Speed Away

Chapter 9: Hurt

Lisa: Holy late chapters Batman. This was supposed to be out Tuesday. Guess what day it is today, Friday. Remember that chapter three doesn't exist. Get ready for some angst.

Kara P.O.V.

"What are you doing here?" I asked smiling slightly at him. It was stupid that I was still somewhat in love with him after he lied to me. I walked over to Alex and gave her a bone-crushing hug.

"We came to see you perform, Brainy said you were here after I left when the atmosphere was covered in lead so we came over to see you," Mon-El explained as Barry came running over. 

"We have to get ready this is the last practice we have before tonight, oh hey, Mon-El right we met during the whole whammy thing," Barry said smiling at Mon-El.

"Yeah, good to see you again Barry. I heard things went south with your girlfriend," Mon-El said referring to Iris. 

"Yeah... we dated for a while and after the whole whammy thing, we never got back together. I actually have a new partner now, we're engaged," Barry said smiling and flashing his ring. 

"Oh well, congratulations," Mon-El said smiling at him.

"Okay, boys I have to go and get ready to practice with Rachel again. Alex, keep an eye on him," I said referring to Mon-El.

"Not a problem," she said winking at me before walking back over to him.

She was talking to him and I only caught part of the conversation words like "teasing" "perfect" and "want" were thrown around. Just fantastic, Alex wants us to get back together. Do I want to get back together with him? Is this something that I should even be considering? 

Ryder walked up on the stage with Mike and Jake for backup. We all sat down in front of the stage and a harp started up. I looked around and saw Kate and another girl next to her.

"This one goes out to a few good friends out there who feel like they've lost everything, things are hard now but I know you guys will pull through," he said before he started singing.

"When your day is long and the night, the night is yours alone. When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on. Don't let yourself go cause everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes. Sometimes everything is wrong now it's time to sing along. When your day is night alone (hold on) When you feel like letting go (hold on) If you think you've had too much of this life, well hang on cause everybody hurts. Take comfort in your friends everybody hurts. Don't throw your hand, oh, no. Don't throw your hand. If you feel like you're alone. No, no, no, you are not alone. If you're on your own in this life. The days and nights are long. When you think you've had too much of this life to hang on. Well, everybody hurts sometimes, everybody cries, everybody hurts sometimes, and everybody hurts sometimes. So, hold on."

I looked down into my lap but looked up when there was a hand on my shoulder Kate was standing behind me with the girl. She had shinning black hair and emotional blue eyes. 

"Kate, what are you doing here?" I asked hugging her. 

"Well, I'm here to see you, she's here to see him," Kate said pointing to Ryder.

"Oh, so she's not your..."

"No, she's kind of like my niece. Burce's kid you know," Kate said laughing as the girl hugged Ryder making me think of the day when he sang that to us in glee club. That was the day that he told everyone that he was...

"Ryder has a tough exterior..."

"If you're talking about what happened with his babysitter then we both already know, Dixie had something like that happen to her when she was younger too. Bruce hunted the guy down and beat him up until he was black and blue. She went berserk as Batgirl and almost killed the girl that did that to Ryder, I had to stop her," Kate said smiling at me.

"So what about you, you seem worried about everyone else here having someone to love but you don't seem interested in anyone yourself," Kate added interested.

"There's someone that I've been thinking about for a while but I never thought that he would actually show up and be here," I said looking over at Mon-El who was shaking hands with Jake and Mike as the girl hugged Ryder breathing evenly with him.

"That must be Mon-El, he's lucky to even be noticed by you," Kate said smiling nicely at me. We laughed and hugged before she went back over to her niece who was still hugging Ryder.

Oliver walked over as the sun began to set. It was time. We were going to let everything go and let ourselves breathe into our performance. Let go of the hurt, let go of our pasts, let go of everything.

The Warblers stepped onto the stage introducing themselves but then the whole stage was set aflame. 

"Good evening ladies and gentleman of Central City, I am Combustion your host for this evening," a man announced before whispering to Barry, "I told you I'd be back," punching him to knock him out and pulling him into the back of a car. 

Kate and her niece went to their motorcycles and chased after him as I put out the fire.

Oliver was on the ground with a beam on top of him.

"Barry!" he screamed once I lifted it off of him.

Everybody...

I flew over the city to see Kate kneeling over her cousin that was bleeding badly.

hurts.

"No..."