It has been 3 days since they got Lorra out of the pod and she hasn't woken up yet.

It was pretty easy to get her out of there once they bypassed the firewalls to the controls.

She was due to be released from the pod when she reached 27 earth age. But a mechanism was installed to release her earlier, in case a 'situation' arose.

So releasing her from the pod was as easy as pulling a lever.

But waiting for her to wake up?

Soul consuming.

Kara had informed her that Connor had woken up immediately. And that had upped her already critical blood pressure.

Now she sat on her daughter's bedside one of her hands clutched in hers.

Kara sat on the other side of the bed. She was wearing one of her everyday clothes with her hair in a ponytail and glasses perched on her nose. (When Lena had asked her why she was wearing the glasses when she didn't need to, Kara had told her that she didn't feel like Kara without them. Then they had gone back to staring forlornly at their daughter.)

It was on the fifth day of the vigil when the silence finally broke.

The heart rate monitor which had been showing steady normal heart rate up until now, suddenly started beeping. The heart rate was rising,rapidly. It was risingtoorapidly.

'At this rate it will reach a critical point and the heart won't be able in to take it.' Lena panicked.

She glanced at Kara, looking to see if was thinking up a solution or if she too was panicking as badly.

She was doing neither.

She had stood up, her stool clattering to the floor, and was bent over their child, Lorra's hand clasped in both of hers. She looked nervous, but anticipated. She was waiting for something to happen.

As she stared at Kara, Lena felt a wave of calmness pass over her.

'If this person is not panicked, neither am I.'

Gradually the beeping, coming from the machine behind Lena, slowed.

And Lorra's eyelids fluttered.

When her eyes finally blinked open, Lena's hand came up to cover her mouth to prevent a gasp from escaping. Because staring back at her were her own green eyes.

The green eyes widened when met with bright light. This was probably the first time she had opened her eyes and the first time she had seen light. Lena felt tears cloud her vision at the thought.

Lorra didn't speak for a long time, her eyes just flitting between Lena, Kara, the various apparatus in the room, and then settling on her hand clutched in Kara's. Her eyes took on a calculating look but she made no move, neither to tighten her grip nor to shrug Kara's hands away.

It was Kara who finally broke the silence, "Hello. Do you know who we are? Who you are?"

The girl sat up, her hand finally breaking free of Kara's hold forcefully. With an expressionless face she replied, "I do not recognize you both. I am Supergirl's clone created to take her place or to replace her should she turn against the Light."

Kara's hands which had been clenching and unclenching forlornly as if missing their occupant, came up to cover her mouth as a sob emptied into them.

"Oh. Okay" Lena gulped down a sob of her own. "How much do you know about yourself? Your origin? The Earth? The world outside? "

The girl considered the question for a moment, "I was created by CADMUS in a lab, using Supergirl's DNA. I have the information on the Earth and Krypton normal for a 10 year old though I am physically 3 years of human age." She gets a puzzled look on her face, "This is way too early for me to be released, why am I awake? Where am I? Is this CADMUS? Are you CADMUS?"

"Absolutely not. We are not from CADMUS." Kara bursts out.

The girl's eyes flash with fear, then anger. And in a fluid motion, she flips off the table and lands on her feet, her arms up in an attack position.

"I won't ask again. Who are you? Why have you brought me here?"

"You were being imprisoned by CADMUS-" Kara starts saying fervently.

"I livebecauseof CADMUS." Their daughter shouts back. "I am Project Zl."

"No." Lena says, expressing a calm exterior, contrary to her interior where a maelstrom is raging. "The CADMUS may have created you but you are your own person. You deserve your own life." She sighs, her fingers come up to pinch the bridge of her nose, and her voice goes soft, "Tell me how do you know about the Earth and Krypton?"

The girl is taken aback by the sudden random question. But she is not running away nor attacking anyone so Lena counts this as a win.

"The images and information is fed to me through the pod."

Another sob escapes Kara, and she takes a step forward, her arms extending, to go and try hold their daughter. But the girl tenses as Kara moves, so Kara halts her movements, her extending arms retracting to wrap themselves around herself.

Kara says in a quiet voice, "Have you seen it? The sun? The birds? The sky? Have you felt the breeze on your screen? Felt the warmth of the day? The cold of the night? You deserve that. You deserve to live your life out in the world. Not locked up in a pod somewhere."

Seeing their daughter slacken her offensive form, Kara takes a tentative step forward. When the girl doesn't tense up, Kara takes a more assured step, then another and another until she is standing right in front of their daughter.

She crouches down, her hands holding each other in a vice grip to prevent them from reaching for their daughter.

"That," she says nodding to Lena, "is Lena Luthor. Half of your DNA comes from her."

Their daughter turns her head to stare at her so fast that she gets a whiplash. Her eyes are full of wonder as she takes her in. Lena gives her a reassuring smile.

"And," their daughter turns to face Kara. Whose arms seem to have mustered the courage to raise themselves and are now clutching their daughter's shoulders. "My name is Kara Zor-El Danvers. I am also known as Supergirl."

Their daughter's eyes are now as big as saucers.

"And you," Kara says a little too forcefully, "are not a project. Are not Project Zl. You are our daughter. Your name is Lorra."

Lena has moved unconsciously so that now she stands just behind Kara. She looks down at Lorra with tears in her eyes.

Lorra herself seems to be reeling from Kara's impassioned speech and from meeting her 'parents'. Her eyes too seem to be glistening.

"Lorra." She sounds out.

And that's what Alex hears first as she turns the corner for the infirmary, coming by for her rounds.