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“Good work Supergirl.” Alex smirked as her sister landed with a light thud on the balcony of the DEO.
Kara let out a sigh and smiled at Alex, “Attempted robbery.” She shrugged nonchalantly, “Not as exciting as battling aliens on main street but I guess having a slow week around here isn’t such a bad thing.”
Alex nodded and turned to walk back into the DEO, Kara trailing behind her, “For once everything is calm and right in National City.” She silently reprimanded herself immediately after the words left her mouth, hoping that they wouldn’t jinx it and instantly send the city into its usual chaos.
“Does that mean my duties are done for the night?” Kara asked hopefully.
“Why?” Alex stopped walking and narrowed her eyes at the superhero curiously, “You have plans or something?”
“Not really.” Kara responded, “Hungry.” The blonde added truthfully, knowing that Alex would have something to say about what she was actually planning on doing and wanting to avoid having to hear it, “I was going to pick up some Chinese and drop by L-Corp.”
Alex gave Kara a look, “You’ve been spending a lot of time there lately.”
“I need a quote from her anyways for the piece I’m working on.” Kara informed her sister with a shrug, “I figured I’d make a night out of it. You know how Lena is.” She waved off, starting to slowly walk away from her sister, “She gets so caught up in her work she forgets to eat. Which is personally offensive to me.” Kara admitted much more seriously.
“Kara.” Alex warned, crossing her arms, “Just be careful okay.”
Kara stopped, a small huff of irritation coming from her mouth as she put her hands on her hips, “What is that supposed to mean?”
Just because her sister had finally gotten over her stint of all Luthors are bad and eventually learned to trust Lena’s principles didn’t mean that she had become best friends with the woman. To be honest, it was clear that Alex still had some hesitations when it came to Lena. And as much as she tried to not care, it bothered Kara.
Kara simply blamed the distrust on Alex being stubborn and her refusal to spend any time with Lena outside of what was mandatory. Kara knew her sister would come around eventually but she was really starting to get tired of waiting.
Alex rolled her eyes, “Relax. I didn’t mean it like that.” She reassured, knowing Kara’s mind instantly jumped to Alex questioning Lena’s morals, “I know Lena enough to know she’s not like her brother. And I trust her as much as anyone can trust a Luthor. Really Kara, you know that I’m trying. I just meant be careful with whatever it is you two are doing.”
The pointed look that Kara was now receiving from her older sister made her tall shoulders drop a little and her firm hands fall from her hips to fidget with each other in front of her in discomfort.
“Oh come on Kara.” Alex regained her sister’s attention, “We both know you aren’t going to L-Corp to get a quote.” She expressed the obvious in a mocking tone, “You’re going to hang out with Lena.”
She knew exactly what Alex was talking about but her and Lena didn’t even know what they were doing. And she wasn’t comfortable with other people thinking they knew what was going on regarding their relationship when they themselves didn’t even know.
“We’re just friends.” Kara pressed, despite knowing that not much got past Alex and that there wouldn’t be an exception for this.
“Seriously Alex.” She added with a small laugh when Alex gave her a disbelieving look, “Can I go now?” She pouted and slowly regained her composure, already slowly backing away from the director.
“Fine. Go.” Alex waved her off, “Get your quote.” She threw back sarcastically.
“See you tomorrow.” Kara said, turning on the heels of her boots just as a swirl of blue colors in the form of a portal appeared in the middle of the DEO. Kara instinctively sped back to step in front of Alex, wasting no time in taking up a defensive stance to shield her.
The faint shape of a body appeared before it was spit out of the mass of color, tumbling out and onto the floor in a mess of limbs. A faint groan escaped the person as the portal closed up. It disappearing as fast as it had come.
Kara moved forward to help the girl who was now trying to sit up but before she reached the body on the floor a ray shot out from the side and hit the intruder square in the chest. The girl fell back, the tech clearly knocking her out without a problem.
Kara’s eyes darted over to an agent whose eyes were wide with surprise. She immediately recognized the young man as one of the newer agents at the organization. Noticing Alex out of the corner of her eye getting ready to reprimand the man for jumping the gun Kara sighed and directed him to lower the weapon in his hands and signaled towards Alex to let it go which she did with an unhappy huff.
Kara quickly returned her attention to the stranger and kneeled beside her, Alex following as her eyes glanced around the space where the portal had appeared, “What the hell was that?”
