J'onn and Mon-El looked at her when they appeared at the other side of the portal, her hand gripping J'onn's as they walked toward the people that was there.
"Supergirl" Barry whispered looking at them, his eyes landing in her as J'onn picked her up.
"How long have been since the last time we saw her?" one of them asked, everyone staring at Kara before looking at her.
"A few months, she's her cousin, Halley, right?" Barry asked making her nodded.
They were quick enough to already have her cousin in the med bay to run some test as she was supposed to wait outside until they finished.
"You shouldn't have followed us, Halley" Mon-El told her, making her to look at him for a few seconds with tears in her eyes. "Hey, hey, it's okay, I'm not mad at you, kiddo" he said kneeling in front of her trying to embrace her.
However, she shook her head angrily while getting away from him, stretching her arms towards J'onn, who picked her up, so she rested her head on his shoulder still looking at her cousin through the glass.
Soon after that they entered the room, Mon-El quickly taking a place by her cousin's side as she remained in J'onn's arms observing everything that was happening.
"Who are you exactly?" Barry asked Mon-El after he explained what had happened.
"I'm Kara's b... Friend" he answered getting everyone to look at him confused. "Well, more than a friend, we've been kissing a lot" he commented.
"Kara never mentioned she has a boyfriend" one of the girls said.
"It's a recent thing" Mon-El said.
"I thought you two have broken up" J'onn commented, which made Mon-El to shake his head.
She asked J'onn to leave her on the floor, which he did, so she could get closer to her cousin's, standing tiptoe by the bed, tears threatening to fall down her cheeks as she observed Kara. Too many memories coming back of the night she found her mom was dead, all of them making her to start crying while holding her cousin's hand, just hoping for Kara to be alright, she wouldn't be able to get over it again.
Everyone in the room was looking at her with so much sadness, Mon-El caressing her hair as if he wanted to calm her down, but she moved away still mad at him for having lying to her cousin.
"Halley, kiddo" he whispered crouching in front of her, pain in his eyes, she could tell that he was hurt. "What's wrong?" he asked wiping her tears.
"You lied to Kara" she answered not looking at him. "And you lied to me" she added.
"I did and I'm sorry" he whispered. "I shouldn't have done it, but I want you to know that I do love you and your cousin with all my heart" she told her.
Just before Mon-El could stan up, she threw herself to his arms, hugging him with all her strength, her little face hiding in his neck as she started crying.
"Everything's going to be fine, baby" he kissed the top of her head.
She nodded slightly with her eyes closed, really hoping for his words to be true, she needed her cousin fine.
When she woke up she found herself in J'onn's arms, Mon-El staying close to Kara while asking her to fight, so she pulled away from him a little to observed the scene, her cousin seemed to be asleep.
Then she focused on Barry being unconscious on the other stretcher, Iris staying with him, moment in which she frown, the person who did that to her cousin had managed to find Barry.
Seconds before Mon-El and Iris came back from talking to the guy who had done that, Kara and Barry started seizing.
She tried to get rid of J'onn's grip to get close to her cousin, but she couldn't, watching helpless how everyone entered in that room kind of panicking of not knowing what was happening.
"Shh, kiddo" J'onn picked her up when she started sobbing, believing that she would lose her cousin right in front of her. "It's okay, it's okay" he whispered while embracing her.
She hid her face on his shoulder still crying, not wanting to keep watching what was happening, however, the moment she heard her cousin whispering, she turned finding Kara awake, so she stretched her arms towards her.
"Come here, little one" Kara smiled while J'onn sat her on her cousin's lap. "Calm down, baby" her cousin held her tightly in her arms while kissing her hair. "I'm fine" Kara whispered as she looked at her. "Everything is alright" the superhero wiped the tears that were still running down her cheeks.
She kept herself close to her cousin as if she wanted to make sure that Kara was alright, not really letting anyone to be alone with her, not even Mon-El.
"Well, we should get going, I promised Kara's sister that I would bring her back safe and sound" J'onn commented as they were saying goodbye to everyone.
"Be safe, guys" her cousin smiled as she rested her head on her shoulder.
