Alex had really missed her sister and her bright personality her presence had made her really difficult few days at work seem like a thing of the past.
With Supergirls reveal to the world researchers at the DEO had placed her as being the same alien as arriving in the pod they had in storage so they had dragged it out to research again to find out more about her before the head of the DEO and her boss Hank Henshaw had shut them down citing they already knew everything about her so there was no need to review the data.
But then a demand came from higher up in the DEO from the president herself. They had previously worked with Superman and that was a helpful relationship helping them gather many of the escaped prisoners before they could infiltrate society so they wanted her to help the agency.
Alex had been thankful that Henshaw was currently fighting this order she didn't want her sister involved with the DEO. Best she help her cousin in Metropolis and not here in National City where there were much deadlier threats and with no help from her more experienced alien cousin.
But of course over the coming weeks Kara eventually got involved in National City affairs when a plane Alex was on was sabotaged.
Feeling and seeing the engine explosion was one of the worst feelings Alex had yet to experience and she had been involved in many tactical situations. It was more the fact that she was powerless to change things, a plane she had been in before that had been involved in an accident she had a parachute but this was a commercial flight and there was nothing she could do but hope the pilots could land them safely.
Which as Alex looked out the window at the burning engine was going to be very difficult, people were screaming around her as the plane banked sharply and Alex closed her eyes and tried to block out the noise as well as she had blocked out her vision.
She felt the plane suddenly right itself and Alex opened her eyes in relief only to gasp in shock. She could see her sister in full supergirl outfit helping to keep the plane level everyone was also gasping and pointing and crying out in relief and Alex just wanted to shout out to her sister to stop even though she knew logically this might be the only way she would survive this accident but she was soon gone out of sight underneath the plane and the next thing Alex knew they had landed in the water and Kara had ripped open the nearest window over the wing encouraging people to evacuate the flight attendants were also opening the door and deploying the floating slides that are a boat for these situations. Alex stood up calmly and headed to the nearest exit which was the one over the wing where her sister was standing helping people get up and onto the wing.
She met her sister's eye and she helped her out, "Thank you Supergirl" and she could see her sister trying to hold back from hugging her, "No problem" Kara replied taking in a deep breathe and then moving onto helping the next person.
Kara didn't want to leave her sister stranded on a crashed plane in the middle of Central Citys largest river, Silverwater but she couldn't do anything to reveal her identity even though it was to someone who already knew she didn't want to ever copy her cousin and say 'See you at home' to a girlfriend that had no idea.
So she had to leave her there and just wait impatiently at home watching her rescue on the news 'Supergirl Saves Plane!' there was much discussion as to what she was doing in National city and people wondering if she was going to split off from her cousin and base here full time. Kara also had a missed call from Clark on her phone but he had left a voicemail on her phone so she hadn't bothered to call him back. He said he was so proud of her strength and happy she had chosen to save the plane in such a way before a scream cut him off and Kara had gotten a little laugh over the antics of her newest relative who from the distant shouts Alycia was flying again and had gotten stuck on the ceiling and Lois was calling him to help her down as she was screaming the flat down in fear.
Kara really liked the name Supergirl. At first she had been apprehensive as that's the name she had wanted for herself when she was younger not when she was twenty five but she had warmed to it reading an article her ex boss - well not ex but certainly not her only boss anymore- Cat Grant had written about Supergirl and it had made her feel much better about it all.
Kara heard Alex thanking the taxi driver that had dropped her off outside their apartment building before anything else and resisted dashing down the stairs to greet her sister and just kind of fidgeted in the middle of their open plan apartment waiting for her and ended up floating a little off the floor in anticipation.
Grabbing her sister in a hug that was just too tight judging by the wince she gave and a small ouch
"Oh I'm sorry, are you okay?" Kara asked flustered, "I couldn't stick around.." she started to explain but Alex waved her off,
"I'm fine, are you okay… i mean you just landed a plane!" Alex exclaimed and looked her sister all over
"Yeah I'm fine" Kara replied, "Kal trained me well" she added smiling, "Though it really was heavy"
"I bet" Alex replied, "I need a drink" she added and turned to to the fridge, "What are they saying on the news" she asked curious
"Oh they're mostly talking about me- well Supergirl " Kara explained, "They don't know what brought the plane down yet" she continued, "But their speculating a bird strike since it was just the one engine"
"Hm" Alex commented knocking back a quick drink she had her suspicions about the plane crash but nothing she could share with her sister.
"I'm going to head to bed Kara" she announced and she turned to head to her room before turning back around, "Wait I thought you were visiting Barry tonight?"
