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"Please, x-ray the building!" A sarcastic Alex requested after the obvious explosion, which threw every super around, they were not alone. As the pandemonium instilled pedestrians ran around random directions bumping into the supers at the street, the only standing people. The scare of the explosion's noise and parts of concrete falling off the sky made the super friends protect their head and the people's nearby as they could. The smell of concrete mixed into the burning smoke wasn't pleasing to their nostrils. Yelling and in shock civillians run between the debris smoke leaving the fighting scene, the sidewalk of a commercial building by the city’s center.Reign and Kara, the only two standing still in place outought the force of the explosion shared a quick gaze almost in sync, the blonde flew in a record velocity, her eyes searching for people still caught in the block to free their scene from civilians.“There's people stuck inside!” Brainy yelled. “I’m on it!” They could hear Nia’s voice on their ear bugs.“Wait!” Alex yelled, stopping the blue vested woman. Hand on her ear pressing her ear bug to hear a diagnosis. It was clearly an exponential situation, maybe bringing the civilians inside the building to an open fire wasn't the move, leaving them there wasn't either.“It's all clear!” Sam yelled, her eyes searching for movement and any signal of a collapse, she let her body levitate and in a slow flight she analyzed the structure. She could see a few steel beams broken and fissured pillars but nothing that could signify a major issue. With her the reassurance, Reign could see from the sky, Sentinel’s hand that held Dreamer being placed down. Sam sighed, she better be right about the structure, she thought seeing the Supers friends storm in. "They're on the stairs! Careful, civilians at the underground, I counted 13" Lena glanced up uncertain where she could see her black cape on air. Her friends entered the first floor of the building being welcomed by rough shooting, each one hurrying to a side to find shelter somewhere.“Heavy attack on the first floor!”“I’m coming!” Kara’s voice was heard and in a blink she was flying back, ready to break the window glass panel when something fell on her. A big alien got her in a grip making her deflect the building at the last minute. “I’m not!” Fighting the alien, she yelled out of breath by the surprise, probably because he was the cause of the brick wall explosion on the fifth floor. Lena watched the building again, calculating the chaos, a war on the first floor and a quite bad fire on the roof. She could see her friends storming in with their fight poses, deflecting bullets and neutralizing one by one of the threat, but the group seemed extremely trained. Automatic weapons that clearly were from trafficking in hands of men in black with bulletproof vests.“Has anyone seen the fire or…” Brainy said in his awkward way making Sam wave her head, in a blink she reached the flammable spot, now getting concerned. Taking a deep breath she blew cold air on it using all air on her lungs. She breathed in again. Lena was happy. Not by the chaos, but she felt complete working with superfriends. She felt like she had redeemed her name. She felt like she had a bigger purpose, to protect the city from what her own family has caused, to prevent others like Lex from putting people in danger. And that's why she made a few political things to extend the opportunity. The big headline on Cat-Co magazine showed that in red letters: Reign is now a super friend. A shock for most of the citizens but she knew Sam, she had participated in her improvement. She was better and after a few accompanied treatments she understood and was able to accept Reign parts inside her. Or better, recognize as parts of herself. That acceptance gave her control over her powers and the feeling of a second personality disappeared completely. Sam was full and in control of her gifts and not only did she have this but the talent to be a super, a good heart and the desire to help stuck on her personality. Lena knew she should redeem Reign's name like Luthor. And like Rojas, the last accepted by the group, also an ex villain. She, by contrair of Reign, who fit in and had enough time to be used to it, or better, almost feel like she was indeed born for the task with her will to help the others, seemed to be having a harder time to the super thing, nothing that worried Lena. She did have to remember Supergirl their reasons though and insisted it was important for Acrata’s reputation. She said: “You opened up for a Luthor, why not for them?”She watched the blonde answer quickly, nodding her head in her super pose, hands on her waist, "I know you". Her whisper and honesty in the sentence made Lena tilt her head, her forehead frowned staring at Kara with tender eyes."And I know them!" Lena said in an exclamation, not worried about leaking their identities, at least not with Kara, she trusted Kara. With that, Kara agreed with taking it to a discussion, it was enough for Lena. Even though the group was unbending, they accepted it with only one condition: the ex villains could not know their identities. Not yet, until they could trust them. Like a probation period.It was okay for Sam, who Kara knew to be behind the Reign. She entered their headquarters and was introduced as Reign and everyone welcomed her. A bit of distrust in the beginning, after all, Reign was close to killing Kara, but received her. And introduced as their nicknames. She bounded quickly and had no problem.Sure, the media wasn't easy on her, Cat-Co published the most sensationalist content about the need for government regulation of the Supers and other things more for accepting psycho killers . But still, even with the disregard of the media, she persevered, she did not redesign her black suit and mask, but showed with actions Reign was more than she showed before when she wasn't fully Sam. "Why can’t she follow fucking directions?!" Lena woke up hearing Sam's voice in her ear from outside the building. Out of breath after leaving a cold blow to try to extinguish the flames only for retraining a bit and burning more seconds in. She growled flying in the air, her head nodding in indignation as she followed the last direction given ignoring the fire restarting. It was a problem on a minor scale of worry. And to say a fire was in the least position… was a big problem to be solved.The same for Acrata. The black suited woman who had joined them two weeks ago. Expert Assassin. Hundreds of kills. That didn't intimidate Reign, she had done bad things in the past, even if the majority she wasn't in control. She didn't judge the woman with that, she really didn't. But she seemed to want Reign’s hate anyway. And that was the proof.She heard a few yells muffled by the shooting on the entrance and she knew what it should be. With her velocity she flew until a part of the hallway where a line of bodies was being collected, she clenched her jaw and flew fast, following the trail. She gasped and stopped ridiculously near, she grabbed her fist before she could move anywhere. Or… evaporate anywhere."What are you doing?!" Reign shouted, not bothering about the fight beside, the yelling voices at their ear bugs or the woman pushing her arm back. The braided hair woman corrected her posture smiling. She shrugged like it was obvious. "Cleaning right" She repeated the task signed to her on her ear bug, dropping her fake smile and making mention of leaving and Sam, in her velocity, showed up in front of her again. Acrata stopped abruptly against the brick wall that was the super’s body, raising her chin she stared at her