Chapter 4: Best Day of Our Lives

It was well through the night and neither Kara nor Mon-El could sleep.

"Do you think what Winn said is true?" Kara's voice shattered the delicate silence they had eased into. They were both lying on their backs on Kara's bed, staring at the ceiling.

"I don't know. I don't feel like anything can happen to me because of being an alien and all. Maybe that rule only applies to humans."

"But we both know you're not indestructible." Kara stirred to her side and stared at Mon-El's silhouette.

"Lead, I know." Mon-El sighed and turned his head to meet her eyes which were shining like comets again. "But we're gonna be okay Kara. I trust you. We're gonna figure this out just like we always do." He reached his hand to brush a stray strand from her face.

Kara smiled softly and got herself closer to that darn Daxamite who made butterflies flutter in her tummy.

"Yes, we'll figure it out." She said surly this time, no hesitation in her eyes anymore. "And when we do, you owe me a toilet seat." Kara authoritatively added, poking him in ribs.

"Okay." Mon-El chuckled and draped an arm over his eyes. "Right after I paid for that car roof, a whole new set of kitchen equipment for the DEO and a new shirt for Winn." He then frowned. "But I lost my job!"

"M'gann will understand. J'onn can tell her this wasn't your fault."

"I hope so."

"Let's go to sleep."

Kara turned around and they settled into their favorite position of sleeping with Mon-El hugging Kara from behind.

"Goodnight Kara." He put a kiss to the back of her head.

"Night babe."

"Are we staying home today?" Mon-El asked as Kara set their dirty breakfast dishes and mugs into the kitchen sink. She hadn't let him anywhere near the oven and knifes.

"I'm not sure, but I'm not letting you out of my sight."

Kara told him before walking towards the bathroom only to come out almost immediately.

"We can't pee in the loft."

"Oh, the toilet seat!" He slapped his forehead.

Kara paced in front of Mon-El, deeply in thought.

"Call someone to come and fix it." Mon-El hinted.

"It's Sunday Mon-El. No one works today."

"Hmmm. Then we can go to DEO to use the facilities there."

"First of all J'onn specifically said that you should stay away from DEO and I won't let you stay alone in the loft. Second of all, I can't go to DEO every time I need to pee!"

"Okay then what do we do?"

"There's a Big Belly Burger around the corner. We can use the bathrooms there for now."

"Why can't we go over to Alex's and use hers?"

"Because she's with Maggie right now and I am NOT gonna stay with them a whole day and – and –"

Kara turned pink like cherry blossoms, her mouth opening and closing like a fish, but no words came out anymore.

"And find out where they made out in the loft." Mon-El completed her sentence and sipped at his orange juice.

Kara's face was as red as a bouquet of roses now.

In less than twenty minutes the two walked into Big Belly Burger which was pretty quiet at pre-noon hours and Kara rushed to the bathrooms after ordering Mon-El to stay right outside and not move. She would have taken him inside with her if she could, but that would be too awkward. Even for that two minutes Kara spent in the bathroom, her mind was reeling with thoughts of all insane things that could happen to Mon-El in her short absence.

Kara sighed in relief when she saw him standing exactly where she'd left him outside the door.

"Okay let's go back." Kara grasped Mon-El's right hand in hers like he was her disobedient toddler who had a bad habit of running away.

"Come on Kara, we can still get a burger since we're already here."

"No, I'm not taking chances and have I don't know, like a pack of wolves attacking us here!"

Mon-El rolled his eyes. Kara tugged at his hand despite the tempting hungry voice in her head begged her to stay for a burger. She might be a person who never passed a chance to eat, this matter was more important and she didn't let herself get distracted.

Kara's phone went off and she saw Lena's name displaying on it. She answered it immediately as they walked out.

"Hey Lena!" Kara beamed even though she knew her best friend couldn't see.

Kara stopped on a quiet spot on the side walk and continued talking with Lena about their next brunch and catching up. She let go of Mon-El's hand a after a while, trusting he was standing just beside her.

"Ok, see you on Tuesday Lena, bye!" She ended the call and turned around to bring her attention back to Mon-El.

He wasn't there.

Kara looked all around her. No sign of him. She wasted no time and rapidly opened her screen lock to call Mon-El from her favorite list. The dragging beeping sound was crashing her nerves. No one picked and then a voice claimed Mike Matthews' cellphone had been turned off and she remembered just then that Mon-El's phone had died that night in the rain after it got drenched. Fear crept further in her heart.

