Second Chances: Supergirl

Chapter 11

To say Lena was surprised when she entered her office at L-Corp to find Alex waiting for her was an understatement.

"Alex, do I even want to know how you got in here?" Lena asked her.

"You'd be amazed the places an FBI badge can get you into. But I think you already know why I'm here." Alex said.

"You don't trust me anywhere near your sister." Lena said.

"Not exactly. It's more like I want to fully understand why you reacted the way you did, since I can understand being upset that Kara and everyone else, including me, lied to you, but what you did, using kryptonite on her, trying to mind control the world, that seems a bit extreme?" Alex asked, not rudely, more just because she needed to understand why Lena had reacted the way she had.

"I was already in an emotional state, having been betrayed by Lex and Eve and honestly at that point, it kind of felt like Kara was the one constant in my life that I felt I could trust and then I find out that she's been keeping such a big secret from me and has been the entire time I've known her, it didn't go well. Even though I'm a scientist, I was so overcome with emotions that I didn't stop to see things logically. I just buried myself in my pain until it was all I had. I built walls and they kept me from seeing her point of view, how she was trying to protect me." Lena said.

"It seemed a bit more than emotional." Alex said, since this pretty much confirmed her suspicions, but she needed to be sure and to her surprise, Lena chuckled.

"You know, when I first moved to National City, I didn't want to make friends. I planned on staying solely focused on work, since based on my experiences with Lex and Jack and Andrea, having a social life along with work gets messy. I thought that it would be easier to just focus on work and close everyone else out. That way I could protect myself from getting hurt again like I had in the past. But honestly, if I wanted to do that, I probably should've stayed in Metropolis." Lena said and Alex couldn't help but chuckle.

"True. I think that the only attention Metropolis's resident Super would've paid you was to make sure you weren't like Lex." Alex said.

"And I would've been fine with that. What I didn't count on was this city's protector being so insistent on being nice and being friends." Lena said.

"Do you ever think about how your life might've been different if Kara hadn't been the person with Clark the day the Venture exploded?" Alex asked.

"All the time and every scenario ends the same way. I'm cold, bitter and alone, since I pushed everyone away and that's considering if I was even alive." Lena said.

"But despite your best efforts, Kara found a way to get past all of your defenses." Alex said with a chuckle.

"You sound like you know the feeling?" Lena asked.

"You really think I was thrilled when my parents told me I was getting a little sister from another planet who could outshine me at everything?" Alex asked.

"Fair point." Lena conceded.

"Yeah and it didn't help that Dad disappeared shortly after Kara came to live with us. I resented her. It took us solving a murder mystery in Midvale to get us to finally start connecting as sisters." Alex said.

"You know, I want to say that imagining a time where you and Kara didn't get along is hard, but then I remember the way you guys during Agent Liberty and Lex's regime as the yearly big bad." Lena said.

"Yeah, remember Colonel Haley?" Alex asked.

"The colonel that Lex's puppet president put in charge of the DEO, yeah why?" Lena asked.

"She was determined to follow Baker's orders to find out Supergirl's real identity and was using truth seekers on agents to try and get us to confess. The only way to prevent that was to have J'onn erase mine and all the other agents who knew Kara's identity and memories of it." Alex explained.

"That explains so much." Lena said.

"Yeah. Only reason I got my memories back was because after that adoption I had planned fell through, I was already getting flashes and then after watching Red Daughter nearly kill Kara, that brought it all out." Alex said.

"Got it." Lena said.

"Anyways, back on topic, Kara was the only reason I made any attempts to interact with people outside of work." Lena said.

"And she was also the only person who always believed in you, even when all the evidence pointed against you." Alex said.

"I know. Honestly, she was probably the one person I relied on more than anyone else, so finding out that she'd been lying to me this whole time was a hit. It broke my heart." Lena said before she could stop herself, though Alex smiled, since that confirmed it.

"That sounds like more than just being hurt by a friend." Alex smirked as Lena sighed.

"I think you already know the full extent of how I felt about Kara." Lena said, since deep down, she'd always known it herself, she'd just never allowed herself to actually express it or even admit it.

"You didn't just care about her as a friend. It was more than that." Alex said.

"How could I not feel that way about her when she literally went way above any standards for friends. I mean she literally cleared my name when I was accused of springing my mother from prison. I'm honestly not sure if that's when my feelings grew into what they were or if it was before or after, but that's why it hurt so much when I found out that she'd been lying to me the whole time she'd known me." Lena said.

"And do you really think you're over that now? That you won't fall back into your old patterns?" Alex asked, making a note to tell Kara that she should talk to Lena soon.

"As long as you don't tell Kara about this." Lena said.

"No promises. But I'm willing to give you a chance now and I'll make sure the rest of the team does too. And Lena, for the record, I am sorry for lying to you for so long. It wasn't personal." Alex said.

"I know that now that I'm thinking clearly." Lena said, happy that Kara's sister didn't hate her and that she was also actually apologizing. The only reason she wasn't expecting Kara to was because she already had back at the Pulitzer ceremony when she'd told Lena her secret herself.

However, before they could talk any further, Alex had to throw both herself and Lena to the ground as something burst through the windows.

"Metallo?" Alex asked, seeing John Corben in a full on supervillain costume, his kryptonite heart clear as day.

"Please tell me Kara has a suit." Lena said.

"She does, but not a kryptonite suit." Alex said.

"I can cover that, just get her here." Lena said as she pulled out her phone and tapped something on it.

"Already on it." Alex said, since she'd jammed security footage to keep Kara from watching or listening in, but she was glad that she did have a signal watch, which she tapped immediately, now they just needed to wait for Supergirl to show up.