Kara shook her head, eyebrows furrowed in thought, “I don’t know. Looks like a portal similar to the one we used to travel universes with.”
“You think she’s from another Earth?” Alex questioned, studying the person on the floor carefully.
“I don’t know.” Kara said again with an unsure shake of her head.
“We should get her to the medical bay.” Alex directed, watching as Kara easily lifted the girl and started making her way across the DEO, “Strap her down to the bed.” She ordered an agent sitting in the medical bay once they got there.
Kara set the young woman down on one of the beds, turning to give Alex a displeased look.
“Kara we don’t know if she’s dangerous or not. She literally showed up out of thin air. We have to take precautions so no one gets hurt.”
Kara glanced back down at the young woman one last time. The agent hovering next to the bed, waiting for some kind of permission from the superhero. She didn’t think the girl looked dangerous but she knew Alex was right. They didn’t know where she came from or who she was and it was best to be cautious so she gave the agent a nod, allowing him to restrain the patient.
“Make sure she has nothing on her. Then run some tests to try to get any information on her that we can.” Alex ordered, setting the few people around her into motion. “When you get something or she wakes up, let me know.” Alex announced sternly before turning back to Kara, “Looks like you’re going to have to cancel those plans after all. We should get Brainy back here. He might be able to figure out what all that was.”
Kara didn’t bother to hide the frown and heavy sigh that fell from her lips, letting her disappointment show, “Back to work, I guess.” She agreed, walking out of the room with one last glance behind her.
An hour later and they had still gotten nowhere.
No idea why the portal opened. No clues as to who the girl who fell out of it was. Where she came from. Nothing.
While they continued to scramble for some kind of answers, on the other side of the DEO an assigned agent was currently sitting alone in the med bay watching the unmoving captive closely. He found himself sitting up straighter in his chair as eyes fluttered open slowly for the first time since the patient was brought in and strapped down to one of the small beds.
He thought about getting someone but stayed in his chair, suddenly nervous as the stranger slowly lifted her head. She glanced around the room as she eased out of her unconsciousness and came to. It didn’t take long for her to notice that she was bound to the bed. Thick metal straps around her wrists and ankles successfully holding her in place.
Unexpectedly the patient bolted upright. A certain panic filling her eyes as she started to thrash around helplessly. Piercing blue eyes suddenly landed on him after a moment of struggle and in that moment he was extremely grateful for the restraints based on the way the initial panic in her eyes was swiftly replaced with an intensity that made him swallow hard in concern.
“What’s going on?” The young woman asked, not bothering to hide the alarm in her tone.
The agent stood up slowly with his hands held up slightly not wanting to startle her into another fit of trying to get free, “You’re okay.” He started as he slowly made his way towards the bed, “Just relax.”
“W-who are you? Why am I strapped down like some kind of animal?” She snarled, frustration quickly rising in her. She moved her eyes away from the man in front of her and pulled her wrists towards her experimentally, jostling the holds with a little force.
The agent stepped back slightly, choosing to give the girl a little space, “Don’t pull on them.” He warned cautiously, observing how the thick metal bands around her wrists miraculously started to bend, “Nobody is going to hurt you. We’ve been waiting for you to wake up.” He rushed to explain.
“We?” The girl questioned, “Where am I?”
The man ignored her, stumbling over his own words, “W-we just want to ask you some questions, that’s all. I’m going to go get the Director and then she’ll explain further.” He tried, honestly just wanting to get out of the strangers presence.
Turning around to leave the med bay in search for Alex he heard a loud commotion that made him stop in his tracks. He looked over his shoulder warily. He found the girl standing next to the bed that she had just been occupying. Easily tugging the remaining parts of the metal straps off of her now scratched up wrists. The rest of the metal restraints scattered messily beneath her on the floor in pieces.
Before he could even react, the super human had strode toward him confidently and successfully turned him around. Next thing he knew she had her arms locked around his neck in a vice grip.
He struggled against her, clawing at her arm around his neck in a pathetic attempt to loosen the grip she had on him for a few moments. The attempt proved useless, his vision slowly blurring into complete darkness.
The young woman simply lowered him to the ground with ease as his body went limp, letting go of him once he was lying flat on his back. She quickly searched the guards vest and patted him down looking for any kind of weapon but wasn’t able to find one on him.
She groaned as she stood up. Reaching for her head as a sharp pain shot through it, a slight dizziness taking over her. She grabbed onto the metal table next to her for support, squeezing her eyes shut as she waited for the pain to pass. After a moment she took a deep breath ignoring the small throb that had resided in her head and let her eyes open to roam her surroundings.