and by that lick of lips Sam knew not good thoughts were passing behind. Sam sighed, staring at the eye behind the mask, inches away in a provocative glare. That woman was hard to deal with. "Is this a knife?" She grabbed the woman's weapon. Glancing behind her the trace of bodies laying on the ground. Now, way more concerned, her first thought was a broken neck but it seemed she had stabbed them to death. Her eyes got back in time to see how the black suited recruiter sighed and deflected her gaze irritatedly. Both women ignoring their colleagues on their ear bugs yelling, advising positions or calls for help as well as the shots of the battle seemingly far as the air thickened. The blue iris narrowed. "Give it back" Acrata’s voice was deep, matching her threatening posture. Slow and intimidating, she raised her eyebrow. "We don't kill" Sam said again, slowing each word. "You're a slow learner?"The thing was, Reign was tired of the woman’s completely suicidal moves and disobedience causing troble for the team. Her way was completely questionable and still she hadn't a third of the press weight Reign had on her beginning. Only if Cat-Co got their big leak about the black suited woman still villain-ish.Sam wished but she wouldn't leak to the press about her twisted behavior only to create a hate wave on the woman…she was too good to do it. And her acquaintance that could help her with it simply wouldn't, it would be a favor for Sam and that woman wouldn't do anything for Sam."I haven't yet, are you volunteering?" She replied getting closer. Sam waved her head to the side and gazed at the smile at the mouth of the ex assassin. Maybe not that ex, she pondered, the amount of blood tracing the hallways was concerning. The shooting in the entrance hall got louder as the women were still facing each other in the long hallway to reach the fire staircase. Maybe they should help the team…perhaps, but their eye fight was more interesting. Both broke the contact turning their heads in time to see a black suited man turn the hallway with an automatic gun pointing to the duo. Without hesitation, Acrata ran in his direction. Disappearing and appearing she cut her way closer using the shadow of the columns, making him lose target pointing to several spots uselessly. His eyes widened shooting the air as her black figure disappeared and appeared in an unreal velocity, getting closer to his scare. Frightened like he had seen an apparition. Maybe that is indeed the last thought the souls Acrata met had, to be seeing a ghost. She was skilled, fast and accurate, she could enter and terminate a target in seconds. Acrata was highly fatal.She smiled, ready to end the threat with one of her killer moves, she appeared again running the last two steps. But seconds before finally feeling his shoulder on her hands and getting to jump on him, the man fell on the ground. Agonizing in pain. She hasn't done anything.She sighed angrily before turning around. The growl and the vein on her neck showing how frustrated she was, she tilted her head to the side.Sam had shot a tray of laser from her eyes, over Acrata’s shoulder, right on his arm, still standing on the same spot she was when the man showed up and almost shitted himself praying for any entity to save him from the ghost. Not enough to kill but to disable him with the pain of a laser cut, he growled on the ground holding his shoulder right behind Acrata’s feet. She could’ve ended him! it was hers!She clenched her jaw mad, walking back at a fast pace, she shouted."You almost shot me!" Raising her spare knife to gesture her angry. The woman frowned, she hadn't just taken her weapon? How many knives does the brunette have hidden in that tight suit? Reign's lips curved, she couldn't say she regretted it."You would have survived" Sam glanced again at the men crying too loud for Acrata's taste."That one was mine!" Acrata pointed, getting near, and using the distraction of the closeness and the imminent fight, she got her knife back. Hands out of Sam’s attention, too focused on the face centimeters away she lost her grip against the metallic object.Acrata’s head waved in denial, she glanced mad back once more, Reign was such an ending the mood person, too righty, she walked back to the war on the lounge again. Sam turned waving her head. Her hand against her forehead where a sudden headache was starting to grow. Acrata was impossible to deal with.She gasped, staring at her catwalk-like walk leaving to the war outside that hallway and passing through the doorway as the penumbra started she faded before her eyes. Sam swallowed, a glance at the bodies she hoped to be of fainted people suddenly remembering the fire chaos she left behind. She turned abruptly."You could get easy on her, she's adapting" Sam rolled her eyes with Lena on her ear bug. Adapting? she scoffed. That woman was a danger. To society, to Superfriends reputation. Even to herself. A bomb ready to blow everything any minute.Sam flew out relieved for the fire being out already, she usually didn't let her obligations like that but she knew that woman was too long quiet. And well, her last given obligation was exactly to make sure the black suited fit well among them, and murdering people wasnt their style. From meters above the streets, it seemed like supergirl was busy holding a building up that she broke, Sam gasped. The situation from eagle eye was even more chaotic. "I saved the poor man's life!" She snorted sure Lena was in a private channel before bumping with the biggest alien. She wasn't enjoying that never ending task.
“A little help!” Dreamer yelled from the middle of a wave of controlled robots. A new attack on National City this time without Supergirl to help as the leader dealt with an emergency on another earth. Sam would never get used to it. Other universes, could anyone believe?The group was being outnumbered by the attackers, and Reign throwed the robot’s body on others using it like a weapon as she shot lasers with her eyes in several directions. Too busy this time to focus on what her group was dealing with, and surely not minding Acrata trying to kill robots. Maybe that could be in use, like exposition therapy…Sentinel showed up with her suit and opened fire. A wave of a new developed gun caused a massive destruction and an even more massive pain in the ears. The team uncovered their ears getting on their feets again slowly after being knocked to the ground with the propulsion of the shot with wide eyes. That was a hell of a shot!It did not only throw them against the walls and ground but knocked out all attackers in front of them. Sam glanced at Sentinel holding the gun proudly and excited like a child with a new toy, smiling big. She let herself smile, it was an easy way to deal with the situation. "Oh she can have this gun but my knife is held?!" Acrata yelled from somewhere. Reign turned her head in time to see her jump on someone's shoulder, a residual robot trying to get on its feet. A fast move and it was on the floor unconscious as she fell curled up near the floor on her feet, her hand at the floor with one leg folded and the other straight, leaving the men-like figure like it was nothing. A pleased smile and a few wires on her hand she wasn't sure when she pulled out of it. Sam sighed like a laugh of air, at least she was good. She had to admit. And would someday. When she wasn't extremely annoying.Sam remembered the first moment she met Acrata. Walking behind Supergirl but escorted by Alex in her suit. The red head's side glances and ready posture seemed to distrust the woman who walked with a hip movement in.“Welcome, Acrata.” Supergirl said smiling, turning to the woman behind her who didn't mind smiling back. An unbothered expression and a presumptuous body language, Sam noticed.