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"Okay, where do we start?" Kara asked as she sat on her couch, next to Alex, with a notepad and pen.

"What are you doing?" Lena asked.

"Taking notes, so I don't forget." Kara said.

"Forget what?" Lena asked.

"What you tell us."

"I'm still not sure what I am meant to be telling you." Lena confessed.

"How we should respond to him, the type of answers he'll be looking for." Alex said.

"There are no right answers." Lena reminded them.

"I know. We just need to make it look like we are taking it seriously, without actually giving him an opportunity to attack us." Alex said. "If we can work out how he will respond we can deflect any attacks on Kara."

"We can go through scenarios that are based on my experiences, which I would like to remind you does not make me qualified, and go through what I believe a legitimate therapist should respond." Lena said.

"Or we could take one of your experiences, pretend it is ours and play it out in front of Landon and see how he responds." Kara said.

"You want me to share a painful and personal memory with you, for you to then share with Landon so you can test Landon's response?" Lena asked.

"Yeah." Kara said, having the grace to look little guilty.

"Surely you can all see the problem with this." Maggie said to everyone in the room.

"I can't argue with the logic. And being a Luthor I can't really complain about methods." Lena said. "But there are two flaws."

"Only two?" Maggie asked.

"Which are?" Alex asked ignoring the detective.

"Firstly, most of my sharing involved Lex or my mother….not something that is transferable. Secondly we can't train Kara to lie."

"I've been thinking about that." Alex said.

"Are you going to get J'onn to take her place?" Lena guessed.

"No. J'onn acting like Kara is..." Alex started, pausing to search for the right word.

"Awkward?" Lena guessed.

"A little." Alex agreed. "Also he doesn't believe Landon is anything other than a shrink so wouldn't do it."

"So what's your plan?" Lena asked.

"Kara managed to do pretty well in drama class, so she can learn a script. We make sure she learns it and you can help prep us for any questions that Landon may ask. If she isn't asked anything unexpected she'll be fine."

"And if he asks something we haven't thought of?" Lena asked.

"I'll jump in and direct things back to what we want to talk about." Alex said.

"That could work, but we still need a few ideas to of what to discuss." Lena pointed out.

"You don't have anything we can use?" Kara asked.

"Nothing that Landon would believe, even for a second, was a real event from your past." Lena said. "Isn't there an actual event from your lives you could use?"

"No we don't want to give him anything. Unless we take an actual event and modify it. I mean then it will sound truthful and throw him off. But we can't give him anything he could use against us. And he'll try to use anything to drive a wedge between us."

"What about a harmless story from college?" Lena said.

"Not a good idea." Alex said not wanting to open that can of worms.

"What about from your time working with Cat?" Lena asked Kara. "Fetching Cat Grant's Lattes while you are the most powerful woman in the world must give him plenty to discuss." Lena said.

"Yeah, but he'll use that to pick on Kara." Alex said. "He'll say that Kara doesn't want to be in control of her life."

"Or Alex and Eliza forced me down a route I didn't want." Kara added.

"Why not talk about a good experience? One where only positives can be drawn?" Lena asked.

"What about the popcorn maker?" Maggie asked.

"You told her?" Kara asked looking at Alex.

"I didn't think it was a secret." Alex replied looking slightly guilty.

"Popcorn maker?" Lena asked.

"It doesn't matter and we're not using that story." Kara said looking hurt.

"Surely you two spent a day doing normal things, helping each other out." Lena said trying to move the conversation away from whatever painful memory Kara didn't want to share. "He can't twist that."

"He can in their mind." Maggie muttered as Alex said.

"He'll try."

"But on the bright side, if he does, that strengthens your argument that he is trying to drive a wedge between you." Lena said.

"I guess." Alex said. "No wait that's it. We pick an event we analyse it to death and ensure that there is nothing negative about it and use it at the session. When he twists it in some way we record it and the next session try the same thing. If we can give J'onn enough examples he'll have to believe us."

"Okay, but what example do we use?" Kara asked.

"It should be one where Kara did something for you." Lena said looking at Alex.

"Why?" Kara asked.

"Based on what you said, if it is the other way round he'll try to make you feel guilty." Lena explained.

"Good point." Alex said.

"What about calculus?" Kara asked.

"That could work, but he'll still try to twist it." Alex said as Kara's phone buzzed.

"I have to go, I'll be back soon." With that Kara flew from the apartment.

"Calculus?" Lena asked.

"I was flunking, Kara helped." Alex said. Noticing Lena's surprised look she asked. "What? Is that a bad example? Does it suggest some underlying issue?"

"No. Not at all. I'm just a little surprised. Kara literally caught a plane with you on in order to save your life, but you pick her helping you with calculus as a good example?"

"We can't use the plane, he'll talk about how we repressed her and how I'm ungrateful."

"Ungrateful?" Lena asked.

"I kind of yelled at Kara rather than thanking her."

"Why?" Lena asked.

"Because she had exposed herself to the world and placed herself in danger. I was worried."

"That's understandable." Lena said. "I don't see how Landon can make Kara feel bad about it."

"After that I supported a mission which involved her getting shot with a Kryptonite dart, then I put her in a Kryptonite room and punched her." Alex listed as Lena looked on surprised.

"All of that was too protect her." Maggie reminded her.

"Was it really? I can't deny it did feel kind of good getting the upper hand for a change." Alex confessed.

"Which is a normal human reaction and nothing to feel guilty about." Lena said.

"Not the way Landon will spin it." Alex pointed out.

"And you'll believe him?" Lena asked.

"Kara will when he reminds her how much I've betrayed her and it will just make her feel more isolated." Alex explained.

"Then we had better make sure that doesn't happen." Lena said.

-00-

"So, you won't trust a qualified therapist, but you will confide in and trust the judgement of Lena Luthor?" Maggie asked as she drove Alex home.

"Lena is Kara's friend." Alex said.

"It wasn't that long ago you didn't trust her." Maggie said. "If you can trust Lena, why can't you try to trust Landon?"

"I know you don't see it, but everything he does in the sessions feels like an attack, especially on Kara."

"You sure it's not just him trying to force her to face her issues?"

"Forcing her is the wrong tactic." Alex said. "I know Kara and forcing it will only cause her to close up."

"What happens when you make stuff up and Landon accidentally forces an issue that he wouldn't normally?"

"That's why we are going through everything in advance." Alex said.

"Just promise me when this backfires you won't do anything stupid." Maggie pleaded.

"Like what?" Alex asked.

"I don't know, something that carries a jail sentence."

TBC...


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