She couldn’t place it despite there being a certain familiarity to the room. The girl looked down to find herself in her normal clothes but quickly noticed the gun she had recently come used to being tucked into her pants was gone and the usual press of her switch blade against her ankle was absent, telling her it was no longer in her boot.
Everything she had with her was gone.
The watch she usually wore around her wrist. Her phone. All gone. Even the rings that she had been wearing that morning had been pulled off of her fingers.
She cursed under her breath, quickly running her fingers through her hair and stopping behind her ear to let her fingers search for the small device that she had now come used to being there. She knew she wouldn’t find it but let out an irritated grunt anyway when her fingers met nothing but skin.
She made her way towards the tables and cabinets that littered the majority of the room in search for anything that she could use to defend herself with. Finally after searching the room in a rush she settled on a long rod that looked like scrap metal and a small scalpel that she figured would have to be good enough for now.
She jogged towards the door and stopped, glancing down the hall to make sure no one was around before darting out into the hallway. She wasn’t sure where she was or where she was going until she reached the railing that lined the edge of the hallway and looked over the edge. Her eyes met the large logo of the DEO plastered across the floor below and she let out a heavy sigh.
“Well that’s unfortunate.” She mumbled to herself as she glanced around in hopes that nobody would be paying any mind to her.
At least now she knew where she was and if the layout of the DEO was the same as the one that she was familiar with then she knew where to find her stuff and get out of here. So with one last glance over her shoulder to make sure that no one was around she took off in the direction she guessed she needed to go.
Alex on the other hand was still waiting to hear something about the new case. The fact that they had not figured anything at all out yet driving her a little crazy. Getting impatient with waiting to hear something back she decided to go look through the things they confiscated off of the girl herself, hoping that maybe getting into her phone or something could give them at least a clue as to what her intentions were.
Alex turned the corner to the hallway where the room they kept evidence in was only to find the young woman who had appeared in the middle of the DEO earlier that day bent down on one knee. It was clear that she was messing with the card reader attached to the wall that opened the door and trying to get into the room.
Alex leaned her shoulder against the wall and took a moment to study the stranger. With the black jeans that hugged her legs, the warn down jacket she was wearing, and the combat boots strapped to her feet she almost looked like she belonged at the DEO. At a quick glance probably easily mistakable for just another agent which Alex figured was how she managed to go unnoticed in getting across the DEO.
Alex pushed herself off the wall, putting her hand on her gun and pulling it out slowly when her eyes caught the crow bar sitting on the floor next to her. She approached the girl with some caution but the door the girl was attempting to get into suddenly slid open and startled Alex. The director tightening her grip on her gun as the person let out a pleased noise, oblivious to what was going on.
Alex got her gun in position and stopped right behind her, “And what exactly do you think you’re doing?”
The girl startled, whipping around to stand up straight and face the Director. Her face contorting from panic to recognition, “Alex?”
Alex’s eyes furrowed in confusion at the familiarity in her tone but chose to ignore it, “I asked a question. What are you doing?” Alex asked, more defensive now that the girl seemed to know her in some way.
The young woman put her hands up in defense, Alex’s stern tone making her a little nervous. The gun pointed straight at her chest not making her feel any more comfortable, “Okay, okay. Relax.” She said calmly, “I was just trying to get my stuff.”
“Why?” Alex practically yelled in question, not missing the way the girl flinched.
“Because it’s mine.”
“Nope. Not good enough.” Alex argued with the shake of her head, pressing a finger to her ear, “Supergirl.” Alex said to seemingly no one.
“Whoa, hold on a sec.” The girl shook her head in a slight panic, “Is that really nec-” A gush of wind entered the hallway, a flash of red and blue appearing in a blur and before she could even get the words out Supergirl had her wrists bound behind her in her own hand and was pushing her forward, “-cessary. Okay. I guess it is necessary.”
“Take her to one of the interrogation rooms.” Alex ordered, Kara simply nodding and doing what Alex directed.
Once in the room she was left alone. Another agent coming in to restrain her with a pair of cuffs, the chain between her wrists slid between a metal ring attached to the table so she couldn’t move her arms much. Alex had let her sit in the room alone for a while before heading over to talk to her.
