my youth is yours

“I hope we can be friends,” she says and Lena’s throat feels thick at the sound of it. “I care about you, you know.”



Heat spikes in the back of Lena’s eyes. “Friends,” she repeats. “Of course. Why couldn’t we be?”

 

The answer is obvious. They were never really friends, even when they technically were. Lena has zero idea how Kara plans to manage it now with all their history between them.



 A sort of retelling of S2 under the premise that Lena and Kara went to college together and dated.