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Chapter 5 // Melt Down

Lena sat on the bed, she hugged her knees and stared at the wall in front of her. To her right was a door, probably to the bathroom, and to her left was a glass wall and the door where Kara just walked out off.

Lena couldn't hold back anymore, it was safe to say she was shocked and terrified, off whatever what was happening. So she slowly started to cry, she heard the thought of Lillian scolding her about 'a Luthor doesn't cry' in her mind. But she couldn't care, she- was scared. She wanted to go home, wherever home was.

She heard the door open and quickly tried to remove the tears from her face, but whoever was next to her grabbed her hand and held it. Suddenly there were a pair of strong arms around her, holding her tight. That was the moment Lena broke down, from just sniffing and sometimes a stay tear she went to full on crying. Having the waterworks and all. She was shaking and just let it all out. A hand moved on the small of Lena's back, going up and down over and over.

Lena just sat down there... feeling absolutely terrible. But the person next to her finally spoke up and luckily for Lena it was just Kara. Kara started to whisper nice things, encouraging her to let it out and making sure that Lena knew Kara was there.

Lena moved and clung onto Kara, who was seated on the edge of the bed. Minutes pass by with Lena crying into Kara and making her shirt, she wasn't in her suit, very wet. But Lena couldn't care... she just felt so... lonely. Like she was the only one on the world even though Kara was holding her.

After fifteen minutes, yes fifteen, Lena finally stopped crying and started only whimpering. A hand from her back moved to her head as Kara slowly started to move her hand on Lena's head. Lena buried her face deeper into Kara. And let a final whimper before thinking about her exercises she normally did if she was upset. She started to breathe normally after some time and not much later she was relaxed again. But that didn't stop Kara from whispering things and rubbing Lena's back, while a hand rested against Lena's head.

Lena slowly closed her eyes, took one last deep breath and sat up, moving away of Kara's hands. She immediately missed the warmth, but she opened her eyes and looked Kara directly in the eyes. Her gaze hardened and she sat up straight. Not wanting the woman to see her like this. A hand was placed on her shoulder but she shrugged it off. Kara turned around and said "Alex, could you leave for a moment? I think it's better that I speak with her myself on this one. I will text you when you can come back."

Alex nodded and with that, she left again. Kara stood up and started walking around the room. After minutes of silence, Kara spoke again "You know- I can't look at you know. You don't deserve it. Because you are using that awful coping mechanism," Kara was at the time really pacing, she sighed before she continued "I am going to say this one time and one time only," She stopped walking and turned to Lena "Understood?" Lena nodded quickly, she had never seen this side of her friend. And it was safe to say she was a little intimidated.

Kara sighed again and looked Lena directly in the eyes, not blinking for an unusual amount of time. "You- Lena Luthor, are my wife. That means written in my vows of our Earthy customs that I am going to be here for better or for worse. Now it is worse. That means you need to show yourself. We aren't in some fucking board room. No. You are here with your wife," Lena was a bit shocked when she heard Kara swear but suddenly Kara raised her voice and she started to look a bit angrier "And that means that. You- Lena, are going to talk with me about what is wrong. You promised me that you would do it when you got knocked out at campus because you weren't eating enough. But now- Now we are older, maybe only three years. But we-we are in this together. I imprinted on you and you-you should know that I hate to see you hurt. I absolutely hate it. So please, Lee. Don't hide. Show it. It's just me."

Lena gulped her saliva down and nodded. It was safe to say that Kara was wise, like really wise. Because Kara- Kara knew what she was doing. So Lena closed her eyes, took one last deep breath, and stood up. She made her way over to Kara who looked surprised. Lena threw herself into Kara's arms and whispered: "I am scared."

Those strong hands found Lena's back again as Kara held her closer, saying "It will be all right. Everything will be okay. I made you a promise all those years ago and I won't break it, ever. You and I will go through this jungle of problems together. And nothing is going to stop us. We might get some extra problems along the way but we-we will win. We will live. We will thrive. We will survive."

With each word, Lena started to believe Kara more and more. She could do everything with Kara at her side. And Lena knew she needed to adjust to whatever this was. But Kara would be there every step along the way, even when she didn't know that she was helping. But Lena- Lena felt good again. They stood there for minutes before deciding to go to bed. Kara made to sit down on the chair but Lena asked in a very broken voice for her to lie with her. And Kara- Kara obliged. So Lena felt safer than she had been for years. All because one person held her.

Edited by: Anonymous