"Where are you going?" she asked her cousin scared of being left alone.
"I'm going to CatCo" Kara answer making her grabbed her hand pulling from it. "Halley, sweetie, it's going to be fine, I'll be back soon, okay?" her cousin crouched in front of her. "Just listen to J'onn and Winn, Alex will be here too in case..." Kara stopped talking when she frown. "Okay, I see you later, baby" the young superhero kissed her forehead before leaving.
She turned to look at Winn, who had been sitting in front of the computer ever since the alien that arrived in the pod escaped last night, not even blinking, so she approached him to sit in a chair by his side.
Her cousin's best friend looked at her for a few seconds before going back to do his work, looking really tired, but smiling a little to her.
"Hey, Any news?" Alex's voice filled the room, making her close her eyes as she tried to keep breathing normally.
"Umm.., no" Winn answered.
She couldn't look at Alex without thinking about it, still feeling betrayed by her, because that woman was and would be the reason why her mom wasn't. there with her, the reason why her father had been able to harm her during those past months.
Her cousin had admitted to be mad at Alex at first, but Kara had forgiven her sister. However, she wasn't sure if she was going to be able to forgive her, at least not soon, but maybe someday.
She stared at Alex carefully, the agent watching her with a sad look, which made her shook her head and look back at Winn.
She spent all morning sitting there painting with some crayons while Winn kept doing his work, running to hug her cousin when Kara came back from CatCo.
"Hey, baby" Kara smiled picking her up. "How was your morning with Winn?" her cousin asked.
"Boring" she complained making her cousin's best friend to look at them.
"Well, none said it would be entertaining" Winn said, which made them both to laugh. "And now I have to go back to work" he told them turning to the computer screen.
For the rest of the afternoon she stayed there with Kara and Winn, her cousin writing her knew article while her best friend kept trying to find the alien.
She was bored of being there without doing anything, her head over her arms that where resting on the desk as she kept staring at them, being startled by Alex, who came closer to Winn.
Even without wanting to look at Alex, she payed attention to what the agent was saying, there was a possibility of the missing alien being at the observatory, from where it was being sent a signal to Daxam.
The Kryptonian boy was no longer a Kryptonian, he was a daxamite and by her cousin's expression she could tell that it wasn't a good thing.
"Kara!" she screamed when she saw her cousin running away from there, Where was she going?
She tried to follow her, but it was Alex who stopped her holding her by her arm, which made her get away from the agent abruptly not even looking at the woman, sitting back on the chair.
Her cousin came back with an unconscious daxamite, so they let him rest in a cell until he was completely recovered. However, she couldn't avoid frowning while watching the image on the security camera, Why was he dangerous?
"I've never heard of Daxam" said Winn to which she nodded.
Not even her mom had told her about that planet, maybe it was because they didn't get along, but none had never mentioned it before, so she listen attentively to her cousin's explaining the reason why both planets hated each other.
Kara decided to talk to him, explain him what had happened to Krypton and Daxam, but her cousin came out even more angry than when she got inside, because Kara just told her that they were leaving before grabbing her hand and doing so.
She didn't know where they were going, just letting her cousin to lead her to that place, holding tightly to Kara's hand not wanting to get lost, being really confused when she realized that they weren't at CatCo.
"Thanks" her cousin whispered to the woman who accompany them to an office. "Hi, I'm sorry to drop by without announce, I just got the message you wanted to see me" Kara said while diverting her gaze to a flowers on the table. "Those flowers are beautiful" her cousin commented.
"They're called plumerias, they're rare" the woman sitting on the couch said.
"They remind me of my mother" her cousin commented with a sad smile.
"Was your mother a writer too?" the woman asked.
"No, she was... I guess sort of a lawyer" Kara quickly denied.
"Oh, you've been natural gifted with words, your work is amazing" the woman said. "And, by the way, Who's this sweetheart?" she asked pointing at her.
"She's Halley, my cousin" Kara answered. "Halley, she's Lena" her cousin presented them.
"Well, nice to meet you, Halley" Lena smiled at her, so she smiled back staying close to her cousin without being able to avoid being shy.
She sat down beside her cousin hearing them talk, but not really paying attention to what they were saying, so she just stared at Kara until they finished the conversation, moment in which her cousin got up and grabbed her hand again.
"Wait, I have something for Halley" Lena said before they could leave, approaching them with a lollipop, which she took with a smile.
"Oh, wow, a lollipop, that's because your such a good girl" her cousin tickled her making her laugh.
"Thanks" she barely whispered.
"You're welcome, sweetie" the woman smiled.
When they got out of the building she showed her cousin the lollipop waiting for Kara to help her open it, which her cousin did before giving it back at her and continue walking that time to the DEO, place where she spent most of the day.
Kara had been injured last night because of an alien fight club, so she couldn't avoid panicking when she heard that her cousin was coming back for round 2 in an attempt to end with the organization that was providing that to happen. However, she was afraid of losing her cousin, the only family she had.
She had made her cousin promised that she would come back home safe and sound, but getting nervous when she saw a DEO team ready for the back up as well as Alex, who was going to accompany her little sister to that place.
She stayed at the DEO with Winn, who was supposed to look after her, but was much more concerned about what was happening to Supergirl, so he had decided to give her some crayons for her to color without disturbing him.
"Hey, Winn, What are you doing?" she heard the daxamite, who she knew was called Mon-El. "Who's this?" he asked pointing to her. "You have a daughter?!" he exclaimed surprised.
"She's Kara's..." Winn wasn't able to finish his sentence.
"Kara has a daughter?" Mon-El interrupted him observing her.
"No, Halley is her cousin" Winn explained. "But Kara is her guardian" her cousin's best friend said as Mon-El approached her.
