Hello everyone! New chapter. I hope you like it but if you don't I understand. I can't believe this chapter took so long to write. I could picture what I wanted to write in my head but getting the words down onto the 'paper' was hard. Any grammar or spelling mistakes are my own. I did go through it but it is very likely I missed them. If you like this chapter and you haven't already than I urge you to favorite, follow, and review! Sorry for the wait! I won't keep you up here any longer. Scroll on down and read! :D
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'This is awkward.' Kara thought while staring at Ultragirl...err... Alexia Jon-Zod. Hey! The Kryptonian was a Zod. Inwardly Kara did a small cheer at being correct in her assumption that the U was the symbol of House Zod but turned to where it looked like the letter U. It had only been a few minutes since she let Alexia into her apartment and offered her some pizza. Alexia had nodded, and Kara had noticed the sad look she had given her. While her fellow Kryptonian took a seat in the living room, she had gone into the kitchen to get her guest a drink.
After retrieving a cold can of Pepsi from her fridge, she had made her way into the living room and was surprised to see how Alexia had her left arm wrapped around a single strap backpack and seemed to be hugging it to her front while biting into a slice of pizza that she was holding in her right hand. Kara would admit that she didn't notice the backpack when she let Ultragirl in. The last daughter of House El chalked it up to her being so excited that she just didn't notice it. However, now that she did see it, she was surprised to see that it was styled after the Green Lantern. A generic one as there were currently three Green Lanterns of Earth and the backpack didn't seem to be specialized in a way that would represent one of them. She was curious as to what Alexia had in the backpack, but she didn't use her X-Ray vision to pry.
Now she was sitting at the end of her couch, after placing the can of Pepsi on the coffee table. The smile Alexia had given her as a silent 'thank you' was a mixture of warmth and pain. The two Kryptonians sat in an awkward silence, Kara's appetite was entirely gone but it seemed Alexia's wasn't as she was now on her third slice of pizza. Her fellow Kryptonian had practically inhaled the second one. The Girl of Steel wondered if Alexia ate like this when she was nervous. It took all the restraint Kara possessed to not smile when Alexia seemed to realize that she was devouring the pizza so after finishing the third slice she didn't reach for another. Instead, she silently began to drink the Pepsi.
Kara took a moment to examine Alexia's current attire. A simple long sleeved red shirt with the Nike symbol on it and a pair of black sweatpants. Her fellow Kryptonian was also wearing a pair of dark grey Nike shoes. It wasn't hard for the Girl of Steel to come to the conclusion that Alexia was wearing her costume on underneath the clothes. Alexia's clothing also looked new. For a moment, the image of a naked Alexia walking up to a group of women and asking for their clothes like the Terminator filled her mind. Kara held back a shudder and quickly shoved the image out of her mind. Once the image was thankfully out of her mind, Kara's eyes went to the fancy looking watch on Alexia's right wrist. Right away she could tell that the watch was not man-made. Just another thing to ask about.
Neither of them broke the silence. Kara had a dozen questions she wanted to ask but from her point of view, it seemed like Alexia was similar to a scared rabbit at the moment. The slightest misstep and she could flee from the apartment. This was something that Kara didn't want to happen. For the time being, she refrained from speaking, hoping that her guest would finally say something. The silence stretched on for what felt like an eternity, but it was only a couple of minutes.
'You can do this.' Alexia thought as she wiped her hands on her sweatpants. The Kryptonian's stomach and chest began to hurt as she unzipped the Green Lantern backpack. She noticed how her mother leaned forward as if interested to see what she had in the backpack. Alexia wondered if this was a sign that she hadn't used her x-ray vision to sneak a peek. The young Kryptonian reached into the backpack and pulled out one of the pictures. She took a moment to look at the picture. In the picture her mother was holding her, if she had to guess her age in the photo she'd put it around five months old. The daughter of Supergirl blinked as she realized her hand was trembling. Alexia turned her head and her heart nearly jumped up into her throat when she saw the small encouraging smile that her mom was giving her. It felt so good to see it again.
Alexia returned the smile with one of her own. The young Kryptonian held out the picture for her mom to take.
