Chapter 1

It had been a week since Rebecca's murder, Robert was sitting with Malcolm a few hours after the funeral which Moira had organized for Malcolm. Tommy had been on sleeping pills since the tragedy and was staying with the Queens until further notice.

"I'm going out of town for a while, Robert," said Malcolm.

"How long?"

"More than a year at this point. I don't think it's a good idea to take Tommy with me, it would affect his school stuff too much," said Malcolm.

"I can take him in, for the time being, Malcolm, just sort yourself out," Robert comforted him.

He had not expected Malcolm to take off like this but he also did not expect Rebecca to get killed. The police had no leads and it seemed like a week later everyone had just given up, that it except for Malcolm.

XXX

It had been two years since Rebecca's death; in that time Tommy had stayed at the Queen's mansion after his father's disappearance. No one- not even Robert- knew where he had gone. When Malcolm had finally returned to Starling City, Tommy got to go back home.

Kara noticed how much this complicated situation had affected not only her parents but Oliver. The two boys were very close and after the reappearance of Malcolm and subsequent rehousing of Tommy, Kara noticed how Oliver himself began to change. He became suspicious and shifty whenever either of the Merlins came to their home.

While their parents were getting ready to travel, leaving their kids to their own devices, Oliver stole a few drinks from his father's liquor cabinet and escaped to the roof to be away from everyone else- except Kara, apparently. She climbed out of her window and flew to join him to discuss the Merlins.

"What's going on, Ollie?" Kara asked.

"Nothing… Tommy just told me something that's really bothering me."

"What'd he say?"

"Well," He began as he debated telling her, "Tommy said that his father seemed colder, err distant than he was before they left."

"Really, how?"

"More distant from everyone, I mean he did love Rebecca, I guess I just didn't realize how much life she gave him," said Oliver as he took a swig from the bottle of whiskey.

"So what are you going to do about it?" asked Kara.

"I was thinking of having a party."

"Really?" she sighed, giving him a look of exasperation.

"Come on Kara, everyone else is gone, and what the hell are we gonna do for, like, three days?" said Oliver. "How am I the only one who's thought about this? I mean, come on, we're gonna be the only ones here. And I know what you're gonna say, "What if Walter checks in?"

Kara rolled her eyes and shrugged, "He's too busy running Queens whenever Robert isn't around, so he'll only check in maybe once."

"Exactly," said Oliver smirking.

"Okay, fine." She nodded.

"Yes, Miss Princess joins the dark side!" He proclaimed.

"Pfft, I can be bad when I wanna be," said Kara chuckling, grabbing his bottle and drinking from it.

"Does this even do anything for you?"

"Ehh, it's more about the taste."

"Hmm," Oliver nodded as got the bottle back, "So, what are you doing with Alex?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, I know you've been spending a lot of time together, and she admitted that the two of you slept together Sunday night."

"Wait, she told you that?"

"Well, yeah, we have Spanish 3 together. So… did anything-"

"No, I didn't have sex with her," Kara shot back.

"Alex said that, too." He answered in defence.

"Look, I'll admit that I enjoy spending time with her, I even enjoy sleeping with her," said Kara, adding emphasis on the word "Sleeping".

"But?"

"But, I just, I don't really know what to do," said Kara.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, Ray asked me out."

"Palmer?"

"Yeah."

"Here we go, I love drama," Oliver smiled rubbing his hands together, "So, on one hand, you have a budding romance with Alex, who knows, like, everything about you, but on the other hand, you have a rich boy who's just pining after you. You know, on the positive side you'll get approval from Mum and Dad if you date him."

"Please don't use the word budding romance. But, anyway, I think I'm just gonna turn him down," said Kara.

"So… does that make you, like, gay- err- bisexual, then?" he asked.

"Why do you humans always feel the need to label, literally everything?" asked Kara, confused again.

Kara had gotten more and more used to how things had worked on Earth since arriving, but there were still concepts and topics that confused her. For example, everyone's obsession with sexuality and who everyone was with. There was constant pressure from her peers to start dating someone- even though there wasn't really someone she was interested in.

Oliver shrugged "Okay, Miss Princess, what would have happened if you didn't come to Earth?" he asked.

