In the morning Kara realised she had slept in. Her phone having died during the night had not blared her morning alarm. Getting up and stretching she grabbed her phone and headed into the kitchen. Both Lois and Clark were out at work but Clark had left her a note indicating where she could find breakfast and a phone charger was lying next to it. He had also reminded her to call work and said he wouldn't be back to the evening but Lois would be back about midday as she had a doctors appointment in the afternoon.
Happily tucking into breakfast Kara put her phone on charge and wandered back into the baby room to investigate it a bit more. Now it was in the light she could see that the crib was a little different, examining it closer she could see where Clark's name had been etched into it. So this had been Clarks crib as a baby Kara smiled, that's why it was made of such tough material! She looked over all the other fluffy animals in the house before her phone turned on and she could hear the notifications coming in reminding her what she had yet to listen to from yesterday and a few text messages.
Instead of going to her phone she pulled the borrowed jumper she was wearing tighter around herself and switched on the news channel. It was heavily focused on the particle accelerator.
It was talking about how so far there had been minimal casualties, a plane containing escaping criminals had been forced to the ground had been named as two of the casualties. Otherwise there was just various injuries from stampedes there was an apparent report one individual had been hit by lightning and was one of the few in critical condition. Kara felt for everyone who had been involved and her attention waned as the news moved over to other breaking stories around the world.
It was really strange to be back in a place Clark lived, it felt so much like home it was surreal. She had felt homely with alex but not like when she was around clark, blood of her blood.
There was still someone missing. The amazing martian she called Thanthu, a sign of respect for a fellow alien and a name he really loved. Kara set it in her mind that when she was trained and had a suit and maybe had a saving people thing down as well as clark while he was on baby leave she could look into where he might have gone, and find him. He was as much family to her as Alex was. Her family here on earth, which was what you make it.
Kara watched the rest of the news before it cycled back to the particle accelerator explosion and figured she better call work and explain she wasn't able to come in. Surprisingly her boss was okay with her taking some sick leave provided she sent him an email of her account of what happened before the end of the day.
Checking her other messages and deleting the frantic ones from Alex from the previous evening and deciding to ignore the two from Eliza but leaving them on her phone for when she was feeling in a more forgiving mood. There still wasn't a message from Barry it had notified her the message had been read so she just put her phone back on charge. Maybe he really still was in an odd mood from yesterday. OR Karas nicer side reasoned he could be really busy at a crime scene that popped up. Kara was too balanced Alex often complained but it also was one of her sister's best qualities so it was only jokingly complains when she would point out perhaps ulterior motives in a character they were watching on the TV. It was one of the things that made her a good reporter as well.
Kara messaged her sister again just as she heard a key in the apartment door, a quick sweep confirmed it was in fact Lois carrying a few bags so Kara was there as soon as she was through the door to take the bags off her.
"Oh thank you your a lifesaver" Lois commented closing the door behind her, "Don't get me wrong the people at work are lovely to get me presents but why give me them when I have no way of giving them to clark to carry home!" she complained, "I'm already carrying the heavy load all the time!" she contninued grumbling. Heading straight for the Kitchen Island to sit down
"Let me be useful" Kara offered, "Can I make you anything for lunch?" Kara asked and Lois's eyes lit up, "Oh you know how to make a pregnant lady happy, just mention lunch"
Kara laughed, "Okay it's nothing you can make but there is this place in downtown metropolis that does the best bacon cheeseburgers and they add extra pickles… could you please get me one?" Louis begged and Kara laughed and grabbed her phone, "Just put the address in and I will be right back"
And Kara was right back, only gone for five minutes having also grabbed her own food to munch on as Louis devoured hers. They ate in silence until all there was was wrappers which Kara cleaned away in a flash
"Oh you are my favourite person" Louis said as she slurped on a drink Kara had gotten as well.
"Even ahead of Clark" Kara laughed
"Umh" Louis nodded, "He did this too me he's like near the bottom of my favourite list of people" she added
Kara smiled, "You know I don't remember meeting you when I was younger but I know I did know of you" she finished, "Clark would talk about you all the time"
Louis blushed, "Yeah he told me, well after he told me everything else, it took him two months after he moved in here to admit why he was so depressed- for all that time I was really concerned that a house had meant that much!"
Kara nodded, "I went there first when my memories came back, they had to burn it I guess so there was no trace of me to find"
Lois nodded, "But on a less serious note you want to know how he told me he was superman?"
Kara nodded having wandered a little bit herself,
"Well apparently he was planning a dinner so he could tell me but he had to cancel it because of superman buisness and I was interviewing him afterwards and he was so distracted he forgot himself in the moment and said 'See you at home sweetheart' and I did a double take, and he did a double take and then it all clicked and I broke my hand smacking him on the arm and he had to take me to the emergency room changing into clark kent halfway"
Kara looked shocked, "After all these memories I have where he would drill into me not to let it slip through anything that i'm an alien and he goes and slips it like that to you? Thats terrible!"