Kara reached out and took the picture but didn't look at it right away. She took a moment to take a deep breath before looking away from her fellow Kryptonian and down at the picture in her hands. Her eyes widened, and a gasp escaped her lips. A chill made its way up the Girl of Steel's spine as she stared in shock at the picture. How is one supposed to react when confronted with this? There were two people in the photo. One was an adorable baby girl and the other... was her. In the picture, she was looking at the camera and smiling. The baby in her arms was caught in the middle of a yawn and whoever had taken the picture had captured the moment perfectly.
The Girl of Steel placed her left index finger on the picture, right on the baby's cheek. Her gaze left the picture and went to Alexia.
"When was this taken?" Kara asked. Unable to ask anything else at the moment as her thoughts were a jumbled mess.
"If I had to guess..." Alexia wasn't looking at her mother, she was focused on sorting through the rest of the pictures she had pulled from her backpack. Her stomach felt as if it was full of butterflies. "I'd say that dad took that picture in June of 2018."
"2018..." Kara murmured the year before asking her second question, "When were you born?" Her voice had taken up a soft and encouraging tone. Hoping that this would lead to Alexia opening up.
"February 17th, 2018." Alexia answered while turning her head to look at Kara, "I've always been told that you were hoping I'd be born on Valentine's day." A smile made its way onto her face. A warm and happy smile. Something that had become rarely appeared on Alexia's face the last few years. Most of her smiles had been bitter or dark. Considering how her life had taken a turn on that fateful day, it shouldn't be a real wonder as to why warm and happy smiles rarely appeared on her face.
Kara returned the smile with one of her own. She hoped that the nervousness she was feeling wasn't showing on her face or in her body language. Kara tried to wrap her mind around the fact that supposedly in a little under two years she would have a kid. Or would she have a kid now that she knew? Oh, Rao. What if this whole situation led to where Alexia was never born? But if she wasn't born, how was she here?
"Here." Alexia's voice snapped Kara out of her thoughts. Alexia was holding out the rest of the pictures, Kara blinked at the stack's size. Wordlessly, she reached out and took them from her fellow blonde. She then placed the picture of her holding the baby at the back of the stack. Kara could feel Alexia's gaze on her as she looked at the first picture on the impressive stack that Alexia had put together. She smiled at the picture which featured Alex holding the baby. For the next few minutes, she went through the pictures. She was surprised to see that Alexia had arranged them from youngest to oldest.
There was someone missing from the pictures. After going through several of the photos, Kara realized that she had yet to see Alexia's father in any of them. She had seen Alex, Kal, Eliza, and even one picture had Alexia standing with Cat Grant! How could there be zero pictures of her father? Kara blinked as another question formed in her head. Where did these pictures come from? It was possible that she brought them with her from the future but the fact that Alexia had originally thought she was a clone when they fought in the desert kind of put some weight behind the fact she may not have come to the past willingly.
Kara stared at the last picture. It featured Alexia and herself, standing in what appeared to be a living room. She didn't recognize the living room they were standing in but it didn't matter. All she could focus on was the smile on Alexia's face. Bright and carefree. Alexia was clearly a teenager in the photo. If she had to guess she wouldn't put her over 15. Slowly the realization came over Kara that she had a daughter. A beautiful daughter. Who seemed happy and innocent in the pictures... but then she remembered the look on Alexia's face at the construction site. The hate and anger in her voice, the pain in her eyes, and her aggressiveness when she thought that she was a clone of her mother. Someone, maybe even a group of people, had hurt Alexia greatly.
She had an idea of at least one suspect that was behind this, Maxwell Lord.
Kara nearly jumped off the couch when Alexia spoke up again, "Mom?" Her voice was hesitant and from the way she was looking at her, it was as if she expected Kara to vanish if she took her eyes off her.
It broke Kara's heart. She knew that it would be acceptable to freak out in this situation and she would be a liar if she didn't admit that she was a little freaked out but for now she had to be strong. How much had this young girl suffered? Was there no one around in the future to look after her?
"You people took everything from me!"
"Everything..." Kara muttered, she didn't even realize that she had spoken out loud.
"What?" Alexia asked while putting her backpack on the ground in front of the couch.
"Oops," Kara said with a laugh, running her right hand through her hair. "I guess I said that out loud?" Alexia nodded. A small but amused smile made its way onto her face. "I have so many things I want to ask you." Kara noticed Alexia tense up but as quickly as the tension appeared it seemed to leave.
