HALLEY'S P. O. V

I looked around me with a smiled, definitely knowing where I was. I was in my time. However, I didn't know how long had been for them since I disappeared.

I walked to the place where I knew I could find some of them, the DEO, seeing that Willow was sitting on one of the chairs coloring.

"Hey, Lo" I smiled walking up to her, the eight year old looking at me with a huge smile before running to hug my legs.

"You're back!" the kid exclaimed as I kneeled down to embrace her. "We've missed you" Willow snuggled closer to me.

"I've missed every single one of you, too" I couldn't avoid smiling.

"Aunt Kara is a little bit angry at you" the child commented while pulling away from me, so I just nodded.

"Do you know where your mom is?" I asked her standing up to grabbed her hand, letting her guide me once she nodded.

Willow was the child that would never stop smiling, not matter what was happening, that kid always had a bright smile in her face. However, her first year of life wasn't the best for baby, she was found during a mission, being starved to death, only trusting Alex, her savior, so the agent took her in without even thinking about it.

I remembered that the first time I saw her, I thought she was younger than one year old, she looked so little, but really curious though, her green eyes would always follow you to study every single movement that you would do.

"Halley, thanks God you're okay" Alex embraced me tightly. "Are you okay?" she asked while observing me.

"Yeah, just tired" I answered, I still needed a few more time under the sun lamps to recover from everything.

"Okay, I'm going to run some test on you, only to make sure that everything is alright" she told me guiding me to the stretcher. "Lo, Can you go and tell your aunt that Halley is here?" she asked the eight year old, who nodded before running away.

"They're here" I looked at Alex as she drawn a little bit of blood from my arm, I wasn't a fan of needles.

"Kara is mad, way more than the last time you didn't listen to her" she explained as I nodded.

It was difficult seeing Kara mad, especially at me, but I could understand why she was, I had messed up with the timeline and I had put myself in danger as well as everyone else.

I closed my eyes the moment I saw Kara and Mon-El walking inside the med bay, not daring to look at my cousin.

"The ring" Kara asked putting her palm in front of me, so I gave it to her, seeing how she gave it back to Mon-El. "When are you going to start listening?" she questioned.

"I listen" I answered as she shook her head.

"No, you don't. If you listened to me, you wouldn't do the things you did" she commented. "It was reckless, you messed up with the timeline, you were kidnapped by Lex again and you died" she snapped at me as I looked away. "Well, I think you already know, but you're grounded, I'm keeping your phone and for the next days you're coming to CatCo with me after school, until I can be sure that I can trust you again" she told me, making me sighed and look at Mon-El.

"No, don't look at me like that" he shook his head. "Your cousin is right" he said.

"Since when you're on her side?" I questioned.

"Since I agree with her in that you were reckless" he answered.

I didn't say anything else, neither did them, the three of us looking at Alex when she walked back inside the room, only to say that I was clean to go back home.

I got inside the car without even looking at them, knowing that they had their rights to be mad at me, but I had mine too. I was tired of not being trust, of not understanding why my cousin was so afraid of me helping.

We were welcomed by my aunt and little Leo by her side, the four year old no doubting about hugging my legs, so I picked him up to embrace him as tight as possible.

"You scared us, Halley" Alura hugged both of us. "How are you?" she asked pulling me away a little.

"Good" I answered. "Better now that I'm at home" I smiled.

Comet ran to us the moment we walked in, waving his tail happily while putting his front paws on my lap, so I tried to pet him while keeping Leo in my arms, eventually, leaving him on the floor as I reached to hug Comet.

I was soon tackled down to the floor by Leo, who hugged me as tight as he could, his blue eyes shining so bright when I started tickling him.

"Who's hungry?" Kara asked.

"Me, mommy!" Leo exclaimed, so I helped him to get up, before doing the same to approach them.

The dinner was really quiet, only Leo was telling what he had done during the day as I tried not to look up. Mon-El had never been that upset before and Kara..., well, she had, but not like that.

I decided to go to bed early even though I knew I wasn't going to fall asleep, but I needed to stay away from them.

Just as I closed my eyes, I felt like if I was inside that pod again, not being able to breath, opening my eyes only to find that the walls were getting closer to each other. I tried to scream, but nothing came out, knowing that it there was something that would alert my cousin, would be the necklace.

"Hey, Halley, breathe" she asked getting closer to me. "You're safe, sweetheart" she whispered embracing me as I started sobbing on her shoulder. "It's okay, I got you" she caressed my hair trying to calm me down, but I kept crying.

"Hey, what happened?" Mon-El asked entering inside the room. "A panic attack?" he questioned as Kara nodded still keeping me close. "It's okay, kiddo, you're safe here with us" he whispered kneeling in front of us, wiping my tears.

