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So this one is a rather long chapter….you may start to notice more difference in Kara, any ideas why she's acting so different?

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Chapter Three

Alex sighed while running a hand through her hair as she walked back out of yet another empty room.

She couldn't help but blame herself for this situation.

If she had just stayed calm and not yelled, Kara would not have taken off in such a panic.

Everything had been going relatively well up until that point.

After Maggie, Lena and Kara had filled her in on what had happened at L-Corp, Alex had gone to secure the weapon from the officer's downstairs. She had told them that this was official FBI business now, while Maggie had gone to a store nearby to find Kara some more suitable clothes, leaving her little sister in Lena's care.

After both tasks had been completed, with Kara now dressed in light blue jeans and a unicorn t-shirt, all four left L-Corp with Maggie driving them to the DEO, stopping off at McDonalds first to get Kara the food she had been promised earlier.

Once arriving at the DEO, Kara had reluctantly allowed her girlfriend to leave as she went to find Winn so the two of them could start taking a closer look at the weapon to determine its origin and how it had de-aged Kara in the first place.

Alex had held a nervous Kara's hand as they walked towards the medical bay, growing worried when Kara had asked to be carried as they past other agents of the DEO, Alex seeing a nervousness in her sister that she had not witnessed before then.

While Alex carried her sister to the medical bay Maggie had gone to find J'onn to fill him in on the situation having not been able to contact him prior.

Upon entering the medical bay Alex and Kara had been greeted by Doctor Hamilton, who Alex had already managed to inform about the situation.

They had spoken for a few minutes as Kara had calmed in Alex's arms content to sit on her sister's lap as the doctor looked her over, until it came to drawing her blood.

This resulted in a loud anguished cry from the smaller girl, which did not stop until Alex picked her up and walked her around the room in her arms, the pain from the needle having caused a fear to awaken in the childlike superhero.

After this the medical examination became more difficult, but still manageable.

Kara allowed the doctor to check her height against the wall while she held Alex's hand.

She allowed the doctor to x-ray her, as long as Alex was in her line of sight.

She followed the doctor's instructions in attempting to use her powers, while sitting on Alex's lap.

She allowed the doctor to preform an MRI scan of just her body, with Alex stood at the foot of the machine gently stroking her hair to keep her calm.

However, when it came to the doctor trying to do a CAT scan to check her brain activity all hell broke loose.

For this test to be done, Alex would not have been allowed in the area with her and she was going to have to lay still in the small machine for a period of time.

At first Kara had been calm and tried to follow the orders, but as soon as Alex left her line of sight and the table she was laying on began to move her into the machine she completely freaked out.

She had squeezed her way out of the machine and wedged herself into a corner of the room hiding against the wall, before beginning to cry loudly in fear.

Her cries only getting louder when Alex tried to pick her up to calm her.

The loud crying intensifying the headache that had been getting worse for Alex since she had gotten to the DEO, as Kara continued to cry and yelp as Alex tried to calm her.

Alex found herself slowly losing her cool until she snapped, yelling loudly at Kara while trying to drag her back towards the machine to finish the test.

That was when J'onn and Maggie showed up and walked through the door.

The timing could not have been worse.

They had walked in while Alex was still yelling at a hysterical Kara, Alex not noticing the door that was open behind her.

Kara had noticed though, and bolted at the first chance she could, somehow managing to miss the four different pairs of arms that tried to intercept her on her escape from the room.

Which is why Alex, like everyone else in the DEO building, now found herself searching the halls of the large government building looking for the superhero.

Alex's headache was only getting worse with every room that she found empty, the stress of the day so far and the situation catching up to her.

She was angry with herself and how she lost control.

She knew that she had made the situation worse by yelling and acting the way she did.

I should have seen it coming, she had at least two panic attacks that I know of last week due to that psychic playing with her head, she was already wound up of course she was going to freak out, Alex thought to herself.

She's been acting strange since we got here, I've not know her to be that nervous in years. I should have known it was getting to much for her and given her a break. We have no idea what effect this has had on her, how child like she really is right now.