"You can ask me anything you want," Alexia said firmly. Preparing herself for all the questions. She hoped she would be able to stay calm. "Before you start asking questions though I have something I need to say." She made eye contact with her mother, "I'm sorry for what happened in the desert. I thought... I thought..." Damn it! She didn't want to cry! Alexia reached up to brush the tears away from her eyes before they could fall. She lowered her head.
"Hey... Hey." Kara didn't hesitate to clear the distance between them on the couch. Moving from the far cushion to the one in the middle, she reached out and placed her hands on Alexia's shoulders. Seeing her... her daughter... in distress really tugged at her. Some might even call her crazy for thinking Alexia was her daughter with only some pictures and the young woman's words to back that up but she just... just knew.
Kara could almost hear Alex telling her that a DNA test would be a good idea.
"Sorry. Sorry." Alexia muttered. She didn't even flinch when Kara placed her hands on her. In fact, she was comforted by it.
"You didn't know," Kara said reassuringly while squeezing Alexia's shoulders. "I'm not mad at you."
Alexia lifted her head and smiled at Kara, "Thank you." She took a deep breath before letting it out in a soft sigh, "I know you have dozens of questions. Feel free to ask them." While waiting for her mother to ask her first question, Alexia took a moment to enjoy the reassuring hands on her shoulders.
"Your father... why isn't he in any of the pictures?" Kara asked. Deciding that it was best to build up to the more important questions.
"Not surprised that you got with a Zod?" Alexia fired back with a teasing smile on her face. She shrugged, "When I was choosing what pictures to bring I decided it was best for you to not see him. Things are... different here." She paused in an attempt to try and figure out the best way to word it, "I didn't want you to be surprised by him. In case you've seen him before." Alexia knew that the House of El and the House of Zod didn't really get along. Her parents had known each other on Krypton, at least in passing. Seeing each other at parties and other formal gatherings. However, they never really connected and got to know one another until they ended up on Earth.
Kara hadn't even recognized him when they stood face to face for the first time after he had saved her from Ben Krull. It took for Ultraman revealing his name to her for it all to click.
"Jon-Zod," Kara said the name, choosing to ignore Alexia's question which her... daughter... realized and smirked. She barely resisted the urge to stick her tongue out at Alexia. "I can't really put a face to the name, but I do remember he is the son of Dru-Zod and Ursa." She shuddered. Dru-Zod was not a good man but just because of that she couldn't judge Jon-Zod. You didn't get to choose who your parents were after all. Kara turned her head to the side as the memory of her mother using her to arrest Aunt Astra came to the front of her mind. A small thing when compared to the fact her family had failed to save Krypton. All the Kryptonians who were unaware that their end was coming until it finally came. How scared and confused they must have been.
Kara shook her head, banishing those thoughts from her mind. "What year was it?" Another simple and innocent question.
Alexia remembered the date easily. Not only because it hasn't been that long since she ended up in the past, but because it was the day she completed her list and tossed that piece of garbage Maxwell Lord right off a building. "2037. The exact date was Saturday, May 2, 2037." The downside to being in this time was the possibility that everyone on her list was alive again. Good thing she had Kelex looking into them, she knew her mother would disapprove but it was for her own safety. Those monsters would not take her family from her a second time.
While Alexia was thinking about her list, Kara was thinking about Alexia's age. It was simple math, at least for her. 2037-2018=19. 19. That number kept playing over and over in Kara's head. 19 wasn't that old.
"You people took everything from me! You killed my mother! My father! My godparents!"
Kara shuddered.
"I have to know something," Kara said before biting her lip. Hoping that her next few questions didn't set her time traveling daughter off. She squeezed Alexia's shoulders once before moving her hands back down to her lap.
Alexia ran her hand through her hair, "I was beginning to wonder when you were going to ask the real questions."
"Sorry I... I just wanted to ease into them." Kara's voice was apologetic, "From... what you said in the desert... it doesn't paint a very pretty future."
"No..." Alexia shook her head, causing her hair to come over her face. She reached up to brush it away, "I guess it didn't."
"What happened?" The Girl of Steel blurted out carelessly, like a herd of stampeding bulls. "I'm sorry! I just... I don't know how else to phrase it." Worry and sorrow filled her eyes. Her chest began to hurt as her mind came up with vivid scenarios of what happened to her and her family. She had already lost her family once along with her planet. Her people. She even lost the man who had so readily accepted her into his home, Jerimiah Danvers. She couldn't bare losing anyone else.
