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A few months had passed when one night, Oliver decided to walk down the hallway of the grand manor. Thea seemed to have warmed up to Kara as their new sibling seemed to be amazing at things like math and science. English, he had guessed, was a second language for her and over the last few months she had much gotten better and even began to stop thinking before saying every word. He had tried asking what her first language was but each time the question arose, she avoided it. Maybe she just didn't want to talk about her parents?

Still, Oliver couldn't help himself whenever he heard her thrashing about in her room. She often left the door ajar, but he had never gone in there when he heard her? Tonight, though, he was far too curious and opened it- not really sure what he was looking at. Yes she was thrashing around but she was also floating? He ran over to his parents' room, breaking through the door and waking up his mother.

"Oliver. what is it?" Moira urgently asked.

"Um... Mum, I think you'll have to see it to believe it," he said as he dragged her over to Kara's room.

"Oh," Was all she said before walking up to the girl, "Kara wake up," she said softly trying not to startle her.

"What?" asked Kara waking up but she fell back onto the mattress.

"How long has this been happening?" Moria asked her, sitting down on the edge of her bed.

"What do you mean?" Kara asked sitting on the side of the bed.

"I saw you floating, or levitating… or something," said Oliver.

"If I tell you something you have to keep this to yourself, Oliver," his mother said in a voice that left no room for argument, so he nodded. "Kara is a Kryptonian, like Superman."

"Wait, what? When were you going to tell me?" he asked not sure how to respond by being upset or shocked.

"I was going to tell you, but I was just going to wait until you were just a bit older. When your father and I left for our weekend trip, Kara's ship crash-landed right in front of us. We found her inside a small ship."

"It's more of a pod" Kara corrected for Oliver.

"She apparently left shortly after Superman's ship did and had preserved her in stasis. She was supposed to arrive before him look after him." Moira paused for a moment to let Oliver absorb the information before continuing,"We took Kara in because while Superman could raise her himself. He has a lot going on at the moment and having a blonde girl pop up would not be a good thing. Robert and I offered to adopt her when he arrived at the crash site" Moira finished.

"So this means she has all the same powers as Superman?" Oliver asked looking at Kara. To him, she really didn't look like one of the most powerful beings on the planet.

"Theoretically yes."

"So why were you floating?" Oliver asked.

"I don't know." She shrugged.

"Give me a minute. I need to make a phone call" Moira said leaving the room. She knew that she didn't have to be careful with Robert because he was still on sleeping pills and probably wouldn't wake until the morning.

"Moira is everything Ok?" asked Kal-El on the other end.

"Yes and No, Oliver walked in on Kara after hearing her thrashing about in her sleep, she was floating in the air."

Kal seemed to yawn "It likely means her body as absorbed enough solar radiation to begin developing her powers. I developed super strength first, I'm going to make a guess here she should be able to fly in a few days," he said.

"She's starting school soon. Should I postpone it?" she asked he paused as if thinking.

"No. She needs to learn how to behave around other people and school is the best environment for it. Try to stop her from flying around though, the air force is able to track me on the radar until I reach top speed. When I first became Superman I had a difficult time with them. The military tried to access my powers with the help of General Lane Lex Luthor. I think they'd try to do the same with her."

Moira thought about it for a moment it made sense she also realized how dangerous this really was going to be. "Okay, do you want to speak with her?"

"Tell her I'll call in the morning and try to get some sleep."

"Thank you Kal-El," said Moira as she put the device in the draw. She walked back to Kara's room and informed them, "Okay, I want both of you to go back to bed. Kara Kal-El said he'll call you in the morning, but he doesn't want you flying around at the moment," said Moira.

"Okay."She responded.

Oliver went back to bed with even more questions than he had originally had before that night. In his mind, Superman was kinda intimidating, but with the thought of a super sister, this could be a pretty cool childhood.

XXX

It was an exciting day for Kara; the first day of the school year began and she was excited to learn more about this strange planet and their traditions. She had already received tests from Balliol Prep- an elitist school in Starling city- where her siblings attended. It was a private K-12 school with its own university to feed the students into once they graduated.

As the months passed by, Kara found that she could rely on Oliver after he had learned the truth about her origins. He seemed to be excited about having a real-life superhero in his house, even though she didn't fight off any bad guys like her cousin. Thea still didn't know, mostly because she was still so young, so Kara had to be even more careful about using and training her powers around her. It wasn't that she didn't trust Thea, it was more that she wasn't sure how Thea would react and who she would tell.

They walked up to the campus with Moira- who closely watched Kara, hoping she would be okay. Kara, meanwhile, was quickly walking with Oliver through the double-doored entrance.

"So, Thea's not coming with us?", She asked.

"No, Thea's only in second grade, so she's in a different class. We, on the other hand, are the same grade. So, it's about five minutes until our meeting, so we should probably go over to the Dean's office," he said as they walked down the emerald and gold halls.

"Oliver, so, this is Kara?" asked a blonde girl, who looked a bit younger than them.

"Yes, Sara. Is Laurel here?" asked Oliver.

"I'm right behind her." They heard another girl answer.

"Laurel, Sara, meet Kara Queen."

"Hi," said Kara.

Kara learned that the these girls were the Lance sister, daughters to an important police officer in Starling. Laurel was in 8th grade with her and Oliver while Sara was in 6th grade. They parted ways, the Lance sisters going to join Tommy in the quad while Kara and Oliver went to their appointment with the Dean. They went into his office and sat down. The Dean lead Kara around the school, showing her the classrooms, the library, the school gym, cafeteria. Kara had gone into the rest of the day managing to avoid making too many mistakes. She went to get lunch alone as Oliver's table seemed to be the center of attention with him, Tommy, Sara, and Laurel along with several other middle school students she didn't really know.

