Writers Note This story is based on an idea I had for Lois and Clark a few years back. I always thought it would be interesting to have Clarks cousin Kara AKA Supergirl on the show and that she and Jimmy would be an item. This story takes place a few years after the show has ended.

It's my first fanfic, so all I ask is that the reviews are kind, if you do decide to leave one.

As always I do not own any of the characters in this story. They are all property of Warner Brothers and DC Comics.

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Lost

Kara laid down the letter, tears streaming down her face. How could this have happened? How could Jimmy Olsen, a man whom she had devoted herself to for ten years just leave her? She sobbed as she sat down on their bed, wrapping her arms around her legs.

"You've got to get a-hold of yourself." Kara scolded herself. "You're Supergirl for heaven sakes."

But she couldn't console herself. The only man that could was now out of her life. The fact that rain was heavily pouring down on the window of the Olsen's home was not helping her mood. She started to float, thinking that it might help her relax. She had always been able to find comfort in her ability to fly, feeling relaxed and safe in the air.

BOOM! The thunder shook all through the dark house and she heard her daughter, Aurora, come running into her bedroom frightened by the thunder. She floated down onto the bed, taking the child into her arms and rocked her. She knew that she would have to put her heartache aside for now and comfort her frightened eight-year-old.

"Momma, where's Daddy?" Aurora asked Kara.

Kara had to fight back the tears as she continued to comfort her daughter. She had to think quickly for an answer.

"Daddy's at work, Baby." Kara hated lying to Aurora but it was necessary until she could figure out everything. "He's working late on a big story for the paper."

"I'd wish he'd come home. I'm scared." Aurora shivered in Kara's arms.

"Me too, Baby. Me too." Kara hugged Aurora to herself, as a tear silently went down her cheek.

The next morning, the sun shown through the window and awoke Kara. She silently thanked the higher powers above for it being her day off because there was no way in hell that she wanted to go to the Daily Planet today. She rose from the bed, and wrapped herself in her favorite robe, going to the kitchen to make her some coffee. She sniffled back tears, remembering that it was Jimmy who usually got up early to make the morning brew. She heard cartoons in the living room where Aurora was and decided to come into the room to join her.

As she sat on the couch coffee cup in hand, she looked at Aurora sitting pow-wow style on the floor, quietly watching Whyle E. Coyote's plans being foiled yet again by the Road-Runner. She smiled to herself, noticing how much of Jimmy Aurora had in her- same concentrated look when involved into something. She took a sip of her coffee before the doorbell interrupted the two.

Kara super-sped quickly into regular clothes before answering the door. She opened to find her cousin, Clark Kent, standing in the doorway.

"Hey Clark." Kara said as warmly as possible, trying not to let him sense that anything was the matter.

"Uncle Clark!" Aurora bounded up from the floor, as if being awakened from a trance that the TV had her under.

"Hey Kiddo." Clark grinned as she put her arms around his waist. He picked her up in his arms and hugged her. He looked back at Kara. "Hey Kara." He smiled.

"So what brings you here so early?" Kara asked. "Not that I mind, but you usually come later than ten in the morning."

Clark put Aurora down before pushing up the rim of his glasses. He was about to give her the "look". Specifically, the "I'm over-protective" look. Kara had seen it at least a hundred times, but she usually saw him give it to Lois Lane when she was doing something dangerous. Now, Kara was at the receiving end.

"Aurora, honey. Be a good girl and go into your room to play." Kara told Aurora in a motherly tone. "Uncle Clark and I have some grown up things to talk about."

Aurora nodded before bounding off to her room.

"So, how did you know?" Kara gave him an almost guilty face.

"Well, truthfully, I don't know anything yet." Clark confessed. "But I knew something was wrong as soon as I got up this morning, maybe even before then."

Kara knew their being Kryptonian was to blame. Because they were telekinetically and telepathically connected with each other, they could sense when each other was in pain.

"I'll be right back."

Kara went into the bedroom and found Jimmy's note on her nightstand, stained with tears from the night before. As she came back into the living room, she didn't look him in the eye as she handed him the letter. As he read the note, Clark's expression went from curious to angry.

"How could he have done this to you?" Clark demanded as he crushed the paper into his hand.

