Waiting for Green Arrow and The Canaries to download be delivered by the internet fairies and thought I’d scroll Instagram for a bit. I follow this blog because I get lots of cute pictures of women getting married to each other. And between all the posts of Chyler Leigh in her Super (insert descriptor here) outfit and Caity and Jes sharing their outtake antics, I think it is quite reasonable that I saw these and thought Avalance and Agent/DirectCorp weddings.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 5/?
Fandom: Supergirl (TV 2015)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Alex Danvers/Lena Luthor
Summary:
Exactly two days after moving to National City, Lena Luthor is escorted to an underground facility to be convinced by two very unconvincing agents that her best options in this situation include a) becoming a walking talking puppet for the DEO and b) putting her own life on the line to destroy the negative attributions to the Luthor name. She’s not entirely surprised by the unwelcome pressure, but she is interested in finding out more about the doctor who seems to love hanging out in the DEO labs.
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Alex is trying to be a lab geek very quietly, but the storm that is Lena Luthor disrupts her whole life, and now Alex is pretty sure she's committing treason.
Lena has been in the car for twenty eight minutes. She counted.
The windows were dark and only one of the agents followed her inside – she haven't seen Alex since they got into the elevator – the car turned to the opposite side of the police station and the FBI building so she knew something was wrong.
She was confused by the rout they made, but counting how long it took for them to arrive would give her a vague idea of where she was, even tho she was getting further from the city as she counted.
She felt the car moving slower and entering an underground garage and in that moment she was sure Alex manippulated her and brought her there to kill her. She was starting to feel okay with that situation, since, you know, at least Alex gave her a couple orgasms before murdering her, then one of the agents opened the door.
The agent didn't rushed or even made eye contact with her so got off the car slowly, her legs were long and exposed by the navy blue pencil skirt she was wearing, she took her time positioning herself outside and made her feel, at least a little, in control. The tall uniformed man started moving towards a pair of elevators near them, as she followed him she looked around and realized she was actually in a garage, there was no indication of Alex or anything that resembled a FBI facility.
Before they reached it, the elevator doors opened and another agent showed up, the woman was shorter than Lena and was wearing a different uniform than the agent that lead her there.
“Why is Ms. Luthor still handcuffed?” She asked with authority as soon as she realized Lena's hands were aprisioned behind her body. The male agent moved fast and realeased her wrists, almost as if they had orders to not hurt her.
Lena shot a suspicious but grateful look to the woman.
“I'll take it from here, Agent Stevens.”
Lena has been in situations like this more times than she'd like. She had been arrested and kidnapped before, multiple times. Altough this situation was something in the middle of these, she knew she was not getting arrested, at least not by the FBI as she tought she was, but the respect and even simpathy the agents were showing her was very different from the times she had been kipnapped.
She took a deep breath and entered the elevator, having no idea what to expect.
“Nice to meet you Ms. Luthor, I'm Agent Vasquez and I'll take you to our director.” The woman said looking at her making sure she was paying attention. “He'll explain everything.”
“I'm not being arrested, am I?” Lena asked deciding to start with simple questions.
“No, you're not.” The agent answered looking at the numbers turning red above the elevator door. They were going down even lower than the underground garage. There was something about being below the ground that bothered Lena, that's one of the reasons her office is in the top floor, other than she being the CEO and owning the whole building.
They stood in silence during the second floor and by the time the number three was lit Lena spoke again.
“Where am I?”
“This is a secret govenment facility.” Vasquez said after taking a deep breath, this was supposed to be a silent elevator ride.
“Cool.” Lena tought. She was reaching a whole new level of misterious disappearance.
And then a few pieces of this puzzle started to come together in her mind. Of course Alex worked for a secret agency, it was obvious and she tought about that a couple of times; the crazy hours she worked, the scars she had all over her body, the unexpected friendship with Supergirl, the eyes that always hid a secret, the times she woke up in the middle of the night after a nightmare.
Althought somehow Lena wanted to believe that Alex was the normal part of her life, but normal people don't have secret jobs.
Normal people don't show up at your office in the middle of the day with a warrant then handcuff and arrest you.
They reached the last floor, number 5.
Agent Vasquez nodded her head indicating that Lena should follow her; they left the elevator and Lena's eyes wandered all over the place. It was only a wide room with many shades of gray – the walls, the doors, the couches, the floor – that led to a long hall that they both followed in silence.
Lena had no control over this situation she was betrayed by one of the few people she trusted, had no idea where she was or what she was there for, however she walked down the hall as if she was a guest of honor in that place, she showed a confidence she wasn't even sure she still had. There was no expression in her face but she moved with decision as if she knew what it was all about.
In the end of the hall Lena noticed a large space with some movement and people walking around. She was sure that there was where everything happened, and was a bit disaponted when the agent stopped a couple doors before, there was a “Meeting room” sign.
“Director Henshaw is waiting for you.”
Lena nodded at the Agent and opened the door cautiously.
The middle aged man was in the head of the table, standing near the last chair. Lena closed the door behind her and approached the man.
“It's a pleasure to finally meet you, Ms Luthor. I'm Director Henshaw.” He said while she got closer, moving suspiciously in the room.
“I'd say the same but the circumstances are a little different for me.” The woman said with a harsh tone, done with the situation. “What is going on in here?”
Lena crossed her arms and stiffened her body, trying to maintain some of the authority she usually has.
“Would you like to sit down?” He said calmly reaching for the chair.
“No.”
“Ms. Luthor, you're not arrested or in any type of danger.” She destabilized in a micro fraction of second and it was enough for him to notice.
“That not an explanation for why I was taken out of my building by your agents.” She uncrossed her arms and rested her hand in the table. “What is this about, Director Henshaw?”
She was not letting herself be taken away by his authority.