"Go, put Leo in bed, I'll stay here with her" Kara told Mon-El, who kissed my forehead before leaving both of us alone. "You've got us so worry, I'm glad you're okay" my cousin increased the strength of the hug, kissing my hair. "I don't think you're going to school tomorrow" she whispered as I pulled away from her.

"Why not? I'll be okay" I wiped my tears.

"Something told me that you're not ready to be by your own there" she commented hugging me again. "We're not mad, we're disappointed, we thought that you would listen. I know I taught you to stand up and fight, but if I told you not to do it, it's because I'm scared of you being hurt" Kara explained as I nodded.

"I'm sorry" I looked directly into her eyes.

"It's okay, I just hope that you will listen next time" she brushed my hair away from my face. "It's time to sleep, baby" she kissed my forehead.

We both laid down on the bed, my head resting on my cousin's shoulder as I closed my eyes ready to fall asleep.

"I love you" I whispered still fighting the tears that were streaming down my cheeks.

"Love you, too" Kara whispered embracing me tightly.

After spending the whole morning in CatCo, we finally went to the DEO, my cousin letting me train with her until I was so exhausted that I couldn't even get up from the floor.

"Kara, you're needed" Alex entered into the training room.

"Can I go?" I asked as my cousin shook her head, so I just nodded.

"Stay here, I mean it, Halley" she told me before following Alex.

I remained sitting on the floor as I tried to recover after the training, looking up when I heard the door opening, Mon-El smiling at me while approaching.

"Was your cousin hard on you?" he asked as I got up, sitting beside him on a bench.

"Well, kinda" I shrugged my shoulders. "Are you mad at me?" I asked him.

"No, I'm not" he answered. "Even though I should have, you took my ring without permission" he looked me trying to keep his face straight, but smiling when I did so. "I was worried, Halley" he embraced me, tears welling up in my eyes not wanting to imagine how it had been during the last few days. "Let's go, Leo has been asking about going to have some ice cream all afternoon" he said.

"But Kara doesn't let him eat ice cream before dinner" I pointed out.

"Shh, she doesn't need to know" he told me as I laughed.

"Sure, but if someone is going to be blame because of this, it's going to be you" I answered as he shook his head laughing.

"Okay" Mon-El said getting up.

Leo was playing with Winn, but the child didn't hesitate to run towards his father, so Mon-El picked him up while tickling him, the four year old laughing out loud.

For the next few hours I just let myself enjoy every single moment with them, with my family, but not being able to avoid laughing when I saw Kara approaching us, observing how she frowned, so I looked at Mon-El waiting for him to talk.

"You went to have ice cream and didn't tell me?" she questioned.

"I... Leo asked to do it" Mon-El answered as Kara laughed.

"I'm not mad, after all we have to celebrate that Halley is back" my cousin commented with a smile.

I smiled back, changing my face when a sharp pain appeared on my right side, moment in which I held to my cousin's arm.

"Hey, What's wrong?" she asked holding me.

"It hurts" I complained as she looked at me.

"It's okay, sweetie" Kara whispered as Mon-El had to pick me up before I fell to the floor.

My head fell into Mon-El's shoulder while closing my eyes, trying to contain the pain, tears welling up in my eyes.

They took me back to the DEO, leaving me on a stretcher as Alex was running some test, but the agent gasped when she lifted my t-shirt.

"How did you get this?" she asked brushing with her fingertips the bruised area.

"I had a kryptonite bullet, but J'onn took it out" I explained.

"Well, it looks like you still have a piece inside" she commented as I closed my eyes. "It's going to be okay, kid" she ruffled my hair.

I nodded slightly, only asking for that pain to be over as soon as possible, I wouldn't last much longer.

KARA'S P. O. V

She observed her cousin, gently brushing Halley's hair away from her face, the teenager was having a high fever because of the kryptonite that was still in her body.

"How is she?" her mom asked walking inside the med bay.

"She should be fine soon" she answered.

"How's the mission going?" her mother questioned as she sighed.

"I'm still trying to find any clue that may be related to him" she explained looking at her cousin, not really wanting to imagine how Halley was going to react to everything that was happening. "I will keep her away from this for as long as possible, it doesn't matter how much she wants to go fight by my side, I won't let him hurt her, not again" she told her mom.

"He won't" Alura assured as she nodded.

She wasn't going to let him, so as long as Halley didn't know about anything of that, she would be able to fulfill her goal, keeping her baby cousin safe.

Hi!

First chapter of the sequel! I really love teenage Halley and how she interacts with Kara and everyone else.

At the end of this chapter is in part explained why Kara won't let Halley be a superhero, she's protecting her from someone, but, From who?

Thanks so much for reading, let me know what you think,

Ayrin