The director of the DEO walked into the room with a scowl planted on her face. She threw the door closed behind her, the force practically making the walls vibrate. Alex pulled the chair out from the table, sitting down and scooting herself in close enough to cross her arms on the table in front of her comfortably. She fixed a glare on the girl across from her expecting to find a face full of fear but instead her eyes met nothing but the top of the girl’s head whose own arms crossed on the table with her face buried comfortably on top of them.
Alex glanced towards where she knew there was a camera, the situation catching her slightly off guard. She was used to people being intimidated by her. Some even cowering simply from her presence. So this. This was different.
Alex returned her attention to the girl, clearing her throat to get her attention, “Hey!” Alex yelled authoritatively.
When there was no reaction she slammed her fist against the metal table for emphasis. The girl lifted her head at that, one hand immediately reaching towards her ear as she cringed, the chain that handcuffed her to the table loudly clanging against the metal, “Oh look who’s up.” Alex stated over cheerfully with a smirk.
The girl gave Alex an annoyed look but didn’t give much more of a response than that. Simply she sat up a little straighter in her chair and looked at Alex expectantly, waiting for her to start.
“Who are you?”
The young woman stayed stoic. Not to be uncooperative but rather because she didn’t know how to answer the question.
She’d never been in this situation and didn’t know what to do so she just didn’t say anything at all, which was very apparent Alex didn’t like nor appreciate.
The agent paused for a moment to study the girl who stayed silent, “Look, I’m not messing around with you.” Alex stated firmly, leaning forward to get in the girl’s face, “You fell out of some kind of portal and into the middle of a top secret government organization building. Assaulted an agent. And you don’t seem all that bothered by it. So tell me who you are. Now!”
She knew that Alex wouldn’t like her answer. But she also knew that the situation she was in wasn’t looking good for her and she needed to turn things around so she decided to just go with the truth.
“My name’s Lennox.” Alex raised an eyebrow, waiting for the rest of it. The girl caught on and sighed loudly, “Look if I told you my last name, you wouldn’t believe me.”
“Try me.” Alex challenged without hesitation.
Lennox stared at Alex, studying her face for a moment before her eyes moved to glance towards the camera that Alex had earlier, knowing exactly who was standing on the other side. She tried to quickly decide on whether she should tell the truth or if half the truth was enough for now, “Luthor.” She deadpanned returning her eyes to the woman in front of her.
The surprise was clear on Alex’s face as soon as the words were out of her mouth.
Alex wasn’t sure what she was expecting but it definitely hadn’t been that, “Excuse me?” The agent asked needing some sort of explanation.
“Lennox Luthor.” She repeated casually.
“That’s not possible.” Alex laughed and shook her head, a perplexed look on her face as she thought out loud, “Unless you’re from a different Earth?” She threw out Kara’s earlier theory.
Lennox quickly shook her head, “No. I’m from this Earth.”
“Lionel only had two children.” Alex stated before remembering how Lena had technically been hidden for the first few years of her life before Lionel took her in again. Maybe there was another kid like Lena who had just never been reclaimed by the man.
“Neither Lionel or Lillian are my parents.” She responded swiftly shutting down Alex’s thought process, “You know for someone who deals with extraterrestrial and abnormal things nearly every day of their life, you aren’t really thinking outside of the box here.” Lennox challenged, a look on her face that Alex didn’t like.
She looked amused.
She looked like a Luthor getting away with something. A Luthor who was winning. And Alex really did not like that.
Alex chose to push down her frustration and anger, ignoring the challenge in Lennox’s eyes to the best of her ability in order to try to get to the bottom of things, “Lex?”
The thought alone sending a chill through her body but wondering if somehow he could’ve fathered a child before he was locked up that none of them had known about.
“Getting warmer.” Lennox hinted, leaning her arms on the edge of the table and raising her eyebrow at Alex, anticipating the older woman figuring it out.
When Alex saw the action she knew she had seen it before and another person immediately flashed into her mind. The similar facial expressions on the girl in front of her to another Luthor who she had come to know in the past couple of years suddenly jumping out to her all at once and seeming obvious.
“Lena?” She asked dumbfounded, earning a small nod from Lennox. But Alex just shook her head in return as she let out a low laugh, “No. That’s impossible.” The director pushed up out of her chair, “It’s like literally physically impossible. How old are you anyway?” Alex asked getting annoyed.
“Eighteen.”