To say Kara was having a panic attack was an understatement. She ran into a back ally and under a second, Supergirl shot into the sky. She flew up and scanned all the streets down around her. Her heart was booming loudly against her ribs with terror. Where on earth had Mon-El disappeared?! She strained her ears and tried to find his soothing, familiar heartbeat, the same rhythmic thumps that lulled her to sleep every night. But she couldn't find it among millions of other sounds from hundreds of miles away combined together with her own frantic heartbeat.

Kara didn't wait anymore levitating and losing her calm. She flew to DEO.

"J'onn!" She shouted even before her boots had touched the balcony.

"What's wrong Supergirl?" The Martian marched towards her promptly.

"It's Mon-El! I lost him. He was there just a minute and then gone! I tried to - " Her voice was shaking.

The two momentarily had a sense of Déjà vu. It felt like yesterday when Mon-El was taken to his parents' spaceship and Kara was breaking into tears at the same spot.

The man who the last daughter of Kryptonin had come to love like a father, squeezed her trembling forearm in assurance. "We'll find her Kara."

The blonde nodded, trying to take a rein of her breaking apart thoughts and walked into the DEO.

Mon-El jolted awake by the freezing water that hit his face. He gasped, blinking and shaking his head to drive the droplets out of his eyes to see where he was. He was so stunned. The dark room still hadn't come into focus in his vision. He remembered one second he was standing one foot away from Kara on the street while she was on the phone with Lena and next thing a sharp sting at his lower spine had turned everything black.

"Wake up Alien!"

A blazing beam of light pierced his eyeballs, and he brought an arm up to cover his eyes. Only his hands didn't come up. They were both tied to the arms of a chair he was sitting on. Same thing were true for his ankles that were bounded to the legs of chair. He squirmed and used his super-strength, but his restrains didn't budge. How was this possible? Unless it was Nth Metal…

"You are here for threatening the human race!"

Mon-El squinted and saw three men standing in front of him with dark ski masks, looking down at him.

"What –"He hoarsely tried to protest against the nonsensical claim, but was cut off by an electric rod jabbing him in the ribs, making him grunt. Electric shocks didn't harm him like it would with humans, nevertheless they were painful to him.

"You don't talk until we say so." The man in the middle barked at him before continuing.

"We are the Cerberus. Protectors of humans."

He started pacing in front of him with glaring eyes. His two other partners were standing quietly in the background. Mon-El saw they all carried guns, strapped to their waist.

"My loyal friend here," He pointed to the man in the left. "He saw you twelve nights ago, surviving a fatal blow from a piano crashing onto you! An accident that could easily kill any human."

Mon-El dropped his head with a sight.

"And not that many days after, a video was uploaded on the internet showing you again walking away unscratched after falling from a tree in broad daylight." He finally stopped in front of Mon-El with a devilish grin. "We thought we would have to go through so much trouble to find your identity, but after a family member showed me this hilarious video of you messing around in Catco building and told me your fake human name, it was so easy to find your whereabouts."

Things couldn't have gone any smoother for this bunch.

A look of disgust flashed across his eyes. "Mike Matthews. How dare you steal a human name? How dare you coming here and harm humanity? Does that innocent poor girl you pretend to be her boyfriend, knows your dirty secret?"

"I never –"Another shock stopped him, turning his words into a whimper.

The man reached for his gun and took it out of its holster.

"Wait!" Mon-El struggled against his doomed fate one last time. This time though, no rod came his way. A silver lining.

"You can't do this! I didn't do anything! I didn't hurt anyone!"

"You could have." The cold blooded head of the Cerberus grimly stated and aimed more accurately. Mon-El was panting, beats of sweats trickling down his temples, mixing with the cold water from earlier.

"I don't know if bullets work on you since you seem to be a powerful one, but I take my chances."

He had no idea how much the odds were in his favor in this particular day.

The soft clicking sound of the gun getting cocked, caused Mon-El's heart start racing even faster, his ears buzzing. Was this it? Was this how he was going to die?

"I suggest you say your prayers to whichever god you worship."

His thoughts wandered instantly towards Kara. Her soft smiles, her blue eyes, the feeling of her lips against his and her warm body pressed against him every night.

He didn't want it to be over.

The deafening sound of the gun going off was instantly suffocated by a loud shriek. "NO!"

