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Chapter 2

Walter Steele was surprised to get a phone call from Robert Queen; he had not been expecting to hear from his old friend for many years. He walked onto the Queen's indoor helipad. The roof opened up to allow helicopters to land and take off. With walls built around the landing pads for privacy, it was still grand enough to allow 4 small helicopters to park at a single time.

Walter was stunned to see Superman with a ship of some sort. As the roof opened, the super hero landed on one of the helipads.

"Mr. Steele," said Superman, holding out his hand after putting the ship down.

Walter shook his hand "Superman, Robert was sort of vague with the situation," he said.

"You'll get the full story once he's back in Starling," the super hero explained.

XXX

Kara sat next to Moira back in the Queen's cabin. Mrs. Queen was quietly eating an apple before it occurred to her.

"Kara you said you never spoke English before?" the blonde girl nodded her head "So then how are you able to speak it?"

"The pod I came in. It's designed to link my mind to the ship's computer. It can download information about Earth into my mind," explained Kara.

"Well, that explains it then."

"It gives me the knowledge but I don't have the experience of using the language," she said.

Moira took a moment to absorb that, looking at the alien girl she knew Kara would need clothes. Thea was too young for her old clothes to fit.

"Is he gone?" Moira asked Robert as he walked into the cabin.

"Yes., he said his contact will arrive tomorrow, we'll know him when we see him," said Robert.

"I was hoping he would stick around. We could have asked him questions about things like if she gets sick" said Moira.

"He gave me a way of contacting him." Robert gave her a small watch that didn't appear human in design.

"So how does it work?"

"You tap the touch screen and it'll call his phone. He said if doesn't answer straight away he'll get in touch as soon as possible," said Robert.

"Now I think I've actually forgotten what we were talking about," said the Queen matriarch as she moved to the side of the couch for Robert after he placed a log on the fire.

"I think it was about the current state of our relationship. Now with Kara here it seems more important than ever, we should just hit the reset button," said Robert.

"That's fine with me," said Moira.

They went to bed, letting Kara rest in Thea's room as they finished their conversation. Moira had woken up the next morning. Convincing Kara to eat breakfast had taken a while, but her hunger won out by the end of it. As they ate, a the knock on the front door tore her attention away from watching the curious girl.

"Mr. Wayne your Superman's contact?" Robert said surprised as he opened the door.

"Yes, Robert it's good to see you again. Hello Moira, it's been a while," greeted Bruce Wayne, peeking around his friend to Moira. He was sharply dressed in a casual black suit with a golden tie.

"So you work with Superman?"

"Yes. I have run several heroes, anti-corruption campaigns and helped fund Gotham PD when the local government was simply unwilling to," he said giving them a folder.

"So this is the adoption paperwork?" asked Robert, flipping open the manilla folder.

"Yep. I've included things like a social security number in the paper work, it's a closed adoption. You also have a birth certificate with your own names written down as her parents, this is standard practice in adoptions. When a child is adopted, along with finalisation papers, an amended birth certificate is issued by the agency; which can show any or all of the information on the original, but replaces the parents names with your own, and the child's given name with a new one."

"So if someone hired a private detective to find out where she came from?" asked Robert.

"They won't be able to find anything. If some law enforcement agency came around sniffing, they'll find records go missing all the time," said Bruce smiling. They both signed the papers and Bruce soon left saying he had things back in Gotham to do.

XXX

Back at the Queens' Mansion, Oliver, a 13-year-old, didn't understand what was happening. His parents had decided to go away for a weekend out of nowhere, so now he was sitting with his 6-year-old sister, Thea, with Walter as he played babysitter for them until 'further notice'.

It was then that the large hand carved and oak door to his mother's office opened and his parents walked out with a blonde girl that was not match younger than him, she had on a blue shirt with matching hued jeans. They looked brand new just like her, in fact, everything looked new about her. Her features were soft and frightened as her dark blue eyes darted around at him, Thea, and Walter. She seemed to take in every detail of the house before glancing back at Moira. Oliver noticed that she had a briefcase tightly gripped in her perfect pale hands.

[Is this her first day to the Queen's manor? If so I would change it to the front door and have her holding a suitcase.]

"What's going on Mum?" asked Oliver looking at his mother.

