My goal here is to explore Kara's journey.

Bia Zor-El, again, thank you, thank you, thank you. You're the best.

And thank you to all of you guys. I hope you like to read it as much as I liked to write.

Warning: The mistakes are all mine.

Disclaimer: Supergirl's characters belong to DC, CW and WB. (Did I forget something or somebody?). The new ones here are mine.

New Beginnings

Chapter 2 – "I'd save every day like a treasure"

"If I could make days last forever

If words could make wishes come true

I'd save every day like a treasure and then,

Again, I would spend them with you"

Clark flew to Midvale as soon as he was informed.

"Alex was a remarkable person. I'm so sorry." He embraced his cousin.

"Thank you."

Kal-El looked into her puffy eyes. "Hey! It's ok not to be ok."

"I'm not talking about this Kal." He kissed her forehead.

"When you're ready, I'm here for you. Everybody is here for you, Kara."

However, Kara would never talk about this anymore.

A lot of people attended the funeral on a cloudy morning. Family and friends - humans or not – were there. The DEO paid tribute to their most legendary agent. J'onn and M'gann sent a touching message. All of them loved or at least respected Alex Danvers, now resting next to her parents and to her beloved Maggie.

Kara didn't come close. Alone, sitting on the grass, she observed from a wooded hill, however she didn't cry. Her head seemed to be utterly empty. She felt thoroughly empty.

The Kryptonian felt a hand closing around hers. She looked to her left and saw the 17-year-old girl seated by her side. Olivia didn't say a word, she was just there, and like this, they stayed for a long time.

"Your grandma knows you're here?" the alien finally said.

"I told her I'd be with you."

"I'm not a good company to be with, Olivia."

"I don't mind."

For the first time, Kara gave a faint smile.

When a thin drizzle started to fall, Kara took off her jacket covering the girl's shoulders. "I'll take you home."

"Can we eat first? I'm hungry."

"Of course."

Olivia was one of the Sawyer-Danvers great-grandchildren. When she was eight her mother, still a young woman died from a hemorrhagic stroke, and after that, she went to live with her grandma, – Alex and Maggie's daughter - Emma. The girl was smart, sweet, bubbly and shy. She loved and was loved by her family, friends, and grandma. And she adored Kara.

In fact, since day one, Olivia seemed to have a special connection with the Kryptonian. Even when she was sad, just seeing the alien had made her smile, during family meetings she always tried to sit as close as possible to her. Being next Kara made her feel happy and sheltered.

The heir of the House of El was always kind for everybody, but avoided to be close. After Alex secretly explained why, Olivia understood Kara's reasons and decided she didn't care. She knew that in her own terms the younger Danvers loved her.

Following her sister's death and after sleepless nights, Kara slept for almost a day. Then she quit the DEO for good, asked them to deposit her retirement payment in a bank account, put some clothes and her Supergirl suit in a backpack and closed the beach house.

"You're leaving, aren't you?" Olivia asked Kara days after Alex's funeral.

"For a while, I guess."

"Space and time?"

"Don't worry. I'll be around." The Kryptonian assured her great-grandniece.

Even keeping in touch with her family, she traveled aimlessly around the world usually flying, landing, changing to Kara's clothes – including the glasses that helped to suppress her vision - and walking, always helping in small and simple places. Tribes, riverside areas, isolated villages surrounded by snow, desert, hinterlands, fishing communities, farms. In distant places in which people didn't even heard about Supergirl.

Kara didn't need much to live and worked for little or no money. Several times all she got was some food and maybe a place to sleep. Sometimes her hosts didn't even spoke the same language as her, but both sides found a way to explain themselves clearly in what mattered. Kara learned fishing, to cultivate, the art of weaving baskets from natural straws, cleaning barns, sheep-shearing, to take care of horses, pigs, birds, dogs even snakes. Occasionally the Kryptonian was also 'captured' by children, who took her to a river or a lake, summoning her to join them in their recreation.

Meeting so many people that didn't care about her past, she worked hard from dawn to dusk trying to forget the real reason for her to be there. However, exhausted or not, darkness was her worst enemy. Sometimes all Kara wanted was to never wake again and live in her dreams forever because they could bring back those she loved and lost and she could reach them for a while. When the pain and weight of her solitude, memories, and longevity grew unbearable, Kara sat next to Alex's grave for hours looking somewhere but seeing nothing or she wore her Supergirl suit and went back to National City watching over the city.

The woman would stay in a spot for days, weeks, rarely for a month before flying away, she usually used her powers and left people anonymous gift. A fence, an artesian well, a pile of firewood, a plowed field, useful things for the community, even a treehouse for kids. She never came back to the same location.

For almost three years that was Kara's life, until the day she received an urgent message to go back.

Supergirl: S1E01, S1E02, S1E05, S1E09, S1E11, S1E14, S1E17, S2E06, S2E11, S2E21, S2E22.

To be Continue…

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