Every time.

I promise I won't judge

"Kara...I can't" Mon-El whispers, shutting his eyes, in an attempt to contain the tears already beginning to glisten in his eyes again .

"Yes you can" I remark reassuring. As I begin to stroke the side of his face.

"Kara...I don't need you looking at me like I'm some kind of charity case" Mon-El states mumbling softly. "That's all she ever looked at me like" Mon-El adds, his voice stammering, as the worlds fall out his mouth.

"How could you possibly ever think that I'd look at you like that?" I ask not believing what I just heard.

"This is why" Mon-El states as he reaches for my wrists. "This" Mon-El affirms again his voice cracking slightly. "You're treating me like a child Kara, you're treating me like I'm broken, and...I hate it" Mon-El states, tears beginning to stream down his face, as he removes my hands from his face. Tears of my own begin to flow down my face, as the words fall out his mouth. Does he really think I'm treating him this way because of sympathy and pity?

"I'm treating you this way because I'm your girlfriend Mon-El! And that means I comfort you when you feel low, that means I'll listen to you whenever you wanna talk...that means you have to let me in" I state,  gradually moving my hands back onto the sides of his face , and this time he doesn't move them.

"I'm sorry...I shouldn't have reacted like that, I'm so sor—" Mon-El starts, but loses his words mid sentence, as more tears slide down his face.

"Shh, come here" I utter softly, before pulling him in for a hug. "You're allowed to be a mess...I promise I won't judge"

He sobbed quietly into my shoulder for minutes, his entire body shoke as he cried, the only thing for me to do was hold him as let go of the pain he struggled to release. How long has he been holding this in? Not just the news of his mother, but all of it? How has he been able to maintain such a strong demeanor for so long and not burst into pieces? Even when I broke the news to him of his planet dying during one of our first encounters, he didn't cry, he just frowned and moved on. I was an emotional wreck for months, as I was dealing with the after math of the destruction of my plant, and he—he just brushed it off like it never happened.

"Do you wanna talk?" I ask him, as his breathing settles to a steady pace.

Mon-El pulls away slowly, revealing his puffy eyes, tear stained face, and his red cheeks. "Not yet" Mon-El whispers not looking directly at me, as if he thinks I'll be upset by his answer.

"Okay, that's perfectly fine. I'll be here when you're ready" I remark, a small genuine smile spreads across my face, as I move to wipe his cheeks. He might've not made it to home base today, but he made it to first, and that's more than enough. "Now let's go get cleaned up" I remark, pulling the both of us off the couch and into the bathroom.

******

"Thank you" Mon-El whispers filling the silence in the dark lit bedroom .

"There's no need to thank me Mon-El, that was all you" I mumble softly, as I continue to run my hand threw his soft brown locks.

"But I couldn't have ever done it if it weren't for you, you encouraged me to talk about my feelings, no ones ever done that for me before, not from the past or the future, just you, so thank you" Mon-El whispers locking his eyes onto mine.

"You're welcome" I mumble, sighing contently while smiling like a doofus at the man in front of me.

"What are you smiling about?" Mon-El ask, a smile of his own gracing his lips.

"Mm, I'm just happy" I remark.

"Yeah?"

"Yeah"

"Well, I'm happy your happy" Mon-El states, his smile grow even bigger as the words come out of his mouth.

"You remembered?" I asked him although I already know the answer.

"Yeah" Mon-El answers, smiling just as wide as I am. "And I also remembered doing this" Mon-El states before moving forward and capturing his lips between mine, and fortunately for us this time there wasn't a nationwide broadcast of his mother ordering us to return him to her custody to stop us.

"Goodnight Kara" Mon-El mumbles a bit short of breath before, wrapping his arms around my middle and leaving a tender kiss on my temple.

"Goodnight Mon" I reply back, smiling contently as I drift off to sleep.