“Yeah exactly. You can’t be Lena’s, she’s only twenty-six.” Alex huffed, turning to pace towards the wall behind her before approaching the metal table again and slamming her palms down on it, making the girl cringe again, “You had your fun. Now stop playing games!” Alex screamed, her patience dwindling rapidly, “Who are you?”
“I already told you!” Lennox growled back, standing up out of her chair and slamming her fist into the table in a frustration that matched Alex’s.
Alex didn’t like the way the girl was getting aggressive, pulling the gun from her hip swiftly. She raised it before Lennox even knew what was happening. Alex pointed it square at the young woman’s chest, “Sit. Down.” Alex demanded through clenched teeth.
Lennox glared at her for a minute. Her breathing heavy from getting worked up but eventually her face fell and she put her hands up in surrender. Alex’s gun followed the girl as she sat down in the chair, making sure Lennox knew who had the power in this situation.
“Alex.”
The voice caught the director off guard not having heard the door open due to the tension that was already in the interrogation room. Whipping around towards the door Alex held her gun out in front of her aiming it steadily at the new threat only to find her sister standing in the doorway in her full Supergirl gear. Alex quickly dropped her gun down, relaxing a little thanks to Kara’s presence.
“Why don’t we take a break.” Kara suggested, her eyes swiftly moving between Alex and Lennox before they stopped on Alex, nodding reassuringly at her older sister.
Alex glanced behind her at the girl who had her eyes locked solely on Supergirl. Alex let out another frustrated noise before shoving her gun back in her belt aggressively and practically stomping towards the door, “I’m getting someone to put her in a cell.” Alex grumbled as she shoved her way past Kara and through the narrow doorway.
Kara glanced almost apologetically at the young woman who continued to stare at her with curiosity in her eyes. Kara went to follow Alex and make sure she was okay but a voice breaking through the small room stopped Kara in her tracks.
“Wait!” Lennox shouted as she stood up again.
Kara turned confidently, her cape flowing behind her as she walked back into the room and over towards Lennox who suddenly looked small, whatever confidence she had before while speaking to Alex being replaced with timidity.
“Umm, I-” Lennox stopped with a sigh, looking down at her chained hands before reaching one of her hands up as far as the chains would allow, pointing towards her ear, “I have a chip sort of thing. About the size of a nickel.” She stammered out hesitantly, “One of the agents took it off me when I was in the med bay.” She mentioned, “C-could you get it back for me?”
Kara looked at Lennox in interest, “Why?” She asked, wondering out of all the things that they took from the girl while she was knocked out why she would want that.
“I have this thing.” Lennox started shyly, “It’s kind of a long story.” She paused and let out a humorless laugh, “I know that’s not really a good answer, but I don’t really know how to explain it. It’s complicated.”
Kara narrowed her eyes at her, “Try.”
Lennox sighed, “It’s for medical reasons I suppose.”
“Medical reasons?” Kara let her eyes roam Lennox, looking for any kinds of signs of something wrong with her and not finding anything.
“Sensory overload.” She said with a shrug, “The chip does a lot of things. But the main thing is that I don’t like loud noises.” She explained simply, jostling the chains against the metal table loudly. This time Kara noticing how her face pinched together in discomfort before she stilled her hands to stop the clatter, “The chip was specifically made for me. It helps.”
“I’ll get it back for you then.” Kara promised without hesitating.
Kara was aware that Alex probably wouldn’t like it but the blonde hero couldn’t help the part of her that wanted to see the good in everyone and help them if she could. She turned to leave but the girl stopped her again.
“I’m not going to hurt anyone you know.”
“You already did.” Kara put her hands on her hips, a frown on her face, “The agent in the medical bay is terrified. You could’ve killed him.”
Lennox’s eyes fell to her lap, “I didn’t mean to hurt him.”
“And how did you even get out of the restraints?”
“I don’t know?” She lied, “Adrenaline?” Lennox tried.
The look on Supergirl’s face making it known that she wasn’t buying it so she tried again, “Look, I was scared. I didn’t know where I was when I woke up. I was just trying to protect myself.”
Despite her still looking uncertain, that explanation seemed to resonate with the hero a little more so Lennox kept going, “I know a lot of people don’t like Luthor’s. I know a lot of people in this time still associate us with what my Uncle Lex did. But I’m not bad.”
“Why didn’t you say that to Alex?” Kara asked, “Why just me?”
