That afternoon, after leaving early and heading home, Kara looked through her closet and groaned, realizing she didn't have anything nice to wear for dinner with Lena. She paced back and forth, biting her lip and rifling through her closet. She sighed and took off out of the window, heading for Alex's apartment. She walked in and rushed up to Alex's floor, knocking on the door.

Alex opened the door, looking at her sister in surprise. "Kara? What…are you doing here?" she asked, her voice turning worried. "Everything ok?"

"No!" Kara said. "I'm meeting Lena in less then an hour and I have nothing nice to wear. My usual stuff does not count. I'm…I'm honestly freaking out."

Alex smiled softly, stepping back and letting Kara in. "Okay. First of all, calm down," she said. "Second, what kind of look are you going for?"

"Nice," Kara said. "I don't…know exactly. Something that's…going to just help me get through tonight. It's a bigger conversation about why I didn't tell her about Supergirl, and I want to look nice."

Alex nodded, leading Kara to her room. "Okay. Let's see what I've got." She opened the closet and looked through the dresses, holding up a blue one against Kara. "What do you think?"

Kara looked in the mirror and nodded. "It's perfect," she said. She took the dress from Alex, heading for the bathroom. She heard Alex's phone ring, knowing the tone on the call as the one for the DEO. She looked through the door with her X-Ray vision, cocking an eyebrow and listening.

"Alright, Brainy. I'll be there in a few minutes," Alex said. "Yeah. Thanks." She hung up and sighed, walking over to the bathroom door. "Kara, I've got to go. Brainy needs me down at the DEO for something important. Can you lock up on the way out?"

"Yeah, I can," Kara said, opening the bathroom door. "What do you think?" She spun around softly, showing off the dress. "Think Lena will like it?"

Alex smiled. "Honey, if it's on you, she'll love it," she said, hugging Kara. "I'll see you later. I'll call if we need you."

Kara smiled and nodded, watching Alex walk out. She heard the door close and she sighed softly, walking out and looking at her reflection in the mirror. "Do something with my hair," she mumbled. Ten minutes later, Kara walked up to Noonan's, seeing Lena inside. She walked in and over to the table, smiling. "Hey, Lena."

"Hi!" Lena said with a smile, getting up and hugging Kara. "Wow, you look beautiful. I didn't think you had anything like this dress. It looks great on you, sweetie."

Kara felt her face redden, sitting down. "It's Alex's. I went over freaking out because I didn't have anything that would have worked," she said.

Lena smiled and nodded. "Well, I think you look great," she said. "So…tell me everything. From Krypton to Supergirl."

"Oh, Rao," Kara snickered. "I was thirteen when Krypton exploded. My parents sent me to look after my cousin, Superman. At the time we were launched, Reign was launched as well."

"Sam," Lena said.

"Right," Kara said. "Something happened to my pod and I got knocked off course, ending up in the Phantom Zone, a place where basically time does not move. When I came out of the Phantom Zone, my cousin had already grown up. So, I think I spent at least twenty-four years in there. He took me to the Danvers, Eliza and Jerimiah, and they took me in. Fourteen years I hid who I was because if I didn't, people could have gotten hurt."

Lena nodded, hanging on Kara's every word as Kara told her more about her family and her powers, including thinking she was older then she really was. She held her hands up, fork between her fingers. "Wait. You're how old?" she asked.

"I think I'm really in my fifties," Kara said. "I was thirteen when Krypton was destroyed, roughly twenty-four years in the Phantom Zone, and then twelve years on Earth hiding my powers and just being Kara Danvers. I moved to National City when I was twenty-seven, physically twenty-seven, and I've been Supergirl for a little over four years. I think, if the math's right, I'm fifty-two."

Lena, having grabbed a pen and a notebook from her purse, wrote down the numbers as Kara rattled them off, blinking and looking at her best friend. "Jesus Christ," she said with a smile. "You're right. So, you'd have been born in 1966 on Earth."

Kara smiled. "And I'll age slower than humans too," she said. "When everyone I love is gone, I'll be over a hundred, and I'll look like I'm forty." Her smile faltered, looking down and sighing. "I'm going to outlive everyone I love…I've already lost one family. I don't think my heart could take losing a second." She felt the tears fall down her cheeks, reaching up and wiping them away softly. "Damn…"

Lena frowned, getting up and wrapping her arms around Kara's shoulders, rubbing her arm. "Hey…it just means we have to have fun with the years we've got left, you know?" she asked. "Do the things we want to do. Have the fun we want to have. Live for the moments and don't regret anything in the future."

