Two weeks ago…
Lori was sleeping peacefully, the time on the clock was 5:30am. Kara walked into the room and smiled down at her sleeping daughter. The Kryptonian had an hour until Lena would wake up. That is when the idea popped into her head. She would have to stop Lena from trying to get to Lori, should she wake up when Lori is being dragged away.
Kara smoothed down her blouse and walked into Lena's bedroom. She too was asleep. As Kara approached, she saw the bruises on Lena's neck and smiled seemingly proud of marking the woman in front of her. A content sigh left her as she reached into her back pocket and pulled out a pair of handcuffs with a slightly longer chain than normal cuffs.
Gently, she picked up Lena's right wrist, all the while keeping her eyes on Lena to ensure that she wouldn't wake her. Lena moved slightly in her sleep and with the change in her heartbeat, Kara knew she was going to wake up soon.
"REM." Kara said quietly to herself as she placed Lena's wrist back down. Gently, she stood back up and moved away from Lena. Then she made her way to the bedside draw on the otherside of the bed. There, she pulled out a syringe, popping the top off. Kara eyed the other woman carefully as she knelt beside her. Lena's hair was moved out of the way of her neck and just as she woke up, Kara shoved the needle into her neck, making Lena gasp with pain.
Kara had the most determined face. She kept Lena pinned down while the woman fought beneath her grip. "Ssh." Kara quietly hushed as she stroked her neck, lulling Lena back to sleep. A huge smile swept across her face, "Everything will be okay soon. It will be."
In that moment, she heard a floorboard creek. Her smile instantly left her face and she glared. She was not happy about being caught. Kara ran a hand through her long blonde curls, and faced Lori with a bitter look on her face.
"You have an hour. Go back to bed." She waited. Lori still didn't move. Kara guessed that her mouth was hanging open in that moment. With a shrug, she turned and faced Lori, "Your mom wasn't very well. I gave her medication and now she will be okay."
Lori decided to speak up, "You just sedated her…" Her brows furrowed, "Why mom?"
"Why are you an annoying brat?" Kara retorted before there was a knock at the door. A smug smile crossed her face and she gave Lori a really bitter look, "That's for me. Get dressed. You're staying with your gran and before you say no. You don't get a choice."
"What the hell has happened to you?" Lori gasped, "You and mom screwed last night-"
"We had sex Lori, it's not a dirty word. You should try it sometimes, maybe then you won't be so…insufferable."
Lori took her glasses off and activated her heat vision and in turn, Kara activated hers too, "I wouldn't dare!" She snapped, "Get dressed, do as you are told and nothing more will be said."
Lori backed down with her powers but refused to do as Kara said, "I'm not leaving mom!"
Just then, Lilian walked in. A syringe that contained Kryptonite was clutched at her right side, "Good morning Lori." The woman said with a smug grin, "You owe me a favor and if taking you will make Lena embrace her inner Luthor, that will have to do."
Lori looked between both Kara and Lilian, "You two don't team up. You and Lilian never team up." The teen was very skeptical. She then turned her attention to Lilian, "What the hell did you do to my mom?"
Lilian shrugged, "I have no idea what you are talking about." There was a pause, "So, which way are we going to do this? Are you going to come willingly?"
"Your know the answer to that." Lori said with sarcasm, "I'm not leaving Lena."
Kara and Lilian exchanged looks. It sent a shiver down Lori's spine.
The older Luthor took a deep breath, "Well, if you are so adamant on staying, I guess we will have to take you with force and punish you like your so-called mother never could."
Before Lori could think another thing, Kara had Lori restrained, only Lori was resisting and fighting back. Lori punched Kara across the room and managed to get to her feet and out of the door. The parasite inside of Kara made her faster than what she would normally be.
Lori was dragged back into the room, and forced to her knees, with Kara kneeling on the backs of her legs, causing her to cry out in pain. On top of that were her arms in an awkward position behind her back which also hurt like hell. Nevertheless she persisted and carried on trying to fight the woman off, only making it hurt more.
With her free hand, Kara pulled Lori's blonde hair out from the side of her neck and smiled menacingly, "You should have done as you were told." There was a pause and Lori whimpered as tears streamed freely down her face, "I'm not going to lie." The woman carried on, "This will hurt."
"I think we need to keep you as quiet as possible." Lilian said to Lori, standing over her almost like a God. Her glowing syringe was in her right hand, full of Kryptonite.
"Please." Lori begged in between whimpers. She tried to keep her movements small because it hurt her to move, "Please, don't do this. I'll do what you want, please just don't do this."
Lilian raised her brows, "You will do what we want, that's one thing you are right about. From today you and your mother aren't allowed to see each other at all. You see each other on my terms and my terms only. Maybe twice a year." Lilian then keeled down to Lori, "In the next couple of weeks, you will be moving away where Lena can't find you. You'll grow up, go to college and graduate without her there. You will become a scientist. Not a worthless baker or a writer. You have more potential than that. Lori, if you were purely alien you would be dead by now, but you are family and my granddaughter." Lilian put her index finger beneath Lori's chin and smiled at her, "You will join CADMUS. You'll be a scientist and worth something and eventually you will learn that you never needed Lena. You only needed me."
