Chapter 2
Lena landed with a hard thud onto a dirt trail in the middle of woods. She was momentarily delirious as she looked around, but quickly regained her bearings. She stood up and brushed the dirt off of her. “Ow.” She groaned, mainly to herself.
She looked around, trying to get a grasp on where she was, but being totally unfamiliar with where she was. There were no signs, and no signal that anyone would be coming anytime soon, so she decided to follow the trail and see where it led.
When she reached the end of the path, she almost passed out.
She wasn’t in 2019 like she had planned…
Or any year in the 2000s for that matter…
It appeared as though she was in the early 1900s.
Oh, no. She thought as she looked at her broken time traveling watch. How am I supposed to get back!?
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Kara and the rest of the Superfriends had been searching for Lena high and low for twelve hours before they finally got the police involved. They had searched high and low, and there was no hint of Lena anywhere.
Kara was terrified. She needed to make sure that Lena was okay. It didn’t make sense. Where could she be?! She didn’t hear her heartbeat, and that’s what scared her the most.
Lena couldn’t be dead.
She just couldn’t.
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Lena knew a few places where she could go to hide out and think of a plan. They were all properties her grandfather had told her stories about; stories from when he was just a young boy. He had mentioned one that was owned by the Luthor family, one of which had a greenhouse garden in the back of it that was maintained by a gardener once a day, so as long as she stayed out of sight when the gardener was working, she would be just fine… She just had to make it to that property unseen… she couldn’t risk messing up the timeline.
She figured out that she was in southern national city in 1915; she had no idea how she’d managed to go back that far in time, but it didn’t matter now. She needed to get to the property and get things figured out quickly. She needed to get back to 2019 and change her reaction to Kara’s revelation.
She was terrified to me misplaced throughout history, but she genuinely just wanted to fix things between herself and Kara. That was all that was on her mind.
That was her only focus.
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“Alex what if… What if she’s dead?” Kara asked, her voice cracking.
Alex frowned and enveloped her sister in a tight hug. “Hey, hey… We can’t think like that. We have to keep the faith. Lena is out there somewhere, and we are going to find her. YOU are going to find her.”
Kara swallowed the lump in her throat. Alex was right. She couldn’t give up. They had to find Lena, and they had to find her alive.
She kept searching Lena’s apartment, trying to find any evidence of where she might of gone when she found a paper that caught her eye.
It read: Go back toOctober 3rd 2019.
Kara furrowed her brow… Did Lena get lost in the timeline? There was only one way to find out, and she was going to do it… Reverse time while using her super hearing… It would take a lot out of her, especially since she had only time traveled on a few occasions, but she would do it for Lena… She had to get her home, and safe.
“Alex… I think I know what I have to do to find Lena.” She said confidently.
Alex looked up at her with a furrowed brow. “What’s that?”
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Kara started flying, and flying, and flying, she pushed herself to go as fast as she could. The faster she went, the further back in time she went. And she listened for one heartbeat that she’d listened to and guarded for the past 4 years.
She could feel her body wearing out, and she feared that she wouldn’t be able to make it… but then she heard it, finally and she relaxed and zoomed right over to it; landing right in front of the woman she’d been so scared to lose, just as her powers gave out and she fell into unconsciousness.
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Lena had been shocked to see Kara to say the least. She had a billion questions, but right then all she could focus on was getting Kara onto the couch and making sure she was okay.
She sat there, on the coffee table, and marveled at Kara’s beauty, even in her unconscious state. Her heart yearned to lean in and kiss her, to hold her, to thank her for coming… it couldn’t have even been two days that she’d been missing, and Kara had already found her. That was determination. That was care.
It was more than Lena deserved.
“Lena?”
Lena spooked out of her pondering. “Kara! You’re awake.”
Kara grinned. “I found you.”
“You did.” Lena said with a tender smile. “You turned back time for me.”
Kara nodded. “And I’d do it again in a heartbeat.”
“Why?” Lena asked. She just didn’t understand. After everything she’d done, after all that they’d been through, why would Kara go through all of this trouble for her.
“Because I don’t want to be in a world you’re not in too.” Kara said. “You’re my best friend, Lena. We have a lot to work through, but you’re my best friend and I love you.”
Lena’s heart was already Kara’s, but she still fell more deeply in love with Kara at that moment. “Oh, Kara I love you too.”
More than you could ever know.
Lena was so happy that they were together again, and that they were finally on the same page… but now that Kara’s powers were burned out; they were stuck in the wrong century.