Kara observed the child that was still unconscious on the stretcher, her cousin's heart had stopped for five minutes, time during which she had contained her breath only watching her sister react to save the kid's life.
At that moment she was sitting right next her cousin, her hand holding hers as she remembered the Kryptonian that claimed to be Halley's father, who was still in a cell and she should talk to, but she didn't want to leave her cousin alone in that room, wanting to be with the child when she woke up.
"She's going to be fine" Alex assured approaching her. "You should talk to him, try to get information about what he have done to Halley" her sister told her making her nod.
"I don't want to leave her alone" she whispered caressing her cousin's face.
"She's not alone..." her sister looked at her seeing her face. "Okay, I know what you mean, but if she doesn't want me to be here, J'onn or Winn can, even Mon-El" Alex said trying to convince her of doing it. "I can go too" her sister added making her shook her head.
She kissed her cousin's forehead before promising her that she would return to be with her, stopping at the door to look one last time to the child while thinking if it was a good idea to leave her alone, ended up leaving the infirmary.
She changed her worried face to a mad face wanting to command respect, not really sure if it was working as she thought it would, because the Kryptonian just looked at her before smiling a little a shake his head.
"What did you do to Halley?" she asked directly, the man not giving her an answer, so she tried to scare him a little. "Her life depends on your answer, her heart stopped beating once and I can't assure it won't do it again" she told him, seeing him change his gesture.
"I just asked another alien to help me bring her here, I wanted to see her" he finally answered, pointing to one he had in front of him. "He did it with his telepathy, I should have known it would affect her like that" the man explained resting his head on his hands as if he was repentant of that. "She doesn't have all her powers, does she?" he asked concerned to which she shook her head. "Is my daughter okay?"
"How do I know you're not lying?" she asked frowning, not truly believing him on his words.
"You're as stubborn as anyone was in your family, child" the man told her bitterly. "Do whatever you want to prove it, but she is my child" he said getting mad.
She stared at him while thinking what she should do, not knowing if she should asked her sister to run any kind of test to confirm that what he was saying was true.
"I've always been your aunt's right hand" he started talking once more. "I see you don't remember me, Kara Zor-El" at that moment she looked at him completely confused, Should she know him?
"Who are you?" she asked frowning.
"My name is Dev-Em, Do you remember me now?" he asked with mockery, his dark blue eyes looking straight at hers, a smirk on his face.
She did know him, but it was years before Krypton exploded, she was barely seven years old and her aunt was taking care of her while her parents worked. She remembered feeling confused about seeing that man at Astra's house, but it wasn't nice for a child to ask those questions, so she didn't bother about thinking about it, not until that moment when everything was making sense.
However, there wasn't still a confirmation of him being Halley's father, because even if her aunt was having an affair with him, there wasn't any prove for to believe it.
She decided to unlock him to bring him to the med bay, where maybe her sister could run any kind of test to figure out the truth, keeping an eye on him not really trusting him and being afraid of him escaping the DEO.
"Alex, could you run some test to prove it?" she asked her sister directly, her gaze focusing on him, who was approaching the stretcher where Halley was. "Don't touch her" she told him getting really overprotective with her cousin.
"I can do a blood test" her sister answered.
"How long will it take?" she asked still watching him to make sure he wasn't touching Halley.
"An hour or so" Alex said getting the needle ready, because she nodded for her to do it.
She watched as her sister drawn blood from Dev-Em while getting closer to her cousin only to hold her hand as if she wanted to assure the child that she was back just as she had promised before.
Her gaze found Winn and Mon-El outside the infirmary, her best friend making signs for her to come out of the room, so nodded before starting walking towards them.
"How is she?" asked Mon-El worriedly.
"Unconscious for now" she answered. "Alex said that she will be fine" she told them even when she wasn't going to believe until Halley was awake.
"We brought this for her" Winn showed her the stuffed toy, a blue and gold dragon.
"It's beautiful" she took it. "She's going to love it, she's obsessed with dragons" she smiled looking at Mon-El, who smiled back. "Thanks, guys" she said goodbye to them before coming back inside the infirmary.
She left the blue dragon near her cousin, smiling slightly, the stuffed toy was similar to the dragon on the drawing and she knew that Halley was going to love it, because the child couldn't stop talking about Saffire.
Dev-Em was observing her as if he was studying her interactions with the child, fixing his gaze on the stuffed toy before looking back to the child.
"She look just like her mom" he commented to which she nodded, that was true.
"Did you know about what Non was doing to her?" she asked, thinking that if he had always been on Fort Rozz until Myriad, he was supposed to know, proving her right when he nodded. "Why didn't you do anything to stop it?" she questioned.
