Chapter 1: Kara Abandoned
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Only once before had Kara felt so alone. Only once had she felt as if there was no one she could turn to, that there was no one that would help her.
The first time she felt this way was when she had lost her world. When she had watched as the fire had engulfed everyone and everything she had ever known; still to this day, she swears she can remember the screams as her planet burned.
For years she was alone drifting through the blackness of space as the blackness slowly filled her soul. Until one day she suddenly wasn't, until Kal pulled her from the pod. At first, she had thought that everything was going to be ok, that she and Kal would be able to live as a family. And then Kal had left her with the Danvers, and she was alone once again.
It didn't last long, though, the Danvers soon made her into one of their own. They offered Kara a way beyond the darkness that had plagued her for so long. In the beginning, Alex had struggled with being a big sister as much as Kara had to simply fit in. But, before long they were quickly becoming friends and as time passed sisters.
For years Alex was her rock, she was always there for Kara through anything, and slowly but surely Kara began to build up a small but loyal circle of friends, and it was perfect.
Until Myriad.
It was after that that Kara watched those she cared about flit into and out of her life, until finally she was left with only Alex again. That was fine, it was always Kara and Alex, sisters, United against the world.
Until they weren't
And honestly it's not like Kara can blame Alex for leaving, she has spent so long living her life for Kara. And now she has a chance, a chance to have a life for herself, and Kara likes Maggie she really does. If she had to pick one person for Alex to spend the rest of her life with it would be her.
But that doesn't mean it doesn't destroy her when Alex forgets her Earth Birthday.
13 years, 13 years she has spent on this Earth, more time than she spent on Krypton. More time as a Danvers than a Zor-El. She can barely remember what her world looked like anymore; she can't remember the stories her father used to tell her, or the way her mother would sing to her at night. She can't remember their faces.
And that was fine, because she had a family, she had Alex, and Eliza and Winn And James, except she doesn't. She is alone again, those in her life abandoned her once again, and she is terrified.
She doesn't even know why she does it, she doesn't remember how she got there, but she finds herself on Lena's window and when Lena lets her into her office when she takes her into her arms as she cries maybe she doesn't feel so alone.