So, you guys... This is it. This is the end. I struggled so much with writing this chapter, and the moment I realised it needed to be the last one was when it all came to me. It feels right to end it here, at chapter 20. I feel I've written all I can for this particular story, but I can assure you I'll continue to write Supercorp.
Most of this chapter is action-based, which I apologise for because writing action scenes has never been my forte. The end, however, is total and complete fluff and sap. Please enjoy... and please leave comments because they make me happy inside.

Tiny shards of diamond had fractured from the bullet, and Lena had needed a little bit of surgery to remove them. Eleanor was the only person allowed to do so, and the moment she removed the final shard Lena's wound healed up with a heated itching sensation.

Kara helped her to her feet and pulled her into a tight hug.

"I don't wanna hear an 'I told you not to go in there', Kara," she warned into the embrace, her hands curled up between their chests and allowing Kara to just hold her.

"They would have found another way to hurt you," Kara whispered, "Even if you hadn't gone in."

Lena nodded in agreement and pulled away from the hug to place a chaste kiss on Kara's lips. "Lillian did this, I just know it," she nodded, pulling Kara with her out of the clinic room to the waiting room and towards the doors of the hospital. "I'm gonna find her, and I'm going to put an end to this."

Kara had never heard Lena so determened, so quietly irate. "You can't go alone," she sighed as they stepped out into the night, where paparazzi had been waiting since it got out Lady Morgana had needed treatment. Lena let go of her hand when she saw them, but Kara took it back right away.

"I can't risk you getting hurt, Supergirl," she sighed, knowing there would be news cameras and boom mics and lip reading journalists watching their every move. "We don't know how much Kryptonite she has left. I'd never be able to live with myself if she used it against you – or Beanie."

The last two words were uttered with Lena barely moving her lips.

"Diamond is a lot easier to come by than Kryptonite, my Lady," Kara sighed. "If anyone would be weaker to her, it would be you. And I won't lose you. We go together, or we don't go at all."

Lena sighed in defeat and nodded, standing a little closer to Kara. "Let's get back to base, we can co-ordinate from there," she muttered, and Kara squeezed her hand before they both took off.

"Winn," Lena calls out as soon as she lands, rushing into the control room. "I need you to find my mother. We need a team to look at city-wide footage from up to fourty-eight hours ago and keep watching as time passes. I have to know where she is."

He nodded and took his seat. "I can write an algorithm to filter for her features, we'll use less manpower and more server-power that way," he told her, already tapping away on his keyboard. She squeezed his shoulder in thanks. "Where's Eliza?"

"Break room," he muttered off-handedly, focused on his three computer screens.

Lena took Kara's hand and headed off down a hallway.

As soon as they entered the room, Lena scooped Sabine up in her arms and held her close, peppering her face with kisses.

Kara squeezed Lena's arm and moved toward Eliza, looking at her sadly.

"We need you to take Sabine out of the city," she said quietly, taking one of her mother's hands in both of hers. The older woman made to protest, and Kara shook her head. "No excuses. I don't know how long you'll have to be gone for, but... Until Lillian is caught, until Cadmus is shut down... We can't risk Sabine getting hurt."

Eliza nodded sadly, and watched as Kara wrapped her arms around Lena so Sabine was sandwiched between them.

Vasquez had also been in the room, and she stepped up to Eliza's side. "I'll go with you," she offered. "Keep you two safe, just in case."

"You should stay here," Lena said. "You might be needed," but Kara shook her head again.

"I don't trust any other agent to protect them."

The pair remained cuddling their little one for what seemed like a long time – but it wasn't long enough. They didn't know if they'd return from this fight, and no amount of time would ever be enough if this was the last time they would see their daughter.

Kara was the first to pull away, sniffling a little and stifling tears. "We should assemble a team," she whispered, stroking Sabine's hair back out of her eyes and seeing that she'd fallen asleep.

Lena nodded, quite openly crying, and pressed her lips to Sabine's temple. "Mummy loves you," she mumbled, reluctantly handing the sleeping infant over to Eliza, who held her like she was the most precious thing in the world.

Eliza kissed both of their foreheads before they left the room, with utterances of 'be safe' for each.

Lena slipped her phone from her boot once they were back in the control room, and slipped off down a hallway to make her call. Kara stayed by Winn as she made hers.

"Hey, Cuz..."

Alex had already prepared two SWAT teams ready to move out at a moment's notice – and the moment was now, as Winn came rushing up to Lena. "We got a hit, Lillian just entered the CatCo building from the rear entrance."