"Well Oliver, Thea, I want to start this off by saying your father and I love you and make no mistake about that. We decided to adopt Kara here who as just lost her parents."

"Wait you adopted another child?" he asked.

"What do you mean lost her parents?" Thea inquired, probably not really understanding the concept of death.

"Your mother means her parents are gone and she's now going to stay with us as part of the family" Robert explained to her.

"I don't get it" She struggled.

"Why don't you two take Kara to the family wing. The empty room next to yours, Oliver, is going to be hers," said Moira.

Robert turned to his wife, "Well, that went better than I expected."

"Yes, but Thea is probably going to ask Kara where her parents are," said Moira.

He reluctantly nodded in response and went to his office. "She'll understand in time."

XXX

"Come on Moira, rich people adopt babies and young children all the time. Someone who is 13 though this never happens" said the nosy Catherine Grant.

She was a world-renowned journalist who had started at the daily planet before getting her own talk show. That same show had allowed her to build a reputation as a household name, a trustworthy source of news. After leaving the Fox Network Ms. Grant had decided to establish her own company known as Catco only last year based out of National City.

"No, I will not let you interview any of my children Ms. Grant!" Moira had shouted at her.

"Come on Moira give me an exclusive or I'll have pictures of her published anyway" she threatened, crossing her arms.

"If you do that I will sue you. I've already spoken to TMZ and other tabloids that took photos of us outside Queens Consolidated yesterday. I will sue anyone that publishes photos of any of my children without my consent is that understood?" she said.

Miss Grant sighed "Yes."

"Leave."

She walked out of Moira's office, glad she had decided to do this meeting at Queens Consolidated and not at her private office in the Queen's mansion. Moira sat back down in her chair and reorganized herself. She was afraid for Kara; such a young girl with the world- a place she has just been introduced to- was watching her every movement now. Moira knew it was risky, but maybe this was Kara's best shot at living the life she deserved. She glanced at the papers sprawled across her table and pulled out the Balliop Prep information that needed to be dealt with.

"Miss Queen?" asked her assistant.

"Is he here?"

"Yes."

"Bring him in." Moira nodded putting away some of her papers. Clark Kent walked, his solid blue tie tilted to the right before he nervously straightened it. He his thick-rimmed black glasses really worked for him, bringing out his blue eyes. "Mr. Kent Welcome to Queens Consolidated."

"Thank you, Mrs. Queen," he said looking skittish.

"Do… do I know you?" she asked, there was something familiar about him.

"No. I don't believe we've ever met."

"Oh, my mistake," She quickly corrected, pulling out a magazine clipping. "I read the article you did on Wayne Enterprises."

"Yes, after the Daily Planet changed ownership, Perry White promoted Louis and made me the lead reporter on Superman."

"Which has made you famous, but why ask for this meeting?"

"Well, Perry has also said I should write on things that don't involve the Man of Steel," He nervously laughed, quickly clearing his throat and fiddling with his tie again. "Which is why I wrote an article about Wayne Enterprises. I've also written about Luthor Corp and Lord Industries, but I was hoping I could do something on Queens Consolidated?" he asked.

"Is it to do with the adoption?" she warned.

"I originally had no intention of it, and from your reaction, I'm glad it didn't cross my mind. You must have a lot of people prying in, don't you?" he asked.

"Yes I might have to give them something just to make them go away but I've caught a few tabloids with photographers outside my house."

"Well, Ms. Queen, I think we can help each other out. If I interview both you and Robert, and only you two, this will keep your children out of it. I'll allow you to read the articles before I even publish them to make sure you approve of them and I promise I won't take any photos of your children without permission," he said.

Moria sat back in her chair. He was basically offering to let her take control over the narrative, something she did not expect. "Okay Mr. Kent, I believe we have a deal," She nodded, reaching out to shake his hand. "I will want that promise in writing as well."

"Understood, ma'am."

XXX

Kara had been exploring the Queens mansion for a while; it reminded her of the House of El apartments. The first thing she had done was scream at a red bird on the tree outside after everyone else had gone out to their daily life. It didn't take long for her to realise it was an animal. Who could blame her, though, by the time she was born, Krypton's environment was so badly damaged that animals- such as this- were unheard of. It was one of the things she liked about this planet, but she did find herself sweating before changing out of her warm outfit.

