Sorry, It's been a couple weeks since an update. Have no fear I do not intend to abandon this story. I just started writing another and summer time an all, there's just not enough time in the day. Here's the next chapter, I hope you enjoy. As always, I do not own Supergirl or related characters, this story is just for fun and for entertainment purposes only.

Red Kryptonite Aftermath Chapter 8

"Lawyer?" Supergirl repeated looking at Cat Grant and the mid fifties gentleman.

Janice spoke up, "Supergirl, has no need for a lawyer at this time we're simply…."

"Interrogating her without the presence of her lawyer" Janice was cut off by Bernard, the lawyer Cat Grant brought with her.

"Supergirl had no lawyer to get." Janice responded.

"Did you offer her one?" Bernard retorted.

Janice shifted uncomfortably in her seat, "It didn't come up."

Everyone in the room was now watching these two go back and forth with each other. It was fairly obvious this wasn't their first meet. "Now Janice, you know you shouldn't be interrogating a suspect of a crime without their lawyer present."

"Her rights were read to her. It's not my fault she didn't ask for one. And what kind of lawyer should we have gotten her anyway Bernard? Criminal…. or Immigration?" Janice shot back. Kara cringed a little at the dig against her nationality.

"I could have ALL discovery from this meeting expunged from the record and be made inadmissible to court" Bernard responded.

"Go ahead." Ms. Porter challenged. "If you haven't noticed the notepad in front of me, it's a little empty."

Bernard pulled up a chair next to Supergirl but still speaking to Janice, "I need time to confer with my client and I need to know if charges have been officially filed."

Janice's eyebrows raised and her mouth made a sneer obviously annoyed with Supergirl's new lawyer. Janice stood up and her lackies next to her followed suite, "Keep yourself available, we'll reschedule this meeting soon. And as for the charges, no, charges have not officially been filed but they are prepared. They were going to be contingent on this meeting."

Cat Grant, who had remained quiet up until now stood face to face with Janice, "This whole meeting is ridiculous, you have no case against Supergirl."

"I have video and audio recording of you telling the whole world she threw you off a building" replied Janice confidently.

"You also have me saying she wasn't herself, she had changed. Which goes right along with what CatCo and Supergirl has been saying this whole time" Cat explained.

"Yes, I heard" Janice responded with a slightly snooty sarcasm, "An unprovable mind-altering substance. I'm quaking in my boots at that defense."

Cat looked at her directly, "Provable or not there is thousands of hours of footage of Supergirl SAVING the city against 30 minutes of her trying to destroy it. The person your trying to claim she 'attempted to murder' is standing right here, right now, telling you Supergirl was not in her right mind. If that isn't at the very least the Mount Everest of an Insanity Defense then I don't know what it."

Janice was silent with her jaw tightened in anger watching her case fall apart in front of her. Cat went and stood on the other side of Supergirl just over her shoulder. To Kara it was nice, it felt as though Cat was telling her she had her back. Cat calmly continued speaking to Janice, "Now, we are all adults in this room and I'm sure we can come to an agreement. No one was hurt during this incident and really, we're simply talking about property damage here. Lord Technologies contacted me this morning and said that they would cover all damage costs incurred by the city," hearing this Kara couldn't help but be a little shocked at Maxwell Lord trying to help her out, "and as for my building, after my incident with Leslie Willis a few months ago I took out an amazing insurance policy. Let's just let this slide for community service, time served, and call it even?"

Janice glared momentarily at Cat, Supergirl and Bernard before she turned to exit the room.

Bernard shouted at her before she could exit, "Twenty-four hours! You can only hold my client 24 hours without charges being filed, so I expect by 9pm tonight she be released, should you not follow through" Bernard explained.

This made Janice stop in her tracks turning back and leaning her fists down on the table practically spitting out, "Your client is the most verbatim definition of "illegal alien" and "flight risk" there could possibly be. She is STAYING in containment unless she decides to produce a name and social security number proving she's a citizen." With that Janice stood up and again proceeded to walk out, "I'll contact you this afternoon Bernard to set up our next meeting."

After the door was firmly shut Cat Grant moved to the seat vacated by Janice Porter, "Supergirl, this is Bernard Ross. He is one of the most sought after criminal defense attorneys in the country let alone National City. We're lucky to have him."

Bernard faced Kara and extended a had to shake, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Supergirl."

Supergirl shook his hand, "You too Mr. Ross, Thank you for what you did. I think…." looking a little confused still by the appearance of a lawyer she didn't ask for. Looking to Ms. Grant, "How did you know I was here?"

