It was over an hour later before Kara caught up to Maggie and Alex back at the apartment.

"There you two are," Kara said as she stepped in through the window. "I thought you were trying to ditch me. Did you track down Livewire?"

"Kara, sit down," Alex said as she paced the room.

"Kara sit down?" Kara repeated, instantly anxious. "That's your difficult news voice. You save that voice to tell me when pets die and when you're coming out. You can't come out again, and we don't have any pets, so what's going on?"

Maggie strolled into the living room with two bottles of water in hand. "See. Your stress is stressing her out, Danvers. You have stress, and she'll have super stress. Just chill."

Alex took a water bottle, eying it critically. "This isn't beer."

"Really?" Maggie looked at the bottle in her hand. "Hey, you're right. Man, we could have made a detective out of you."

Putting the water bottle down on the coffee table, Alex said, "Get me a beer. If I have to deal with this, I'm not doing it without beer."

"There is no beer," Maggie replied.

"What!?" Alex rushed into the kitchen, rummaging through the fridge. "Who's food is this? There's no leftover Chinese food and no pizza. It's all vegetables and tofu. There's no beer, just thick juice and…" Alex's voice petered off as she wandered back into the living room and sat on the couch. "I think a vegetarian bought that food. This is all just so…crazy."

"Uh…what's going on?" Kara asked.

"Are you going to tell her, or should I?" Maggie asked.

"I will, but…it's just so crazy!" Alex repeated.

"Okay, well while this is so crazy, and Alex is freaking out about the food which is weird, I'm going to go change into something that makes me look less like a superhero. Anyway, three people have been critical of my costume today. Can you believe that? One person even called it classic."

"Uh, Kara, you uh…you can't because…"

Moments later, Kara wandered back into the living room. "What happened to my room?"

Alex and Maggie exchanged an uncomfortable silence and then Alex replied, "You don't live here."

Head pushed forward, Kara waited for the punchline and then said, "Uh…yeah, I do."

"Uh, no, you don't," Maggie said, mocking Kara's inflection. "Something major happened, Little Danvers. It doesn't look like we're in Kansas anymore, Toto."

"What is that supposed to mean?" Kara looked at her sister. "Alex?"

"You remember how you went so fast and you went to that other earth with those other superheroes?"

Kara nodded.

"Well, we're not there, because you said you didn't exist there, but we're somewhere else."

"Where?" Kara asked.

"I don't know," Alex admitted taking a sip of her water and then putting it down with an unhappy face. "When Maggie and I were leaving the roof, we grabbed your bag, but I noticed it looked weird. The color and shape were wrong. I looked inside it, and your wallet was different. I thought maybe I had the wrong purse, not that anyone else was up on that roof, but I just wanted to check the driver's license to be sure. That's when it got weird." Alex paused, taking a deep breath and letting it out. "Kara, it was your picture and your first name, but your last name was Luthor."

"Shut up!" Kara said, looking around for the bag but not finding it until Maggie pointed it out. Kara dumped the bag out, pushing the unfamiliar contents around until she found the wallet within. She hurriedly opened it and stared at the license, the one with her picture, and the name Kara Luthor. Kara gasped, looking from the license, to her sister, to Maggie, back at the license, then repeating the process twice more for good measure. "No! What…? How…? I don't understand."

"We have a theory," Maggie said as Kara slid into a seat on the couch. "Superman and Lex used to be really tight back when you first came to Earth, right?"

Kara nodded.

"So we were thinking, what if on this world you were sent to live with the Luthors instead of the Danvers? You were adopted by the Luthors."

"Wait, so Lillian Luthor is my mother?" Kara gagged, walking away. "Oh, that is just…no."

"What if the Luthors aren't bad here?" Maggie suggested.

"A good Lillian Luthor?" Kara asked. "Is that even possible?"

Maggie shrugged. "Well not on my world, but we're not on my world anymore. We checked TV listings, and the Kardashians aren't a thing."

"That's the silver lining," Alex said.

"So I'm a Luthor?" Kara asked. "I'm not your sister here, Alex?"

"Maybe we don't even know each other," Alex replied grabbing the water again and drinking while not making eye contact.

While the sisters both stared into space, Maggie broke the silence and said, "Hey, don't freak out. These aren't our lives. What matters is how we get back home. Kara, you said something about Lena dispersing energy?"

