed.
Kara inhaled, her breath catching in her throat, "You've been to the future...What does ours look like?"
Winn swallowed hard, and came to sit on Lori's bed, "You know I can't tell you that Kara. All I can tell you is to think about now. Think about Lori and Lena." He then smiled, "You and Lena are going to get married and that's amazing in itself. You and Lena are the..." He looked to the ceiling, trying to think of the right words before looking back at Kara with a big smile, "You are both a wonderful couple." He then shrugged, "I think it's too soon because her husband has only just died...Maybe it's a coping mechanism, I don't know."
"Neither do I." Kara said quietly, while stroking her daughter's golden locks gently, "I can talk to her about it...Maybe she will open up, maybe she won't-"
"You have to try." Winn said softly, "I'm sure you'll both figure it out."
Kara slowly looked back at Winn before fully adjusting her body to face him. She looked over his face, taking in his beard with dashes of grey, while his hair from the spiked up front had much more grey that actually looked good on him, "Age has been kind to you."
Winn laughed, "Well, you're still like you were when I met you...Twenty three...It looks like you haven't aged." His smile then faded as he looked down, "But trauma has taken it's toll on you."
Kara looked away from him briefly, "Well, losing Alex-"
"How long have you been grieving her Kara?"
Kara's words felt lodged in her throat as she thought about what she was going to say, "Winn..." She sighed.
"I know that it's not my place to say, but I am your family-"
"My only family, well, you've been there from the start..."
"Kara, your family is here under this very roof. Lena, Lori. They are your family." Winn said to her, his voice sounding more broken than he had intended, "Yes, I was there from the start but I've been time travelling...I've seen Lori grow up, but I haven't been there like I should."
"James left when he went to England on a job and then his plane fell out of the sky and I couldn't save it..." Kara's voice trembled, "I caught a plane before, in fact, I have caught many, but I couldn't save him."
"You can't save everyone Kara. You save whatever you can." Winn said softly to her.
"I couldn't save him, I couldn't save Alex. I couldn't even save Kal." Tears were now in Kara's eyes as she spoke, "I keep losing people and I'm so scared of losing what I have left. Lori, Lena. They are all I have now. Eliza died of natural causes and Jeremiah was never seen again." Kara took a deep breath, "Today I almost lost my daughter, I watched her dying in front of me and it almost killed me, I know the Kryptonite was already doing that, but inside...I felt it."
Winn sighed, and pulled Kara into a hug, "You've already lost so much, and so many people that you love. I really am sorry." He rubbed his friend's back softly as she cried on his shoulder, "It'll get better, I promise you that."
"And should Lilian get free again?" Kara asked as she pulled away. She dried her eyes with the back of her hand and noticed the way he hesitated, "Winn?"
"Kara-" He sighed, "Lilian will be the least of your worries."
Kara's heart skipped a beat, "What is that supposed to mean?"
"I've already said too much." He said quickly, scuttling to his feet, "Look, that is all you need to know."
"Winn!" She snapped, standing up, "What does our future look like? At least tell me that Lena and Lori are safe." Kara stared at her friend and saw nervousness written all over his face. She knew whatever it was, was bad.
A second later, Lena appeared in the doorway, "Winslow, what aren't you telling us?"
Winn had never been more terrified, as he looked between the two. He had no way of getting out either, but he doubted Kara would kindly let him leave out of the window. Looking around, Winn was trying to find exits and both of the women knew he was.
Both powerful women had their arms crossed over their chest's as Winn found himself cornered.
"Look, you know I can't tell you the future. If either of you change that fate-" Winn truly panicked, and he waved his arms around as he tried to explain, "There are fixed points in time, if either of you do anything to change what is already written in stone, it won't just effect you. It will touch everyone on this planet and all the others. I can't tell you anything."
Lena stepped closer too Winn, standing level with him. As the tech whizz tried to get away, he found himself backed into a wall. He swallowed the lump that formed in his throat, "You're really scary, did you know that?"
"Being a CEO has it's perks." Lena shrugged, "Spill, now."
"Come on Lena, you're a genius, surely you'd know that interfering with your own timeline would have it's consequences." Winn sputtered.
"I do know that. I just don't believe you when you say it's fixed."
"You haven't been to the future-"
"Yes, but you have and you are going to tell us what happens in that future." Lena said pointedly.
"I can't."
"Can't, or won't?"
Winn glanced at Kara, who only adjusted her crossed arms slightly.
"Spill." Lena said sternly, using her CEO voice, "Or I will find methods and ways of getting the information out of you."
Winn did not like where this was going, "That's funny, Alex used to say the same thing."
"And did she get the information out of you?"
"Yes."
Lena placed one arm above Winn, on the wall, blocking him in. He was swearing internally, "Okay, okay." He gasped, "Just not in here." He said, glancing at Lori who was still soundly asleep.
The CEO lowered her arm slowly, and stepped out of Winn's way. As Winn walked away, Lena glanced at Kara. Kara was close to bursting out laughing, "I know why I love you. You have many perks."
"Tell me about it." Lena smiled.
"He compared you to Alex!" Kara giggled, "Rao, she found ways of getting information out of him, but that was amazing."
"Come on." Lena said, taking Kara's arm. As they exited Lori's room, Lena closed the door behind them.
In the lounge, Winn sat in the single chair that was facing away from the kitchen while both Lena and Kara took the sofa with two seats. Both women crossed their legs at the same time, appearing in sync with each other. Lena then leaned forward, "Okay, so our timelines, how fixed are they?"
"Very-ish, I'm just not that sure yet." Winn said seriously, "Life will be going amazingly for you two...Lori...Things change for her...Let's say she embraces her last name."
