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James would expect to see Lena at Noonan’s. He would expect to see her in a five star restaurant, or a trendy new bar with low, smooth music. He doesn’t expect to find her in National City’s greasiest diner. 

It’s also grungy, and dingy and the farthest cry from anything befitting a Luthor. Especially in this reality. He frowns. It still unsettles him, that there was once a world that was, one vastly different from the world that is. But in this world, where the Luthors had never fallen and Lena had no reason to mingle with the smallfolk like she did after meeting Kara, Lena seems even more out of place in the cracked and peeling pleather booth.

If Lena is surprised to see him when he approaches her table, it doesn’t show. She has nothing but a coffee in front of her, but at 2am the place is sparse and not wanting for open tables. 

“Hey Lena,” he says, settling onto the bench opposite her. “Been a while.”

Her eyebrows shrug in affirmation. “Yeah.”

He waits a few beats, but her demeanor remains distant.

“How are you?” James asks in a gentle voice.

Lena doesn’t meet his gaze. She stares out through the window at the night beyond, eyes fixed on nothing in particular. “Lex is alive,” she says flatly. “In a world of his own making. Where nothing is the same except that my friends aren’t my friends. So. You know.” Her shoulders lift. “Fine.”

He regards her solemnly. He knows Lena Luthor. He knows her moods and her faces and her tones. He’s never seen her like this. Never so… detached. Defeated.

“It’s not ideal,” he agrees carefully. “But I’ve never known you to sit back and take it.”

He expects a glare, or at least a sharp glance. He gets neither. Only a finger slowly tracing the rim of her coffee cup.

“What if I’m tired, James?” Her voice, low with melancholy, is deep in her chest, betraying its honesty. “I’m tired of having to claw and fight for every good thing in my life.”

James hesitates. The thought bubbling up in his throat is a risk. He knows that. He chooses to take it. “You didn’t fight for us,” he says softly. “And I thought we had a pretty good thing going.”

Finally, Lena’s attention breaks from the window, drifting to the mug between her hands. “Now you know why I didn’t.”

He nods. “I do.”

Looking at her now, after the weeks of confusion and months of hurt, he feels nothing but affection, and want. The desire to be the one thing she doesn’t have to fight for. 

“That’s why I’m here,” he reminds her. “Because I know you still care. And because I still care about you.”

Her gaze lifts to his at long last, deep with heartache and a wary hope that even now can’t be totally dampened. 

“You and I don’t have to fight. But if we do… if you want to, you won’t have to fight alone.”

James sees her hesitation in the twist of her lips, doubt in the glint of her eyes. “The way I treated you…”

“You can let it go,” he says. “I have.”

It’s true. It’s taken a while to get here, but he has. He has, to the point that his remaining sympathy is for Lena– for her decision to be alone rather than risk him. 

“You said you were tired,” he continues. “Maybe it’s time for you to rest, and let yourself lean on someone you don’t need to fight for.”

He reaches across the table, gently clasping her wrist. “What do you say?”

It’s okay. I totally support all ships! I actually like Lena and James together. I just have personal preference for certain ships. And I actually just realized that all my favorite ships are non canon, 🥴 not sure what that says about me but 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

Kara is grilling James like "why did you tell her? Now she has a problem with me/Supergirl." And then has the audacity to say "you should have had my back."

Like WHAT?!?!

Bitch, who has Lena's back? Who crossed a line asking James to violate his girlfriend's trust? Who wants to compound one lie with another?

I'm glad Kara has her moment of crisis about not telling Lena her secret, bc its about damn time, but to be honest? James stays a little too neutral for my taste. He's too understanding of Kara's situation, when what Kara really needs is a wake up call and a true example of what being Lena's ally means.

I want him to take her to task. Because it's one thing to understand where Kara is coming from and what she's facing, but it's a whole other thing to condone allowing someone to continue to harm someone you love.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Supergirl (TV 2015) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor, Lena Luthor/James "Jimmy" Olsen, Kara Danvers/James "Jimmy" Olsen, Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor/James "Jimmy" Olsen Characters: Lena Luthor, James "Jimmy" Olsen, Kara Danvers Additional Tags: Masturbation, Fantasizing, Emotionally Repressed, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Penis In Vagina Sex, Nipple Licking, Vaginal Fingering, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Lena Luthor Doesn't Know Kara Danvers is Supergirl, Creampie, Pining, Supergirl (TV 2015) Season 4, Canon Compliant Series: Part 70 of take me to your best friend’s house (I loved you then and I love you now) Summary:

She shouldn’t be thinking of Kara in this way. She shouldn’t be playing with herself at the thought of the boy she liked fucking their mutual best friend. It wasn’t decent to fantasize about such things, even if the idea made heat swell in a place it shouldn’t.

It's such a Guardiancorp song 💔