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After a long stressful day at L-Corp, Lena decided to walk home instead of calling her driver to wind down. It was perfect for walking home, cloudy and not too hot. It was rare that the sun wasn’t beating down making it so unbearable that you could enjoy a nice stroll out in the city.
She knew that on her way home she would be passing by CatCo, as she was walking by she heard someone calling her name.
“Lena!” She turns around to see her best friend Kara calling after her. She decides to pause to let Kara catch up to her.
“How was your day today?” Kara asks.
“Hey Kara, it was just another Monday. One meeting after another, and had to go over what feels like hundreds of departmental quarterly reports.”
“Well, I am on my way out, do you have any plans for this evening?” Kara inquires. Their relationship has grown so much since Mon-El was shipped off Earth after the invasion.
“Actually, no I don’t have anything going on.” Lena says as they start walking in the direction of her penthouse.
“That’s great! How about we head over to that new Thai place that I have been wanting to try out? I hear their potstickers are amazing.” Kara states as her stomach makes a grumbling sound loud enough for them both to hear.
Lena starts to smile, “sure, that sounds good. I haven’t had anything to eat today and I’m famished.”
As they start making their way to the restaurant the skies start to darken and the smell of rain fills the air. All of a sudden there is a loud clap of thunder and rain starts to fall making them run for cover under the nearest tree.
“Kara, we should head for the nearest building to get out of this rain. It’s definitely not safe to be under a tree during a thunderstorm.”
“Okay, I’ll follow you. Lets go on the count of three.” Kara says as the rain starts to fall a little harder.
Lena grabs Kara’s hand and counts to three. As they start making their way to the building that is about 100 feet away there was a flash of light. All of a sudden neither one of them could move. Stopped in their tracks Kara has just realized what was happening, they were struck by a lightning bolt. The hairs on both of their arms were standing straight up and their bodies were shaking from being electrocuted together.
Once Kara could start to move again she looked down at Lena and realized that Lena was barely breathing. Panic took over as Kara was bending over Lena trying to see if she could find Lena’s heartbeat. It was there, a sound so quiet she almost didn’t hear it even with her super-hearing.
“Lena!” Kara cried out. She had to do something and fast. Thanking Rao for her tech savvy friend Winn for making her com shock proof, she tapped on her com in her ear and called for Alex. While waiting for Alex to answer, she looked around them to see if it was clear for her to pick Lena up and fly her to the DEO. When she saw that it was clear she put her right arm under Lena’s legs and her left arm under her back near her shoulders. Picked her up bridal style and shot off into the air. Rain was still coming down drenching them on the way to the DEO.
“Hey Kara what’s wrong?” Alex asked.
“Lena and I were just hit by a lightning strike and she’s barely breathing, I’m bringing her to the DEO right now, get the med bay ready.” Kara said as she flew as fast as she could with her best friends body cradled in her arms.
As Kara landed inside the DEO, the concrete floor cracked slightly under her feet. Alex was already there waiting with a gurney. As Kara laid Lena on it she whispered into her ear, “Please come back to me Lena, I can’t lose you too.”
Alex and her team rushed Lena into the med bay while Kara stayed back to give them time to work on keeping Lena alive.
Kara decided to find go find Winn in the control room to keep herself from falling apart worrying about her best friend.
“Hey Kara, how are you holding up?” Winn asked.
“I don’t know what to do Winn, I can’t lose her.”
“Oh Kara, Lena is one of the strongest willed people that I have ever met, she won’t give up easily. Alex will do everything she can to make sure that she will be okay.”
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Two hours later Alex came out to find Kara sitting in the control room trying to keep herself occupied by
talking to Winn.
Kara shot out of her seat when she saw her sister. “Alex! How is she?”
“Well there were a few complications when we got her to the med bay, I think you should sit down to hear what I have to tell you.”
Kara’s face fell as she sat down, “Alex, what is it? You’re scaring me.”
“She is stable and is sleeping at the moment, but there have been changes to her.”
“What do you mean Alex?” Kara’s eyebrows crinkled in worry.
“Well when we got her into the med bay she flatlined, but we were able to resuscitate her. When we finally got her stable we decided to draw some blood to make sure everything was okay just as a precaution. But when we went to put the needle in her arm it just snapped off.” Alex paused for a second, “I had to call in J’onn to confirm my suspicion of what happened to her when you two got electrocuted…”
“And what did he find Alex?”
“Well he wasn’t able to get a read on her mind Kara. It appears that when you two were electrocuted her body was flooded with your Kryptonian DNA.”
Kara’s eyebrows raised dramatically and Alex continued, “We put her under the sun lamps and she has improved by leaps and bounds. Her pulse is stronger and her breathing is normal. I’m not sure how long she will be asleep, but when she wakes up you will need to have that talk with her.”
“Oh Rao Alex, she is going to hate me. I’ve been lying to her for years about who I am. She is my best friend, I should have told her a long time ago.”
“Kara.” Winn chimed in, “That woman loves you, there is no way she could hate you. She may be a little upset about it but I assure you, I’ve seen the friendship you have built with her for the past two years and she will not hate you.”
“Thanks Winn, I hope you are right.” Kara sighed. “When can I go see her Alex?”
“Right now, I’ll go and find a chair to put in the room beside the sun bed.”
Kara sat beside Lena and held her hand thanking Rao that he had not taken her best friend from her today. She sat there for what seemed like hours just holding her hand and stroking gently over Lena’s knuckles with her thumb. All the while she was saying silent prayers to Rao that she would wake up soon and be open to what Kara will have to tell her when she awakes.
About 30 minutes later Alex walked in to check on Lena, Kara had fallen asleep with her head on Lena’s abdomen. She walks over to Kara and gently wakes her up.
“Hey how are you doing?” Alex asks. “You should go and get some sleep.”
“I’m not leaving her side Alex, not until she wakes up and I know she’s okay.” Kara stilled for a moment and continued, “I love her Alex. I don’t know how she will react, but I can’t lose her.”
Alex gives her sister a hug and reassures her that she will be there for her no matter what happens.