God! I am a terrible sister, Alex thought beginning to feel angry with herself.

The panic Alex was feeling was slowly getting more intense with every minute and empty room that went by, it had been twenty minutes now since Kara had ran from the medical bay.

Everyone was searching for her, but so far there was no sign of her.

What if she managed to escape the building?

Anything could happen to her. Anyone could have taken her and done god knows what to her now that she seems to not have her powers.

Maggie had told her about what Morgan Edge had done, and how it had hurt her.

Maggie had barely managed to stop her hunting down Morgan Edge and beating him to a pulp for hurting little Kara.

If Alex was honest with herself the desire to do so was still strongly present.

The only thing that was stopping her from doing so was the fact they needed to figure what had happened to Kara, and right now more pressingly they needed to find out where Kara had run off to.

"Alex, I've got her. We're in the old database room on the second floor." Maggie's voice rang through Alex's ear piece.

"On my way." Alex responded with a sigh of relief.

"Is she…is she okay?" she asked worry in her voice, already making her way towards the room Maggie said they were in, which wasn't to far from where she had been.

It wasn't till they had started to look for her that Alex had time to really think about the situation.

She had been so caught up in her own thoughts and worries about what had happened to Kara that she hadn't really stopped to think about how all this must be affecting Kara.

How scared she must be.

How different everything had probably been for her being so small.

"Can you let Lena know, she's asking for her." Maggie responded after a pause, making Alex frown.

It didn't go unnoticed to her how Maggie had avoided the question, which made Alex worry more.

"I'll contact her on my way." Alex replied, speeding up as she walked down the corridor.

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Minutes later Alex walked into the old database room with Lena in tow, she had thought it would be better to bring the CEO with her in a hope to make Kara happier and make herself feel less guilty.

Lena was now wearing a white lab coat over her clothes, her hair was now up in a bun on the top of her head.

"Maggie?" Alex called, having yet to see her girlfriend or little sister in the room.

"Over here." Maggie responded from the other side of room, the sound coming from behind a large filling cabinet around a corner that jutted out into the room.

Walking around the corner, Alex could see Maggie was sitting on the floor in front of a computer desk, the chair nowhere in sight.

Kara was huddled under the desk, her knees drawn up to her chest hiding her head under her arms, she wasn't crying anymore, but the occasional hiccup and sniffle could still be heard.

Alex could hear Maggie talking quietly to her little sister, trying to coax her out from under the desk, her one hand on the small girl's leg, stroking gently trying to keep her calm.

Oh Kara, Alex thought to herself, the sight heart breaking.

"Hey." Alex said softly coming to bend down next to her girlfriend as Lena came to stand behind them, the sudden extra voice in the room causing Kara to flinch further back against the desk making Alex feel even worse than she already was.

She's scared of me, I don't think I have ever seen her scared of me like this before.

"Kara it's okay. I promise I'm not angry with you." Alex said softly, getting no response or movement from the small alien girl.

"I brought Lena with me, Maggie told me you were asking for her?" Alex tried, hoping it would entice her sister out from under the desk, as the CEO knelt behind her.

"Maybe let me talk to her for a bit." Lena said gently, her hand resting on Alex's shoulder, the sound of her voice prompting Kara to lift her head in search of her girlfriend, only to hide away again when she met Alex's gaze.

I'm a terrible sister, how could I yell at her like that when she was only crying because she was scared. Now she's probably never going to talk to me again, I wouldn't blame her if she didn't.

"Al? Come on, let's give them some time alone." Maggie murmured as she stood up, taking Alex's hand in her own and pulling her up after her, while Lena crawled forwards a little to take their place before sitting on the floor.

Alex sighed running her one hand through her hair again while Maggie pulled her away to the other end of the room by her other hand. She leaned her back against the wall and watched from afar as Lena interacted with her sister.

