Chương 36: Supergirl ~ Wake Up ~ Part Two
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"All right, Rubes," Sam wrote down on a notepad. "Mrs. Qualar is coming to stay."
"For how long?" Ruby frowned.
"I'm not sure yet, but I do know that you hate her cooking, so I'm leaving money for takeout." She tore the note off and set it down on the table with the money. "Right here."
"Where are you going?" Ruby asked.
"I'm not exactly sure yet," Sam admitted, setting down the notepad, then looked at Ruby, who was biting her lip. "Hey, you don't have to worry, OK? Nothing is wrong." She took Ruby's hand and sat down on the couch. "I'm sorry I yelled at you earlier." Ruby smiled faintly, and Sam continued. "I found something out about myself, and it's a really good thing. It's gonna answer a lot of questions, but I gotta take this trip to get those questions answered."
"Can't I come with you?" Ruby asked. "I can come with you!"
"I know you want to, and I wish that you could, but I gotta do this on my own, OK?" Ruby looked down, looking sad, and Sam held up her hand. "Hold my hand." Ruby did, and Sam put her other hand on top. "You feel that?"
"Your pulse?" Ruby frowned.
"That's you," Sam nodded. are my heart. Are you gonna trust me?" Ruby nodded, and Sam smiled. "Something wonderful is happening."
"Just promise to tell me about it when you come back?" Ruby asked.
"I promise," Sam nodded, pulling her close, kissing the top of her head. "I love you so much."
"I love you, too," Ruby mumbled.
***
"Hey, so now that we know it's just friendly ol' Mon-El in the ship, maybe you could finally go have that outing with your dad," Winn told J'onn as they and Alex walked back to the main room.
"We have to learn more about the ship Mon-El was on," J'onn said. "There are five other passengers on board we know nothing about."
"They're literally asleep," Winn snorted.
"The ship is secure, OK?" Alex told J'onn. "We're running comms on it to find its origin, we're monitoring it in case anybody else wakes up. I will alert you if anything happens."
"Yes, leave us in charge," Winn nodded. When both Alex and J'onn looked at him incredulously, he hastened to say, "and by 'us,' I mean Alex, because I should be in charge of
"Just go be with your dad," Alex smiled at J'onn.
J'onn sighed, then nodded.
***
"This brown water is a popular beverage on Earth?" M'yrnn asked as they walked through the park later, considering the cup he held in his hand.
"In the mornings, mostly," J'onn nodded.
M'yrnn took a drink, then blinked. "Mmm!" he brightened. "Yes, I understand the appeal of c'of-fee!"
J'onn held back a smirk. "It's pronounced It's only a short walk from the D.E.O., you can come down here at any time."
He checked his phone, then heard his father ask, "What is that? A duel of intellect?"
"That is chess," J'onn identified the game two men were playing. "An ancient game of strategy with infinite outcomes."
"Ah!" M'yrnn nodded. "Much like o'kk rotokk." J'onn nodded in agreement. "We should play o'kk rotokk sometime."
"I don't really have a lot of time for games, but you should come down here, learn chess," J'onn told him.
M'yrnn saw J'onn check his watch, then frowned. "If you wish to return to the D.E.O., let us go."
"Oh, no, Father," J'onn immediately shook his head. "It's OK, it's OK. We can stay out. You've been a prisoner for three hundred years, you shouldn't feel like a prisoner here."
"I know I am not a prisoner of the D.E.O., my son," M'yrnn told him. are." J'onn blinked in confusion, and M'yrnn explained. "You have glanced at your smart devices forty-three times since we arrived. Your body is here, but your mind is trapped in your work. You live there, your only friends are there, you have nothing outside of it."
"You've been here three weeks, I've been here three hundred years," J'onn pointed out. "I think I know a little more about how to engage with this world than you do."
M'yrnn raised an eyebrow. "Thank you for showing me the way here. I will return if I require more brown water."
"Father, come on," J'onn began.
"You have completed your mission, and now I would like to return to my room," M'yrnn spoke over him, walking off.
J'onn watched him go, musing over what he had said.
***
The last doctor inside the medbay left. As soon as she had, Mon-El's eyes opened. His eyes scanned his surroundings before he tossed the sheet off him, quietly getting up and walking out of the medbay. He watched one agent walk the other direction, then lightly ran down the hall.
He still knew the D.E.O. as well as he had and found the room he was looking for quickly. He ducked behind cover when an agent left, then darted out and slipped through the doors just before they slid closed.
He walked along the shelves, looking through the devices stored there. He reached for a ring-like device on the top shelf –
"Hey, you shouldn't be in here!"
Mon-El turned around and punched the agent reaching for his shoulder, then grabbed another in a chokehold. He felt the agent go limp in his grasp, then lowered him to the floor. He looked around to check for any more agents, then turned around and grabbed the ring.
When he turned around, Kara was there and knocked him out with one punch to the head.
***
Kara didn't want to be here again. She really didn't.
But here she was, watching Mon-El wake up in the cell he had been in when he had first woken up. "I don't understand," she said as he looked up at her. "I wanna give you the benefit of the doubt, but you attacked two agents." Mon-El slowly sat up, but didn't say a word to her, and Kara sighed, turning and pacing. She had known something was up with Mon-El. She had been around Team Arrow long enough for them to rub off on her. But Mon-El attacking two agents? She hadn't expected that. "Was – " She shook her head. "Were you confused by the hypersleep?" she turned back around. "Is that why you snuck out of the medbay, broke into a secure storage room and almost killed two people?"
"I didn't almost kill anyone," was all Mon-El said.
Kara stared at him, shocked. That was all he was going to say? "Is it not you?" she whispered.
"It's me," he promised.
"Then – " Kara took a deep breath. "Then make me believe it. Please." Mon-El just stayed silent, and Kara snapped. "You know, I couldn't sleep? For the longest time, I laid awake at night, just staring at the ceiling, because if I closed my eyes, I dreamed about you dying. I would see you disappear into the blackness of space forever. This was all I wanted. This." She shook her head, covering her mouth as she felt everything just start to bubble up. "I broke, Rao, I broke, and I couldn't feel anything any more, because if I did, I could have just hurt more.
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