I thought I was your favorite niece!
Flashback - September 3, 2037
A few footsteps were heard by the young Kryptonian, but they didn't take her undivided attention from the project. The blonde had a few pizzas, potstickers, and BBQ boxes scattered in a chair.
The young Luthor room was simple, she had a bunch of tech supplies and everything she would need in a lab just in her room. The blonde thought that simplicity is the best thing there can be.
“You know you should really join us in the living room,” A brunette woman said, standing at the doorway with a wine cup in her hand.
The blonde smiled at the voice of her best friend and shakes her head as she responded “You know Rubes, you should really stop using your DEO with your best friend”
The brown-eyed girl laughed with a small ‘shut up’, and walked up to the desk where the hologram was situated. The blonde kept looking at the glasses that the hologram was showing.
“Why are you still working on this? There is a small chance of working, cupcake” Ruby said as she looked at the young girl, who responded with a shrug of her shoulders.
A voice said, interrupting the conversation. Making the brown-eyed girl smile, while the young Kryptonian rolled her eyes.“Mrs. Arias is right, there is only an 18% chance”
“Thank you, Hope,” Ruby said to the blonde.
The Danvers girl said under her breath but was heard by both the computer and other half Kryptonian.“Fuck you”
Ruby chuckled while shaking her head. While the A.I.D voice responded to the girl cursing “Do you want me to ask for Miss. Arias order the bakery and had them delivered to her apartment?”
“Please Hope” The blonde responded as she went to grab a slice of pizza just for her wrist to be caught by her best friend. The brunette eyed the blonde as she gave her a questioning look.
There was a chair full of empty boxes and a small table with other boxes that were half full. There was a couple of coffee and tea mugs scattered on the night table.
The Arias woman said, making the younger girl bit her lip “How long has this been here?”
“Well depending if you count the hours or the days or the minutes or the seconds. I mean surely you would want an honest and accurate. I have to say would pizza, potstickers, and BBQ are more durable than anything, I mean sure they can go bad in a couple of days, but from experience 3 day-” The blonde with glasses began to ramble but was interrupted when her best friend interrupted her.
The brown-eyed girl said yelling at her “3 days?! You have been eating this for 3 days!”
“Not just that, darling… coffee and chamomile tea too,” The green-eyed girl said calmly but stopped when the brunette turned off the hologram and thrown everything in a plastic bag.
“What are you doing R- Not the potstickers!” The girl cried as she tried to stop the older woman but was stopped when the Arias girl gave her a killing look.
The blonde immediately gave up, no one on the right mind would fight her best friend.“Okay, okay...I'm going to shut up”
After a few minutes of the soft cries of the girl every time, Ruby would throw out her ‘perfectly fine food’. The Arias spoke up, making the girl pout. “Get up, put on a sweatshirt, and then we are going outside-, stop pouting baby it's not going to help”
The blonde folded her arms, and walked abruptly to the closet, making Arias giggled as she grabbed the blue sketches as she checked them.
“Ready?” Ruby asked as she looked up to see the blonde adjusting her glasses while pouting. The response of the blonde was a small nod.
“Do I have to do this?” The blonde asked as they went out of the bedroom door.
The Arias woman glanced at the younger girl before responding with a soft voice and a side hug.“Come on, hon”
The blonde smiled softly, as they walked to the living room. There were multiple groups of Superfriends, from earth 1 and earth 38. While Ruby went to the kitchen to get more wine, the green-eyed girl had her eyes fixated across the room on a familiar blonde, Mia Smoak.
The blonde never was really open about her feelings, she normally would keep them in ‘little boxes’ so she could maintain control. Only a few people could open the boxes and those were Ruby Arias, Alex, and Maggie Danvers-Sawyer.
When Maggie noticed her niece staring blankly at the youngest of the Green Arrow team. The Latina walked up to her and gave her a quick tickle on her side, making the girl giggled.
“You are staring, puppy genius,” The older Danvers said, the moment the girl stopped giggling. The blonde rolled her eyes at her aunt and scoffed as she went to grab her drink.
The green-eyed responded while pouting when her aunt didn't let her drink from her beer “Just because I wanted to call the dog puppy genius when I was 3 doesn't mean I still do”
“Not just when you were 3, Lizzie, you still do, don't you?” The brown-eyed woman spoke back while giving the young girl a questioning look.
The blonde with glasses responded as she walked to the kitchen bar, for the real reason she came out of her room, food. Making her aunt laugh and shake her head as she went back to the adults. “Yeah, yeah I do”
The half Kryptonian made her trip as fast and as sneaky as she could. When the blonde was at the end of her mission, multiple voices stopped as they spoke. “Hey Lizzie”
“Hey, guys,” The blonde said with a high pitched voice while walking to the kitchen island. The blonde glanced at the teenagers, before taking a bite of the pizza trying to disappear off the face of the earth right here, right now.
