A/N: Thank you for the comments.
Guest (1) - I don't really know the story line well, but I assume it will be adapted far from the original.
As Alex pinned Adam to the floor she commented. "It's a good thing Elle didn't inherit your fighting skills. You know training is meant to make you better right?"
"Sorry, just tired." Adam said as Alex helped him to his feet.
"Everything okay?"
"I guess." He shrugged as Kara strode into the training room.
"Hey, what are you doing here?" Adam asked.
"I've been watching and I have to ask, is the problem that you are a useless pupil or Alex is an inept teacher? Mind you they do say those who can't, teach."
"Kara?" Adam asked surprised by the outburst.
"But then again, she doesn't have much to work with."
"Kara, what's wrong with you?" Alex asked stepping towards her sister.
"Maybe I'm just tired of having to give everything when everyone else is content to sit back and do nothing."
"Kara? What's going on?" Adam asked.
"You're jealous. You always have been. First my powers, then my happiness, then Elle. What are you going to do now I finally have my mother back?" She asked Alex. Not giving Alex a chance to respond she stormed out of the room.
"Red-K?" Adam asked.
"We have to get her back." Alex said hurrying to the control room.
"Vasquez, I need a spectral analysis of all the scenes Supergirl has gone to recently."
"How recently?" Vasquez asked as she started to pull up data.
"Have you noticed anything strange?" Alex asked Adam.
"She was fine at dinner last night, but I've not really seen her since." He said.
"Search for everything since lunchtime yesterday." Alex instructed Vasquez.
"Okay. Anything in particular that you are looking for?"
"Red-K." Alex said. "While the scans are running I need you to track Supergirl and have two teams ready."
"Yes ma'am." Vasquez said as she typed away. "Got something. She went to fire this morning, looks like she was exposed there."
"Send in a clean up team." Alex said.
"Ma'am, I have a location on Supergirl, she is at the old base."
"You think she is trying to control it?" Adam asked.
"Not sure that's possible." Alex said.
"We have to keep her away from Elle." Adam said.
"Go look after Elle, take her somewhere safe. I'll deal with Kara." Alex said.
"Good luck." Adam said running out of the control room.
"What's wrong?" Alura asked walking into the control room.
"Kara's been exposed to Red Kryptonite." Alex said.
"Red Kryptonite?"
"It removes her inhibitions." Alex explained. "All her inner thoughts, those dark thoughts that you never voice, they come out."
"Am I at risk of being contaminated?" Alura asked.
"No. We are containing the source. You are safe." Alex explained.
"Then I will help you."
"You won't want to see Kara like this." Alex said.
"Neither will you. With J'onn away I am the only one here who can restrain her." Alura pointed out. "I can also get to her faster than anyone else."
-00-
"Where are we?" Elle asked as Adam carried her into a strange house.
"It's a special DEO house where we'll be safe."
"The bad people are back?" She asked.
"Not exactly, but it may not be safe at home." Adam explained as the door opened and Cat walked in and walked straight to Elle and hugged her.
"Where's mom?" Elle asked sensing something was wrong.
"At the DEO." Adam answered.
"When is she coming back?"
"I don't know." Adam said.
"Something's wrong isn't it?" Elle asked.
"Yes." Adam said.
"Is mom hurt?"
"No."
"Sick?" Elle guessed.
"Kind of."
"Then why aren't we with her?"
"It's too dangerous." Adam replied sensing a long conversation was starting.
"Have you learned about the dangers of drugs at school?" Cat asked before Elle had the chance to ask anything further.
"We should never take drugs." Elle said.
"Very good. Do you know why?" Cat went on.
"They do bad things. They can make you sick."
"Well your mother was given a drug that made her sick." Cat explained.
"She's going to be okay." Adam said picking Elle up and sitting her on his lap.
"How sick?"
"Alex has a cure." Adam said. "But until they give it to her she'll be very angry and she'll say and do things she doesn't mean. And when she's been given the cure she's going to be very sad about everything she said and did. If you see your mom before Alex makes her better you need to know she won't mean anything she says. Okay?"
"Will she be okay?" Elle asked.
"She will, but she is going to need lots of hugs when she's better. Until she's better we need to stay hidden. Okay?"
-00-
"You ready?" Alex asked Alura.
"I am." She nodded.
"Before you go in just remember she's not in control and she will feel awful about what she does."
"You have said that several times." Alura pointed out.
