Throw Away the Plan

Chapter 18 (Sara's PoV)

   "What poison?" Gideon asked. I could tell she was using her "Blunt but Concerned Doctor" voice.

"Cyanide, I think she said," Barry answered.

"Alright. Tell Alex and the rest of the doctors to bring her to the MedBay, I'll have the bed near the door ready for her."

"Got it," he said, then ran out in a flash of lightning.

"So, the five of us will have to run crowd control," I told the others. When no one moved, I ushered them out of the galley and towards the cargo bay saying, "What're you waiting for!? It's gonna be a zoo in here if we don't do something about it!"

Alex and the DEO's med team arrived within minutes with a woman on a stretcher in tow.

"Don't let anyone on who doesn't have a good reason to be here!" she called over her shoulder as she and the rest of the doctors followed Ava down to the MedBay.

After a tedious half hour or so of waiting for Gideon to work her magic, the woman (Lena Luthor, we were told) was declared to be perfectly healthy and we all breathed a collective sigh of relief- she had escaped the woods unscathed.

It was decided that since Lena had been unconscious during the whole ordeal and knew nothing of Kara's dual identity, it was best if she were to wake up back in her office where she had been poisoned in the first place, rather than on the Waverider.

We dropped Kara and Lena off on the roof of the Catco Worldwide Media building, then flew the Waverider back to the DEO.

We used the time couriers to get back down to the forum, and we had barely gotten two steps into the room before Zari saw us and dramatically sighed in exasperation.

"Oh. My. Beebo!" She exclaimed, half sarcastic and half annoyed as soon as Ava and I came into view. "Why!?"

"Why what?" Ava asked, confused. In the few seconds that it had taken for her to respond to the outburst, it had caught the attention of a good amount of people, and a small crowd had started to form.

"Don't make me say it, you crazy people!"

"Say what?" I asked, now equally as confused. I thought back over the last few hours, trying to remember what exactly could have caused the sudden proclamation.

I was about to ask for clarification when I remembered just how perceptive the little asshole of a hacker was.

"Shit. Zari, don't you dare!" I shouted, running at her in hopes of keeping her from saying the words that I knew were about to leave her mouth.

Unfortunately for me, there is no way we know of to keep a determined Zari from doing something when she's on a roll.

"Yes, I realize that you just found out about your superpowers," she started, easily sidestepping away from my outstretched hands and completely ignoring any and all of my futile attempts to silence her. "But that does not mean you have to waste valuable time that could have been spent getting ready for a battle with freaking Alien Worldkillers in favor of having sex with your girlfriend!"

I felt my face go red, and, without saying a word, walked over to a wall and started to lightly bang my head against it. I imagine Ava had a similar reaction (without the head-banging), but we were both too embarrassed to do anything about it within the immediate future.

I vaguely heard Felicity say "Well, this is awkward," and many of the others murmuring their agreement.

I silently walked back about a minute later, my face still burning.

"So... can we agree to never speak of this again?" Dad asked, appearing to be just as embarrassed as Ava and I.

"I can second that," Mom confirmed.

After a moment, the small crowd that had gathered as a result of our little scene still ringed the outskirts of the room.

When he noticed, J'onn stormed over and stated firmly; "Show's over, people! Don't you all have something to be doing?"

At that, everyone who had been watching us promptly scurried back to whatever they had been working on.

"Now," J'onn said, addressing us. "We have some very important things to discuss."

"Please don't say it, please don't say it," I thought, feeling the Martian's gaze pass over Ava and I.

"You're fine, Miss Lance," he stated. "Just don't do it again."

"Wait, what?" I asked, confused.

Before J'onn had a chance to explain, Winn scurried up timidly and said, "We... may have failed to tell you that, with the exception of Kryptonians for some reason, Martians can read minds."

"Oh, shit," I muttered, my face going even redder than it already was.

"Anyways, as I was saying, we have far more important things to discuss," J'onn interjected. "A few minutes ago, I got a call from Kara saying that she and Lena Luthor are going to be crashing an event that Morgan Edge is appearing at tonight, in order to confront him for trying to kill her earlier today.

"Now a very important thing to note is that not long before the whole poison incident, Lena's deranged mother, Lillian, hacked Edge's car in order to murder him and make it look like suicide, which brings us to the problem we have now. There is a very good chance that Lillian is going to attack the event in order to finish the job, and Kara was hoping that Sara and Ava could go with Mon-El as backup, if and when it becomes necessary."

"Of course, we'd be happy to, but why us?" Ava asked.

"Well, I'd assume that it's because not only do both of you have a lot of experience in going undercover, but Sara has superpowers now," Ray reasoned, walking in.

"That makes sense," Ava agreed. "And-" she turned to me to see if I agreed, but what she saw was clearly not what she had expected. "Sara, what's the matter?"
"I mean, I know I'm a meta now," I whispered, softly enough that only Ava could hear. "But I don't know if I can control my powers. What if I hurt someone?"

"You'll be fine," she promised me. She studied around at the group of people still around us then, placing her hands firmly on my arms, she lead me behind a wall at the side of the room so we would be able to have some semblance of privacy.

As soon as we were out of sight of the others, I slid down the wall and drew my knees up to my chest, burying my face in them.

"Hey, Sara, listen to me," Ava said calmly, crouching down in front of me and gently lifting my chin so that I had no choice but to look her in the eyes. "You can control this, and you know it. You just need to believe in yourself." A sly grin crossed her face. "Not to mention the fact that you were screaming plenty just a few hours ago and didn't hurt either of us in the slightest. Or the furniture."

I forced a laugh. She did have a point there.

"Well, I guess we can give it a try," I decided eventually. "So long as afterward, we get the nerds working on a more long-term solution that's... not... based on pure faith in me and my ability to keep my powers to myself, okay?"

"Of course," she laughed. "But before any of that happens, we need to make sure we know where we're going and when we're going there."

She stood up and dusted herself off, then offered me her hand. I accepted and was immediately pulled up and into a kiss.

"If this is what happens whenever I freak out about something, then I might have to start freaking out more often," I quipped, wrapping my arms around her torso and leaning up for another kiss.

"But that wouldn't be a very good look for that captain of a group of time-travelers now, would it?" Ava smiled.

"Fine," I grumbled, knowing full well that our conversation was nowhere near over.

We eventually returned to the group of people we had so abruptly abandoned, and the concerned looks on their faces did not go unnoticed.

"I'm fine," I assured them before anyone could get a chance to speak. "When do we need to be ready?"

"At a moment's notice," J'onn replied. There's really no telling when Lillian's going to show up."

"Well, I guess we'd better go get dressed, then," I turned and said to Ava, smiling.