A/N: Thanks for the comments
Guest: To be honest there is nothing about last season's Lex and Eve plot that did anything for me. So I doubt I'd every be motivated enough to write about the consequences.
As the older Alex jogged back to the house following an early morning run she saw Kara's daughter sitting on the sand watching the waves.
"Hey Alex." She said running over to her. "Everything okay?"
"Is it not okay to be here?" The girl asked looking worried.
"It's fine. I was just surprised to see you here. It's still early, I thought you'd be asleep."
"I couldn't sleep." The girl said. "And I wanted to watch the waves. We didn't have a sea on our last planet."
"When your mom first came here she was obsessed with birds for the same reason." Alex said sitting down next to her niece before asking. "So what do you think about the Earth?"
"This planet is strange." The girl said. "You have stories about encouraging a stranger to break into homes, through leaving cookies and milk."
"You're talking about Santa?" The older Alex guessed, wondering what her kids had been saying.
"Yes." The girl said. "He sounds nice, but he is called claws. Claws are weapons."
"It's not claws. It' s." Alex spelt out. "But Santa and presents are only a small part of Christmas. It's more about being a family."
"Shouldn't you be a family everyday?"
"Yes, but sometimes people forget that. Christmas is the time we can slow down and concentrate on family."
"By giving presents?" The teenager asked still thinking the whole concept was absurd.
"In part. But it is more about spending time together." Alex explained. "You didn't have anything like that on your last planet?"
"No. But we didn't need it. I mean Ieiu, sorry, mom, was always there for me." The teenager said.
"Well now you have us too."
"Mom always told me stories about you." The girl said.
"She did?"
"How you saved her and made her feel like she belonged."
"She saved me a lot more than I saved her." Alex said.
"She said it was hard on you and unfair to you when she came to Earth. Is that how Kara and MJ feel about me?"
"Where did that come from? Did they say something?" The older Alex asked frowning.
"No. they've been great. I just don't want to upset anyone."
"You won't." Alex said.
"But it was hard on you?" The teenager pressed.
"There were times I resented your mom, because she was so special. And I hate that I ever felt that way because there is no part of me that would ever not want your mom in my life."
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As Kara ran into the kitchen looking worried Alex's offspring both pointed out side as MJ said. "She's with mom on the beach."
"What are they doing?"
"Talking." MJ replied.
"About what?" Kara asked peering out of a window.
"Don't you have super hearing?" The younger Kara asked.
"Yes, but I can't use it to spy on Alex."
"Which one?" MJ asked.
"Both." The older Kara said.
"You've never used your super hearing to listen to mom?" MJ asked, sounding doubtful.
"Not for a long time." Kara said.
"That wasn't actually a no." MJ said.
"So what are you two doing today?" Kara asked changing the subject.
"We thought we'd give Alex a tour of Midvale, if that's okay with you." The younger Kara said as the two Alexes entered the kitchen.
"What are you two hatching?" Alex asked suspiciously as her namesake hugged her mother.
"Nothing. We are just being nice cousins and offering to show Alex round." The younger Kara said.
"You are?" The older Alex asked suspiciously.
"They were." The older Kara confirmed before looking at her daughter and asking. "What do you say, do you want to go with them?"
"That's okay?" The teenager asked her cousins.
"Yes." The oldest cousin replied.
"Okay."
"Before you go we got this for you." The older Alex said passing a box to her namesake. "Some clothes to help you fit in better."
"Where did you get those from?" Kara asked confused.
"Online shopping."
"But Alex only got here yesterday." Kara continued.
"So? Most places now do delivery within 4 hours including overnight by drone."
"Really?"
"Told you you didn't need to walk into a shop." MJ pointed out.
"How did you know her size?" Kara asked ignoring her nephew.
"There's an app." Alex shrugged.
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"You think they are okay?" Kara asked Alex later that morning.
"It's Midvale, how much trouble could they get into?" Alex asked.
"Have you forgotten our childhoods?" Kara asked.
