It's actually so crazy to see this historic moment in ao3 history and that she's no longer in beta like wdym ao3 is now a fully fledged site now I feel old
Item: A Bright Star In Dark Space
Rarity: ✦ Uncommon
Best video game night sky level?
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Man I don’t know. Probably conic unleashed when you get to space. But it been a hot minute since I’ve played anything but animal crossing and stardew valley
28 for the kissing prompts with any of the corrupted Brainy AUs, after Brainy comes back from being corrupted
28) Kissing someone’s scars
It seems I am cleaning out my drafts
———
It’s weird, Querl feels weird. Everything’s different, and people stare at him like he’s going to change and become a monster or something. He shares their worry.
But he won’t change.
Alex and Lena had reassured him that he was back to normal. That every last bit of the virus that had corrupted him was gone. Even Kara made sure that he knew nothing would change.
But there’s a small part of Querl that thinks they're wrong, that he’ll be corrupted again. He keeps those fears to himself though, he doesn’t want anyone’s pity. Doesn’t want to hear someone tell him that there’s nothing for him to worry about.
So, he’s silent, because they don’t understand what it’s like being someone else. Hurting the people he loves all because he wanted to fix this world. He knew, before the corruption, that the world was perfect as it was. But the corrupted Brainy thought differently and he tried anything he could to change it.
Every day he worries, because one day that day will come and he doesn’t know if he could survive another chance of being normal. Until then, he waits.
-
Querl jolted awake. He groaned quietly as he stared at the ceiling, trying to organize his thoughts.
It wasn’t the first time he’s had nightmares. Before his friends found a way to save him. But this dream felt more real than the others, and wondered if it was a memory.
“Brainy?” Kara sleepily mumbled from beside him. “Are you okay?” He didn’t answer right away, afraid that he’ll give anything away from his voice. In the time he didn’t answer, Kara woke up fully and sat down. She peered down at him with worry and waited until he was ready.
Instead of answering, Querl reached up and lightly traced Kara’s scars that littered her cheeks and neck. He knew there was more, but he couldn’t bring himself to look at them. “I’m sorry,” he whispered, “I didn’t mean to hurt you.”
“I know,” she whispered softly. Querl let his hand drop from her face and looked up at the ceiling. Kara took his hand, and lightly traced the scars on his fingers. “I didn’t mean to either.”
“And yet we still hurt one another.” It’s a fact, so Kara doesn’t argue. Instead, she lifted his hand and kissed the inside of his palm. He turned and watched as she did so. As she continued kissing the scars on his hand, his mind wandered to the dream he woke up from.
It was one of their fights they had, one of the bad ones. They were both badly wounded and he had made the decision to leave before anything bad could happen.
“I won’t let anything bad happen to you, Querl,” Kara whispered as if she knew what he was thinking.
“Don’t promise something you know you can’t keep,” he said, withdrawing his hand from hers. Kara let him, only to lean down to press her forehead to his. Though the position she was in wasn’t comfortable, she didn’t mind.
“Okay,” she said, bringing a hand to his face. “Then I promise I’ll stick by you no matter what.”
“Even if it might happen again?”
“Even if it might happen again. You're stuck with me forever, for sickness and health. Till death do us part.”
And she sealed it with a kiss to his forehead, where one of his worst scars was. And for the first time since he came back, Querl let himself believe her.
okay yes I did prompt Brainy getting hurt by his mother and Kara staying by his side until he wakes up, so alternately: baby Alura is the one who gets hurt and Kara and Brainy are both worried about her and refuse to leave her side
Okay, so this has been in my drafts since you sent this in a couple of years ago. And only now I have been thinking about this. So, sorry for how late this is and how much this might hurt. I may have went a different direction completely
I will put a trigger warning just in case: child endangerment and/or kidnapping.
———
She’s so frantic, she doesn’t recognize the stares she gets as she rushes into the DEO. She doesn’t realize she’s not dressed as Supergirl, still in her pjs, too out of sorts as she looks for Querl. When she finds him, she’s in front of him in seconds, startling him and the people around him.
“Supergirl?” he asked, eyes taking her in. She’s crying and breathing heavily, a mix of worry and fear in her eyes. He hasn’t seen Kara like this…well never once he thinks about it. And it raises alarm bells in his head. “What’s wrong?”
“I…Alura…she…” Kara stuttered, frustrated that she can’t talk. Trying to take a minute to calm down so she can, but it doesn’t work. It fails her and her breathing starts to pick up. She can’t breathe and that only spikes up her anxiety of it all. Why can’t she breathe?
Furrowing his eyebrows, he studies her in concern. “What about Alura?” he asked, thinking. “Shouldn’t you be with her?” That seemed to be the wrong thing to say as he watches her breath hitch and her face is slowly turning red with how little oxygen she’s getting.
He knows what this is, and he doesn’t think he’s ever seen Kara have a panic attack.
“Come on, let’s go somewhere private,” he said, grabbing Kara’s hand, he gently pulled her into a room that’s not being used. “You need to slow down.”
“I can’t…can’t… breathe,” she finally managed out, pulling at her shirt hoping it would help. It didn’t. She goes for her throat, maybe that will help. But a pair of hands stops them before she can do any real damage to it. She wants to rip her hands away, to scream or cry, she doesn’t know. But finds that she doesn’t have the strength. She can barely focus on anything, eyes searching the room, looking for something that gives her answers. Why can’t she breathe?