Mon-El felt the sharp pain against his shoulder. He wanted to see what was happening, but his eyes were scrunched shot involuntarily against the throbbing burn of his flesh.

More shots were heard followed by angry grunts and yelps of pain. Mon-El finally opened an eye and saw a blur of red and blue wreaking havoc in the dim room, like a ball lightning.

In matter of a few seconds, Supergirl was kneeling in front him with a pained expression and worry dripping from her eyes.

"Mon-El." She gasped when she noticed the growing red stain on his left shoulder. Her hands cradled his damp face.

"Kara…" The room started to spin around him. Kara's sapphire eyes were the only thing grounding him. The only light. He wanted to say so many thing, that she didn't need to worry, that he loved her and didn't want to leave her alone. But his tongue felt as heavy as a ton of steel. Despite his greatest effort to answer Kara's urgent demands to stay awake, his eyelids dropped shut against his will.

Two hours earlier at the DEO.

Winn showed them a CCTV of two men pulling Mon-El into a black van on 25th Street."

"How did I not even hear them doing this?!" Supergirl blamed herself.

"It might be that you were too focused on talking with Lena." Alex said, but seeing the guilt on her sister's face caused her to add. "But I also think this all happened because of his special condition. Something would have happened either way."

Kara paced the grey floor of the secret agency with frustrated steps, almost fuming. "Winn did you find where the van go?"

"No, I tracked them but they disappeared in between the two cameras on this road." He showed all the road.

"Ok I go check." Kara ran to the balcony and shot into the air before anyone could say a word.

Again she flew in circles without being able to spot anything on the bare lands. She was almost willing to burn the ground with her heat vision and dig until she found Mon-El. Where could he be? Was he ok?

"Supergirl we have some information on the kidnappers."

J'onn's voice made the girl of steel return back to the base in record time.

"What do we have?"

"The people who took Mon-El are an Anti-Alien group known as the Cerberus." J'onn responded.

"The Cerberus?! Really?" Kara repeated the name of the Greek three headed guardian dog of the underworld in a mocking tone.

"The three founders claim that they are the guardians of human race according to their manifest" Winn clarified. "They seem to be responsible for some other abductions all alien related during the past few months."

"Who are these people? Do we have any intel on them?"

"No, but I say they clearly have ties to Cadmus." Winn shook his head in disappointment. "It's gonna take at least a few days to find them, they keep changing their location."

Kara gritted her teeth. "Mon-El doesn't have a few days!" She was losing her temper. A piece of the flooring got a dent beneath her foot.

"You need to ask Lena." Alex's voice broke through her angry daze. "She must know someone that knows someone related to her mother's shady activities."

Kara didn't need to be told twice as she jumped out of balcony and go find the young CEO who was in her office at the L-Corp tower even though it was a Sunday afternoon.

"Supergirl!" Lena gasped lightly when she heard the thump due to the young Superheroin's landing.

"Ms. Luthor!" Kara greeted as she walked into her friend's office when she opened the glass doors, hoping the desperation wasn't too apparent on her face.

"How can I help you?" Lena offered kindly. "Is something wrong?"

And of course she was observant enough to see through her not so subtle calm mask. Kara just hoped she wouldn't be that perceptive to find out her secret just yet.

"It's ehm," She stuttered before clearing her throat and gathering her bearing. "We got notice of an underground Anti-Alien group who abducts alien and I need to find some information about them as soon as possible."

Lena's interest seemed to be piqued. "What group?"

"They call themselves The Cerberus. They seem to have some connections to Cadmus. And I-"

" –Thought I can help you find them." She finished Kara's sentence. "Since my mother is apparently the Hades in this mess."

Lena's sarcastic addition to compare her mother to the Greek god of underworld would have been very funny if Kara wasn't so disturbed minded at that moment.

"Yes, I wouldn't have come if I had no other choice." Kara admitted, knowing how much Lena hated to have to do anything related to her mother. "I'm looking for a friend. He- he doesn't have much time and I fear it would be too late when we find him if we try the usual ways."

Kara watched with a held back breath at Lena who nodded and went behind her desk and picked up her phone and started typing in it.

Kara landed back at DEO with a green sticky note in her grasp, filled with three names written in the stylish handwriting which belonged no other than Lena Luthor.

After that there was only the matter of finding the location (an underground small facility), forming a quick plan and get a troop ready with Alex and Guardian.