"I was on my way back when I saw the flames in the sky" Kara replied, "I couldn't visit for long they said they wanted to run some new tests and … Dr Wells didn't want any reporters around when they did them"
"What?" Alex said her arms dropping, "Reporters!? Your his gir...friend!"
"I'm not his girlfriend" Kara replied looking tired of repeating it and a little sad that it was true also,
"I don't know Dr Wells is really hostile toward me whenever I've seen him I think he overheard or maybe someone told him I figured out that heart monitor was fake, he doesn't let me stay long if I do visit but it's okay I suppose he's not conscious and i'm just going for my benefit, I keep emailing him everyday though now - leaving out all the Supergirl stuff of course" she added at the end
Alex smiled sadly, "Well don't let him get to you, and when you email him about my plane crash make me sound epic!" she called to Kara as she headed into her room
"I promise I will!" Kara called back, "Night Alex!" she added and Alex shouted back the same as she turned off the TV and headed for sleep.
Kara did stay up awhile and send Barry the email telling him about the plane crash and other things that had happened in the news then she started on her work, she was still assigned to central city for the moment but soon she would be done with her internship and she hoped to continue to impress.
The next few days passed relatively smoothly compared to the previous, not that that was hard to beat considering those days previous had included a plane crash. Kara had been keeping in touch with Iris who had also decided to not visit Barry for a while as she did confirm that Doctor Wells said they were running more scans and tests so it was best to not visit at the moment as Barry was being kept in something like a MRI machine for a few days.
With her cousin giving her such a confidence boost with his praise over her catching of the plane Kara had started some super work on her own around National City and a few outlying towns that she had overheard trouble in when she was flying over on her way back from Central City.
She was just flying back from helping end a car chase when she felt it, a small prick in her shoulder and her ability to keep in the air seemed to be zapped out of her from the affected area she went to land when she was hit with another dart and she felt more of her powers vanish and she fainted from shock falling the last few metres to the ground and leaving a large crack in the pavement.
J'onn J'onzz was inwardly furious. He had not authorised this … hit of sorts he had been forming a plan to bring Kara in via Alex. If the higher ups were making him do it he wanted to do it with the least amount of hurt for everyone. Sadly the order had come in while he was faking his human forms sleep cycle and his strike team had gone out and followed their orders. He couldn't blame them but now he was stuck with Kara lying on a bed handcuffed by Kryptonite cuffs that had been refined by the predecessor of this human form since he had kidnapped Clark before he had taken the form of Hank Henshaw.
It was unfortunate he hadn't been able to scrap them from the organisation but although the director he definitely didn't have final say.
He looked down on Kara from where he was standing arms crossed waiting for her to regain consciousness wondering how he was going to play this. He hadn't seen her in person since he had wiped her memories, he had kept up with her life at a distance occasionally looking through other people's memories to see how she acted. Like on his short meeting with Kara's adoptive father Jeremiah Danvers in the jungle when that man saved his life and asked him to take care of his children, him having no idea at the time that he had once been a caregiver to one of them, and the reason he was hiding in the jungle.
He wasn't sure quite how he was going to play this he had imagined meeting her at some point but not like this. He had to make sure she refused to work for them but he couldn't think of any way to do that without causing hurt to two of the people in the world he cared about. Sighing he gave up and headed over to the comm to call Alex Danvers down to the interrogation room just as he felt Kara begin to stir.
He moved back over to stand by the bed she was pinned to. He hated this every second but he had to do this, he needed to maintain his cover and protect her memories.
"Their made of low grade Kryptonite" he commented, not looking at her before standing back in her vision and crossing his arms defensively. "A mineral from your home planet, it weakens you" he narrated uselessly.
"Where am I ?" Kara asked sounding lost, "Who are you?"
J'onn slammed down his Hank Henshaw mask even more hearing her lost voice reminding himself that he had to act the part.
"I'm Hank Henshaw" he began and he heard the door slide open behind him and sensed Alex's presence, "And I believe you already know Agent Danvers"
"She doesn't need these" Alex protested instantly seeing her sister in handcuffs and she moved to un-cuff her sister, J'onn saw the look of hurt cross Kara's face despite her sisters caring words,
"Agent…?" she practically whispered not fully processing and pulling her hand away from Alex's as she went to grab it
J'onn decided the best way to get through this was to just explain the DEO and not look at the faces of hurt on either of the women he had promised a father he was going to protect.
