Halley kept her face hidden in J'onn's shoulder while getting to the place where Kara had promised her that she would be safe.

She felt how he hugged her with more strength as if he wanted to calm her down, but that didn't avoid tears to slid down her cheeks. She had just lost the only thing she knew and the truth was that she was scared not knowing what was going to happen to her.

"J'onn?" a woman's voice echoed in her ears, which altered her. "Who is she?" she heard her ask.

"She's Halley, she's Kara's cousin" answered J'onn trying to make her turn her head. "I couldn't bring her to the DEO with the Army there" he explained.

"Hey, sweetheart" she felt a hand on her back making her tense, but ended up turning to look at her. "I'm Eliza, Kara's adoptive mom" the woman with blonde hair and blue eyes, that looked at her with compassion, introduced herself. "You have to stay with me, sweetie" Eliza tried to held her, but she just looked at J'onn, he seemed to trust her.

That fact made her trust Eliza letting her hold her, her head resting on the woman's shoulder the moment she was on her arms, tears still running down her cheeks.

Soon they were left alone at the loft, moment when she was calmer than before. She noticed that Eliza sat her on the couch as she closed her eyes and lowered her head not wanting to start crying again.

Halley sighed. She had to admit that she was nervous, because in her five years of life she had never been able to get out from Fort Rozz, only if it was important and her father allowed her to do so. However, ever since her mom's death, she had spent most of the time inside her room not being able to come out from there, barely expending time with other people.

"Are you okay?" Eliza asked sitting right next to her, which made her look at her without answering anything. "How old are you?" she asked trying to make her talk, but she just showed her her five fingers. "Five" the woman smiled brushing the hair away from her face making her moved with fear. "I'm not going to hurt you, sweetie" Eliza assured her.

Those words made her looked at that woman straight to the eyes, Eliza was telling her the truth, so she just nodded slightly before curling up to herself feeling tired, ending up falling asleep.

"The four year old was at the floor sobbing, her hand over her cheek without being able to know which would be her father's next blow, for he just had grabbed her by her arm after kicking her on her ribs.

Halley couldn't avoid crying as she tried to get rid of his grip, begging him to let her go, but she knew that only her mom could do something about it.

"Let her go" screamed Astra getting closer to them. "You don't have a right to hit her, she's just a kid" her mom said, but her father was still grabbing her. "I'm telling you again, Non, let her go" she asked angrily.

Her father smiled before releasing her, which cause her to hit the floor, sobs being present again.

Her mom kneeled down to her height, but she couldn't focus on her, because she was much more focus on introducing air into her lungs, but her own sobs prevented her from doing so.

"That brat should have listened to me" she heard her father talking.

"You okay?" her mom asked her making her nodded. "You need to calm down" she wiped her tears.

Halley's big blue eyes observed her mom for a few seconds before bowing her head and getting closer to her, who stroked her daughter's hair and embraced her, putting her hand on the child's red cheek like if in that way she could tell her that they were stronger together."

Kara had decided to go back home, leaving her sister alone, who, even though she wanted to meet Halley, needed to stay at the DEO. However, she didn't think it was appropriate because she knew her sister felt responsible of that child being alone, but that wasn't true, Halley now had them and she could assure that none would hurt her again.

She couldn't avoid smiling when she saw Halley asleep on the couch, her brown hair all over her tiny face.

"I didn't want to wake her up" Eliza told her. "Her vitals are good, she seems to be healthy, but tomorrow we should do some exams to her" her mom explained making her nodded.

She wanted to believe that Halley was healthy, but a part of her knew what Non had been able to do to the child after her mom's death, which scared her because she couldn't imagine anyone who could harm its own child.

Halley moved in dreams as a sob escaped her lips, which made her approach her, daring to brush her cousin's hair away from her face, tears were already present.

She stroked her hair wanting to calm her down because of the nightmare, but she only got the kid to wake up startled, moving away from her as she looked at her with fear like if she wanted to understand what had happened.

"Hey, shh, I didn't mean to scare you" she grabbed her hand to calm her down, seeing how the kid was starting to relax. "Are you hungry?" she asked observing how her cousin bowed down her head for a few seconds before nodding.

She picked her up to bring her to the dining table, the child griping to her t-shirt with all the strength she could, being afraid of being away from her, so she needed to convince her that she wasn't going anywhere to being able to sit her on the chair.

She could observe how Halley looked at the food with strangeness, so she knew that it wasn't going to be easy to get the kid to eat something.

"What do you want?" she asked her sitting by her side, the child just looked at her. "How about... Pizza?" she asked leaving a portion on her cousin's plate.

Halley picked it to bring it to her mouth without knowing what she was doing, but ended up bitting it.

She laughed because of Halley's face, who left the portion of pizza on her plate as she frowned, the child hadn't liked it.

"You didn't like it?" she asked seeing her shook her head. "Okay, How about this?" she offered her a potsticker.

The child accepted it, observing the food before bitting it. However, that time the kid seemed to like it because after eating it, she asked for another one, so she gave it to her.

Halley ate most of the potstickers before fixing her gaze to the chocolate pecan pie Eliza had just left on the table.

"Do you want a piece of pie?" she asked before giving it to her, smiling as she watched how the child ate, all her little face stained in chocolate. "Hey, take it easy, kiddo" she laughed observing her.

The five year old started eating slower than before, which made dissappear her fear of the kid choking.

"You liked it, huh?" she smiled wiping her cousin's face, the kid nodding. "We'll go tomorrow to buy you some clothes, but for tonight you can wear one of my t-shirts" she picked Halley up to take to the room.

She helped her to undress, seeing scars all over her tiny body, which made her look at her cousin with compassion, What had they done to her? However, she didn't want to ask anything about it, just trying to smile at the sight of the child with her t-shirt, it was too big for her body.

"Are you tired?" she asked after watching her cousin yawn. "Come here, Halley" she laid her down on the bed, tucking her in. "Good night, sweetie" she kissed the kid's forehead before turning to leave.

"Kara" Halley called her in just a whispered, so she looked back at her finding fear in her cousin's eyes. "Could you stay with me?" the five year old asked.

She nodded before laying down beside her, embracing the child as she observed how she closed her eyes ending up falling asleep.

"I promise you that no one will hurt you again" she kissed Halley's hair with a lump in her throat without being able to imagine everything that child had suffered.

Hello!

I'm so happy to see that you had liked this story, so here's the second chapter. I hope you liked it, let me know what you think.

Thanks so much for reading,

Ayrin