“That’s Dreamer and Guardian, over there is-”“Dont” Alex said watching her touch a gun on the big table they used to reunite around to pass their plans and, in reflex, she placed her hand on the gun on her belt. Sam’s eyes stared at the scene cautiously. Acrata turned smiling to Alex, tilting her head she said:“I see someone has trust issues” as she raised her hands in surrender in the most sarcastic way. The joke didn't make the hero leave her gun showing Sam once again how the woman was against their voting days before. She was fiercely against the new member.“I just don't like to fraternize with someone who already tried to kill Supergirl” She said but the pony tail woman just took a deep breath, somehow bored, or just entertained. She saw the blond with a face expression rebuke the other woman and turned to the figure in black on the other side of the room, curious eyes searching the new headquarters. “Then you should know the world killer is here?” She pointed to the masked woman who smiled educated. Her voice was extremely sarcastic and face expression highlighted it.“I don't go by that anymore” Sam said walking into the conversation, she hadn't even been introduced yet. ”In case you live in a cave and didn't watch the news”The brunette smiled like it was the funniest joke, Sam didn't understand.“Really? It used to add a charm, glad you kept the skull though” She said glancing the sign on her chest area and glancing up again in a way Reign didn't want to confess it was attractive. It was…fanning. Everything was… interestingly attractive, the way she moved and held her posture in that suit, the way she smirked, noticing Sam’s lack of answer…Sitting on the sofa where part of the team was watching her entrance, she shrugged, took a bear and sipped it like it was the most common thing.“So, Brainiac, you know Reign and-” Supergirl tried to continue the presentation.“Of course, I’m a fan of her work” She interrupted with a blink. “The style of threats and massive genocide was a big inspiration to many-” She was cut by a throat’s clean. They didn't think her irony was funny. She doubted they even understood the sarcasm on it. So serious people.“Now you are a super, first rules first-” Kara started serious but was cut by Alex.“Beers are mine” Serious face and even more voice tone.“Not a rule, but yes” Kara said in her awkward way. “The point is super dont kill, we save. So no more massive murder talks, we are kind of people model of hope and good in the world, we must represent all of that-'' she trailed off with an inspirational speech and sighed when the woman leaned in on the couch.“Ten out of ten for effort, Supergirl” “Here” Dreamer gave her a flier leaving her standing pose. “Really?” She tilted her head in surprise shoving the paper where she could read. “Got into Superfriend, what now?”. She scoffed, “Did you get one of these too?”She glanced at Reign who smiled crossing her arms. Acrata narrowed her eyes, so that wasn't just feeling like an odd welcoming, it was an odd welcoming. “It's kind of a new approach,” Kara said, glancing at Brainy. Maybe they were a bit scared about Acrata. She glanced at them with a confused and sarcastic face. Right.“Reign will show you the place and keep you close on beginning just to… get the rhythm” Supergirl took a deep breath ending on a sigh, eyes glancing at Alex like she wanted reassurance she was doing good. “How close?” She turned to the woman in black who just rolled her eyes.“What does this one even do?” Sam turned to Kara like a child who is not impressed by a toy. An expression on her face saying “she really has to stay?” “I can show you a thing or two” she said slowly and mischievous, getting on her feet to stare at the woman properly. She gasped with a smile.“What? you’ll annoy them until death?” The newer hero stepped forward not in a threatening way even though Reign almost hesitated, the brunette in tight vest exuded a sensual energy she knew was the most annoying part of her. She didn't move at Acrata's movement, making them face each other inches away. Only when she moved her ponytail to place it over her shoulder did she turn with her eyes red. Ready to warm her up.“That’s quite hot” Sam breathed in. “Nice to meet you all, loved the energy” She said, giving Alex her drunken beer back. A smile she headed turning back to a tour. And that’s how their dynamics pretty much had been the last few days. Reign supervising a very messy Acrata. Too stubborn and smug for her taste, and worse, keeps flirting with her to her annoyance.“Incoming!” Someone yelled too late for a warning.“Ouch” Sam was thrown against a wall by a shot of a different weapon. She breathed trying to move between the concrete which now had her shape printed. That was a powerful propulsion shot. She glanced up in surprise. Her body almost perfectly shaped into the wall, she growled low. Fuck, that hurt."Careful, don't want you to scratch your pretty face" She heard Acrata passing playfully in front of her, moving her hips like a runaway, like there weren't bullets and this hell of a shot crossing the place, before she disappeared in a dark corner. Sam waved her head with an eye roll getting out of the debris. A hand cleaning the dust covering her suit before going back to fight in a full force flight.Not that Acrata wasn't hot, probably she was from what she could see on her tight suit and confidence. If it wasn't for her absurd annoying persona she could think about it. Perhaps, if her head and heart wasn't torn already.Still smug and a bit bitchy but to Sam's in love heart it wasn't a big deal. If only she had a chance with the woman. She sighed.Their fight ended and they finally got home late at night. Sam took her suit to take a bath, soaking into the bathtub she complained about the hell of the weapon that had hit her. Some part of her glad she was the one receiving it, she knew some of the friends were only humans and if that hurt her strengthened by the yellow sun body her friends would dissipate. The silence was reliving her muscles as she heard the news reporting an interview about the incident on her ipad near the bathtub. A photo of them in action making them look even more chaotic, she locked the screen. Cat-Co was already publishing another publication. Her body was aching.Her head was pulsing, she really needed that headache pill.Getting up the next day wasn't easy, but she couldn't just miss work. And that was the worst part about saving the city: having to work double shifts. She found strength to leave her warm bed and get ready to leave for L-Corp, where she was still CFO. Maybe she could talk to Lena about break on the days after battles. She could come up with a good excuse, remote days or something like that. With a large coffee in front of her, she flipped the page of the document in her hand. She needed to read exactly how one of L-Corp sectors got a debt and provide a crisis management that didn't include deepening the crisis, with the small amount of sleep. Great. She sighed, maybe she needed another pill already, she massaged her forehead.And stretching her body she leaned on the back seat of the chair. A yawn leaving her mouth she tilted her head bringing a hand to massage her neck."Arias?!" She lifted her head watching Andrea's hand hold her sleeve further seeing the redness on her skin. She startled trying to remember why Rojas was at her office then to remember she wasn't at her office but at Lena’s, waiting for the brunette to arrive at the meeting she had proposed. She followed the woman's search on her face and her hand quickly put the blazer's collar down. "How did you do