Supercorp/Supergirl - Short Stories/Scenes/One Shots

Hold On

Possible spoilers for later episodes of season 4, I'm trying to avoid any big spoilers to give @AionioThanatos more time to catch up but I wouldn't say they have long, nor can I guarantee there aren't any below.

Narrator's POV

All the good luck she'd had seemed to have ran out. Lex knew where her apartment was and she'd certainly gotten a nasty surprise. How could he truly convince the world Supergirl was evil if the golden girl was still running around? He couldn't. She needed to go.

Kara had only just come in from a long night of heroics when a knock at the door could be heard. Following her manners, she used her powers to instantly change into her regular clothes so as to not keep her guest waiting. She wasn't even given a moment to think before being hit with a lethal dose of that one substance she dreaded. The face of wanted criminal Eve Teschmacher briefly came into view as she placed more of the element nearby, for added cruelty. Typically, she may have used her super speed to avoid the attack but something was off. It could've been the fatigue from the day's adventures or maybe she just blinked. A fatal mistake. Green poison flooded her veins, she didn't have very long at all. Help. She needed to call for help. Her phone lay on the coffee table and she tried her damn best to finally wrap her fingers around it. Time wasn't something she had much of so she tried J'onn first, for a lift. She didn't know he was still off-planet. As a feeling of calm started to wash over her, she tried her sister, nothing. That probably hurt as much as dying. Every ring of the outgoing call was partnered with more tears. She may have accepted her pain, but it was still unbearable.

If she was going to die, she wanted to at least say goodbye to one person she cared about. Lena had been torn apart when she finally figured out the two different identities for the same woman. The fact she picked up the phone, hearing her voice after so long set off a longing to stay, but it wouldn't happen.
"Hey, Lena,"
"Miss Danvers, why are you calling at this hour?" She didn't even sound tired, another long day at the office.
"I just wanted to make sure you knew I loved you." Shock was an understatement for the emotionally hardened CEO.
"Are you okay? Are you drunk?" Believing anyone could ever feel that way about her after everything the two had been through wasn't going to happen. Something had to be wrong.
"No. I mean I'm not drunk. I just wanted to make sure you knew." She didn't seem quite convinced. "I promise." Some promises were made to be broken.

Her consciousness was starting to fade further, not long now and the pain would be gone.
"Kara, what's wrong?" If it weren't for the situation, she'd have been happy to have been addressed by something other than Miss Danvers. The tearful, strained voice had given her away. She was too far gone to really care, there was something more she had to say.
"Tell Alex, that I love her too, not quite in the same way."
"No, you can tell her yourself. You're fine."
"Okay." She needed to make the conversation more normal, "So how was your day?" That beautiful laugh. It may not have been completely real, but it was a nice final thing to hear. The phone lay on the floor beside her, a very confused woman on the other end. Then it hit her. 

She almost lost her voice with how long she spent calling the girl's name. She tried pressing the summon on the watch but her office stay empty. Eventually, she hung up the call and chose to try and get help, she never called the DEO. The orders were to keep out of the way, help was on its way to the apartment, to hell with that. Her driver wasn't expecting to see her quite so stressed and flustered but followed her wishes by getting her there quick. Help hadn't arrived yet and she couldn't waste the crucial moments she had to save Kara. If only she'd known it was alreadykind of too late.

The spare key was still under the mat so she let herself in, it was horrible. She couldn't freeze this time. The first step was the hardest. She had to check for a pulse; it was barely there. Green, glowing veins were counteracting her pale skin as her body tried to fight off what was killing her. It took everything for Lena not to just sob into her shoulder, she'd wasted the time they'd had and now it may have been too late.
"You told me you were okay, you promised." Lena's voice broke a little, this was all too much. Seeing Kara so pained. "Please don't leave me." She managed to choke out. It was then that the sporadic movements started. The sound of voices and boots at the end of the hall was a hail Mary. Alex was about to question why she was there when she spotted the superhero in her sister's clothing. Orders flew through the air before the flurry started. Lena could only watch, feeling numb. She did get rid of the extra Kryptonite she'd only just spotted though, it helped very little. The worst and most likely scenario ran through her mind. She couldn't lose her.