Alexia sat their silently for a full 60 seconds as the gruesome images filled her mind. Of her mother's corpse falling back after that horrible gunshot echoed in the air. Of her father's Kryptonite bullet-ridden body. His rage at his wife being killed had gotten the better of him, he had left her behind to chase down the shooter. If there was any good out of that day it was the fact her father had managed to not only kill the shooter but the entire hit team that had been put together to put him down too. He had succumbed to his wounds. She had lost both her mother and father that day. Early on she had blamed him for leaving her alone like that but after the brutal deaths of her godparents she understood his rage and need for revenge. It had all finally clicked when she had lost everyone in less than a year.
"I lost you," Alexia said quietly. Her eyes focused on her mother's face. "They took my family from me. They killed you. One by one. I lost you and dad on the same day." She could see it as if it was happening all over again. Her mother's apartment faded away, she was standing in the park again. Her mother was in front of her with that bright loving smile on her face. Then... then... the sound of a high-powered rifle firing echoed. Breaking the peaceful air... her mother was falling backward...
No. No. No. No! She wasn't there. Alexia hunched forward, barely feeling her mother's reassuring hands on her. Barely hearing Kara's panicked questions on if she was going to be sick.
"I'm fine!" Alexia snapped, clearly not find at all. She placed her hands on her mother's shoulders and forced herself to look into Kara's eyes. "They killed you like some kind of fucking prized animal!" Kara's eyes widened at the hatred and venom in Alexia's voice, but she didn't move away from her. She didn't flinch as Alexia reached up and tapped the center of her forehead. "Right there... Kryptonite bullet... you were dead before you hit the ground."
Kara felt as if she was going to be sick, "D-did you see it on the news?"
"No... I was right there in front of you." Alexia whispered. "Those monsters had no qualms about killing you right in front of me."
"Rao..." Kara blinked as tears started to appear in her eyes. Her tears slowly rolled down her face as she imagined a younger Alexia standing there, witnessing the murder of her mother. "Your father... Jon-Zod died that day too?" Kara used her sleeve to wipe away her tears.
"I was mad at him for a long time after that," Alexia remembered waking up in the middle of the night thanks to nightmares. She remembered screaming and crying. She remembered Aunt Alex and Aunt Maggie holding her, comforting her. She remembered asking 'why'. "I would ask Aunt Alex why. Why did dad leave me?" Alexia chuckled bitterly.
"He loved us," Alexia said after her chuckling died down. "We were his world. When you were killed... his anger got the better of him. His need to avenge you overruled his logic. He hunted the shooter down and killed him. However, the shooter wasn't alone. A little over two dozen men were with him, I don't know how they managed it but they riddled dad with Kryptonite bullets. Still, before he died... he managed to kill them all."
Was it weird that Kara felt strangely flattered by that? A part of her wanted to be horrified at the killing but... if someone were to kill Alex, Eliza, Clark, or anyone else she really cared about... Even she would be tempted to cross the line.
"I'm sorry for your loss." Kara said sincerely before shaking her head, "I know that is cliché but..."
"No." Alexia cut Kara off, taking her mother's hand. "Being here... right now... with you..." She squeezed Kara's hand and grinned when her mother returned the squeeze with equal strength. "Is something I could only dream of until now."
It was a warm and happy moment.
Shame that it was going to be broken with Kara's next question.
"What happened to Clark and Alex?" Kara had to know the fate of her cousin and sister. She knew that they had... died in this future. But she had to know how.
"Lex Luthor killed Kal. I did everything to find out who let him go." Alexia's voice held a pleading tone as if begging Kara to understand. "I did everything I could think of to try and find out who let him free! I knew who could've had a hand in it. But none of them gave the okay. I was never able to figure out who it was! I tried so hard!" Her voice had turned from pleading to angry. "Lex Luthor... the bald bastard. Someone in the US government let him go." Lillian Luthor hadn't even had a hand in it. Apparently, she had been surprised when Lex appeared at one Cadmus's many secret bases. "He didn't wait long to get his revenge. With the resources available to him, he built a bigger and more deadly war suit to fight Kal. He attacked without warning. Killed Lois first... leaving Kal a distracted and grieving. I watched the live footage on the internet... Lex pierced Kal's chest with a Kryptonite blade."
