"Easy." Winn said as Kara sat up.

"What happened?" She asked looking round confused.

"You kinda collapsed, which is understandable after you and your cousin had another showdown."

"That happened?" Kara asked feeling groggy.

"Yes." Winn replied.

"The Red Kryptonite? Is he okay?" She asked as her brain started to work again.

"Still under, but he should be fine."

"I need to see him." Kara said hopping off the bed.

"Easy." Maggie said before pointing to the bed on Kara's other side. "He's just there. Hamilton says he'll be fine, but he needs to stay in here over night."

"So how are you doing?" Winn asked as Kara looked at her unconscious cousin. "I mean he kind of lay into you."

"I'm fine." She said.

"You know it's okay not to be?" Winn pressed.

"Especially with everything else that has happened recently." Maggie added.

"Seriously, I'm fine." Kara said. "But do you guys mind leaving us alone? It will be easier for him if there are less of us in here. He's going to feel like crap."

"Sure. Let me know if you want anything." Winn agreed.

"Thanks. Can you call James as well. I think Clark will need a friend."

"Of course."

"She going to be okay?" Maggie asked as she and Winn left.

"She should be. The lamps should have recharged her cells." Winn said.

"I didn't mean physically." Maggie said.

"I don't know. She's missing her spark, but she has been ever since Mon-El left. But you heard what her cousin said to her." Winn replied.

-00-

"Kara?" Superman asked as he opened his eyes and saw his cousin.

"Hey." She said trying to force a smile.

"What happened? Is this the DEO? How did I get here?" He asked as he sat up.

"I brought you here. You had been exposed to red Kryptonite." Kara said as she saw her cousin's expression change as he started to recall events.

"Did that really happen?" He asked paling.

"Yeah."

"Kara, I'm so sorry." He said, not sure how he could make amends.

"It's okay. Really. I've been there."

"I didn't mean what I said."

"I know." Kara said squeezing his hand.

"Hey man." James said entering the room.

"Jimmy, hi." Clark smiled.

"I need to go, Dr Hamilton wants you to stay here to make sure there are no lasting effects. I'll be back tomorrow." Kara said releasing her cousin's hand before leaving.

"You should go look after her." Superman said to James.

"If I do that she'll worry about you." James said. "Winn will keep an eye on her."

-00-

As Kara lay on her couch wrapped up in blankets watching her mother's hologram she heard a knock on the door. Her first thought was to ignore it, but then she stared through the door and saw it was Maggie. Springing up she hurried to the door and opened it asking.

"Is Alex okay?"

"I think so. I haven't heard." Maggie said.

"Are you okay?" Kara asked confused as to why Maggie was there.

"I'm fine."

"Then why are you here?"

"I thought you might want pizza." Maggie said waving a box.

"I'm not really hungry."

"You are always hungry." Maggie reminded her. "Unless you are ill, in which case should I take you to the DEO?"

"I'm fine, just tired."

"Then have a couple of slices of pizza and then I'll leave you in peace." When Kara didn't move away from the door Maggie added. "You know I can be more stubborn than Alex?"

"I doubt that." Kara said reluctantly moving away from the door.

"What are you doing?" Maggie asked seeing the strange device on Kara's coffee table.

"Just...it doesn't matter." Kara said quickly taking the Kryptonian device off the coffee table and putting it in her bedroom. As she returned she asked. "Do you want a water or a beer?"

"Beer would be great." Maggie smiled.

When Kara returned with a bottle she asked. "Why are you really here?"

"To check on you. I heard what your cousin said to you." Maggie said. "He was a complete ass."

"It wasn't him. It was the Red-K."

"Doesn't matter, I'm guessing his words cut pretty deep."

"Nothing I haven't heard before." Kara shrugged.

"Have you really been staying away from Alex?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"Because I want Alex to be happy."

"She's happy when she's with you." Maggie said confused.

"But happier when she's with you and you don't like me." Kara said bluntly.

"I don't not like you." Maggie said. "I just disagree with your working methods as Supergirl."

"We both know there is more to it than that." Kara said. "I have had the truth thrown at me all day. I can handle honesty."

"Fine. I guess I use to hold you responsible for the way Alex was treated growing up." Maggie confessed. "It seemed really unfair that she had so much expectation and responsibility thrust on her."

"Because of me." Kara finished. "I feel the same way. Alex paid such a high price because my parents sent me away."

"They did it to save your life." Maggie reminded her.

"They did it so I could protect my cousin, but the universe had a different idea. I don't know how much Alex has told you about how I came to Earth, why I was sent to Earth."

"Just that Krypton was dying and your parents sent you to look after your cousin. But there was an accident and you arrived several years after him and he asked the Danvers to raise you."

"He told me it was so I could have a normal upbringing like he had and I always believed him. But a few months ago Alex said it was him abandoning me. She was right, he admitted it himself today, he never wanted me."

"Kara, you said yourself he was under the influence of the Red-K stuff."

"Yeah, but that doesn't cause you to lie, it gets rid of your inhibitions. It allows you to voice your inner most thoughts. Just because he would never normally say what he said, doesn't mean that he doesn't believe what he said. He was right, I don't belong. Anywhere."

"That's not true." Maggie said.

"It is. I have fought it for ever. But what's the point? I'm so tired. The universe is trying to tell me I don't belong, I can't be happy."

"Kara, I know you are I a bad place right now. I can't even begin to imagine how hard it was to make that call with the bomb, but things will get better."

"I doubt that." Kara said. "Wherever I go I ruin things. Krypton was destroyed. Astra died. I basically committed genocide against Daxmites. Mon-El had to watch his mother die and now he can never return. I lie to my best friend who hates her mother because of her hatred of me and I ruined Alex's life."

"Kara. I get that you feel alone right now, but you're not." Maggie said. "You have a family who wants to help."

"Its not just the sadness, the loneliness. It's the anger. I hate feeling so angry all the time. Cat always told me I had to find the anger behind the anger and I thought I had. I thought that I hated my parents for sending me here. But it's not that. I hate that me coming here ruined Alex's life."

"It didn't." Maggie said.

"She lost her father because of me."

"I thought her dad, your dad, was the leading expert on Superman. He'd have always been a target for the DEO. If you are desperate to blame someone, blame your cousin."

"I stopped her being herself. Growing up I shared and she hid who she was. I hate that I did that."

"Kara, Alex loves you and she would never not want you in her life." Maggie said before asking. "Seeing how we are sharing you want to know the other reason I never exactly warmed to you?"

"Sure."

"I was jealous."

"Why?"

"You and Alex are so close. You have such a unique bond."

"We're sisters."

"This is going to sound bad however I say it, so I'm just going to come out and say it okay? Just don't judge too much."

"Okay."

"I'm guessing Alex told you I was thrown out of my home when I came out."

"Yeah."

"I lived with an aunt for three years who tolerated me rather than accepted me. But you, you fall out of the skies one day and find a family. I mean you are an alien. You're different in every way from Alex and the Danvers. You don't share blood or even DNA and yet they took you in, accepted you for who you were and loved you for you. I have never had that."

"Yeah you have. I mean you may not have done growing up. But you have that now with Alex." Kara reminded her.

"I know." Maggie said. "But so do you."

-TBC...


A/N: Thanks for reading and reviewing. Next chapter up tomorrow.