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Note: I have decided to put this story under Batman, and you will soon see why.

Kara's POV

When I decided to stay with the legion, I dreamed that I would be spending the rest of my life with the legion with Braniac. I imagined, foolishly, that we would be together forever. I never imagined how wrong I would be. Life really is unexpected.

After John and Ollie left, I was formally inducted into the legion of Superheroes. Afterwards we all began resetting Legion HQ. Life went on. I befriended my fellow legionnaires and they welcomed me as one of their own. I began to love my new home and my new life with braniac. He was smart, sweet, and incredibly cute. We were perfect for each other. I just knew it. We spent every minute together. He was working on the computer and I was watching, occasionally leaning my head on his shoulder and taking his hand in mine. Everything seemed to be going right for me for once. This sense of happiness lasted a couple months. Then it slowly began to unravel.

After about six months, our relationship cooled. It all began when Shrinking Violet returned from a five month absence, and in all the hustle to get the legion up and running again, I never really noticed anything wrong with her or Brainy. She seemed nice and eccentric, but also a little sad. And for some reason it bothered me so I started asking around. Garth and Imra refused to tell me anything, saying it was not their place to say. Mekt wanted to tell me, but one glare from his brother shot that source down as well. No one told me anything, so I decided to leave it buried.

But then I noticed that she would stare sadly, almost longingly at Brainy. Again, I assumed this was because just before I arrived, Braniac had gone haywire and had left the legion for a while. He had only returned two months before my arrival. I thought she was just upset about him leaving, and I also guessed that she was probably Brainiac's ex-girlfriend. I guessed this when I overheard a conversation between Mekt, Garth, and Imra.

Flashback

"Garth, are we really supposed do nothing?" Mekt demanded.

"Trust me, I want to help Shrinking Violet with whatever is wrong with her too, but…," Garth started when Imra interrupted.

"This is something she needs to get over by herself," Imra said softly.

"But she was so close to Brainiac, even if I joined the team after he left, we all could see how hard the separation was on her," Mekt retorted.

"If we interfere, then we might make matters worse for her. We need her to move on and realize that Brainy has also moved on," Imra explained as the other two reluctantly agreed.

S o I assumed that Brainy and she were exes, or something. I did not think about it until I noticed that Braniac would distance himself from me when she was around. If I was holding his hand, he would pull it out roughly at the sight of her. If we were hugging or sitting close, he would immediately pull himself away and would look almost apologetically at her. I tried to be understanding. I did. I mean, he probably did not want to hurt her since she was still obviously upset about the split. But it was putting a strain on our relationship, and I began express my irritation. Once, when she left the room and Brainy relaxed a little, I irritably joked, "looks like your ex still has a thing for you."

I meant it as a joke but suddenly he jerked and stared at me hard and looked like had not understood all that I said, "Repeat what you said, I didn't catch the first part."

I had never seen him this tense with me so I slowly repeated, "I only meant it as a joke. I just noticed that she still has feelings for, she has not gotten over your breakup."

"Kara, we were never in a relationship," Brainy answered but he looked like he was thinking about something else.

I was surprised, "Oh, I just assumed…" but I was interrupted by Brainy who seemed to be in a daze.

"So she has feelings for me," He said out loud with a sad smile, suddenly he gathered himself, "I did not know she still had that silly crush on me," he managed then quickly returned to the data.

I noticed his flustering, but he had already ending our conversation. I said nothing and returned to my work. I felt that Brainy wasn't telling me something, but it could also be that maybe he was embarrassed that a girl had a romantic obsession over him. I didn't let it bother me, I mean it was just a crush and I was the one that Brainy was dating. I should have known better.

From then on, any chance Brainiac had to spend time with Shrinking Violet; he took it. He even skipped missions with me and recommended someone like Mekt to take his place. When I questioned why he was spending so much time with her he answered that he had rekindled his friendship with her and yet that had nothing to do with why he chose those missions. He tried to give me complicated excuses, but I saw right through them. He was falling for someone else, but didn't have the nerve to tell me to my face. I was the third wheel, unaware what exactly was going on. Brainy barely saw me in a day and anytime I was near him; she happened to be there too. I began to feel angry and irritated. I kept my feelings bottled up until finally I exploded.

"I happened to be your girlfriend, not her! Stop giving me that crap about how you are needed elsewhere when I know what you're actually doing!" I yelled at him.

He looked at me coldly, "She is a good friend who is not being an immature adolescent who is envious and possessive."

"I'm immature! They why don't you go find her and leave!" I shouted fighting back tears.

He looked at me sadly then left. I fought back tears of frustration and anger. What did she have that I didn't, I was Supergirl! I wasn't proud or anything but no had made me feel so much like the third wheel before.

Suddenly the door slid open and in walked the universe's most suffocating perfect couple, Garth and Imra, better known as Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl. They just seemed to fall more in love. It was really an exaggeration at how suffocating they were; all they ever did was hold hands when in public, but it the looks of compassion and love were annoyingly obvious to everyone. And the way Garth never upset Imra, and how they were always at eachother's side; they were so perfect. I had to leave. I had to get away from there.

Suddenly, somebody grabbed my arm; it was Garth's older brother, Mekt.

"Not so fast kid; you have to hear this," Mekt said with a small smirk.

"I'm not a kid," I retorted before yanking my arm away and walking over to Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad.

Mekt crossed his arms across his chest and replied, "Face it kid, you're four years younger than me."

I being in a rotten mood, ignored him and sat down as Imra sat next to me while the two brothers stayed standing.