Alexia's gaze went to the 'watch' on her right wrist as she remembered the very reason she designed and built her own armor. To protect herself from the poisonous material.
While Alexia was looking at her watch, Kara was having an inward struggle. Her own anger at Lex Luthor and whoever let him go was rising. If it happened then, why not sooner? What if Lex was already free and plotting his revenge at this very moment?
"Aunt Alex and her... significant other." Alexia really didn't want to be the one to spill the beans that Alex Danvers had kissed a girl and she liked it. A lot. Maybe on this Earth, her Aunt's sexuality could be totally different. She might not even get with Maggie or meet her. That caused Alexia to scowl but it wasn't like she could change it if things went that course. She just had to remain hopeful.
Kara raised an eyebrow at the usage of 'significant other' but didn't ask for Alexia to elaborate.
"This all happened in 2033." Alexia felt the need to tell her mother the year. "I was 15. A teenager... it had only been a few months since you and dad died. Kal and Lois... I just needed to be alone for a little while... So, I left the house without telling Aunt Alex and..." Blood... blood... everywhere. On the walls... on the floor... bullet holes... "When I got back... the police were already there..." She remembered smashing her fist through the wall, uncaring if the police knew she wasn't human. The entire world knew Kara Danvers and Supergirl were one and the same anyway. Especially after the murder.
"Oh, Rao... What...?" Kara asked in a choked tone.
"A group of mercenaries hired by Lillian Luthor, Lex's mommy, killed them." Her voice had gotten cold. Colder than the Arctic. "They didn't even have time to defend themselves."
Kara closed her eyes as her mind decided to plague her with vivid images of what the scene could have looked like. Since she didn't know who Alex was with, all she could picture was Alex and some faceless figure. Laying in the living room, riddled with bullet holes. Blood staining the carpet and splattered across the wall. Her sister's lifeless eyes staring at nothing.
"How... how could they?" Kara asked as the tears once again began to roll down her face. "Why? Why would they do this?!" She knew men like Sam Lane, Lex Luthor, and Maxwell Lord didn't like them but...
"Because they hated you!" Alexia shouted. "They hated me! They hated Kal! They hated dad! They hated any who sided with us! They hate us because we aren't human!" She couldn't remain seated any longer. Alexia got off the couch, not even seeing the worried look on Kara's tear-stained face. She was standing on the other side of the coffee table now with her back to Kara, "Supergirl, Superman, and Ultraman. Three of Earth's mightiest heroes. You risked it all, time and time again to save the people of Earth. From rescuing pets out of trees to stopping alien invasions. I can even remember a time when the three of you and members of the League helped evacuate people from an island when its volcano erupted! It didn't matter though! No matter what you did it would never be enough for them because the simple fact was... you aren't human." Alexia's hands clenched into fists at her sides. "They hated that the three of you were praised and worshipped. You could have cured every deadly disease on Earth! You could have ended world hunger! But it would have NEVER been enough because of the simple fact that the three of you weren't human!" She turned around to look at Kara. A fierce look on her face. "So, when they killed my godparents. When THEY took the last bit of family I had left in the world. I got angry."
Kara's voice didn't want to cooperate with her. She stared with widened eyes at Alexia, stunned by her passionate speech.
"The world erupted. Three of the founding members of the Justice League were assassinated. Aunt Alex tried to shield me from it all. The hero community was having something like a civil war as tensions ran high. People wanted justice. Some wanted to bring those behind it to justice through regular means. Arrests. Trials. Juries. Prison." Alexia paused as she thought about the heroes on that side of the fence. She didn't hate them. She disagreed with them on the issue though. "I... on the other hand... wanted a more... permanent solution." She looked away after saying those last two words. Afraid to see the judgment on her mother's face. "I wanted them dead."
"That's... understandable," Kara said truthfully. She had lost her entire world. Her people. She still wasn't one hundred percent over it. If someone were to kill Clark, Eliza, or Alex, even she would be tempted to end the person's life.
Alexia turned her gaze back to Kara. She needed to see how her mother would react to what she had to say, "They couldn't really put me in the foster care system. I didn't wait around for any of the Justice League to come by and talk to me. I wanted nothing more than to see the ones behind... the slaughter of my family... dead. Not only did I want them dead... I wanted to be the one to do it." Alexia's cold laughter chilled Kara to the bone, "15 years old... I should've been worried about normal teenager things. Like my social life or some new fashion trend."