Kara nodded softly, leaning back against Lena. "I know," she said. She heard her phone ring and she groaned. She reached down and grabbed it, seeing it was Alex. She felt Lena pull away, watching her sit back down and feeling cold after she did. "Alex?"

"I know you're having dinner with Lena, but the President wants you in DC in an hour."

Kara sighed. "Alright. I'll be there soon as I can." She hung up the phone and set it down, looking at Lena with sadness in her eyes. "Lena—"

Lena smiled and shook her head. "It's ok, Kara," she said. "I know that you'll get called away when you're needed. I'm not mad. Long as you come to the penthouse tonight when you're done so we can finish talking. Because, as much as I wanted to know your history, I really wanted to know why you didn't tell me about Supergirl in the first place."

Kara bit her lip softly and nodded. "Promise," she said, getting up and hugging Lena. She kissed Lena's cheek and smiled softly. "Love you, Lee."

Nodding and hugging Kara back, Lena smiled. "Love you," she said, squeezing Kara's hand. "Go. Go be a Supergirl."

"Too easy," Kara said with a smile, grabbing her purse and walking out of the restaurant, heading for her apartment.

Lena asked for boxes for the food, packing them up and taking them back to the Penthouse, setting them in the fridge before she sat on the couch, rubbing her hands together. She tried to process everything Kara told her, especially with how old she really is, and she shook her head. "That girl," she muttered.

The next afternoon at L-Corp, Lena waited to hear from Kara, clad in a green dress she hoped her best friend would like. She looked down as her office phone rang, seeing the number for Alex's phone and feeling her heart stop. "Lena Luthor?"

"Lena, it's Alex. We've got a problem, and I need your help."

"What's wrong, Alex?" Lena asked, a pit forming in her stomach. "Is everything alright? Is Kara alright?"

"No, and that's the problem. The air's been laced with Kryptonite, and we've had security breaches in the DEO. The lead dispersal device was taken, and I think Mercy Graves is behind this to try and kill Kara. We've got her on life support, but Brainy and J'onn aren't sure if it'll last. We need to get her contained or clear the air somehow, or she's going to die."

Lena's heart sank. She felt her hands shake, and she looked over at her monitor. "I, uh…I might have something," she said. "After the Daxamite invasion, I…I started working on something for Kara. Something to keep her safe, and…I can—I can bring it down. Give me fifteen minutes."

"Thank you, Lena. I'll have an Agent waiting in the garage for you." The line went dead, and Lena got up and all but ran for the elevator, heading to the underground labs.

Quickly sorting through a box and finding what she was looking for, Lena rushed to the DEO, being ushered in by the agent in waiting. "Where is she?" she asked, looking at Alex.

"This way," Alex said, leading Lena towards the medical wing. "I know you two didn't see eye to eye on a lot of things last year with Sam and Reign, but with you being here now, Lena, it means a lot to us. Means a lot to me."

Lena smiled sadly. "People underestimate me, Alex, but I care about Kara. I really do," she said. She followed Alex, digging into her purse and grabbing the device she'd nicked from her R&D lab.

Brainiac, or Brainy to the DEO, took the box from Lena. "Oh, my. A radiation-controlled proto-environment housed in a vacuum-sealed, mechanical exoskeleton contained in a spring-loaded two-millimeter disc."

"Kara's going to have to stay in this until the atmosphere's clean," Lena said. "However long that takes."

J'onn sighed. "So it's indefinite confinement," he said. "She won't like that."

"I will not lose her," Lena said. "It's the only way, J'onn." She put the box on Kara's chest and tapped the top, watching it open and the liquid ooze-type substance spread out, covering Kara from head to toe. She sighed and put her hand on Kara's softly, squeezing lightly. "Now we wait."

"I'll start working on finding out how to clear the atmosphere," Brainy said, walking out.

Alex put her hand on Lena's shoulder. "She'll fight. She's strong."

"Strongest woman I know," Lena whispered, pulling a chair over and sitting down, her eyes never leaving Kara's face, or where her face was under the helmet of the new environment suit. "Wake up, sweetie. I'm right here…"