Despite Kara's eagerness to storm in, Alex and J'onn convinced her not to.

But when on their way one of the SUVs had flat tire, Kara didn't wait any longer and sped up to her record velocity and went two Mach per hour.

She was just taking down the steel, lead lined door with her bare hands when she heard the gun going off.

Hear heart dropped. "NO!"

Kara saw the gun in the man's hand and saw red. She pushed herself as much as she could, but the distance between the gun and Mon-El strapped to the chair was too short. She couldn't catch the bullet. Therefore Kara shouldered the assailant away from Mon-El to divert his aim as a last resort. She didn't particularly cared much that the force with which she threw him was much more than needed and he crashed into the wall, dropping motionless to the ground.

It didn't take her much time to disarm and incapacitate the two other men in the room who uselessly used their rounds on her impenetrable skin and in a flash she ran to Mon-El who had been quiet the whole time.

Granted she might be the girl of steel, her heart was nowhere near that. Kara's heart broke at the sight of him injured. Tears welled up in her eyes and ran down her cheeks. She couldn't lose him.

Supergirl put all the force in her muscles and pushed the restrains. It was Nth metal and didn't give in that easily.

She called his name many times, begging him to stay with her, stroking his face, but he grew limb and fainted. Blood kept oozing out of the bullet hole on his left shoulder.

Kara whimpered, almost sobbing. The terror of losing Mon-El caused her to scream and push more at the cuffs. With a loud crack they crumpled in her hand.

Muttering a pray to Rao she hadn't used for the longest time, Kara pulled Mon-El's numb body into her arms, bridal style and rushed out of the underground tunnels.

There were cells here and there. All the missing aliens where here. From the other side of the tunnel Supergirl saw the DEO team finally arriving with Alex in lead. Some other members of the Cerberus were cuffed and in their custody.

"Alex!" Kara called for help and the agent was running towards them.

"Put him down." Alex ordered, keeping her cool much better than Kara was. "Put pressure here." She guided Kara's shaking hands to Mon-El's bullet wound. "We need some paramedics here!" She then shouted towards the agents back and two jogged towards them with big bags and with their professional help the bullet was extracted under a minute.

Mon-El was wheeled into medbay as soon as they reached DEO. The lead poisoning was critical and he still wasn't out of the woods.

Kara wasn't allowed to his side for the time being until the doctors could do their job. She asked after him repeatedly, but they refused to give an answer which made her believe it was bad.

"We need to find the necklace and destroy it." Supergirl announced as soon as they all gathered in the command area. Alex, Winn, J'onn and James in his guardian suit, they all could see the distress on her features and hear the tremor in her voice, but no one said anything about that, merely agreeing with her.

"I'm going back to my apartment and search again. James please can you check Catco again?" Kara looked at the tall photojournalist and he nodded in reassurance. "Of course Kara."

"I'm gonna see if there is anything helpful to scan for this object in the archive." Winn was already typing his way into the DEO sources.

"Alex, call me if anything changes with Mon-El."

Alex nodded. "Hey, his gonna be okay." She touched Kara's tense shoulder in an attempt to alleviate the huge amount of anxiety she was experiencing.

"He won't if I can't find the necklace!" She shrank away from her. "It was all my fault! I should have watched him! I should have taken better care of Mxy so this wouldn't happen in the first place!"

"Kara -" Alex didn't even had the time to discard her sister's wrong believes as she stormed away and back towards the balcony she had jumped off and landed onto for so many times in that single day. But a DEO nurse called her. She handed the blond Mon-El's blood stained clothes. She grabbed them and promised with a tight throat that she would bring them clean clothes for the Daxamite.

Kara flew into her apartment from the tall windows and started looking everywhere again. After being yet unsuccessful and breaking into tears again, she walked into the bathroom with Mon-El's soiled clothes in her hands. She looked at them with blurry sight and threw them bitterly into the washing machine. He didn't deserve this. If only she could get her hands on Mxy one more time. In her rage, the round door of the washing machine ripped away with some lower part of the machine.

It didn't matter to her anymore. She was ready to leave, but the most unexpected thing happened.

From where the machine was teared, a dozen of socks fell out. Her missing socks! They were all there right beneath the tub! That traitor machine had been responsible for all her disappearing pieces of clothes this whole time. Sucking them like a black hole. How many days Ms. Grant had mocked her because of her unpaired socks, simply because she couldn't find them in the morning and had to go buy new ones!

