Be My Romeo

We'll meet again

Friar J'onn's steps echoed through the room as he came down the steps to retrieve Kara. He hummed a hymn quietly as he walked. He rounded the corner with a smile on his face and called out,

"Kara? Are you-"

He stopped dead in his tracks and observed the scene in front of him. The two young women were in a tight embrace on the stone tablet, Lena on Kara's lap and Kara leaning over her, resting her head on Lena's hair. He spotted an empty green vial next to Lena and a larger dagger sticking out of Kara's chest. Blood was dripping off the end of the tablet and the girls looked like they were drowning in it.

Friar J'onn's breathing shallowed and he felt slightly nauseous. He was confused, a million questions were spinning through his head. Had Kara already woken up? How had Lena snuck back into Verona? Why had they both killed themselves? Who else knew about this?

He had to step out of the room for a moment as he blinked back tears and then he hurried back to Lord Zor-El and Lady Alura.

***

Lord Zor-El and Lady Alura were beside themselves when Friar J'onn told them about what he had seen. He told them that the 'poison' that Kara took clearly hadn't worked and that she had woken up. He then explained that Lena Luthor, who Kara had become close friends with, had gone to visit her and thought she had died, killing herself then too. Kara had woken up and found Lena. Stricken with grief, she had decided to kill herself too, to be with her best friend.

Friar J'onn felt very guilty about not being able to tell them the whole truth but he knew that that is what Lena and Kara would have wanted.

A message was sent to the Luthors and they hurried to the House of El manor that same day. The two families mourned the loss of their daughters together and, united by grief, they decided to bury the girls together.

When Kara and Lena died, so did the hatred between their families. They paved the way for the two families to find peace with one another, bringing them all closer than ever before.

They were buried in Friar J'onn's chapel cemetery a few days later. The two families had payed for a statue of the two to be set over the grave, in which these words were carved:

Here rest Kara and Lena, in eternal peace,

Their bond unspoken, may it never cease.