"Kara, you need to hear this," Imra began as Garth nodded and Mekt added a word.

"We promised we wouldn't interfere, but this has gotten out of hand. It's starting to sound like a bad vampire soap opera," Mekt replied.

I was growing angry and frustrated, "Did you spy on me?"

"Imra heard your thoughts, you were pretty hard to ignore," Garth added, "And we want to help."

"How can you help me, you two are the legion's golden couple. Your relationship was probably started with no trouble at all. And Mekt is single!" I retorted.

"Hey, I happen to be dating a very a special silver-head," he returned.

"Do you really think it was easy for us, Kara?" Imra asked suddenly.

"Well, yeah I mean you don't have crushes on a guy who can't decide what he wants," I argued.

Garth and Mekt laughed, and even Imra gave a small smile.

"Garth, she doesn't know,," Mekt asked with a grin.

"What?" I asked.

"That Cosmic Boy and I were rivals for Imra's affections," Garth explained.

I was surprised. The harsh and emotionless Coz? He was a rival in love?

"Surprised?" Mekt asked.

"And it was Imra who couldn't make up her mind," Garth finished placing a hand on Imra's, "She was torn over which one she really loved and which one of us she saw only as a brother."

"I even started dating Rokk for a while," Imra began, "But I began to realize that I didn't feel that way about him. But I couldn't break up the team over this or hurt my friend."

I asked her what she did.

"I made my decision and broke it to him; I wasn't about to waste any more time. He was hurt for a while, but he realized that Garth and I were meant to be," Imra said as she smiled up to Garth.

"Why are you telling me this?" I wondered.

"Because, Brainy is being forced to do the same thing. He does are about you, but sadly not in a romantic way anymore, Kara," she said apologetically, "But he also feels guilty for keeping you here, and his awkwardness isn't allowing him to reveal his true feelings."

I sat back to digest this all in. I felt hurt, to the say the least, and abandoned. I ventured to ask, "Did he…?"

"Cheat on you?" Garth finished, "Never, he is patiently working out a solution to this mathematical predicament. Besides Brainy isn't the type of guy to do that to a girl."

"He can't even tell Vi how he feels," Mekt added, "He is too shy and knows nothing about human relations."

"So, he is afraid of doing something wrong. And this is preventing him from taking any action," I finished for them.

"Yes," Imra affirmed.

I'll admit it, I was pretty hurt that not only was I not Braniac's first choice, he had to get rid of me to be with Shrinking Violet, but he wasn't even brave enough to admit his real feelings to me or her. I felt sympathetic to him; he didn't want to hurt either one of us. It still hurt though. Feeling Clark rubbing off on me, I knew what I had to.

"I need to go to talk to Brainy," I got up and went towards the door, "Thanks, and goodbye," I was then engulfed into a hug by the three before I left.

I said my goodbyes and then found Brainy.

"We need to talk," I said and he turned around to face me.

"Kara, I'm sorry…," he began but I put a hand to silence him.

There was a pause as he waited for me to continue. I suddenly felt unsure, I was about to throw away a happy life. But I also realized that Brainy and I were over; I could never hurt him and Shrinking Violet by keeping my hold on him.

"It's over," I started and seeing the confused look on his face, I explained, "We need to break up, this isn't working out. I like you a lot, but you don't feel the same," I finished and he looked relieved.

A part of me wished that he would be upset. A part of me hoped that all this was a misunderstanding. But I knew better, and there was no going back now.

"Thank you, I couldn't tell you because I feared hurting you," He said as he gave me a small smile.

Well, it's a good thing that this break up isn't painful, I thought sarcastically.

"There's something else, Brainy," I started, "I'm going back to my own time."

He looked shocked and even though I felt unsure as well, there was no way I could tolerate living here watching Brainy with someone else. I'm not even sure how Vi could have done it. He slowly nodded, and began to start up the time machine.

"What time do you want to return to?" He asked without looking up.

This question surprised me, "Wouldn't I go back to the time I left?"

"Well, you can, but I can also send you to another time. Of course, it would have to be after the original time you come in and …" he rambled on as I thought about this.

Returning at the exact moment I left would mean coming back immediately and having to face Clark right after my goodbye to him. He would push me till I cried about what happened. If I returned later on, people would have forgotten about me, and Clark would probably not remember that a boy was why I stayed. I know it was a long shot. But when would I return?

"If you'd like, I could send you to a time when the league was further expanded with the entrance of the Titans and the Young Justice. Younger people you can hang out with instead of the older generation. And history says your friend Barbara joined the league around this time.

Babs, she was a great friend. And having her around me all the time could definitely give me a friend I could depend on when I returned. Also, with new members, maybe I'd find a new guy. I then thought of something.

"Do you know what happens?" I asked curiously.

"Yes, I knew since a couple weeks ago that you would return," Brainy answered, "I just didn't know why you would return."

An awkward silence followed. So he knew that I would leave. This just sucked even more.

He suddenly spoke up, "And I know that your future will be a happy one, but it just wasn't meant to be with me," He finished as he completed setting up.

"I'm sending you three years after you left," Brainy told me and I prepared to leave.

I walked toward the portal then turned around and hugged Brainy, "Bye, tell Vi how you really feel, okay?"

He smiled at me and assured me, "I will. And remember to look out for that special guy."

"Maybe a hint would be nice," I hinted with a smile.

"As Mekt would say, no spoilers, Kara," Brainy responded with a smile.

"Fine, be that way," I said as I stepped into the portal and let the tears fall.

End of Chapter 1

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