She watched as slowly Kara lifted her head and started to inch closer towards Lena as the CEO spoke softly to her, she watched how Kara calmed in her girlfriend's presence and found herself missing the time when she used to be the most important and calming person in Kara's life.

They hadn't been the same after what happened with Jeremiah, after Alex had effectively told Kara she wasn't really a part of the family.

She missed the times when she had the one that Kara would run to when things got to much.

She missed being the one that Kara would solely depend on.

She missed Kara.

"Hey." Maggie said, pulling her attention away from her little sister, running a hand down her arm and stepping closer towards her.

"She'll be fine, don't worry. She's just scared, its all a lot to take in right now. For everybody." She continued trying to comfort Alex, seeing how guilty the agent looked.

She is scared because of me! Because I haven't been a good sister for a while now and she still thinks that I am angry with her over everything that happened with dad.

"I scared her." Alex replied shamefully.

"The situation scared her, everything that happened with Edge scared her. Not you." Maggie replied.

"You don't know that for sure." Alex responded stubbornly, looking over the detective's shoulder to see that Lena had managed to coax her little sister out from under the desk now.

Lena was still sitting on the floor with Kara now standing in front of her.

The CEO was rubbing her one hand along the small of the girls back, her other hand resting on the blonde's cheek, thumb gently stroking the still red and angry skin while they spoke quietly to each other.

"Neither do you." Maggie said, as turned to watch the young couple too.

They could see Lena had now pulled Kara in closer to her, holding the girl in her arms.

The now childlike superhero had her head resting on her girlfriend's shoulder, her arms wrapped tightly around Lena's neck.

Lena was running one hand up and down the girls back in long strokes while her other hand was petting the girl's hair gently.

"How about we go find out? She seems a lot calmer now." Maggie suggested lightly, taking Alex's hand again before leading them back to the other side of the room where Kara and Lena were.

Alex felt her heart tug when Kara's head lifted to look at her nervously as they walked over, hating the nervousness she could see in girl's eyes.

She watched as Lena gave the girl a gentle squeeze before turning her in her arms, so she could face Alex and Maggie.

"I'm sorry Alex." Kara said softly once Alex and Maggie had reached them and taken a seat on the floor, the three adults sitting in a circle on the floor with Kara standing in the middle of them.

"No Kara, you didn't do anything wrong. I'm the one that should be sorry, and I am." Alex said, as she reached out to her little sister, relief flooding her when her sister took a step closer to her and allowed herself to be pulled into a hug.

"I'm so sorry I didn't see how scared you were in there and for yelling at you, and for making it all worse. I'm really sorry Kara." Alex said tearfully as she held her little sister tightly in her arms, resting her chin on top of the girl's head as she spoke to her.

"It's not your fault, I should have something." Kara replied looking up at her sister after they had pulled away from the hug, gently wiping away a lone tear that had fallen down Alex's cheek, the stress and worry from the situation making her emotional.

"I shouldn't have run off like that, I just got scared…It was too small…and I just panicked…I started to see things and hear things that weren't there... I couldn't tell if they were memories, or if they were all in my head... or if they were happening to me there..." She continued, tensing her shoulders as she looked down to the floor.

"Hey." Alex said softly, placing a hand under her sister's chin and lifting her head up so they could look at each other as they spoke.

"How about we make a deal? I wont yell at you again like that, but you don't run off again if things get scary either." Alex suggested with a smile, her hand leaving Kara's chin to run down her arm gently knowing how her sister likes tactile comfort.

"Yeah, no more running off, not when you really are little Danvers right now. You scared us all when we couldn't find you." Maggie added, smiling as Kara turned to look at her.

"Talk to one of us when you feel overwhelmed like that, let us help you through it." Lena finished, from behind Kara, all of them watching as she nodded in response.

"Can I take you back to the medical bay with me?" Alex asked, noticing her sister tense again at the question, backing away in to Lena with a whimper.

"I don't like it there Alex…" Kara said as Lena wrapped her arms around Kara's waist, placing a kiss to the side of the blonde's head.

