Lois was discharged the following day having completed 'mummy training' as she jokingly called it. Kara and Clark had been busy alternating between the hospital and the apartment getting it fully baby girl ready.

The bedroom wasn't pink but a lovely light purple and grey with the white furniture standing out from the walls. Kara had gotten a little creative and had recreated (as best she could) the night sky in glow in the dark stars and had bought a little space mobile.

Overall the babies room looked completely different from when Kara had been staying in it, they had even gotta a little name plaque for the door and painted both her earth and kryptonian names on it.

Overall it was a room fit for a princess, a very small princes but one nevertheless. Kara did try to excuse herself and head back to work a few days earlier than she agreed since she felt she would be in the way but both heavily insisted that she was certainly not in the way

If Lois was honest having two kryptonians who could function on zero sleep and would happily get up no matter what to attend to her daughter really helped her recovery from giving birth, How single mothers handled it she would never know and she sent kudos out to every single mother or father that had done it every night she was awakened slightly by the noise of crying that was shortly followed by either Alycia's dad or Aunt rushing at super speed to her bedside to attend to her.

It was only a few days later when Kara was now packing up to leave insisting she had to get back to her work and she would visit all the time if they let her when Alycia finally showed some sign she was a future superhero.

Kara was just packing the last of her stuff and she turned away from the bag to grab the last of her sweaters out of the cupboard and when she turned around Alycia was inside her suitcase.

"Haha that's not funny Clark" Kara commented calling to the superhero in the other room, "Much as I would love to take her with me" she finished as Clark came into the room

Baby talking he lifted his daughter out of the suitcase, "What on earth is your silly Auntie Kara on about" he asked his daughter who just waved her arms about

"You put her in my suitcase!" Kara exclaimed closing it and now zipping it closed, "Don't deny it"

Clark looked at Kara Alycia resting on his chest, "I didn't" he said honesty, "I was just helping.." he didn't finish his sentence as Kara's eyes widened and he realised he was no longer holding Alycia as she was just happily floating just out of his arms still sucking on her thumb contentedly.

"Oh" Clark softly exhaled, "Get Lois!" he encouraged Kara not wanting to startle his daughter into stopping

Kara super sped into the kitchen and grabbed Lois from where she was sat at the PC and took her to Alycia's room

"What the- OH!" She exclaimed

Her daughter who was bathed in sunlight thanks to the large window in her room was just hovering there, Clark having moved away just a little to see if she could hold the height.

"She can fly" Lois commented the obvious

Clark was just beaming, "It was one of the first signs I showed when I came to earth but not this early"

Lois just made a noncommittal noise, "There isn't a page in the baby book work got me for first flight" she said a little taken aback but still proud of her daughter.

The sun began to go behind a cloud and Alycia slowly began descending so Clark caught her gently before she hit the ground.

"Well I am glad I got to see that before I left" Kara said smiling and hugging everyone she headed reluctantly back to National City,

Her training to be the best supergirl wasn't complete but learning on the job wouldn't be so bad she hoped. Regardless the citizens of both Metropolis, Central City and National city would have to get used to it,

After dropping her stuff off at home, it was the middle of the day so Alex wasn't home Kara continued onward to Central City. National was about halfway between Central and Metropolis so it was really continued fight with a short layover.

Kara had been emailing Barry everyday just telling him what was happening in the news at first before emailing what was happening with her and on the news. It was a type of therapy for Kara in a way, Iris hadn't responded to any of her further messages so she figured that she ought to keep emailing Barry so that if... sorry WHEN he woke up he wouldn't have missed a thing and he wouldn't have to worry about the gaps in his memory so much.

Arriving at Central City Kara headed to Star Labs to where she knew Barry had been transferred to. Heading inside the doors it was eerie to see the place to empty considering the last time she had been there.

There was no receptionist or anything so Kara wandered around a bit then used her X ray vision to find any signs of life, she could see the outline of two people and one prone person on a bed that must be Barry she couldn't see anyone else in the building.

