#perfect fantasy

“Stop, don't think about me. Don't interrupt my perfect fantasy.”

Another update, because the last one didn’t feel like it moved enough. So, here it is. I apologize in advance.

Lena clung to Jack. His arms wrapped around her, warm and solid and the smell of him filled her senses. His voice rumbled through their chests as he murmured soft reassurances. Around them, the building had fallen still, throwing the world into an eerie silence.

Closing her eyes, Lena could almost believe they were in Metropolis: before Lex was arrested, before the trial, before the truth of his crimes had come out, before she had shattered everything with her choice to move to National City. When it had just been the two of them.

“I love you,” Lena murmured.

Jack’s hands rubbed soft circles against her back. “I love you too,” he said. “So, so much…”

Leaning back, Lena brought her hands up to cup his face, feeling the prickle of his beard against her palms. She stared into his eyes, trying to shut out the destruction that she could see in her peripheral vision-- the remains of a perfect life, shattered beyond repair.

“I wanted this with you,” Lena told him. “All of it. I just didn’t know it yet.”

Jack’s features softened in a reassuring smile. “We can still have it. We will. ”

His hand smoothed her hair away from her eyes, trailing across her cheek. Lena leaned into his touch, her chest threatening to fold in on itself. She could almost pretend that night in Spheerical’s labs never happened, that she’d never felt the way his hand went limp in hers, as the life left his eyes.

Almost.

Kara didn’t know to expect this. When she put on the helmet Max Lord once created to save her life, she hadn’t known what to expect, but she hadn’t even considered… this. Not Lena in jeans and a soft blouse, with a long graceful necklace far different from the chunky jewelry she usually wore. Not the loose ponytail lying against a relaxed shoulder, softening Lena’s face and lending her a warm, approachable glow.

Not the handful of kids who looked nothing like Lena but clearly belonged, whose faces smiled at her from a thousand photos on the walls and mantel.

Not Jack Spheer, alive and breathing.  

Finding Lena unconscious in her office at L-Corp had seared through the haze that had enveloped Kara after seeing Mon-el lift off in the pod. The sight of the fleshy flower pressed against Lena’s chest silenced all higher brain function. Kara had lingered just long enough to scan the room for any further threat, but found only a black stone vessel--lid askew, half falling out of Lena's cabinet-- embossed with a Daxamite prayer of forgiveness.

Rhea absolved Lena of her betrayal, and granted her the sweetest of deaths.

Kara got Lena to the DEO in record time, and Alex had known what to do. Within minutes Lena had been hooked up to monitors and given an IV, and when Lord’s device was delivered by a sprinting DEO agent, Kara didn’t even bother debating who should be the one to use it.

James had warned against it, a sentiment echoed more gently by Alex, who reminded Kara that Lena had a lot of heartache to be exploited by the Black Mercy-- much of which revolved around the symbol on Kara’s chest. So when Kara laid back against the gurney and settled the visor over her head and eyes, she’d expected to step into a world dominated by Luthors-- Lex, Lionel, even Lillian.

But not this.

Not a cozy apartment brimming with contentment. Not a quiet morning without a single other Luthor in sight. Not the soft love evident in every word, every touch-- the kind Lena had spilling from her fingertips.

The kind anybody would cling to, once they found it.

“Kara, stop,” Lena begged. “Please, just stop.”

Rhea leaves a parting gift for Lena in the form of a Black Mercy. Lena finds herself in a world both foreign and not-- one she might not want to leave. 

The next morning, Lena cracked one eye open and quickly realized that more bodies had joined them in the night. This time, however, her first instinct wasn’t fear. Light filled the room, spilling over her dressing gown lying across the foot of the bed and familiar photos hanging on the walls. The crowded confines of the bed left her boneless and completely at ease.

Bethany still lay sleeping in her arms. A larger body pressed up behind Lena brought a furrow to her brow, until she recognized the bony growth-spurt knees jabbing her spine as Deion. Curled between her knees and Jack's, Trevor had tucked himself under one of the blankets Jack had pulled out the night before. Biting back a grin, Lena gently moved Bethany’s foot from where it had come dangerously close to kicking him in the nose.

A silent tug on Lena’s hair pulled her gaze up to meet Jack’s sleepy gaze. “Good morning,” he mouthed silently. Lena smiled, mouthing the words back at him. She reached out one finger-- all she dared move without waking Bethany-- and his pinky curled around it in wordless affirmation. Warmth flooded Lena, starting deep in her chest and rapidly spreading outwards. It was a long, strange moment before she realized it was pure, unadulterated happiness.

If her teenaged self had been told she would have this-- a warm bed filled with people who loved her, to spend lazy mornings with-- young Lena would have laughed in their face. To have a true family, to succeed where the Luthors had failed so spectacularly... it would have seemed too fanciful to consider. Little did she know she’d only have to wait until she could make one for herself.

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