Kara remained silent, feeling that this was something that Alexia just had to get off her chest.
"With everyone being dead, the Fortress of Solitude passed to me." Alexia held up her right hand, the back of it was facing Kara. Showing off the futuristic 'watch'. "After explaining the situation to Kelex, I began to brainstorm ways for me to take the fight to them. I made an educated guess that they had a huge stockpile of kryptonite. I needed a way to get around that. To make sure that they couldn't use that weakness against me. I decided to take a little page out of Lex's book and I built myself my own set of armor. With the help of Kelex and the Fortress's AIs." She used her left hand to point to her watch, "I like to think of this as my morpher." A sad smile appeared on her face for a few seconds as a memory of watching old Power Ranger shows with her parents danced through her thoughts. She chuckled lightly at the grin on Kara's face, "This helped me even the odds. Especially in my fight with Lex Luthor. I was in National City when he attacked me with a group of his own that had similar sets of his own warsuit. They lost that fight." Not only did they lose the fight, they lost their lives.
Sadly, the happiness that Alexia had felt at the memory of watching Power Rangers with her parents and the sight of her mother's grin vanished as she recalled that time between her godparents' death and starting her hunt. The fear, pain, anger, and loneliness.
"I made my debut as Ultragirl in National City. I let them know that I was alive, and I was very pissed off. How about that eh?" Alexia smirked darkly, "Who knew killing someone's entire family would get them pissed off. They seemed to have forgotten my existence entirely." She reached up to brush a strand of hair out of her face, "Fuckers kill my family and can't even remember me! Well, maybe that isn't entirely true. They likely thought I wasn't a threat. Probably thought I was with one of the League members getting therapy or something."
She enjoyed proving them wrong.
"Lillian Luthor... the first time I saw her face after creating my list was when I broke into a Cadmus lab. She was talking with the lab's head scientist via video. Like Skype. Seeing her face... hearing her voice. Sent me into a rage. All I saw was red." Alexia remembered the crunching sounds that had followed after she punched the head scientist. She remembered his screams of agony. "I beat the man to death and seeing the look of shock on Lillian's face made me feel joy for the first time in what felt like an eternity. The facility had no prisoners. It did have quite a few scientists and a lot of security. Of course, they were only armed to fight off human threats. They never expected a pissed off teenage Kryptonian who wanted to avenge her family!" It was almost as if she was there at the facility again. Her first real push against Cadmus and those who killed her family. "Any who got in my way were either killed or left crippled. I tore that place apart with my bare hands."
"Rao..." Kara whispered. Horrified by what she was hearing, she covered her mouth with her hand and she noticed the anger that had been in Alexia's eyes when they fought in the desert was slowly creeping back up into those oh so familiar blue eyes. Familiar because they were the same shade as her own.
"When I got back to the Fortress... I created my list. A list of names that could've been behind what happened. I already had two. Lillian and Lex Luthor." Alexia closed her eyes. "After I was done writing the last name... The shock at what I had done finally crashed over me. At the time, when I was destroying the place it had been easy to shove down nausea and shame. Because my anger towered over any other emotion that I was feeling at the time." She looked at the coffee table before shaking her head. "In my head... they deserved it. They were working for Cadmus. It didn't matter if they had loved ones and families. I had a family and the people they worked for killed them."
"Alexia..." Kara said faintly, slowly getting to her feet.
"I know... I know you must think that I'm a monster..." Alexia's voice was borderline hysterical, "Want to know something even more fucked up? I saw you. I.. I'd see you. Like some fucking Twilight bullshit! In the beginning when I'd take the lives of those who stood in my way you would appear like some ghost. Lingering in the shadows. Oh, the disappointment on your face would pierce my heart each time but... t-there you were... I saw you... I was so happy to see you..." Alexia's shoulders began to shake as she lifted her gaze up from the coffee table to her mother, "I had to make them pay! They had to pay for taking all of you from me! Any who tried to stop me got the business end of my fists!"
Alexia was shocked when Kara moved around the coffee table and wrapped her arms around her. Her mother's embrace was warm and loving just like it had always been. For a moment it was as if her none of the terrible things had happened. Rao it had been so long since she felt this way. Warm and safe. She expected her mom to say something, but Kara didn't. She simply held onto Alexia as the time traveler began to cry harder. Her body shook like a leaf on a windy day.