Louis waved it off, "It wasn't so bad, my hand was though and I learnt to be much more careful" she commented slowly with her eyebrows raised and Kara blushed very red
"I .. would" Kara trailed off not wanting to say anything,
"I had my suspicions of course, he never seemed to be around when Superman was but to have it confirmed like that really threw me off!" Louis chuckled before checking her watch, "Well I should head off for my appointment"
"You know " Kara quickly caught herself from revealing the gender, "It's a very healthy baby" she finished,
"Oh I know, and Clark knows I swear he spends more time looking at the little one than me but, you have to have these appointments in order to secure a good birthing doctor, they won't take you on without and I really do not want to be anywhere near any other doctor than the best when there's a chance this baby is going to be far too strong for its mother's own good" Louis added looking a little scared.
Kara shook her head, "No, um I mean I guess no human kryptonian hybrids ever been born before but once my sister.. She's a biochemist and she asked me all these questions once about kryptonian reproduction ect and well " Kara was getting a little sidetracked as Louis hovered around the door, "Since your human body can't absorb the yellow sun like we can so inside you your baby is just essentially like a kryptonian under the red sun or a human and if you give birth away from all natural light s-" kara coughed quickly, goddamn gender secrets "Your little one will just be human until it starts to absorb the sun"
Louis blinked lots of times, "So I've been panicking for nearly nine months over a baby that might heat vision his or her way out of me and it's actually just fine?" Louis asked weakly
Kara nodded, "I mean " she started but didn't get to finish as Louis hugged her over her large belly
"Thank you" Louis let go and then breathed, "Now I can go back to worrying about giving birth to just a regular baby!" she opened the door to leave, "Which is just as terrifying now i'm thinking about it" she finished as she closed the door behind her
Clark wasn't far behind Louis in arriving home, but it had given her enough time to email her editor, to help Kara fulfill her wish to be a superhero too.
"Okay so I can't get time off work to help train you full time but I snuck in some leeway citing preparations for the baby and what not " Clark filled her in having just flown in through the balcony door startling Kara slightly from where she had been massaging her sister.
"Awesome!" Kara started, "So where do we start?" she asked
Clark zipped away into his room and then returned holding two hangers, "First, we suit up" he said and held out Kara's suit toward her. It wasn't exactly like Clark's the blue was a little different but Kara recognised the cape
"Is that?" she asked as she took the hanger from him and ran her hands along the material
"Well I thought you might like it" Clark said looking a little sheepish, "I.. well I had it made before you left from the designs you kept drawing in your room and you did always put that you wanted the cape to be kryptonian in origin because.."
"It's so fire resistant and will remind me of home" Kara finished smiling and then vanished to put it on
"Sorry if it doesn't fit!" Clark called to her sheepishly
It didn't quite fit, it was rather loose around her arms and shoulders but Clark assured that soon she would have enough muscle to fill it
" I mean you probably won't turn into quite the triangular shape I am" Clark assured at her alarm in looking at his ridiculously beefy form, "But enough to fill the suit I hope"
Kara bounced a little in her new boots, "So what's first, bank robbery? Car chase?!" she asked
"I'm going to hope your not excited for those things to be happening right now" Clark commented,
"No I want to see where your at so, I think some play fighting in order"
"You mean like when I was a kid?" Kara asked trying to keep the tone of disappointment out of her voice
"Well yeah I want to see how far you've regressed" Clark commented,
"I have not regressed" Kara said stubbornly, "I have much better control than I did back then" she pointed out and indicated her feet were still on the floor
"Control yes but aside from flying about what else have you even been using?" Clark commented, "Those powers of ours if you want to use them for fighting you gotta know how to use them and when along with how long you can use them for " Clark added
"Like when you flew about the other night, you flew so fast your clothes burnt off - imagine you are rescuing civilians and you do that"
Kara opened her mouth to point out she never would before closing it, Clark was being really nice to agree to do this for her, maybe she should listen and learn for a while.
They headed out and Kara realised she had indeed regressed. Keeping her powers squashed down and in constant control had affected her control for example her freeze breathe was perfect for while chilling her drinks or Ms Grants iced coffee but not for stopping Clarke in his tracks and it was the same for her heat vision
Her flight was also not as manoeuvrable and she couldn't chase Clarke when he was suddenly twisting and turning in the air. Her punches also lacked power to even make Clarke even flinch when she tried. The only thing she has not lost was her super speed.
"You know the one thing I never questioned as a kid but why did you call it super speed or heat vision?" Kara asked as they were flying back home Kara lagging a little in exhaustion.
