KARA'S P. O. V

Halley had been awake during the whole night, even though she was running a fever, the child didn't really sleep, just for a few hours, so she had decided not to take her cousin to school.

However, there was none that could I with the kid during the morning, so she was forced to take Halley with her to work, just as she had been doing recently.

"Okay, sit here, baby" she told the eight year old pointing to the chair she had placed next to hers, observing how Halley obediently sat down.

"Danvers, I want you in my office" her new boss called her, so she looked at her cousin not sure about what to do, scared of leaving her there alone.

"Hi, sweetie" Nia smiled waving at the child, a huge smile on her cousin's face while getting up to hug the girl. "Go, I'll stay with her" her friend told her, embracing the kid tightly.

"Thanks" she smiled before starting to walk over the office.

Her boss barely looked at her for a few seconds before going back to whatever she was doing, which made her frown not quite understanding what was going on.

"Did I ever say this was a daycare?" Andrea questioned her.

"Umm... No?" she answered confused.

"Then why did you bring a child?" the woman asked her, for the first time looking at her, waiting for an answer.

"She's sick, I have none to stay with her" she tried to explained.

"I didn't know you have a daughter" her boss commented surprised by that fact. "She can stay here for today, but next time find a nanny" Andrea told her, to what she nodded.

"Thank you" she whispered.

She went back to where her cousin and Nia were, the child playing with the young woman with some dragons figures, which made her smile, glad that the little girl was finally feeling better than the last night.

"What are you doing?" she asked smiling at them.

"I'm explaining Nia facts about dragons!" the eight year old exclaimed.

"She knows a lot about them" Nia commented, to what she nodded, Halley was still obsessed with dragons.

"She loves them" she commented getting her friend to laugh while nodding.

"What did Andrea want to tell you?" Nia asked.

"To hire a nanny next time, but after everything that has happened, I just want her by my side" she answered.

She wouldn't mind for her sister or friends to stay with Halley, knowing that the child would be safe, but after last night, she preferred to stay with her cousin as long as possible, as she hadn't even bordered to ask her best friend if she could stay with the child.

The fact that her best friend had used kryptonite on her baby cousin was enough to get her angry, upset, not knowing if she could trust her anymore. She didn't care what happened to her as long as Halley was safe.

At that moment the eight year old was sitting next to Nia, helping the girl to do her work or trying to do so, because she was sure that her cousin was being more of a distraction to her friend.

She couldn't avoid panicking when she observed how the child got up to run away, calling her, closing her eyes when she saw that her cousin was hugging Lena, she had promised Halley that she wouldn't be mad, so she got up to approach them.

"Hey, Halley, tell me where you're going next time, please" she asked her baby cousin, who nodded while whispering "sorry". "It's okay, baby" she smiled at her, ruffling her hair. "I didn't know you were coming" she commented looking at Lena.

"Well, we were supposed to have lunch and since you didn't come to my office, I thought that..." her best friend started to explain, but she interrupted her.

"Yeah, I'm so sorry, I forgot" she sighed remembering the conversation they had had the last night.

"It's okay, I think it has to do with Halley not being at school" Lena pointed out as she nodded.

"She's been sick, she was throwing up during the night and she's running a fever, but she's feeling better now as you can see" she explained pointing at her cousin, as the child had ran back to Nia, a huge smile on her little face while playing with the young woman.

She sighed. She didn't know if she wanted to had lunch with Lena or not, but decided to play along, so maybe she could discover the reason why her best friend had used kryptonite on a eight year old to take her blood.

"If you don't mind waiting, Alex is coming to pick her up and I'll have a break, so we can have lunch then" she told her friend.

"Yeah, sure" Lena nodded with a smile, so she nodded as well.

"Kara, Can I go to have ice cream with Lena?" her cousin questioned the moment she reached them.

"I'm sorry, baby, Alex is coming to pick you up" she answered her, seeing her cousin pout, so she added. "Plus you refused to eat breakfast this morning and I don't think ice cream is the best thing for you tummy" she commented remembering what had happened the last time she had given the child ice cream after being ill.

"Please" Halley insisted looking directly into her eyes, her cousin's blue eyes shining so brightly, puppy eyes.

"No, don't look at me like that, kiddo" she smiled looking away. "I'm sorry, but it's still a no" she told her, her cousin frowning while folding her arms over her chest.

"But you promised that you wouldn't be mad" the eight year old said as she sighed.

"Halley, kiddo, you're cousin is right, we can go other day" Lena tried to reason with the child. "What about Friday?" her friend asked as her cousin looked at her.