"It's an important message." Alex countered. "As soon as she's still I'll shoot her with the cure. But you need to hold her still."
"I understand." Alura nodded before entering the, now empty, former DEO base. When she finally saw her daughter she slowly approached and greeted.
"Kara?"
"It was here." Kara said without turning. "In this room Aunt Astra told me how you had betrayed both of us. How you used me as bait to trap your own twin. What type of a heartless person does that?"
"I never meant to hurt you. But Astra had to be stopped." Alura said.
"It was always duty first, family second." Kara said bitterly.
"Please Kara, let me help you."
"Help? What help do I need? I'm free and I can see clearly."
"This isn't you."
"How would you know, you have not been a mother to me for years, maybe at all."
"Kara, no matter what you think I always loved you and I want to help."
"Now you pretend to care?" Kara asked.
"I have always cared about you. I love you more than life itself."
"Please." Kara said finally turning to look at her mother. "You have never cared for me. You put me in a pod, alone. I was a child and you abandoned me. Sent me to an alien world whilst you stayed in Argo. Do you know how scared, how alone, how powerless I felt? I had no one. No one has ever understood me. I have never belonged here. That's on you."
"Kara, I did what I thought was best. Not a day has gone by where I haven't regretted the decision I made." Alura said stepping towards her daughter.
"Regretted not doing it sooner. Why are you really here on Earth? It's not for me, so why?" Kara asked.
"It is about you." Alura said moving fast and clinging to Kara who tried to break free. Before she could though Alex shot her from behind.
As Kara went limp Alura held her tightly
"She'll need time, but she'll be okay." Alex said as she approached them. "We should get her back to the DEO."
-00-
"How is she?" Cat asked.
"Asleep, finally." Adam said as he sat down next to his mother. "Thank you for being here."
"You don't need to thank me." Cat said as she squeezed Adam's hand and adding. "Kara will be okay."
"What if she isn't? What if they can't reverse it? How can I explain it to Elle?"
"Alex will figure it out. She cured her before, she'll do it again."
"And in the mean time, what if she does something she can't take back?"
"Then you'll be strong for Elle and Kara." Cat said as Adam's phone rang.
"It's Alex." He said before answering the call while Cat watched, unaware that Elle was outside the door listening in.
"Well?" Cat asked when Adam ended the call.
"Kara's okay. She's been given the antidote and is at the DEO."
"Did she hurt anyone?"
"Physically, no. But Alex said she was pretty brutal towards Alura. She really didn't hold back. She's going to hate herself when she wakes up. She's only just got her mom back." Adam pointed out. "What if what happened costs her that relationship?"
"They've been through too much to let that happen." Cat said before adding. "But Alura will get over it much quicker than Kara will." When Adam didn't say anything Cat asked. "Do you want to go to the DEO? I can look after Elle?"
"No. Alex said they need time to run tests. She said it's probably not worth going until tomorrow morning."
Outside the door Elle quietly got up and wrote a note before picking up her bag and sneaking out with Krypto.
-00-
"Mom?" Kara asked as she opened her eyes and saw her mother looking down at her.
"Oh Kara." She said brushing hair off her daughter's face.
"It wasn't a dream was it?" Kara asked.
"No." Alura said.
"I'm so sorry." Kara said, tears running down her face.
"It's okay." Alura said drawing Kara into her arms.
"No it's not. The things I said-"
"Were accurate." Alura said. "I did abandon you. I have not been a mother to you for many years."
"I said just bad things." Kara cried.
"You weren't in control." Alura reminded her.
"It was still me. I should be better than that. You should hate me."
"You are my daughter. I could never hate you."
-00-
As Elle walked the streets realising she was lost she started to play with the necklace, wondering if she should call for help. It was then she saw a car pull up along side her. Gripping the necklace, but not activating it, she looked at the car as the window lowered.
"Going somewhere?" A familiar voice asked.
"Maggie?" Elle asked.
"What are you doing out here?" Maggie asked.
"I want mom. I thought I could find the DEO….but I got lost."
"It's not safe for you to walk round the streets alone."
"I'm not. I have Krypto." Elle pointed out.
"Get in." Maggie said leaning over and opening the door. "I'll drive you to the DEO."
"Really?"
"Yes."
"But dad didn't want me to go there."
"After what you did Alex and Adam want you at the DEO." Maggie assured her, helping her clip in the seatbelt.