Kara didn't want to be the center of attention. Most of the students had treated her well, but it didn't take a genius to figure out it was only because she had been adopted by a powerful family. Kara finally found a girl with reddish auburn hair who was sitting alone.

"Hi, do you mind if I sit with you?" Kara asked.

The other student blinked in genuine surprise "Are you talking to me?" she asked with wide brown eyes.

"Well, yeah is there something wrong," Kara asked with concern. "I'm Kara Queen."

"No, sorry, it's just the other students don't really talk to me that much."

"Why?" asked Kara then remembering the type of school she was in.

"My name's Alex. I'm new to the school as well. It's just that I'm not really from the city's elite. I'm not even from this city." Alex explained.

"Oh, right sorry. I can go if you want?"

"That's fine," Alex said.

"So, why did your family move to Starling city?" Kara asked as she set her tray down.

"Well, my dad passed away last year, and when my mom got a teaching job here, the Dean agreed to let me in."

[I would add a transition here. Maybe a continuation of their conversation or how the rest of the day seemed to go rather than just rushing into the next part of the story.]

Moira had arrived to pick up her children. On the way there, she had been driving herself mad, thinking about the numerous ways that things could have gone right or wrong for Kara.

"Hey Oliver where's Kara?" she calmly asked him as he walked over with Thea. "Please don't tell me she's lost"

Oliver groaned it was going to take forever to find her in this crowd. Moira didn't need to look too far before she found Kara speaking with another student. Kara continued talking with her as they walked to the car.

"Oh, Moira, sorry, I was talking with Alex." She explained.

Moira looked back at the other girl, at least she managed to make one friend today. "That's okay, Kara. Hello Alex, I'm Moira Queen." She introduced.

"Hello, Mrs. Queen. I guess you're going home then, I'll see you tomorrow," said Alex walking away.

"She transferred here just before the end of the last school year," said Oliver.

"So you never spoke to her at all?" asked Kara as they walked towards the car.

"Well, she didn't really look like she wanted to talk with anyone, she's a bit of a loner," said Oliver.

"She's been made to feel that way by the rest of the students," Kara explained.

"Well, hopefully, she won't feel that way now," said Moira.

XXX

Oliver and Kara sat in her room on a Saturday afternoon after visiting Queen's Con. to raid her ship for her old trinkets and belongings. It had been many months, and after confiding in Oliver about the things in that ship, he encouraged her to just go over and grab them before the government tried to sweep her ship and damage it even more. Kara knew he was right, there were things in there that were only unlockable with her DNA like a recording of her mom not only about surviving on Earth but also how to get through life and take care of Kal-El, a now archaic series of messages he should probably listen to.

Once she returned home with a box of her belongings, Oliver joined her in the center of the room, peering into the cardboard box as she laid out all of her personal trinkets and tools.

"So what is this?" he asked.

"It's a Kryptonian mobile computer and some data crystals" she answered as he looked at the highly advanced pieces of technology, deciding whether or not to touch it.

"What's in 'em?"

"Everything. It's a database of all the knowledge my father and his brother could put onto a single computer. He built something similar that my cousin now uses in his Fortress of Solitude."

"Where are you going to put it?"

"Oh, I didn't think about that. I think I might just hide it in the bottom of my sock drawer." She shrugged.

"You're going to hide highly valuable and priceless technology in your sock drawer?" he asked.

"Well, where do you hide your porn?" She jibed.

"Under my bed."

"See, now it's just going to be found. I'll get a lock to put on the draw so no one can open it, and in the meantime, I've asked the maids not to come in here."

"So, how are you going to clean up the mess; you have clothes all over this room," he said.

Kara held up her finger to gesture "Just a moment", and sped around her room until she was just a blur. The once messy room was now spotless of clothes. "So, what did you want?" She asked. "I'm guessing you didn't just come in here to pry through my stuff."

"I'm going to assume your good at math?" he asked.

"Yes."

"Thea's having trouble with her time's tables again and I was thinking you might be the better option, plus you really haven't bonded with her since you first helped her."

Kara nodded and they both walked over to Thea's room to find her working on something. She handed a bit of paper to Oliver.

"They're close," he said.

"How close... Oh hi, Kara." She smiled, her eyes brightening in a moment as she looked over at her sister.

"So you seem to be having trouble with your 8 times tables?" she asked kneeling down next to her.

"Yeah."

Oliver gave Kara the piece of paper and left the room, "Thea what is 4 times 4?"

"16."

"Good, and that's actually the same answer for 2 times 8."

"Really?" she asked.

"Yes, if you already know some of your time's tables it makes it easier to figure the other numbers out. 8 times 10 is 80. It's easy if think about your tens. So, just switch the question around what is 10 times 8?"

"80."

"That's the answer of 8 times 10."

Kara spent the rest of the night helping Thea through the paper. It was an arduous task, but worth spending a bit more time with her sister. It made her wonder what life would have been life had things worked out the way they were supposed to and she came here before Kal-El.

XXX

Kara woke up the next morning and went down to the dining room where they normally ate breakfast to find that mood was considerably down.

"What's wrong?" Kara asked Moira who was quietly crying into a handkerchief.

"Rebecca Merlyn is dead," Robert explained in a somber tone as he tried to console his wife.

"What. How?" Kara whispered.

"She was closing her clinic last night and was mugged, during the mugging she tried to fight back and that thug killed her" He spat, shaking his head in disbelief.

Any one who as watched arrow know's Malcom Merlyn's wife is the reason he was plotting the undertaking in the first season but since we never meet her in the series I decided to introduce her here. I also wanted to show interaction between Oliver and Kara\Kara and Thea, I had to introduce the Lances and Alex into the story some how so School seemed like the most natural place. Big thank you for AFY2018 who is my beta reader.