"We will only go to speak with Doctor Hamilton, just to see what she has found out so far." Alex compromised, not wanting Kara to get scared again.

"No more tests?" Kara asked in a small voice, sounding unsure.

"We will have to do more tests at some point, but not today okay? We wont do anymore tests today." Alex assured her.

"Promise?" Kara replied.

"Promise. I even pinky Promise" Alex replied holding her little finger out towards Kara, smiling when Kara linked her own little finger with hers giggling, glad to have been able to reassure her little sister before she could get worked up again.

"Can't believe we are dating a pair of goofs." Maggie said to Lena, an amused look on her face causing Lena to laugh, Kara to pout and Alex to smack her on the arm making Maggie hold her hands up in a fake surrender position.

"Take's one to know one." Alex muttered afterwards with a smile as she got up from the floor, Maggie following suit shortly afterwards, Lena being unable to do so as she still had a small superhero leaning back into her chest tiredly.

Looking at her sister Alex could see the signs of tiredness, probably a result of everything that had happened catching up with her.

"Come on you." Alex murmured while bending down to scoop the small girl up into her arms, placing her little sister on her hip with an arm holding under her legs and a hand on the girls back, still being unable to believe how light and small the girl was.

As Alex walked out the room with a tired Kara attached to her hip she smiled feeling her little sister's head drop to rest softly on her shoulder as Maggie offered Lena a hand to help pull her up from the floor, the pair of them following their girlfriends out of the room.

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The ten-minute trip back down to the medical bay was all it took for Kara to fall into a light sleep in her sister's arms, feeling comfortable and safe enough to let her warn out smaller body relax.

The feel of her sister's still light but now dead weight in her arms and the small puffs of breath against her neck made Alex's heart warm.

"Hey, I think we are going to take her home soon if that's okay? I just came to let you know and see if you have found anything out from the tests yet?" Alex asked quietly upon entering the room noticing that J'onn was with Doctor Hamilton still, the two of them looking at the computer screen where the test results were.

"I know what you're going to say Sir, but I don't think its right for her to stay here. I know we don't know for sure whether or not the change has affected her psychologically but from how she's been acting so far I think it has and the DEO is no place for a five-year-old to stay." Alex continued after seeing the look J'onn had sent her, knowing that he was going to suggest keeping her at the DEO to supervise her and do more tests.

"Actually, it appears she's at least eight, from her bone structure I would reason that she is closer to age nine." Doctor Hamilton commented.

"What?" Lena exclaimed as she and Maggie entered the room.

"Wait, that can't be right?" Maggie asked just as confused.

"Both the MRI's and X-rays tell me the same thing, her bones are developed to the equivalent stage to those of an eight to nine-year-old human child." The doctor explained again.

"But she's so small." Maggie said perplexed as she looked at the youngest Danvers.

This is weird, Alex thought to herself as she looked down to the sleeping child in her arms.

Kara was small when she first got to earth but never small to the degree where she seemed under developed. Or maybe she was, and I just don't remember it. I should call mom and ask her, I should probably tell her about what has happened anyway. Oh boy, that is going to be a fun conversation.

"She's very underdeveloped for an eight-year-old, could this be why she doesn't have her powers right now?" Lena said, as she walked closer to the computers, taking a look at the test results herself, also finding it hard to believe how small the girl was for a supposed eight-year-old.

"Her bloods and DNA markers are still the same, so she should have her powers, but she appears to have a higher sun radiation signature. Higher than what we have ever been able to get the sun beds to produce. I think the device used on her may have something to do with this." J'onn said, pulling up more results for them to look at.

"Interesting." Lena commented, her scientific mind finding the results fascinating.

"It almost looks like the device supercharged her cells." She continued.

"Wait, lets slow down for a second." Maggie said, seeing that Alex was still staring at Kara as the girl started to stir in her arms, not really taking in any of the information, she herself was having trouble with following.

"Can we go back to how this tiny blondie here, is apparently eight years old right now?" She continued, the room falling silent for a few moments, all eyes falling to the child superhero.