“How you been?” Mia asked the blonde half-Kryptonian, as she keeps her hand on JJ’s.
The blonde faked a smile and responded. “I’m been fine, what about you guys? We haven't seen each other a lot
The Queen stared at the young Luthor for a few seconds but was snapped out of her thoughts when her boyfriend squeezed her hand before speaking up. “We are great actually, there has been a lot of work so”
The blonde stared at the couple, before looking away trying to compose herself. It hurt like hell when the person you have been in love with. Is in love with someone else.
Lizzie faked a smile and a small nod and excused herself to get a drink. The blonde walked to the bar, where her best friend was standing with both of her aunts drinking.
“Puppy genius 0, angst 1,” Maggie said, making her wife and niece laugh loudly, making the blonde roll her eyes and scoff.
“I didn't realize we were counting things, then Aunt Mags 0, favorite niece sleeping in police station 12 ” The blonde countered back, giving them the famous winning Luthor smirk.
“I thought I was your favorite niece!” Ruby whispered yelling with a fake hurt expression. While Maggie stared at both of the girls with wide eyes opening and closing and opening her mouth multiple times, making her wife chuckled.
The blonde giggled before interrupting her aunt with a teasing voice. As she took the glass of wine out of her best friend’s hands while drinking it completely. “Safe is out in the open”
Ruby grabbed the cup back, before rolling her eyes at the blonde. While the blonde just pouted. The Danvers-Sawyer women stared at both of the girls, after sharing a knowing look.
While the three women kept a passive-aggressive conversation between aunts and nieces. Before the Danvers-Sawyer woman asked her nieces. “What are you guys working on recently?”
The two younger women shared a look before Ruby responded with a sigh “I haven't been working on anything lately with the DEO begin under the watch of the president.”
“What about you, Liz?” Alex asked the young girl, who had her eyes on the blonde green arrow, Mia felt the gaze and connected eyes with the half Kryptonian, making the blonde flustered trying to found another thing to put her attention on.
“I'm working on the Optimus glasses, with the last tool.” The blonde responded as she tried to act as normal as she could since she knew she had caught the blonde’s glance.
Maggie asked as she leaned back into the bar. “I thought they were ready to launch”
“Nope, well I mean they are, I'm just trying something, I decided to put something extra, regarding with the memory and imagination of a hologram, is similar with the lenses aunt Andrea tried, just this time is not gonna blow up and plus that I'm working with the minion's codes, making the glasses an EDITH from Marvel” The blonde shocked her as she started to ramble out the information about her project.
Alex started with a worried look, but was interrupted by the green-eyed girl “Lizzie that is...”
“Great? I know right, imagine being able to have this in your hands, I mean you would feel it, live it, and more. It would be real, it's not a playing game or memory that is going in your head like you thought it will be, it's the exact thing.” The blonde answered with a beaming smile.
Alex answered as she scoffed, making the blonde slowly fade her smile and to look everywhere but to any of the three women in the conversation. “No Lizzie is impossible. There have been a lot of people trying to work on this but it's completely useless, it's unsafe the brain can support what the tech is asking for… You should know that. Your mom and Jack tried to do it and they did it but it wasn't successful, it was dangerous and ended up killing people”
Before anything else could happen, Ruby received a call through her ear pierce, an agent of the DEO explaining they had a few attacks of white Martians on the city
The brunette didn't hesitate to give the agents orders as she gained everyone's attention. “I want group beta on the Supergirl statue, omega on Main street, and alpha in the hospital.”
In a blinking moment Astra, Alexander, Jonathan, and Alura El Luthor Danvers were getting up from their seats and reported where they were going.
“Lu and I got the Main street,” Al said, before waiting for the permission of his cousin. With a simple nod of Lu and Ruby, they were on their way.
Jo and Star said at the same time, before yelling a small ‘Jinx’ as they flew away “We got Supergirl statue”
Kara looked at Barry and Oliver, with a beaming smile matching Barry’s. Oliver shocked her head and rolled her eyes before giving a small nod, making Kara squeal with happiness before responding “We got it”
The Arias girl smiled and walked out of the house on her way to the DEO. Kara stared at her daughter for a few seconds, before sighing and flying away. Lena looked at her daughter as she sighed before getting back into her conversation with Felicity.
Luthor stared at the scene quietly and uncomfortable, there was always a moment when her family got called in when her je.ju was waiting for some kinda response from the blonde as if to take the lead of beginning a hero but the blonde never took it.
She knew that begin a Hero or working at the side of a Hero for her family was an important thing, it was one of the goals of their lives. But for the blonde it wasn't on her list, she in some way knew her parents were trying their best to not be disappointed in that. But it was impossible.
From a young aged, each of her siblings was showed the heroes tactics, while their siblings and cousins were watching a Marvel movie, and they wanted to be part of the Avengers, the blonde wanted to be the classic Tony Stark.
The blonde tried to make up for it, but it appeared that nothing was enough for her family and friends, neither for the public.