A/N: It's my day off so enjoy the chapters. It will be another day or so before I can post again.
"How about fatigue?" The doctor asks.
"Fatigue is part of life," Cat snaps at the physician, clearly irritated. "Is this really necessary doctor? We have come in for weekly check ups now for two months, twice as long as we were in space," she adds.
"You may have only been in space for a few weeks Ms Grant, but the effects on your body last considerably longer," she explains as she concludes the examination."And now that your blood gasses are returning to normal, any residual fatigue from the trip should be leaving your system," the doctor points out.
"Wonderful, so what I'm feeling now is my normal fatigue," Cat replies sarcastically.
"You should see your regular doctor about that. I'm sure that they could prescribe something to improve the quality of your sleep," she begins, but Cat interrupts her.
"Yes, I am aware that a regular sleep routine will reduce the fatigue. But I run a multinational intergalactic media company, 'regular' and 'routine' don't exist in my world. Do you know how many time zones there are out there?" Cat asks dramatically.
The doctor shakes her head and smiles at the woman. Silently thankful that she did not go into private practice and instead stayed in the research part of medicine. She doesn't have many human patients, although now that space travel is open to just about anyone with means, that apparently is going to change.
"Are you planning to release all of my people today?" Cat asks impatiently.
"My team is reviewing all of the tests now," the doctor replies non-committally before leaving the room. "Wait here, Ms Grant," she adds.
"Please tell me that the blood work for the CATCO people is back and they can be released," Eliza says entering the lab and sitting down on a stool beside her assistant.
"Yes, it's fine," Jason, her assistant says disappointedly, turning the monitor to her so that she can review them.
Taking a few minutes to review the results and confirm his assessment, she stands up. "Cheer up Jason, maybe the next space tourists will bring back some alien infection," Eliza quips before leaving the lab.
"We can only hope," Jason replies handing her the patient files for her signature.
"You are all released," Eliza says entering the exam room. "I'll just need your signature here," she adds handing over the folder Cat before she can reply.
Cat glances at it, then sighs and scrawls her signature across the line. Then she quickly pulls out her phone and taps on it twice, before puts it up to her ear. "We're done here, bring the car around. I need to be back in National City in an hour," she barks before brushing past the doctor and moving to the next exam room.
James looks up when the door opens and is surprised to see Cat instead of the doctor.
"We're released. The car's out front. Chop, chop," she barks before walking off.
James shakes his head chuckling softly to himself as he grabs his jacket before heading to the next exam room to get Winn.
"It's just such a relief," Winn says dramatically after James tells him that they can go.
"Winn, we were never exposed to anything. If we were, then we would have spent the last few weeks in quarantine, instead of just being subjected to weekly exams," James points out.
"Oh, right," Winn replies. "So why were they monitoring us?" He asks.
"I'm not sure, but I plan to find out," James says as they walk down the hall to leave.
"I want those medical records destroyed," Cat says firmly into the phone. "Make. It. Happen."
"Cat," Lucy begins when she realizes that the call has been disconnected. Crap, how the hell is she supposed to get the government to destroy medical records which are part of a study to ensure the safety of space travel. Reaching for her phone she calls the only person that she can think of to help her, her sister Lois.
"You expect me to convince Cat Grant that her medical records are safe with the government?" Lois asks laughing so loudly that Lucy has to pull the phone away from her ear.
"You know how this works, she agreed to all this as part of her intergalactic passport, there's nothing that I can do," Lucy complains.
"Did you point that out to her before she applied for the passport?" Lois asks.
"No, she applied for it before it was even possible to go. I wasn't her council then," Lucy admits.
"Then tell her that. Oh and can you record that, because I want to see her face when you tell her," Lois jokes.
"Thanks, you are no help as usual," Lucy replies.
"Look, I've known her a long time. She issues ultimatums like that when she's worried about something. Find out what it is and then you can figure out what to do about it," Lois points out.
"Hey did you see that another UFO was spotted the other night?" Winn asks excited passing James his tablet to show him the footage.
"Looks like a meteor," James says pushing the tablet back. "And you've actually been to space Winn, why are you still curious about UFO's?" He asks.
"Meteors don't leave strange markings in the desert?" Winn counters, clicking on another link and holding it up for James to see. "And now that I've been to space, I know that UFOs are real," he adds.
"Oh for god's sake," Cat snaps looking up from her own laptop in the back of the limo. "That's not a...wait, is that a Kryptonian symbol?" She blurts out, turning the table back for James to look at.
"It certainly looks like one," James adds studying it again. "Uh, hey Winn, do you still have the Kryptonian translator on your phone?"
"No, it was terrible and people made fun of me when I used it," he admits reluctantly.
"One of you, find out what that symbol means," Cat demands, then turning to James, she adds, "I want you to get a team together and fly out there to investigate that. If another prison ship has crash landed in the desert, we need to get exclusive photos."
James nods and reaches for his phone to start assembling a team for the assignment. Even though he's a CEO now, he still loves an excuse to get back into the field and he doesn't mind this assignment at all.
"Hey, can we go get burgers?" Kara asks as soon as they get back to the city from the DEO.
"You just ate in the mess with Vasquez?" Alex teases.
"Alex, please you know how hungry space travel makes you," Kara reminds her.
"Fine, but we're going to park the car and walk there, there's never any parking on the street this late," Alex replies.
A few minutes later they are walking down the street when Kara hears a woman scream.
"Kara what is it?" Alex asks knowing that Kara's super hearing has already kicked in.
