The conversation between sisters hadn't been the calmest and her emeralds watched from a distance as the Director had walked out for the third time that day and both Danvers prepared for battle in the city leaving her flicking her own nails between one another realizing she'd picked up some of her best friend's wretched habits. She walked over to Brainy at the command center round table and her eyes stayed glued to the screen that luckily thanks to hers and her new friend's hacking they had been able to get feed of the fight.

"Aircheck?" They heard Supergirl say after Brainy had reminded her of little boxes when it came to James. That would be a discussion for later with the masked Guardian.

"90%." He told her. Lena looked at him shaking her head.

"That's still lethal if the suit fails." She told her and felt her stomach drop some. "You need to back off. You need to try and conserve." Lena's voice was filled with the emotions she'd done her best to hold back but she could no longer prevail in that aspect.

"Just gotta handle one more thing.." Her voice of determination had Lena chomping at the bit. This wasn't what the suit was made for. But on the screen the battle had been going in her favor until the creature started firing things at her and each hit the Luthor heard the struggle in Kara's grunts and huffs. Then her body was forced to its knees and the panic was back in Supergirl's voice. "What's happening.."

"The suits taking too much damage, so power is being diverted to life support." Lena knew what that meant and holding her phone tightly she recalled what she'd watched just a couple hours before. "C'mon Alex.."

"I'll give you a jump." Alex was on the scene and everyone in the command center saw their Director on top of things. "You're gonna wanna hold still." The blast was directed at the Super in Lena's suit and with the charge fueling what Lena had given the hero Kara was back in action almost instantly.

"Thanks for the charge.." Her voice was filled with gratitude and she stood to deliver a solid uppercut to the man that had attacked her. He went down hard from the air and she was relieved but then she felt her movements stalling. "What...what's happening now.."

"...the whole systems failing.." Lena's panic was rising as was her best friend's and she knew that if anyone else attacked Kara, there would be grave results. She clenched her phone even tighter.

"The suits locking down...I can't move.." Lena's emeralds shook as much as her hands. Then she heard other voices besides Kara's and Alex's and she knew what that meant.

"...there's kryptonite in the air still right? So what happens if I pull the trigger?"

"No! Stop!" Alex's voice was laced with panic and danger.

"Air check." Kara's voice was barely staying calm. Her vitals were in danger. She'd been out there far too long.

"The atmosphere is 99% clear." Brainy told her.

"Why are you protecting her! Why are you protecting any of them?!" Lena was losing her ability to stay on point. Her eyes were glued to the screen and she saw the gun aimed at Supergirl's head. The suit wasn't enough to protect a kryptonian without that strength the sun usually gave her. A single tear had slipped from one of her eyes to roll down her left cheek. This wasn't how it was supposed to go. She wasn't supposed to lose the one person in her life that had filled her darkness with nothing but pure love and light. She shut her eyes and when Brainy had announced the atmosphere was a hundred percent clear everything happened far faster than she could fathom and once again she forgot to breathe.

Their were roars and claps around her and on the screen they all watched as the Director and Supergirl clasped forearms and patted each other on the shoulder. For Lena, those sounds weren't present. Her ears rung her breathing was ragged her heart pounding in her chest. It was too close, far too close. She had to leave the command center and take off down one of the halls. When she was far enough away from everyone stepping into the sun bed room she went to the corner putting one hand on the wall and dropping her head with her entire frame shaking.

Lena couldn't stop the tears then. All those little boxes in that one giant one were spilled out their container falling to pieces. Those tiny cubes began to disintegrate to dust. The contents of them all leaking out where the tears flowing freely down her face released what they had. She shut her eyes tightly and collapsed down the wall to fall to her knees. Her phone still in her hand now dropping to the floor where her body curled up on. The moment it did the video she'd watched over and over began to play and her sight was pulled in by it once more.

"..Yeah it seems like the LONGEST TIME..

For me to GET IT RIGHT..

Yeah you live and you learn!"

The screen had two friends soaked from playing in the ocean tides along the beach in their bathing suits. Andres on the rocks with his keyboard singing out his song while the two girls looked deep into one another's eyes with one with a hand on the others face. Their eyes flickering to their lips then solid gazes leaning closer and closing that final distance. The tempo picking up the music filling the room she was in as her emerald hues kept watching the screen seeing the chemistry finally pour out with these two friends that were so much more.