this?" Her hand near her neck made Sam freeze on the spot. She swallowed. Not because she couldn't explain she was in a super suit fighting aliens the night before and she wasn't exactly a full human but because Rojas' thumb rubbed her skin over the reddish tone of a scratch. And before she could catch her thought, her eyes analyzed the woman in front of her, hair in a side part wavier than usual, a white loose office pants and a red shirt. She leaned slightly over Sam and Arias couldn't help but smirk. What a vision."Worried about me, Rojas?" She said with a smile before the woman snorted, throwing the piece of her blazer against her with unnecessary force. She smiled, at least she would take a shot, right? "I'm worried about my employee" Sam rolled her eyes, a smile surging on her lips."I don't work for you" she smiled coming up with a good and believable excuse, “I fell while hiking.”The brunette nodded and Sam breathed part relieved she believed. Well, she could say she was shot against a concrete wall the night before, that brunette didn't believe a word she says anyway. "What are you doing here?" She remembered. Not that she did not enjoy Andrea’s presence, oh she did, but it was weird to see her at L-corp so soon. "Lena's meeting," she nodded. Sure. Another poor soul to that event. She pointed to Rojas the seat at her side, chivalry. The woman smiled before passing by and sat sighing.It seemed like the body pain was a thing that day. Sam frowned, studying the CEO."Didn't sleep well?" She glanced at Sam, yawning."No, but Lena has a thing for eight am gatherings" Rojas said, making Sam smile big. Wasn't that funny. But again, in Sam's eyes…Sam hit the meeting desk, eyes studying the CEO. Andrea felt it, it was annoying. Sam used to do this a lot, not only stare at her studying all her features but stare at her with those eyes, she leaned slightly to her."Did you do something different with your hair today?" Sam asked and Andrea opened her mouth. Arias was always awfully charming, she gazed her side smile. She had slept too much and in hurry couldn't straighten her hair from Acrata's braid and of course Samantha would notice and point it out. Nothing escaped Samantha’s eyes. "You look good"Andrea gasped."I always look good, Arias." She rolled her eyes. Arias’ smirk and chin slightly up lifted made her raise an eyebrow."That's why I'm always repeating." She said like it was obvious and Andrea scoffed. It had been delayed but Arias always found a way to hit on her, even though she never gave that opening to the CFO. First because it was never serious, maybe in the first two months only. The first two months she believed, she almost liked it… But then it became more like her way to annoy the CEO which with time Andrea started to think it was a way to mock her. Because Sam couldn't hit on her for months like that, receiving no after no and still getting the balls to do it again. Always charming and attentive, always smirking and staring with heart eyes. She was definitely kidding and that pissed Andrea tremendously. Like a pathological womanizer. "Sorry, I'm late, I lost the alarm" Lena entered. Sam glanced at the newspaper just thrown on the table and Andrea's eyes on them.“We really need to talk about these early meetings,” Sam was quick to complain. “Yeah, I know, I just didn't know I would have an…unforeseen event,” Lena said, glancing between Andrea and Sam, both looking tired despite their best efforts. And Lena knew damn well all three had been up at night until 3 am. “Maybe… we should cancel when we realize it because I'm really tired.” Sam tried to say in code, to not slip to Andrea she had been awake saving the town in a black long cape. And the weirdness of her words made the woman scoff. Out of patience, her body was hurting. She needed at least mre four hours of sleep and Sam, who could have slept a great night of sleep was complaining? It was infuriating.“What Arias? You’re saying your hookups are unpredictable? There’s people responsible for-” Luthor glanced up at the building argument. She frowned frozen, oh well. Lena knew she got the worst in the hide-the-secrets-identities-move from the recent members of the group.Andrea’s sassy argument did what it should and made Sam turn with a gasp.“I’m not guilty of your insomnia, maybe if you call me up I can help with it-” Lena stayed frozen between the sentences, on one side Sam tirelessly hitting on Andrea, on the other side Rojas disapproving Sam’s lifestyle, or Sam entirely. If the woman was on A side, she had to be on B side, it was an urge Lena couldn't understand.“On your dreams, Samantha” She scoffed, taking the newspaper, opening it to hide her figure out of her sight. Covering her vision camp and those analytical brown eyes. Andrea questioned if Lena also got unsure under that gaze.Sam gulped as she stared her picture there, gazing down afraid of being recognized and the movement was enough for Rojas to drop the newspaper she used to deflect Arias's deep gaze. She saw her eyes go on Acrata on her side of the picture and she smiled. Biting her lower lip she wondered, curious if Andrea liked her. Or well, her persona. She could have a small win, right?"You like her?" She asked casually. And just like the tense environment changed like they weren't trading sharp words two seconds ago."Who?" Andrea asked, raising an eyebrow. Her guard up ready for the ways Arias could take that sentence to end up with a silly pickup line. She was almost already rolling her eyes."Reign?" Lena glanced up abruptly, her body frozen in place again, tense. Why her friends were like this??? she had almost relaxed for one second, one truce second. Her eyes went from Sam to Andrea and the newspaper between them with their faces the night before. Lena gained one year in life with the wrinkles on her forehead whenever they fell in those kinds of discussions. "Oh, yeah I think” She smiled satisfied with her answer. “They saved a lot of people but I'm sure Reign could have stopped that alien from throwing a car against these people" Andrea pointed to the headline. One casualtie caused by the part of a car that was thrown by the terrorists."She would if she wasn't busy with other things, like babysitting Acrata" Sam said scoffing, receiving blue eyes right on her. Lena watched the beginning of the argument again, sighing deeply. It wasn't like they necessarily disliked each other but could stand the presence without annoying the other. It was funny when they’re not in this thin line between themselves and their secret identities. "Why that tone? Don't you like Acrata?""She's just too full of herself to a bad villain" Andrea gasped offended and Sam tilted her head unaware of the vibe change. "You didn't say that, she-" Rojas turned with an angry posture."Hey!" Lena grabbed both attention. Her eyes wide under their gaze. Sensing they were kind of hoping Lena would speak for them. The thing is, Andrea and Sam didn't know she knew. Well, Sam knew she knew Sam was Reign, and so did Andrea as Acrata, and because of that she couldn't take part in those arguments. She knew everything. And it's kind of exhausting.Right now she found herself in another exhausting situation. She couldn't tell Sam or Andrea they're face to face. She couldn't. Not just because Kara would kill her but because Sam who is in love with Andrea and put Lena in the middle of arranging a date in ages now, even if the woman couldn't notice, hates Acrata, who is nothing less then her crush, in her words the woman she will marry, so stubborn. She couldn't tell Andrea because she's been, serious or not, flirting with Arias this whole time because she would kill Lena for not telling her then would kill Samantha, for