Author's Notes: So we've reached the end of the story. I know I've been saying this at the beginning of each new chapter, but I just want to reiterate my thanks to everyone who has supported this story, whether it's been by reading, reviewing, favoriting, or following, I really appreciate it. This story has been a lot of fun to write and it has also been a big time-consuming headache at times, but knowing others have enjoyed something I wrote makes all the hard work worth it.

Cat really didn't have any reason that she had to be in her office that evening. She did have a lot a work to do, but that was always the case. And her work wasn't anything that couldn't be done from home or couldn't wait until tomorrow, but since she had overheard Kara tell Linda that she expected her to return to the office after Parents' Night she had decided to follow the young woman's expectations.

She hoped that Kara would take advantage of the privacy and find a way to meet with her as Supergirl, but she wasn't sure she would. Although Cat had been right in her assumption that James Olsen had neglected to pass along her message, that didn't mean Kara would actually meet with her. After all, Supergirl was still 'recovering,' whatever that meant. It was one of the many questions she intended to ask Supergirl—if she ever showed up.

About half an hour after she returned to the office she caught a glimpse of movement outside her balcony window and turned to see Supergirl flying just past her balcony ledge. She walked out to see the hero.

"So your friends were telling the truth, you're not dead." Cat said matter-of-factly.

"Glad to see how relieved you are," Supergirl replied with a hint of sarcasm in her tone.

"Which begs the question, since you're all better, why have you been hiding out?"

"I haven't been hiding out!" She said defensively. "Not by choice, at least. I really want to return to protecting this city and being Supergirl, but I can't, not yet."

"This isn't a game of twenty questions. You can give me a straight answer. What do you mean you can't be Supergirl right now?"

"I can't explain it."

"Try," Cat commanded.

"I can't tell you why, on or off the record, not without putting you, me, and many others in danger. All I can tell you is, I'll return to being Supergirl as soon as I can."

Cat was getting frustrated. This interview was not answering any of her questions and it was only adding to her confusion. And Supergirl wasn't giving her anything she could actually report on. She decided to change the subject.

"Why were you targeted by those aliens?"

Supergirl gave her a 'you've got to be kidding me' look. "Isn't that obvious? There are some aliens who don't like me protecting this planet."

"Was that the only reason or was there something else? Some of the witnesses heard the aliens mention your mother and wanting revenge. I know you've alluded in the past that she was an important person on your home planet and since she's gone the only way to hurt her now is to go after you. Is that the real reason you were attacked?"

After a long hesitation, she said. "This interview was a mistake."

She turned to leave and Cat started to yell to stop her, but when Supergirl moved she noticed something was off with her movements. She'd seen Kara fly away many times, but this time, she moved her legs for some reason like she would if she was standing on the ground.

Before she could question her about it, the glowing alien from the ambush appeared in front of Supergirl.

"Supergirl." It said before waving a hand through her. Supergirl disappeared and reappeared and Cat realized that she wasn't really there at all and that this was some sort of projection of her. "Interesting. You're using a hologram. You've lost your powers!" The alien let out a high pitched laugh which sent a chill down Cat's spine.

"Are you willing to be your life on that?" Supergirl challenged. "The last time you tried to fight me it didn't work out too well for your friends."

The alien's features grew hard, or a least as hard as they could look considering her face looked like it was made of light.

"The Zarolot you killed was my son!"

"I'm sorry, I didn't want it to come to that."

The Zarolot disappeared, then a second later it appeared next to Cat. It reached out and touched Cat's stomach. Cat screamed in pain.

"No!" Kara yelled.

The alien removed its hand and Cat fell to her knees clutching her stomach.

"If you really do have your powers, use them to save your friend."

Supergirl appeared to run in mid-air for a second then she disappeared.

The Zarolot put its hand back to Cat's stomach causing her to feel more intense pain and remove it again.

"Where is Supergirl?!" It demanded.

Cat could barely talk she was breathing so hard, but she managed to cry out.

"I don't know!"

The alien raised its hand just above her chest ready to strike.

"I must have been too gentle before."

It reached for her again but stopped as they both heard someone running towards them. It turned just in time to be hit by a blast of white smoke. Cat jerked back feeling the cold air start to sting her skin when she did she saw Kara dressed in her Supergirl suit spraying the Zarolot with a fire extinguished.

