Hank Henshaw had been dealing with every emergency for the last three years. Kal-El had stayed around for the first months,but he had eventually had to leave,which had left everything in his and Lucy's hands. Following the path which had been created in the past they had had no major problem,as the apparitions of Supergirl had ceased. National City was still wondering what had been of it's superhero and it was hard to work with that in their mind,with the constant remainders of Kara being gone,and having been gone for the last three years. Above all for the way she had wasted away to nothing. He had barely managed for the last two years,but he still had,at last till the disappareance of the alien who had been the cause of their ever present heartache. The Dealer had been gone for months. He was out and causing trouble again(in a way which went as unnoticed as it had been at the beginning when Kara's life had changed forever). He was clever enough to know where to hide,he had been clever to the point of hiding his activities in plain sight,he had been gone for a while,and wherever he was there was no way to find him. He had really meant to tell Cat. But he wouldn't dare after the situation she had been left into. She had been left to raise two kids all by herself unwillingly. From what he had heard in their last call,just a few minutes ago,she had been having strange dreams. Dreams,or nightmares,in which Kara had been there,asking for help. The meaning she didn't know,but she had been left pretty shaken by this. But the oddest thing to have occurred to her was Alex's recent behavior. Apparently the child seemed to have seen her late mother,and had run to tell her brother and living one about it. At start he could almost perceive,without even having asked,that she had thought Kara had to be in the child's imaginary thoughts and that Alex had found a way to see her,and have her beside her. But as time had progressed,and surprise in other kids' or mothers' looks had left Cat clearly wanting to bite their heads off for making fun of her daughter,Alex had even started talking to the presence. And from talking she had gone straight to relying Cat particulars of their life together,that she couldn't have known,because they had all happened before her birth and were things that Cat had never talked about. Names and stories had been made,and for that the woman had been concerned. He had been spending the whole evening reflecting upon this by now,but all he could come up with was something he had found out when he had still been on Mars,and not so old as 3000 years. It had happened in his years as a student,with books nobody bothered to read. He had read stories of people's souls. Of their souls not having ended up in the right place. Of some having come back and faced challenges to stay of any kind,of some who had left and had been lost to the people who loved them,forever.
If this was the occurance the person who was in such a situation had to do it all by herself,with no help from the outside. He knew Kara was stronger than met the eyes,and for this he could only pray she would find her way back home and to them. If she had tried to escape,in the dreams and by appareance to the family she had created,and now that he thought about it in his dreams sometimes as well,then maybe something was stirring. And maybe he could allow himself to think it might be something good.
For now however he wanted to keep such truth to himself in order to not hand out false hope to who had already suffered enough. If something had happened to change things,he would've been very happy to tell the world that Kara,and maybe Supergirl too,was back.
It was a very hard work to have just gone around and managed to appear into dreams and the living world again,but one way or another a door for her had opened. The proverbial light which would usually welcome people into the world beyond the world was in truth for her like a passage from her simple state of soul trying to break free and the true world. It was like a whirlwind of colours and sensations as she traveled back through memories again. She felt like time was giving itself and her a chance. In her heart she felt like she was to fix something,fix a moment,even little in time,in which things had changed,or at last that looked bigger than it had considered to be.
It was faster and faster as she approached an unknown landing,she regained sensations she was accostumed to and feelings.
Kara felt the sorrow of the addiction again,the withdrawal,the journey taken with Cat,everything came back to her in a rush,as fresh as it had been on the day it had happened. Every emotion overwhelming as the memory surrounding it.
She was aware of things she was forgetting,things that time allowing were yet to happen at last in this reality,but also of holding a few knowledges which might save her life. Then as bright as it had been,it slowly started diminishing,the fall slowed down,and colours and sounds disappeared.
Kara was left into darkness with her thoughts only,to look around at the places she went.
But it lasted for mere moments before she felt something pulling at her navel,like earth pulling people to herself with gravity,and she felt the weight of a body again,the weight of arms around her. So light and soft she got goosebumps. For moments she kept her eyes shut,wondering if she should open them and dare to look at where she had ended up. She couldn't be a whimp,she had been weak and broken,and then immensely happy,but never a whimp. So she opened those eyes to the light of the moon,lying in her bed in Midvale,to a memory she knew all too well. The last night she had been okay for real. One of the two nights she had felt nothing but happiness. And Cat,in her beauty and purity was lying by her side. Not a trace of a tear in her eyes.