You Never Came For Me!

I Have to Try!

Kara was mentally and emotionally drained. She and Mxyzptlk had spent the day visiting different timelines in an ill-fated attempt to reconcile her friendship with Lena. Every time, it had been just as disastrous – if not more so – than how it had actually played out. She either watched everyone she loved die, or she died herself. She wasn't sure she could see another outcome. Her last attempt had been the worst of all. She had thought that maybe Lena would have been better off if they'd never become friends, but she could not have been more wrong.

In a world where she and Lena were never friends, she had never saved Lena's life when Lex had tried to kill her on her first day in National City. Instead, she was gravely injured and used as a lab rat for one her mother's twisted experiments. This had left Lena cold and evil, ruling National City with an Iron Fist, and kryptonite where her heart should have been. She and Mxy had almost gotten trapped in that reality, and she wasn't sure she could risk it again. Even still, she had to try ONE more time. If this didn't work, she would be forced to accept the fact that there was never a perfect time to have told Lena her secret.

"What if I DID save her from her brother, as Supergirl, but as Kara I never became her friend. I just kept our relationship a professional one, just another CatCo Reporter telling the facts."

Saying these words broke Kara's heart just as much as watching Lena look at her without emotion in the last reality. It had been Kara who was able to convince National City that Lena was not an extension of her brother, nor was she bound by the Luthor name.

"Ok, if you're sure..." Mxy's eyes were wide as he scrolled through footage on the Betamyx.

"Of course I'm not sure.... But I have to try."

With that, Mxyzptlk snapped his fingers and Kara found herself in yet another reality, standing in the lobby of an office building. She assumed she was in CatCo, but it looked different. It seemed normal enough, though. At least no one seemed to be afraid and there were no ruins that took the place of buildings. Perhaps she'd finally succeeded, but she needed to find Lena to be sure. Turning to walk away, she noticed a sign that she'd never seen before. The sign read, "CatCo Worldwide: The Official Luthor Corp News Agency"

The words Luthor Corp sent a shiver down Kara's spine, and not in a good way. In her reality, Lena had changed the name to LCorp in order to distance herself and the company from her brother's crimes...Why had she, in this reality, changed it BACK to Luthor Corp?

She knew she had to keep going. She needed to find Lena and see with her own eyes that she was ok, and that she wasn't an evil dictator like in the last reality. Once she realized that CatCo was owned by Lena in this reality too, she knew Lena must have an office in this building. Thinks seemed to be normal here, but she couldn't shake the uneasy feeling in her gut.

Lena's office was easy enough to find. In this reality, Lena had built a Lab in the CatCo Basement. In any world, Lena was a brilliant businesswoman. Having both of her companies in the same building was genius. Looking through the small glass window in the door that led to the lab, she saw Lena hard at work on some no-doubt groundbreaking scientific breakthrough that would save humanity. She wore the same determined look on her face that she'd seen many times when she'd visited Lena at work. This was it, she had finally found the perfect reality, where Lena was safe and seemingly happy, and the world was as it should be. Still, she wanted to meet this version of Lena to be certain. Lena owned CatCo and Kara worked for CatCo, so it couldn't be too odd for her to visit her could it?

She knocked on the door to the lab, opening it slowly when she heard Lena say "Come in."

As she stepped inside the door, however, she knew that she had made a HORRIBLE mistake.

"KRYPTONIAN DNA DETECTED. RED PROTOCOL ACTIVATED."

Before Kara had a chance to move, the room began to glow a sickening shade of green, and an Nth Metal Door came crashing down behind her.

She was trapped. It was only then that Lena spoke. Her words cold and chilling.

"How. Dare. You!"