Chapter 7: What does she know?

At this moment I couldn't do anything suspicious. She already thought I could be one of them. It would probably take less than a year until I was the last person on her suspect list, and every other name was crossed out. I was number 7.

This meant I had to learn everything about Lena's plans as fast as I could, maybe try to find out how to get my name crossed off, though it was probably too late for that. 

Dinah told me Lena was about ten minutes away. Which still gave me a little time to look further into it. Other than the list there as a lot more inside the box. Including a document with information about me. Even the article with Kara was included. There was also a picture of me and Dinah walking towards our car and information about where we could've driven towards. There was a map circling all security camera's our car had passed, and Lena had gotten access to. Luckily she didn't really get far with that, and I could send Dinah a picture to make sure she could wipe the other camera's before Lena manipulated whoever they belonged to. I also found some documents about a location in the forest a few miles outside the city. I took a picture and sent it to Dinah. 

I was curious about the things Lena knew about me though, since I forgot a lot due to everything that happened to me at project CADMUS. There wasn't much more than a postcard in my handwriting, an old picture, information about my old apartment, and a little notebook with all information she had on me. 

Suddenly I felt a memory coming up, short and suddenly. Like they always did.

I snapped out of it as I heard loud yelling into my earpiece: "Come on y/n,  get out of there! Back to your desk. Lena's only about a minute away!"

"Why did you only tell me right now!"

"I don't know how, but I lost connection with you for a little while. Hide the earpiece in your bag and shut it off. They probably caught my signal!"

I carefully put every single thing back the way I found it and ran back to my drawing desk. I quickly put my lunch on the table and spread some of the sketches i prepared on the table. Right on time, because only seconds later Lena entered the room.

"Hey y/n! Sorry again!"

"Hello miss. Luthor, no problem!"

Suddenly something fell onto my desk, which startled me.

"Relax, y/n" Lena giggled. " I just brought you some freshly baked chocolate chip cookies." 

"Oh, haha the sound just scared the sh... eh scared me. But thank you, you didn't have to do that." I answered, nearly swearing in front of my boss. I wasn't really used to this whole formal situation. That's what happens when you've only ever worked for yourself or with your friends.

"I'm sorry y/n, I won't scare theout of you anymore." She chuckled. " Try one. Those cookies are amazing." Apparantly swearing was ok...

Should I trust the food? If I didn't eat at least one Lena would find it suspicious. Maybe the cookies contained a chemical that could trigger one of my attacks. Hmm how could I play this safe...

"Oh, do you want one too Lena?" I asked, it wouldn't hurt to let her try one first. 

"Yes of course!" Lena smiled as she grabbed one of them enthousiastically....She ate it so it must've been pretty safe, so I took one too. She studied me while I did.

"Oh and btw, Camila asked me if you wanted to pass by her desk before going home. She wanted to ask you something." Lena said while taking another cookie out of the bag. "Btw, I'm sorry, but I loooove chocolate-chip cookies, so I'll probably eat most of them."

"It's ok Lena, you bought it so you can have as many as you want. And I'll remember to pass by Camila's desk." I smiled.

"Ok I'll send her the message..." Suddenly Lena went silent. I didn't leave anything open did I? I felt her lean over me. Oh shit.. oh holy fucking shit some shit's about to go d... "Wow y/n that's a really nice drawing. That's something I'd love to put on my wall." Lena said.

I was surprised to hear that because it was the most gay ass drawing ever. It was a promotional image I made for last years National city pride, which I must've brought with me by accident. If Lena likes it that she's gay too right. Yessssss... eh I mean. Eh whatever. I was a bit embarrassed though.

"Oh you like this one? I mean ... I didn't mean to bring it here with me, I made this one last year for pride."

"Yeah right." Lena grinned. "you wanted to know if the rumours were true didn't you?"

"w..what rumours?" 

"That I'm a lesbian of course, it's been all over the media recently."

"Oh eh, well no offence but I already assumed you were"

"No offence taken. It's true." She laughed. "Besides I assumed you were too" Lena added with a wink.

I felt myself blushing so I quickly shifted the conversation to work.

"So eh, let's talk about the project maybe? So you wanted a series of artwork for the company?"

