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“This is our target.”
It’s a man in his late thirties— painfully ordinary-looking.
“He sells alien weaponry on the black market to the highest bidder, usually terrorist groups." Ms. Gray starts pacing back and forth across the front of the room while she speaks. “And this—”
Ms. Gray clicks the remote in her hand and a new picture flashes. A woman.
“—is our best chance at bringing him out of hiding. Our mark. His sister.”
A striking woman— piercing green eyes, long dark hair, a jawline people would pay plastic surgeons top dollar for— the kind of beauty anyone would envy.
“She’ll be attending a charity Gala tonight in the city—” Ms. Gray stares pointedly at Kara— “And that is where you come in, Agent Zor-El. You’ll go to the Gala and make contact with our mark.”
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After using her powers to save her sister from a deadly plane crash, Kara Danvers is recruited by the FBI to go undercover and take down a lethal mass arms dealer, Lex Luthor. But to get to Lex, Kara has to befriend and gain the trust of his sister, Lena. The closer Kara and Lena become, the more Kara questions her mission.
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27 Nov 2025
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“Nah, you way over-tipped last night. This one’s on the house.”
Lena’s shoulders slump in mock exasperation. “Kara, don’t start with me.”
“I am absolutely starting with you.”
What a smug little shit, Lena thinks. But God is she cute. “You really don’t want to play this game.”
"Yeah? Maybe I do.”
It’s said so softly, so gently, and if this was one of Siobhan’s movies, they wouldn’t be talking about the money or drinks at all, they’d be talking about something clenching around Lena’s chest, something stifling, a loneliness that paralyzes her bones.
“Don’t blame me when you lose,” Lena says with a gentle upturn of her mouth, her voice low and crackling, leaving a fifty-dollar bill on the bartop before she turns away.
a celebrity/bartender au
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something terrible happens at mount norquay. kara and lena have to try to pick up the pieces.
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It isn’t The Wizard of Oz that pierces through whatever walls Kara has placed around her heart, nor is it Singing In The Rain, or even West Side Story. No, it’s Oklahoma! that blindsides her, leaves her sobbing into her throw pillow until her voice disappears and she’s too exhausted to move to her bed.
She can’t figure out why a story set in the time of farmhands and cowboys could make her think of Lena in any way until she rewatches it.
And oh. Oh, she finally gets it now.
Kara hears the words being sung and is reminded of the fact that after everything, Lena still doesn’t have the full story.
Lena had accused her of having ulterior motives, of wanting to be close to her out of selfishness, of being too cowardly to ever take a real leap of faith. She isn’t all that wrong. Kara’s alter ego may be out in the open now for Lena to see, but that doesn’t mean Kara isn’t still hiding behind some lies.
The fact that she’s fallen in love with Lena Luthor accidentally along the way is the only secret she’s got left.
AKA, Kara watches an old movie, realizes what's been in front of her this whole time, and somehow, finds her way back to where her heart has made its home.
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- Part 1 of people will say we're in love
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Lena chuckled lowly and Kara’s stomach flipped and twisted into an achingly, tight knot. Yep. It was official. Kara would need to inform the DEO as soon as possible: Lena Luthor was definitely some form of Kryptonite.
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Lena discovers Supergirl’s identity in Kaznia and is pissed to say the least. She experiences every emotion on the wheel including, to her confusion, a sense of longing and desire for her backstabbing best friend.
Kara takes on her civilian identity since Supergirl is being hunted by the DEO and the children of liberty. Kara does everything she can to fix things between her and Lena.
To Lena’s annoyance, she can’t seem to cut Kara out of her life, not when their missions coincide.
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A twist on Red Daughter as Lex uses her to further his own agenda. Meanwhile, Kara tries to fix her fractured relationship with Lena. Lots of angst, danger, feelings, and sexual tension
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- Part 1 of Supergirl: A Fear of Longing Trilogy
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Mystery Work
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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A sigh, soft and exasperated, escaped Lena’s lips. She didn’t bother lifting her gaze from her screen. “What is it, Kara?” she said, her tone as cold as the glass walls surrounding them. It was the same voice she used with stubborn clients, dismissive and detached.
Kara’s heart ached at the sound of her own name spoken so distantly. She stepped closer, her knees feeling weak, her mouth dry. “It’s important,” she whispered, trying to hold onto the last shreds of her courage. “I… I don’t know how much longer I can—”
“Not now,” Lena cut her off, the words like a slap across the face. Her eyes remained glued to the screen, her fingers never pausing in their rhythm. “I have a board meeting in an hour, and I need these numbers finalized. Whatever it is, it can wait.”