"Would you please stop calling me that."

"Of course, M'lady," he said, smirking at his own teasing once more.

"I probably would have been married off to some other house to settle a dispute between families."

"So, you would have been married to some guy you didn't know?"

"Or girl. Do keep in mind the way we reproduced wasn't natural anymore, not like you guys. After thousands of years of genetic engineering, it was just unnecessary to repopulate like that."

"Yeah, but wouldn't you need… like.. a sperm and an egg or something like that?" he awkwardly asked.

"We only needed DNA, it didn't matter whose it was, just as long as it was viable enough for the machines to merge," she explained.

"Hey what are you two doing up there!?" Robert shouted from the driveway.

"Sorry, Dad!" Oliver called down

"Yeah, we were just talking. Hang on," said Kara, stopping her brother as he stood up. She lifted Oliver up and walked off the edge of the roof, floating down until her feet merely hovered two inches off the low cut lawn.

"It seems the two of you found my whiskey," Robert huffed, taking back the bottle, "I want both of you back after school every night for the rest of the week- no excuses- and you're not allowed out," he reprimanded them.

"But Dad, that whiskey was really good," Oliver charmingly told him.

"I'm sorry, I was afraid you weren't drunk enough," Robert lightly mocked them, "This was good whiskey."

"Oliver might be drunk but I, myself, cannot," Kara shrugged.

Robert just looked at her, "Nice try, I know Kryptonians can get drunk; Kal's mentioned it before."

Kara only nodded "He can, because he was born naturally; I wasn't. Like I told Oliver, I'm a product of genetic engineering, so my body doesn't process the alcohol it just breaks it down," she explained.

"That's not fair," complained Oliver, earning a nod from his father.

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It was over a week once their punishment was finally lifted; and, the moment their parents went out of town for a business trip, Kara and Oliver took advantage of their newfound independence. Unlike the time during their penalty, Walter no longer had to keep a watchful eye on them as he spent most of his time at Queens Consolidated, leaving the maids to do his job.

This, of course, was a bad idea because the moment they got the call from Walter about his "Trust that they wouldn't do anything stupid", Oliver began to call his friends while Kara organized the drinks and food for their party that Saturday night. As they waited for the last of their maids and servants to leave, Kara reveled in the beautiful night; the stars sparkled in the dark blue sky, not a wisp of clouds to cover the full moon. She found herself outside for most of the duration of the party, just glancing at the stupid, funny, and entertaining hijinks her peers were getting into.

"So, your parents just let you guys have a party?" asked Laurel, standing beside the pool,

"Of course!" said Oliver, pushing her in and jumping in after.

"By that, he means no and it was his idea," said Kara told her once they surfaced.

"You're just as guilty as he is," laughed Sara, standing between her and Alex.

Alex looked between the two families, watching as Oliver and Laurel swam and splashed each other. She had to admit that she was feeling a bit left out, but after meeting Kara, she had managed to make friends with both the Lance sisters and Tommy; although, she was closer to Kara than the others. Alex noticed that Kara didn't have as much trouble when she first came to their school- maybe because she was Kara Queen to the public or- maybe she just had a natural gift for making friends; Alex was just slightly jealous of this, though.

Once Laurel and Oliver pushed their way out of the pool, she and Sara just looked at one another, nodding, and rushed him. Oliver flipped his hair back from in front of his eyes just long enough to see the Lance sisters reach out to his soaked shirt and jeans and pull him into the pool once again. Alex glanced at Kara for a moment before walking closer to her. She tucked her short red hair behind her ear.

"Kara can I ask you about something?" asked Alex over the music and laughing.

"Yeah, sure," said Kara as she picked up her beer.

"Don't take this the wrong way," She nervously began, "but are you interested in dating women?"

"Possibly," Kara shrugged, keeping a keen eye on her, "Why, were you going to ask me out?"

"Maybe," Alex nodded.

"So, what are you gonna do about it?"

"I'm… I'm not really sure?"

"That's okay, Alex, we don't have to… like, give in to peer pressure."

"Mhmm," Alex agreed.

"So, you're gay?"