"It's not far, I'm going to help," Kara says taking off.
"Crap," Alex blurts out and runs after her, barely able to keep sight of Kara in the sky.
A few minutes later, Alex hears Kara's voice and she runs up the alley to find Kara standing over a badly injured woman.
"You'll be okay. Help is coming," Kara says reassuringly.
Alex approaches out of breath and on the phone with 911, Kara looks back at her and then quickly takes off to catch the mugger.
Alex administers first aid until the EMTs get there. Then as she is giving a statement to the police, Kara returns with the guy and shoves him to the police.
The police look at her and Alex shakes her head. "Uh, this is my friend, I told you that she ran after him."
"S-she flew from the sky and tackled me," the man says.
"Sure she did," the cop replies laughing.
"Ma'am it's not a good idea to chase these guys down. You put yourself in danger," the other cop remarks.
"I can take care of myself," Kara answers.
Finally free from giving their statements to the police, Alex and Kara get take out and return back to Alex's apartment. "Kara, you can't just fly around chasing bad guys. Earth has changed since the last time that you were here. Everyone's phones have cameras, I just hope no one got any footage of you," Alex grumbles. "Hank's going to kill me if you turn up on the morning news," she mutters.
"Alex, that woman could have been killed. I saved her," Kara points out.
"Yes, she's really lucky that you heard her and intervened, but it's not safe for you to do that," Alex says trying to figure out how to explain it better.
"I don't understand how it could be dangerous for me, Alex," Kara retorts. "I am invincible here," she reminds her.
"Kara, you don't understand. Aliens have gotten a bad rap since the prison ship crashed here. People are frightened of them and want them banned," Alex explains.
"Then I need to do more good. People need to know that not all aliens are bad," Kara points out.
"I spent an hour listening to my masseuse complain about his Crohn's disease and the juice stand was out of chard for my smoothie, now which one of you is going to give me a reason to go on living?" Cat snaps sarcastically as she paces in front of her staff at the afternoon pitch meeting.
"The National City Men's Choir is performing at the White House this week," Denise from Entertainment pipes up.
"Any chance that they'll sing something new this year?" Cat asks and Denise shakes her head no.
"There's a rumor that an alien saved a woman from a mugger last night," Nick from the News team adds.
"Saved a woman from a mugger?" Cat asks perking up a bit. "Get me footage. Why do they think it was an alien?"
"She flew down from the sky," Nick replies.
"She?" Cat stops pacing and stands in front of him. "Get me everything that you can find on this. If there's an alien out there who's not terrorizing the city, I want to know who it is and I want an exclusive!" Cat barks to everyone in the room.
"I've used my Homeland Security credentials to get three videos removed already," Vasquez informs Alex as they wait for Hank to finish talking to Kara.
"Thank you, it happened so fast. I didn't have time to stop her," Alex replies worriedly looking towards Hank's office. As soon as they arrived this morning Hank took Kara into his office.
"As if you could. So she's not from an agency in Canada?" Vasquez asks softly. Hank didn't explain anything to the agent when he told her to find the videos and have them removed using any means necessary.
"No, she's not. She's from Krypton, the prisoners that we've been rounding up, were all sentenced by her mother. She feels responsible, so she came to help round them up," Alex explains, since Hank has Vasquez working on the videos, it's obvious he's going to bring her in on their plan.
"So she's an actual Kryptonian?" Vasquez asks. "Oh wait, is she the one you did your project on?"
"Yes, she is. She stayed with me here and then I went to Krypton and stayed with her," Alex admits looking over at the computer monitor as Vasquez begins another search.
"Hey, this is interesting. Look at this headline from The Tribune," Vasquez says turning her monitor towards Alex.
"Alien or Angel? Mysterious Woman Swoops In To Save The Day", Alex reads out loud. "Well, at least one news outlet finds it positive."
"The Tribune is published by CATCO," Vasquez points out.
"Of course it is," Alex says throwing up her hands in defeat. "Great, Kara's going to freak out," she mumbles.
"Wait, did Kara interact with CATCO when they were on Krypton?" Vasquez asks, suddenly putting it all together.
Alex doesn't confirm or deny it, she's not sure how much Hank's going to want the other Agent to know.
"Can't I just wear normal clothes?" Kara asks looking over to Alex for help.
"No, trust us. A uniform will help people to understand that you're not working alone," Alex repeats the line that Hank has said to her repeatedly.
"Alex, a skirt? Really?" Kara asks frowning.
"The tac suit is too military looking," Alex explains. "Don't worry the tights are an indestructible polymer fabric and the boots are knee high, so you're not that exposed," she adds.
"Would you wear this?" Kara questions turning around in the short skirt.
"If I looked like that in it? Yeah, I'd probably never take it off," Alex quips.
"Cat, there was nothing out there but that symbol," James explains again.
"That symbol didn't just appear on its own. There has to be something out there," Cat points out.
"I swear all that's out there is sand, lots of sand," James replies pointing at the video footage of the desert.
"I don't know how, but that has to be related to the alien angel that appeared last night," Cat says firmly.
"I'll check with Winn and see if he's identified the symbol yet," James says turning to leave.
"James, the symbol is marking something," Cat replies confidently. "Maybe she's buried her ship out there."
"Wait, you think that there's a ship buried in all that sand?" James asks incredulously. "The sand wasn't disturbed, Cat. No footprints or other markings," he points out.
"Well I've positioned one of our satellites over that area. If she or anyone returns to get it, we'll see everything," Cat says confidently.