"Isn't it a bit cold for shorts and t-shirt?" asked Oliver standing behind her. He must have recently arrived and had changed because he wasn't wearing the nice uniform she saw him in earlier.

"Maybe, but I feel rather hot today," she said looking up to notice the cloud cover.

"So how did your parents die?" he asked, shooting up a quizzical eyebrow.

"In a car accident your parents were walking down the side of the road when it happened it's the reason I'm still alive," she said, this is what she had been told to say to them.

"Where are you originally from?" Oliver asked.

Kara paused for a minute thinking about what she had been told, "I came from a family of 3 in Alaska we were down here doing a trip of the west coast."

"I didn't mean to pry." He apologized turning to the look at the front door. "Anyway, Mom and Dad are home they wanted to see us."

Moira and Robert walked in to find their three children in the lounge room. "Okay, tomorrow we'll be having the Merlyn's over for dinner to introduce them to our newest arrival." Robert explained.

XXX

Kara sat on the bed in her room as Thea sat at the desk furiously working on basic arithmetic.

"6 times 12?" she asked Kara.

This was all rather primitive, using a pencil and paper. Of course they had class work back on Krypton, how else could they continue to thrive, but information was simply downloaded straight into their brain. They didn't have to spend time learning it through repetition, but they did have to learn how to utilise what they had just learned.

"Look, what's 6 times 10?" Kara asked walking over to help her. She pointed to the already answered number

"60," answered Thea, tens were the easiest of the times tables to answer.

"Okay, and what's 2 times 6?"

"12." She answered confidently.

"Great. Now add 12 and 60 and you'll get the answer."

Thea quickly added them together and answered, "72"

"Correct."

"Hey guys, the Merlyn's are almost here," said Oliver walking into the room.

"Okay, I'll get ready," said Thea.

"They're not due to be here for an hour?" Kara said.

"Yes, but, Thea takes forever to get ready, so If I tell her they're almost here early, it's a way of getting her ready on time," explained Oliver.

"Ah, clever. I guess I need to get ready then," said Kara.

Oliver closed the door behind himself as he went back to his room. Kara slid open the door to her closet. It was weird to see the fashion here. Everything was just different; clothes were uncomparable to the style back home. She found a nice pair of slacks and a blue blouse to wear. A short while later, the doorbell rang and they all came down the stairs to greet their guests in the lounge room. Robert opened the door where a well dressed woman with a small boy around Oliver's age stood in the doorway.

"Oh, Rebecca, how are you?" Robert asked.

"Very well, thank you. Malcolm's just leaving the car."

"Okay." He nodded, moving out of the way for her. A man jogged up the steps to the doorway. "Malcolm it's good to see you" he said, shaking hands with the man.

"The traffic on the way was murder," Malcolm huffed.

"There was an accident on the freeway," Rebecca explained to them.

"Rebecca. I was able to finally drag you away from the glades," said Moira smiled, leaving her office.

"Dad can I go play with Oliver?" asked Tommy.

"Not yet," said Malcolm.

"Oh, yes, I have to introduce you to someone," said Robert, leading them into the lounge room.

"I heard you adopted another child," said Rebecca.

"Yes, this is Kara Queen," Moira introduced them "Kara, meet Malcolm and Rebecca Merlyn."

"This little devil is Tommy," said Malcolm smiled.

"Hello, Malcolm," she greeted.

Tommy went over to sit next to Oliver as they waited of their parents to tell them that dinner was ready. Thea got down on the ground and pulled out a game called Candyland from a drawer in the coffee table. Robert walked out of the room and into his office with Malcolm.

"So you two took the advice of the marriage counselor? I didn't hear adoption being part of it?" asked Malcolm.

"The weekend away and the reset button year we took, it doesn't mean we can't help someone in need," Robert said handing him a glass of scotch.

"Yes, well I couldn't ever ask Rebecca for a divorce, Robert. I'm glad she didn't ask me for one."

"You stayed together because you love each other. Then, there's Tommy. It's the same reasons Moira and I have stayed together, we just now have Kara to factor into things is well" Robert explained leaning against his desk.

Author notes

I've introduced Clark Kent the reporter alongside Bruce Wayne who does return as batman latter on in the story but I also introduced Cat Grant because she becomes a major charector later on. Anyone whose watched Arrow will know what happens to the Merlyn's and the relationship with the Queens.