Day 155

Mastering the skill of flying without really using her legs to push herself up was a bit hard on her,but not impossible. It was like being kids again. It had nothing to do with using legs but actually wanting it. She had spent a lot doing it,long hours of work and tiring herself down,since there still wasn't an easier solution to the other permanent issue,but with this Kara had worked out a way to fly around without her lower part being a nuisance and feeling heavy on her. All it took was focusing on where she wanted to go,the place she wanted to reach and be there. Hank and Cat had both been pretty happy to watch her going around like before,and the DEO had been a good base to exercise. Which was the reason why after this morning's training,they were going over the sight part. The bad part of not being able to see your opponent was not seeing where the eventual hits came from. They even had a plan of action laid out,since the doctors had studied the alien, for when the time had come,but the true issue was going for him before using it.

"You can't see him,but this is something which has already occurred to many other agents and they didn't give up. It's clear when you're guided by a voice,but he's not stupid,he won't talk. He won't give you the chance to know where he is".

"So I'm doomed"

"That's where I come in. It's a bit of a crash test. Clear your mind out. Don't think about anything,not even this room. Just close your eyes as if you could see the moment you open them up and try to see me,really see me. Feel for where I am,you'll know what to do. I have faith,we all have faith you'll".

Kara emptied her mind of every thought and let go of the weight.

Soon she was up floating at the centre of the training room,barely a few centimeters away from the floor.

"What if I just kept them shut?"

"You may try. Do what you feel."

He didn't speak again,but Kara perceived the change in his stance. She knew it from the times,the two of them had trained either alone or together with Alex. It was normal for him,but knowing Hank,Supergirl also knew that this was all she could've foreseen of him without really having a look at the martian.

She heard his hand slashing the air,and before he could know his hand was blocked in hers.

"You're very self confident,mm?"

Kara laughed,and assumed her own fighting stance.

They sparred for two hours,alternating it to times of rest for when she really couldn't stand up anymore.

It was like the old times. She hadn't sparred with anybody in 5 months,and been literally dying for it.

Being in that room was like having something else of her old self back that she didn't have to see to remember the details. The panel,and kryptonite,and what the circle was like and the moves she had been taught. Even the moments of fun which had been shared.

She hadn't visited her mother in the other room,or the rest of the family to the cemetery,in months either,but soon they were gonna fix this too. Kara just needed to solve this first.

Everything she was doing was bringing her a step closer to that moment. Any day was a day less which separated her from facing the Dealer.

Evening was spent resting and with the family.

They actually went outside and it was a blessing. She hadn't been out in weeks and it was starting to get a bit tiring. Visiting the old field in the desert where she had tested her flying for the first time was great,almost like a booster.

Carter sounded like a pro in the subject,and Cat seemed to be just as good at orienting herself there.

"Ma do you think Hank would take me in as one of his agents?"

"Yeah why not?"

"No way Carter you're not becoming an agent of the DEO"

"But mom,ma said it was okay"

"Kara don't encourage our teenage boy to do such things."

Carter and Kara looked at her with smiles in their faces.

"What are you smiling at?This is not funny. Kara,he just said he wants to be an agent. That's bad."

She bursted into tears and the two immediately stopped laughing.

"Mom,I m sorry I didn't mean to"

"Cat,are you alright?"

"Don't..don't. It's just…."

"Oh"Kara rolled towards her and hugged her.

Just mood swings. It was normal they had began.

"Don't worry we'll talk about this in 15 years at last,and only if Hank thinks he's ready."

"Kara your sister died in all this,and she was pretty navigated in the field."

Kara felt a pang to her heart,but now it was more about her memories of Alex than about what had happened. It wasn't her fault. Finally she had realized it,but her job had been that anyway. Alex had always been on the line,anybody could get caught in the fire. She was glad to have the memories any way.

"If and only if he'll have any chance to become one,he will. And now that I know I will be there,I will make sure he's ok"

"But mom we don't know a thing about what's gonna happen in a few years. It was all a joke"

"Well in that case,shall we keep going?"

Just like that Cat was back to her usual self,not a trace of tears in her eyes. Mood swings were odd,and funny,and interesting.

And it would've been years before any of their kids had set foot into the DEO to fight alongside it. Better for them to not end up in the line of fire,anytime soon,or maybe just stay as innocent as they were,forever. Now she could understand a bit more what Alex had felt when she was out there. Why Alex had spent all those years protecting her,why she had been her life. They had gotten to talk in the time she had spent up there,she was getting better,and had finally let that guilt go. It seemed a lot brighter when she looked up at the sky.