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Or Lena and Kara have been married for 5 years but Lena neglects Kara for L-Corp.
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See all the Marks of my Wounded Past by luthordamnvers, snowydragon
Fandoms: Supergirl (TV 2015)
31 May 2024
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Kara Zor-El was sent to Earth to protect her baby cousin. She landed, but never found him. Instead the name of a stranger was indelibly written in her arm since her landing. She never paid much attention to that name; survival was much more important to accomplish, with no one to take care of her anymore.
Lena’s life was forever changed when her soulmate mark made her appearance at the age of twelve, when not only one name showed up, but two. It didn’t get any better when more kept appearing and appearing. Exceedingly alarming, she was sure one of the names wasn’t even human.
And then they met each other.
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"And you are?" Lena says, holding her hand out to shake. Kara takes it, and puts in every effort not to crush it in her nervousness. Lena's hand is dry and cold where Kara's is uncomfortably hot.
"Kara Danvers," Kara says, putting on her best smile. "Reporter. It's great to meet you, I think we really – "
"Ah, Kara Danvers. The newest addition to the roster, and yet one who has her own private office on the 21st floor," Lena interrupts.
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How would early season 3 look if Lena and Kara didn't meet until after Lena bought CatCo, and Lena thought Kara was a total nepo baby?
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28 Apr 2024
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but then, my homework was never quite like this by Jazzfordshire
Fandoms: Supergirl (TV 2015)
16 Apr 2019
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“Wait, when you say ‘you’ll be teaching’, you mean…both of us?” Kara asks, sounding more than a little apprehensive. “Lena and I will be teaching it together?”
Lena’s own apprehension is so high that she’s fairly sure she’s seconds away from hyperventilation, but she’s surprising even herself with how well she’s hiding it.
“Astute observation, Miss Danvers. It’s clear to anyone in the room that you two have…magnetism.” Cat sounds matter-of-fact, but the casual way she states that other people - both students and coworkers - have noticed how she and Kara interact makes Lena want to sink into the floor and disappear.
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Kara and Lena are teachers, thirst is abundant, and communication is hard.
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23 Mar 2024
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there's a big old moon shining down at night by Jazzfordshire
Fandoms: Supergirl (TV 2015)
07 Oct 2019
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The mechanic isn’t just pretty – she’s muscular. And sweaty. And broad. Her shoulders are wider than they look at first glance, and as she reaches up to remove her hat and wipe at her brow with her forearm, Lena can see her bicep flex.
Lena tries very hard not to be affected by that, or by the adorable red line the ball cap leaves on the woman’s forehead.
“Hi! I’m Kara. James said your Porsche gave out?”
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Needing to get away from the stress of her job for a few months, Lena buys a summer lake house in the most remote town she can find. She fully intends on keeping to herself, resting, and interacting as little as possible with the locals.
Until her car breaks down, and the town mechanic happens to be the hottest woman she’s ever seen.
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23 Mar 2024
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"So to keep yourself from getting hurt by love, you're…casting a spell to…find it?" Sam says, her face twisted up in confusion as Lena wanders the garden gathering the herbs she needs. It's dark outside, and they're darting between shadows – the garden is here for the kitchen staff to pick fresh ingredients from, and the last time Lillian found her snipping rosemary she was confined to her room for two months.
"I'm calling for Amas Veritas," Lena clarifies. "I'm binding myself to a person that doesn't exist."
"How do you know they don't exist?"
"They can't. No person can fit all my criteria. And if they don't exist, I can never fall in love."
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Lena Luthor is cursed. Everyone she loves is doomed to die; it would take someone truly indestructible to survive a magic that’s ingrained in her very bloodline. When she binds herself to a true love that can’t exist, the last thing she expects is for Kara Danvers to turn up and prove her wrong.
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An AU (lightly) inspired by Practical Magic.
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23 Mar 2024
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The woman stops her pacing, setting her pale and unevenly-coloured eyes on Kara, and in that moment Kara understands - for the very first time - how Helen of Troy’s face could have been beautiful enough to start a war.
“Enough. I’m tired of being passed from one person to the next. Tell me,” the woman says fiercely after Kara has been quiet for too long. “Who are you?”
“I’m, um,” Kara says, wiggling her feet until they’re buried in the sand up to the ankle. “I’m Kara.”
The woman stares at Kara, incredulous and silent. It stretches out between them, those lingering questions and Kara’s unwillingness to answer them, until finally her shoulders sink and she deflates with a small, disbelieving laugh.