"Welcome to the DEO, the department of extranormal operations - the DEO monitors and protects earth from extraterrestrial presence and or invasion- that includes you" he finished looking to Kara who he was surprised to see still hadn't gotten up from the bio bed a shot of worry went through him wondering if maybe the Kryptonite exposure was too much at once and she didn't have the energy to rise. He quelled it and didn't let it outwardly show but the more logical side of him was insisting it was just shock.
He headed to walk out the room intending to give the two sisters privacy but before he could leave Kara called out to him, "Is that my pod?"
She must have been looking about the base with her X-ray abilities and noticed the pod that had recently been brought up from storage. He turned back to her where he was stood in the doorway, "Yes" he replied and soon she was stood next to him
"Why do you have my ship?" she questioned
Hank looked over her shoulder to Alex but she had her head held down so he couldn't make eye contact to ask her, well in this form more like order her to deal with her sister for awhile . He huffed keeping the persona up , "Follow me then"
Heading along the corridor and up to the lift they didn't exchange any more words Alex followed behind them almost meekly as they headed for the ship.
When they were standing in front of it Kara admired it with reverence flying up and around it to view it from the various angles despite it's slightly dismantled state,
"You never answered me" she commented her eyes boring into his, to the point he had to avoid her eyes.
"We needed to learn more about why you landed here" he answered truthfully or at least truthfully for as the previous Hank Henshaw had seen it.
"I was a child when I landed, hardly a threat"
"No" Replied J'onn although she was a threat to one's ice cream supply, "But it was what you dragged with you that was the threat" he began changing the subject quickly from the pod as he could feel his mask slipping a little and moving over to the central operations.
"..." Kara looked confusedly at him
"You came flying out of the Phantom Zone and Fort Rozz came with you - along with all the maximum security prisoners held within" he announced, as he continued to watch the screen run facial recognition software on the numerous CCTV cameras they operated around the city.
"We have apprehended a few over the years but they are still out there, and with your announcement as Supergirl there was a surge in dangerous activity that has only increased with your operations in this city"
"They're planning something" Alex interjected, speaking for the first time, "We just don't know what yet"
"Your plane…" Kara muttered looking at her sister also for the first time since she had woken up at the DEO , "They were trying to kill you?" she asked and Alex nodded
"I can help you stop them" Kara stated clearly
Internally J'onn debated the best way to combat this, for job appearances he had to look like he was trying to get her help but Kara working for the DEO was the last thing he wanted. Thankfully for the first time ever Henshaws personality lined up perfectly with that outcome. He hated aliens and was too proud to ask for help even from another human.
"How, you couldn't even stop us inviting you in for a chat" he commented and talked over Kara's protest to the statement.
"We are trying to keep people in the dark about the amount of alien life on earth, nothing screams convert operation like a flying woman in a red skirt" he added throwing it all out there as Hank Henshaw.
He could feel the emotions of a few nearby agents to know he was on the right track of pushing her out, he was currently blocking the Danver's sisters, it would be too much.
"But my cousin has been fighting crime for over a decade, we've been helping and saving people together for the last month!"
J'onn fought to keep his expression together, he knew they had been sighted together but not that they had been actively working together, Clark knew the risks of triggering her memories if a tiny hole was opened it could cause terrible damage, it had to be done all at once to prevent brain damage, even in someone as strong as Kara.
"Then if you want to help go back to doing that and writing about the new surge in metahumans in Central City, keeps the attention of us" he finished and walked away ending the discussion he hoped. He didn't hang around long enough to overhear the reaction of the two sisters he had just left alone.
There was silence between the two sisters for awhile before Alex broke it as they both stood there,
"Your not mad at me are you?" she asked not really daring to look at her sister.
"A month ago…" Kara started, "Yeah I probably would have been so mad, all my life you continue the lines of Eliza not to use my powers like Kal… But I understand now why that was pushed so hard on us" Kara snorted, "I am a little annoyed you never said you worked for the government about capturing aliens though" she added
"I wanted to tell you" Alex started to explain, "But there is the whole 'secret organisation' part and I never wanted you to think I got the job because of who I shared an apartment with"
"Considering that point you really are terrible at your job" Kara added and they both grinned at each other
"You called her Eliza" Alex added in the silence looking sadly at her sister
"I'm sorry Alex… I am still so mad at her"
Alex nodded and then seemed to realise where she was, "Speaking of mad I have never seen Henshaw so angry, not that he shows it well but he was practically spitting at the agents who brought you in earlier so I think you best head off"
"Talk more at home later?" Kara asked to confirm and Alex nodded feeling her hair swish as Kara vanished at super speed.