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Guest - Seeing Kara has lied a lot more to Lena than the other way round there is not too much else for her to say, but others will fight her corner.


"You look like you could use this." Eliza said handing Lena a cup of coffee.

"Thank you." Lena said, although she looked suspiciously at both Eliza and the coffee.

"Do you mind if I join you?" Eliza asked.

"Proving there is no such thing as a free coffee." Lena said waving towards a chair.

"When Kara told me she was friends with you I was sceptical. I thought the worse about you, that you were befriending her to trap her and hurt her. But that thought never once occurred to Kara. Kara sees the good in people. When she first came to Earth she struggled to understand how anyone could have a bad thought. High School, with all the bullying that goes on, was a wake up call. But still she always assumes the best in people. Something none of us deserves. But it is something that has always worried the most. Now I worry because I know how hurt Kara gets when she is let down. But when she first came to live with us I tried to embrace her, make her completely part of the family. But I was so scared that something would happen that would endanger Alex. As embracing as I tried to be, I can't deny that Alex was my priority. So I told Kara she had to lie. To be guarded about who she was. So that Alex would never be put in danger." Eliza said. "And Kara was so scared about losing anyone else she did just that. She hid who she was, what she was, from everyone. Something that I am sure kept Alex safe, but maybe it wasn't the right thing for Kara."

"Kara makes her own decisions. So do I. None of us can really say if they are right or wrong."

"True. All we can really judge someone on, is their intentions." Eliza said. "Your intentions with the rock were good. As are Kara's with Supergirl." She paused and then stood saying. "You are clearly busy so I'll leave you to it." But before she walked away she said, suddenly changing subjects. "I imagine that Thanksgiving was not really celebrated in the Luthor household."

"Celebrated? No. Any occasion to be civil and caring were not encouraged." Lena said her bitterness not fully hiding her sadness.

"So now you spend Thanksgivings working?"

"Pretty much."

"If you want to break that routine you are more than welcome to join us." Eliza said before walking away.

-00-

As Kara sat in the window of her darkened apartment looking out over the city her apartment door unexpectedly opened. Looking round she saw her foster mother.

"Eliza? What are you doing here." She asked.

"I was worried about you."

"I'll be okay. You should be with Alex."

"Alex is sleeping." Eliza replied. "Something you are clearly not able to do."

"I'm fine." Kara said.

"I'm going to make some hot chocolate, why don't you get some blankets." The suggestion said with a tone that Kara knew not to argue with. Silently she went to her bedroom and collected some blankets which she deposited on the couch before walking to the kitchen.

"Do you want me to heat that?" Kara offered.

"Sure, just make sure it doesn't boil." Eliza said backing away form the pan with milk in.

"I'm way better at this than I was." Kara said as she heated the milk with her heat vision.

"Something that I would find comforting if I thought you honed those skills in the kitchen." Eliza said. When Kara looked at her strangely she said. "Okay the thought of you or Alex trying to cook is not comforting, but more comforting that the thought of you out there fighting."

"Ignoring the fact I'm almost indestructible, Alex always has my back." Kara assured her as Eliza added Marshmallows to the cups.

"It's the almost in that sentence that makes me worry." Eliza said handing Kara a cup and following her to the lounge.

As Eliza sat down she waited for Kara to get comfortable and place the blankets round them. She then waited for Kara to speak. When it was obvious she wasn't going to, Eliza asked.

"Want to talk about why you are not sleeping?"

"Just thinking."

"About what?" Eliza probed.

"Does it matter?"

"You were sitting staring out of the window at one in the morning. That suggests it matters." Eliza said. "Is this to do with your mom?"

"I was so happy when I found her...not that I'm not grateful for everything that you have done for me-"

"Kara, she's your mother. Of course you were going to be happy when you saw her." Eliza said. "You can talk about her in front of me. I'm not going to get offended."

When Kara didn't say anything more she asked.

"So what happened to change you from happy into...this?"

"I don't know...maybe it's me. Maybe Kal is the lucky one not remembering, not having expectations. I thought I had come to terms with my parents not being who I thought they were...but I hadn't. But it's not just that, it just feels like we didn't connect like we used that. That we were different, too different."

"Time changes people. Look at Jeremiah." Eliza pointed out. "Your mother thought she has lost you. I can't start to imagine what she went though, but I do know she couldn't have come out of that unchanged. But that doesn't mean that she doesn't love you."

"I know...but it's hard to lose what we had. I guess I'm scared of losing all my good memories."

"Losing some good memories is better than living with regret." Eliza said hugging Kara who silently drew comfort from the embrace before asking.

"Have I done more harm than good?" Kara asked.

"What are you talking about?"

"If Kal and I hadn't been sent here there would have been no Zod, no Fort Rozz, no Non, no Myriad."

"There would have still have been threats to the Earth." Eliza countered. "Threats we wouldn't have been able to stop without you and Clark. You can't take responsibility for decisions made before you were born or decisions you played no part in. All I know for sure is my life is richer from having you in it. And I may be selfish, but that is what's important."

-TBC...


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