Kara took a deep breath and squeezed Lena's hand. She turned to Alex and Maggie, who would each be leading one of the teams. "Move out." She ordered.

Before she could take off out the doors, Lena had hold of her hand and pulled her into a desperate kiss.

"I love you."

"I love you too. Let's go kick some ass."

They landed on the roof, where J'onn and Kal-El were already waiting for them.

"I scanned the building," Clark said, holding the stairwell door open for everyone. "There's still a lot of civillians inside, but every floor has at least one armed guard by each elevator and stairwell. There's no way we can quietly evacuate without causing casualties... We'll just have to be really, really careful."

Kara nodded her understanding, and Lena felt Clark's hand on her shoulder supportively.

"J'onn, can you find out where she is?" Kara asked quietly, while Lena moved quickly around the top-most floor putting guards in chokeholds to knock them out.

J'onn closed his eyes, listening throughout the building, filtering through everyone's thoughts to find the one they were looking for.

"She's in the lower basement," he muttered. "Where the mains for gas and water are."

They made their way down the building with minimal distractions – luckily, one guard was stupid enough to jump into a fight before pressing his panic button, which allowed them to remain relatively undetected.

When they got to the bowels of the building, Kal-El and J'onn remained by the doors, staying to fight anyone who would come down.

When Kara and Lena turned down the hallway that led to Lillian's hiding spot, they were met with almost twenty men. Every single one of them started firing, and both Kara and Lena flung up their capes to protect themselves from the onslaught of bullets.

"What do you say," Lena asked, hearing the slugs ricochet off of her. "Ten each?"

Supergirl shook her head, and couldn't hide her smirk. "Let's tag team it."

Lady Morgana grinned at her and drew her sword as she turned.

There was one man stood quite close, as if he'd been ready to pounce on them, and Kara curled her hand into a fist and brought it to meet his face. There was a sickening crunch, and she tossed him aside easily – where Lena batted her arm and flung him out behind the pair of them, out cold.

She spun as the next guy came at them, slashing across his bulletproof vest with the tip of her blade, just enough to sever it, and Kara landed a harsh kick in the same spot moments later, winding him. Lena slammed the pommel of her sword down on the side of his neck, knocking him to the floor.

They continued like this until only one man remained, but he was far bulkier and judging by the way Kara yanked her hand back in pain when she punched him, he'd been genetically altered.

Kara grabbed his head and yanked it downwards, kneeing him in the face at the same time as Lena delivered a kick between his legs from behind. His nose bleeding and his balls aching, he still fought back.

Utterances and disturbance on the comms distracted them both for a moment, and before she knew it Kara was on her back on the hard stone floor, the guard leaning over her and his hands clasped around her throat.

She struggled to take any air in, and although Kryptonians could last a lot longer without oxygen, the man may very well have been crushing the bones in her neck.

But Lena let out a yell, and his hands went slack. The tip of Lena's blade stopped in the valley of Kara's breasts, dripping blood from where it had been driven straight through the man's chest.

Lena pulled it out with a sickening squelch, and he toppled to the side, dead.

Kara lay there for a few moments, catching her breath and watching Lena as she wiped the sword on the dead man's leg, cleaning most of the blood from it.

Then Lena offered her her hand, and Kara kissed her when she pulled her up.

"Is it bad that I thought that was kind of hot?" the blonde whispered, and Lena laughed but nodded.

"Probably a little weird, yeah."

Lena sheathed her sword and took Kara's hand as they made their way down the hallway to the room housing the gas and water mains.

As soon as they pushed the doors open, bullets were fired, and neither were quick enough to block them.

Kara keeled over with a Kryptonite bullet to the gut, and goons dragged her off to the side.

Lena, who had taken a diamond bullet in the arm, watched as Kara was placed into silver handcuffs with a little green light on, and noted the sheen of sweat on Kara's forehead, her heavy breathing, and the delirious roll of her head as she tried to look around.

No guards came for her, though. Instead, the clicking of heels sounded, and from the back of the room Lillian stepped out of the darkness.

Lena couldn't help the scoff at how cliché that was. The metal doors closed heavily behind her, shutting them both in.

Lena took her hand slowly from her wound and held both up in surrender with a wince of pain.

Lillian was pointing a gun at her chest, and she knew they would be diamond bullets.

"Unarm yourself," the older woman ordered.

Lena swallowed and moved her hands slowly to her right hip, where she lifted her gun out and held it up. She dropped the magazine out of it and cocked it, ejecting the shell from the chamber, then dropped the empty weapon onto the ground and kicked it toward a guard.