"They do?" Elle asked.
"Yes. They both want to lock you up and the DEO has the best cells."
"For what?"
"Running away."
"I wasn't running away. I was running to mom."
"Your clever arguments aren't going to save you this time. Your dad is really mad at you."
-00-
"Hey." Alex said gently as she approached the solar bed.
"I'm sorry."
"It's okay." Alex said.
"No it's not. I was so horrible to everyone. Including you. I'm sorry."
"It's okay. I've said far worse to you and you weren't wrong about Adam, his fighting skills are awful." She added smiling.
"I was so horrible to mom. I only just got her back and now I've lost her." Kara said as a tear ran down her cheek.
"You haven't lost her." Alex said. "Your mom knew what was going to happen. She went in anyway so she could save you and protect Elle."
"And she paid a price. I can never take back what I said. Elle has never said anything near that bad to me, but the worse thing she ever said, it hurt so much. I can't even begin to imagine how mom is feeling. I ruin everything. Lose everyone."
"You've not lost your mom." Alex said. "And you still have Adam and Elle. Elle can't wait to see you."
"It's too dangerous. What if it is still in me?" Kara asked. "I can't risk hurting Elle."
"Kara you are clear and Elle needs to see you."
"Why? What's happened? Does she know what happened? What I did?"
"Adam explained why you weren't around. She's worried about you." Alex said, deciding not to mention the fact she had gone missing.
-00-
"Elle!" Adam said picking his daughter up and hugging her. "You are in so much trouble."
"I just wanted to give mom a hug." Elle said holding on to her father.
"Never go anywhere by yourself." Adam warned. "It's not safe."
"Are you locking me up?" Elle asked.
"Locking you up?" Adam asked confused.
"Maggie said you and Alex wanted to lock me up."
"That's not a bad idea." He agreed. "You will be punished, but I'll figure out what when we get you home. "
"I just wanted to see mom." Elle protested.
"Right now she doesn't want to see anyone."
"Why?"
"She's upset about what she did."
"But it wasn't her fault." Elle pointed out. "You said so."
"I know. But she doesn't believe that. It's going to take time."
-00-
"How's Kara?" Cat asked.
"Feeling guilty and miserable. I wish I could take her pain away." Alura replied.
"And you?"
"She didn't throw me off a building so I guess it could be worse."
"Like everything else in life when I annoy people I like to do it as well as possible." Cat retorted.
"It's not like she said anything I have not told myself over the years." Alura said.
"True, but to hear the words from Kara will have hurt." Cat said.
"It did. Not so much for what she said but for the pain I caused her with my decisions. To know she harbours that much anger, repressed or otherwise….it's not fair."
"Fair doesn't come into it." Cat said. "If it did, the person who will feel the most pain and remorse from this wouldn't be Kara. But she'll learn from it and come back stronger."
-00-
"Elle, you shouldn't be in here." Kara said as she tried to move away from her daughter, terrified that she'd hurt her.
"Alex said I could come in." Elle said defiantly.
"It's not safe." Kara argued.
"Alex said it was." Elle replied ignoring her mother's protests and climbing onto the bed before hugging her.
-00-
"She is the ultimate weapon." Alex commented as she and Adam looked into the room where Elle was hugging her mother as she read her a story.
"Kara needs it. She looks broken." Adam said.
"She's going to be okay." Alex said.
"Are you trying to convince me or you?" Adam asked.
"A little of both I guess." Alex confessed.
"How bad was it?" He asked.
"We kept her contained so no one outside the DEO will know, which is good. Physically there were just a few minor injuries. But she let a lot of her chest. It was Alura who bore the brunt of it and now Kara is terrified she is going to lose her."
"How is Alura?" Adam asked realising he had not seen her.
"She said she was okay. Last I saw her, she was with your mom so it could go either way." Alex shrugged.
"Any idea who is behind it?" Adam asked.
"No. Not yet. But I will figure it out and they will pay." Alex said darkly as Maggie walked up to them.
"How are you guys doing?" Maggie asked.
"Better than Kara." Adam replied before adding. "Thank you for getting Elle."
"Of course." Maggie smiled. "And if it makes you feel better I don't think she'll try anything like that again or for a while at least. She was pretty lost and scared when I found her."
"Do you want us to take Elle tonight?" Alex asked.
"Thanks, but no. I think having her stay with Kara will help Kara."
-TBC...
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