Lena did not like where this was going, her posture straightened, "I raised her right...I did everything I could."
Winn sighed heavily, "This thing that happened today. The Kryptonite death trap?"
Kara didn't want Lena knowing the truth, she promised Lori that Lena would never find out. She was horrified that this event was the first to light the way to the future. She clenched her hands together in each other as Winn carried on speaking.
"That trap was Lori's idea, the only problem is, Lilian used it against her. She wanted Kara dead today...I'm really not sure how much I should tell you." Winn sighed heavily, before realizing something, "Although in Doctor Who, The Doctor showed Van Gough his future...But it didn't stop him from ending his own life."
"Winn." Kara butted in, "This isn't Doctor Who, this is here and now."
"There was a point to that." Lena added, before Kara frowned.
"You watch Doctor Who?!" She sounded surprised.
"Despite some of the inaccuracy's, Doctor Who is great. I'm a scientist and a huge nerd." Lena said to her, "Wait until you see Orphan Black, I don't think your brain would be able to get around it." Lena laughed.
"I was a member of the science guild on Krypton, I'm sure I'd get it." Kara scoffed before Winn interrupted, snapping both Kara and Lena back into the present.
"So-" Lena began, "What you're basically saying is that we can try and change it however much we want but whatever Lori does happens anyway?"
"Although." Winn began, "There is a bright side to this."
"Which is?" Kara asks.
"Wait, what does she do?" Lena asked, jumping in, "What does Lori do that is so bad?"
"She uh...She begins to believe in your mother's ideals despite being half alien herself." Winn continued, watching Kara's heavy frown, "Okay, that does not make sense, why would she?"
"Why wouldn't she?" Lena said to her. She could tell that Kara was offended. She turned to face her, "Think about it. She blames you for a hell of a lot of things. Maybe therapy doesn't work and that's how she turns."
"Lena, there are only so many times we can forgive our kid for being screwed up, not when she is twenty-five and a xenophobic idiot." Kara said pointedly, "It sounds hypocritical coming from her considering her DNA."
Lena turns back to Winn, "Will she hate all aliens or just Kara?"
"Lena!" Kara gasped, offended.
"I'm just trying to narrow it down." Lena replied.
"Okay-" Winn said to them in defeat, "It's not a Lori thing. Lori doesn't just suddenly change her feelings towards Kara overnight. It's not- Lilian inserts something into her brain that effectively brainwashes her...There is a bit of a battle but it's not colossal. I mean Kara does end up on the brink of death, again, but she is fine in the end."
"I'm stronger than her." Kara scoffed, "She can actually get hurt, I can't."
"Reign kicked your butt, actually, she served it to you on a platter-hot." Lena retorted.
Kara sighed, "So no matter what we do, I'm getting my ass handed to me by my daughter? I'm not happy about that." She said grumpily, crossing her arms. She stuck her lip out like a child, while Lena laughed at her, "You'll be fine."
"I'm not okay with being humiliated again." Kara sighed, "And when Reign handed my ass to me I ended up in a coma."
"Well, you won't this time." Winn replied, "Just a few broken bones."
Kara winced at the thought.
Winn pulled a small device from his pocket that looked like a phone and both women looked at him, "What is that?" Kara asked.
"I'd hate to tell you this but, all of what I have just told you is a lie. I can't actually tell you your future." Winn said to them, "If I did that, like I said...It'd be dangerous."
Kara and Lena glared at him.
"That was a very clever lie." Lena said to him, "You almost had me fooled, now tell me what actually happens."
"I can't." Winn growled, suddenly taking on a sinister tone that Kara didn't like.
"Winn?"
"Just drop it, the both of you." Winn said to them, now standing. Kara did not like this at all, "Winn, what have you seen?"
"You're better off not knowing Kara!" He snapped at her, "Stop digging."
"No. Because now you're scaring me and this involves my family-"
"NO IT DOESN'T! IT INVOLVES YOU! ALL OF THE FUTURE REVOLVES AROUND YOU AND BELIEVE ME WHEN I TELL YOU, IT ISN'T GOOD!" Winn raised his voice so much that it terrified Kara, making her step back, "Winn-"
Lena watched Winn carefully, her heart in her own throat. The moment Winn left, he slammed the door, leaving Kara stunned.
Tears formed in the Kryptonian's eyes, "I...I get why he wouldn't say anything before...I do something so horrible in the future...I have never seen that look in his eyes before."
"He just turned on you...Like properly turned." Lena said softly to her, "What the hell?"
"Whatever it is, we can't change it." Kara said, turning back to Lena, shrugging, "We can't change it...I can't change the way he looks at me."
"Kara...That...The way he turned...That was like that day in the office after Mon-El left the first time and you snapped...You had PTSD...I think whatever Winn has witnessed, just then I think in his head he saw something truly horrific and...That was you."
Kara did not like the way any of this was looking, "Me?"
"You do something in the future...Something truly awful."
"But I wouldn't..." Kara gasped.
"The world has seen you on Red Kryptonite." Lena said pointedly, "What if you get infected again by that...Or something worse?"
Kara stared Lena in the eyes, and knew everything she was saying was true. She tore her eyes away when Lori appeared in the hallway.
"Where's Winn?" Lori asked as she was stifling a yawn with her hand.
"He had to leave honey." Lena said, standing up, "What do you want for dinner?"
Kara cleared her throat, "I'm going to go for some flying."
"I'll order something in." Lena called back, but she had already vanished.
The Luthor sighed heavily. She felt awful for Kara and wanted to know so much information. Information they'd have to find out on their own.