"I couldn't" Dev-Em answered. "He knew everything, he knew that Halley wasn't his daughter and about our affair, but he decided to act like if it had never happened" he started talking. "I did everything I could to keep her safe after Astra's death, I was the one who took care of her after he hit her" he explained, seeing how her sister was getting frustrated listening to him.
"If you wanted to keep her safe, Why wouldn't you run away with her?" Alex asked.
"Non would have killed me and Halley would have been alone with him and Indigo" Dev-Em answered glancing Alex furiously, he wasn't liking being accused. "I made a pact with Astra, not telling her the truth until she was old enough to understand it, we both choose her twelve birthday" he told them.
Alex just nodded before leaving the infirmary to see if the test was done as she sat down beside her cousin's bed, keeping her tiny hand between hers only hoping for the child to wake up soon.
After waiting for an hour watching how Dev-Em dared to touch Halley, which made her glance at him, making herself sure that he wasn't hurting the child, seeing him caress Halley's face before stroking her hair, finally her sister came back inside the med bay.
"I have the results" Alex said approaching them, both of them looking at her expectantly. "He's the father" her sister said as she felt her heart beating without any control, really thinking that he would take the kid away from her.
"May I talk to you, Kara Zor-El?" Dev-Em asked, so she nodded walking with him outside the room. "I don't want her to hate me and she would do it if I told her now, so just promise me that you'll explain her everything in her twelve birthday just as I pacted with your aunt" he said making her nod again, she would tell her.
"I will protect her from all I can" she whispered seeing him nodded.
"Thanks, I think I should get going back to my cell" Dev-Em commented as she signed for some agents to approach them.
She watched him leave before getting distracted by the news, there was an alien attack on the center of the city and she knew that she would be needed, so she asked her sister to stay with Halley until she could return, wishing she would do it before her cousin woke up.
The five year old opened her eyes observing her surroundings confused, she was at the infirmary when the last memory she had was being surrounded by cells listening to her mother's voice calling her.
She breathed with agitation when she saw Alex walking towards her, getting the agent to stop while observing her.
"If you want me to leave, I can ask Winn to stay with you" Alex told her, which made her shake her head. "You don't want me to leave?" the woman seemed confused.
"You killed my mom" she whispered, fresh tears in her eyes seeing Alex bowed her head down.
"I did, but I'm so sorry" Alex looked directly into her eyes. "I didn't mean that to happen, I feel so responsible for everything bad that had happened to you, Halley, for having taken your mom away from you" the woman told her almost crying, she could tell that Alex was saying the truth, the agent really felt that way.
"I forgive you" she finally said trying to sat up to hug the agent, she had missed being with her.
Alex didn't say anything else, the woman just hugged her with all the strength she could, tears running down her cheeks as well as Alex's.
"I'm so sorry" her cousin's sister whispered in her ear still embracing her.
"It's okay, now I have you" she told her feeling that Alex increased the strength of the hugged. "I love you" she whispered.
"I love you too, kiddo" Alex kissed her forehead.
Once she was a little bit calmer she asked for her cousin, but Alex only told her that Kara was in a mission, which made her nod slightly at the information, knowing that the woman couldn't give the exact moment when her cousin would return.
"Oh, look, Winn and Mon-El brought you this" Alex showed her the stuffed toy.
"It's a dragon!" she exclaimed excitedly hugging the little dragon against herself. "It looks like Saffire" she told Alex, who laughed because of her excitement.
"I guess it does, but, Who's Saffire anyways?" her cousin's sister asked, which made her looked at her before start talking.
She explained Alex everything Mon-El had told her the day before, telling her everything she knew about dragons. Both of them were so concentrated on the conversation that they didn't realize that Kara was observing them with a smile from the door, only doing it when her cousin hit without wanting it the door, which made them both laugh.
"Sorry" her cousin smiled a little. "How are you feeling, baby?" Kara asked her.
"Good" she smiled stretching her arms towards her.
"You scared me a lot" her cousin told her picking her up. "Thank Rao you're fine" the young superhero kissed her forehead. "What about if we had sisters' night tonight? I'm starving" Kara commented while tickling her, which made her laugh.
After a few test the three of them went to Kara's loft, finding herself sitting on the couch between both sisters, her head resting on Alex's shoulder while gripping her cousin's hand needing to have them close to her, they were her family now.
Hi!
So here's the story of Halley's father, but I didn't want to take Halley away from Kara, so he's still a prisoner in the DEO.
Halley has finally forgiven Alex, so they're going to be back to have the same relationship than before, even stronger.
Let me know what you think, thanks so much for reading,
Ayrin