getting her attention like that, then Lena again for telling her, there was no way out. In her words Arias is too Arias. She would never be the same knowing the muscled body she had been talking with Lena was Sam’s and if she was less inflexible she would notice right in front of her, the same sculpted biceps and the abs showing on her white button up blouse. Lena wanted to laugh sometimes but she wasn't exactly in place to judge her blindness around her CFO, she took years to find out about something literally on her face.She couldn't tell because both her friends were in her office fighting over their own superheros personas and if they knew they would destroy themselves. She was in an impossible spot to be in.Sam would be devastated by how pissed off Andrea would dismiss her this time, possibly enough to break her heart fully to finally let go, or maybe regretful and mad at Lena for not giving Acrata an opening as Reign, finally getting the woman she wanted. Andrea would never trust Lena again, maybe she wouldn't be that bad to Sam but she couldn't predict. And that was terrible. The anxious feeling in her stomach at the imminent chaos bottled up."Neither Acrata or Reign will save us from this problem so can we start?" Her eyes between both women. The women nodded in agreement before glancing at each other and the newspaper on the table. Night came fast and the calmness of it made them decide to train. And it was supposed to be easy, just a warm up and a good use of time. Supergirl was hitting a sand bag and Sentinel was shooting moving targets. The Headquarters had been leveled up since the government investments and the super found themselves spread working on their abilities. "Watch out" she felt a slap on her forehead. It should be a calm evening. She turned to the front again where Acrata had a full smile. She clenched her jaw. The room covered in mat only with the duo suggested a function."You know damn well I'm parrying you" she said looking at her own hands in the air ready for another hit. Hit that should find the pillowed props on her."Whatever you say, Reign""I'm not trying to prove anything" she said and Acrata waved her head."It's not me who doesn't have humor" She smiled. "What if I slapped your forehead it doesn't mean you're not worldkiller anymore, I mean, just that-" Her words were cut by a laugh. That was enough for Sam to gasp offended and although not exactly angry she threw the pillow props on the floor. She wasn't exactly angry and that posture of threat was edging… playfulness. The woman smiled."I could heat you up in a second" Sam said threateningly, turning her eyes on only to get to see a glance of her heat vision. The brunette licked her lips as her smile grew."Do you hear yourself?" She asked with a mischievous smirk. How could that woman transform and twist everything being said?"Rao, give me patience." She rolled her eyes. Acrata was dangerously flirtatious. She couldn't deny she sometimes was curious about the woman behind the mask. She waved her head and deciding to spice up their threat Sam took a step to her right being mirrored by the woman, staring deep at each other's eyes they circled in a careful stance. A fighting stance.They smiled in agreement, the parrying had changed to a sparrying. Sam faked a first hit and enjoyed how Acrata flinched with a large jump back."Is this you heating me up?" She asked sensually despite being attacked."No Acrata barbecue today" Sam murmured guarding up in a boxing position. "I will be easy on you because you're just a human""That means no flying?" Acrata asked, getting in her position that was more bending like a wrestling pose. A smile showing Reign she had done exactly what she wanted her to. She watched the woman swang waiting for the attack. Ready to jump on Reign and do one of her signature killer moves."I didn't say that" Reign flew behind her and a simple kick threw her on the floor."What's the problem, A?" Reign smiled at the woman on the floor. She smiled despite having been hit first, and with a wave of head she suddenly immaterialized herself making Sam turn searching. Her x-ray vision was useless for her power as well as heat vision. It couldn't work because the woman wasn't there physically. She was alone.She gasped startled, the body weight was put on her shoulder as she appeared over her and under a second a killer move threw the woman on the floor, landing in her assassin pose. Sam sat staring at the masked threat that tilted her head innocently."What? You're using powers" She said in her defense. Not that Sam wasn't prepared but, somehow her legs turned arms and with a strange move the woman had turned around her whole body until she couldn't feel her touch and the floor welcomed her. Now she understands how no one can leave her grasps.She said and Reign gestured with her hands. Well, she wanted a hand on hand. As soon as Sam was standing Acrata walked in attack already deflecting two first punches and attacking on her stomach, making Sam push her.And another wave of fast deflecting and attacking between both. Jabs, dodge, cross, upper, kick, kick, dodge.Reign smiled. It was hard for her not to use her super velocity but that way was more delightful to hit Acrata that way. And somehow that sequence of hits being deflected and defended was enjoyable. Was fun. A full sequence of punches before she finally hit her, and twisting her arms around Sam held it on her back making the woman stop out of breath, her body backing Sam’s. Sam wouldn't finish the move and break her arm, no, she was her colleague after all. But the position of being stuck made her body closer and with her head leant back, as if any move could make the pain worse. Sam stopped, enjoying the submission."You know… I enjoy this kind of thing?" Reign watched Acrata out of breath say with a mischievous smirk. And again turning and jumping on her she threw her like a hard move, maybe using Reigns' distraction at her. But Sam didn't fall using her ability to fly to keep her standing. Sliding backwards on the mat."This is cheating!" She shouted getting up out of her killer pose, thwarted."You haven't said that before" Sam replied like a child enjoying the frown and the way the woman loosened her shoulders in defeat."I'm telling now" Her voice was low pinched."What Acrata? Started something you can't finish?" That was enough.She used the wall to jump and kick Sam like her sentence had busted her up, and deflected disappearing. Reign looked around at time to see another kick surging out of nowhere only to disappear when she counter hit, tried again and again she faded."What?" Acrata said fading again. And Reign sighed."There's no fun in that" She let her arms fall at the side of her body."So, no powers" She said finally in person, standing in a reachable distance but Reign didn't move to punch, tired of her disappearing. And taking one step back she enjoyed how her eyebrow lifted in a suggestive gaze."This is jealousy you can't fly" She said putting her hands on her waist in a pose she was starting to become addicted to. Living with the supers was getting her this habit."Maybe you take me in your lap next time" Acrata whispered, making Sam roll her eyes.She tried a hit, a turning kick which was caught at time. Reign blocked, pushed her to the ground and she jumped over her. Acrata tried an elbow movement but got stuck in her grip until she quit feeling her arms against the floor over her head. She sighed out of breath with the weight of the super over her."Got you" she said and Acrata smiled with a short breath. Did she?She was pinned on the floor with Reign on top."Did you?" She said catching her breath. She could have faded again or kicked her between her