Like Alex she was still wary on whether this girl was telling the truth about being a Luthor or not. But Kara spent a lot of time with Lena. She knew her better than anyone else at the DEO. Maybe better than anyone else in the world. And standing across from Lennox it was hard to ignore some of the similarities in her face compared to her best friend.
Lennox shrugged, “I know you’re one of the few people who don’t think like that. Who never thought like that.” She stated, sitting back down in her chair with a sigh, “I was telling Alex the truth. I know it sounds crazy, I get that but it’s true.”
Kara shook her head starting to feel upset, “You’re right it does sound crazy.” She shot back much harsher than her tone usually ever got. Thoughts of her best friend started to swirl in her head, “How? How could you be Lena’s daughter?” She cried out.
“Technically I’m not.” Lennox stated honestly much to Kara’s surprise, “I mean I am, just not yet.” She rushed out, “That portal or whatever you want to call it that I supposedly fell out of. It took me back in time.” Lennox paused to take in Kara’s features, surprised to see that the woman didn’t seem all that shocked or bothered by it, “I don’t really know how this all happened but I’m not from this time.”
Kara didn’t know what it was about her. Maybe it was the way she spoke so surely of herself. Or how vulnerable she looked as she spoke. Or maybe it was simply because if there was even the slightest chance that this girl had any relation at all to Lena, Kara wanted to protect her.
Whatever it was. Kara chose to believe her.
“Okay Lennox,” Kara said with a single nod of her head, “I believe you.”
A small smile crept on Lennox’s face as she stared up at Kara, “Does that mean I get to get out of the chains?”
Kara swore a small pout momentarily crossed the girl’s face that nearly made her say yes but she stopped herself, “Sorry. Alex is in charge of that.”
“Great.” Lennox sank down into a deep slouch in her chair and rolled her eyes, “So I’m never getting out of them.”
Kara couldn’t help the small smile that crept on her lips at the girl but she didn’t have time to respond when an agent she recognized came into the room and went straight for Lennox. He unchained her from the table, switching her into another pair of handcuffs.
“You’ll be okay.” Kara promised.
Lennox nodded as she was walked out of the room, Kara following behind the pair, “Oh and by the way,” Lennox said, looking over her shoulder, “Tell Alex to be careful with that gun she confiscated from me. I know it’s small but that thing really packs a punch and I also know she won’t be able to resist it.” She said with a knowing smirk, “I may or may not have stolen that thing though so tell her to not get too carried away. I’ll literally be killed if I don’t go back with it in one piece.”
Kara watched Lennox carefully. The playful smile on her lips as she was dragged around the corner and out of sight. Her eyebrows scrunched up in confusion, turning to walk to where her sister was working, “Hey did you find a gun on that girl?”
Alex nodded her head, reaching behind her back and pulling out what looked like a small hand gun, “After I caught her breaking into that room I didn’t think it was a good idea to leave it sitting around for her to find.”
“Don’t shoot it, okay.”
“Why?”
Kara shrugged, “She told me to tell you not to break it. Apparently she stole it.”
Alex let out a small chuckle at the serious tone in her sisters voice, “Stolen?” She asked, receiving a shrug from Kara, “What is she, some kind of criminal? Well you know what she is claiming to be a Luthor after all.”
“That doesn’t make you a criminal.” Kara bit back a little more defensively than intended, earning a smirk from Alex who immediately held her hands up in mock defense.
“Oh sorry, I didn’t mean to insult your girlfriend.”
“Lena’s not my girlfriend.” Kara grumbled, crossing her arms over her chest and looking away from Alex.
“Whatever you say Kara.” Alex let the teasing smile linger on her lips, “I’ll make sure the gun we took off of her is locked up somewhere where no one will mess with it.”
Kara appreciated her sister getting back on topic, nodding her head, “Thank you.”
They stood there for a few moments, both of them in their own thoughts before Kara finally broke the earie silence, “You think it’s true?” Alex gave her a look, “That she’s Lena’s daughter?” She clarified.
Alex let out a heavy sigh along with an unsure shrug, “Honestly Kara, I don’t know. But I would tread lightly if I were you until we figure out a little more. We don’t know if she’s telling the truth.”
“She looks like her.” Kara breathed out absentmindedly.
Alex reached over to squeeze Kara’s shoulder reassuringly, giving her a sad smile when her sister’s eyes met hers, “Why don’t you go see her.”
Kara swallowed hard at the thought of having to tell Lena something like this, “Are you sure that’s a good idea?”