She kept her eyes on Lillian's, able to see a struggling Kara out the corner of them.

Her hands moved next to her sword, which she undid gently and held out to her side, where another guard took hold of it.

Her hands lifted up to her face, and she tugged away the mask and tossed it aside.

Lillian wasn't surprised to see Lena under the facade of Lady Morgana.

"You disappoint me, Lena," she sighed, and the hero felt it was probably the first honest thing her adoptive mother had ever said to her.

She lowered her gun and gestured for Lena to come closer, which she did, swallowing thickly. She could see a diamond dagger tucked into Lillian's waistband, and made sure to remain just out of arm's reach.

"You were right, you know," she whispered, her ears picking up some familiar thudding. Lillian tilted her head in confusion. "Two years ago. I do need my family," she nodded, and pursed her lips. Lillian narrowed her eyes in suspicion. "It's a good job I found them."

The doors burst off their hinges. Stood on the other side was Lady Charis, flanked by Maggie and Alex, in turn flanked by Superman and Martian Manhunter.

As bullets began to fire, Lillian took the element of surprise in her favour and grabbed Lena, holding her back to her front with the diamond knife to her throat.

Charis remained still while Alex and Maggie fired into the goons repeatedly, while Clark and J'onn fought around the room to free Kara.

Once the fighting had died down, J'onn stood with Kara in his arms, and Clark had used super speed to handcuff every guard to something or other. Maggie and Alex still stood either side of Charis.

She took a step forward, a deep rage and hatred filling her eyes as she stared into Lillian's fearful ones.

"You've lost," she told her easily. "Step away from my daughter."

Lillian's mouth dropped open in shock, but she did not move.

Charis raised her sword, resting it on Lena's shoulder so the tip was mere millimeters from Lillian's neck.

"Now."

Lillian dropped the knife and pushed Lena forward.

Charis kept her there by sheer force of will alone, and Lena took the handcuffs Alex held out to her.

"Lillian Luthor," she smiled softly, coming back to her adoptive mother and standing behind her. "You are under arrest. You do not have to say anything," Kara grinned over at her, still delirious, but loving Lena's sickeningly sweet smile as she read Lillian her rights. "But anything you do say can and will be held against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney, if you cannot convince an attorney to represent your sorry ass, one will be provided for you.

"Do you understand these rights as I have read them to you?" She asked softly, her lips near Lillian's ear in mock affection.

Lillian just nodded, and Lena threw her unceremoniously in Maggie's direction. "Throw away the fucking key," she told Maggie, who grinned back at her and led Lillian out of the room with Clark by her side.

Lena moved next to Kara. J'onn held her a little tighter, and Lena kissed Kara's forehead before pushing her fingers into the wound she'd sustained and gently digging for the bullet.

She grimaced as she pulled it out and dropped it onto the floor.

J'onn nodded his thanks to her, and flew from the room to take Kara to the DEO for treatment.

Lena was left with Charis and Alex, and she turned to her mother and pulled her into a tight hug.

"I never expected you to come," she whispered, feeling Charis rub her back in the same motherly way Eliza did. "How did you even get here so quickly? I thought you couldn't fly?"

"I can't," she nodded in agreement. "But the bairn can."

Lena pulled away from her abruptly. "Sabine flew to get you?!" she yelled, and turned to Alex, who was pursing her lips.

The agent shrugged. "The moment she and Eliza left the DEO, she was up, up and away. We didn't know how to tell you... So we figured we wouldn't! But she's okay!" She hurried to correct at Lena's shocked and worried glare. "She's fine! She's home safe and sound."

Lena stared at Alex in horror, imagining her one year old daughter flying alone across the atlantic in her Frozen romper, and then flying back carrying a grown woman.

"I'm equally impressed and horrified. If she knew what it meant, I would ground her."

Dismantling Cadmus as a whole took it's sweet time, but Lena and Kara managed to get on with their lives while it happened. Jeremiah was home safe and sound, living with Eliza, who had moved to National City to be closer to the family. He still suffered with PTSD, but Alex was there every step of the way.

We rejoin our heroes three years after the battle at CatCo.

"Mia, no, don't touch that!" Kara yelled, running over to the two year old who was inspecting the oven interestedly. She scooped the blonde up, causing her to giggle excitedly and kick her legs. "You leave that turkey alone," Kara warned playfully, carrying her over to the living room.

