AN: Hey guys! So Sorry I'm super late with this, but I had to go on an expected business trip to China and the time zone just messed me up!

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As Alex walked away from her parked car in her apartment's garage at 3 am, every single muscle in her body ached. She slowly walked up the stairs, got out her keys, turned them in the door and stepped inside. In blistering heat of the summer in National City she had decided to keep her windows wide open when she left this morning, which had mercifully brought in a cool breeze through the house.

She was exhausted, both mentally and physically, but managed to drag her feet to the kitchen and fill herself a huge glass of water gulping it down in under a second. She hated that she had to shower, all she wanted to do was jump in bed and wake up three days later.

Walking back to the living room, she remembered her phone had gone dead a good 5 hours before, so she rummaged through her bag pulled it out and plugged it into the charger. It slowly glowed back to life and 3 missed calls and about 15 texts flashed on to the screen. One call and a message from J'onn, asking how her meeting was and that she should call Kara, whom the rest of the calls and messages were from. Each text increasingly worried in tone.

Alex sighed and shook her head, she should have checked in with Kara hours ago, and now her sister was probably besides herself with worry. She texted her a simple 'I'm fine, got caught up working with the specialist. See you tomorrow'. Before she had a chance to put her phone down it rang, of course it was Kara.

"Where on earth were you Alex! I've been worried about you!" Not even a hello escaped her sisters lips before going on her little rampage, words spewing out a mile a minute.

"I texted you Kara, just got caught up in a little work." If Alex wasn't so tired, she'd probably be annoyed, but she didn't have the energy to get into an argument with her little worried sister now.

"You left the DEO at 2 pm, which makes it 13 hours!" Kara was clearly upset with her, which Alex didn't really understand. She often worked late nights, and mostly on her own, so Kara's concern seemed a little over the top for her.

"Kara, honey, I know you're upset and I'm sorry. But I'm really tired can we talk about this tomorrow?" silence fell over the phone line for a split second, and she thought the call had been dropped, but finally her sister spoke.

"Alright. We'll talk tomorrow. I'm glad you're home safe Alex. Goodnight!" Kara's voice softened as she agreed.

"Goodnight Kara." With that Alex put down the phone, and walked to the shower. Next thing she knew she was in her shorts and an old college T-shirt tucked cozily into bed.

Alex slept so deeply, when she woke up, at the screaming sound of her alarm clock, she didn't even remember having dreamt at all. The a little over 3 hour sleep had done nothing to make her feel less tired, if anything she felt even more drained than last night.

Groaning, she slowly got out of bed and into the bathroom, and began her daily routine. As she was brushing her teeth, she heard a strong knock on her door, and looking at the screen connected to the security camera to the other side of it, she saw her sister standing there in a sun dress some coffee and a paper bag of what she assumed was breakfast.

Toothbrush still in hand, Alex unlocks the door, and let her smiling sister inside.

"I swear if you weren't bringing me coffee I would have smacked that smile right off!" she said playfully smiling as she put her toothbrush back in her mouth and continued to brush. She reached over and grabbed her coffee with the other hand.

"Well someone's as grumpy as always this morning!" Kara's smile turned into a grin and she walked towards the kitchen to put down the breakfast, as her sister went back to the bathroom and finished brushing her teeth.

By the time Alex walked back into the kitchen, now fully dressed and groomed for the day, Kara has already put the pastries and bagels in a plate and was busy rummaging away in her sister's fridge.

"Alex when is the last time you restocked your fridge? I mean there is nothing in here that even closely resembles food."

"There's beer in there, that could count as some form of bread."

Kara scoffed, and shut the fridge. She picked up her coffee and gobbled down a sticky bun, faster than Alex had taken a single bite into her cream cheese bagel.

"So this is an expected treat." Alex started, looking at her sister suspiciously. "You haven't been to my apartment in almost a year."

"Well it's my because my apartment has actual food in it." Kara mumbled, her mouth full of pastries. Swallowing a gulp of coffee she cleared her throat and spoke. "I got up extra early this morning, and decided to see you before we head to the DEO."

"Shouldn't you be at Catco? You still haven't found Cat a new assistant yet." Alex knew very well what her sister was here to talk about, so she tried to avoid it as long as possible.

"My first interview for the day isn't until 11 this morning, so I thought we could go over and discuss whatever you had found out last night."

A chilled silence fell over the room, and Kara crossed her arms waiting for Alex to tell her what she wanted it hear.

"J'onn told you, didn't he? He told I was meeting with Davey yesterday." Alex finally relented, knowing that she couldn't avoid the subject any longer than she already has.

"He told me you were meeting Dr. Andrea Davis, actually."

Alex scoffed, annoyed. "You know full well what Davey's name is Kara, so please don't act coy."

"Yeah, of course I know Davey's full name Alex. What I don't know is why you decided to meet someone who was responsible for you coming home to Midvale a complete mess!" Kara was starting to get angry.

"Kara, you don't know what happened back then. So just please drop it. Besides she is one of the top linguists in the country, and the closest to us right now." Alex was already running around her living room gathering her things to leave.

"I don't know what happened because 3 years on, you refuse to talk about it." Kara was hoping that Alex would cave and say something; anything, but she stood there her expression blank. "Fine! You know what I'm going to go to Catco and get some things done, and I will meet you at the DEO in the afternoon."

Kara grabbed her coffee, and stomped to the door. As soon as she left the apartment, Alex let her shoulders sag with relief.

"Thanks for the coffee sis." She mumbled knowing full well that Kara heard her.

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I didn't have much time to edit this, so if you find some mistakes your forgiveness would be highly appreciated!