Prompt#1:Carter as an agent of the DEO. (A reference to chapter 11 of Living soul).

News had just come in. Missing,maybe dead. Not sure if he still existed. Her rolling around was almost getting to her ears. Had she made a promise she shouldn't have made?She remembered that evening of 10 years before,on the training field in the desert with her newly made wife and her newly acquired son.

Unkept. She had turned it into an Alex promise. It was pretty stupid to blame her sister,for something she herself had done. After all A had been gone for a decade by now.

"No,it can't be. No they're not gone. You're kidding me. You're lying to me. YOU'RE LYING TO ME"

The words she had screamed at Hank resounded back in her head,as loud as they had been pronounced that night. Those turning in her head on those first days where all she could do was crying herself to sleep,and trying to come up with a reason behind the greatest betrayal of her life.

That of a person who had never failed to keep her promises.

"Please tell me it's not true."

She was not that girl anymore. That girl had been buried with her sister,and adoptive mother. This girl,woman,now was shaking with the same fear of those hours in which she had been left alone again.

Kara was the one who had failed Carter. Now Cat was crying because of her. Every news was the most important. Every news could have changed their lives forever. It was useless that both Cat and implicitly Lexie had tried to make her understand it wasn't her fault. She couldn't rep the guilty senses of many years before. Kara didn't want their daughter to be involved in this. Lexie didn't even know the whole story,Lexie only knew she had gotten sick and ended up the way she was,in a wheelchair and breathing thanks to oxygen. She didn't need to know her ma had been a junkie. She didn't need that burden.

Kara watched as Cat came downstairs and looked at her. Her red eyes betrayed the brave face she was trying to put up,while the blonde's betrayed her by showing the guilt she was feeling. Truth was Cat wasn't going to try convince her anymore. Just like Kara wasn't gonna try to convince Cat of the fact that nothing was sure,while on the other side she wasn't even sure about all the lies she was telling her wife for the sake of carrying on with hope.

The stupid clock wouldn't stop ticking. Hank had called her,just a few minutes before. They were still looking. The DEO wasn't giving up on them. The DEO had never given up on it's agent. On the countrary of basically not existin to anybody but themselves and the families of the agents(or even not at times)they seemed to take it as their greatest duty to make sure all their agents could've come back. Dead or alive,their agents would've come back home. Alex had.

Now all they needed to know was if they were supposed to wait with arms wide open the return of their son,or if they were supposed to get ready for a goodbye,and maybe another descent to hell. Kara had barely survived the first time around,this time,with Cat down too,there would've been no salvation. She didn't want to think about how fast Lexie would've had to grow up,if something had seriously happened to Carter. She was 10,not even far from being the same age Kara had been when she got to earth.

And this,all this was hatefully stupid.

All the fears were looming over them like a doom covering the penthouse.

He had just bought an house all by himself. He had graduated from college. He was their pride,he couldn't leave. It had been two weeks. Hank had called again saying he had news,but what if those news were not what they wanted?

The doorbell rang at 21.00 and it made them freeze,wherever they were sitting. Whoever it was,be it Hank,Lucy or somebody else,he was about to change their lives for good or for bad. It was endless minutes in which neither of them actually tried to open up. Not even young brave Lexie.

But Cat who after all had always been the strongest of them,did dare to take a step forth. When the doorbell rang the second time around. She hadn't ever gone around anything. If she was supposed to see Carter again,she would,if not she would try to get through. Kara had always wondered how she would managed,but this probably had to do with the way she had had to deal with her family of origins,and how she had climbed the ranks of society and become one of the most iconic women of the city. And how she loved her family. Kara was proud of who she had chosen.

There was her hand on the door,Cat knew. Her hand was touching the handle and not daring to move. It was trembling,her stupid hand was trembling. Where had all her resolve and courage gone? Sooner or later she would've had to open up and face it. Cat wished she could've looked through the door,like the house in Midvale,but here it was different.

No tall,muscular frame to give away the shape of their beloved Carter.

She did dare to press the handle and move the door aside.

The figure was lonely. Tall,wearing total black,the service helmet.

For one minute Kara held the same horrible fear which had assaulted her that night,a decade ago. That sheer fear that this was it. She had failed her family again.

"But she can't be gone"

"I'm sorry Kara"

Then the figure took it's helmet off,smiling at them,and throwing an inner family joke,which was well known in between them by now.

"What,cat got your tongues?"

They were all standing(Kara sitting)besides each other but nobody spoke. Not a word could be heard into the penthouse,or a sound. It was as If somebody had tuned down the sound in a tv. That's why the slap sounded even harsher and noisey in the silence of their home.

"We thought you're dead. Nobody was telling us anything,Kara went out looking for you. Why were you away for so long,Carter?Two weeks,Carter"

"I'm sorry mom. There were some issues,we had to stay longer. We got ambushed,had some hard time,but nothing happened,we're okay"

L was the first to come out of the stupor they had all fallen in,after the slap.

"Caaart"

He opened his arms for her and scooped her up in his arms,laughing once more.

"Hey,Lexie,wow you've grown up."

"You're away for two weeks,not two years Cart"

"Well you surely are heavier"

"Caart"

"Alright,alright,little one I missed you"

Carter held her close to himself. There had been a true mess this time around. He couldn't have ever imagined not seeing her again.

He looked around and saw his mom had sunk besides ma. Carter knew those looks all too well. He had brought back some old feelings,he had hurt them even more than what anybody could've thought.

Carter let Lexie down,and she went back to her toys as if she hadn't spent the last two weeks worrying about her older brother. Blessed childhood. But his mothers were a different story.

He dared to sit to their level to look in their eyes.

"I'm so sorry,I didn't mean to hurt you. I know,what you went through,I'm sorry."

Carter leaned forward and enveloped them in the warmest and biggest hug he had ever given anybody in his whole life.

He had been a good student,with good marks,he had never given them any problem,in any stage of his life he had never disappointed them. He had never made them cry for him. That day was the first day he made them cry.

All the shots will be set in several periods of Supercat's family life,and won't be following a precise timeline,but go according to when ideas and prompts come up. Ideas and prompts are welcome =).