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Helena came back into the building when she had found that message from Kara. she could tell she had been upset over something, and she knew she needed to do something to help her in some way. Kara was never the type who should have been that upset. That may have been why Helena would do everything she could to help her in any way.

She knocked on Kara's door, and she opened it, looking pretty upset with whatever had been happening in her life at that moment.

"Kara?" Helena asked, and she had found her sitting on her couch, hugging her legs to her chest. "What's wrong?"

Kara looked up at her. "I met a member of S.W.O.R.D., Hank Henshaw. He pretty much said I could never be like my cousin."

Helena wanted to make that man know of the wrong he had caused for Kara, but she had worked not to show it. That was not going to help the whole situation if she lost control of her emotions.

"Of course not," Helena had said to her as she sat next to her on the couch. "You're two different people, and he has years of experience on you."

"He's not going to give me a chance to help them in something," Kara said to her.

"Since when do we need to tow the company line?" Helena asked her. "You don't need Henshaw's help or acceptance to be Supergirl."

"It would make it easier."

"You make your own way," Helena said to her. "One that would actually work for her. They'll eventually learn to accept your help."

She looked at Helena. "You learned that from your mother?"

Helena worked to nod. "That was how she had lived her life. Waiting for acceptance would never help anybody. They're too afraid to make the wrong kind of people angry."

"They would see me as dangerous," Kara had said to her. "Not falling in line."

"They would always think like that," Helena had admitted. "But, you could make them want to work with you. You can make them change their mind about you. You're the only one who can do this. Do it."

Kara was quiet as she had been listening to what Helena had said to her. There was a change that was starting to come over her, but she was still unconvinced by what she had been telling her. That would always seem to be the case when dealing with Kara.

Helena realized that both Kara and her cousin were like that. They were probably two of the most powerful people in the whole world, and they had terrible self-esteem issues. Of course, Kara would reply that both Helena and her father had psychological issues.

Helena paused for a moment, and she had let out a calming deep breath. "I'd always do my best to help you. Even in this."

Kara had to agree to allow her to help her, knowing that even though S.W.O.R.D. would not help her, Helena knew enough to be better than the whole organization. Helena would do everything she possibly could to help Kara.

Helping Kara fight that escaped Phantom Zone prisoner was the first step for Helena's return into the kind of life she had thought to have left behind. There was nothing that good. Helena could not believe she was actually starting to miss doing that kind of work. She had no problem with that sort of thing. She could keep doing something like that.

Steve Rogers had been watching the news in part when he had been in his apartment. They were discussing what happened between a new hero who was being called Supergirl fighting another alien.

Oddly enough, that was not too strange for him to be able to see in the new type of world he had found himself in. It all seemed to be rather normal to him. Nothing could ever surprise him ever again.

"You know what's strange about that," Nick Fury had mentioned to him when that footage was first being shown at S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters in New York City. "Supergirl is a new addition to this. No known experience until she caught that plane, but now she's acting competent and seemed to know what she was doing. Superman made some catastrophic mistakes when he first started out."

"So?" Steve asked him. "That's a good thing."

"She has help," Nick said to him. "Someone who knows what they're doing."

"I don't see how that would be a problem."

"Someone would see that it is," Nick said to him, appearing to be thinking about something, though he was not going to share it with him. "Given her similarities with Superman, there are few options on who that could be. One of the former Robins who trained and fought with Batman." He had paused for a moment. "There were people in S.H.I.E.L.D. who were relieved that the so-called Trinity split up. . .either through death or retirement. They were considered a threat by some within S.H.I.E.L.D., and they could easily challenge the authority of the whole organization."

"Because the hearts and minds of the people are with them," Steve said, not sounding at all surprised by that sort of thing. "Can't have that."

Nick shook his head, though he appeared to have been agreeing with him, at least in part. "The world's not the way it used to be, and some in charge aren't willing to change. They were the ones who were unwilling to allow the Avengers Initiative to be a thing."

"New York should have changed that," Steve remarked, narrowing his eyes at the director. He should not have been surprised why they would have a problem with them working together in the way they did.

"No. . ." Nick had to admit to him, shaking his head over what he had to say. "That would only make them more determined to end it all."