"Gee, I was just wondering the same thing." Kara said sarcastically.

"Sorry. I didn't mean to snap at you." Clark apologized. "But it doesn't make any sense. Jimmy and I, we talk all the time, and I believed him when he told me that he loved you. I trusted him with you, knowing he would keep you safe."

"I thought the same thing too, Clark." Kara sighed. "Unfortunately, sometimes these things happen." A tear rolled down her face, and Kara wiped it away.

Clark was deep in thought, turning the note over in his mind. He uncrumpled the note and re-read it. There had to be more to this note than what was on the surface.

DEAREST KARA, SOMETIMES THINGS JUST DO NOT WORK OUT. I AM SORRY BUT I HAVE TO GO. KNOW THAT I STILL LOVE YOU WITH EVERYTHING THAT I AM, BUT RIGHT NOW I CAN NOT BE WITH YOU. I AM SORRY THAT I COULD NOT TELL YOU IN PERSON, BUT IT WAS TOO DIFFICULT. –JAMES

"Kara, I don't think that Jimmy wrote this. At least, not voluntary." Clark suggested.

"What do you mean?" Kara hadn't really put much thought into the note, accepting it for what it was, but now that she really looked at it, she could tell a major difference in the letter that she was reading and the letters that Jimmy had written to her in previous times.

"Well, for one thing, since when does Jimmy call himself James?" Clark pointed out. "And this is almost like a business letter. It's too stiff and formal. It was like he wasn't writing to someone that he loved, but a colleague."

"It was also typed on the computer." Kara added also. "Jimmy hates writing letters on the computer. He thinks its less personal. I don't know why I didn't think of that before."

"Kara, what story was Jimmy working on?" Clark asked.

"I think he was assigned a story about Intergang. You think there could be a connection?" Kara asked.

"There could be." Clark nodded. "Kara, I think there may be more to this letter than meets the eye."

"I think its time for a little investigative reporting, Clark and Kara style." Kara smiled.

After dropping off Aurora at Martha and Jonathan Kent's house in Smallville, Kara and Clark flew back to Metropolis to meet Lois at the Planet. As they opened the doors into the newsroom, they saw Lois already hard at work. She was typing furiously on the computer and talking to one of her contacts on the phone at the same time.

"Bobby, how long have we known each other? You can tell me, really. What's the word about Intergang?" Lois paused for a second, listening to his answer. "How does a nice big steak sound?" She asked in a dry tone. She listened intently to his answer, grabbing a pen and paper. "Yes... Yes... A-huh... Thanks so much Bobby... And yes, I'll get that steak to you right away."

She hung up the phone and looked up at Clark and Kara with an almost relieved look on her face. She stood up and walked over to the coffee station to get herself a fresh cup of coffee.

"What did Bobby Big Mouth have to say?" Clark asked her.

She didn't say anything till she got the coffee fixed the way she wanted it. Kara became more nervous with each stroke of the stirrer. Did that mean that Jimmy was dead and Lois didn't know how to tell her? Did it mean that he was safe and she just wanted to add dramatic affect? She crossed her arms, and waited on an answer.

"Bobby had some interesting news." Lois finally told them after walking back with her coffee cup in hand. "He said that the word on the street is that Intergang caught the new reporter in town."

"Jimmy..." Kara said almost in a whisper.

"Did he say where they were keeping him?" Clark asked her.

"No." Lois said with a sigh. "But I can make a couple of more calls around town. Give my contacts a new chance to talk."

Kara nodded. She felt a sense of relief to know that the news wasn't bad, but now a whole new fear set in. Could they find Jimmy in time? She pushed the thought out of her head. She had to find him. She returned herself back to the conversation that Lois and Clark were having.

"So I was thinking that while I make calls around town..." Lois started.

"Kara and I can scour around Metropolis looking for him..." Clark interjected.

"Care of the 'Superperson Express'." Lois finished in a low tone.

"Do you guys ever get tired of finishing each others sentences?" Kara smiled, trying to put some much-needed humor into the situation.

Clark and Lois just said nothing. Lois went back to her desk to pick up the phone in search of information, and Clark just sighed as he said: "Come on Kara..."

.ToBeContinued.