Lena couldn't look away and she hadn't even realized there was someone in the doorway walking quietly up to her with her back still to them. She felt a shift behind her and then a set of warm arms were around her body her back pressed against the one holding her with a set of lips beside her ear and Lena knew exactly whom it was. The sweet scent so very Kara enveloped her nostrils and she breathed in that beautiful aroma setting the phone down still playing the video and her hands came up to grab the arms that held her tight but not too tight.

"Thank you Lee." Kara spoke softly against her best friend's ear. She nuzzled the side of her face against Lena's. "You had said before….not to fall. But I can't not fall...when it comes to you." Lena's own heart began to pound harder against her chest after skipping a few beats. She felt the arms around her squeeze a little tighter. "I know I lied to you, kept things from you." Kara slipped one arm away and reached down to grab the phone and restart the video. "I liked this most, because of how it begins. Someone smiling with a little message on her phone. That someone going out to the balcony to see her friend waiting for her in her jeep."

"It's us." Lena responded finally.

"Both of us free, just enjoying each other's company as the music plays behind us." Kara continued. "I don't know exactly where I'll land...though I know where I'm at and.."

"I'm not turning back.."

"...but it's crazy that.."

"For so long..oh how I didn't know where...I was going I was long gone...defeated and out of air…" Lena sang with her and slowly turned in her arms so both of them were facing one another with Kara's arm around her back now. They listened to the song continue and Kara reached up to softly slip her fingers over Lena's cheek slipping them into her hair above her ear running down those strands. "Yeah it seemed like the longest time..for me to get it right…"

Kara looked deeply into those beautiful emeralds that sparkled before her own ceruleans closing the distance she'd wanted to for so long embracing Lena's soft plush lips with hers eliciting a gasp then the softest of moans with the kiss no longer just one sided. She felt Lena's hand in her hair pushing their faces against each others. One tilted their head some to deepen the kiss that swept them both up in the passion of it.

Lena felt as if her deepest bottled up feelings were completely poured out by the reciprocated embrace so very two sided with so much love and depth to it that her heart just flooded with that love Kara gave her. Lena returned that love mustering up all of the feelings she'd been without for so so long. The need of air forced the kiss to be broken but not forgotten as they looked in one another's eyes and then the smiles they both shared.

Their gazes slipped down to the screen at the video then returned to each other's, smiles still so very much there even bigger with them both chuckling. Each a hand in their hair the other with fingers intertwined. Lena was first to break the stare as she rolled her eyes sighing.

"What is it Lee?" Kara asked curious why the eye roll.

"This will be fun to break to Olsen." Lena sighed again. She then smiled and shook her head to look back into the beautiful blues of her whole world. "We learned finally."

"How to live." Kara smiled and kissed her best friend again.

From the doorway Alex watched the two, contemplating when to give Miss Luthor that well versed shovel talk. It could wait. She knew that it was about time her sister lived for more than just articles and Super duties. Kara needed to love, and be loved by more than just her big sister and DEO boss. Maybe now that Kara got the guts to take charge, maybe Lena would learn not to be such a hard ass. Alex smirked at that bringing a hand to her face to try to stifle her laughter. It didn't work as the two women broke their kiss to look her way.

"Damn…I owe Susan fifty bucks.." Two eyebrows flicked up at her. "Just...resume your...yeah." Alex waved her hand turning to walk away.

"Guess someone besides my sister wasn't clueless as much as I was." Kara shared making Lena giggle. "Okay so I can be dense."

"A whole office of flowers. A whole company swept up from that ass?" Lena smirked.

"Okay okay….I was a little more than dense." Lena slid her hand to Kara's face tracing her fingers over the hero's lips. "Like dumb dense."

"Shush Darling. Just kiss me." Kara smiled nodded and did just that..

- The strongest of fires hold no burn but warmth. Embraced by it we learn even more how to live. I have lived to learn more of you my soulmate. How we learn more of one another everyday and live stronger knowing it will all be okay_

-Enigmea-