A few more days passed by and I was bored out of my mind. I heard someone outside the door. It opened and revealed Caitlin. She walked over to the glass door and sat down. She stared at me. "No lecture?" I joked somberly. She shook her head. "No, no lecture."

"Really? I was expecting the 'I'm disappointed in your actions and you need to be smarter than this' lecture. I haven't had that one in a while."

She smiled sadly. "No, Kay. I would never be disappointed in you. Besides, I told you I got locked up for a while too. I understand what you're doing."

"Really? Then can you tell me? Because I may or may not fully understand it."

She gave me a small smile. "You're proving that you're telling the truth. You're allowing yourself to be at their mercy, and soon you will call their bluff." She explained. "Well, it better be sooner rather than later, I'm so bored."

"Be patient, it'll be fine."

"Thanks, Cait. I appreciate the support, especially now. The only two people who have come down here were you and Bruce. I guess family doesn't mean much to them right now."

"Lucy isn't allowing anyone in. She's trying to keep your imprisonment under wraps. No contact to others, especially your family. Everyone that knows had to sign a contract of confidentiality. Bruce and I had to pull a lot of strings to get in here. It took a while for Lucy to finally give Bruce and I access to your cell."

"How did you do that?"

"Well, Bruce is a millionaire who has had a lot of experience around your cousin, so he was allowed in before I was. And I got in because I'm a bio-engineer so I convinced them to let me in to take a sample of your cells."

"They think that something is wrong with me on a cellular level? How stupid can they be? I told them the truth and they try to make up something so that they feel better." I huffed. "They're just in shock. They'll come around. Don't give up hope Kay. Everything will resolve itself."

I finally noticed that someone was waiting to come in and talk with me. Caitlin and I looked over to the person and I saw Alex standing there. Caitlin took this as her queue to leave.

Alex stared at me some more before walking hesitantly to the glass. "What did you come in here for?" I asked. She waited a few seconds before replying. "Did you mean what you said?"

"Huh?"

"What you said when you barged into our meeting a few days ago. Did you mean it when you don't consider yourself a Danvers? That you don't want to be Kara Danvers, or Supergirl?" She asked. My heart clenched. I dropped my head and sighed. "Alex-" I started. "No, I get it." She stood up.

My head snapped up and I watched as she started to walk back to the door. "No, Alex, wait!" I shouted and ran to the glass door. "Alex, what I said, what I did. It was-" Suddenly, 4 heavily armed guards wearing military fatigues, walked into the room.

Alex looked over at me nervously. "What the hell?" I asked. Lucy and some high-ranking officer walked into the room. "What's going on, Lucy?" Alex asked. "Step aside Agent Danvers. This is government business regarding national safety." Lucy commanded.

Alex held her ground. "What are you doing?" Alex asked firmly. "Step aside, Agent Danvers. Before one of my men hold you back." The officer stated. She didn't move. A second later, two of the guards had Alex on the ground, pinned. "Alex! Leave her alone! She didn't do anything." I yelled.

The door to my cell swung open. The remaining 2 guards walked into the cell with kryptonite cuffs. They slapped on the 2 pairs of cuffs onto my wrists. "Kara Zor-El, you are being removed from the facility as I deem you a danger to yourself and everyone here." Lucy stated mechanically. I furrowed my eyebrows together in confusion. Something was wrong with Lucy.

Alex jumped up and punched the officer. She rushed to me. "No, Lucy please! Don't take her! She's not a danger! Please!" Alex cried. One of the other guards punched Alex in the face. She stumbled back. I jumped between Alex and the guards and stood tall.

"Leave her alone! I'll go willingly. Don't hurt her!"

"Kara." I heard Alex whimper. I turned back to her. Alex's nose was gushing blood. "It's okay, Alex."

I offered my wrists in surrender. The guards attached chains to my wrists and pulled me from the room. Alex shouted after me. "NO! LUCY NO!" I was escorted down the halls.

Winn, Cisco, and Caitlin watched as I was loaded into a military truck and strapped down like an animal. Worry were on all their faces. I tried to put on a brave facade, but I knew they could see through it.

The door slammed in my face and the diesel truck took off. I could hear Alex and the others shouting at the fleeing trucks.