"It's fine by me, only if I'm invited as well" she answered, there was no way she was going to let her cousin alone with Lena, at least for now.

"Yay!" Halley exclaimed embracing her legs, so she couldn't avoid hugging her back.

HALLEY'S P. O. V

She was holding Alex hand while walking into the DEO's med bay, the woman wanted to make sure of her being alright.

"Okay, let's take a look at your arm" Alex said while sitting her on the stretcher, pulling her left sleeve up, being able to find a bruised area at the place where the needle had pierced her skin. "It looks good, Does it hurts?" the woman asked while touching that area, which made her flinch.

"Yeah" she answered.

"That's not good, then" the DEO's director commented while checking her temperature. "You're still running a low fever" Alex commented while sighing. "I'm going to clean it up, okay?" the woman told her, to what she nodded.

She turned her head away the moment Alex started to clean up the wound, her eyes closed as she tried to contain the tears because of the pain.

She tried to move her arm for a few times, the pressure on her chest increasing as she couldn't avoid the memories that were assaulting her at that moment, remembering every single time she had cried when Lex had pierced her skin with using different instruments made of kryptonite.

"Hey, hey, breathe, kiddo" Alex took her face in between her hands. "Look at me, Hal" the woman asked as she opened her eyes slowly. "You're safe, he's not here, he can't hurt you, he won't, never again, sweetie, never" she let herself be embraced by the woman, just seeking for protection.

She rested her head on Alex's chest hearing to her heartbeat to calm down, starting to breathe properly little by little, feeling how the DEO's director kissed her forehead while keeping her embraced.

They stayed like that for a few minutes until she was calm enough to pull away from Alex, observing how she was smiling at her while wiping her tears.

"We won't let him get to you, I promise, kiddo" her cousin's sister promised her as she nodded. "Okay, you're ready to go with Kelly?" Alex questioned her, to what she shook her head, not wanting to go to the therapy session. "Oh, sweetheart, it's going to be fine" the woman tucked her hair away from her face.

It had been for a while since they had been doing the therapy sessions at the DEO, place where her cousin considered that it was safe for them to talk about her secret identity.

"Hi, sweetheart" Kelly crouched to her height as she just looked down. "Do you know what are we going to do today?" the woman asked, to what she shook her head kind of confused. "We're going to play, read, color... Whatever you want to do, you don't have to talk if you don't want to, okay?" Kelly explained her.

"Really?" she questioned in disbelief, but smiling widely when she saw the woman nod. "Yay!" she exclaimed taking her hand to walk inside the room, observing the toys, crayons, markers, books... Being impatient to start playing.

"Have fun, kiddo" Alex ruffled her hair as she smiled. "See you later, girls" the DEO's director said before leaving them alone, moment at which she looked at Kelly waiting for her to tell her that she could start playing.

ALEX'S P. O. V

Halley had fallen asleep shortly after the therapy session, so at that moment the eight year old was curled up on the stretcher as she tried to continue her work.

"Alex, Can I talk to you?" Kelly asked from the door, her voice sounded like if it was urgent.

"Yeah, sure" she nodded walking outside the med bay, they would be able to watch Halley from there. "What's wrong?" she questioned, knowing that there was something off.

"Well, during the therapy session I've been observing how Halley played, but I knew that she wasn't expressing herself totally, so I walked outside the room" her girlfriend started to explain, getting her to nod while trying to understand what the problem was. "The moment she was alone, she started drawing, but she stopped as soon as I came back, leaving the second one incompleted" Kelly said while pulling out the two drawings from her folder. "They're both really clear, she knew what she was doing, and I managed to make her talk about this one" the woman told her while showing her the first drawing, it was obvious what the child was representing with that one.

"That's Kara and that's Astra, that's her mom" she pointed at it, impressed by the child skills as the eight year old had drawn enough detail to let them know that it was her mom laying on a pool of blood, dead, while he cousin was laying on the grass, also dead. "That happened after her fight with Red Daughter, so I'm assuming that's when she saw her mother for the last time" she commented with a lump in her throat, feeling responsible again for what she had done almost four years ago.

"Yeah, that's what she said" Kelly told her. "She also said that losing Kara is like losing her mom all over again, they really share a strong bond" her girlfriend explained, to what she nodded, knowing that if something happened to Kara, Halley wouldn't recover. "However, this drawing is the one that she refused to talk about, but I think is really clear" Kelly explained showing it to her.

She frowned while observing it. The eight year old had drawn herself laying down on a stretcher, different instruments and kryptonite around her, being able to observe how the child had even painted blood.