Approaching the room where Barry was she could hear voices coming from inside. A male and a female voice who were discussing science beyond Kara's understanding

"Hello?" Kara called out and there was a shuffle of feet and chairs and a head poked out of the door into the corridor

"Hello?" the owner of the male voice responded questioning Kara's presence in a simple word

"Hi sorry, Iris told me this is where Barry was and I wanted to visit…" Kara trailed off, it seemed silly now saying it outloud, Barry was in a coma he wouldn't know if she was there or not plus Iris hadn't told her where he was, this could easily backfire.

"Oh sure" He responded and moved out of the entrance way to let Kara come in,

"So are you Barry's girlfriend?" he asked far too curious

"Um.. no " Kara responded adjusting her glasses, "We are err friends" she finished and then headed around to the cubicle Barry was in

"Damn where has a dude go to find lightning to get visited by that kind of woman" The guy commented when he thought Kara was out of earshot, which of course Kara never was, she smiled though as the female scientist behind the other console must have gotten up to whack him upside the head.

Kara examined the medical equipment surrounding Barry, i was all rather strange for him to be hooked up to so much if all that had happened was a lightning strike. Unless perhaps it was a particle accelerator infused lightning strike which could have had any number of effects, it had after all released her memories. Goodness knows what it was doing to Barry's body. She grabbed his hand to hold and was almost shocked by how warm it was in comparison to her own and the room temperature, it didn't look like he was covered in anything thicker than a hospital gown and sheet.

She looked up at the monitors and wondered why his temperature reading was coming up as normal and hang on that wasn't his heart rate either on that monitor. Now she was paying attention she could hear the beeps of the heart rate monitor that was supposedly reading his heart rate and then a faint almost hum of Barry's actual heart rate which Kara quickly checked by putting her hand gently on his chest and feeling that yes that monitor was definitely not reading Barry's actual vitals.

What on earth was going on here ? Kara was about to quickly record some footage on her phone for her sister to help confirm later when suddenly the female scientist was there with her stethoscope checking vitals like Kara had just done, or at least appearing too

"Hi" she said shortly not starting much conversation and Kara said hey back and waved a little,

"So how come you haven't visited before?" she suddenly asked as she was checking Barry's reflexes - something she must be doing every day and making notes on her tablet.

"Oh" Kara replied startled at the questioning, "The err explosion affected me pretty badly and then, my brother had a baby" she said

"A scientific achievement, a man having a baby" the scientist joked and Kara instantly warmed to her,

"Haha I should stop saying it that way shouldn't I ?" Kara replied, "I'm Kara by the way" she introduced

"Caitlin" Caitlin replied, "And the typical male is Cisco" she added and she heard a noise of incredulity from the desk further back

"Do you want to see pictures?" Kara offered, showing Caitlin her background of her and baby Alycia

"Oh!" Caitlin made the noise all people seem to make when confronted with a small baby or photos, "I really would love to see more but I have to check Barry's vitals every few hours to make sure he's okay"

Kara nodded, "Is Barry here for any particular reason should I be worried?" she asked as she tucked her phone away but not too far.

Caitlin shook her head, "Dr Wells just felt really bad for how badly Barry was effected and offered initially to pay for Barry's medical care like he was with other victims but when he saw how badly the hospital equipment was for Barry he managed to get Barry's adoptive father to transfer him here"

Kara decided to dive right into the difficult question, "Is that why that heart monitor isn't actually displaying his heart rate?"

Kaitlin stuttered a little clearly not expecting the question, "um yeah we just have that one running for when the family visit for peace of mind, he's hooked up to one of our higher spec machines that we can read from the computer, it's really why Barry's here for the equipment"

Kara nodded deciding that was enough questioning, "I'm glad then that he has someone who can help him" she said and Caitlin blushed

"Just doing my job" she said

"Yeah but" Kara started, "You didn't have to stay it looks like everyone else has cleared out"

Kaitlin looked sad for a moment before she seemed to brush it off brushed it off, "Dr Wells, I just couldn't abandon him like that even after the catastrophe"

Kaitlin looked really sad then and Kara wanted to know why her reporter side kicking in but she held back

"Takes a lot of courage to be that loyal" Kara said and Caitlin smiled again before backing out the room leaving Kara alone with Barry

"You know I think I'm going to email you again" Kara started to speak to Barry "and I'm attaching a picture of you for fun because you have quite the funny facial hair" she stood up and took the photo of both his face and the other machines in the room to ask her sister about later and then wrote her email to him sitting next to him in silence, listening to the hum of his heartbeat.