But these weren't as important as the periwinkle glimmer of something among the old socks shining and took her breath away.

It was the damn necklace!

Mon-El's eyes gradually opened and for long minutes he couldn't understand where he was or how he had gotten there. The room was bright, the walls white. So contrary to the sight he had last seen right before his eyes had closed. Gone was the pang against his torso and back was the sense of comfort. He wet his dry lips and turned his head only to meet a pair of glassy comets staring at him with a sad smile. Mon-El felt Kara squeezing his hand gently.

"Hey…" She whispered and he couldn't help but reach out to touch her face. "Hey you..." Kara leaned into his palm, her lower lip trembling slightly.

"I almost lost you." She confessed and Mon-El couldn't bare the hurt guilty look on her face anymore.

"No, you didn't. I'm right here." He pushed himself up, feeling a bit weak, not enough to stop him though.

"What are you doing? You need to rest!" Kara objected, but Mon-El pushed away his blanket. "Come here."

Mon-El pulled Kara into his embrace before she could even protest. He sensed how much she needed it, shivering under his touch. To be honest, he needed this too. He still remembered that sickening feeling he had had when he believed for a moment that he wouldn't see Kara again.

They melted into each other's warm hands, healing each other's invisible wounds and finally finding peace with a kiss.

When they finally pulled apart, Mon-El chuckled lightly.

"What's so funny?" Kara asked, amused by his joyfulness herself.

"I got kidnapped by Fluffy!"

"What?!"

"Fluffy, the three headed dog. Hagrid's pet."

Kara burst into a fit of laughter, causing happy tears forming at the corners of her eyes. Again the two were laughing their heads off.

The loud laughter pulled others into the room one by one.

Winn gave him a pat on the back. "Hey buddy, so glad you're okay. You got us all worried."

"I wasn't worried. I knew you'd be okay." Alex declared nonchalantly with a cocked brow, however Kara knew well she was bluffing.

"And I don't need you to buy me a shirt. We're cool buddy." Winn added.

"Are you sure?" Mon-El still felt responsible.

"Of course. It's no big deal."

"Does this mean I can not pay for that car too?"

"No you still have to pay for that, and the toilet seat." Kara said making him groan.

"Don't forget a new microwave for the DEO." Alex reminded them with a smirk.

"Should we tell him about Captain Marcus' hospital bill too?" Maggie who had been standing there by Alex's side this whole time whispered into her girlfriend's ear.
"Nah, he's been through enough today." Alex rejected with a mischievous sneaker.

"Mon-El, I talked to M'gann. She said you can go back to your job as soon as you feel better." J'onn told Mon-El the good news he hadn't heard for thirteen days.

It was finally over. No more screw ups. No more pianos falling on him and hopefully no more nuclear explosion warnings.

Once again Kara and Mon-El were walking hand in hand down the streets of National City, enjoying the simplicity of just being together in a lazy Sunday afternoon. It's been a little over a week since Mon-El had been kidnapped. He was fully healed and back at his normal life. Things had been great.

No more freaky accidents.

The toilet seat and the washing machine were replaced. (Kara suddenly had ten new pair of socks!). No one mentioned the scene Mike Matthews had made at Catco to Kara anymore and Mon-El managed to finish Harry Potter's second book without interruptions.

Kara stopped in front of Big Belly Burger.

"We didn't get to eat that burger you wanted that day. I keep thinking if we did, you wouldn't have gotten hurt." She told Mon-El in a soft voice and he was about to dismiss her grim words, but she continued. "Come on! Let's have some now!"

She pulled his hand and he complied gleefully.

They neared the cashier and ordered four double cheese burger with extra cheese. Suddenly a loud horn boomed, frightening the two. What bad thing was going to happen now?

"CONGRATULATION! You are the One Millionth Customer of Big Belly Burger!" The cashier man shouted cheerfully as two waiters handed the dumbfounded couple a big rectangular cardboard saying the same thing. A swarm of red and yellow balloons and confetti rained on them, cameras flashing.

"You can have free burgers for one month!"

The grins plastered on the face of the two aliens couldn't be any wider.

Giving two constantly hungry aliens with no limits a pass to free food for a whole month? Boy, they had no idea how dangerous this was for their business!

That day was one of the best days of Mon-El's life and if they broke the couch later that night when their slow kisses turned into something more, it wasn't because they were jinxed. It was because they were blessed.

Final Notes:

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