Her heart skipped a beat as she closed her eyes not wanting to believe it. From what she was able to understand, that child had been forced to be awake during those surgeries.

"Do you think she was awake?" she questioned, being angry and sad, still trying to understand how someone was able to hurt a child that way.

"Yeah, I mean, she knows what happened there" Kelly answered as she closed her eyes again, fighting her tears.

"She's a child, Who could do that to a child?" she asked, not being able to imagine everything that child had been through. "She has suffered too much for being so little" she pointed out as the tears managed to escape her eyes. "I don't know how Kara is going to react to this" she commented not really wanting to tell her sister, even if she had to.

KARA'S P. O. V

"Are you okay?" her sister questioned, still observing her as if she was about to break.

"No" she whispered while shaking her head, Alex embracing her tightly.

She closed her eyes not knowing how she should react to what Kelly and her sister had told her, but not being able to stop her tears from running down her cheeks.

She didn't want to believe what she had heard, what she had seen in that drawing, being completely heart broken by the fact that Lex Luthor had tortured her baby cousin that way, that he had forced a seven year old to be awake during those surgeries.

At that moment her brain was putting different pieces of a puzzle together, finally understanding some of her cousin's words when the child had woken up in the middle of the night, sobbing, complaining about her body hurting and about blood.

"I can't believe it" she whispered.

"Me neither, Kar" her sister answered her while increasing the strength of the hug, getting her to sob.

"It's just... If I had listened to her teen version, I would have prevented it from happening" she cried, feeling guilty about what had happened to her cousin.

"It could have changed the time line" Alex pointed out as she sighed, who could tell them that it wasn't already changed?

"I thought that I would be able to help her, to stop her panic attacks, but she's so scared... Every night she comes to my room and asked to stay with me, because she's afraid of being alone" she explained while sobbing. "I need her to be fine, to be as she was before" she said.

"She's a tough child, she will recover, Kara" her sister told her, to what she nodded a little.

She wiped her tears the moment she heard the door opening, pulling away from her sister to see who had entered in that room.

"Supergirl, I have what you asked me" Brainy said before giving her a tiny box.

"Thanks" she smiled at him. "Where's Halley? I should go back to CatCo" she looked at her sister.

"She's talking to Mon-El" Alex answered, getting her to nod.

She walked towards that room, stopping at the door to listen how her cousin was giggling, which got her to smile a little, happy that the child was fine, at least, as much as she could.

"Kara!" her cousin exclaimed running towards her the moment she opened the door.

"Hi, baby" she smiled taking the child in her arms before kissing Halley's forehead. "Hi, Mon-El" she said after hearing him greet her, still not letting go of her cousin. "Why don't you go to pick up your backpack and then you come to say goodbye to Mon-El?" she asked Halley, who nodded, so she waited until the child was outside of the room to start that conversation.

"I guess you have news about her" Mon-El commented as she sighed.

She had been telling him everything that had been happening ever since the kidnap, which was a way for her to vent.

However, she hadn't wanted to tell him at first, but having to do it when he asked for Halley, worried about the fact that he hadn't talked to the little one for a long time, so she couldn't lie to him.

"Well, we have learned that she was forced to be awake during surgeries and differents procedures" she told him, hearing him gasp surprised.

"She's talking about it, then" he commented, to what she shook her head as if he was seeing her.

"No, not really, she drew it, but she refused to talk about it" she explained. "He tortured her, Mon-El... She's just a child and I can't imagine what she had been through" she tried to contain her tears, but not really getting it. "I wish it would have been me, at least, she would have been safe" she commented in tears.

"Hey, Kara, she's a brave little girl thanks to you" Mon-El said as if he was trying to calm her down. "She needs you to be strong for her to be fine, you're her hero, her mommy and if you're fine, she will be" he commented, which brought a smile to her face. "I know it's hard, but she will recover because she has you and everyone else, people who love her, who will help her in every step she makes" Mon-El keep talking, tears still streaming down her cheeks.

"She has you too, you're her best friend" she pointed out while hearing him laugh a little.

"I'll always be here for her" he assured her. "And for you" he pointed out as the door of the room opened, Halley walking in with Alex.

"Why are you sad?" her cousin questioned while approaching her, the child's blue eyes staring at her with concern.

"I'm not sad, baby" she tried to smile, but there was still a trace on her face made by her tears. "Okay, we should get going, sweetie" she told her cousin realizing that she was going to be later than she thought.

