Astra flew around the city, staying well out or eyesight of the humans below her. She used her dark clothes and super speed to her advantage and kept to the shadows, avoiding any lit windows and the rare helicopter that passed by. She was searching for a sign of Kara, any sign. A flash of her blonde hair on the dimly lit streets or even the sound of her voice. In a city full of people milling about it wasn't an easy feat.

She would have tried to find the girl the human way, if she knew what her human name was or what field she had pursued. On Krypton Kara had inherited Alura's love of science, on Earth she had no idea what path Kara would have chosen. Humans were so far below Krypton on the science scale she couldn't see it challenging enough to keep Kara's unfaltering curiosity sated.

Though it had been so long since Astra had seen her…. Having been raised By humans for so long Kara could have become a completely different person. She wouldn't have expected Kal-El to grow up as anything but a human he had no experience with Krypton and the culture, she had kept tabs on him but she hadn't shown herself or offered any assistance in raising him. The closest she had come to him physically was when she broke into the Kent's barn to access his pod. And that had been useless to her. Kara though….she hoped Kara had at least tried to keep her heritage alive.

A bright laugh caught her attention from an apartment building close by and she swooped in for a better look. It was risky because so many of the windows were bedrooms and kitchen, focal points where people were more likely to glass out the window at the dark landscape. She felt it was worth it. The laugh had reminded her of home, it didn't sound like the childish laugh she remembered but there was just…just something that pulled at her heart. Something she had been waiting, hoping, for the past twenty-four years to hear.

She decided to try her x-ray vision. It was probably the safest and easiest method to searching the building, she couldn't very well peek in through lit windows that was a sure way to be seen. It didn't take her long to regret using x-ray though, there was a very large, very hairy and especially very naked man dancing and singing in his kitchen…..she was never going to un-see that. She shuddered and shook it off continuing her sweep of the building until she landed on a group of people settled in a living room on the fifth floor. They were all laughing, playing some kind of game, and there in the midst of them was her Kara. With the brightest, most sincere smile on her face. She looked so very beautiful and so happy.

Astra's heart ached at the sight and her resolve wavered. She had wanted to see her, talk to her, hold her tight and assure herself that Kara was real, that it was really her. But now that she was faced with it she wondered if it was someone else. If it was another refugee from their home planet. She had been so sure it was her Kara. And even if it was her little girl…would she want to see her. Astra had no idea what Alura had told her after her arrest. For all she knew Kara could have grown to hate her.

She sucked in a breath and shook off her nerves. It had to be her Kara. She could tell the girl was Kryptonian, she had called out the name of Rao when she lost a round. Even if she was wrong about who it was at least she knew she wasn't about to scare some innocent human. She glanced at the others littering the cozy living room. Well…she might scare a few anyway but it had to be done.

~K~

Kara was laughing heartily at Winn's face as Alex beat him again at the round of charades. Alcohol had been around the group and it was always funnier for Kara the tipsier the humans got.

No one was specifically drunk that night, though they would be calling cabs, in Winn and James's case and staying the night in Lucy and Alex's. She enjoyed Friday night game nights. Especially if there was no Supergirl duties.

She had grown to love being Supergirl, she took the good with the bad, but it had helped her learn to appreciate the down time she had on an entirely new level. She couldn't look at her small group of friends without thanking Rao for her luck. People that loved her and was willing to keep the biggest secret in National City, she couldn't have asked for more.

Winn lost again and cursed good naturedly at Lucy and Alex. Kara had to admit they made a good team, they had been beating the boys every chance they got, and they were merciless. She stood up and pointed to the kitchen, "I'm going to grab more snacks, when I get back it's me and you Winn against Alex and Lucy. Someone has to best the reining champs tonight."

Lucy smirked and winked at the blonde. James groaned but smiled despite his exclusion, "Everyone had ganged up on me." He complained with a grin.

"Dude you are trash at this game. How on Earth did you not get bike horn?"