I bowed my head and sighed in defeat. The guards snickered as the truck continued to race down the road. "You don't think I've been through worse?" I snarled. He laughed. "No, but we hope you have fun." I stared down at the cuffs locked onto my wrists. I heard rustling from the guards and I glanced up. They were pulling on gas masks. Seconds later, there was a hissing noise and I could smell something in the air. I was exhausted and fell unconscious moments later.

I woke up some time later strapped to a table. I tried to pull away from the restraints, but nothing happened. Wasn't I stronger now? I frowned and looked around. The facility I was being held in was extremely run down and dingy. Lights flickered and popped. The air smelled moldy. I could see dirt collecting on the ground.

"Hello Kara." A voice purred venomously. I looked up and saw Lillian Luthor grinning down at me.

"Lillian? How the hell did you get out? The last I heard was that you and your lackeys were locked up at the DEO. That Cadmus was permanently shut down." I stated. "Oh, I had some inside help. All it took was some 'convincing' of a certain officer in charge of alien law enforcement and detainment."

"Lucy. What did you do to her?" I asked. Lillian shrugged. "Nothing much, she just needed a stern 'talking to' and she saw the error of trusting you. You did kill her father, after all."

"No, that wasn't me."

"Lucy thinks otherwise."

"What did you do to her? I know that she wouldn't follow in her father's footsteps."

Lillian only smiled down at me brighter. "Now, I think we got a little off topic. I think we should be back on track, don't you think?" She reached down onto a silver tray by my side and pulled up a knife. "No." My stomach tightened and I was going to be sick. I tried to pull away from the restraints again.

Lillian laughed. "There is no way for you to escape. Lucy reported everything on you. We know everything about your little power upgrade. We made sure that you can't escape now."

She raised the knife. "Tell me if this hurts." She plunged the blade down into my thigh. I cried out in pain. She pulled the blade from my leg. "Very good. As you can tell, not only did we make sure that the metal securing you to the table was more Nth metal, but this whole room is laced with synthetic kryptonite. You can't get out, no one can get in, and you are powerless here."

"Why are you doing this? Why come after me again? C-Cadmus is gone." I asked. I panted as she slashed the knife against my forearm and I cried out again. I bit my lip harshly and tears rushed down my face. I could taste blood and smell iron from my wounds. She spun the point of the knife on my shoulder as she explained. "Cadmus needed a fresh start, and someone contacted me with a deal. Kill the Girl of Steel, and get what I need to resurrect Cadmus. Two birds, one stone."

Lillian continued to torture me on the table. My body was shaking and I felt like ice. I could tell that Lillian was getting frustrated. "Why won't you just give up?" She growled. I sneered at her. "T-this is noth-ing." I coughed. She pulled the knife away from my cheek and threw it to the ground. Lillian walked out of my field of view. I heard more footsteps and the door opening. Lucy walked into my vision. Her face was emotionless, her body oddly stiff.

Lillian slapped a knife into Lucy's hand. "Take her out." Lillian commanded. My heart froze as Lucy stared down at the knife. Lillian crossed her arms. "Remember Lucy, this is the creature that is responsible for your father's death and why your sister is never around. Superman took her from you. Now you can take revenge on him. On their family. Don't you want justice?"

Lucy tightened her grip on the handle and Lillian smiled. Lillian then turned and headed for the door. "Take you time, if you want to, Lucy. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity." And with that, Lillian walked out of the room.

My heart started to race faster. Lucy stared down at the long blade clutched into her hand. "Lucy, Lucy look at me." She ignored me.

"Please Lucy." I pleaded and she finally met my eyes.

"I don't know what Lillian and Cadmus did to you. But I do know what you are feeling right now. You want revenge. And I get it. I take full responsibility. I know how loss feels, how rage feels. How it festers like an open wound. And you think that the only way to cure it is to serve cold hard revenge."

I took a shaky breath. "It is spiteful, unforgiving. Satisfying the emptiness in your soul. There is something that you don't know about it. How it is pointless, excessive. Its appealing now because you are clouded by hatred and rage. It appeals to the dark sense of revenge. Something that you always thought that was never inside you, until now. But it isn't the way to go. I know this from experience. You will regret it as soon as you go through with this."