"Hal, behave and listen to your cousin, okay?" Mon-El asked the child, who nodded while taking her hand. "Love you so much, kiddo"

"Love you, too" Halley whispered shortly before the call was over.

She picked up her baby cousin to fly to CatCo, Halley gripping tightly her hand the moment they walked into the office, knowing that her boss wouldn't like the fact that she had brought her cousin to work again.

She approached William's desk, surprised to see that he was still there, but still mad at him for having written her story.

"William" she named him, getting him to look at her.

"Working late" he commented. "Are you working on a story?" he questioned observing both of them.

"No, actually I'm here to do my job" he told him while picking up the folders, ready to start working. "Sit here, baby" she whispered to her cousin, seeing how the child sat down before taking one of her books and started reading.

"That's a nice change" William commented as she sighed, turning to look at him again.

"You know, I see you" she pointed at him. "You're a saboteur. You bring other people down to make you look better and maybe that's how you made it this far, but that's not a way to make it to the top" she told him, trying to contain herself as her cousin was observing her carefully. "So you can try and get me into trouble and steal my story, but while you're busy plotting, I'll be doing my job with heart and integrity and I'm gonna be doing your work" she smiled slightly before finally sitting next to her cousin and start working.

Halley fell asleep as she was finishing her worp, the child had laid her head on her arms as she observed her concern, since if it had been James the one inside that office, her cousin would have been sleeping comfortably on one of the couches.

She picked up the eight year old in her arms once she had finished, walking towards her new boss' office, feeling confident with what she was doing.

"What did I tell about bringing her into the office?" Andrea asked her while pointing to the sleeping child.

"To find a nanny" she answered. "I do have friends and family who look after her when I can't, but since she's my child, it should be me the person who looks after her" she told her, not being happy about having to be away from her baby cousin for so long, not after everything that had happened.

"That's understandable, but I don't like kids in the office" her boss told her as she frowned. "Anyway, Have you finished editing yet?" Andrea questioned her.

"I have" she nodded. "I've also sent you eleven pages for tomorrow's meeting with headlines and images options" she added accommodating the child in her arms.

"Well, I look forward to discussing them tomorrow, don't be late" Andrea told her, to what she nodded before leaving.

Once at her apartment she changed the little girl into her pajamas before tucking her in bed as she stayed up, getting some dinner ready and watching TV, but looking from time to time to her room only to be sure that the child was still sleeping.

"Kara" Halley called her while walking into the living room. "I'm hungry" the eight year old told her as she smiled a little before picking her up and sitting her on a stool.

She placed a plate of vegetables for her cousin to eat, because ever since she had tried them, the child was a really big fan of them and she was trying really hard to give her a correct diet.

"Okay, I've never seen a kid who eats vegetables that fast" she commented when her cousin finished. "What do you want for dessert?" she asked her, Halley looking at her while thinking about her answer.

"A cookie" her cousin answered with a smile.

"A cookie?" she asked surprised as she had expected a different answer, but seeing the child nod. "Okay, there you go" she gave it to her.

Both of them sat down on the couch, her baby cousin cousin snuggling at her as she smiled while embracing tightly the child.

"I have something to you, kiddo" she said while taking the little box Brainy had given her. "Open it" she smiled at her cousin while handing it to her.

"My necklace!" the child exclaimed. "Can I wear it?" Halley asked happily, to what she nodded before helping her.

"I asked Brainy to modify it, this is a special necklace" she told her cousin, who looked at her excited. "Whenever you need me, no matter for what, you just have to press it and I'll be there" she explained to the child.

"Even if I'm having a panic attack?" Halley asked looking directly into her eyes.

"Specially if you are having a panic attack" she answered her gently tucking the child's hair behind her ears.

"Thank you" the eight year old whispered while hugging at her.

"Don't thank me, kiddo" she hugged her back. "I love you so much, baby girl, don't ever forget that" she whispered before kissing her cousin's forehead.

"I love you, too" her baby cousin murmured.

She smiled while keeping the child in her arms, still sad and scared about what her cousin had drawn that afternoon, but knowing that they should let the kid decide when she would tell them about it.

Supergirl didn't kill. However, she could assure that if she found Lex one day, he would pay for everything he had done to her baby cousin.

Hi!

I know J'onn's brother is like a main plot during this season, but I don't really want to focus on that, at least for now.

In this chapter is explained a little bit more what Lex did to Halley and how she's reacting to it. Also, I liked that Kara stood up for herself and argued back to William, so I wanted to write a little bit about it.

Thanks so much for reading, let me know what you think,

Ayrin