“You don’t have to tell her if you don’t want to.” Alex left the decision to Kara, not wanting to push anything. Especially when they weren’t sure of everything yet, “But if she had to know, I’m sure she’d want you to be the one to tell her.”
Kara nodded but Alex could see the worry in her eyes, “Okay.” The younger Danvers said trying her best to sound confident, “Thanks Alex. I’ll call you later to let you know how it goes.”
Alex nodded and Kara gave her sister a tight hug, needing it more herself than anything before making her way out of the DEO and off to L-Corp. She stopped to change into her regular clothes and grab some takeout food on her way, hoping to make the night visit seem as normal as possible.
“Kara.” Lena greeted with a tired smile when she looked up to see her best friend slip through the large doors of her office, “Please tell me you brought food with you.” She leaned forward in her chair hopefully eyeing the bag in Kara’s hand.
“You know I did.” Kara smiled holding the bag in question up, “I knew you probably hadn’t eaten yet.” She guessed, knowing she was right when Lena’s eyes drifted away to avoid hers. Kara wordlessly walked over to the couch off to the side where they usually ate. She set the bag of food down onto the table and dropped herself onto the couch routinely.
“Everything okay?” Lena asked, now standing over the small table and eyeing Kara carefully.
Kara’s mind flashed to the dark haired girl back at the DEO knowing she was going to have to tell Lena about her.
Alex may have given her the choice but how could she not tell Lena about something like this.
True or not, Lena should know what was going on. She couldn’t keep this from her. But now that she was sitting down in front of her best friend she wasn’t sure how the woman was going to handle the information.
“Kara?”
Kara’s head snapped up to meet Lena’s smirking face, “What?” She asked stupidly, not having heard Lena who was looking at her expectantly.
“You know for someone with super hearing you sure do miss a lot.” She teased with a raised eyebrow, “Come on, what’s wrong? You feeling okay?” She asked, “You haven’t even taken the food out. Usually you’re already half way through a carton of sweet and sour chicken by now.”
Kara let a weak laugh out at the joke but her smile quickly dropped as she fumbled with her glasses nervously, “Umm, I have to talk to you about something.”
Lena narrowed her eyes curiously, finally sitting down on the couch with Kara and waiting for the other woman to continue. When she didn’t, Lena scooted closer to the blonde and dropped her hand to the heroes knee, “Go on.” She encouraged with a gentle squeeze.
“This morning at the DEO a portal opened up out of nowhere.” She started, really just wanting to get to the point, “This girl, she just…she kind of fell out of it before it closed up.”
“Okay?” Lena dragged out, not sure where Kara was going with this or why she looked so serious, “Do you need my help with figuring out what it was? Where she came from?” She asked, already going to stand up and get to work.
Kara grabbed Lena’s wrist and tugged on it lightly to keep her in place as she shook her head, “Alex already talked to her to try to find out who she was and where she came from.” Kara swallowed hard and cleared her throat, not being able to look Lena in the eye, “She…” Kara stopped, taking one last deep breath, Lena’s confused stare making her increasingly nervous, “She said she’s your daughter.” Kara finally blurted out.
Lena’s eyes went wide. She continued to stare at Kara for a few moments in surprise and uncertainty before letting out a hardy laugh, “Did Alex put you up to this?” She asked, pulling her arm out of Kara’s hold.
Kara frowned when Lena stood up and moved quickly towards her desk, “No!” She swore, standing up and following her as she shook her head furiously, “That’s- I’m not kidding Lena. She told Al-”
Lena put her hand up stopping Kara, laughter gone and replaced with a tinge of anger, “Kara I don’t have time for this.” She sat down in front of her computer and opened up the document she had been working on before Kara had showed up, “I can’t even believe you’d go along with this.” She scoffed without bothering to even look at her best friend, “With…Alex’s idea of a joke.”
The last thing Kara was expecting was Lena to think she would ever lie about something like this. With how close they were and how much trust they had grown between each other since they had met. As much as it hurt her she tried to mask it for Lena’s sake.
“I would never lie or joke about something like this Lena.”
“I have a lot of work to get done.”
Kara stared at Lena dumbfoundedly. She knew that it would be a lot for the woman to take in and wrap her head around but this definitely wasn’t what she was expecting in terms of a reaction.
At this point she didn’t know what to do. Which was an odd feeling that usually didn’t come around when she was with Lena. So she just said the first thing that came to her mind. The thing that ultimately convinced her that Lennox was telling the truth.