“I'll go straight to the point then, Ms. Luthor, I believe you are familiar with the name Cadmus, aren't you?”
She swallowed dry and contracted her jaw.
“We have reasons to believe they would attack your company tonight to kill you.”
Lena tried her best to not show any emotion in that moment. Her body maintained at the same place and there was not one change of expression on her face, but her mind went a million miles per second. And even though Hank tried not to read people's minds without their consent it was almost impossible for him, her toughts were so loud and chaotic that he couldn't help but listen.
It didn't mattered how many times she was betrayed the feeling was always the same, there was something in her that expected the change, that expected people would realise their mistakes, that expected her own mother would think twice before planning her assassination.
“What led you to think that? Other than her previous attempts, of course.”
“We've been tracking Cadmus for a while now and got to find one of their communication lines. It has been silent for a couple months but along with some movements in the previous base of Cadmus it got active again. We've been following their activity and, besides updating our database on what kind of technology they have, there was nothing that we could actually follow. Until this morning, they were planning an attack on your building that would most definetly kill all your employees and multiple civillians around.”
Until this morning.
She woke up alone in bed that morning.
“I'd like to hear it. The audio that prove they planned the attack.”
Lena was unexpectedly confortable in this situation, she felt like she had authority enough to make commands like this one, she knew they needed her for something otherwise they would just try to prevent the attack, the fact that they wanted her to know it was happening meant something. Hank walked towards the table and pressed a button on the phone in it.
“Would you please bring me all the proofs we have of the attack on L Corp?”
He turned off the call and glanced at Lena. She was inspecting the entire room, her eyes moved from the windows to the mirror, back to the table and the to the files on a side table on the opposite side of the room. In the cover of the file she could read “DEO”.
“You're not interested in knowing who we are?” He asked surprised by her lack of interest.
“I'm sure any government agency would like to use me as a bait to arrest Lilian.” He raised an eyebrow.
“We're not planning of using you as a bait.”
“Then why am I here?”
“We're planning on protecting you.” There was not one single change on her expression but he knew she was confused.
“If there is actually a planned attack on my company, I should be there. Not being held in this facility while hundreds of my employees are in danger.”
“They are not in danger anymore.”
“Well, do you suddenly have the power to stop whatever my mother is planning against L Corp?” She mocked.
“Ms. Luthor, your mother is not planning an attack against L Corp.” He choose his words carefully, he knew how hurt she was, even though she weren't showing. One didn't even had to read minds to know that. “The attack is against you.”
Lena's eyes widened for half a second.
“If you're not in the building, there will be no attack.”
“And should I take you word as a proof?” Lena shoot in defense.
In that moment, Alex entered the room.
Lena turned quickly to the door and when their eyes met she felt an instant urge to run. She couldn't be there, she couldn't be in the same room with Alex without breaking apart. And that was the last thing she could do.
“Director, I brought the Cadmus audios you requested.”
“Would you play them for Ms Luthor, please?”
Alex was still looking at Lena, the CEO had broke the eye contact, but she couldn't help but stare at her, she wanted to hug her and apologize for everything, but she knew she couldn't do that. She wasn't sure if she could ever do that again.
She walked to the table and rested the laptop on it, with a nod from Hank, she pressed play.
Lena was still looking at the ground when she heard a male voice on the audio.
She didn't recognized the voice, but she knew the address he was saying.
“It will take less than ten minutes. We'll reach the building from the top. My men are willing to go down in this operation, this will be big.”
Silence.
“It is not meant to be big.” Lilian's voice spoke annoyed.
Lena immediately felt tears, she looked at Alex, with the previous memory of confort, but quickly turned around and faced the wall.
“You only have one target. She will be in the top, that is all you need to reach. This is in your hands, do you understand?”-
The audio stopped suddenly, as if the line were cutted or disconected.
Lena stood in silence and facing the wall. Thinking about what she heard. About what she would say.
“Ms. Luthor, I believe now you understand why we had to bring you here.”
“There is a lot of things I don't understand, Director.” She took a deep breath and faced him again. Hank knew thatthat was about Alex, Lena's mind was still processing the reason Alex didn't planned this with her, why she haven't told her anything. Why wasn't she a part of this plan? Did things always needed to be decided on her back? “I don't think hiding is the solution.”
“It is. It is the only thing that will keep you alive.” His mind was racing just by looking at Lena and contracting her toughts. “The rest of the world thinks you were arrest for fraud. That prevents today's attack and will give us time to plan what to do next. And more importantly, will give you some more days.”
“Arrested for fraud? What?” Lena was furious, she massaged her temples as a last resource to keep her sain. “That will ruin my company and my reputation, but of course no one tought about that.”
“Our only worry was your life. Not your company. The decision was already made, Ms. Luthor.” Hank left the room.
Alex was in the middle of the cross-fire.
She betrayed Lena, but she knew she did that for the right cause. Alex knew the woman, of course she was mad that someone else decided what was best for her behind her back, but she would eventually realize that it was the only thing to be done.
Lena was broke, and she hated seeing her like that. She hated being the one that caused that.
“Did you knew that?” Lena suddenly asked, taking Alex by surprise.
“Not until this morning.”
They stared at each others eyes, both of them filled with tears, looking for sincerity.
Alex couldn't stay there any longer. She made a decision, she opted for protecting Lena at all costs, even if that would hurt her.
And she didn't regretted that. She couldn't, not now.
“We'll keep you here, provide you everything you need and protect you for as long as we believe it's necessary. An agent will come see you in a bit.” Alex moved towards the door and as her hand reached for the knob Lena spoke.
“Goodbye, Alex.”
The Agent left without looking back.
(Thanks for reaching this point. Send me your suggestions and I’ll try to incorporate them to the story!)
