Kara locks the door behind him and falls back heavily against it. She hasn't felt this alone in a really long time. She pulls her phone out, tempted to call her sister, but then remembers that she was going over to Maggie's tonight. Pulling her blazer around her tightly, Kara sighs and walks over towards her window. It only takes her a few minutes to zero in on the sound, but tonight not even the sound of Cat's heartbeat is comforting. Tonight that sound is like an exclamation point on Kara's loneliness. Looking up at the stars, Kara considers flying out and around the city, or maybe even further, just to clear her head. She turns away from the window, then crosses the room and plops down on her couch. How did everything get so screwed up, she wonders. And it's not just James, hanging up his camera and pulling this vigilante stunt and taking Winn with him, Supergirl had to rescue her nemesis. She might be new to the whole nemesis thing, but she's pretty sure that is not how it is supposed to work.
Standing up, Kara takes off her jacket before deciding to change out of her dress and just go to bed. She pulls on her pajamas and is about to climb into bed when she hears a knock at the door and then it opens.
"Kara?" Alex calls out.
"Hey," Kara says stepping out of her bedroom. "Alex, what are you doing here. I thought you were going home with Maggie."
"I was, but I wanted to check on you first. How are you doing with everything?" Alex asks reaching out for her hand and pulling her sister down to sit on the couch beside her.
"I don't know. I mean, Winn and James won't listen to reason and I refuse to let them put themselves in danger," Kara says angrily.
"It's not your decision Kar. If they want to put themselves in danger and be heroes, then you can't stop them, not really." Alex points out.
"Well, I don't have to work with them. And I'm not going to. It's bad enough that I have to work with Mon-El right now," Kara grumbles.
"Wait, what happened with Mon-El, I mean aside from everything that he did wrong his first time in the field," Alex asks.
"He's not doing this for the right reasons. He's got it in his head that he's in love with me, so he only wants to be a hero to protect me. He doesn't care about anyone else," Kara replies.
"Oh, that was sort of obvious. Are you just now realizing it?" Alex questions.
"No, I've been asking him and he's been denying it this whole time, but tonight he came by and told me the truth finally," she says sadly.
"Kara," Alex murmurs wrapping an arm around her sister. "Kara it's going to be okay."
"Maybe for you. You have a girlfriend," she argues softly. "Winn, James, and Mon-El, they're all the same. They look at me and they think that they want to date me and I'm not sure that they've ever really been my friends."
"You're wrong Kara. They love you and they are your friends. But they have their own stuff and you guys have just hit a bump, it happens. It doesn't mean that you aren't friends anymore, except maybe for Mon-El, I think he's just really wanted in your pants this whole time," Alex jokes.
"Is it so wrong that I want what you have with Maggie. I want someone to get me, really get me." Kara says looking away from her sister to hide her tears.
"Hey, hey, you will have that. You just haven't met the right person yet," Alex says cupping her chin and turning her face back towards her own.
"What if I already met them and I've missed out on it?" Kara asks pulling her face out of her sister's hand and blinking back the tears.
"Well, if you already met them and it didn't happen, then the timing was wrong. If it's meant to be, then you'll get another chance with them, that's how it works," Alex promises.
Waking up early the next morning, Kara reaches over and grabs her phone off the table, surprised to see that she has a missed call and a message.
Ms Grant: Call me ASAP.
Oh great, Ms Grant must have heard about Livewire and she's calling to yell at her. Kara sets the phone back on the table, she is not in the mood to handle a pissed off Cat Grant. Instead, she heads into the kitchen to make coffee, because even though caffeine doesn't affect her, the process of making coffee helps her wake up.
While she is waiting for it to brew her phone rings again. She can tell by the ringtone that it's Ms Grant calling again. Even if she no longer works for the woman, Kara knows ignoring the call will only make things worse.
"Hello," she says hesitantly answering the call.
"Kara?" Cat questions.
"Yes, Ms Grant. It's, um, it's really early what can I do for you?" Kara says as impatiently as she dares.
"James Olsen emailed his resignation last night. What the hell is happening in National City?" Cat asks abruptly.
"James resigned," Kara repeats heavily. She didn't expect him to do that.
"Yes, are you saying that you didn't know about it?" Cat asks.
"No, he didn't tell me. Um, d-did he tell you why?" Kara inquires.
"He said some nonsense about his heart not being in Journalism any more and that he wasn't the right person to run CATCO," Cat replies annoyed.
"Well at least he's finally being honest about something," Kara remarks sharply.
Cat flinches at comment.
"Kara, what is going on? You sound exhausted and you are snappish. In three years, I haven't known you to be either of those things," Cat points out.
