A/N: Thank you for the comments.

Guest (1) - To be honest on the whole I have been disappointed by voice actors when they end up switching to TV. There are a few exceptions, but not many.

Guest (2) - I do really like that idea and have actually written a chapter. There are a few things holding me back such as a complete lack of Gotham knowledge and not really having a grasp on Earth 1. But I will keep plugging away and see where I get.

Supergirl25 - So paranoid! Can you imagine the guilt Alex would feel if she had been playing everyone to get closer to Kara, only for Landon to actually turn out to be bad, but not picked up on by Alex as she is only pretending to believe he is bad.


"Good afternoon." Landon greeted.

"Hello." Kara replied as Alex nodded.

"Come in and sit down." He prompted. He then waited for them to get settled before saying. "So last time we talked about Alex's safe place, today we can explore that further and encourage a heathy use of it, or, we can talk about Kara's safe place."

"We get to chose?" Alex asked. "What happened to equal talking time?"

"That's why I would prefer to talk about Kara's safe place, but you have a lot of unresolved issues and discussing your safe place further could help." Landon said.

"A beach." Kara suddenly said.

"Sorry what?" Landon said.

"My safe place, it's a beach."

"Any particular beach?"

"I guess the one in Midvale, but it's slightly different." Kara said.

"In what way?"

"There's an ice cream shop." Kara said.

"That is probably the least surprising thing you have ever said." Landon commented. "Can you describe the beach and how you feel?"

"There are birds flying, and the sound of the sea roaring, the sun is shining and I feel energised."

"Are you there by yourself?"

"No."

"Who else is there?"

"My family and my friends."

"Is Alex there?"

"Yes."

"What is she doing?"

"It changes. Sometimes she's surfing, sometimes she's talking to her dad."

"How does that make you feel?" Landon asked looking at Alex.

"Me?" Alex asked surprised to be brought into the discussion. "It's Kara's safe place."

"Yes it is. But it is the opposite of your safe place. While you went for isolation and constructed a safe place that was free from Kara, Kara's safe place revolves around family and she even created a space in her safe place specially for you. Does that make you feel guilty?"

"Should it?"

"Not necessarily. It's not a trick question. I just want to know if it makes you feel guilty."

"You think it should?" Alex countered.

"It doesn't matter what I think. It matters what you think. But to help you I need to know what you think."

"Okay, it makes me feel guilty." Alex said going for the answer she thought he wanted.

"Which is unsurprising. But it shouldn't. You hid who you really were, what you really felt for years from everyone, including yourself." Landon said. "You had to lie about who Kara was. Your whole life has been about building walls and keeping secrets. It is not surprising that your safe place is an extension of that."

"And that's bad?"

"It is what it is. The question is, is that what you want? Only you can answer that. And if you don't want it only you can change it." He said before rapidly turning his attention back to Kara.

"Okay, Kara, back to you. You mentioned Alex and her dad. Who else is there?"

"Um, Eliza and J'onn."

"You've not mentioned your Kryptonian family." Landon pointed out.

"Is that bad?" Kara asked trying to remember what the plan was.

"There is no good or bad, right or wrong. It is your safe place, it can have whatever you want. What I'm interested in is honesty. And I think you are not mentioning your Kryptonian family because you don't want to upset Alex. For this to work, I need you to be completely open, if you can't do that with Alex here perhaps we should go back to separate sessions for awhile."

"No." Kara said quickly. "I want Alex here."

"Yet you can't be open in front of her."

"Yes I can." Kara countered.

"So are any people from Krypton there?" Landon probed.

"Yes." Kara said.

"Okay, why didn't you mention it before? I think it is because you don't want to hurt Alex."

"Why would it hurt me?" Alex asked. "Of course she wants her Kryptonian family there."

"Yet she didn't mention them. Why?"

"Because it hurts. Having them in my safe place makes them seem real. Talking about them highlights that they are gone forever." Kara said.

"Is that why you still haven't specifically mentioned Mon-El." Landon asked.

"Maybe." Kara said.

"Tell me, do you only go to your safe place when you are sad and scared, or do you dream about it as well?"

"Dream?" Kara said as she recalled the dream of Mon-El and her mother in the fields of Krypton. As she recalled the dream she shut her eyes and lost herself in the memory.

"Kara?" He called noticing he had lost her attention.

"I get that you want Kara to face up to everything, but don't you think pushing her is cruel." Alex jumped in also getting concerned by Kara.

"I'm not trying to push her." Landon assured her. "But don't you think it's strange that she still won't talk about Mon-El?"

-00-

"What happened to you in there?" Alex asked as they entered Alex's lab.

"Hmmmm?"

"When you spaced out." Alex said.

"Wasn't that part of the plan? You know make it look like I was thinking about what he said?"

"Yeah, but you got really lost in thought." Alex said concerned.

