Chapter 1

Moira and Robert Queen's marriage had not been perfect, they had both had affairs despite how much they loved each other. Robert had a weakness for women that had caused them a lot of grief with Isabel, then Moira had an affair with Malcolm that had resulted in her being pregnant with Thea.

"Look Moira I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done that with Isabel" said Robert.

"No, you shouldn't have. Though I will admit I shouldn't have slept with Malcolm either" said Moira. They had gone out for a walk no phones were allowed on the trip Walter Steele was running Queens consolidated while they were gone.

"What the hell?" asked Robert looking up.

A bright fireball fell from the sky tearing them away from their private conversation. The ship skidded along the ground before crashing into the side of a tree bringing it to a halt.

"Am I seeing things?" He asked.

"No", whispered Moira.

It was a small white ship with a smooth frame he could see it had taken damage as there were dark scorch marks across the frame. It was a previously silver vehicle with long intricate fins in the back. It was hard to tell exactly what was left due to half of it being plunged into the ground and a continuous thick plume of smoke pouring out from the back where the engine must have been.

"If this was a few years ago I would have said it was military" Robert joked, uncomfortably.

"What do you mean?" She asked.

"I think this is alien" He confided.

Moira suddenly remembered the stories of the man flying around Metropolis in a cape. The world knew him as Superman, an alien refugee. He also was fairly attractive when she thought about- now wasn't the time, though. Moira looked at her husband again then to the wreckage.

"Well it's not and with Superman, we know aliens exist and live on Earth," said Moira as Robert walked over to the wreckage. "Is there someone in there?" She asked looking inside the cockpit.

"Yeah.. it looks like… is-is she frozen in there?" asked Robert as he started looking around the spacecraft.

"What are you doing?" Moira asked looking at her husband.

"Trying to find a way to open it," he said.

"Is that a good idea?" asked Moira, but it was too late as he pressed a button on the side and the hatch opened, a blonde girl not match older than Thea got out looking confused.

"Where am I?" She asked in English.

"You're on Earth. What's your name?" asked Moira looking at her she noticed the girl was wearing a strange white robe with an S in the chest reminding her of Superman. Was she the same species? It would seem like a logical conclusion but Krypton had exploded decades ago.

"... Kara Zor El…" said the girl, her English was mixed in with another language, maybe her native language but, Moira and Robert had never heard Kryptonian, or they were assuming she's Kryptonian mostly because of the S.

They didn't know what to do they had both just wanted a nice short holiday to sort themselves out- and they got anything but that. The girl seemed to panic slightly as she started speaking fast in the same alien language. Hey, eyes went wide, looking for any help but then glanced between the two adults and took a shallow breath.

"I'm sorry. I've never spoken this language before." Kara said she stopped for a moment to think before adding, "I'm Kara Zor El. I come from the planet Krypton and I sent away from the planet by my mother moments before the planet exploded. I was sent to Earth to watch over Kal-El my baby cousin. I've been in a state of suspended animation for I don't know how long." she said, starting to cry Moira didn't know what else to do other than hug her and comfort her.

As this was happening they heard a gust of wind blow. A crack broke through the wind as they spotted the Man of Steel himself flying in the sky, stunning the Queens. He landed on the ground and approached the wreckage. Kara looked up at him in curiosity of his very different suit. He knelt down next to her, placing his hands on the edge of the cargo hold. He nodded to Kara before speaking to her in his native tongue. They could see a change in Kara's once terrified face. She smiled at him and talked to him very quickly as she had tried with the Queens last time. Superman stood up and helped Kara out of the wreckage. He held her hand as they began to walk away from the ship.

"Superman?" asked Robert.

"Mr. Queen, Mrs. Queen, thank you but I can handle things from here," said the famous superhero, of course, he would know who they are, everyone did. The two were well-known around the country, so if Superman read the newspaper- or even a tabloid magazine- he would know who they were.

Kara glanced back up at the tall hero before asking him in Kryptonian, "Who are you?"

"I'm Kal-El." He began, kneeling back down to her level. "I'm sorry Kara but you have spent over 24 years in a stasis pod" Superman explained to his cousin.

"Now that can't be right" laughed Kara, half in English and half in Kryptonian as Superman turned to the Queens.

"Moira and Robert Queen." He began, "Thank you."

"What are you going to do with her?" asked Moira, she wasn't sure if she could stop him from taking Kara, but she would do anything to protect this young girl.

"I'm taking her to a family in Midvale. They are decent people who helped me understand my own powers once they started to develop" said Superman.

"Powers?" asked Kara looking confused.

"Yes on Earth we have some truly amazing abilities, super strength, super speed, flying, invulnerability. We can't be harmed by any Earth weapon. I think it might take a short while for you to develop yours because you're much older than I was when I arrived" said, Superman.

"What about that ship you can't just leave it for anyone to find it," Moira pointed out.

"I actually had not thought that far ahead it won't be long before the military finds it," Superman confided.

"What if we adopted her?"

"You're serious?" asked Robert.

"Deadly."

"It's rather generous of you to offer Mrs. Queen."

"Moira will do just fine." She corrected.

Superman simply nodded "I'm her cousin Kal-El," he introduced stunning the Queens.

Robert looked around suddenly paranoid. "Why can't you take her in Mr. Kal-El?"

"I can't take her in. I have people sniffing around trying to figure out who I am. They are dangerously close to doing so too. I can't have her dragged into that, it wouldn't be safe," he explained.

"Look let me adopt her. I can store the ship somewhere secure" said Moira surprising Robert. "Really you're serious about adopting her?" asked Robert.

"This is a special case, Robert. She has nowhere to go and you've heard the same rumors that I have about the Luthor's," explained Moira.

"If it's about how they capture and torture aliens, then I can tell you now, a lot of them are true. I just don't have evidence to do anything about it" said Kal-El.

"I wonder how Oliver and Thea will react," said Robert.

"So you're ok with it?" asked Moira.

"Yes though I guess we'll have to move the ship to Queens Consolidated," Robert shrugged.

"I have a friend out in Gotham City; he owns an adoption agency. I'll give him a call and get some paperwork made up" said Clark.

"I need to make a few phone calls about getting this ship out of here but I don't have a phone" said Robert as Kal El handed him a phone since they didn't bring any with them.


Hello everyone credit goes to AFY2018 whom is the beta reader for this work, reviews are welcome