The Death of Supergirl

The Apartment part 2

Several hours later the girls heard a key in the lock. Even though they knew that Alex had the protection detail stationed all around, they all tensed, Ruby buried herself behind Lena on the couch. James entered the apartment and saw them sitting on the couch. He met Lena's eyes and exploded.

"What the hell are you doing here? Get out now."

Lena stood, shaking, not from fear but from anger. "Alex sent us here, she needed to make sure we were safe after this afternoon's attack, we can't leave."

James came towards her, and Lena could see how angry he really was, she backed away, but he moved much faster, grabbing her around the throat and pushing her up against the wall. Lena couldn't break his grip, as he held her, "It's your fault she's dead you bitch, you don't deserve to be here."

"I, I know, I'm here for Ruby and Sam, I didn't deserve Kara."

"All units, Tempest is in trouble, James Olson is attacking her inside KD's apartment."

The doors to the elevator were opening to Kara's floor as Alex got the alert in her earpiece. She charged for Kara's door, which one of Lena's escorts was unlocking. He got the door opened in time for Alex to hear Lena's words.

"Damn right you didn't, he then lifted her by the neck pushing her up the wall."

Sam was holding Ruby, Jess was in shock, but Alex reacted, tackling James from the side and knocking Lena loose from his grasp. James stood up, "You going to defend her Alex, I was the Guardian once, I will take you down and any number of your guard dogs as well."

"Alex, not for me, don't break your friendships for me."

Alex looked from Lena to James and back to Lena. In that span of seconds, she saw everything that Kara saw in Lena. She may be a Luthor in name, but that was all, she was Kara's and Kara would have defended Lena to the very end. Her sister was always a better judge of a person.

"James, I'm giving you one chance to stand down, Kara wouldn't have wanted this, she asked that I protect Lena, and I will honor her wishes, even if it means going through you."

"You would stand between Lena and me.", he asked.

"Just like she did between Ruby and a shooter today. Kara saw her goodness James, we have never given her a chance, we always judged her, made Kara keep her secrets, made her out to be worse than she was. We were one's being judgmental, but we should have listened, we should have tried to see her as the person she was and was trying to be, instead of her last name."

"I'm leaving.", James snapped.

"Right now that's for the best. But don't let your anger blind you to the truth James."

"I just need to go, I need to think, clear my head.", he headed towards the door, slamming it as he left.

"This is the Director, give James Olson an escort and let me know if he comes back this way. Be discreet, but do not, I repeat do not allow him to get himself in trouble."

The protection detail immediately understood what she was implying, so James Olson would be tracked and followed the rest of the evening.

"Lena, are you okay."

Lena nodded, feeling the need to throw up. "I'm sorry Alex. I didn't mean to cause trouble."

"Of course you didn't sweetheart, this was all on him.", Alex said, seeing how small and frail Lena seemed at this moment. In all her interactions with the CEO, she had only ever seen the strong superwoman that ran L Corp, now she was finally seeing the woman that her sister saw, someone in need of trust, acceptance and love. They had all betrayed Lena, but Kara, had never stopped seeing the good in Lena.

"Alex, I think I need to throw up,", Lena rushed to the bathroom, Alex following behind. Alex held her hair and rubbed her back as Lena threw up.

"Feel a little better?", Alex asked. "You still have some sweats here." Lena couldn't answer, so she just nodded. Alex got up and started the shower, "Get a shower and call us if you need anything, okay?", Lena nodded again and smiled slightly.

Alex left Lena to the shower and went to the living room to check on everyone else. Sam and Jess were hugging on Ruby. Sam stood as Alex entered, meeting her in the middle of the room, Alex wrapped her in a hug. "Is she okay?", Sam whispered.

"She's heartbroken, and now her mask has slipped in front of us all, she is never going to be Lena Luthor again in front of us, she is going to be just Lena."

"Just like Kara always wanted."

"Yep, baby sister was right again."

Lena was in the shower, finishing up. She got out and grabbed a towel and her toothbrush, which Kara had made her keep here. "Kara, I'm so sorry. I know you are gone, I just don't want to accept it." She then headed into the bedroom and was trying to remember where Kara had put her sweats, she found the pants in an unused bottom drawer, then opened the closet door to find her sweatshirt, there, hanging right in front of her was Supergirls uniform. Lena saw it, and started to tear up again. She grabbed one of Kara's sweatshirts, much to big for her, and then, on sudden impulse, grabbed the cape and headed towards the bed. Then Lena laid down on Kara's bed, wrapped in Supergirl's cape, cried herself to sleep.

Cat and Lucy arrived just as Lena was getting out of the shower, so they were all catching up and failed to notice that almost an hour had gone by. Sam stood up, "I'm going to check on Lena real quick." She opened the bedroom door and closed it quickly. "Alex you need to see this."

"Is she okay?"

"Just look."

Alex stood up, headed over to the door and opened it, Lena was curled up, sleeping under Kara's cape. She choked back the tears, closed the door quietly and addressed her friends. "She's asleep, I think we will give her a couple of hours. Looks like she really needed some peace."

All the women decided to let Ruby pick out a movie, ordered some pizza and sandwiches for the security team and settled in to watch Tangled.

They were halfway through Frozen, when Lena came out of the bedroom, "I'm sorry, I guess I was more tired than I thought."

"Nonsense sweetheart, you needed the rest.", Ruby recited just like Alex would have said. The whole room laughed and Lena hugged Ruby.

"Thanks Short-stuff.", Lena giggled, "What are we watching?"

"Frozen, Aunt Lena, we can start it over."

"Sounds great.", Lena responded over the groans of the other women.

"Great, someone else to spoil her rotten.", Sam groaned.

"What are aunts for, but to spoil."

They settled in and watched the movie, eat pizza and just relish the spirit of their friend that had brought them all together.

As everyone drifted off to sleep, Lena looked to Alex, "Did you still want to talk tonight?"

"No, if it is okay with you, Mom will be here tomorrow, can we talk then?"

Gripping Alex's hand, "That would be fine Alex, thank you for this tonight."

"You deserve a family that cares Lena, we are all trying, just like Kara would have wanted." Alex said, "Now, go stretch out on the bed and get some more rest."

Somewhere in space, a heart starts to beat...