Dreams do come true

Chapter 36

20 days to Earth

"How the hell does someone hack a spaceship?! And from prison!" After a few seconds of listening to Houston's response Alex was yelling again, "What do you mean he's not in prison anymore?!"

They kept talking and Alex didn't really want to hear it. "I will not calm—" She swallowed her words the moment she saw Lena looking her way. She'd never seen her so terrified. She hung up. Commander Alex Danvers — perfect astronaut, first person on Mars — hung up on Houston. "Lena..."

"How bad is it, Alex?"

"Most of our systems are compromised."

"Fucking Lex!"

Alex pulled Lena towards her before the woman started literally spiralling out of control. "Look at me, we need you. We have Winn and Brainy trying to create some other secure line that can connect with everything else, we'll have Maggie and Kara working with them but we can't do this without you."

"I won't let him get away with this."

"That's the spirit."

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They were finishing telling the rest of them the news when a voice came from every sound system in the ship.

"Hello, sis. Ladies. How's everything going?" they could hear him smiling.

It made Lena feel sick. "What do you want?"

"Always so serious... Okay, if you want to get straight to business we can do that. You're going to do exactly as I said or I'll shut down everything that's keeping you alive out there."

"I don't know what you're playing at, Lex, but if you want to kill me just find some other way. You don't need to hurt them too."

"But this isn't just about you. I couldn't stop a bunch of women from being the first humans on Mars — thanks to our mother — but I can still make sure you're not the first to come back from it."

Kara was fuming. "She's your sister! I'm sure some part of you still loves her. Remember the little girl you taught how to play chess? The girl you protected against your own parents? The only woman on Earth who believed in you as a person and not in whatever genius potential you had? Is that really the person you want to kill?"

"Lovely speech, Supergirl. I guess the rumors are true, then? You're banging my sister? I—"

"Shut up, Lex!" If Lena could take Kara away from there, she would.

"Oh no, that's right, she's the asexual one, right? How do you do it, Lena? How long until you need to have someone who can satisfy you in your bed?"

"That's enough!" Lena didn't know who that man was, indeed it was Lex, but it certainly wasn't her brother anymore.

"You're right. Let's talk about what you're going to do for me—"

"I cut the line. All comms are off."

Lena sighed, she could breathe again. "Thank you, Sam."

"Wait, what if he just shuts everything off?" Nia asked, scared.

Alex was the one to answer, "He won't. He clearly was talking just as a distraction, which tells us that he couldn't really get to that part of the system yet."

"You're right, I should've known..."

Kara took her hand. "Hey, Lena, no... none of this is on you and he clearly can't do anything yet so that means we have work to do."

And work they did. Winn finally came through another line and they worked together, Lena helping by thinking a few steps ahead of Lex, as per usual.

They were waiting for Houston's confirmation that the connection had been reestablished with all the new encryptions.

Kara was glad when she finally had a few minutes of peace with her girlfriend.
"Hey, Lena? Umm, what Lex said... I know how you feel about that, and I know this isn't the best time. But we said we weren't going to keep these things to ourselves and I was wondering if maybe you—"

Lena took Kara's hands. "No, don't. That's the way he is, okay? He's manipulative, he gets in your head. Forget about what he said and just tell me: Did I ever make you feel like that's an issue for me?"

"Of course not, Lena! You've been amazing, you're the best girlfriend I could've asked for. I know you wouldn't—"

Kara was getting riled up again. But as much as Lena loved that about her, she also needed to soothe her. She gently stroked Kara's cheek with one hand while pulling her closer with the other.

"Hey, it's okay. You don't have to defend me from myself."
She chuckled before getting serious again. "I'm fine, love. Actually, no, not just fine. You make me happy, Kara. I love you."

Kara's expression changed from worry to cheery and teary-eyed. "You make me happy too."

"Good." Lena gave her a quick kiss. "And thank you for telling me. I'll gladly remind you all of this as many times as you need because I love you."
Another kiss.
"I love you."

Kara floated even closer and let Lena hold her tight, leaving no space between them. "I love you more."

"Not possible."

"It's tot—"

"Stop this madness, this is worse than a solar flare." Nia was suddenly there, dramatically covering her eyes and pretending to be disgusted.

Also reminding them the day wasn't quite finished yet.

It worked out in the end. It was a close call, but they managed to succeed in the end. It took the FBI three more hours to find Lex. He was finally going to a special cell he wouldn't be able to get out of.

Kara never left Lena's side. "Are you okay?"

"No."

"Is there anything I can do?"

"Stay with me."

"Always."

Kara gave Lena a slow, meaningful kiss and hugged her tight. She wasn't planning on ever letting her go.

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Woow what do you think? Sorry for being late(again) Im on vacation so its not my fault right?? Anyways..
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