Cat struggled to her feet, despite the pain.

"Crap you have lost your powers."

Kara focused on spraying the other alien and ordered. "Run! You have to get away from me! Find somewhere to hide and don't come out no matter what happens!"

The idea seemed pretty good to Cat and it was what her instincts were telling her to do, but part of her felt a need to stay. "What about you?"

"Just go! There's nothing you can do and I can't fight her and protect you at the same time!"

Cat wanted to argue more, but she knew the fire extinguisher was not going to hold back that creature for long and if they were going to survive this they needed help. She took Kara's advice and ran towards the stairwell, but not before grabbing her cell phone and calling James Olsen on the way. While it rang, she once again cursed the fact she didn't have a way to reach Superman directly.

When he picked up she yelled into the phone. "Supergirl is under attack in my office."

...

Cat was not the only one who thought to call for help. Kara had already beaten her to it a couple of minutes earlier. As soon as the Zarolot appeared in front of them, Kara had grabbed for phone and dialed the last number she'd called Alex's cell.

Alex had picked up the phone just in time to hear something say Kara had lost her powers. She instantly recognized the inhuman voice and knew the Zarolot was going to kill her sister if she didn't stop it.

Alex ran to the control room and shouted: "I need a trace on Supergirl's phone."

"What happened?" J'onn demanded.

Alex pushed the speaker and allowed everyone in the room to hear what she heard. Kara voice came over the phone saying something about 'it not working out too well for your friends'.

Then when the Zarolot spoke again everyone understood Alex's panic.

J'onn assumed his Martian form and flew away returning a few seconds later with one of the liquid nitrogen guns and the trap.

"Get me the location." He ordered the techs who'd already begun the task.

"You're not up for this alone."

"Alex…"

"You're still injured. No one else here knows as much about these things as me. And if she's hurt someone is going to have to get Kara to safety while you fight this thing."

J'onn thought for a minute while desperately watching the techs try to locate Kara and the Zarolot. Finally, they found something.

"I'm picking up high thermal readings at Catco." Suresh said.

"You get your sister and get away," J'onn ordered

Before Alex could even agree to his conditions, he had grabbed her and flown off.

...

Kara continued to spray the Zarolot, all the while knowing this wouldn't hold it off for long. She didn't even know her sister had answered her call or if help was on the way. When she'd changed into her suit before she hadn't been planning to use her phone, so she'd left out her earpiece She'd also realized too late that she probably should have called J'onn or Kal-El instead, since they were the only ones who could fight a Zarolot and could possibly get there in time.

Kara knew Alex would find J'onn and they'd do everything they could to save her, but she also knew that that the Zarolot could kill her before J'onn or Kal-El could get there, even if they flew at super speeds.

When she'd first run out there to confront the Zarolot, she'd thought maybe there was a chance that the adrenaline burst would trigger her powers to return. But they hadn't, just like they didn't that time she'd face an armed looter without them. She hoped at least that she could hold off the Zarolot long enough for her boss to get away.

Just like Kara thought, it wasn't long before the Zarolot managed to break out of the path of the spray and touched Kara's shoulder. Pain shot through her. She cried out and dropped the extinguisher. The alien continued to move its arm through her until it reached her heart. Kara screamed in agony and dropped to the ground. She felt her strength leaving her and she knew she was dying. But just before she could pass out from shock the Zarolot removed its hand.

"Do you think my son felt this much pain when you killed him?"

Kara didn't say anything in response. She was too weak to talk and even if she could, it wouldn't matter. No matter what she said, it was going to kill her.

It seemed to anger the Zarolot when she didn't say anything and it put its hand through Kara again this time in the lungs. Then just before Kara could suffocate, it removed its hand and Kara gasped for breath.

"I'm not going to kill you, not yet. Not until you've watched me kill your friends. I know you called the Martian. Did you know he's injured? We fought earlier tonight and I nearly killed him and when he comes to save you I'm going to finish him off and anyone with him. Then I'll kill you."

And with that knowledge to dwell on, the Zarolot tortured Kara once more.

...

When J'onn and Alex got to Catco they found Kara lying motionless on the ground with the Zarolot hovering beside her with its arm through her chest. J'onn sat Alex down and soared over to the attacker phasing through it several times until it let go of Kara. As soon as it did Alex shot it with liquid nitrogen.

