Author's Note: Heyo! Welcome to this chapter. I hope you smile somehow today from this. First things first: y'all, I need some help coming up with a code/superhero nickname for Lilith. I have a few ideas, but I don't think any of them are really fitting. If you have any suggestions, please let me know! Second of all, I have a definite plan for her suit. I'm going to do my best to describe it; if I don't do it justice, I'm sorry. Anyway, I now present you with the latest chapter of Out Of Place! Please enjoy!

Chapter 10

Lilith stared through the glass. Kara was paler than usual, her face still covered in small, rapidly-healing lacerations. Alex had assured her that Kara would be fine after a few hours in the DEO's sun lamps after the aunt had hugged her niece, but Lilith was still concerned. The Children of Liberty, or "CoL" as she had heard DEO agents muttering, could have won against Kara. They almost did win.

Lilith didn't think she was a hero of any sort, despite the agents' many congratulations, but she realized Kara might have only lived because of her. She now knew for sure that she couldn't deny the need to help people, particularly when said people were her family.

Lena shot her a glance, concerned about what her daughter could potentially be thinking, then opened the glass doors to visit Kara. She was still asleep in a bed, but Alex, still standing in the med bay, had said she would likely wake up within minutes. Lilith watched as Lena bent over her best friend and whispered something in her ear. She didn't bother to listen in.

Alex glanced up from reading a medical report and caughy Lilith's eye. She arched an eyebrow in an unspoken sentence.

Are you coming in?

Lilith shook her head. Alex shrugged, clearly disagreeing with her judgement, but Lilith didn't care. She could only focus in the woman in blue, lying still.

She heard footsteps walk up behind her. She neglected to turn, instead finding out their owner's identity when he or she reached the glass.

It was J'onn. He stood there silently with her for a few moments, and they both looked in on the med bay and its occupants.

"You okay?"

Lilith jumped as a voice sounded in her head. She whirled around in an attempt to find the speaker, but it was futile. The closest person to her was still J'onn, and it hadn't felt like it was him.

Lilith thought through her options. She could accept the fact that she was clearly going insane, or she could try something even crazier. She could think/talk back.

"Hello? Who is this? What do you want?" she focused.

"It's J'onn," she heard back, still in her head. Lilith glanced quickly at the tall man by her side. He still hadn't moved or said anything.

"I would say you can't be, but the past few hours have taught me that impossible is irrelevant," she projected back. "So then, how are you doing this?"

"Simple," he said. Lilith jumped at the actual noise. "I'm a Martian."

"I - you - what?" she said eloquently. He laughed and shook his head.

"I am the last green Martian. We have shapeshifting and mind reading capabilities. We can talk more about me latet, though. Now we're talking about you," he answered smoothly. Lilith processed the information, then smiled.

"What about me?"

"You should be in there. Kara will want to see you when she wakes up. I can also sense great turmoil within your mind." J'onn responded as easily as though they were talking aloud.

Lilith sighed. This would be an interesting conversation.

"I directly disobeyed her orders. Before that, I keeled over, which could have been distracting her. She could have gotten hurt because of me. She could have also been killed without me," Lilith revealed. "I couldn't stop myself from helping her, which does not bode well for a life where I listen to my mothers."

J'onn smiled sadly beside her. "You can have tjat conversation with her later. Kara id understang, and she's been in the exact same situation as you."

"Really? When?" Lilith asked surprisedly.

"Do you remember Supergirl's first-ever appearance?" he asked back.

"Of course. She saved a plane," Lilith responded. She was eager to hear this story.

J'onn shook his head. "She saved it because Alex, your aunt, was on it. She, too, would have died if it weren't for Kara. Afterwards, Kara was obviously concerned for her sister, but Alex was angry. She wasn't really, though. She was scared for her sister's safety. And now, the two love working together." J'onn finished his story and then was silent for a while. Lilith mulled over what she had been told.

Before she could say anything else, J'onn turned toward her and gripped her shoulder in a fatherly gesture. "Think about that story, and consider ehy Kara and Lena think the way they do," he suggested. Lilith nodded distractedly, already taking him up on his spoken idea. "For now, though, Kara needs you when she wakes up," he reminded her. And with that, he let go of her shoulder and walked off towards the stairs.

She turned to follow him with her troubled blue eyes. "J'onn?" she inquired. He turned and looked at her calmly. "Thanks." He dipped her head, then jogged down the stairs.

Lilith steeled herslef, then walked into the med bay. She ignored Lena's and Alex's startled, guarded gazes, and walked to the side of Kara's bed that wad unoccupied by Lena or Alex. She picked up her mother's limp hand and held it tightly. Lena reached across Kara and brushed a strand of Lilith's hair behind her ear in a motherly gesture.