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure," Alex nodded, "I had this friend Vicky back in Midvale… we had something going on between us, but I was scared and never told her. After I moved here, I realized... I'm gay. What, uh, what about you?"

"Bi, I'm pretty sure," Kara chuckled, "I can't choose," She joked.

It was true, Kara couldn't choose, but she also didn't want- nor needed- to. She had experience with a few guys including someone from an alien bar she had heard of. While she was still too young to go in, unless it was Teen Tuesday, Kara still found a way to get a hold of their liquor. It was the only alcohol that got her drunk. This included the drink in her hand as she talked with Alex. Already, Kara was feeling the effects of the drink on her. The night became fuzzier and fuzzier meaning that her wild side began to come out.

After Alex left, Kara found a boy, Hal Jordan. She spent the entire night with him, including the fun she must've had in her room. He was passed out on top of the covers with only his left sock on. His clothes were strewn across her room while hers were bunched up at the foot of the bed. From what she remembered, Hal was a good shag, but not what Kara really wanted. She just got out, getting into her pajamas and walked through the messy house. Oliver was nowhere to be found, so he must have wandered to his room.

"Your parents are going to be pissed," Alex told Kara from the unlocked entrance.

"Welcome back."

"I knew you'd need help cleaning."

"Thanks, but I'm sure it'll be cleaned up before anything happens you might as well go back home, I'll see you tomorrow," Kara said.

"You sure?"

"Yes," Kara nodded, picking up a trash can. "Alex, if I tell you a secret, will you keep it to yourself?" She asked, not knowing why she was going to tell her this; maybe because more than a few of her relationships were built on lies.

"What it is?" Alex asked as they sat down on the couch in her mom's study.

Kara took a deep breath and levitated in the air, floating around so she was face to face with Alex. She noticed that Danvers wasn't scared, she just met her gaze with steady eyes that glanced at her. She finished with quick aileron roll so she was sitting next to her again.

"I'm Kryptonian."

"Wait, really? Mum never said anything about any other Kryptonians" said Alex.

"How does she know about my people and my planet's destruction?" asked Kara frowning.

"She works closely with Kal-El. How'd you get here? He said that the planet was destroyed when he was a baby?"

Kara paced around the room and started explaining how she arrived on Earth and that she was supposed to look after Kal-El, but arrived too late and was already grown up. She also explained how the Queens had found and adopted her into their family.

"So you're an alien then. Why tell me?" said Alex.

"I don't know," Kara admitted. "Thea doesn't know I'm not human, yet. Oliver, Moria, Robert, and Walter Steele all know that I'm an alien… I guess I just want... I need a relationship that isn't based on me lying about who I am," She confided in Alex.

"I won't tell anyone. I might have to talk to mum about it though," said Alex.

"Yeah, that's fine," said Kara. If she already knew who Kal was, she assumed that Alex was trustworthy.

The morning moved on as Alex went home and left Kara to speed around the house, cleaning up the cans and bottles first before taking on the grosser work. Once she was done with the bathroom and she walked over to Oliver's bedroom to finally wake him up.

"Oh, my head," He groaned.

"You drank too much."

"Shut up."

"Now kids I'm sure this isn't what your parents had in mind when they left on Friday night," said Walter from the main entrance.

Oliver walked out of the room and called down, "Yeah, well blame dad, he's the one who left us with no supervision."

"Very funny Oliver. Now, you have a few hours before they get back how do you two plan to fix this mess?" asked Walter.

"Easily," Kara responded, "I can just finish up with the other places. But I have some things I need to ask you, Walter."

"Okay, I'll get the kids out of here and we'll talk later." He nodded, walking through the rooms while Kara flashed through and Oliver nursed his hangover.

It had taken a while, but the house was finally clean and they all reconvened over Oliver in the kitchen as he chugged his third ginger ale. Walter had eventually been let in on her secret of the missing valuables. He himself had been asking Robert why Superman didn't move Kara's ship and personal effects to the Fortress of Solitude, earning the response that while he had no issue helping Kal-El, he had felt it was the safer option at Queens Consolidated. Kara nodded but argued that the ship was the last thing she had left from her parents and she wasn't ready to give it up.