Kara nodded. "There was too much power built up, and it was going to explode, so she had to disperse the energy."

"Imminent explosion, that part I remember," Maggie said. "So maybe Lena can help us with all of this. Plus she's probably as confused as we are since she's stuck in another world. Maybe we should—"

The cellphone Kara had dumped onto the couch when she emptied the contents of her doppelganger's bag started to ring.

"It's done that a few times," Alex said. "We didn't answer it."

Kara picked it up, eyes growing wide as she stared at the screen and held it out for everyone else to see. "It's Lillian Luthor. What do I do?"

"Uh, answer it I guess?" Maggie suggested.

Nervously, Kara answered the phone. "Hello?"

"Kara, where the hell are you!" Lillian snapped.

"Well, I…uh...you see…"

"Lena's in the hospital. Supergirl dropped her off there over an hour ago. The hospital's been calling your cellphone. Why aren't you there?" Lillian snapped.

"Oh…well I didn't have my cellphone. See I was on this roof and…no. My bag was on this roof and…oh, I mean…I just got my bag, and I just saw the hospital called and I was leaving now and…I'm sorry?"

Lillian sighed. "Just get over there. Lena's awake, and she's asking for you. She's scared. She took a nasty hit to the head, and she needs you. I'm on my way, but my plane won't land for nearly three hours."

"You're coming into National City?" Kara looked at her sister and Maggie mouthing, 'Lillian's coming here.'

"Of course I'm coming. My daughter's hurt. Where else would I be?" Lillian replied. "Tell her I'll be there as soon as I can be. Lex is out in Asia at a major meeting, but I know he's going to try and cancel things for tomorrow."

"Lex!?" Kara jumped to her feet. "Lex doesn't have to show up. You don't have to show up, Lillian."

"Kara, don't be ridiculous. We're family. This is what family does. Nothing is more important to us. Now go take care of Lena until we show up. Are you sure you're all right? You sound…stressed. You called me Lillian."

"I…well, Lillian's your name," Kara replied.

"I know it's my name dear, but you always call me mom."

"Mom…" Kara laughed nervously. "Of course I do because you're my mom…Mom."

"I'll be there soon," Lillian promised. "You take care of Lena until I get there. When I get there, I'll take care of your both. By sweetie."

"Bye…Mom." Kara disconnected, but she was shivering. Hearing the words 'I'll take care of you both' coming from Lillian Luthor sounded like a threat no matter how it was meant.

"You just called Lillian Luthor mom. You don't even call my mom, mom," Alex pointed out.

"I know. I want to go brush my teeth," Kara said as she walked toward the bathroom.

"You don't have a toothbrush in there!" Maggie yelled.

"Ugh! I hate this world!" Kara said, stomping back to the couch and sitting down. "So Lillian—"

"You mean Mom?" Maggie said with a smirk.

While Kara glared at Maggie, Alex reminded her girlfriend. "You know she could kill you with a flick of her finger."

"I like living dangerously," Maggie said with a smile that showed off her dimples. "After all, I date you."

Clearing her throat, Kara said, "Lillian will be in National City in about three hours, and Lex might be here tomorrow."

"Lex?" Both Alex and Maggie said at the same time.

Kara nodded. "I need to get out of this and into something less noticeable and get down to the hospital. Actually, I need to get to Lena before Lillian does. If anyone finds out we're not from this world, it could cause major issues. At least Lena can be explained away with head trauma."

"Good for us but not for Lena," Alex said as she stood up. "Give me your wallet. Maggie and I will run out and buy you something that doesn't look like it belongs in a Halloween parade."

"Why do you need my wallet?" Kara asked, but she handed it over anyway.

Alex pulled hers from her back pocket, wiggling it in the air. "Because you're the only one girly enough to carry a bag and leave it on the roof. Maggie and I brought our wallets on this little inter-dimensional trip. That means if we traded places with ourselves they did the same. We don't have credit cards that work, and I've seen the money here. It looks Canadian. It's all different colors. You're the only one with any money."

"Yeah, Miss Luthor," Maggie said with a smirk.

Alex shoved her. "Stop it. You're going to get yourself hurt. We'll be right back, Kara. Don't leave the apartment."

Kara nodded but called out before the other women left. "Hey, Alex. If you don't have a wallet or keys for this world, how did you get in here?"