The Zarolot let a loud inhuman shriek and was forced back by the liquid. But it had gained too much strength from Kara and J'onn and after it recovered from the shock it was able to teleport out of Alex's range. It reappeared right in front of her and reached for her heart, but before it could touch her J'onn flew through it and knocked her out of the way. She fell to the ground causing her to drop the gun and the remote to the trap.

J'onn picked both and ordered, "Get Supergirl out of here."

Alex ran to her sister while J'onn fought the other alien. Kara was lying so still, Alex feared they were too late. She frantically felt for a pulse and after a few gut-wrenching seconds, she felt a weak heartbeat.

Alex grabbed Kara under the arms and started to drag her to safety, but she stopped when looked back at the fight. The Zarolot flew into the gun causing the pressure inside the liquid nitrogen canister to overload. The gun exploded throwing J'onn into the air where he crashed into a desk. In an instant, the Zarolot was beside him. It pushed its hand through his heart. J'onn yelled, but he was too weak to phase through the alien.

Alex left Kara and ran to the trap and the remote which J'onn had dropped when the gun exploded. She held a finger over the open button. The Zarolot needed to be close enough for it to work and she could think of only one way to get its attention off J'onn.

"Hey." She called. "You want to get back at Supergirl for killing your son? Kill me. I'm her sister."

"You are not Kryptonian!" The Zarolot shrieked.

"No, we're not blood, but Kara Zor-El has been my family ever since she came to this planet."

The Zarolot disappeared. Alex pressed the open and waited for it to teleport beside her, but it appeared next to Kara instead. It stuck a hand through her torso causing her to jerk awake screaming.

"I will kill you after you get rid of your trap."

Kara surveyed what was going on around her and realized what the alien was telling her sister to do. "Alex no!" She cried, but she was so weak it sounded like a whisper.

The Zarolot touched Kara's head and her body started to flail like she was having a seizure.

"Alright!" Alex screamed throwing the remote and trap. There was no doubt the Zarolot would kill her now, but Kara wouldn't last much more of the Zarolot's attack. Maybe while it was busy killing her J'onn would be able to trap it and save Kara and himself.

"I watched as you killed my son, now you can watch me kill your sister." It told Kara.

What happened next went by so fast Alex only perceived about half of it. Right after the Zarolot teleported to her, Alex felt a jerk, and a second later she realized she was across the room. Kara held her by one arm and they hover a few feet above the ground. Then she felt another jerk, and she found herself on the ground. Kara had flown back to the Zarolot and was blasting it with her freeze breath. It shrank back, its light turning dull, and hovered motionlessly in place. Then Kara flew to a trap, grabbed it and the remote, returned to the Zarolot, and opened the trap which instantly sucked the alien in.

Kara flew back to Alex. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah." Alex nodded. "Are you?" Even with her powers back, Kara had endured so much from the fight that Alex was worried she might still be suffering from some lasting effects.

Kara smiled. "I am now."

Then they both turned and headed over to J'onn. He was still hurt and moaning, but he'd manage to sit up. "Are you okay?" Alex asked.

J'onn got to his feet and glared at Alex like he always didn't when she made him mad. "You were supposed to get your sister and get out."

Alex sighed, this was J'onn's way of saying he was okay. "Technically, I never had a chance to agree to those terms."

"And what about when you joined the DEO and agreed to follow my chain of command?"

Kara chuckled. "She never follows your orders."

J'onn turned his glare on Kara. "It runs in the family."

Kara ignored his anger and gave him a hug. "Thanks for coming to my rescue again."

"I think you and Alex did most of the rescuing this time."

They heard a window break behind them.

"Kara," Superman asked. "Are you okay?"

"We're fine, my powers are back. Thanks for coming, but I'm afraid you're a little late, we already caught the Zarolot."

"Sorry I wasn't here to help, I flew straight from Metropolis when Jimmy called me."

"Wait, how did James know?"

"Cat Grant called him."

"Crap! I forgot about her." She said running to find her boss.

...

Dr. Hamilton looked at the blood pressure cuff and frowned. "You're at one thirty-one over eighty-three that's little high."