"Man I didn't know what in the world you were doing. I thought you was having some kind of fit." They all laughed, Winn had made some funny gestures, he tried to pedal his feet in the air and had made pinching gestures with his hand. It might have been obvious to him but no one else could have figured it out.

"Bring me some of those chips, Kara." Alex called at the girl's retreating back. "Don't try to say your out I saw some earlier." She knew Kara so well, those were both their favorites and fights had often ensued in the Danver's house hold over who got to eat the last bag. Luckily for Alex Kara hadn't quiet got over the near death experience Alex had encountered with the plane.

Kara made her way around the cabinets, stacking snacks back on to trays to bring the short distance into the living room. She was humming an old Krypton lullaby happily and tuning out the rest of the party when she heard the words to the song being sung along with her hum.

She froze and the tray she had been working on slipped off the counter. It was surprisingly enough the food was now on the floor and wasted but everyone stopped and looked at her because there was no way Kara would have let it fall. She could have easily caught it all before it hit the ground, and her love of food would have encouraged her to try. The expression on her face must have caused them worry because they all tensed expecting her to tell them about a Supergirl emergency. Only she never opened her mouth and uttered a word.

"Hey, Kara," Alex stood up and moved over to her still sister. "Are you okay?" She reached out and touched the girls shoulder gently. Kara jumped and shook herself.

"Yea I just…I thought I heard something impossible." She smiled sadly and what she hoped was reassuringly at her sister.

"What was it?" James asked curiously.

"A…just an old song. I'd forgotten the words….just remembered the tune….I thought," She took a deep steadying breath. " I thought someone was singing it….Someone I knew."

Alex was rubbing soothing circles against Kara's back, she smiled at her in appreciation and moved to pick up all the chips and chocolate that had slipped off the tray. "Such a waste," she muttered darkly, easing the tense sad atmosphere and making them all laugh.

"Here you clean that up I think there is pepperoni and salami slices in the fridge. There should be crackers somewhere, we can have a picnic snack."

"Don't forget more beer," Lucy shook her near empty bottle at Alex and smiled slyly. Alex feigned a hurt look.

"I would never!" She said as if it were the worst sin she could think of.

Kara chuckled at the antics with everyone else but her mood had been dampened slightly, she felt melancholy and she missed home keenly. She wished on every star she knew that the voice hadn't just been a figment of her imagination, a memory from past bedtimes. She would give up anything to see her Aunt Astra again.

~K~

The Kryptonian in question was cursing herself as she flew to the highest point in the city and threw herself a top it. She had chicken out. The General….leader of the last forces of Krypton, criminal though they may be, had chickened out at the prospect of being hated by her niece.

And she know knew it was Kara. She used to sing that song to her when she went to bed, any time she had visited Kara would ask for that special song. She hadn't even known she'd remembered the words until Kara had begun to absently hum it.

She stared up at the stars and wiped furiously at the tears that rebelliously fell from her eyes. Kara was alive, she was happy and she hadn't forgotten her or Krypton. It was bittersweet and problematic. Astra had to seriously consider her plans. She couldn't lose Kara again. And she needed to work up a plan to let the girl know she was alive, for good or bad Kara deserved to know the truth. About herself and their family.

A/N: Because I was confusing even myself I decided to clarify the time line to Kara's age. Clark arrived two years before the Rozz escapees. Kara arrived nineteen years after or seventeen years after Astra. So Clark found her pod when he was nineteen in my story. And the timeline has advanced seven years, so Kara is twenty in the fic, so seven years since her pod landed. It's a pretty big difference from the TV show but I just couldn't imagine even an Aunt not contacting her niece for soooooo many years and allowing strangers to raise her. And since to my understanding Rozz arrived around the same time as Kara well…..I needed there to be a viable reason Astra didn't go searching and trying to find her. In my fic she did but I don't think it says the same in the tv show.