Maybe I Let You Poison Me

"It doesn't feel very good, does it, Kara?" Lena hissed at the Kryptonian, eyes blazing with a sadistic glee. "To be kept in the dark by your "best friend"? She keeps a secret from you and you go about your life blissfully unaware that anything's wrong until suddenly... BANG!" Lena gave an unhinged laugh while Kara only knelt in front of her with a sad expression on her face.

She was kneeling because, at the present, she was being immobilized by a bit of spare Kryptonite Lena had whipped out to trap her with. It was not enough to kill her, barely even enough to hurt, but it was enough to weaken... And floating over her head were all the little nanobots that made up Lena's faithful A.I., Hope. Hope's previous hostess lay unconscious in the next room over, but no one was focused on her anymore, not now that a far more valuable target had just been put into place.

Lena had finally perfected her Q Waves and could successfully rewrite the brain without causing any harm. Now that she knew for sure her Q Waves were safe, she was ready to try it out. And it had been laughably easy to get everything into place. All she had needed to do was to pretend to be in danger. Using the watch Supergirl had given to her, she sent out a distress call and, like clockwork, Kara had come to her aid. Only half a second after Kara arrived, Lena's Kryptonite trap was activated (thanks Hope) and Lena made her big reveal.

"This won't hurt, Kara," the Luthor promised with a deadly silky voice. "And I promise I won't use you for any ill intent. I just want to remove your natural compulsion to lie and deceive. You'll be better by the end of this, trust me..."

"So, you're going to mind control me?" Kara rasped as the Kryptonite continued to weaken her.

"Well, I wouldn't call it mind control so much as I would call it a rewrite," Lena replied as she picked up her tablet and looked to Hope's nanobots. The bots began to swarm faster and faster as Lena picked her tablet up.

"Ha!" Kara gave an uncharacteristically harsh laugh. She shook her head, but made no move to flee. "You're an even bigger fool than I thought!" she declared and, despite herself, Lena was caught off guard by the remark.

"What?" she demanded softly, lowering her tablet with a dangerous look in her eye. As she lowered her tablet, Hope's swarming nanobots slowed down as well. They continued to circle over Kara's head, but with less intensity.

"You heard me," Kara replied, almost tauntingly. "You're an even bigger fool than I thought!"

"Says the girl who flew right into my trap," Lena snarled back, finger hovering dangerously over the button that would seal Kara's fate.

"Maybe I let you poison me," the Kryptonian replied, and once again, Lena was caught off guard by the remark.

"What?" the deadly tone in her voice was replaced with genuine confusion and surprise.

"Maybe I let you poison me," the Kryptonian repeated, her own voice growing softer the second time around as well. The almost arrogant façade Kara had displayed up until that moment finally began to fade away into something... exhausted.

"Maybe I let you poison me," she repeated for a third time, then she explained.

"I knew all along that you hadn't forgiven me, Lena. I wasn't stupid enough to think you'd be able to let go of such a big issue so easily," the Girl of Steel said. "Don't forget, Lena, I know you far too well."

"Well maybe you guessed that right, but surely you couldn't have guessed about all of this too?!" Lena gestured to her lab, angry and defensive.

"I overheard you talking to Hope," Kara replied with a shrug, eyes flicking up to the bots still swarming around her head.