"Kara, what's wrong darling?", Lena asked as she walked into Kara med bay. Kara was in tears, staring at the floor, and hugging herself.

"Why didn't anyone tell me?"

"Tell you what Kara?"

"One of my team was injured last night, why didn't someone tell me that."

Alex spoke up, "Kara, Lena didn't know, hell I didn't know til about an hour ago."

"She out of the field Alex, I should have been there, she was covering my patrol.", Kara was angry, not with Alex but with herself.

"They volunteered Kara, Veronica could not have known what was going to go down in that bar last night, neither could have you."

"He stabbed her Alex, that damn knife destroyed her spleen and part of her colon. She won't be able to go out in the field ever again, and she will be in recovery for weeks. If I had been 100 percent, this wouldn't have happened.", her eyes flared red.

"Kara, stop this right now.", Lena snapped. "This girl knew the dangers and she volunteered, yes she was injured, but she didn't die, and according to this, she saved 4 lives and took down the alien that stabbed her without killing him." She handed her tablet to Kara with the report on it. "Don't belittle her actions by thinking it couldn't happen again. She was brave and she was doing her job, a job you inspired her to do. As her commander, I understand that you are upset, but you can't blame yourself every single time things go sideways Kara, the world doesn't work like that."

"But no one on my team has ever been injured before."

"Kara, it was going to happen, you and the DEO have a dangerous job, honor her, give her a job in the lab, according to her records she is a software genius, maybe you can find a project for her that will make the best of those abilities. Let her know that she is important to the DEO whether she is in the field or not, let her and the rest of your team know that you are there not just as Supergirl, but as their CO, and you care about them."

"You're right Lena. Alex I'm sorry, I shouldn't have taken it out on you."

Lena kissed Kara on the top of her head and leaned in to hug her. Alex wrapped both of them in a tight hug, she had signed many condolence letters before Kara came out as Supergirl, and even though the number had dropped significantly after Kara started with the DEO, Alex still took every single injury or death personally.

"Lena, how did you get so smart."

"My family had a tendency to treat people as disposable, since I took over L Corp, I have had to work very hard to accept people as people, that everything they do, no matter how small or how large, they are important."

"Well according to the internal boards, everyone is getting a pink streak in their hair to honor Veronica, think you could pull that off sis?"

"Maybe, Harley, are the nanite 2's still in my system."

"Yes Kara."

"Can you program them to create a pink streak in my hair?"

"We have never tried that before; I am reworking their programming now."

30 seconds passed, then 45, then a minute, suddenly, Lena gasped, "Kara, it's working."

Kara got up slowly and headed towards the mirror, just in time to watch a pink stripe about an inch-wide form from the scalp and run down the right side of her hair. "Can I go see her Alex?"

"Yeah she is in critical care downstairs."

Lena and Kara made their way down the hallway to the elevator, everyone was staring and smiling at Kara's hair, making her a bit self-conscious. "Kara honey, you fly around in a blue leotard and skirt, but changing your hair makes you blush."

"Not used to everyone staring."

"Listen to what they are saying darling."

Kara concentrated and heard the members of the DEO talking about how amazing it was that even Supergirl was honoring Veronica, several were even considering transferring to engineering and development just to serve on her team. As she heard what they were saying, Kara's head came up and she started walking with more pride than before, realizing the effect she was having on the whole team was more important than wallowing in self pity.

"That's my girl.", Lena said as they entered the elevator.

They arrived on the next floor and were quickly pointed in the direction of Veronica's room. The young agent was in critical care, not because her life was threatened, but because the loss of her spleen could make her susceptible to infection. Kara went in alone, since she was immune to diseases here on earth.

"Hey Veronica, how ya feeling."

"Tired", the young girl said, "They aren't going to kick me out of the DEO, are they?"

"No ma'am, you will be joining my personal research team when you finish recovering. We saw that you have a degree in programming, and that is not one of my strong points."

"Really, you're going to let me stay on."

"You did everything right Veronica, you saved innocent people and you stopped the bad guy, just like a hero is supposed to do. Going forward you will just have to do it from behind a keyboard. Is that okay?"

"Yes ma'am"

"Okay, so get better soon, and I will have them send you some of our current projects while you are recovering."

"Thank you Supergirl."

"No, Veronica, thank you, for reminding me that you are all heroes."

"You need to get better too, and I love the pink, it looks good on you."

"It's for you, your going to see a lot of it around here. Now get some rest.", Kara said as she patted the girl's hand and watched as she drifted back to sleep. Kara left the room and found Lena waiting for her, "Can we go home now?"

"Of course, we can darling."