"Considering I'm constantly dealing with incompetent journals, baseless libel lawsuits, a teenage son, two ex-husbands, and my mother that sound pretty good." Cat said. Then she glanced at Kara. "Besides after the nightmare of a flight, she took on it probably skyrocketed."

Once they'd found Cat, they'd decided to take her back to the DEO med bay just to double check that she wasn't seriously hurt by the Zarolot attack. J'onn had told Kara to fly fast enough that Cat wouldn't be able to tell which direction she was going.

"I did save your life tonight, remember."

"And considering you didn't have your power and nearly got yourself killed, that was incredibly stupid. The world needs Supergirl a lot more than it needs Cat Grant."

"I had my powers, I just—"

"Yeah, yeah, you weren't sure if you were up for using them, you keep insisting. And yet you fought an alien with a fire extinguisher and used alien technology to create the illusion that you were flying. Either way, I'm not flying back with you, I don't care if Agents Mulder and Scully want to take me out of here with a bag over my head."

"I wouldn't give us any ideas," Alex remarked.

"We have vehicles with blackened windows that we can use to transport you home, but we're already going against protocol allow a member of the press in here," J'onn said.

"You've hardly given me the grand tour. I haven't seen anything besides this room so far."

"And like we discussed anything you see here must stay classified or else you'll—"

"Become the latest resident of your little prison."

"Actually, I was going to say you'll be putting innocent lives at risk, but like my associate said, I wouldn't give us any ideas."

"Well despite what some might think," She glanced at Kara. "I can be trusted with a secret."

"You seem fine, Ms. Grant," Hamilton said. "But just to be certain I'd like to perform an EEG, an MRI, and a CAT scan.

"No pun intended." Kara joked, earning her an eye roll from her sister and a dirty look from her boss.

Hamilton took Cat to run the tests and J'onn left to talk to Lucy leaving the sisters alone to talk.

"Look, Alex, I'm sorry about what I said before and I'm sorry I've been so distant the last few days."

"Considering what all you've been through you're allowed to be a little distant. And it's okay if you're not ready to talk about everything, but I don't want you holding things in so I won't worry about you. You're my little sister, it's my job to look out for you and sometimes that includes worrying about you. So whenever you ready to talk, I'm here for you."

"I know, you always are and you're always looking out for me. I'm also sorry I contacted Cat even though I knew you were against it. I guess you were right...again. It was too risky."

"I may have been right about the risk, but I was still wrong to try to keep it from you. No matter what I thought about how risky it was, it was your decision to make, although I wish I'd been there to back you up, to begin with. But I guess I only have myself to blame for that one."

"Alex I love you and I don't want you to stop looking out for me, but I don't want you to worry about me so much that you forget about yourself. In your message you accused me of not looking out for myself because I'm too worried about others, but what about you. How many times have you nearly gotten yourself killed trying to protect me or J'onn or someone else? At least I'm nearly indestructible and have healing powers."

"What can I say, some of your selflessness must have rubbed off on me from living with you all of those years. Besides, healing powers are not everything. You still should probably get some time on your solar bed after all you went through with the Zarolot."

Kara rolled her eyes. "Fine, I'll agree to the solar bed if you agree to take tomorrow off to rest and recuperate after all you've been through over the last several days."

"Tomorrow, I really need to work in the lab, the liquid nitrogen wasn't as effective as we hoped it'd be and I really need to adjust my calculations and maybe look into a method that uses CO2 like the fire extinguisher."

"Alex," Kara warned. "do I need to call Eliza?"

"No!" She exclaimed.

"Good."

"You know that's a low blow."

"I'm just looking out for my sister. I guess I picked up a few of your habits from living with you. And since you're taking tomorrow off, do you want to come over and have pizza and a binge-watching marathon. I missed a lot of new episodes while I was in a coma and I think we need to do something about that."

"Glad to see your priorities are in order. Yeah, it sounds like fun."

Vasquez came running in and told Kara. "Ma'am I thought you'd want to know a convenience store robbery has just turned into a hostage crisis."

Kara looked at Alex. "I'll use the solar bed right after I get through with this."

"Don't think I won't hold you to it," Alex said as Kara flew off.

The End

Author's Notes: Thanks again for everything. I hope you liked it. If you have any questions or comments you're welcome to review or PM me.