"Well, the artwork will be for my private collection. The other projects are for the company, but I'd like you to start with my private project. We need to finish construction work first before you can start on the ones for Luthercorp."

"Oh yeah of course. Do you have any ideas in mind already? A theme or something more specific?" I asked.

"Yeah, I've got a theme that I'd like to incorporate in each drawing for the project."

"Oh and what exactly is it?" I asked.

"Something like hybrid humans. You know? A bit like werewolves. But please don't make it into twilight stuff" She said with a geeky look on her face. The same look I have when rambling about Harry Potter. " I like the idea of creating some type of mythical person. I am a fan of mythology and the idea of unrealistic things becoming realistic. I don't really know if that makes sense."

"So do you have any type of medium in mind? I can make pieces with photography and photoshop, paintings, digital art. I must say I prefer traditional art styles, since they're my strong point."

"I mean it could be anything really, but I want to let you have some freedom on this. I really like dark imagery too. Something like the art installation you made last year. The one with the 'cold' theme. "

"Oh ok I get it, sounds cool. I'm down for that. I'll make some mood-boards and prepare a few sketches for next time!"

"Ok thats great! Would you be able to provide me with some sketches tomorrow afternoon?" She asked.

"Sure I can do that! So do you want me to work on them here?"

"Well... there are some meetings today that I forgot about so after I've explained a bit more about Luthercorp, I'll let you leave early. That's ok right?  I still expect you here tomorrow morning though."

After about an hour of Lena excitedly dragging me through all the corridors of the building, and explaining what every department did we ended up at her office again.

"See you tomorrow y/n? Don't forget Camila! She's probably waiting for you already, she's off early today."

"Yeah sure!" I answered. "Thanks, I'll make sure I've got some sketches ready by tomorrow!"

Miss. Luthor helped me collect everything and guided me outside.

"See you soon y/n. I'm looking forward to seeing your ideas!"Lena said. "Oh wait... don't forget your cookies! Bye!"

Maybe she didn't want me in there because she was up to something. It wouldn't surprise me at all. That secret location of hers was definitely something we (the black rose) had to look into. The day after tomorrow was my day off. Then we could always go and check it out.

...

 As I walked out of the lift I saw an object coming towards me. It was way too fast to dodge. In only a matter of seconds it collided with my body and I fell onto the ground, slamming onto the hard tiles.

"Oh my god! I'm sorry y/n. I only wanted to koala-hug you! I swear! Please forgive me!" I heard the girl on top of me say. You didn't even need to recognize the voice to know who it was... Camila.

"Eh no problem Camz, but can you please get off me?" I groaned.

"Camz?" She said. " You gave me a nickname!!!" Camila  exclaimed excitedly as she pulled me up from the ground. I nearly fell again cause she decided she still wanted to koala hug me. Not that she was heavy, but she surprised me plus I had my bag on me. 

...

Y/n was gone, so I could finally call Kara. She would take care of the last things I had asked her.

"Did you get the drugs and supplies?" I asked as she picked up her phone.

-"Yeah, it wasn't easy to get. There was security everywhere" Kara said.

"So what did you do? They didn't recognise you right?"

-"I knocked them out. I didn't wear the supergirl suit, don't worry. They didn't even see me approach them."

"Well that's one way to deal with it... and did the technicians install everything?" 

-"There is still a lot of work to do. If we find out who the Cadmus girl is, we will need a little bit more time before we transport her there. Which isn't really that bad. We don't know for sure if it's..."

"I know it's her Kara, I just feel it! There's this thing about her... It all ads up Kara. Another strange thing happened. Right when I left her alone, security picked up on a signal from outside, communicating with someone inside the building. When looking at my drawer I noticed it wasn't closed correctly as I came back. She must've been searching trough it. Good thing she doesn't have the key to the boxes." 

"It is suspicious, yes, but we have to be sure Lena. We can't make a mistake in this, we need to be one step ahead."

"But I see it. I it."

-"It's been  a few years, you can never be too sure Lena. Besides... your mom erased most of the memories you had of her. You barely know what she looks like. What will you do if it isn't her? You're getting your hopes up Lena, we're so close. Just be patient"

"It must be her Kara! Y/n is number 7."