“Right. Well, I’m Lena,” she says, finally seeming to realize her dress is torn and pulling it tighter, "and if you don’t mean me harm, then I suppose you just saved me.”
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Kara’s pod crash happens in 6th century Greece, and she grows up eager to be like the heroes whose myths comforted her in the wake of Krypton’s destruction. But when she accidentally reveals her powers and the world views her as a demigod, Kara begins to understand just how dangerous that can be.
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23 Mar 2024
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i know you don’t believe (it’s you i’ve waited for) by Jazzfordshire
Fandoms: Supergirl (TV 2015)
06 May 2021
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“Okay. What’s your name?”
Lena’s response is knee-jerk. “None of your damn business.”
Supergirl runs her fingers through her hair. It sticks up wildly near her temple, and Lena can see a slight cowlick. It’s strangely humanizing. “Look, my boss isn’t going to like that I’m working with an unknown as it is. If we’re going to work together, I at least need something to call you.”
When Lena shakes Supergirl’s hand, she feels the warmth of victory when the hero seems shocked at the firmness of her grip. But alarmingly an even stronger warmth radiates from their joined palms, spreading up her arm; Lena pulls her hand back faster than what’s generally considered polite, curling it into a fist.
“You can call me Kieran.”
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For over a hundred years, Lena has been trying to escape the suffocating hierarchy of the fae – and ever since her mother moved LuthorCorp to National City the only way to do so is to work with Supergirl, with whom Lena shares a soul-deep connection she can’t control.
What’s a vampire to do?
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23 Mar 2024
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Lillian’s cool tones still cause the same reaction they have since Lena was a child, when her tears were met with cold indifference and harsh reminders that Luthors did not cry. Her brain shutters, the panic pushed to the back of her thoughts as she straightens and obediently follows her mother and Mon-El to the boarding ramp.
Her fiancee’s grip is like a vise on her arm as he leads her onto the ship, into a life she doesn’t want and a country she doesn’t know. Lena usually tries to stay firmly on the side of realism rather than fancy, but with Mon-El at her side, Lillian ahead, and Mon-El’s loyal manservant Corben following them with the bags, Lena has the distinct feeling that she’s being dragged onto the Titanic in chains.
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The happy ending Titanic AU that wouldn't leave me alone until I wrote it.
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- Part 1 of to make each day count (Titanic AU)
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23 Mar 2024
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i keep my distance (but you still catch my eye) by Jazzfordshire
Fandoms: Supergirl (TV 2015)
24 Dec 2018
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With a final sigh, Lena wrenches the door open, and ends up with an armful of tall blonde as the mystery visitor – who had clearly been leaning on it – lurches forwards. Her taser hits the carpet, and the woman rights herself again, apologizing profusely.
“Shit, sorry Alex, you just took so long and –“ Finally, bright blue eyes track up Lena’s bare legs and silk robe all the way to her face, widening comically.
“You…are not Alex.”
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Lena and Alex, two strangers recovering from breakups, swap houses over the holidays for a spur-of-the-moment trip. Neither of them expected to find a holiday fling – but what happens on vacation, stays on vacation. Right?
AKA: The Holiday is one of my favourite Christmas romcoms, so I decided to make it gay. And half Jewish.
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When Lena meets Kara, a soldier home on leave as she waits for her next deployment, at a local coffee shop one afternoon, her life is completely tipped upside down in an instant. As they start talking, Lena feels drawn to Kara; there's something about her warmth and openness that fills the gap left by Lena's troubled childhood.
Growing closer over the next few months, falling fast for each other, the two of them find themselves unable to stay away, but Kara's next deployment is inevitable, and with promises that she'll come home, Lena waits for her.
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14 Jan 2024
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Lena’s POV of the increasingly frequent and familiar kisses Kara keeps bestowing on her in the guise of friendship in the course of their ever more connected lives, and how her poor Luthor heart copes, or tries to and an exploration of her magic and how that might bring her closer to Kara in new and unexpected ways.
Set post s6. Written as a series of short chapters in one overarching story for Suprecorptober 2023 that will cover all the tumblr prompts just a little out of order and some have been paired up as I was a little late to the party! Now Complete. Tags updated to reflect where this story ended up as it got a little longer and more complex than I'd planned!
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01 Jan 2024
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Best-selling horror author Wednesday Addams hasn't written in years.
Everything changes when Enid Sinclair moves in across the hall.
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or, love blooms within an unexpected friendship
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01 Jan 2024