legs but she stayed still. "I told you I enjoy this kind of thing so, this is cheating too" she whispered and Reign smiled, waving in denial."Is it? You lose anyway" she whispered back. Centimeters away from her mouth."Well…" She said and Reign sighed. The ex-assasin laid with a pleased smile,she was flirting again. Her mask couldn't hide that glow on her eyes. Sam got up rolling her eyes again."I will call this a quit" Acrata said watching Reign get up, straightening her body before tensed on the ground. Sam waved her head to the sides."Call whatever you want, shadow, you lose without powers" She said and Acrata was left alone in the training room. Tired of Acrata's show off and selfish way of thinking, Reign would argue with her every time only to receive a blink or another way of flirting. Time had passed juggling between her real life and her secret identity life and overall the period resumed in, while Sam pursuing Andrea, even if the woman thought it was just another joke, Sam didn't exactly mind her huff and scoffs. And during Reign avoiding any discussion with Acrata.She found herself in an open square. Trees could almost hide the helicopter Supergirl was holding in the air after an attack on the mayor. Several people were running and chaos ensued. She stopped her hot vision as she spotted Acrata appear behind a tree with the mayor alive. Another wave of shots hit her as she walked bulletproof. "Give the mayor and Supergirl live!" Someone screamed where Acrata couldn't see, hidden. Sam saw the woman look over there, eyes asking for a way out. And maybe Reign’s eyes were the reason for the bus being thrown over the direction. Sam gasped."Acrata!" She screamed and the woman appeared back a few meters away from where she stood, Sam swallowed feeling her heart beat increase. The adrenalin rush made her breath fast. Reign walked backward near the woman, still standing at the shadow the threes gave her.A quickly shared gaze Sam certified the black suited super was fine before facing forward with stuff chest."You will have to do better!" She yelled like she wasn't almost hit by a bus. And Sam frowned, well Acrata was in the mood for a tough fight. "A super will die if you don't!" The masked men shouted in threat."Where's the mayor?!" Reign asked the woman, their breaths unregular. There was a ridiculous amount of civilians running around, impossible to take them out of the line of shots as they ran in random directions trying to defend from the first explosion. In an extreme plan, they separate the group by making a spot of chaos in the far distance of the square. Reign and Acrata held them back as the other cleaned the area."Safe" she said, her eyes showing a worry she hadn't felt the woman express on her word."Look up!" Acrata yelled watching a wave of cars being thrown at them. Acrata closed her eyes for a half second waiting for the impact before seeing Reign flying shooting with her laser rays. "You had to ask them huh?" She said back on the ground catching a few with her arms and throwing somewhere else. She glanced at Acrata with a sorry smile and waved her head. "Only cars, Reign, I thought you were stronger" She said too sarcastically for someone not helping at the task hard to manage."Catch them yourself, then" she turned, seeing the woman disappear, knocking out someone on the trees and materializing on her side again. She sighed. “Nope, and don't get to see these muscles flexed?” She said making Reign let go of the car she was holding above her head. A smile on her face. Acrata was irritant? she was. But somehow became a part of her work, the days the brunette couldn't help the team were…dull. Her annoying persona had grown in Reign, after all they didn't call themself superfriends for nothing."I'm tired! Show yourself!" She watched Acrata knock out another person. Their bodies falling out of the trees. She watched her scream before someone appeared on her right. Acrata smiled, proud of catching those unseen threats. She opened her mouth before realizing something shining green, she frowned. A kryptonite arrow, she widened her eyes. "Supergirl! Watch out!" Alex screamed in the earbug. She hadn't time to process it. She didn't because he didn't point it to the sky. He lanced it straight, 90 degrees. Right on her. Sam gasped. She thought about flying but somehow even though it was still on air, each centimeter near she could feel her strength leaving her. Surprise? fear? she didn't know, she couldn't move. Not powerful enough to fly or run at fast speed. Sam sighed, closing her eyes expecting the thing to cut her flesh. A pain she hasn't had in a while.She didn't flinch though, standing still like always, stuffed chest which deflected bullets waiting for the pain. It put things in perspective, a first real threat against her life. Not like her human friends had to face everyday. She gasped but it didn't come. Opening her eyes with an irregular breath she placed her hand on her abdomen. A reflex. She could see Kara flying down like a míssil. Could see Alex taking the man down running from the area they covered.She could see Acrata lose her balance a step in front of her. She gasped, wide blue eyes staring deep at Sam watery behind that ornamented black mask. Reign opened her mouth, her hands taking her body before she could reach the ground. "It's okay, it's okay" Reign said out of breath. Confusion on her eyes as she cupped the collapsed woman. She waved her head with eyes searching her body suit.She placed her hand over the brunette's trembling hands around the weapon crossing her stomach even though it burned to touch. She could feel the itching feeling become a full burn but it didn't bother her. And stood there eyes glancing at the blue ones even though it got her sick on her core. The feeling of sickness on her organs wasnt near the pull on her heart. "Are you okay?" She heard her voice soft. Acrata’s hand held her shoulder and Sam gulped. She waved her head a few times, bending her body over the woman on her hands. She was the one impaled, and she was the one asking. That should be Sam, too in shock to form a coherent thought. Everything was too fast.Her hand studied taking the weapon out but still cautious about making it worse as blood started to stain her hand where Reign kept holding. "Why did you do this? Why did you do this, Acrata?!" She whispered. Every part of her was mad. Mad about the reckless brunette, mad about she being the one hurt. Sam felt despair staring to fuel her veins. The red paint wetting her hand was getting too much to ignore. The woman was breathing with difficulty and yet Reign could see a smile surging on her lips. "And scratch your perfect body?" She said choking on her own blood flooding her lungs. Incapable of feeling the pain of the laceration, Acrata felt her body heavier, sinking on Reigns' hug. "Never""Stupid" Sam smiled small even though she wanted to scream. To lecture the woman to obey her. She wanted so much. Why was she like this? Why get in front of Sam?She knew Acrata was human. She glanced down where red liquid started to stain her black jumpsuit. Her lower lip trembled as she tried to suppress a cry. "You shouldn't, A."Her throat sore, feeling the tear win her fight against. Should be her!The nickname leaving her lips caused in Acrata a slow motion of lips, so slightly that Sam hadn't caught it. The tears blurred her vision.