A/N: So I am really sorry for the delay in posting, between work, getting caught up in my other stories and a car crash it has been hard finding time to write. But I do intend to continue with the story.

"Good morning Agent Danvers." Landon smiled as Alex walked in.

"Morning." Alex said her lack of enthusiasm seeping from her.

"Come in and take a seat." He said waving towards the chair.

"What's this?" Alex asked noticing the item on the table.

"It's a sock puppet." Landon said.

"I can see that. Why is there a sock puppet in the room?"

"You clearly don't like me and have major issues with me." He said.

"True, but then you say something like that, which implies you are better than I give you credit for." Alex shot back.

"So today rather than talking to me you can interact with the sock puppet." He said ignoring her comment.

For a second Alex didn't say anything, waiting for the punchline. When none came she said.

"So you want me to what? Wear the sock puppet and talk to it?"

"How you interact with it is up to you. The point is it will be a proxy for me. Which may get round some of your distrust."

"Does that ever work? I mean you are still in the room." Alex pointed out, clearly unimpressed with the latest tactic.

"It works more often then you'd think." Landon said. "Especially with petulant children."

"Cute." Alex replied.

"You want to waste an hour of your life that's fine." Landon said. "But if you want to talk about any issues that is also fine and productive. If Simon allows you to do that it's a win."

"You've named your sock puppet Simon?" Alex asked.

"You don't like the name?" Landon asked.

"You can call your socks whatever you want. I'm just a little concerned you are personalising socks." Alex said before looking at Landon and asking. "What did you do to Kara?"

"How do you mean?"

"Since her last session with you she has been different round me."

"Different how?"

"I don't know exactly. Just different. So what did you do?"

"You know these sessions are confidential."

"So you did do something." Alex said.

"You are sounding paranoid again."

"Maybe, but you are the one with a sock called simon."

"Some people find it easier talking to inanimate objects. But they still need a level of personalisation in order to talk freely. And in cases like yours it can be much healthier and beneficial to talk to inanimate objects."

"And why is that?" Alex asked.

"When you are angry or backed into a wall you lash out. It's what you always do. At least Simon doesn't have feelings you can hurt."

"Are you saying I hurt your feelings?"

"No. That's part of the job. It is Kara I am more concerned by."

"What do you mean?"

"Alex, you practically denied that Jeremiah was Kara's father. You implied being part of the family was optional. Did you ever apologise?"

"No." Alex said after a long moment recalling the event. "I need to go." Alex said abruptly leaving the office.

-00-

"Hey, what are you doing here?" Kara asked as she returned home and saw Alex outside her apartment.

"I'm sorry." Alex said as she wrapped her arms round a surprised sister.

"What's happened? Is it Eliza?" Kara asked panicking.

"No. Eliza's fine." Alex assured her. "I just needed to apologise."

"For what?" Kara asked both concerned and confused.

"Everything."

"Okaaaaay, well I forgive you...for everything." Kara said trying to help her sister, but unsure about what was wrong.

"I'm serious Kara." Alex said pulling away. "I never should have said you are either part of the family or you're not. You are and always will be family."

"That was months ago." Kara reminded her.

"I know and I should have done this sooner. But I was so self-absorbed I never even considered your feelings."

"It's fine." Kara said opening her front door and letting Alex into the apartment.

"Please don't shut me out. I want to know." Alex said. "Because then I can start to fix it."

"There's nothing to fix." Kara said as they sat on the couch. When Alex just stared at her Kara finally conceded. "At the time what you said upset me. But you were right. I'm not really part of the family, I'm not even human. What you all did for me, taking me in, giving me a home, is more than I deserved and more than I could ever repay." Kara said as sirens sounded in the distance. "I have to go."

-00-

"So I am not seeing any photos of Landon with strings connecting him to crimes, so this is progress." Maggie said walking into their apartment. But as she noticed how upset Alex was looking she asked. "What happened?"

"He made me realise how badly I had treated Kara."