"You too" Barry said. "Bye, kiddo" he ruffled her hair. "She's definitely the cutest child I've ever seen" Barry commented making Kara laugh.
"She is" her cousin said still laughing. "What can I say? She's my cousin" Kara commented while hugging her as tight as possible before tickling her. "I love you, little one" her cousin kissed her forehead.
The five year old woke up between her cousin and Mon-El, her small dragon resting between her arms, being able to observe that Mon-El was starting to stir, so she she sat down before laying across his chest to wake him up.
"Hey, there, baby" he smiled caressing her hair as she turned her head to look at him. "Good morning" he kissed her palm before embracing her tightly. "Do you help me with breakfast?" he asked.
"Yeah!" she exclaimed making him laugh while shushing her a little.
"Shh, your cousin is still asleep" Mon-El commented as she looked towards Kara, who was deeply asleep. "Come on" he said picking her up and walking towards the kitchen. "What do you want for breakfast?" he asked sitting her in the counter.
"Hmm, pancakes!" she exclaimed after thinking about it.
"Okay, pancakes, then" he smiled kissing her forehead before getting all the ingredients they would be needing.
She helped Mon-El in everything she could, not sure about cracking the eggs because the first one fell to the ground without even being cracked, which had made them to laugh.
Once everything was ready, Mon-El started making the pancakes, which made her to insist about flipping one of them, so he picked her up to bring her close before giving her the spatula.
"Okay, ready?" he asked grabbing her hand to help her, so she nodded. "One..., two...,three" they flipped the pancake. "Good job, kiddo" he cheered her up making her smile proud of her achievement.
Mon-El sat her down in one of the stools before giving her some pancakes with syrup as he continued cooking to surprise Kara.
"What smells so... oh!" her cousin exclaimed getting to the kitchen. "Is that hash browns?" Kara asked pointing to the food.
"No, no, no, no, no, no." Mon-El tried to get himself between Kara and the food, which was impossible. "I'm trying to make you breakfast in bed. I'm going for full romance here and you have ruined it" he commented faking being mad.
"That's very sweet, but there's no way you're getting in the way of me and... bacon!" Kara exclaimed even more excited. "And biscuits and... oh, is that a poached egg?" her cousin asked.
"Yeah" Mon-El nodded.
"How did you learn how to poach?" Kara asked.
"Oh, I found the instructions. Turns out books have a lot more useful information than YouTube." he answered showing a book. "Halley helped with the pancakes" he pointed at her.
"You did?" Kara approached her as she nodded. "Good job, baby" her cousin kissed the top of her head. "Any word from your parents?" Kara asked Mon-El.
"No. They're just up there hovering around in orbit" he answered.
Just as they were about to start having breakfast, Kara had to leave to do Supergirl's duties, so she stayed with Mon-El, getting ready to go to the DEO.
They waited for her cousin there, a small device in J'onn's hand when they returned, who left it on the desk as they all observed what it was. As far as she was understanding, they alien that had attacked her cousin was a bounty hunter, someone wanted Kara dead, which made all of them concerned about the situation.
However, her cousin was stubborn for sure, claiming that she would just fight every alien that might come after her until everything got back to normal, and, maybe the should trust her, Kara was Supergirl after all, but she could tell that everyone was scared.
"Okay, so since I can't be Supergirl for today, Why don't we go to the park, kiddo?" her cousin asked her to what she nodded excitedly. "Mon-El, you're coming with us?" Kara asked him.
"I have to do something first, I'll see you there" he answered.
Her cousin nodded while grabbing her hand and start walking, so she smiled happily about being able to spend some time alone with her cousin.
She spent the whole way to the park asking Kara about Krypton, listening every single answer her cousin was giving her, which was getting her to be even more curious about it.
"Can I go to play?" she asked pointing to the playground.
"Sure, but stay where I can see you" Kara smiled shortly before she ran away towards the slide.
She played with other kids, but when she felt that something wasn't right, she tried to go where her cousin was, however, in just a few seconds she fell unconscious.
When she opened her eyes, she realized that she wasn't anywhere she had been before, not even CADMUS, which made her panic not knowing where she was or where her cousin was.