Lori glared at her, struggling to keep herself together. She kept her ground anyway, "I will never join CADMUS!" She then spat at Lilian, making Lilian slap her across the face so hard that it echoed across the apartment.
Kara tightened her grip on Lori as Lilian walked across the apartment. She found a towel and wiped her face before findng some tape in the kitchen drawer. "Now, I don't care what you want." Lilian hissed with fire in her eyes. Now she was pissed. She didn't care what she was about to do. She didn't care that Lori was about to feel unimaginable pain. Lori would listen, she would be Lilian's.
Once again, she knelt in front of Lori and put the tape across her mouth, "A suitable punishment for scum like you!" She growled, tossing the roll of tape to the side. She picked up the glowing syringe, and as she did Lori fought against Kara's grip and nothing became of it.
Kara tilted Lori's neck to the side and smiled down at her just as the needle of the syringe was stabbed into her neck. Lilian decided to torture Lori as a suitable punishment by putting the tiniest of amounts in at a time in between slightly bigger doses that made her scream.
Lori's veins in her neck glowed a brilliant green, and it rose up her cheeks and into the veins of her eyes. The whole time, she was struggling and screaming. Eventually the screaming stopped as exhaustion kicked in, but still, Lilian refilled the syringe twice over until there were no more tears left to cry.
As Lilian was half-way down the third syringe, Lori would only groan in pain while her muscles would spasm from jolts of pain. Kara had to let go of her while Lilian was halfway through the third syringe. She lowered Lori to the floor and tied her hands behind her back, and her feet too were attached to the same wire.
She literally could not move.
The teen was aware of what was going on but couldn't move. She felt paralyzed.
Lilian stroked her hair gently while still injecting the liquid slowly, "You have to learn…Lena isn't your mother. She is your aunt and she is not going to be there for you in the future. I am. Me and your real mom, Kara. We are all you need." Lilian's voice was surprisingly soft with no mirth, just kindness.
Not that Lori cared. She was too exhausted to care about anything. She felt everything inside burning. Her neck burned, her cheeks and her eyes too. Both eyes now glowed green, along with her right arm, her chest and her right thigh. How she wasn't dead was beyond her.
In the next room, Kara finished handcuffing Lena to the bed. She felt her hand stinging and as she looked down, she noticed it glowing green. She shook it, knowing it was only from being near Lori, that this was happening to her.
She sat beside Lena on the bed and stroked her cheek, "We will all be a family again one day."
….
Lori woke up 48 hours later and found herself in a double bed in a very big, lavish bedroom. She sat up slowly, feeling still incredibly weak. As she sat up, she grabbed her glasses from the dresser and put them on. Everything ached, and she felt sick.
Sun emitters were placed around her to help her heal, and there were cameras in every corner of the room that Lori hadn't yet noticed. The teen swung her legs over the side of the bed and felt something jiggling on her ankle. She frowned at the item before noticing the small plate of green on the inside. When she touched it, the whole thing lit up green making her jerk her hand away. Lori sighed heavily, "Great, a Kryptonite tag."
"You're awake I see." A voice echoed around the large room. Lilian entered, wearing a black coat and everything else she wore was also black, "How are you feeling?"
Lori ran a hand through her hair, "Like you care." She huffed.
"Well, of course I care, you're my granddaughter." Lilian said, as she sat beside Lori, "And I know the next few months will be hard, being without Lena but it is for both hers and your own good. In a few years after college, you'll see why I did this."
Lori frowned, "You want me to join CADMUS." She sounded exasperated, "Unlike you, I don't hate beings of a different kind to myself because I am one of them."
"An alien." Lilian said with a cold tone, "Yes, you are an alien. Your my granddaughter. You belong to Lex and yes your actual mother is that blonde goody-two shoes but you need to embrace who you really are."
"A Super." Lori spat out.
Lilian took a breath, "You are more Luthor than you realise."
"How? How am I more Luthor?" Lori snapped.
"You set up a trap for Kara. You wanted her dead and gone. You came to me and wanted me to help you."
"Then I realised that I couldn't live without her." Lori retorted, "And you turned my trap against me."
"Yes…I regret that…Because I know Lori." Lilian took Lori's hand, making Lori lock eyes with her. Lilian then carried on, "I know that you are smarter than you believe and we can find a place for you within CADMUS. You'll graduate with a science degree and you will restart LuthorCorp."
"I can't restart LuthorCorp. Luthorcorp is L-Corp and I'm not going to do that to Lena." She snapped.
"Lena?" Lilian asked, before smiling slightly, "We are on the right path. Get dressed. We have much to do today."
Lori sighed heavily as Lilian left. She looked on the end of the bed and saw a hoodie embroiled with the LuthorCorp logo on it. There was a neatly folded black T-Shirt and some black jeans too. This was her life now and she could not escape it.
Tears threatened to escape her eyes as she began thinking about Lena but she quickly started thinking about something else. For now, she found it better not to think about Lena. It made her life without her slightly easier and until she saw Lena again, that's exactly how she was going to live no matter how much it broke her heart.