"It's just ...Ms Grant... James and I had a serious disagreement this week, but trust me when I say that his resignation was the right thing to do. He's not thinking clearly right now and he shouldn't be running CATCO," Kara counters.
Cat can't believe what she is hearing.
"What kind of disagreement? Are you two dating again?" Cat questions.
"No, nothing like that, it wasn't a personal disagreement exactly," Kara quickly refutes, but then realizes that it kind of was personal.
"Kara, are you okay?" Cat asks and the girl is surprised at the concern in her voice.
"I'll be fine, I just woke up," Kara explains..
"I'll be back at CATCO tomorrow, to try to talk some sense into Mr Olsen. Why don't we plan on dinner at my penthouse, it sounds like we have a lot to discuss," Cat suggests.
"O-okay," Kara answers pleased to have Cat coming back to town.
Kara stops at the DEO later that day to meet Alex for lunch.
"Hey, how are you?" Alex asks when Kara approaches her in the lab.
"I'm great. So James resigned from CATCO and Ms Grant is coming back tomorrow," Kara replies brightly.
Alex stops what she's doing and considers Kara for a moment. Last night she was depressed and sullen and now she's back to her usual sunny self. She can't help but wonder if the change is due to James leaving or Cat coming back.
"Um hey about tomorrow, I know that we usually have dinner together on your earth birthday, but Maggie didn't know and well, would you mind if we celebrate on another night?" Alex asks worriedly.
Kara look stunned and now Alex regrets even asking. "Nevermind, I'll just tell her and we'll celebrate like we always do," she blurts out.
"No, Alex. No, it's fine. I actually have other plans tomorrow," Kara replies reassuring her sister and not admitting that with everything that's been going on lately, she actually forgot that her earth birthday was tomorrow.
"Are you sure?" Alex questions, because now she's really worried. Just last night, Kara was sad and lonely, and now she's seems more than fine.
"Yeah, I'm positive. Ms Grant invited me over for dinner tomorrow so that we could catch up," Kara informs her sister.
"Oh Kara, a work dinner isn't a birthday celebration. Tell her that you need to reschedule," Alex protests.
"It's not a work dinner, I don't work for her any more," Kara reminds her sister.
Cat is on her plane heading back to National City and reviewing her calendar. She's sent Ms Teschmacher several things to do and reschedule for her. It is nice to have an assistant again. But then she notices the pop up on her personal calendar. She can't think of what it could be, so she opens it and a small gasp escapes her lips. Tomorrow is Kara Danvers' birthday. Well, Kara must have forgotten this morning and she'll probably call to reschedule it, Cat thinks. Although, maybe she should get her a small gift, the girl did sound out of sorts this morning.
Across town, J'onn is hanging out in the alley behind the alien bar disguised as a homeless man when M'Gann comes out with some boxes.
"I know that you are following me, so are you just checking up on me or waiting for me to make a mistake and take me back in?" She asks a bit annoyed and worried.
The man transforms into J'onn and replies, "You said the white martians were coming. I work for the DEO, it's my job to protect against them."
"I said that they were coming, J'onn. They aren't here yet," she snaps, worried that he is putting himself in danger for her, when there really isn't anything he can do. He's no better match for them than she is.
But just then one lands in the alley and J'onn springs to action and attacks it. M'gann transforms into a green martian quickly and jumps in to help, but they're both over matched and are flung into the wall. Then all of the sudden two bright lasers hit the white martian clearly in the chest.
"Mind if I cut in," Supergirl quips as she launches her own attack on the intruder.
Back at the DEO, they are all discussing the situation with M'gann, when Supergirl looks up and notices M'gann coming down the stairs, which isn't possible since they've been talking to her for several minutes. "Guys," she says loudly moving in front of them quickly to protect them.
"J'onn, I was thinking... wait, oh my god,"M'gann exclaims realizing that that white martian is standing right beside J'onn, disguised as her.
"Wait, how are you there and here," Winn blurts out confused as Alex pulls her weapon and aims it at the M'gann standing beside her, while Agent Demos pulls his weapon out and points it at the other M'gann.
"You greens never learn," the first M'gann snarls and J'onn reacts immediately grabbing her and launching them both into the wall.
But as soon as they land, he's alone and the white martian is gone. J'onn jumps up to his feet.
"Oh my god, it could be any one of us," Winn points out.
"Lock it down, Vasquez," J'onn yells out.
"Lock down mode? J'onn that's a bit extreme isn't it?" Alex asks. Which causes everyone to turn and point their weapons at her.
"You're locking us all in here with that... thing?" Winn blurts out.
"It's the only way, we have to trap it in here with us," J'onn explains.