When Lex winds back with an open palm to slap her, Lena sees it coming and refuses to flinch. As a result, she gets to see his utter bewilderment up close and personal when long fingers reach out and grip his wrist before the blow can land.
His confusion only grows as he traces the offending hand up the arm to where it connects not to Lena, but her counterpart. Lena catches her eye, and sees her own smug smirk enjoying the rarity of a befuddled Lex.
His consternation shifts to a sudden shout of pain when the grip on his wrist tightens, snapping bone. Satisfied, Lena's doppelganger releases Lex with a shove, allowing him to shuffle pitifully back to regain his composure.
As his gaze quickly bounces between them, Lena's counterpart comes to stand beside her, shoulder to shoulder.
"We'll make it easy for you," Lena drawls. "We're both real."
"Impossible," Lex hisses. "The multiverse was extinguished--"
"But not alternate realities." Lena's double tsks. "I would have thought you'd be smart enough to figure that out." She turns to Lena. "Perhaps your Lex has dimmed, somwhat."
"Dimmed!" Lex scoffs. "That isn't what the public says--"
"Come now, brother. We all know how quickly public perception can shift. After all, weren't you the first to call me a monster?"
Lena's counterpart tugs her black coat open to expose the kryptonite in her chest. Lena sees Lex's gaze light up at the sight of it. Disgust fills her.
"It's almost a shame you won't survive the hour," Lena's double continues. The stone in her chest slowly grows brighter as her smile turns predatory. "I think you would have liked what I've become."
Lex scoffs again, though the sound is clearly weaker than he intends. He looks to Lena. "You would kill your own brother?"
Lena looks at him coldly.
"They say the first time's the hardest."
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Kara is too late to keep Lex alive. She doesn't know if he deserved the rescue, but she also isn't sure he deserved the immolation that has left him a charred and smoking husk.
When she arrives at the warehouse she finds both Lena's standing before their brother's corpse, their features identically indiscernable as they look long and hard at the consequence of their actions.
It's her Lena who turns to look at her first.
"Feel free to judge, as I'm sure you will," she says coldly. "But we both know he never should have been resurrected."
At that, the doppelganger turns as well. "Let's hope this time it sticks." Kara spots a flutter of motion at the edge of her vision, and looks down to see the doppelganger's fingers brush softly against Lena's. "If it doesn't, you'll know where to find me."
In the days that follow, Kara keeps her distance. She wrestles with the feeling in her chest the comes from seeing the Lenas so gentle with each other, yet so cold to everyone else. But still, when she catches wind that Lena has found the way to return the doppelganger to her own reality, Kara swoops into the lab just as the portal springs to life.
To do what, she isn't sure. To stop her from returning? To ensure she goes through?
"Your world has suffered enough," she ends up saying, hands on her hips.
The doppelganger meets her gaze undaunted. "You know nothing of my world, or the structure it requires to recover from the destruction you wrought."
Kara doesn't know how to respond. In the end, she simply doesn't. They stare at each other for long moments until Lena cuts in.
"She can't stay here," she clips out. "If she does, we could both experience entropic cascade failure."
Kara cuts eye contact with the doppelganger to flick her gaze towards Lena. Sensing her confusion, Lena fails to hide the roll of her eyes.
"It would be bad. For both of us."
So the doppelganger can't stay here. Kara is relieved, because she can't stomach the thought of keeping her here, so close to Lena and so full of rage and kryptonite. She can only hope that her friends in that other reality have survived, and can continue to fight against this Lena's tyranny.
When she says nothing, the doppelganger turns towards the portal without so much as a goodbye to her counterpart. But as she nears the event horizon, Lena herself calls out to her.
"Lena!"
The doppelganger pauses.
"Remember what I said." Lena holds her counterpart's gaze. "The future is yet unwritten."
The doppelganger remains silent.
"Your measure isn't taken by the love you receive," Lena continues. "It's measured in the love you give."
The doppelganger says nothing, but Kara can almost swear sees something about the woman soften.
Without a word, the doppelganger turns and disappears into the glimmering portal. When it shuts down behind her, the lab is thick with silence.
"Lena--"
"I gave you everything I have. Everything I am," Lena's gaze remains locked on the portal's control panel, but her jaw is sharp with restraint. "And you gave me nothing in return."
Lena's last words to herself ring in the silence between them.
It's measured by the love you give.
Lena finally meets Kara's gaze.
"So what does that make you?"
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I can't write fics, but can someone write this please:
After losing his best friend James to the zombies 3 months ago, Sirius is the last surviving human to his knowledge in this apocalypse.
After managing to escape a mob and find an abandoned gas station to hide in, Sirius discovers a zombie had managed to follow him. Panicking and trapped in a corner, Sirius launches himself at the zombie and bites him. Sirius backs away and watches as it slowly turns back to a human.
"How did you know that would work?" the man asked.
"I didn't, I panicked," Sirius explained confused, "I'm, uuh, Sirius," he cautiously reached out his hand
"Remus," the man replied as he took his hand.
That was actually a lot more than I thought it would be, but could someone please write this?
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