As she looked up from the phone when she heard a noise she saw the male that had been introduced to her as Cisco

"Oh hey" she said looking up and smiling before going back to her phone

"You know most people like to talk to Barry when they visit" Cisco commented

"Yes well" Kara started adjusting her glasses, "I figured Barry might want to know what's been going on so I've been emailing him silly things everyday so when he wakes up he can see what he's missed" Kara explained, "I mean he might be able to hear me now but it's unlikely that memory will be with him when he regains consciousness"

"Hmm" Cisco commented, "it's not a bad idea" he admitted he sat in the chair on the other side of Barry

"What's Barry like?" He suddenly burst out and when Kara looked at him in confusion he continued, "I mean I help care for him everyday and I don't know much about him other than his vitals and name… it might be nice to know a thing or two about the guy I'm helping to care for and I haven't wanted to ask his family as they visit and they don't seem to want to even acknowledge me or Caitlin and.." he trailed off

"I dunno I just get this vibe that he's a good friend" he finished, "Which I bet sounds so weird"

If only he knew he was talking to an alien right now Kara thought before replying.

"Well Barry loves Star labs, he's always wanted to work here he said but he had a larger purpose he said to work at the CCPD but he never told me why and I never asked, he's so kind …" Kara trailed off just thinking

"Oh big nerd" Kara remembered suddenly, "I'm not often in the city but whenever I was over long enough we would go to the cinema and it was always a superhero or science fiction film and he also pretty much could tell me everyday what my c- Superman had been doing" Kara laughed and fixed her near slip up, "He liked that kind of stuff, the unexplainable - like the Arrow" she finished and they both sat their in silence for a moment so Kara spoke up again,

"I dunno other than that me and Barry haven't had much of a chance to get to know one another" Kara said sadly

"I think you know him pretty well" said another voice and Kara jumped seeing Iris behind Cisco she hadn't heard her approaching which was a new thing for the newly found superhero

"Hey Iris" Cisco greeted and Kara waved timidly mentally kicking herself for not keeping track of anyone else in the building, she quickly looked and saw another man heading their way.

"Ille just be going" she started to say but Iris shook her head and held up her hand, "No please stay I think I judged you too harshly"

Caicos eyebrows shot up as he moved out the way for Iiris to take the other place beside Barry but not out the room, there wasn't much entertainment in the lab.

"I don't know how you figured out Barry was here but I'm going to look past that and just apologise with how rude I have been in messages... I was just angry it took you so long to get in touch"

Kara looked so apologetic it was like Iris had kicked a puppy, "I would have got in touch sooner but the accelerator explosion it brought back a ton of … repressed memories and it took me awhile to get my head back in order and then my only relative had a baby girl and I went to help" Kara rambled but stopped as Iris took a step toward her

"Oh stop I understand, you're not just using Barry for a story" Iris tried to stop the rambling alien.

Kara looked horrified, " I would never" she looked even more like the kicked puppy and Iris felt even worse

"Just a heads up" Iris started, "My dad's on hIs way in he's just parking the car prepare to be grilled "

Kara smiled, "Thanks for the heads up " Iris then looked pointedly at Cisco and he scarpered as Kara sat down again Iris taking the chair on the other side.

"He's protective of Barry, hasn't liked any of his girlfriends yet" Iris commented

"I'm not his girlfriend" Kara tried to point out but Iris ignored her, "Just because you're both too chicken to broach the subject and now Barry's in a coma and not able to broach the subject I'm just going to say you are"

"Say you are what - oh hello" said a man walking into the room and Kara stood hastily

"Hi" Kara said, "I really should leave you guys to have some time with Barry" she tried again lamely but Barry's dad wasn't having any of it either

"No it's okay stay Barry doesn't get many visitors except us and and I don't want to drive you away "