“I” She was pushing air in a fight to speak. “S-”“Shii” Reign tried. She said in time to see Lena getting on her side running. She kneeled down despaired. Her hand hit her face where the smile for hearing the nickname was fading. The blue on her eyes reflecting the sky felt even more celestial, she blinked slowly.Each time slower until they closed. Always blues and sassy, now closing like curtains after a show. Without claps or bows, just the destroyer noises they always leave behind.She waved her head, no. Open it. Open it!"Hey, A, stay with me" she slapped her face slightly. The blue appeared again, falling on Lena."Lena, I" she gulped with difficulty. Sam gulped glancing up, the crew starting to reach them after a long run. Reign blinked in order to wave the tears out. Her mind not even worrying about Acrata saying Lena’s name, she wasn't thinking logically anymore.The lacerating pain on her hand made Reign leave the injury spot to lay over her belly, holding her waist firmly as if it would stop her from leaving. Stop Acrata from fading."Don't!" The CEO tried to recall something to help. Pondering with hesitant hands she analyzed the scale of the cut. The lines on her forehead felt like a punch on Reign’s stomach staring at her friend with hopeful eyes. "I-" The brunette tried again. This time losing the battle to keep her eyes open."No!" Lena said. Still with hands in the air, mind confused between magic spells and first aids. "Hey, hey, stay” Sam gulped and hit her face slightly, the slaps turning into a gentle rub on her cheek, now even paler. A single drop of blood stained the inner corner of her lips."You can't leave like that!" Lena said feeling guilty for bringing her into it. Her guilt.“Do something Lena!” Sam yelled as Luthor’s lower lip trembled in a cry. She stared at the super, waving her head in denial. She felt lost, she couldn't recall anything that could help. That wasn't a nice cut, she had lost so much blood in a short time. Sam stared at her friend confused, she never had seen Lena so lost. She felt tears getting around her eyes but not falling. Staring at Acrata’s relaxed face pending slightly. She was in shock. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, for putting you into this, Andy," she cried, bending down. Cupping her cheeks Lena glued her forehead on the woman’s forehead. And Sam looked down in shock. “It’s okay.” She whispered softly. No it wasn't! Lena waved, holding her sobs unaware of Sam’s stillness. She widened her eyes, staring down at the woman on her arms, her friend."Andy?" She whispered watching Lena take the woman's mask with trembling hands hoping it would make her breath fine. An emotional and illogical response before screaming. Other superfriends gathered around her but Reign couldn't move. Not to other things only rub Andrea's face. There in her arms, laying and fighting for her life. She gasped between her tears. Unsure of her feelings only with the sureness of saving Acrata. "Andrea is Acrata?" She heard someone say what she thought. She frowned even more, head denying as if the exposure in front of her eyes was a big lie. Lie! The woman was never injured trying to save her. The body unconscious and heavier then it would be if it wasn't for the kryptonite still intoxicating Reign's body. Her cells were still affecting, her strength shaken and skin burning from the radiation of the green sharped stone. She wasn't sure if the pain on her lungs were from the weapon of the cries. She growled, it hurted so much.She swallowed the knot on her throat and the crush on her heart. "Do something Lena! do some magic, fix her!" She yelled again, this time not being able to hold nothing. Lena was a witch, why won't she heal her? Move her hands, do a magic trick, something!"I can't do anything here" Lena said, still in shock but regaining her thoughts enough to think clearly. Andrea wasn't going to die."DEO, Take her to DEO...now.!" She said the first part in a whisper before yelling. The demand wasn't for someone in specific but for anyone who could fly in seconds. She turned to Kara, who with a frown forehead a few steps behind was with an irregular breathing. "I can't-" she said, feeling the sickness of the stone. Three meters further, breathing with difficulty. Sam gasped, glancing at Supergirl, weak, before taking the woman on her hands determined. None of them understood the gravity of the situation. Acrata, the member of that team, wasn't dying, saving her life. Andrea was not dying because of Sam. "Find me there then!" She demanded between her teeth so certain of it, just a guess. Kara could be somehow more affected by the stone than her, forged as the destroyer. Or maybe she was insane enough to think she could be saved. Maybe she was insane to think she wasn't being affected at all. The kind of insanity that comes with love."Wait, Reign!" "The kryptonite!" She heard but she didn't care. She gave in to the impulse to fly only to get back on her feet again. She couldn't fly. She couldn't breathe. She still ran, her body on her arms starting to appear heavier. She landed from her irregular fly again, still so far. Almost like a big jump than a fly. She glanced at the woman on her arms. Finally on her arms. How didn't she realize? Her arm fell as she held her bridal style. It was heavy and it was excruciating. Her throat closed and she gasped knowing her veins would be just as green as Kara’s were. Fighting the tears on her face, she landed again, this time on an avenue. Mid traffic, the noises of honks and breaks before she jumped again. The city got smaller as she reached a higher point than the last jump, in a parabolic curve. She glanced at her face. Fighting her eyes, she saw the blue again. A tear falling from it. Not pain on her face but a soft smile. "I got you" She whispered, jumping again. The sickness on her stomach and the pain on her core made her growl. It hurt every cell of her body in a radiative burn. But Sam's cries didn't notice that pain."I got you, A '' she repeated and somehow she knew she had understood. One more higher jump, she landed through the window's glass of the building gathering the attention of every agent. Several weapons turned to her direction before recognizing her and the woman on her lap. A not well thought action, with the stone on the body on her hand weakening her body she could be easily put down, maybe even pierced by normal bullets. She wasn't thinking clearly.She stormed the infirmary as fast as her affected body could get her. The visceral pain made her walk stumbling in her own feet as she hurried to pass through the doorframe."Take her, please. She was stabbed with-" She gasped and coughed placing her body in the bed. Hands trembling hesitating between touching her peaceful face and belly as she bent over the unconscious woman. The air so weak hit her face and she glanced up, she was still breathing. Sam placed a short kiss, holding back a growl of pain, at her forehead before being pushed away by the nurses. "It's kryptonite, please, Reign, back up" a doctor said before he had to stop Kara from entering the room as well. Lena left her lap from the ride with a short run. "I don't care,'' Sam said, swallowing the yell of the crippling ache trying hopelessly to push the nurses away, she knew her state wasn't good. She knew the amount of exposition was concerning but she couldn't--She wouldn't admit but having Rojas body distanced had relaxed the pull on her core and throat. She cleaned the wetness around her eyes."Exposing yourself to poison won't make her cure faster but will weaken you" Kara said, taking Sam's shoulder. She sobbed, maybe for the first time feeling the pain on her skin. Without the woman on her arm she felt it. She roared. "You don't understand, it's A-Ac-ndrea there!" She bent down and Lena hurried to get her friend to the other room. She needed medical help as well, almost not bearing the weight of her own body."Lena" she turned to her friend, crying. Words couldn't leave her mouth. "I know," she said. "I'm