"Hi, I'm Mon-El" the daxamite presented himself while crouching down in front of her, which made her smile while shaking his hand.
"Could you stay with her for a few minutes?" Winn asked Mon-El, who nodded sitting by her side.
She didn't say anything, looking at her cousin's friend without being totally sure about being alone with Mon-El, not knowing if Kara would agree with that because as far as she had heard daxamites weren't good.
"Do you mind if I join you?" Mon-El asked picking a paper and a pencil to start drawing.
She observed him carefully, trying to guess what he was drawing, frowning as he took a dark blue crayon to keep coloring, before using a purple and a yellow one.
"Oh, It's a dragon!" she exclaimed when she finally realized what it was, pointing at it as he was finishing it.
"It was the Prince's dragon" Mon-El told her as she was admiring the drawing. "He's name was Saffire" he said making her to look at him excited.
"You had dragons on Daxam?!" she asked him amazed at such discovery, seeing him nodded slightly.
The five year old listened attentively to Mon-El's stories about the dragons and other creatures that existed on Daxam, being really upset when Winn came back to take her home with her cousin, asking of she could stay a little longer, but not being allowed to do so.
"You can keep it" Mon-El gave her the drawing.
"Really?" she asked seeing he nod. "Thanks" she hugged him, getting him surprised as well as Winn.
"Umm, you're welcome, kiddo" he hugged her back.
She said goodbye to him before following Winn, telling him everything that Mon-El had explained her about Daxam and dragons, not being able to wait to get home and tell her cousin about it.
The first thing she did was showing her cousin the drawing without even telling her who had drawn it, just excited because it was a dragon, which made Kara laugh before saying goodbye to Winn.
"Who gave you that drawing?" asked Kara approaching her.
"Mon-El" she answered studying her cousin's expression, Kara was frowning, but trying round keep a smile on her face. "He told me about dragons and Daxam" she told her cousin.
"He did, huh?" Kara looked at her making her nod. "Okay, let's get your pj's on and then we have dinner and you tell me all about dragons" her cousin said.
However, before Kara could do something, she ran to the room and changed into her pj's, only to go back as fast as possible to the living room so she could start talking, her cousin listening to every word she was saying.
"Can I see him tomorrow?" she asked.
"I don't know, we'll see, okay?" Kara kissed her forehead as she nodded.
"You don't hate him, do you?" she couldn't avoid asking remembering the differences between the two planets.
"No, I don't, it's complicated, Halley" her cousin answered. "It's time to go to bed, kiddo" Kara told her while picking her up to lay her on the bed and tuck her into the bed spreads. "Sweet dreams, baby" her cousin kissed her forehead as she grabbed her hand. "I'm not going anywhere, I promise" Kara told her, which made her closed her eyes between protection.
Halley was sitting one more day in the same chair, her mind occupied with all the questions she was going to make Mon-El about the dragons as she was looking to everyone that walked near her.
She turned after hearing a voice calling her, but there was no one she could see there, so, despite her cousin's request for her to stay there, she got up and started walking to find that person.
As she approached it the voice was being cleared, it was her mom's, but it couldn't be, her mom was dead. However, it was her voice and she couldn't avoid the tears to be contained in her eyes as she kept walking.
"Mommy?" she barely whispered, finding herself lost at the DEO, cells surrounding her, all of them containing different species of aliens.
She looked in every direction trying to find her, but not doing so, which made her start crying, What was she listening to?
The five year old sat down on the ground with her head between her hands as she tried to block all that noise that was starting to creep her out, just crying and begging for it to stop.
"Halley, look who's here to see you" Kara called her cousin while approaching with Mon-El where she had left the child, but the kid wasn't there. "Halley?"
Her cousin didn't answer, which made her start to panic, looking for her, but Halley wasn't nowhere to be found, so she looked at Mon-El without knowing how she should react.
She decided to ask if anyone had seen the child, but every agent answered that they hadn't done it, which made her decided for everyone to look for the kid, alerting her sister, J'onn and Winn.
"We're going to find her" Alex told her wanting to calm her down as they walked down an hallway. "She's probably still inside the building" her sister said making her nod.
"I hope so" she whispered.
She couldn't imagine something happening to the child or even losing her. Halley was her baby cousin and she couldn't though about her life without her, so she really hoped for the kid to be fine wherever she was.
Alex was the first one to react when they both saw Halley's body laying unconsciously on the floor, watching how her sister kneeled down beside the child to make sure she was still breathing.
"She's having a seizure" Alex said holding the kid to the side as she just stared at her without knowing what to do to help, but realizing there was someone who was watching them carefully.
"What did you do to her?" she asked accusing him.
"Nothing, she'll be fine" the man answered making her doubt, her cousin was still having seizures as Alex whispered reassuring words in the kid's ear.
"What did you do?" she asked again that time getting even angrier.
"Why would I want to hurt my own daughter?" he asked back, getting her to look at him confused, but remembering he had always been in Astra's side.
"Daughter?" she repeated the word trying to understand what was happening.
Was it true? Was he her cousin's father? Maybe it was just a trick, but what if it wasn't.
She shook her head just asking for Halley to be healthy, knowing she should deal with that later.
Hi!
In this chapter I wanted to show that kids don't judge, for Halley there is no difference between Kryptonians and Daxamites, she doesn't have a reason not to talk with Mon-El or get to know him and his culture. However, that doesn't mean that she doesn't know about Krypton and Daxam's history, so she can understand why her cousin doesn't like him.
And Halley's father turned out to be a DEO prisioner, What do you think about that?
Let me know what you think, thanks so much for reading,
Ayrin