She sat in the bed scared, looking at the door when it started to open, which made her observe cautiously the person who entered inside the room. It was Mon-El's mother who walked closer to her, making her to try and stay away from her grip as much as possible.
"Don't be afraid, kryptonian" the woman looked at her, but she couldn't avoid being afraid.
"Rhea, What... Is that the Kryptonian's cousin?" Mon-El's father looked at her before looking at his wife. "What is she doing here?" he asked.
"It's a way to get Mon-El back" Rhea answered.
"You have kidnapped a child, she's a child" he pointed at her before approaching and taking her hand. "Don't worry, I'll take you with your cousin" he said while starting to walk, just as Rhea grabbed her shoulder to prevent them from walking away.
"Let me try, I'll return her to her cousin after all" the Queen said making him to look at both of them before nodding and loosing the grip to leave the room.
At that moment she looked at the Queen afraid of what was going to happen, tears of fear were streaming down her cheeks as she bowed her head not wanting to look at Rhea.
"Don't be afraid" the Queen said kneeling in front of her. "Your cousin is looking for you, so let's go" Rhea grabbed her hand and pulled from her to start walking.
At that moment they were standing there in front of a cell, watching the bounty hunter that had tried to killed her previously in the night, her sister ready to hit the alien just to make him talk.
Kara looked at J'onn when he entered the room hoping he would have news about Halley, even though she knew that the child had been kidnapped by Mon-El's parents.
"The daxamites" the alien finally blurted out. "Queen Rhea did it" at that moment everyone in the room looked at Mon-El, who bowed down his head.
After discussing with Mon-El what was the best thing to do, she managed to convince him to talk to his mother, hoping that the Queen would understand that his son wanted to stay on Earth.
A few minutes later they were at the Fortress of Solitude waiting for Rhea, gripping Mon-El's hand as her heart skipped a beat when she saw her baby cousin being gripped by the Queen.
"Halley" she barely whispered watching how the five year old was trying to get rid of the grip and run towards her.
"Let her go, Mother" Mon-El asked watching the scene. "She's a child, let her go" he asked again, but his mother just shook her head.
"Why would I do that?" Rhea asked. "The only way the child is returning with the kryptonian is if you are coming with me back to Daxam" his mother said.
"No, don't you understand that he's happy staying here?" she asked. "When he first arrived we didn't get along, but then we found a connection to the kindness of ours hearts and I believe you have kindness too" she approached the Queen.
"Whatever connection you think you have with my son is a lie" Rhea told her gripping tightly the five year old.
She watched in horror how Rhea put a kriptonite dagger over Halley's throat as she lost the balance, falling to the ground while observing how her cousin was starting to lose consciousness.
Mon-El tried to pull them apart, but his mother just hit him to the ground as she tried to get to her cousin, however, Rhea stabbed her on the leg while letting Halley fall to the ground, blood pouring from the child.
"No! Stop! I'll go with you, I'll be your prince, but stop hurting them" Mon-El asked getting himself in the middle.
"No, you can't..." she barely whispered while cradling her cousin in her arms, Mon-El kneeling beside them.
"It'll be okay" he whispered. "As long as you two are safe" he kissed her forehead before caressing Halley's hair. "You need to take her somewhere safe" Mon-El told her making her nodded as tears were contained in her eyes.
She looked at her cousin really concerned because of the wound of the child's abdomen, tears streaming down her cheeks as she watched how Mon-El disappeared.
She felt her cousin's body shivering, so she looked back at her, Halley's blue eyes shining brighter because of the tears, her hands pressing over the child's wound.
"You're gonna be okay" she kissed her cousin's forehead while crying. "Stay awake, baby" she asked after watching how the child was closing her eyes. "Please..., don't..." she sobbed getting up with the kid in her arms.
She wiped her tears while getting ready to fly, she wasn't going to leave her cousin to die that night.
Hi!
I've always imagined that Rhea would have been a threat to Halley, because if she hurt the child, she would hurt Kara as well and that would make Kara to blame Mon-El.
Do you think Halley will be fine? Or will she be scared of Mon-El because of his parents?
Let me know what you, thanks so much reading,
Ayrin