"Really it's no trouble " Kara tried again but Barry's dad had blocked the exit

"My names Joe West " he introduced holding out his hand

"Kara" Kara started "Kara Danvers" she said moving to shake joe's hand as carefully as she had come to doing with humans

"Oh so you're Kara!" Joe exclaimed and his expression changed, "Barry has mentioned you a lot but you never seem to be around to be over for some of my brilliant homemade cooking"

"Yeah I err live in National City so my schedule's pretty much decided by the train timetable" Kara explained adjusting her glasses

"Oh, so what brings you out this far, can't just be our Barry" Joe probed

"Today it is" Kara smiled, "But usually work brings me, I work for Cat co and central city is the area I cover"

"Hmmm" Joe said non committedly, but Kara could tell she had said the right thing that today she was just here today for Barry

"She hasn't visited before dad the particle accelerator affected her too and her … err family member had a baby" Iris cut in trying to remember what Kara had said before as her dad looked like he was about to ask her more questions

Kara nodded, "The cutest baby girl" and Kara quickly saved the email she was working on as a draft to show Iris a photo of Alycia

"Oh my goodness she is look at that hair!" Iris cooed

"Please don't be getting any ideas " Joe commented and Iris rolled her eyes at her dad as Kara moved the phone so he could also see

"Okay that's pretty cute" he agreed smiling a little

Kara stayed with them awhile as they told a few stories about Barry before she did insist she had to go and she said goodbye to Kaitlyn and Cisco as well on the way out.

She headed out and walked calmly away towards the train station until she was out of camera range of the labs and then took off to meet Alex at home.

Her sister was so excited to see her Alex grabbed her and gave her the most crushing hug she could muster, it had been a long time they had been separated for this long.

"I don't even know how you are dealing with this " Alex commented running her hand through Kara's hair as they separated from the hug

"Alycia helped" Kara smiled, "But it's all settled now in my head and I know what I want to do continuing forward" and she sat down to tell her sister all about how she was going to be Supergirl. Her sister knew bits and pieces from phone conversations but Kara really needed her sister to see how much it meant for her to be Supergirl, admittedly initially to help out Clark before branching out on her own around national city, She joked slightly about how she could be a reporter on herself like Clark was if she picked up enough good stories.

Her sister looked uncertain about it all but never voiced her concern as Kara looked so happy like she had absorbed the sun today just to radiate it back out telling her about it all before all of a sudden it went out.

"Barry's coma...there is something wrong though Alex" she finished, "I went to see him today and his heart rate is going so fast it's like it's humming, and his temperature is so warm but he's not sweating - I know they clearly took him to STAR Labs to help him because he's okay and it doesn't look like they're experimenting on him badly but… " Kara worried her bottom lip as she got out her phone to show Alex the photos of the machines connected to Barry "It's not right and I don't know enough about biology to say if that is normal but everyone taking care of him seemed calm?"

Alex looked at her sister and the phone bewildered, "I don't recognise any of that equipment apart from the obvious, He was hit by lightning right?" and Kara nodded in conformation, "That would affect your heart but it wouldn't speed it up… but it wasn't exactly normal lightning so I would say him staying with the people that caused said lightning is his best bet for coming out of it" She grabbed her sister again for a hug, "He'll be fine i'm sure"

Kara sniffed but nodded into her sister's shoulder as there was a knock on the door and she turned confused, looking through it to see who was there she turned back to beam at her sister.

"Pizza!" she exclaimed gleefully

"Well I haven't seen you in what feels like ages so it seemed only fair" Alex replied before moving to answer the door as Kara zipped quickly to her room to change into something more comfortable and deserving of lazing in front of the TV and eating Pizza.

"Plus" Alex finished as her sister reappeared after she had closed the door holding the pizza, "I have eaten really well all week without you here to tempt me with leaving doughnuts everywhere"

Kara grinned and took the pizza boxes from her, "You love them really"

Alex made a noncommittal noise and settled down with Kara on their large sofa, "You got the remote it's your pick" Alex said and they settled down for another evening of sisterly bonding.

"Actually I wanted to tell you a few stories about my first year on earth" Kara started, "I didn't know any English at first and all I wanted to wear was pajamas…"