"Oh, please. I run one of the largest media conglomerates in the world and you don't think I have someone that monitors the police scanners. Supergirl's arrest has been half of the radio chatter all night." Cat taking a quick look at Detective Sawyer who has remained quiet in the room trying to be just an observer, "pretty unprofessional if you ask me."

Maggie who had been arms crossed, leaning slightly against the wall in the corner, pushed herself off to respond, "And I suppose your motives are completely altruistic. Nothing to do with magazine sales at all" Maggie snidely responded.

Ms. Grant looked angry and was about to respond when Supergirl held a hand up to both Ms. Grant and the detective, "Hey, hey, hey, both of you, it's fine." Supergirl continued when they looked like they were backing down, "Ms. Grant, Detective Sawyer was just doing her job and she was right to. Whether or not I'm to blame, I wreaked a lot of havoc and it needed to be followed up on. Detective, I know it may seem self-serving but Ms. Grant has supported me since I came out with my abilities. I trust her implicitly." With that Cat smirked satisfactorily and Detective Sawyer, at the very least accepted Supergirl's plea for a truce and dropped it.

Mr. Ross turned to Kara, "Supergirl, I need you to tell me absolutely everything you can regarding this incident if I am to defend you."

Kara released a breath and leaned back in her chair trying to release a little of the tension from everything going on, "I'm sorry, there really isn't a lot I can say that I didn't explain to Ms. Grant, which has all gone to print." Kara began reiterating, speaking with her hands, "I was exposed to an element, I suppose I kept from the papers that specifically it was a chemically altered version of Kryptonite, that changed my mental state."

"Kryptonite?" Ms. Grant asked to confirm. "That's poisonous to you and your cousin."

Supergirl nodded.

Ms. Grant putting two and two together, "You were purposely poisoned? In a fight? By a villain, right? A supervillain?" Supergirl and Maggie were both registering the reporter in Ms. Grant salivating at this story.

Supergirl quickly trying to squash Cat's theories, "No, and you can't write about this." Supergirl continues, "The less people know about Kryptonite the better, otherwise it could be used against me by my enemies." Cat looked disappointed but seemed to understand. Supergirl speaking to her new lawyer again, "There really isn't anything else I can say because…. I can't give away, even accidentally something that could lead to…." Supergirl paused not even sure she wanted to say what was probably obvious to those in the room, "Uhmm, my identity."

Cat murmured under breath quietly, "So you do have a day job?" All three in the room looked at her glaringly, and she put her hands up a little defensively, "Sorry, Sorry. That was completely a confidential moment, I will pretend I didn't even hear it."

Eyebrows raising slightly with surprise, Maggie confirmed to herself that Cat didn't know her assistant Kara was secretly moonlighting as a superhero.

Mr. Ross turned to Kara, "Supergirl, I am your Lawyer. I am bound by Lawyer/Client confidentiality, anything you tell me will be guarded with the upmost respect." Mr. Ross eyeing to refer to Ms. Grant the detective, "If it makes it easier, it can be just you and I in this room."

Cat glared at the lawyer that she had purchased for Supergirl, "What? No, I promise this will never leave the room."

Seeing Cat's small panic at the notion of her being asked to leave actually got Supergirl to smile, "No uhm… The thing is I can't even tell you, the bad guys don't care about Lawyer/Client privilege, anything I said to you, could make YOU a target." Cat released a breath happy she wasn't being asked to leave. Supergirl continued, "Thank you so much for what you did for me earlier. But I want this over fast and to move on, Ms. Grant brought up community service. Do you think we could make that plea? I'll do whatever, I need to clean up my name and win people's trust back anyway. I could help rebuild?"

Mr. Ross scrunched his face thinking, "We could try, the thing is with a plea we may be able to avoid trial but they're still going to want documentation, the details of what and how it happened." Mr. Ross paused before he continued, "They're going to want your name." Supergirl looked a little deflated, "We could make a deal where that will remain private, locked in a file somewhere."

Maggie spoke up, "Something as big as HER identity, there's no way that doesn't get leaked. Information like that always does." Kara was thankful for her honesty because for the briefest of moments, Kara had been considering this. Also, Maggie speaking up against this made her feel a little safer about the detective knowing.

"Well, if we're trying to avoid both a plea deal and trial then we have to somehow make their case look like they can't win it." Mr. Ross continued, "And that means stacking up all of our information into an impenetrable wall so that they don't want to bring charges in the first place."

Knock knock, was heard at the door. They all looked at the door wondering who it could be that wanted to enter their meeting. Maggie who was still standing, walked to the door and opened it. There stood a serious looking brunette, bordering red haired woman in a dark pant suit. Maggie and the woman made eye contact briefly before the dark-haired woman pushed past her into the room.

Showing the room her identification, "Agent Alex Danvers, FBI."

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