"We'll talk later," Alex promised, flashing Lilith a warning gaze. Lilith nodded acceptingly; she would be okay with being yelled at because it was worth it for saving Kara's life.

Lena jumped in. "Agreed. And I'm sure Kara will want to talk, too," she said. If it hadn't been for the nature of their concerns, Lilith would have felt slightly threatened.

She felt a slight increase of pressure on her hand Kara, she thought. Thank goodness. Lilith was the only one who was holding Kara's hand, so she was the only one who knew that her mother was slowly returning to consciousness.

"She's waking up," whispered Lilith, not wanting ti disturb Kara. Her hand all of a sudden was clenched tightly by Kara. Alex and Lena hovered nervously, Alex checking Kara's medical statistics, and Lena watching anxiously for the second sign of wakefulness.

Kara's sky-blue eyes flashed open. It would have been alarming save for the fact that she didn't move anywhere else.

She blinked a few times and then focused on Lilith. She coughed. It sounded rough and patchy, but it was the best sound Lilith had heard all day.

"Lilith? How ... What?" she asked. Kara attempted to sit up, and all three of her observers surged forward, ready to help her if need be. She waved them off, though. "Relax, I'm coming out of it."

Lena shot a look to Alex, who nodded to confirm Kara's claim. They both nodded in relief at each other, their expressions mirrored in the other's eyes. Lilith was still completely focused on Kara.

As Kara became more and more aware of her surroundings, she started the familiar, comforting rambling that Lilith had become quickly accustomed to.

"Hey, but seriously, I'm fine. Great. Never better," she lied through her teeth. "What happened? The DEO showed up, didn't they? They always do," she started. Lilith laughed, slightly unnerved at her strange wording.

Alex nodded in understanding. "It's the painkillers; they'll wear off within minutes," she whispered to Lena and Lilith.

Kara laughed. "I heard that. I can hear everything. I can hear the bird outside," she said happily, as if in a daze. "Ooh, I can see it, too. It's blue. Hi, bird."

Lena, Alex, and Lilith all laughed in relief. Alex patted her sister on the shoulder. "Have fun with that, sis," she muttered. Kara beamed.

Alex started to file medical looking forms, and Lena kept up a conversation with Kara, who was obviously getting more and more in tune with reality every passing second. Eventually, she was back to normal.

"Oof, that was rough. I feel like I've been hit with a truck," Kara complained.

Alex turned around from a cabinet. "Oh, stop your whining. You'll live," she argued. Lena and Lilith felt slightly out of place in their sibling-banter. Kara shook her head and muttered something about Alex being a jerk.

"Whatever. Thanks for the rescue, Alex," Kara said. She was obviously still under the assumption that the DEO had snagged her from near-certain death. Alex shrugged and gave a guarded look to Lilith.

"It's not the DEO you have to thank," she said simply. She then walked quickly out of the room. Alex was a trained, highly capable weapon. She had faced down enemies that one could only dream of. She had no desire to be in the room with Lilith against the wrath of Lena Luthor and Supergirl.

Kara snapped her head to look back and forth between her friend and daughter. Lilith looked intently at a smudge on the glass wall where her breath had been a few minutes ago as both her parent finally settled their gazes on her.

"Anything you'd like to say, Lilith?" asked Lena. Her voice was low and dangerous. Lilith was tempted, now more than ever, to fly away to Canada and begin a new life living amongst a herd of moose, but she stood her ground as a sudden flash of fire sparked through her.

"I flew to the scene. I fought off the Children of Liberty, and then I brought you back to the DEO," Lilith said with an air of finality. Kara started to open her mouth, but Lilith didn't allow her time to speak. "Look, I'm sorry fot not listening, okay? But I'm not sorry for helping. You were about to die, Kara. I wasn't going to stand by. I have to do something with my powers. I don't know what you will make of that," she addressed Lena and Kara, "but I just have a need to help," she finished.

Kara sat silently, but Lena ran her hands through her hair and started to pace agitatedly through the med bay. "Lilith, what if you and Kara had both been killed? What if you had gotten hurt? You can't, and I repeat, can not, just fly off like that," she finished. She turned suddenly and drew Lilith into a wanted, but unprepared for, hug. "I was just so worried about you."

Kara had obviously been thinking about the subject. "Lilith, I see what you mean." Lena started to argue, but Kara held up a hand to silence her. "I will let you go in the field with me, but if, and only if, you go through proper DEO training first. And if we get you a proper suit, not just a training one. One that offers you protection," she compromised. "Deal?" she asked.

Lilith would have started to hover in excitement, but she felt that that was rather unprofessional, so she refrained, instead allowing a slight smlie to spread across her face. "I can do that," she said hurriedly before Kara could change her mind. Lena looked satisfied, although she still wore a slightly-stressed face.

Lilith was going to be a superhero.