"We won't know for sure until we get a brain scan, but I'm fairly confident with the findings so far." Doctor Hamilton confirmed once again.

"We should do the scan before you take her home, we need to know for certain how old she is" J'onn instructed, standing from his chair, the noise of the chair scuffing along the floor waking Kara fully.

"You said no more tests." Kara whined sleepily from Alex's arms, having heard the conversation as she came to.

"It's just one more set of tests, then you can go home." J'onn reasoned, as he typed on a control pad, making a machine further in the room start up.

"You promised." Kara said as she looked at Alex with wide eyes.

Alex frowned, she knew they needed to do the tests. She agreed with them, but at the same time she had made a promise to her sister.

Her sister who was starting to become tense in her arms as J'onn and the doctor began talking through which tests to do after getting Kara in the machine.

Her sister who was looking at her with scared eyes.

"Please, Alex. You promised." Kara said her lip trembling, moving to hide her face against her sister's neck.

Alex ran a hand along the girls back as Maggie came to stand by her side looking concerned.

"You'll be in there for five minutes that's all. It won't take any longer than that." Doctor Hamilton said, trying to assure the girl while coaxing her to undergo the tests at the same time.

"We promised Kara there would be no more tests today, the tests frighten her." Lena told them, trying to take some of the tension out of the room that was slowly building.

"We have all noticed that Kara is not acting her usual self, am I right? We need to confirm what age she is. We need to see how the device has changed her, see if it has changed her brain patterns like the red kryptonite did." J'onn argued, coming closer to where Alex was standing with Kara.

"Please, I don't want to. Don't make me Alex! You promised!" Kara said, beginning to cry into her sister's neck, holding onto her tightly the thought of the machine and the tests making her panic.

"Hey, hey, don't cry. It's alright. No one's going to make you do anything you don't want to, okay?" Alex assured her scared little sister while giving J'onn a look that read back off, the girls outburst worrying her as it was very un like Kara.

Currently Kara seemed very much like a child.

A child that was scared and ready to bolt.

"Alex this is exactly why we need to do those tests. Until we do so, we will have no idea how much this could have affected her psychologically." J'onn argued again, pointing at the sobbing alien.

"I know J'onn, but not like this. Not when she's this scared, I already made that mistake once. I will not force her to do something she is not comfortable with." Alex argued back as she bounced the girl up and down in her arms and rubbed her back trying to soothe her, Maggie folding her arms over her chest while staring at J'onn.

"Agent Danvers I am-" J'onn started to say, raising his voice over Kara's cries.

"-Okay this is getting us nowhere. Why don't I take Kara for a bit, so you can all, talk?" Lena suggested stepping around J'onn to be in front of Alex with her back to him.

Kara having heard twisted herself in Alex's arms reaching out for her girlfriend with tears running down her cheeks as Alex nodded, gently passing her little sister over to the CEO, who kissed the girl's cheek before settling her against her hip.

Lena then walked around Alex to put some distance between herself and J'onn as she secured the tiny superhero in her arms while Kara cuddled into her as closely and tightly as could, hiding against her girlfriend's neck just like she had done with her sister.

J'onn sighed as he watched, before stepping back accepting that no tests were going to get done right now.

He could see like everyone else in the room that Kara wasn't trying to be difficult or stubborn, she was scared. Something about the tests were making her afraid and until they figured out how to help her with that fear they were going to get nowhere.

"It's alright darling, you're okay. Shall we go see how Winn is doing in the labs, hmmm?" Lena suggested while trying to soothe Kara by talking to her softly and rubbing small circles on her back, throwing a glance over her shoulder to make sure Alex and Maggie heard her before leaving the room.

"Alex, I understand you sister is scared and you don't want to push her right now, but we need to do those tests as soon as possible. Something is not right with her, that girl we just saw was not our Supergirl." J'onn said worry evident in his voice.

AN: So...what did you guys think? Whats going on with Kara to make her so scared all the time? Why is she so small for her age? Drop me a review to let me know what you think!