Lost Child 2

XavAcid

It'd been over a month since that night.

The night that their daughter, Kara found the girl from far away planet.

They were reluctant at first, but neither of them could stand their only child begging for them to help. Zor El, who was the scientist of the family examined her to make sure that she did not carry any diseases, and or pathogens that could harm them.

With Alura being High Judicator, she was able to use her connection to obtain documentation and identification for their young charge. They'd decided to keep her status as an alien a secret. At least for now. The last thing they needed was for science guild or military guild to come for the child and took her. And in the midst of all that they would surely break their own child's heart.

It took them a while to be able to get her name.

Alexandra of the Danvers.

And even longer to get the whole story out. Of how she came to be on their planet, and why. For such a young girl, she put on such a brave face when it was obvious that she was terrified of what could happen to her. It took them some time to reassure her. Her parents, whoever they were, should be proud.

Their first difficulty was the language barrier.

But they got through it, Alex was smart, so smart. It took her barely anytime at all to learn their language, she spoke nearly as well as any Kryptonian now, and she was well on her way to reading it as well. He suspected that it would not be long before she was caught up and could, perhaps, attend the same school as his little Kara.

Already in the short time that the girl was in their home, the two girls were inseparable. Kara had taken a shine to her in a way that she never had anyone before.

Oh, Kara got along with anyone, all her friends at school, all her cousins, she played with them and would happily spend time with them, but with Alex, it was different.

These days, Kara refused to go anywhere without Alex.

And Alex seemed more than happy to be attached to her.

Another thing about their young charge. Her physiology was similar to them, except she seemed to be stronger, and faster, her senses were sharper. And they all seemed to be getting stronger by the day. Zor El had yet to figure out why, but he wasn't going to rush little Alex. He did not want to harm her or frighten her in anyway. He was fascinated.

"Father!" Kara ran down the hallway toward him, pulling Alex behind her. The little brunette seemed a lot more composed than his daughter.

"Hello little one"

He'd noted that he needed not to lean down as low as he used to to hug her. His little one was growing up fast.

"Hello Alexandra." He turned a warm smile to the little brunette. He was starting to think of her as another daughter, but she was still so very shy.

"Hello, sir." And very polite.

He gently wrapped his arm around her shoulder and hugged her briefly, she stiffened for a little then relaxed. "Come," he coaxed the both of them gently. "Tell me what you've been up to."

Kara giddily recited to her father what the both of them had been doing for most of the day, pulling Alex into her telling of their adventures.

Kara had spent the day reading with her new friend.

She was so very happy to have Alexandra- Alex, with her. She didn't understand the shortening of her name, but if Alex wanted it that way she was going to call her Alex. Kara felt like Alex was hers now, she didn't really understand why. Kara wanted to ask her mother about that. Or her aunt Astra.

Her parents were talking about clearing out their extra room for Alex, but in the meantime, she was sharing with Kara. Normally, she didn't mind sharing things with other children, Kara was the only child, so any other children she'd shared things with her were mostly her cousins, but not very often.

Still, she couldn't imagine even sharing bed with any of her cousins, but she had no trouble at all sharing with Alex. Now, a month later, she didn't want it any other way.

It was so much fun to show things to Alex, to explain things to her of their way, of their culture. And to be told of Alex's life and family, and planet in return. It was all so fascinating.

On the pod that Alex came with had Earth's history stored in its memory, and Alex had shared it with her, and some to her parents. Mostly to her father, since he was the scientist.

Alex's parents were scientists. So, to Kara, they had to be just as smart as her father. Her father Zor El was a scientist, too. She wasn't really sure what he was working on, but he was always working on somethings important.

"What is this creature?" Kara pointed at the image of small animal in mid air that Alex was showing her.

"That's a 'bird'."

"B.. bird?" The word sounded strange in her mouth.

There was no bird on Krypton. There was no other creature equivalent of 'birds' and she wanted to know how they could be in the air. And why did the fur looked like that. That got a giggle out of Alex, and Kara was glad.

While her friend smiled, she had yet to really hear her laugh. Kara tried to understand her, to imagine what it was like to lose everything. But her young mind just could not imagine things of such magnitude. But she wanted to help however she could. She didn't want Alex to be sad anymore.

Kara knew that her parents were working on adopting Alex into their house, she hoped that it got complete quickly. Her schooling was starting soon, and she wanted Alex to be there. Now, however she wanted to tell her father what Alex told her.

"Miss Kara," Kellex, their working droid announced her father arrival. "Master Zor El is home."

Kara perked up quickly, and hopped up from her seating position and took Alex's hand in hers. "Come Alex, let's go see father."

She felt her new friend yielded to her pull and they were off running to the front hall. Oh, she had so many things to tell her father, all the things Alex showed her, and told her about Earth, and all the things that they learned together.

a/n : thanks for reading.