"Director. Prisoner 54897 is asking to see you." A DEO agent said as they entered Alex's office a few days later.
"The Dorrian?" Alex asked.
"Yes ma'am we detained him this morning. He wants to see you."
"I don't normally bend to the demands of prisoners." Alex said.
"I know ma'am. But he said it was about your sister." The comment immediately making Alex tense.
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"You wanted to see me?" Alex said when she entered the interrogation room.
"You don't remember me do you?" The alien asked from the other side of the table.
"Should I?"
"I remember you. It may have been twenty years. But I will never forget."
"Twenty years is a long time." Alex said.
"You claimed to want to help aliens, but you were no different form the others. Despite who your sister was." The alien said. Before Alex could ask anything he went on. "You killed my brother. Where I am from we believe in, shalik fond h'oth, humans would call it an eye for an eye."
"So you are here to kill me?" Alex asked as the guards tensed.
"No. That would not be shalik fond h'oth. You took my brother from me, so I removed your sister."
"My sister?" Alex asked.
"After you killed Jiko may family worked together, learning all we could about you, how to hurt you and putting everything into earning enough money to hire Rensh."
"Who?" Alex asked.
"A bounty hunter. Paid to track down and kill your sister. The only bounty hunter better than him is his master, Lobo. He will not give up until she is dead. Eighteen years ago I thought my money had been wasted, when it looked like the Luthor had done the job instead. But then Rensh told me the truth and she hadn't really died, just taken a very long trip. I thought about cancelling the contract and letting you one day discover that she hadn't died. But then I thought that she would find a way come back and you didn't deserve that. So I told him to keep going. For the last eighteen years he has been hunting her. It is only a matter of time." He explained as blood pumped rapidly through Alex's ears. "I was going to wait until the contract was completed, but you capturing me has created a new opportunity. You probably think I want to swap my freedom for her life. But I don't. I just wanted you to know you were responsible for everything that has happened. And that there are only two ways the contract can be terminated; the target being killed or me asking for it to be terminated. Option two is no longer an option." The alien said before frothing at the mouth and going floppy.
"We need some help in here?" Alex shouted as she ran to the other side of the table just as the alien fell to the floor.
"Ma'am?" An agent asked entering the room.
"He's gone. Probably suicide." Alex said as she checked for a pulse. "Why the hell did you not search him?" She growled before marching out of the room.
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As Alex sat on a park bench trying to figure out how to explain to Kara that she had ruined her life a familiar and comforting figure sat down next to her.
"J'onn? You're back. Did you find him?" Alex asked
"Not yet. I hit plenty of brick walls in Central City so I thought I'd check up on you. It seems like that was the right thing to do." He said picking up on her inner turmoil. "What's wrong?"
"It's all my fault." Alex said.
"What is?" J'onn asked confused.
"Everything that Kara has gone through."
"What are you talking about?"
"We detained a Dorrian today who committed suicide. Before he did he told me how he hired a bounty hunter to kill Kara because I killed his brother."
"We can protect her." J'onn said.
"That doesn't make up for the last eighteen years." Alex said.
"What?"
"For the last eighteen years she has been hunted because of me." Alex explained. "She and Alex have lived in fear because of what I did. How can I make this right?"
"Kara loves you." J'onn reminded her.
"When she came back I greeted her by blaming her for Kelly's death. Something that had nothing to do with her. Where as I completely screwed up her life and I don't know what to do."
"Why don't I take the kids tonight so you can talk to Kara?" J'onn asked.
"How can I tell her?" Alex asked.
"You thinking of hiding it from her?"
"The thought crossed my mind. I can't lose her." Alex said.
"Hiding it isn't the way to go." J'onn warned.
"I know. But I'm scared."
"It'll be okay." J'onn said hugging her.
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"J'onn!" The younger Alex said before hugging him as he entered the house with the adult Alex.
"Hello Alex." He smiled before looking at the other two teenagers. "So, last time I said you could look at my car. Do you still want to?"
"Yes!" MJ said happily.
"You two okay if I take them tonight?" J'onn asked looking at the adults in the room.
"Sounds great." The older Alex said.
"But school starts tomorrow." MJ said suspiciously.
"You are rubbish with subtext." His sister pointed out. "Let's go."
"Have fun." The adult Kara said hugging her daughter goodbye before turning her attention to her sister.
"So what's wrong?" Kara asked once the front door had shut.
For a moment Alex said nothing, but the turmoil was written all over her face.
"Alex, what's wrong?" Kara repeated.
"I'm so sorry." Alex said.
"For what?"
"It's my fault."
"What are you talking about?" Kara asked lost.
"The bounty hunter was hired because of me." Alex confessed.
"I know." Kara said.
"He was hired by someone I had pissed off and you have lived the last eighteen years on the run because of me."
"I know." Kara repeated louder.
"He was- What do you mean you know?" Alex asked lost.
"I mean, I know. He told me."
"He?" Alex asked.
"Rensh. The bounty hunter." Kara explained. "When J'onn found us I had just discovered the bounty hunter had tracked me down again. I asked J'onn to take Alex because she would be safer with him. Once they were gone I sought him out."
"By yourself? With no powers?"
"I wanted it to end." Kara explained. "Eventually we found each other. Only he was a lot stronger than me. Even if I had powers I think he could have beaten me. He was about to kill me when there was a planet quake. He ended up being trapped under a beam. I tried to save him, but I had no powers on that planet. There was nothing I could do. So instead I stayed with him and tried to comfort him until he died. He was actually a nice guy."
"He was a bounty hunter trying to kill you." Alex reminded her.
"I know. But he was more than that. The details don't matter, but we talked for awhile. And during the talk he explained why he was after me. He even apologised." Kara said. "As he was dying he gave me this." She said pulling something from her pocket.
"A scrap of metal?" Alex asked not recognising the object.
"More like the keys to his spaceship." Kara said. "I used it to get here."
"What about Fels? Was he responsible?"
"I don't know. I didn't ask. If he was I would prefer not knowing." Kara confessed.
"And the contract on your life?"
"He said it died with him. So unless the person who placed the contract in the first place hires another bounty hunter it's over."
"He won't be placing any more contracts." Alex said.
"What did you do?" Kara asked.
"Nothing. He committed suicide." Alex assured her before asking. "So you really aren't running from anything?"
"I'm always running from something." Kara said. "Even though that threat is gone, there are still plenty of people with a grudge against Kryptonians and my mother and Supergirl."
"And me." Alex added.
"What happened wasn't your fault." Kara said.
"How can you say that? Everything I do I screw up." Alex said as tears ran down her face.
"Alex you are my sister and I will always love you. Kara and MJ love you so much and they are great kids. You definitely haven't screwed them up."
"You shouldn't be like this. You should be yelling or throwing me out of the window. I ruined your life." Alex said.
"Alex, when I first found out the truth, I was mad. Especially with you. But it was a long trip here and as I was making it I realised that if it hadn't been for the bounty hunter I would have never had Alex. Alex is the best thing that has ever happened to me. Besides you rejoined the DEO to search for me, how could I stay mad at you? I know you are going to blame yourself, but if you really want to make it up to me, don't. Stop focusing on everything you have done wrong and think about all you have done right."