Finding The Way Back to You

Chapter 5- The Plan

                                                                                    Mon-El

After we leave Kara, I get everybody in the main part of the DEO.

"Okay, listen up. We have a big problem." I'm about to start telling them Imra's plan, but Winn interrupts me.

"Why is Imra in a cell?" At that, everybody starts talking.

"Quiet please." nobody listens. I grab a chair and stand on it. Yeah, it's a little melodramatic, but if it will get their attention, it's worth it.

"I said, QUIET!" At that everybody shuts up. "Okay, now if you let me, i'll tell you why Imra is in a cell." I pause and they stay quiet so I tell them what Imra told me.

"Wow," Winn says after I finish. "So where is this knife?"

I shrug. " It's not on the ship. She practically told me that she's working with somebody else. Who? I don't know." 

J'onn finally speaks. "What about Reign? It could be her right?" I'm about to speak when somebody does first.

"It could be her. It's very possible," Kara says. She takes me off guard and I don't have time to hide how I start blushing a little. I look around to see if anybody saw and when I get to Alex, she raises her eyebrows in question. Crap. She saw.

"What are you doing out here? You should be resting," J'onn says.

"Well, I got up for a drink of water and saw Mon-El standing on a chair. I couldn't miss this conversation. So.. Imra's trying to kill me?" I nod, unable to speak. I get down off of the chair and I think about offering it to Kara, but she would probably hurt me if I did.

"Can I see a picture of the knife?" I pull up the picture on my tablet and hand it to her. She looks at it and she starts to smile. 

"So this, if I get stabbed with it, takes everything from me? My powers, everything?"

"Yes," I wonder where she's going with it. She turns away from me toward Winn. I have to stop myself from grabbing Kara and kissing her. When she looks at me with those amazing blue eyes,  I can barely speak or think.

"Winn, could you make another one of these?" Winn looks suprised. I mean, all of us are. Why is she asking that?

"Um.. yeah, I guess. Why?" Winn looks very uncomfortable. 

"Well, what if we made another one, but changed some of it's attributes?" Kara turns toward me again.

"Like what?" I ask her. Where is she going with this? Winn looks like he's catching on and it's like he drank a bunch of espresso's and it's just now kicking in. 

"If we made it to take the evil out of someone instead of everything that comes with it." Winn is practically shaking now with the idea.

"But you would still have to stab the person. That would kill them." Kara looks at me as if i'm dumb.

"Not necessarily. We have some of the best medical staff and equipment. We have Brainiac who was able to get into my head while I was in a coma." From the back of the room, Brainy yells, "Yeah!" I laugh and soon everybody joins in. When it dies down, J'onn starts yelling orders.

"Okay, Winn get to work. Alex I need you to get as many people as you can and find Reign. I want to keep tabs on her until we can beat her. Everybody else, go home. Most of you aren't supposed to be here. Kara, that goes for you too. Get somebody to take you home. You're not up to your full strength just yet." With that, he walks away. Kara looks around and after a few seconds, she turns toward me.

Can you-?" I nod knowing that she was asking me to take her home. 

When we get the apartment, Kara goes immediately to the couch. I stand around not knowing what to do.

"You can come sit down, you know?" I go sit down next to her and it takes everything I have to not put my arm around her and pull her next to me.

"Can I ask you a question Mon-El?"

"You just did." Kara playfully hits me.

"This is serious." I nod at her to go ahead.

"What did you want to tell me?" The air rushes out of me. If I tell her now, she'll just think that it's because Imra is bad. How can I get her to understand that it was and always will be her? An idea pops into my head and I get my tablet out.  I pull up the camera feed from earlier, when I told Imra that I love Kara. I play it for Kara and when it's over, she has tears in her eyes.

"Kara, when I left Earth 7 years ago, I was broken. It hurt to breathe or even to be awake. When I slept, it was the only time I could be with you. When I met Imra, I didn't even think of her as a friend. I only married her because I felt like I had to. Along the way I fell in love with her or so I thought. When I saw you on that stretcher, it was like when I had left all over again. If I lose you, I would lose myself. I love you Kara. I have always loved you and I will always love you."