Kara didn't know what to say. Her mind was resembling a tornado as she thought about what Alexia had admitted too. She was shocked and horrified that her... daughter would do such things. Seemed to enjoy such things. She wasn't a mental health specialist, but it sounded like Alexia did have some problems that needed to be addressed. However, Kara had a feeling that trying to get Alexia to seek help would not end well. For the moment she decided to not bring that up, instead, she just tightened her grip on her time traveling daughter.
"I don't think you're a monster." Kara's voice was firm when she finally did speak. Her words caused Alexia to tense up in her arms. "I'm sorry... so sorry that you had to go through that. If someone were to kill Alex, Eliza, and Clark..." She trailed off. Kara didn't need to say the words as Alexia understood.
"I had to make them pay," Alexia whispered. A human would've had a hard time hearing what she said, but Kara heard it easily. "Others offered to help... but no. It had to be me. I had to look them in the eyes as the realization came to them that they were going to die. I had to make them feel the same helplessness that I felt." Alexia paused for a moment. Thinking about the heroes that accused her of being just like them. "They got whey deserved." Alexia knew that she sounded a little repetitive, but she was only speaking the truth.
"Perhaps we should... take a break." Kara still had more questions, but she was certain that what Alexia currently needed was some time to calm down. Sure, at the moment she didn't seem all that bad outwardly. However, Kara had seen the way Alexia's eyes had flashed when she went on about what she did to those apparently responsible for the deaths of her family. Kara needed time to go through everything she had learned from this conversation. Although some of the things were a little too much for even her. Like the fact, Alexia hallucinated about her when she ... killed. "The pizza is probably cold, but we can heat it back up in the microwave. Plus, I have a lot of popcorn... how about we sit down and find something to watch."
Kara's heart nearly shattered at the hope and happiness that popped up on Alexia's face. It was clear to her that Alexia had assumed the worse when coming clean about her actions and Kara had a feeling that her apparent time traveling daughter was still leaving out a lot of details. There was plenty of time to go over them in the future though, for now, Kara felt it was in Alexia's best interest if they ended the conversation.
"You mean I can stay?" Alexia felt silly. As if she was a little girl again. A part of her hated it. Another part of her was just happy that her mother wasn't looking at her as if she was a monster.
"Did you think I was going to kick you out?" Kara asked before ending the embrace, so she could pick up the box of pizza and move into her apartment's kitchen.
"... Yes." Alexia admitted.
"Well, I'm not," Kara said firmly. "Now sit on the couch while I fix up the snacks."
Alexia blinked. Shocked that Kara had already started using the 'mom' voice. Without any further protest, she moved back to the couch and sat down. She had a feeling that they would come back to what she had admitted to one day. Alexia knew that she would have to go into detail that she wasn't technically from this Earth's future but another Earth entirely that just happened to be in the 'future' when compared to this Earth. For now, though she was content to just spend time with her mom.
She was content. At least for now. If her mom and Aunt Alex were alive... then it was possible that they were too. Kelex was already hard at work. Digging up information on them. One thing was certain.
They would not hurt her family. She wouldn't give them the chance.
Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Kara was letting slices of pizza heat up in the microwave while looking for the popcorn. Unaware of Alexia's dark thoughts.
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Welcome to the end! I hope you liked this chapter. If you did then I urge you to review! A simple "I like this" can really warm my heart. Follow and Favorite if you haven't already!
I'm thinking over how close I should stick to the show when it comes to certain things. In this chapter I mentioned the Justice League which was a thing on Alexia's Earth. It will likely be a thing on this Earth too. This isn't just going to just involve characters in the Arrowverse. I have a lot of original ideas I want to use for this fic. Like a certain raven haired Luthor getting her own little suit. If you know what I mean.
For those who are curious where we are in the "timeline" this is before Season One Episode 16 "Falling" but after Season One Episode 15 "Solitude". I'd say within the next 10 chapters we will come upon "Falling". Red Kryptonite Kara vs Alexia? Supergirl vs Ultragirl round 2? It is likely. Do you have a suggestion to what Red K Kara could say to Alexia? Feel free to share them.
Also, does anyone have any tips for how to write Cat Grant? Because I've been trying to prepare a chapter where Supergirl and Ultragirl get interviewed by her about Ultragirl.
Anyway, that is all for now. If you have any questions or suggestions. Feel free to PM me. Bye!