Crisis

Dead Silent Confessions

FORTY-THREE HOURS EARLIER...

As Felicity said, everyone was spread out across their bases; STAR Labs, the Bunker, both CC and SC PDs, and Argus. Everyone did as much digging as they could and a little searching on the dark web did indeed prove that every Luthor on this earth was in hiding and hasn't been a threat for three years, possibly even presumed dead.

"Well, that's good," Kara somewhat sighs at what Felicity found in the Bunker. "No other evil Luthors means that we won't have any double fire of them."

"Or any other traitors," Lena muttered. "Both assistants and family." She walks away and Kara bows her head, sucking on her lips as her foot slightly twitched in her boot.

So with that new information, Barry and Kara went on a search around the world to look under every rock, inside every nook and cranny to where Lex Luthor of both E-1 and 38 could be. Team Arrow had to deal with another reoccurring pop up of an anti-vigilante gang with extreme firepower; Batwoman went to go help them while Alex and Maggie were overseeing at the precinct, a few blocks down from the Bunker.

That left Lena, Winn, Felicity, and Curtis, who were dropped off at the Bunker, to tinker with sun grenades, Canary Cry grenades and necklaces, kryptonite shields, Speed Force dampeners, weapons, Supergirl's new suit, anti-meta grenades, a lot of deadly items and grenades included if you think about it. Sara and Nate were sparring on top of the platform as they worked in silence, apart from the occasional grunt and land of a blow, as well as the talks of improvements and sounds of metal clinking.

"Alright, I've got the Speed Force dampeners down," Winn announces, grinning as he pushes back from the table in his chair. "I'll go drop some of these bad boys off at STAR Labs."

"Take a few sun grenades with you while I do the same at the Waverider," Curtis tells him as he hands over four.

"On it." Winn takes the devices and opens a breach, disappearing inside before it closes. Curtis opens his own breach and he leaves the two women behind to tinker and tweak at Supergirl's suit and tap and monitor on tablets.

Felicity glances up from her tablet as she tries to get Archer offline and not as impending as it can be in the future. "She told you, didn't she?"

Lena sighs as she opens the helmet and looks at the filtering system inside, tweaking at the ventilation as metal batons clatter. "And I was the only one who didn't know, huh?"

"You might have to specify what you don't know."

"Oh, I don't know, maybe that the most important person in my life is a superhero behind my back, who, also, is the cousin to my evil brother's arch enemy, and that there are multiple earths, confirming the multiverse theory that people have been theorizing for decades—"

"I'm gonna stop you right there," Felicity chuckles with a wavering hand out, even if she didn't look up at her. "Lena, she trusts you—"

"Trusts me?" Lena slams down the helmet on the table, snapping it close in the progress, not even making Felicity flinch as she fought back her stare. "She had so many opportunities just to tell me." Her mouth quivers as she tries to find words that can describe how she feels, her emotions that have been built up since day one of knowing her friend becoming too much, even with her little boxes method.

"I love her," she whispers. "And love is built on trust. How could I love her back then if I didn't see the truth or if she didn't tell me?"

Felicity smiles weakly at her. "That's the thing: you don't know who you're falling in love with until they show you their true selves. It's up to you whether to decide you'll still stay with them and still love them."