“I talked to her too Lena.” Kara confessed seriously, “I sat across from her and…” Kara trailed off, dropping her head slightly as she removed her glasses and pinched the bridge of her nose, letting a heavy sigh leave her lips.
Lena’s fingers stopped moving against her keyboard, eyes drifting up to look at the one person in this world that she trusted with her whole heart.
Kara.
Who was obviously conflicted.
Her eyes scanned the blonde’s face when she looked up at her and their eyes locked. A panic settled deep in her chest at the sincerity she found in the bright blue eyes she had come to be very familiar with staring back at her intensely.
“I believe her.” Kara admitted with a small shrug, “She…” Kara stopped not sure if Lena was ready to hear this but needing her to know it wasn’t a joke, “She looks like you.” As soon as the words were out of her mouth she heard Lena take a shaky breath.
The usually composed woman’s hands were gripping the edge of her desk so hard her knuckles were white and as Kara noticed them she couldn’t help but think Lena was going to snap a piece of the desk right off despite it being impossible.
“I have work I need to finish.” Lena stated again emotionlessly after a moment.
“Lena.” Kara pleaded, reaching across the desk for the other woman’s hand but Lena pulled it back and tucked both of them under the desk and into her lap.
Kara sighed again, but decided it was best to give Lena a little space instead of forcing her into anything she didn’t want to do or talk about. So the blonde simply nodded her head and locked her fingers together as she brought her hands to rest in front of her. Turning on her heels she walked towards the doors of the office and pulled one side open. She paused in the doorway to glance back over her shoulder to look at Lena.
“Call me later at least?” She asked, hoping for something.
Lena nodded without looking up. Her eyes were watering and she didn’t trust her voice to not betray her true emotions knowing that Kara would never leave her alone if she knew of all the emotions that were brewing inside of her in the moment.
She lifted her hands and let her fingers go back to moving on the keyboard in front of her like they had been before Kara’s visit. Simply as if nothing happened. She avoided looking up towards Kara until she heard her office door shut and then allowed herself to lean back in her chair and close her eyes tightly.
Kara leaned her back against the door, her super hearing zoning in on Lena.
Nothing but Lena.
The practiced clacking of keyboard keys stopping immediately and a distressed noise falling from Lena’s mouth nearly making her barge back into the room.
But Kara knew Lena. And forcing her to do anything or face anything she didn’t want to would only make the woman lash out and push her away more. So instead she willed herself to push herself off the door and move towards the elevator down the hall with heavy feet that screamed at her to just turn around.
She could have flew back to the DEO in less than a minute but Kara took her time making it back instead. Her mind having a hard time thinking about anything but Lena. When she did finally return to the DEO she was immediately ambushed by her big sister.
“Kara where have you been?” Alex asked through gritted teeth as she grabbed her arm and directed her away from the other agents wandering through the DEO.
Kara let Alex yank her over to an empty room without any resistance, “I was with Lena.” She reminded Alex. The uncharacteristic bite in her tone letting Alex know that the visit to L-Corp hadn’t gone well.
Alex dropped her sister’s arm and brought her hands up to rub at her face roughly at the sad look on Kara’s face, “We have a problem.” She said, pacing across the room. Kara’s eyes simply watched her sister who eventually stopped pacing and turned around to face Kara with her hands on her hips, “We lost Lennox.”
“What do you mean you lost her?” Kara shouted in surprise, “I thought you had her put in a cell. Alex, how could you have possibly lost her?”
“She got out.” Alex informed Kara, completely puzzled herself on how it was possible and finding herself quite impressed at the prospect that she escaped.
“She got out.” Kara repeated, “She got out of an indestructible cell?” She asked in disbelief, more so saying it to herself out loud to try to help wrap her head around the situation.
“I don’t like that kid but damn she’s scrappy.”
“Alex focus.” Kara reprimanded, “She couldn’t have gotten far.” Kara thought out loud. Stopping for a moment to think, “Where would she be going?” She mumbled to herself.
Kara thought about trying to use her super hearing to zone in on anything that could help her find Lennox but she wasn’t familiar enough with her to be able to pick out a specific trait like she could with Alex or Lena.
Lena.
“What?” Alex asked cluelessly when Kara’s eyes suddenly went wide and she shot a panicked look at her sister.
“L-Corp.” Kara rushed out, already marching back towards the balcony of the DEO, “She went to find Lena.”