"Oh, I used the keys I found in that purse, the one that belongs to other you. You had a key."

"Oh, so we must still be friends," Kara said.

"Guess so. Maybe we work together at the DEO."

Kara smiled, feeling a little better about that.

About twenty-five minutes later, Alex and Maggie had returned with three outfits for Kara. Kara thought she only needed one, but Alex said they didn't know how long they'd be here or how long it would take to locate Kara's clothes here. Plus Kara had a tendency to drop her clothes in an alley somewhere and never see them again. Alex also pointed out that since Kara was now a Luthor, she could afford a few changes of clothing.

Alex and Maggie decided to head over to the DEO and explore things there while Kara went back to the hospital. If Lena and Kara couldn't figure things out on their end, they'd need more resources. Kara had to rent a car for Maggie and Alex since they had no way of doing it for themselves. Then she took to the air and landed in an alley near the hospital making her way inside and finding Lena's room.

Kara could hear Lena talking even as she headed down the hallway. "Please, please, call Lex and convince him not to show up. By the time he finishes his meetings and flies out here, I'll be home and back at work myself. He'll have missed everything. I swear I'm fine. There's no reason for anyone to come out here. Julian, if you can convince mother just to go home, I'll give you ten million dollars. Okay, make that twenty million. Twenty million and a kidney?" Lena laughed. "Fine, but when you need a kidney, and you will because you drink like a fish, don't come crawling to me. Just because…" Lena looked up, smiling brightly as Kara stopped by the doorway. "Julian, I have to go. Kara just got here. I will. I'll let her know. I love you too. Goodbye."

Hanging up the phone, Lena smiled at Kara from where she sat up in her hospital bed. She was wearing a hospital gown and had a bandage on the right side of her forehead where she'd been bleeding so badly before. Otherwise, she looked fine, happy even. She looked relaxed in a way Kara had rarely seen her. The conversation had set Kara off though. It wasn't so much what Lena had said, though that was confusing, just that she'd been having the conversation. This wasn't anything Lena from Kara's world would say. Kara, Maggie, and Alex had one fewer ally than they thought they would.

Holding out her hand, Lena said, "Are you coming in, or do you intend to just stay in the hallway?"

"How are you feeling?" Kara asked as she walked into the room.

"Oh, I'm fine," Lena said dismissively. "I'm a Luthor. You better than anyone should know how hard-headed we all are. I was just worried about you. Supergirl dropped me off, and then the hospital couldn't find you. I was worried that… What are you wearing?"

"Uh…my clothes," Kara said looking down at her pink sweater, and pink and white checked dress underneath.

"Your clothes?" Lena shook her head. "Oh, I don't think so. You look like you got mugged by a librarian and she held you down and forcibly dressed you. Where did you go shopping, Good Will? That's a place right, a poor people place?"

"They sell used goods," Kara agreed.

Lena smiled brightly. "See, I'm up on current mainstream culture. Why are you dressed like that? Is it the reason you're so late. We're you out there…? You know."

"I know?" Kara asked, not knowing.

Lena looked around the room, leaning past Kara to check and make sure no one was listening in, and then she whispering. "Up, up, and away."

Eyebrows nearly touching her hairline, Kara stared at Lena. Lena knew. Oh, of course, Lena knew. She'd grown up with the Luthors. Lena was her sister. Kara tried to calm her heart. This wasn't Kansas, it was Oz, just like Maggie had said.

Nodding nervously, Kara said, "Really busy. Lots of emergencies. I just got back and had to uh…"

"You had to grab something to wear on your way in here?" Lena nodded. "That happens. Well, whatever you were up to it didn't make the news, and those are usually so big that they require a government cover-up. I'm sure the DEO is busy crafting their story."

Kara couldn't control her slight whimper when she heard Lena say DEO.

"Are you sure you're all right?" Lena asked.

Kara nodded. "I'm just worried about you."

Sighing, Lena rubbed at her face. "Now that you're here, I'm good. Kara, I was scared. Livewire showed up on the roof and nearly blew up the power containment unit. I was able to disperse the energy, but the next thing I remembered was waking up here alone. They told me Supergirl had brought me in, but you were nowhere to be seen. I assumed you went after Livewire. Kara, she's dangerous. She's almost killed you before. When you didn't show up again…" Hands over her face again, Lena stopped talking.