"What are you talking about you do everything you can to protect her, even though she's the one with powers."

"When dad came back and she tried telling me we couldn't trust him I basically told her she wasn't part of the family. She has already lost one family and there I was stealing away another."

"Kara knows how much your dad means to you." Maggie reminded her.

"But it still hurt her and the worse part is when I talked to her about it this evening she justified what I did by saying I was right that she wasn't really part of the family."

"Why are you here?" Maggie asked. "You should be talking about this with Kara."

"A Supergirl thing came up." Alex explained as she chewed her bottom lip.

"I'll be back in a moment." Maggie said heading to the bedroom as she took out her phone.

"What's wrong?" Kara asked as she flew through the window of Alex's apartment.

"Kara? What are you doing here?" Alex asked.

"Maggie texted me telling me to get over here now."

"Wow that was quick." Maggie commented walking back into the lounge and seeing Kara.

"I thought Alex was in trouble." Kara said confused as to why she had been summoned.

"She is." Maggie said. "You two need to talk." She added putting her jacket on. "But before I go I just have one thing to say. Kara you should know better. Sharing blood, history, race, species, that doesn't make family. Family is so much bigger than that."

"Am I in trouble?" Kara asked Alex when Maggie had disappeared. "Because she had the same disapproving look she normally gives me when I catch a criminal but ignore process."

"You're not in trouble." Alex said, patting the couch next to her.

"You sure?"

"I'm sure. She just wanted us to finish having the conversation we had earlier."

"I thought we had finished that." Kara said.

"No, no we didn't." Alex said. "Plus we didn't even get round to the fact that you don't really tell me stuff any more." Alex reminded her.

"You're busy."

"Never too busy for you." Alex said. "Kara no matter what I said you are my sister. We may be a strange family but we are family." Seeing Kara was thinking she asked. "What is it?"

"It's just, you are so happy with Maggie."

"I am. But that doesn't mean you've been replaced."

"I know. But I don't want to be a burden. I've cost you so much already."

"Kara you have not cost me anything. You are not responsible for the bad things in my life."

"Jeremiah was on me."

"No it wasn't. If you want to blame someone, blame your cousin. All I know is I wouldn't have got through it if you hadn't been there for me." Alex said. "You say you are a burden, which you aren't. But at the end of the day I rely so much on you. You give me so much strength. If anyone is the burden it is me. So I need you to promise you will stop shutting me out or not coming because you think I'm too busy. Okay?"

"Okay."

"I mean it. Don't make me set mom on you."

"You know that threat only works when issued against you." Kara reminded her.

"The tide is changing." Alex said.

"Not that much." Kara said before asking. "So how are you really doing with the Jeremiah situation."

"Honestly?"

"Honestly."

"Not great." Alex confessed. "I miss him and I refuse to accept he is bad but it just feels like the rest of the world has sided against me."

"I am always on your side." Kara reminded her as she hugged her. Seeing Alex was frowning she asked. "Something else on your mind?"

"Landon. I need to know what he is up to."

"How?"

"I don't know." She said before sitting up. "Actually I do. Maggie gave me the answer."

-00-

"What's going on?" Maggie asked when she returned to the apartment later that evening and saw that Alex and Kara had set up a crime board.

"You were right." Alex said.

"About?"

"We need to treat this as a crime."

"Treat what as a crime?" Maggie asked.

"Landon. We need to figure out what he is up to and who he works for. So we need to figure out where he goes, who he speaks to. What has happened to his past patients."

"You don't think you are sounding a little obsessive? A touch stalkerish?" Maggie asked before clarifying. "Stalkerish as in a crime."

"If anything we are preventing a crime." Kara said.

"What crime?"

"We don't know yet, but it will be bad." Kara said.

"You two are insane." Maggie commented.

"There is something really strange about Landon." Alex said. "And I will figure out what he is up to."

"We." Kara corrected. "We will figure it out because we are in this together."

TBC...

A/N: Thanks for reading and reviewing.