sure Andrea knows" She said finally getting Sam laying on a stretcher. The DEO’s highly skilled medical team rushed to her and Sam laid her head down hopelessly.She waved her head. Andrea didn't know, she never really had the balls to pursue Andrea. Andrea would never know the love of her life, so would Acrata.Acrata. She doesn't know. She took a deep breath. Acrata the woman who started annoying her, her said fan. Who always flirted with her. She always scoffed her off. She can't die. She can't because Sam never declared to Andrea.She can't die thinking Reign didn't like Acrata. She sighed. Because that was the last thing that she would know, Reign not liking her.The hours that passed made Sam contort in agony. She was cleared after a complete check out and two syringes of something she didn't know. Some kind of serum they made to help supergirl in case of exposition that helped Sam as well, a kryptonian.She stared at the ceiling feeling like herself again. No physical pain, just that sorrow embrace. Several hours of waiting and no answer. Until it was authorized to enter the room.Sam’s scared eyes searched the room tense, letting all the superfriends step in before her. Afraid of seeing Andrea laid there. "Hey!" She heard, entering the room she sighed. She was awake.Sam gasped in gratitude, taking a deep breath. Unlike the colleagues that hurried to surround her bed she stayed one step further. Scared of taking any more steps."You're tough, Acrata" Dreamer said, even though she could have called her by her name. Her face was exposed and yet no one seemed to point it out, recognizing the sacredness of the moment, Acrata was alive and well."And you haven't seen my sexy scar" she joked, glancing at Lena who laughed placing a tender kiss on her forehead. The CEO turned to Reign, still shocked. She felt her eyes searching her body on the bed. From her feet following the suit until her face. Ponytail and eyes she knew. Lips and scar. She smiled."Hi" she thanked Lena in thought watching she take the supers out of her room. Andrea stared at Reign, now in with the room empty she felt way too far. "I dreamed you flew with me" Andrea said with a humor Sam didn't know where she got."Don't you ever do that again" Sam said breaking her inercy. She got closer, holding her hand. The skin on her hand felt soft, warm and weak. Sam let her eyes on the touch."I'm not planning on being stabbed again" she mocked and Sam glanced up holding a smile. Stupid Acrata. She leaned on her for a hug. Always sassy. Andrea growled low and Sam pulled back almost immediately."I'm sorry" she said, making a gesture to touch her belly but stopped with hands in the air two centimeters away from the bandage around her abs. She didn't want to cause more damage. She let her eyes study the vision so weirdly. Andrea in Acrata’s clothes. The tech of DEO was indeed incredible, no invasive surgery but a tiny nano incision with lasers. She licked her lips, blinking."Maybe someday I will show you," she smiled. Her eyes still glued on the blue. Scared of saying she loves her. Scared for revealing herself. What if Andrea discovers she was Sam and decides to abandon her little flirty jokes with Reign? Because until she knew Andrea quite disliked Sam."Such a flirty, I see you're better huh" Sam rubbed her hand with the intelaced fingers."Well, you've got what you want, the doctor said I'll be here for a week so enjoy your vacation of me while you can." She giggled making a hurtful expression, Sam frowned concerned."This definitely wasn't what I wanted," Sam sighed. "It is going to be a long week""You're allowed to confess, missions without me are boring" Sam chuckled leaning in the bed, holding the insisting layer of water on her eyes. She squeezed her hand, feeling Andrea's eyes on her."So, this is me, are you scared?" She smiled, waving her head. How could she? She had loved that woman for a while now. Sam nodded to the sides."Never, Andrea.” The CEO smiled as her name sounded. “Scared I was to lose you" "So you like me after all?""Who's telling you lies?" She joked searching around the empty space. "You don't?" Rojas asked expectantly and Sam sighed."I love you, Andy." She said sighing, receiving an open smile. She loved Andrea. "Acrata, A, shadow, Rojas…." Andrea tilted her head to the side smiling. "Since the very beginning" Reign whispered, staring at her eyes, unsure of leaning more. Sam sighed.Andrea closed her eyes, ending the distance. A slow rub of lips before catching Reign's face with her hands. Sam sighed mid kiss. Andrea’s lips softly against hers felt like combusting in happiness, Sam pulled her lips apart one millimeter before catching them again. A hand cupping her cheek with a gentle rub made Andrea shiver, opening a smile that stopped the kiss. Arias’ smile was inevitable. Andrea was okay and she liked her back. Liked Reign back.Sam felt a layer of tear invade her eyes and glanced down. Now it's her part, she gulped unsure. She blinked glancing up, reuniting the right words to that confession, way harder than the last one. Her eyes melted every part of Sam and Arias felt the tear she was fighting win."I know that, Sam" Her lips curled up in a smile before the words reached her mind, she flinched. "What?!" her eyes were wide and she frowned. She opened her mouth watching the amusement on Andrea's face. The same amusement when she sometimes stumbled on something talking to her in her nervousness. "I see you, Sam." "You do?!" She asked in a soft voice. Still amazed, Rojas' hand before on her cheeks hesitated. She felt her mask be taken by Andrea. Blue eyes admired her face before she felt her fingers running on it. As Sam. Samantha Arias. She gasped in shock."How did…When.." she was confused. First about the brunette knowing her secret identity and second for Andrea fucking Rojas knowing it's her, looking at her and still keeping her thumb rubbing Sam's stupid face as she kept gazing astonished. Andrea hasn't slapped her or something Andrea could do?"I always knew" She said with a fun smile of who's enjoying Sam's cute confused face, the little tilt to the side with a slight open mouth in disbelief.“Better than Kara’s glasses but…”The brunette's line of thought was interrupted."All this time, you flirted with me?... with… Reign?" She said getting one plus one, the fingers on her neck was making it all hard to think. The foreigner smiled, pondering."And let me tell you it isn't that good being rejected," Arias gasped, blinking. What?"I didn't flirt with you because I was in love with you. I am in love with you!" Sam said fast in defense not noticing how she had just confessed. She was in love with Andrea. Rojas' smile for the confession was unpayable."Let's just say I'm still adapting my selfish self to the super life. I broke into the DEO in the second week"Sam bursted in a loud laugh, feeling her fingers play with her cheeks. "You're impossible, Andrea" Sam let her hand rub her face and eyes, she couldn't believe it! She cleaned the tear who had just escaped. "I am" Rojas nodded. Sam liked Andrea who was Acrata who liked Reign, who ended up liking Acrata after all, which was the woman that would never date Sam there enjoying how Sam's hand cuped her cheek and guided her to a soft kiss. Andrea pulled back watching her eyes change."I'm so glad you're alive! Don't you ever do that again!" She said, hugging her again. She pulled back enough to gaze at her hard. "Are you listening?"She lectured like she would to Acrata after some stupidness and Andrea smiled nodding. “I am,” Sam smiled, hugging the woman she loved. Sam sighed deeply, enjoying having the woman against her chest. She placed a kiss on her head and caressed her face.Now she listens.