Clark winced a little, "Well I manifested most of these powers at a young age and I needed something to call then and my mum, Martha just let me get on with it so they ended up I guess pretty cringe worthy now I'm an adult"
Kara laughed, "okay if you made the names when you were a kid then I can get they will be pretty silly"
They diverted and split off. Clark to get takeaway for the evening and Kara to head back to the apartment. It was dark so even Louis jumped when Kara came in through the window
"Oh!" She explained in shock following it up with an "ooooh?" As she took in Kara's outfit.
"Martha does good work" she smiled, then added "So what did you do, I haven't seen anything on the news?" Lois inquired
"Just play flight info like I did when I was younger, I've been suppressing my powers so long it's hard to just let them out" Kara explained heading to sit next to Louis on the sofa keeping her uniform on
"Well when Clark finally lets you have your debut let me know" Lois said, "let me have the story on it so I can go out on maternity leave with a bang" she grinned putting out her hand to rest on Kara's knee.
"Seriously though, is this what you want?" Louis asked her voice taking on a different tone just wanting to check Kara was okay, "it looked was a lot getting those memories back and you seem to be jumping into the super side of things really quickly…"
Kara could tell Louis wasn't meaning it horribly and was genuinely concerned, and thinking about it what Kara was doing was mad and completely different from everything she had been doing since she had been left with the Danvers as a pre teen.
"It's like… a damn has been released and I can finally be who I am" Kara tried to explain, "Since I was dropped off at the Danvers I felt like my kryptonian side was being rejected and I had to keep it inside so I could enjoy life" Kara winced that was a horrible way of putting it but it was true, she couldn't use her powers or risk losing her new family
"It wasn't as bad as it sounds but with the memories coming back I can remember a time where me and Clarke and Tanthu were together free to use our powers together and this wish to just be like them when I was older and...that's back and it's a part of me and it's old memory but it's so new it's inspiring and I just want life to be like that again but with my new life to… bring them back together"
Louis nodded trying to understand, "What's Tanthu though?" Louis asked not recognising the name
Kara smiled in remembering him, "That's J'onn J'onzz, Clark must have talked about him?"
Louis shook her head, "well only mentioned him to explain why you didn't remember him, and he definitely didn't smile when he did"
Kara looked crestfallen, "Clarke can hold a hell of a grudge" she commented, "apparently he hasn't spoken to him since and doesn't even know if he's alive"
Louis really felt for kara but before she could speak again Clarke flew in with food
"Oh hello my second favourite person in the whole world" she exclaimed as he handed her her takeaway bag and then passed Kara hers
"Second?" Clark asked wounded Kara could see he had gotten changed during the fetching of takeaway and was about to joke about his hiding clothes all over the city but didn't want to interrupt Louis so kept quiet
"Yes this baby is my favourite" Louis grinned as she unpacked the food
"I thought I was!" Kara joked also digging in
"Mmm" Louis started to talk but had a mouthful of food so Kara waited for her to swallow, "Sorry Kara it's a forever altering ranking system, changes in seconds "
"Damn" Kara joked, "think we could get the list on the fridge so we can keep track?"
They all snorted in appreciation of the joke and enjoyed the food before Clark and Lois retired to bed leaving Kara in the living room.
Kara decided that it wasn't that late and to call her sister she had been texting but really hadn't explained what was going on and she was hoping at this point Eliza had called Alex and told her what was going on so she wouldn't have to re explain what was happening with her.
Grabbing her phone she typed the number she knew by heart and waited for her sister to answer. Moving out onto the small balcony so she wouldn't disturb Clark with his super hearing.
Her sister sounded so relieved to hear her voice Kara felt incredibly guilty for not calling sooner. It had only been twenty four hours since the explosion of the particle accelerator but with all the memories that had burst forth it felt like a lifetime had gone by.
They talked, for a long time well into the night. Alex wanting to know about her time that she had forgotten and drafting parallels with her early years at the Danvers residence.
"It explains some really little things, like how on earth you learnt to say "doh"" Alex laughed " I always wondered if you got like terrestrial television on Krypton"
They laughed together and eventually bid each other goodnight, Kara promising to visit soon to fetch some clothes and see her sister for awhile.
Hanging up Kara checked through her other messages, sending a reply to Winn who had obviously heard she was ill and had sent her a few silly snapchats from work to cheer her up which Kara really appreciated and messaged him to say thanks.
Barry still hasn't replied so Kara debated on calling but it was quite early morning by now so she didn't want to wake him but debated on emailing him asking what was going on .. but again it had only been a day… Kara sighed she was terrible with this kind of thing so she just texted him an emoji. When in doubt a quick emoji is a good plan.
Kara then headed to bed. Unhappily getting changing out of her super suit in the process.