Love Is Hard; a supercorp story

Chapter Six

Lena's POV

"Your coming with me" Says metallo.

He blasts the iron bars with kryptonite and they fall flat on the floor.

He looked at me expectantly and I sigh as I follow him. I knew in order to get to mother I had to play along with her little plan.

Suddenly, I hear the lockdown alarms blasting through the prison. Someone must have found the guards I thought.

I follow Metallo down the corridor, and into the intake room. There I see at least 7 unconscious armed guards. I am escorted out the exit and thrown into the back of a van.

"Lena"

My blood turns cold as I hear her voice.

She removes her helmet. I glare at her.

"Hope your trip to prison wasn't to unpleasant, but it was necessary for the plan".

Clearly she didn't care about the fact she had incriminated me.

"Let me guess mother. Your evil plan is to kidnap me, force me to access all L-Corp materials and research, And then use it to try and kill aliens"

She greets me with a suprised look.

"Your predictable Lillian"

"I'm here to rebuild the relationship with my daughter"

"Cut the crap Lillian. What do you actually want"

"I want my daughter back. Ever since Lex was imprisoned I realised how important you were to me, and how awfully i've treated you. I'm sorry Lena.

"Stop the van" I demand. I was fed up of her manipulative games. "I'm going back"

"To what?" She Interrupts. "You have no life anymore Lena. You have No-one on your side"

"Lena"

"Lena!"

I shuddered awake, finding myself lying on Kara's couch early in the morning.

"Are you okay?" A voice questions.

As my eyes adjust to the dark I see Kara, sitting by my feet and looking at me concerned.

"What" I question, still a little disorientated from my dream.

"You were squirming in your sleep, you looked like you were having a nightmare or something"

I sit up and look around, it was still dark, probably around 5:30am.

"Yeah I was just...just dreaming about" I reply, not finishing my sentence, as I realise my eyes were wet from crying. I dry them of on my sleeve.

"Are you okay Lena?" Kara questions again concerned.

"Yeah I just... had a bad dream"

She looks at me concerned and takes my hand in hers.

"I should probably get going. I've gotta go home and get ready for work" I say as I stand up, frantically throwing my stuff back into my bag as I prepare to leave.

My head was pounding from the hangover, and I was struggling to keep my eyes open.

As I approached the door, I felt a hand on my wrist pull me back.

"Lena please, tell me what's wrong"

"It's nothing" I almost shout. A tear rolling down my cheek.

She wipes it away with her thumb. She leads me back to the couch, and sits down next to me.

"It's okay Lena. We don't have to talk about it".

I slump my further down the couch and lay my head on her shoulder. She wraps her arm around my shoulder and her free hands takes mine.

I just lay there, silently crying as she drew small circles on my hand with her thumb, calming me down.

I finally broke the silence. "I had another dream about my mother" Kara pulls me tighter as she listens "I hate how she has this much control over me. How she still manages to manipulate me even in adulthood. It feels like she has total control over my life".

Kara releases her hand from mine and rests it on the side of my face, turning my head to meet her gaze.

I noticed the feeling again, the same feeling I had had on girls night, when I kissed her. The feeling of butterflies in my stomach, like I had gotten when I was around Jack.

Kara kisses me on the forehead. I tried to ignore it but it's as if something in my subconscious was screaming at me. I don't like Kara? I can't like Kara?

She stands up and offers me a drink, and I watch her as she prepares hot chocolate in the kitchen. My heart was beating out of my chest. I'm not even gay?

Questions continue flooding my mind as a take the hot chocolate from her. I zoned out trying to decipher my thoughts.

"Lena. Did you hear what i said?" Kara questions. I look up from the spot i'd fixed my gaze on and smile.

"Sorry I zoned out"

"I said, do you want some aspirin for your hangover?"

"ohhh" I laugh. "Please, my head is pounding"

She jumps up to retrieve the aspirin.

"Hang on" I say. "You should be more hungover then me why do you seem totally fine"

"I don't know. Strong immune system?"

I laugh as she hands me the aspirin. I gulp it down.

"I really should get going though. I still have work today"

"But you said yesterday we could have a snow day"

"I said maybe, and I only said it to shut you up. You can't skip work again Kara you'll be fired"

She groans, but nods her head in agreement.

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I sit at my desk, scribbling away at the work before me. My mind however, was racing.

I couldn't stop thinking about Kara, no matter how desperately I tried to dismiss the thought from my head. It was almost as if I had a crush on her.

I know I don't so. Why am I still thinking about it?

I pick up my phone and call Kara.

As it rings I stand and turn to watch the city. Noticing the clear anxiety ringing Kara was giving me.

"Hey Lena" I hear when she picks up.

"Heyyy" I reply awkwardly, cringing as I did so.

"I was just ringing for a catch up, I am bored out of my mind here"

Kara giggles. She continued to talk but I was no longer listening to her. I was more focused on my reflection. I could see two tall figures standing behind me.