The Long Life of Kara Zor-El

Chapter 9

Kara is still recovering from almost dying with Lena at her side. Alex, J'onn and Barry are talking amongst themselves, planning what they should do next.

"I'm so sorry." Kara sobs once more.

"It's okay my darling. It wasn't your fault." Lena says comforting Kara.

"It was! You almost died because I couldn't save you!" Kara cries.

"Yes. And even if I did, it wouldn't have been your fault. You know as I was falling all I thought of was you. I was falling and I was annoyed not because I thought I was going to die. I was annoyed because I knew you'd blame yourself and go into some sort of mope." Lena explains as she strokes Kara's cheek.

"Well..... you were right..." Kara says, still crying.

"But see that's exactly what Thawne wants you to think. He wants to get into your head Kara. Don't you see that?" Lena asks.

"I know..... but..... he's..... too fast..... I can't stop him..... and I can't expect Barry to just come whenever he's around." Kara says.

"Kara if I know one thing about you, it's when the going gets tough you dig deep and keep going. I don't know how you can manage to fight Reverse Flash, but I know you'll find a way. And I will be there every step of the way." Lena smiles as she takes Kara in for a hug.

Kara doesn't reply, but she does tense up at the hug. Lena notices.

"I'm sorry." Lena says.

"It's okay, it was worth it." Kara says with a pained expression on her face.

Suddenly Nia and Brainy burst into the room.

"Guys!!! Turn on the news!!" Lena yells.

"What's going...." Alex begins.

"Do it!" Nia yells again.

"Okay I have a remote...." Lena begins, pointing to somewhere in her lab.

Barry then uses his super speed to get the remote and turn on the TV to a news network and then hands the remote to Lena.

"That works...." Lena says after she watches Barry suddenly appear by her side.

Barry smiles at Lena.

Everyone in the room then gets a shocked look when they see the breaking news headline on the channel.

BREAKING NEWS: Lex Luthor returns, addresses National City!

The network then cuts to a video. Lex is looking directly at the camera, and it looks like he is in some abandoned building from the background behind him.

"People of National City and the world. I once told you that we cannot put our faith in the Kryptonians! We can only put our faith in humanity! Today the hero Supergirl failed the people of National City. The following video shows an attack recently in L-Corp by an assailant." Lex says and video footage of the L-Corp lobby attack begins to play. "As you can see Supergirl failed to stop this man, and because of this over 12 guards employed to protect L-Corp were murdered. Supergirl failed those people."

Everyone in the room looks at Kara in a worried manner.

"But that's not all! Supergirl also failed to save my dear sister. This man threw my sister off the balcony of her office." Lex continues and now video footage from outside L-Corp of Lena falling begins to play. "And as you can see she didn't even try to save her. Perhaps Supergirl has given up on my dear sister. It was just lucky for her that the hero from Central City, the Flash was able to save her in time, while Supergirl was not."