"I was hungry and you know I find it hard to focus when I'm hungry."

"How can you be hungry?"

"Because I spent the first part of the session thinking about ice cream." Kara said as Winn approached.

"Hey Kara, there's been a huge collision at the port, they need Supergirl."

-00-

"Hey." Maggie said entering the apartment.

"Hey." Alex replied as she started at the bottle of whiskey on the table.

"You okay?"

"I guess."

"Where's Kara?"

"There was collision in the port, she's helping." Alex explained.

"Everything okay?"

"No."

"What did he do?"

"Cut too close to home and rattled Kara, who now won't talk about it." Alex said. "And I think it might be my fault."

Maggie wanted to ask 'Not Landon's?' but bit her tongue and instead sat next to Alex and said.

"I thought you and Kara were doing your whole making stuff up to throw Landon off thing." Maggie said.

"We were. I mean we did. But he has his own agenda." Alex said before becoming lost in thought. Eventually she asked. "Do you think I shut myself off?"

"From what?" Maggie asked.

"Everyone."

"When you get sad you get angry and you lash out and you do tend to shut yourself off, or throw yourself in your work." Maggie said. "Why?"

"Something Landon said. He said I built walls and don't open up. Then he pointed out how strange it was that Kara won't talk about Mon-El and I'm wondering if that is my fault."

"Being yourself, saying what you really want, that's new for you, it'll take time." Maggie said. "But you've always been like that. Kara's not. And she will talk to you when she's ready."

"I hope so." Alex said.

"So does this mean you are actually accepting Landon might be good at his job?" Maggie asked optimistically.

"No. It means he's trying to throw me off and the worse part is I'm letting him."

-00-

"Morning." Alex said as she and Maggie sat opposite Kara at NooNan's

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

"You didn't come round last night." Maggie said. "I missed my weekly dose of crazy."

"I didn't finish at the port until really late." Kara shrugged as the waitress brought over Kara's order.

"I really don't know how you do it." The waitress commented as she put down the sticky bun and bowl of ice cream.

"Seriously? It's not even eight." Maggie said looking at the ice cream.

"What? I've been craving ice cream since the session. Next time remind me not to add food to my fake safe places." Seeing Alex look at the ice cream she passed her sister a spoon. "It's real, none of that vegan stuff."

Taking the spoon Alex started to eat the ice cream as Maggie looked on in disgust.

"Ice cream for breakfast? It must have gone badly." Lena commented as she sat down next to Kara.

"Want some?" Kara asked.

"No, thank you. My human arteries would prefer to make it past fifty."

"At least someone here has sense." Maggie said shaking her head as Alex kept eating.

"So what happened?" Lena asked.

"I am really bad at sticking to a script. I need to practice more. He threw me with his questions and I panicked." Kara said. "I wasn't expecting him to ask who was there."

"Who was where?" Lena asked confused.

"My safe place. Well my fake safe place. So I guessed, and said people were there, but that made him attack Alex." She said as she kept eating. "And then every time he asked a question I seemed to pick the wrong option." She then looked at Alex who wasn't buying her cheerful account and asked. "Did you notice how he wants to split us up?"

"Yeah."

"Split you up?" Maggie asked.

"Go back to separate therapy sessions. He claimed my answers made him think I couldn't be honest with Alex in the room." Kara said.

"How come you ended up in joint sessions in the first place?" Lena asked.

"I demanded it." Kara said.

"You?" Lena asked.

"Yeah. Well Alex and I. We marched into his office and Alex demanded it and then I said if he wanted me back Alex had to be there as well."

"And he accepted it?" Lena asked sounding suspicious.

"Yes, well eventually." Kara said.

"But now he's realising it's a mistake." Alex added.

"Divide and conquer, perfect strategy." Lena said.

"Well we're not letting that happen." Alex said.

"So what do we do?" Kara asked.

"If he wants us split up, lets make sure we give him no excuse to split us. Force him into the mistake."

"Yeah, but how?" Kara asked before saying. "Lena can help."

"It is far too early in the morning for this." Maggie grumbled.

"How can I help?" Lena asked.

"You've actually had therapy right?" Kara asked.

"Yes. Probably more sessions than everyone in this cafe put together." Lena agreed.

"Plus you did several psychology modules in college." Kara went on.

"Yes." Lena said not sure where Kara was going.

"So you can help prep us."

"That's brilliant." Alex agreed. "You can tell us exactly what we need to say."

"You know there is no right or wrong thing to say in therapy?" Lena asked.

"Which is what makes it pointless." Alex said before glancing at her watch. "I have to get to work, but we can work out the plan tonight." She said standing before kissing Maggie's head and disappearing.

"Shoot, I've got to go too, I have an interview in two minutes. See you tonight." Kara said following Alex out.

"Congratulations. You have just been enrolled in Team Crazy." Maggie said to Lena.

-TBC...


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