Disclaimer: I do not own Supergirl or the characters.
A/N: This is set after the end of season 2.
"Alex, can we talk?" Kara asked as she walked into her sister's lab.
"There is nothing to talk about. You proved where your loyalties lie, or rather don't lie." Alex said, her rage so strong it was almost visible.
"Alex please-" Kara pleaded only to be cut off.
"I don't want to hear it. You have cost me so much and the one time you could repay some of that you refused. You ruined everything in my life and when given a chance for retribution you just ignore it."
"Al-" Kara tried only to be interrupted again.
"Do you have any idea how much better my life would have been if you had never come to this planet? You and I are done. Just go to Metropolis, be Clark's problem." Alex said storming out of her lab leaving Kara crestfallen.
"Kara." J'onn said walking up to her. "You made the right decision."
"Just like always. And once again it has cost me someone I love." She said sadly.
"Give her time. We both know Alex has a temper and says things she doesn't really mean. Let her calm down and reflect. She'll see that you had no choice." He said trying to offer Kara hope.
"What she said came from somewhere and I can't deny I ruined her life and I did have a choice today and I chose not to put her family first." Kara said. Before J'onn could say more she added. "I have to go. I'm already late."
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"Hey Kara." James smiled as he approached her desk early that evening. Getting no response he waved a hand in front of her face jolting her focus back into the present.
"James? Hi." She said as she tried to smile.
"Want to talk?" He asked.
"No."
"Winn told me what happened." James said before asking again. "Want to talk?"
"It won't do any good."
"It might." James said.
"It won't."
"Ok, well then we could go for chicken wings?" He suggested.
"I'm not really in the mood. Besides they don't start serving them until five."
"It's after five." James pointed out.
"What?" Kara asked looking at her watch. "No, I didn't finish the article. Snapper is going to fire me, again. But maybe that's a good thing severing ties."
"Before you do anything rash, Snapper had to go home. So you could finish the article and leave it on his desk and he'd be none the wiser."
"Really?"
"Really." James smiled. "Why don't you finish writing and I'll order take-out?"
"Thanks, but I'm not really hungry." Kara said. "Besides I am sure you have important things to do."
"You are important." James smiled.
"I appreciate what you are trying to do, but I think I am just going to finish this and go home."
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"Alex?" Maggie called as she opened the front door. Seeing Alex sitting on a stool in the kitchen nursing a whiskey she approached her and said. "That won't help."
"It won't hinder either." Alex said her voice already slurred.
"What happened?"
"Just run of the mill family betrayal." Alex said drinking the contents of her glass.
"Any more details to go with that?" Maggie asked too slow to stop Alex pour herself another glass.
"We caught up with Cadmus. During their escape there were two trucks. One had Lilian Luthor on. She said the other truck had some families and her one had my dad. She gave Kara a choice on which truck to go to. The one with the families was heading to a cliff edge, dad's one wasn't."
Guessing what came next Maggie took the bottle away from Alex and let her finish.
"Kara went for the other truck. By the time she brought it to a stop the other one had disappeared and we lost my dad again."
"Even if Lilian wasn't lying and your dad was in that other truck do really think he would have wanted to be saved over those families?" Maggie asked. "Because from what you've said about him I can't believe he would."
"That's the thing. The truck she saved was empty. No one would have died if she saved dad." Alex said.
"There was no way to know that." Maggie said. "I also know you and I know you would have made the same call as Kara, because it was the right thing to do."
"I would have at least thought about saving dad. Kara didn't even hesitate going to the other truck. Ever since Kara came to Earth I have had drummed into me the need to put family first. So why is it when it comes to my dad he always comes last? It's not fair." Alex said sadly.
"I know." Maggie said hugging Alex.
TBC...
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