A/N: Thank you for the comments. To the Guest reviewer, Cheam, Detectiveben and Anna - Thanks, things should become much clearer in this chapter.
"Max? What do you want?" Alex asked.
"We need to talk."
"Now is not a good time."
"I think it is." Max said, when Alex just glared at him he added. "There may be a slight problem with your sister."
"What do you mean problem? What have you done?" Alex asked.
"We should talk. Alone."
"This way." Alex said leading him to a briefing room, as J'onn followed.
The second the door was shut Alex asked. "What have you done?"
"Before I start, I need you to stay on that side of the room." He said pointing to the far corner. "I'm serious, I value my life. I don't talk until you have moved."
"I don't have time for games." Alex said moving to the corner.
"This isn't a game." Max said.
"What do you want?" J'onn asked.
"A couple of weeks after the most recent alien armageddon thing your sister came to me asking for help." Max started.
"Kara asked you for help?" Alex asked suspiciously.
"She did."
"There is no way Kara would ask you."
"Only she did." Max said. "She needed something only I could give her. She knew you would never allow it."
"What are you talking about?" Alex asked confused and concerned.
"She said she was in a bad place and needed to feel something real."
"What do you mean something real?" J'onn pressed.
"I don't know the details. She didn't share and I didn't care enough to ask. All I know was she was in a bad place and had a proposition to please both of us."
"What type of proposition?" Alex asked, unsure if she actually wanted to hear the answer.
"On a timescale of her choosing and with complete confidentially she would come to my labs and be locked in a special room made of an alien metal not even the Supers can break. Once in there I would expose her to very low levels of a substance that would allow her to release some of her inner turmoil, whilst I got to monitor the effects. After a few hours I would administer the antidote and she would return to her normal life."
"So what, you're her dealer?" Alex asked her voice full of distain and disbelief.
"Something like that."
"What substance?" Alex questioned. When Max didn't immediately answer she pressed. "What substance?"
"Red Kryptonite." Max confessed moments before he found himself on the floor being strangled by Alex.
"Alex that's enough." J'onn said tearing her off the billionaire. As he kept his arms in a vice like grip round Alex he asked Max.
"Why are you telling us now?"
"Kara came in last night for another round. Only when I tried to apply the antidote it failed. She's stuck in her Cat throwing state."
"You son-of-a-" Alex snarled as J'onn pulled her further away from Max.
"Where is she?" J'onn asked.
"Still at my HQ, secured in her cage." The comment causing Alex to resume her struggles against J'onn's grip before warning.
"If she is permanently damaged or if she hurts anyone I will personally kill you."
"I hate to tell you this, but it was her idea. She was already damaged." Max pointed out.
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"Kara." Alex said stepping into the room that contained Kara's cell.
"Alex. I might have known you'd show up. Always there to suck the fun out of my life."
"We need to get you to the DEO." Alex said. "The antidote doesn't work on you."
"Perhaps I don't want the antidote." Kara said prowling the room.
"Yes you do."
"There you go again telling me what I want. Well now it is time for me to tell you what I want. I want out. Out of this life and your life. No more always cheery Kara Danvers. I will reach my potential, alone. Free from a pretend family trying to hold me back."
"Our family is real." Alex said.
"Your family. Not mine. You said it yourself, I'm not really part of the family. You view my involvement as optional."
"I didn't mean that." Alex said feeling guilty.
"Of course you did. While I need Red-Kryptonite to feel alive and say what I really feel you just need your father….or whiskey You were right I am either part of the family or I'm not, and we both know I'm not. The only reason you want me around is to give you control and power. Making sure I can never reach my potential. Growing up you controlled my clothes, what powers I could use, even my friends. When I came out as Supergirl I didn't get a thank you for saving your life I got distain and resentment because you hated the fact that I was finally going to reach my potential."
"That's not true." Alex said.
"Really? Then why did you want me to not go with Kal? You practically begged me to stay. I told you what it meant to go, but I stayed, for you. Even though I knew the only reason you wanted me around was to control me. To feel important."
"No." Alex protested. "I wanted you around because you are my sister. I love you."
"Yet the second Maggie came along I was forgotten. You couldn't even be bothered to spend my birthday with me. You don't love me. You resent me. You resent not being the star. You resent the fact that I will always be better than you and you will do anything to make me feel less than I am. Be it abandoning me or killing my aunt. I think part of you is glad Mon-El is gone so that you can be one who has a good life while I suffer."
"Kara, I know you are on Red-K and I know how much you are going to regret this when you snap out of it."
"The only thing I'll regret is letting myself being controlled by you again."
"This isn't you. It is a chemical reaction. It isn't real. It's wrong." Alex said.
"That's the line you are taking? Ever since you escaped Eliza's watchful eye you've been drinking. How is this any different?"
"It's not. That's why I know you are going to regret this." Alex said.
"The only things I will regret is coming to live with you all those years ago. You shaped me into what you wanted me to be. To always put you before all else. We both know I was conditioned to make that call with the bomb. While Kal would have let the Daxamites rule the planet to save Lois I didn't even hesitate and condemning Mon-El. I bet you and J'onn are happy Mon-El is gone. Nothing to distract me anymore."
"Kara, you need to come to the DEO. We will take you in by force if we need to." Alex said.
"And there comes your control attempts again. You really can't help yourself." Kara said just before she collapsed to the ground.
"Kara!" Alex said rushing to the side of the cell noticing a dart stick out of her back.
"It's okay. We sedated her, with some of Max's synthetic green Kryptonite, that we are taking possession of." J'onn said walking over to Alex. "You weren't getting anywhere and I wanted to stop her before she said something she couldn't take back. Let's get her back to the DEO where we can treat her."
TBC...
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