"Hey, hey." Kara sat on the bed, taking Lena's hands in hers. "Where's that hard-headed Luthor? Don't go getting soft on me now."

"You knew I was hurt. I couldn't imagine what would keep you away from me except…God, I was scared, Kara. You're my family, and I don't want to lose you. I love you."

Kara smiled, both at the sweetness and at a world where Lena had family she loved, apparently a lot of it. Whatever else was going on, she was glad she'd seen a glimpse of this world. She wanted to go back to her world, but she was glad she'd seen this one. Kara only wished that her Lena had joined them for the ride. It would have been good for the other woman to see the possibility for a loving family in her life.

Kara nodded. "I'm sorry I scared you. I'm here now. There's nothing to be scared of."

While Lena folded into her, Kara held the other woman. It felt good for them both. This had been incredibly stressful no matter whose perspective you took. Either you were lost on a new world and trying to blend and find your way home, or you woke up alone in a hospital room waiting for your family to show up. Either way, there was stress.

"Better?" Kara asked as she took Lena's upper arms in hers and smiled at the other woman.

Lena put a hand on Kara's face, gently stroking one cheek. "Since you came into my world, every aspect of my life has gotten better. I love you Kara Luthor." Then Lena leaned forward, kissing Kara on the lips.

It wasn't a little kiss either. It was a full on 'we shouldn't be doing this in a hospital room unless we're about to check something off a bucket list' kiss. Though Lena's eyes were closed, Kara's flew wide open. She was too shocked to struggle though. Then as it went from Lena kissing her to them kissing, the kiss was too nice for Kara to do anything but close her eyes and kiss Lena back. Full lips moved against full lips, and tips of tongues brushed gently along each other. Kara had pressed into Lena, pushing the other woman into the upright hospital bed, when someone else entered the room.

"Mrs. Luthor, I'd like to go over some dismissal information with you before…oh! Excuse me."

Kara and Lena both turned to see another woman. She was a brunette with her hair in a ponytail. The newcomer was wearing a blue dress and a white lab coat. She had a name tag on her left pocket, and it said 'Dr. Kenney'.

"What is it, doctor?" Lena asked.

"Oh, uh, wrong Mrs. Luthor. I need to speak with your wife," the doctor said, gesturing at Kara. "Mrs. Luthor, your wife has been insistent that she'd be checking herself out of here as soon as you showed up. Since she seems healthy and has been terrifying the nursing staff, we have no objections."

"Terrifying the nursing staff," Lena said with a head shake. "Well, that's utter nonsense. If your nursing staff is so easily terrified, they need to be better trained. Maybe I should just stay here until my mother shows up. She'll whip them into shape."

"That won't be necessary," the doctor said, then looked back at Kara. "Mrs. Luthor, if you'd be so kind as to go over this list of post head injury warning signs with me and sign off on this, we'd be happy to sign your wife out to you."

"I can sign myself out thank you," Lena said.

"I'm Lena's wife," Kara said, sounding more than a little bit stunned.

"Exactly Mrs. Luthor," the doctor said to Kara. "See, your wife understands Mrs. Luthor. Someone needs to be able to keep an eye on your well-being. Post-concussion syndrome is very real."

"I'm Lena's wife," Kara repeated.

"Mrs. Luthor?" The doctor asked, looking into Kara's eyes. "Mrs. Luthor, um, Lena Luthor, was your wife with you when you were injured?"

"No, she…" Lena paused, not able to answer that question truthfully but worried about Kara. "Kara, darling, what's wrong? Tell me what you're feeling? Should I call Alex?"

"Alex?" Kara asked as she turned back to Lena.

"Her sister's a doctor," Lena explained. "Maybe we should give her a call."

"Uh, no. No," Kara said shaking her head. "I'm just tired, uh, hungry. I'm so hungry. I haven't eaten in hours. You know how hungry I get."

"Low blood sugar?" The doctor asked.

"No, just…hungry," Kara said sounding idiotic even to herself. "Why don't you show me those post head injury things and we can get Lena, my wife Lena, who I'm married to, out of here," Kara said with nervous laughter. She really hoped things were going better for Alex and Maggie because she felt like she was deep up the stream and she was hearing banjos…banjos being played by her mother-in-law, Lillian Luthor.