Chapter 1

Ally Danvers

I looked down at my mother's new headstone, hoping for a miracle to somehow change the horrible events of the last few days. The reassuring squeeze of my hand had me looking up at the heart broken but strong eyes of my older sister. At least I wasn't alone. She pulled a jacket over my shoulders then hugged me. In a soft voice I ask, "What's going to happen to me Alex? Where am I going to live?" her arms hug me tighter and her head leans on me, "Don't you worry about that Ally, we will sort it out". For the moment I decide to trust that she will figure it out. Together we stand both with tears leaving track marks down our faces. We will get through this.

Two weeks later…

"Ally, come on kiddo, we have to get going like 20 minutes ago!" Alex calls up the stairs. I look around at my room one last time making sure I have everything. I take a few more seconds to look around taking in my well loved dresser that was a hand me down from Alex, it was too heavy to take with us, but all the pictures and trinkets that had sat on it were packed and already loaded into the car. I'm going to live in National City with my sisters; everything will be fine…I try to convince myself.

As I trudge down the stairs I can see that Kara and Alex have already packed everything into the car. There is only my stuff so it all fits in Alex's hardly used old hatch back. Neither Kara, or Alex wanted to use mum's bigger and newer car so we were leaving it at the house. As I reach the bottom stair Kara wraps me in a hug, sensing my somber mood. I feel her gently move my hair behind my ear before stepping back. With her arm still around my shoulders she steers me towards the front door. Her face is full of reassurance as she smiles down at me. As we pull away from the house the only sounds in the car is that of the engine changing gears, not as smoothly as it used to. I'm quick to wipe a tear from my face, as my home becomes smaller and smaller out of the back window. Despite it only being around 6pm I place my soft purple pillow on the window and close my eyes wanting to escape.

Alex Danvers

"Is she asleep?' I whisper to my sister. Kara looks back and nods her head a loving smile appearing on her face. Ally seems to bring a smile to everyone's face she really is amazing. "Yeah, she's asleep, there's still tear tracks down her face though, this is so hard on her" Kara takes a deep shaky breath. "It's hard on everyone, but we will get through this Kara." I shake my head and refuse to allow myself to start crying there is too much to be done. "So when we get to your apartment, you and Ally can sleep on the bed, and I'll use the couch. Tomorrow I will have to start looking for a bigger apartment; because as much as I love Ally I think she we will need her own room." Kara just nods her head, "We also need to get Ally enrolled in school, I'll get Winn to find out which are the best schools in the area for her. She is in 5th grade isn't she?" Kara looks at me disapprovingly, "Really Alex you should know that without even having to think about. How often does Ally ring one of us to tell us about something happening at school. You need to listen more!" Rolling my eyes I look away from Kara, her alien instincts must have picked up on something though as she lightly slaps my arm "I saw that" she says with a huge smile on her face. "Hey!" I shout to which she shushes me pointing to the back seat, where Ally is still asleep. Her long brown hair has fallen across her face, but her eyes are closed, she looks peaceful as she hugs her pillow.

I turn back to Kara and continue with my list of things. "I doubt you have any healthy food in your house so maybe I can get Maggie to help us figure out some food that we can eat without getting diabetes as I don't think we can eat pizza and ice-cream every night, it's not really the best example," Kara's face falls at this information, "Maybe not every night but I'm sure pizza and ice-cream is okay once or twice a week!" I look over at Kara and laugh. "Maybe, I guess we will see how desperate we get. Though you can explain that one to Maggie, as I can pretty much hear her speech now- Alex and Kara do you realize that Ally is 10 years old and she needs to eat five fruit and three vegetables at least every day- then she will probably start on about how we need to set a good example, you know Kara I think we might need to start a junk food stash…" Kara laughs next to me "I think you might have a point there, Alex, maybe Ill just visit the fortress more regularly now, I'm sure I can store lots of ice-cream there!" Now it's my turn to pout, "Now that is cruel and unfair Kara Danvers!'

Eventually we pull up to the parking spot under Kara's apartment. Kara gently picks Ally up and carries her effortlessly up to stairs. The only movement Ally makes is to curl closer into Kara. I follow behind with as many bags as I can carry. Kara shifts Ally so she has a free arm to open the door. Kara walks over to her bed and gently places Ally down. I, as graciously as possibly drop the bags on the floor, getting a friendly glare from Kara at the bang they cause when they hit the ground. As Kara takes Ally's shoes off I put the kettle on. Despite our conversation in the car I pick up the pile of take-away menus on the fridge and ring for pizza, too exhausted to even consider anything else.

All characters apart from Ally belong to the awesome writers of Supergirl.

This is my first fanfiction!