"Enough!" She barked and raised the knife above my heart. I panted and laid my head back on the cold table. "Lucy, please, you don't want to do this." I cried.

She raised the knife higher and it began its decent. I felt the tip hit my skin and start to dig in. "Can you afford to lose you humanity in a single moment? Could you afford to never get it back? Is humanity something that you can leave forever?" I spoke hurriedly. The tip started to plunge itself deeper into my skin. She was going to take her time to kill me.

"Humanity is something that ties us to others. It allows us to show empathy. As soon as you kill in cold blood, you will lose it. And if you truly want to kill me, then I want to see you do it. I want to see it in your eyes. Show me you truly want me dead. But this, this isn't you. Because I know you, Lucy Lane, and this is not you."

Blood began to pool around the penetration point. "And if this is not you, then fight back whatever is making you do this." I grimaced at the pain. "I know you can. Please." I cried.

Tears rushed down my face and I closed my eyes. I thought of Barry and Alex, and Eliza and J'onn, and the others as the pain amplified exponentially. This is the end.

The pain suddenly stopped growing and I heard a gasp and the knife clattering to the floor. I opened my eyes. Lucy was looking down at her hands with shock and horror. Her face finally held emotion and her eyes seemed clear.

I released a large breath. "Oh thank Rao." I exhaled. Lucy's eyes snapped over to me. "My god! Kara! I'm so sorry! I couldn't control it! I thought I was going to kill you!" She sobbed. "Take a breath, Lucy. It's okay. Just get me off this table before Lillian gets back."

She quickly undid the locks and helped me sit up. "Are you okay?" She looked down at the wound above my heart. I covered it with my hand. "I don't know. Everything is a little fuzzy."

"That must be from all the blood loss." She looked around the room. She reached out, grabbed some gauze on the silver table and wrapped all the cuts and deep slashes.

Lucy pulled me to my feet. "Come on. Let's get you out of here." She supported my side and we jogged sluggishly down the halls of Cadmus.

An alarm started to go off. "I think they know that you changed sides." I stated as we went down a long hall. At the end, there were 7 Cadmus guards. "Can we take them?" She asked. I shook my head. "Not in this condition. It'll end up being 7 on 1."

"Why aren't you healing? We're out of the kryptonite room."

"I haven't been exposed to much sunlight lately. Someone had me in a kryptonite cell." I teased poorly. "Now is not the time for this." Lucy stated and pulled me into another hall.

We rushed down it to get to the end with a door labeled exit. We pushed through the door and was greeted by moonlight. "Damn it," Lucy cursed. "I was hoping that it would be day."

"We can still take them, Lucy."

"How? Didn't you just say that it would be a 7 on 1 situation not even 2 minutes ago?"

"I can fight. Just not for long."

The door slammed open behind us and Cadmus guards started to charge. "I guess we have no choice." The first guard made it to me. With all the adrenaline running through my injured body, I took him down quickly. I grabbed the radio from his hip and threw it to Lucy. "Call for help!" I shouted and tackled the guard that was about to shoot Lucy.

I continued to fight as Lucy called in for backup. The adrenaline in my body started to run out and I was pinned to the ground.

"L-Lucy!" I cried faintly. She looked around until her eyes landed on me. The guard continued to pummel me until Lucy kicked him off. I tried to fight off the black spots dancing in my vision. I reached out for Lucy, but I could barely hold up my hand. My head hit the ground and I couldn't move it. My body was exhausted. I heard the door slam open again and more guards rushed out.

There was shouting and I felt myself being picked up. I opened my eyes, which I didn't know I shut, and noticed that I was over someone's shoulder. "L-Lucy?" I asked. Someone grabbed my hand. "I'm here Kara. We got away. We're headed back to the DEO. Hold on." I nodded and closed my eyes.

I listened to the commotion around me and we ended up at the DEO med bay. The solar lamps were shinning down on my skin. I placed my hand over my heart and sighed. We made it.

I pushed the pane of solar panels out of my way so I could sit up. "Whoa, whoa, take it easy Miss Zor-El. You haven't been under the lamps for long." Derek stated. I looked up at him. "Miss Zor-El?" I asked. He nodded slowly. "I heard what happened at the meeting."

