A/N: Thank you for the comments.

Chloe - Yes there is a very short wait for an explanation. But this is a different cloaked figure to a previous cloaked figure.

Guest (1) - Not quite, but hopefully things will start to make sense in this chapter.

Guest (2) - Thanks! Most of your questions will get an answer in this chapter, but there may be more revelations to come later on.

Guest (3) - Those ideas all made sense. I'll keep thinking about it.

Guest (4) - Thanks - there are still a few issues that need to be overcome.

Guest (5) - J'onn will be involved, but the solution is less complicated than I think you are assuming it will need to be.


"Alex?" Kara asked when she opened her eyes and saw her sister stare down at her.

"Kara." Alex said coolly.

"Are you really here?" Kara asked sitting up, trying ignore the pain that shot through her body.

"Why wouldn't I be?"

"Because you're dead. I killed you."

"You did more than that. You destroyed my family. First I lost my father, then you destroyed my relationship with mom. You argued with Maggie. You cost me my medical career and then you killed me." Alex said. "You are a curse. Lillian Luthor was right, you are no hero. But killing you won't achieve anything. You need to learn how much pain you have caused." She said before plunging a dagger into Kara's leg.

Waking up Kara bolted upright as pain washed through her. Looking down at her broken leg she placed her hand over where she had been stabbed in the dream as she tried to get her breathing under control.

She had almost succeeded when the light in the room turned on and Cat walked in and sat on the edge of the bed.

"Speak." Cat said.

"About?"

"Whatever you want. Although the death of your sister seems a good place to start...that or your nightmare, but I'm sure the two are connected."

"You know about the nightmare?"

"I do."

"How?" Kara asked before answering it herself. "Dumb question, you're Cat Grant."

"Although my omniscience is famous the world over, this time the screaming in your sleep was a give away."

"Sorry."

"What have I said about apologising?" Cat asked. "Clearly my absence has had a detrimental effect on you. So speak."

"I'm fine."

"You've given up. That isn't fine." Cat said before asking. "Is this how you think Alex would want you living, or not living your life?"

"You didn't know Alex." Kara snapped.

"I met her and I saw her with you enough times to know how much she loved you." Cat said. "I know she didn't give her life to have you fall apart."

"No you don't." Kara countered.

"Did you know she disobeyed an order from the President in order to protect you?" Cat asked. The question causing Kara to look at her confused. "It was during the Daxamite invasion. She was told to destroy the ship that you were on. She refused because she knew it would kill you."

"She never said." Kara said quietly.

"Alex loved you." Cat said. "I know it is hard to lose someone you care about, but you can't give up."

"I was meant to protect her. What is the point of powers if everyone I care about gets hurt?" Kara asked. "It should have been me that died, not Alex."

"That's not what Alex wanted." Cat reminded her. "She chose to save you because she knew how hard it would be to loose you. She's had to face it many times. How do you think Alex felt when you flew the space prison back into space or when you were fighting Reign? Yet she never gave up."

"Alex is...was the strongest person I knew. I tried to be strong for Eliza. But it is so hard." Kara said.

"Why do you have to be strong?"

"I owe Eliza so much. I cost Eliza her husband and her daughter. I am a curse."

"You're her daughter." Cat corrected. "I've met her. And she doesn't see you as a curse. She sees you as her daughter. She loves you. Seeing you like this will hurt her more than she is hurting already."

"That's why I lie. I tell her I'm fine. That I'm healing."

"You clearly don't video call." Cat said. "Cutting yourself and lying isn't going to ease her pain."

-00-

"Eliza?" J'onn called as he entered the house, wondering why Eliza had asked him to come quickly.

"J'onn." Eliza said approaching him and hugging him.

"What's happened?" He asked concerned.

"It's a miracle. Follow me." she said leading him upstairs to the room J'onn, pretending to be Alura, had talked to Kara in all those years ago. Confused he looked into the room and came to an abrupt stop.

"Alex?" J'onn asked seeing her sleeping on the couch.

"She's alive." Eliza said quietly so not to wake her.

"How?" He asked unable to take his eyes off her.

"She had some help." Eliza explained looking over at Alex once more like she feared she would disappear, before leading J'onn back downstairs.

"Help?" J'onn asked.

"From her." Eliza said as they entered the lounge where a cloaked figure was waiting. "It's okay." Eliza said. "He's a friend and an alien." The words causing the being to remove their hood revealing a blue face with stalk like antennas emerging from her head.

"You are a Jemgal." J'onn commented recognising the species. "I did not know there were any of you left."

"I am Raffa, one of the last." Raffa said sadly. "We came here after the war but knew we could not share the land. We caused too much fear. Now we live in the old mines where humans no longer go." She explained.

"I'm J'onn J'onzz, a green martian." J'onn introduced trying to understand what was happening.

"She saved Alex." Eliza said.

"I found Alex." Raffa corrected.

"Can you tell me what happened?" J'onn asked wondering if it was really Alex upstairs or some cruel trick.

"I found her floating in one of the rivers that went through the mines. She was near death when I found her. So weak….but a fighter. I could sense her will to survive. I helped her as best as I could and although I am not a healer she was making progress...until she heard something."

"Something?" J'onn asked.

"We can not live amongst the humans, but we still follow events of the world in the hope that one day the world will be ready to accept us." She started. The starting point confusing J'onn and Eliza, but patiently they listened. "After a week of hovering between this world and the next she showed short moments of consciousness. It was during one of these spells she heard the news that Supergirl was dead. After that her spirit broke. Her health declined she loss her will to live. So I helped her forget."

"Forget what?" Eliza asked.

"I wanted her to forget what she had heard so she still had hope." Raffa said.

"The Jemgal's are empathic telepaths." J'onn explained. "They have been used by many worlds to help overcome grief by temporarily changing or blocking memories to ease someone through the grief process."

"I thought if I could help her forget what she had heard she would have hope. She would fight." Raffa said. "But my powers, I have barely used them since I arrived on this planet, and I helped her forget too much."

"That's why she doesn't remember Kara?" Eliza asked.

Nodding Raffa said. "I am sorry. But the process is reversible. The memories are not gone, just hidden. They will return when she is ready or when she is helped."

"Can you reverse what you did?" J'onn asked trying to catch up.

"I used to be able to, back on my planet. But that was over four hundred of the Earth years ago. I fear I would cause further harm."

"Can you help her?" Eliza asked J'onn.

"I don't know. I can try." He said as Alex walked into the room carrying a photo frame.

"Alex." J'onn greeted as he walked towards her.

"J'onn." She said before hugging him. "I've missed you."

"Me too." He said squeezing her. "I cant believe you are alive. I am so sorry for calling off the search."

"It's true isn't it?" Alex asked pulling away.

"What is?" J'onn asked.

"I have a sister?"

"You don't remember anything?" J'onn asked.

"No. And I see the photos and it's like there is a hole in my memory."

"More of a block." J'onn said.

"Can you unblock it?" Alex asked.

"If you want we can try and release it. But before you agree it will unearth a lot of painful memories. I know you are strong, but it won't be easy for you."

-TBC...


A/N: Thanks, for reading and reviewing.