"Dad, can I ask you something?" 7 year old Sara Lance asked her father.
"Sure sweetheart, what is it?" Quentin asked.
"Do you have anything about my birth parents? I need to do a family tree for school and I want to include my birth parents on it." Sara asked and Quentin nearly jumped, since Sara had never asked about her birth parents and he and Dinah had done their best to squash the topic, since they didn't think Sara was ready to learn the truth about her adoption.
"No, I'm sorry sweetheart, the orphanage had no records of who your birth parents were. They said that they just found you left on their doorstep and we adopted you not long after." Quentin said, telling Sara the same story he and his wife always did when Sara asked about her adoption.
Sara nodded, though she didn't quite believe it. She'd always known there was something different about her, she'd always had incredible vision and hearing, one time she'd actually thought she was seeing through things when she had looked down at her hand and saw the bones and no matter how much she ate, she never seemed to gain any weight. And there was also the fact that her parents had always forbidden her and her older sister Laurel from going into their basement. But now Sara was sure that whatever was down there had answers about her past. Answers that she was determined to get. No matter what.
"Thanks for helping me Laurel." Sara said to her big sister later that night after their parents were asleep, since Sara had asked Laurel to help her get to the bottom of their parents were hiding in the basement.
"No problem. I've always been curious about what's in the basement, but how we going to get in? Last time I checked, Dad kept it locked at all times." Laurel said as Sara pulled out a hair clip.
"A little trick I saw on TV. hair clips make great keys." Sara said and Laurel grinned as she kept watch as Sara picked the lock to the basement door.
"And, we're in." Sara said as she opened the door and they headed downstairs.
"What exactly are you hoping to find down here?" Laurel asked as they looked around the basement, shining flashlights around.
"Answers. Mom and Dad have been hiding something from me and I know it's somehow connected to whatever it is down here they don't want us to see." Sara said as she bumped into something that was covered by a tarp.
"What is that thing?" Laurel asked as she shined her light on it.
"I don't know. Let's find out." Sara said as they pulled the tarp off to reveal some kind of greyish silver pod.
"What is this thing?" Laurel asked.
"It looks like some sort of ship." Sara said as she moved to touch the pod, since felt familiar to her, but she couldn't figure out why.
"Wait Sara, we don't know what will do?" Laurel cautioned, but Sara couldn't help it as she placed her hand on the pod and suddenly, it lit up.
"What the heck?" Laurel asked.
"What are you 2 doing down here?" Quentin demanded as he came downstairs, only to stop short when he saw that they'd found the pod.
"Dad, what is this thing?" Sara asked.
"It's complicated." Quentin said.
"There's a spaceship in our basement. What's so complicated about that. Why is there a spaceship in our basement?" Laurel asked.
"You 2 go up to the living room. I'm gonna go wake your mother and then we'll have this conversation." Quentin said and both girls nodded as they raced upstairs and Quentin then looked at the pod that had brought one of his daughters into his life.
After Dinah joined them, Quentin sat down next to Sara and decided that it was time to put all the cards on the table.
"Sara, we weren't going to tell you this until you turned 18, but since you found the ship, I guess we have to tell you now." Quentin said.
"Tell me what?" Sara asked.
"We told you we adopted you and that was the truth. What we didn't tell you were the circumstances of your adoption." Dinah said.
"What do you mean?" Sara asked.
"That ship in the basement, it's yours Sara." Quentin said.
"What?" Sara asked.
"7 years ago, I was on a routine patrol around when I heard explosion. When I arrived at the scene, it turned out that something had crashed in an alley. That something was the ship in the basement and I found something inside it. A baby. You Sara." Quentin said.
"Wait, what are you saying?" Sara asked.
"We didn't adopt you Sara. Your father found you in that pod and he knew that considering all the paranoia that's erupted in the world since Superman became active that you'd most likely be taken to some sort of lab and he couldn't let that happen to such a young and innocent child, so he brought you home and I agreed that we needed to adopt you. We then hid the pod in the basement and kept everyone else to keep anyone from finding out." Dinah said.
"I don't understand." Sara said.
"We didn't either. But you looked so helpless and even though I didn't know where you were from but I knew that I couldn't just leave you there." Quentin said.
"Wait, so I'm an alien." Sara asked and Dinah nodded.
"Wait, so I've been sharing a bathroom with an alien for 7 years?" Laurel asked.
"Laurel, I don't think that's as important as the fact that mom and dad have been lying to me about who and what I am my whole life." Sara said.
"Sara, I swear, we were going to tell you when you turned 18." Dinah said.
"Sure you were." Sara said as she ran off.