“I need you to look at me,” she faintly hears Querl say. Why does he sound like he's underwater? She tries, she really does. But her eyes aren’t focusing on his face, all she sees is Alura. And that makes it worse. So, she focuses on his shirt instead, straining her ears when he speaks. Trying to break the surface of the water. Maybe she was the one that was underwater and maybe that’s why she couldn’t breathe.
“Okay, that’s okay,” Querl says as he’s wrecking his brain for a different solution. “Okay,” he repeats and she’s not sure who he’s talking to. Gently, Querl brings her hands to his chest and she feels him breathing. Though exaggerated a bit so she sees and hears it too.
“I want you to copy my breathing,” he explains at the confusion she shot him. “Can you do that?” Clutching the shirt in her hands, Kara jerkily nods. It starts off slow and stuttering, and it continues like that until Kara matches Querl's breathing patterns.
In a matter of minutes, Kara’s breathing normally. Quel leaves her be for a moment, to make sure she’s okay before asking, “are you okay to tell me what’s wrong?”
Kara nods, and takes a deep breath be fore starting her explanation. “I didn’t mean to fall asleep,” she stated, stressing that this is important part of the story.
But Quel doesn’t blame her if she did, with a newborn still not sleeping through the night, they both have lost sleep over it.
“And I only dozed off for a minute, I swear Brainy,” Kara said, beginning to panic again. Her hands grip Querl’s shirt to the point that if he stepped away, it would rip. He squeezes her hands, reassuring her he’s still there, still with her no matter what.
“What happen, Kara?” Querl asks gently. It’s what breaks her completely.
“She’s gone, Querl. She’s gone and I have no idea where she is,” Kara cries, leaning in and burying her head in his shirt. “I fell asleep for a moment, and when I came to I watched as someone took Alura and leave. I thought it was a dream at first, but it wasn’t.”
Querl’s blood runs cold and his first instinct is to yell. And logically, he knows it will only make this situation worse but he would feel better. But Kara is already beating herself up for this and it wouldn’t do for him to add onto the guilt.
Querl’s arm wraps around Kara, and holds her there as he's running through every scenario he can come up with. To think of a plan to find their daughter and bring her home.
“Do you have an idea who could have taken her?” Querl asks, trying his hardest to keep his voice even. Kara doesn’t say anything, she just sticks her hand in her pocket of her robe and hand him a very familiar calling card.
This time he lets his anger take over. He gently leads Kara to a chair and sit her down before turning to the door. A hand gripping his stops him before he could even leave the room.
He turns back to see Kara looking up at him. Questions swimming in her eyes, to afraid to know the answers to for her to ask. Querl takes a moment to shove the anger aside and goes to kneel in front of his wife.
“I’m not angry at you,” he said, gently gripping her face and she leans into the touch. He doesn’t think he could ever be angry at Kara for something like this. He’s angry at himself, he should have been there too, helping her with the baby. But he doesn’t say that. “I’m angry at my mother for having the nerve to think that she can get away with this.”
“What are we going to do?” Kara whispered
“I'm going to tell Alex to stay with you and I will do whatever I can to find our baby,” he said, leaning in to kiss her forehead. “I promise.”
The promise gets broken within a week when Querl couldn’t find anything regarding his mother’s ship. And he’s tried everything he could think of. Asking other hero’s if thy had seen anything, using satellites to locate her ship. Everything and it all yielded the same result.
He doesn’t have the heart to tell Kara yet and so he keeps trying. Though he has a feeling that she knows, but neither of them can talk about it. If they do speak it out into existence, then they’ve accepted defeat.
So Querl keeps trying, keeps looking for his lost daughter while both himself and Kara get use to their new reality that neither wants to accept.
Two months have past of searching. Two months of on and off talking to one another. They mostly have good days, but on the bass days not even Alex can help them.
Two months of wondering if their baby is okay, if she’s healthy and not anything worst. They don’t talk about the worst, can’t mention it without Kara breaking down.
Two months of no Supergirl because Kara can’t bring herself to be Supergirl to the city if she couldn't save her own daughter. How can she save someone else?
Two months of depression before Querl finds something. And that something is odd because there should only be two Kryptonain ships in existence. Ones at the DEO and the other in the Artic.
His first call is to Kara.
“Did you find her?” Is the first thing she says as soon as she picked up the phone. He hesitates for a second, but enough for Kara to deflate. “Oh.”
“I don’t know if it’s her,” he says slowly, staring at the red dot on his screen. “And I’m not saying it’s is her or not. It’s just, a Kryptonain ship landed in Smallville twenty minutes ago.”
“But Krypton is gone,” Kara says in confusion. “And why in Smallville?”
“I don’t know. But we should take a look.”
They fly to Smallville in silence, and soon they reach the country side. Standing in front of what appears to be an old model of an escape pod, neither move to open it.
“What if it's not her?” Kara whispers. Querl moves to hold her hand and squeezes.
“Then we keep looking,” he answers as he turns to look at her. She looks back at him, and after taking a breath, nod. Together they move to open the ship.
They were expecting to see a baby no older then two months, crying. But instead they are met with a blond child, no older then ten, who has similar features of the both of them.
They watch as the child blinks awake, and stares at the two in confusion before realization dawns. “Mom? Dad?” Is all that the kid croaks out before promptly passing out again.
They don’t waist time to bring her back to the DEO. Querl having contacted Alex about the situation on the way back. So when they arrive, Alex has a private medbay room ready for them.
Kara and and Querl don’t leave the room as Alex and her team runs tests. Minds running a marathon as they realize that they missed ten years of their baby’s life.
But at the moment it doesn’t matter, because now they have their baby back. They can figure out the rest later.
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