Hello my dear readers! Here is a new story I have been working on, with the help of Felicity Danvers, and she has been helpful with the editing this chapter. Please go read her stories, they are really good. So, now, onto this story!
Disclaimer: I don't own any characters used from the Flash and Supergirl.
Chapter 1: strange arrival
Joe West, an African-American detective at the Central City Police Department, had just given his eleven-year-old daughter some Joe West famous spaghetti, when Joe heard a loud bang, like a car crash, but he knew, in his cop gut that this was not an ordinary car crash. "Stay here Iris." He told his daughter, before getting up and taking his gun with him.
"What is going on?" Iris said, a little panic in her voice.
"Don't worry, I going to check it out, but stay here ok sweetheart?" Iris nodded.
"Oh my god!" Joe said once he saw the cause of the bang he had heard. "What is that?" he asked himself when he came closer to the object in front of him. Once all the dust had cleared out of the air, the detective saw clearly this object, but it wasn't just any object, it was a spaceship! A spaceship had just crashed in front of his house! "What the…?" he paused, once he saw what was in the ship: a young girl the same age as his daughter!
He took the top of the spaceship slowly and carefully, so as not to scare the little girl inside of the ship. "Don't worry, you're safe," Joe said, giving her his hand calmly and slowly so the girl could understand what he said and not be scared by his movement, but with the confusion on her face, Joe could tell she did not understand a word he just said. But, even if she could not understand him, the young girl still took Joe's hand and let him take her into his home, even if she was clearly scared.
Once they got inside, Joe felt the girl tightened her hold on his hand, but did not expect it to be so strong, she almost broke his hand. How was that possible?
"Who is this?" another girl came into the living room.
"Come here Iris, but slowly," Joe said to Iris, which the latter listened and came slowly to her dad. "This is a girl I found, she crashed here, I hope you will be kind to her, she might stay with us for a while," Joe explained to Iris, who nodded, but knew their new guest did not understand him, from the confusion still in her eyes.
The next day, Joe brought his guest to Central City's first precinct, where he worked, but did not take her to his desk, instead, they went to the forensic scientist's lab, where a dark-haired man was already working. "Danvers, could you help me with something?" Joe asked, knowing this man had a little history with weird things, almost extraterrestrial, from his old job in the government, and helping out Superman.
"What can I help you with detective West?" the man asked, looking towards the child who was holding Joe's hand.
"I found her last night, she was in a spaceship that crashed in front of my house, I know you use to work for the government and you studied that kind of stuff, so I was wondering if you could help me with her," Joe asked, no longer holding the child's hand but put it on her shoulder.
"Of course, I can help, first, what did the pod look like, it might help with knowing what she is, so we can teach her English and our world." Mr. Danvers said, a smile on his face.
"Here, it looked like this," Joe said, handing a picture he had taken from before hiding the ship in his basement.
"Well it is alien that is for sure, you brought her to the right person." Danvers said, "But I am not sure which race though, I will go check it out right now." He went to his computer and scanned the photo and began his research on the symbols from the pod. "I think it is a Kryptonian ship, so she must be from Krypton," Danvers said to Joe, who came to check on his research.
"Ok, so how does this help us, Jeremiah, how can we help her with this knowledge?" Joe asked, looking between Mr. Danvers and this young girl he had found.
"It depends, do you want to raise her yourself or do you want to give her to someone else?" Jeremiah said, looking right into Joe's eyes.
"I don't know, I want to help her, but I don't know if I can help her and raise Iris all by myself…" Joe said, wanting to help, he had wanted that since he found the poor girl in her pod.
"Well I could help you, but if you accept my help, you will have two daughters to take care of when I will be done. I know enough about Krypton to help you teach her English." Jeremiah said.
"It is a good idea, so when could you start?" Joe asked
"I could start now, I don't have anything to do since I've already finished what the Captain asked me to do," Jeremiah told Joe, who nodded and pushed the young girl in his direction, before leaving to go do his own work.
"So… where do we start…" Jeremiah asked himself, looking at the little girl in front of him. "I think we should start with this…" he said, getting up and going toward a shelf on the other side of the office, taking a pair of glasses laced with lead, he had since his encounter with Superman two decades back. "Here, take these, they will help you." He said putting the glasses on the child's face.
It has been two weeks since Joe found the blond alien girl, now he had to pick her up from her last lesson with Jeremiah. When Joe came back from a crime scene and wanted to go pick up Iris from school but first, he had to get the child he left with Jeremiah Danvers. In the past few weeks, Danvers taught the young girl how to use her powers, and the last things she learned, was how to speak properly. "Dad!" Joe heard when got in the lab, he did not have time to dodge what came at him with superspeed, almost knocking him down, a young girl who gave him a big hug.
"So, you taught her a few words, huh?" Joe asked Danvers, after ending the hug.
"In a few days of English learning, I taught her all I could, which is a lot, considering a third of it was to teach her how to use the powers she gets on this planet. I also got her name: Kara Zor-El, she is indeed from Krypton." Jeremiah said looking at Joe. "I did what I could, it is your turn to do your part, she can't control all her powers, but she can control her heat vision and freeze breath now, so you don't have to worry about burnt and broken beds. I also helped her with her strength, but the hearing is going to take a bit longer to control so it will be your job to help her." Jeremiah added before getting his coat. "Close the door behind you when you leave." Joe nodded.
"So, Kara huh, can you tell me about you?" Joe asked while he walked with Kara to leave to the precinct. She did a 'no' sign before shoving her face in his leg, Joe could feel her fear and he understood it, Kara had lost her entire world.
Joe was making dinner for him and his daughters, following Jeremiah's instructions regarding Kara's food diet, which was to eat a lot, according to Joe, he had to cook for eight, even if they were three. In the living room, he could hear Iris teaching Kara how to pronounce new words because, for Kara, a sentence was only including a pronoun, verb, and the object, but the wrong type of pronoun. A smile could be seen on Joe's face, he was happy Iris had a sister to play with and have fun.
A/N: Thanks for reading this chapter, I hope you liked it, if you did, please review, I appreciate your feedback, so don't hesitate to comment!