My shoulders slumped. "Oh, you don't have to call me that."

"Then what should I call you?"

"Kara is fine. The whole Danvers/Zor-El last name thing is a bit complicated at the moment."

He smiled. "Of course, Kara." He walked over to me and looked down to my chest. "May I?" His cheeks reddened slightly. I held back a smile. "Yeah." He pulled back the bloodied bandages over my heart and revealed healed skin. He then checked my thigh and other larger cuts. They were all healed or almost healed. "I don't think I'll ever get used to that." He stated. "I'll try to not make it a habit to come here then."

He crossed his arms. "I think you already have."

We both laughed for a second before he turned serious. "I want you either here recharging or out in the sun. Even though you are healed, I want you to be 100%. So, if you are out in the sun and it goes down. You are under these lamps. And if you get stir crazy in the day, you are outside. Got it?"

I frowned. "I have an agent posted with you most of the time. She will report to me every 2 hours." He stated and walked away. "Wait, she?" I called out.

"She." A new voice answered. Alex walked into my field of view. "Looks like I'm the lucky babysitter, huh?" She tried to joke. I looked away from her. "Kara?" I closed my eyes for second. "No, get out. I don't want to talk to you." Her small smile fell from her face and she dropped her head.

She was about to walk out, but J'onn walked into the room. She stood behind him and tried to hide the fact that she was still in the bay. "Kara, how are you feeling?" He asked. "Weak, tired. The standard feeling that comes with a visit to Cadmus." I stated dully. He sighed. "Kara, about Cadmus-" He started, but I cut him off. "Where is Lucy? Is she okay?"

"She's fine."

"Where is she, J'onn?"

"We have her locked in a cell." He finally informed.

"What? No, you have to let her out!"

J'onn rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Kara, we can't do that. Cadmus had control of her. She released Lillian and the other leaders behind Cadmus. And she sent you to Cadmus. Had you tortured. Are you not recalling this?"

"J'onn. None of this was her fault. She tried to control it, but whatever had her, was strong. I broke her out of it before she-" I paused. "Kara?" Alex seemed concerned. "Kara? What did she almost do?" J'onn questioned.

I bit my lip and looked away. "Kara?" Alex repeated. "She- she almost stabbed me." I pulled back my shirt to show the mark above my heart. "Lillian was torturing me. Trying to get me to break. She saw that it wasn't working. So, Lillian had Lucy sent in. She brought up the fact that her father was dead because of me. Lillian gave Lucy a knife and left the room." I swallowed thickly and closed my eyes. "I could see Lucy deciding on how to kill me. I was totally helpless. Strapped to a table in a Kryptonite filled room. She finally grasped the knife and brought it above her head."

"I thought-I thought I was ready to die. The knife came down so quickly. I felt it pierce my skin. Something snapped inside me and I knew I wasn't ready to join my parents in the Light of Rao. It's funny, on Terram Two, I always thought I was ready to enter Rao's Light, but I was wrong. So wrong."

I smiled to myself sadly before continuing. "I tried to reason with her. I told her that if this was her, then I wanted to see the desire to kill in her eyes. But if this wasn't her actions, then I wanted Lucy to fight it. I broke through to her in the last few seconds."

I opened my eyes. "As soon as she broke through the control, she immediately told me that it wasn't her actions. That Cadmus did something to her. You have an innocent person locked up." J'onn shook his head. "I'm sorry Kara. But I can't do anything. The government heard about the attack on you and they are about to evaluate and arrest her for attempted murder."

I pushed myself up from the bed and through J'onn and Alex. They chased after me as I jogged to the holding cells. I opened the doors and saw a few military men going to open the cell door and arrest Lucy. They turned and saw me bursting through the exterior door. "Supergirl? You can't be here. Major Lane is a personal security risk to you, and possibly others." A man stated.

Hey guys, sorry this is late. I have been very busy in the last few days. I finally got some time to post and I wanted to make sure that I actually did instead of waiting for tomorrow, which will probably be just as busy. Oh well, that's life right? Anyway, I'll see you in the next chapter. ~Raya Kor-El