She placed her gently on the sofa next to two other children. "Sabine, please keep an eye on your little sister," she sighed in exasperation. "And don't let Conner out of your sight."

Sabine shared a glance with her younger cousin, raising an eyebrow the same way Lena does. "Okay jeju." Once Kara had rushed off to set the table, Sabine grinned. "Wanna fly Mia round the yard?"

"Lena!" Clark shouted from upstairs. "Your daughter is being a bad influence!"

Lena just rolled her eyes. "Why don't you take the kids outside and play football with them?" she called back, balancing a ridiculous amount of plates as she made her way to the table and handed them to Kara.

Clark was down in a flash, hands on his hips and a grin on his face. "Who wants to play flying football?!" He grinned down at the young ones. Sabine and Conner clambered to their feet, and Mia toddled down from the chair and tugged at Clark's trouser leg. He scooped her up and they all headed outside.

"Normal football, please!" Eliza called from the kitchen, as Winn and James rushed outside to join them.

Alex and Maggie arrived then, letting themselves in. Alex's gaze landed straight on the open doors to the yard. "Ooh, flying football!" she grinned, and ran out to join the party.

Maggie shook her head and joined Eliza in the kitchen, picking up a pace with her like they'd done a million times before.

Lois came rushing downstairs and out into the yard, where her husband was floating a few feet of the ground with Mia in his arms.

"Clark Kent, if you drop that child on her first family thanksgiving, I will kill you!" Kara heard her yell, and grinned brightly as Lucy started to pour everyone's drinks and set them around the ridiculously large table at everyone's place settings.

"I'm so sorry we're late," Connor called as he strolled through the door with Vanessa, Charis and Jeremiah behind him.

"The flight was delayed," Jeremiah finished for him, heading into the kitchen and reaching for Eliza's glazed carrots only to have his hand slapped away.

"Where's our newest granddaughter?" Charis grinned, clapping her hands together.

Sabine ran back into the room with Mia toddling at her heels – the little blonde had really taken to Sabine, and followed her everywhere they went.

"Grandma, Grandma, Grandpa!" Sabine grinned, hugging each of their legs in turn. She then put her hand on Mia's shoulder and kissed her temple. "She's here, she's here! Isn't she pretty? She looks just like jeju!"

Lena and Kara watched the five of them with butterflies in their chests, and Kara pulled Lena into a loving kiss.

"I'm glad we agreed on adoption," Lena muttered against Kara's lips.

"I'm glad she was already called Mia," Kara sighed in response, turning to look at the little one. "After we had Sabine, and I knew I wanted another, I wanted to call her that, after Jeremiah."

They shared a few more kisses before they were interrupted by Eliza yelling, "Dinner is ready!"

They were bombarded as everyone rushed to take their seats at the enormous table, with Lois and Maggie helping Eliza bring out the dishes of food.

Everyone was seated now except Kara, who remained stood next to her chair at the head of the table. "Before we begin," she grinned, "I have something very important to do." She turned to Lena, who was sitting to the left of Kara's chair. "Lady Morgana... Lena... I love you with all of my heart. And as an alien, it's bigger than everyone else's." The table laughed. "I'm so thankful for you. Ever since we met, my life has been a happier place, and I could never ask for more than that. You've given me friendship. You've given me more family than I could ever have dreamed of having. But most importantly, I think, you've given me your heart. So," she sighed, looking at the floor. Kara dropped to one knee a little too hard – probably leaving a dent in the floor – and slipped a little box from her back pocket.

She opened it and smiled up at Lena nervously.

"Wanna get hitched?" She blurted, if only to break the tension. Everyone laughed, and she decided to go again. "I mean, uh," she grinned, seeing Lena start to nod already. "Will you be my wife?"

Lena threw herself off her chair into Kara's arms, and the whole table cheered.

Kara slipped the ring onto Lena's finger as they knelt on their dining room floor – a white gold band with a bright emerald set upon it – before returning to their seats.

Kara forced herself to tear her loving gaze from Lena to look around the table.

On Lena's other side was Mia, then Kal-El, then Kon-El, then Lois, J'onn, Lucy and James. Eliza sat at the other head of the table. Then Jeremiah; Alex; Maggie; Winn; Connor; Vanessa; Charis and Sabine.

"I'm dreading having you all here for Christmas," Kara sighed, holding her wine glass up with her other hand in Lena's. "This is complete and utter chaos..."

She shared a look with Lena, who smiled warmly at her. "But I wouldn't have it any other way. Happy Thanksgiving."