"True." Alex said. "But they will be fine."
"Perhaps we can use this quiet time to talk." Eliza said. "Are you going to tell us where you've been? Or at least what your plans are?"
"I don't know what my plans are yet." Kara said, ignoring the first question altogether. "I have to do what is right for Alex."
"I know that Sweetie, but if you don't tell us what you are running from we can't help you." Eliza pressed.
"I'm not running." Kara said.
"J'onn said you asked him to take Alex for her safety." Alex stated.
"Yes, but things have changed." Kara said cryptically. "I promise you it is okay. But right now my only worry is making sure Alex is okay. It is the first time she'll have had any chance of stability, I don't want to screw it up."
"We'll do everything we can to help." Eliza said.
"Thank you." Kara said.
"Maybe you shouldn't stay." Alex said surprising her sister. "Don't get me wrong, I want you to stay. But Earth isn't the place you remember and it is not as safe as it used to be. Maybe you would be safer not being here."
"What's going on?" Kara asked concerned.
"Nothing. I just want you to be happy. And I guess I'm trying to say I would understand if you left." She paused again and took Kara's hand. "But, and I know I am being selfish, I want you to stay. I've really missed my sister."
"I've missed you both so much." Kara said. "And I want to stay, but Alex has to agree."
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"Your mom came here in a ship right?" MJ asked as the three teenagers walked along the road.
"I guess." Alex said.
"So it might be round here somewhere." He said.
"MJ really wants to see a space ship." Kara said.
"So do you." MJ pointed out. "So why don't we look for it?"
"How do you know it is here?" Alex asked.
"We don't. That's why we are looking." MJ said. "We thought we would start in the woods."
"Couldn't you just ask Ie- I mean mom?" Alex asked.
"She dodged the question." MJ said.
"What if she was just a passenger? The ship would have left already." Alex argued.
"When we asked her it sounded like she had a ship." MJ said.
"She didn't have one before." Alex countered, for the first time wondering how her mother had got to Earth.
"We'll show you round, you can ask any questions you want, and if we happen to stumble across the ship we'll explore." Kara suggested. "In the meantime why don't you tell us more about yourself?"
"Like what?"
"What your last planet was like?" MJ suggested.
"It was dark and crowded."
"Leaving your friends must have been hard." Kara said.
"I didn't really have friends. I mean we moved so much there was not much point." She said causing her cousins to look at each other. "And then-" She said before loosing her footing and slipping down the slope.
"Alex!" Kara called scrambling down the incline after her cousin ignoring the pain in her leg.
"You are so dead." MJ said to his sister as he followed suit.
"Alex!" Kara called coming to a stop be her cousin's side. "You okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." Alex said. "It didn't hurt at all. Are rocks on Earth softer?"
"Maybe you have powers here?" Kara suggested rubbing the leg she had damaged in the crash years earlier.
"You think?"
"Your mom does right? Why don't you try something?" Kara suggested.
"Like what?"
"Burn a hole in the tree." MJ suggested.
"How?"
"I don't know, stare at it?"
"It's not working." Alex said after a moment.
"What about crushing this rock?" Kara suggested passing a rock to her cousin.
Taking the rock Alex stared at it before closing her hands round it and squeezing.
As the rock turned to powder MJ commented. "That's awesome."
"What if I do that by mistake?" Alex asked, worried by what she had just done.
"Well try not to." Kara said as she got to her feet, grimacing as pain shot through her leg.
"That's not exactly reassuring." Alex complained before saying. "You are in pain."
"I'm okay." Kara said.
"Is that your bad leg?" MJ asked worried.
"It's okay."
"Mom is going to freak out if you've hurt it again." MJ pointed out.
"Which is why she doesn't need to find out." Kara said.
"You know she will figure it out." MJ said.
"Should we go back?" Alex asked.
"No." Kara said. "If mom is going to ground me I may as well enjoy my last few hours of freedom. Besides, if we give it an hour it will probably be okay. While we rest why don't you tell us more?" She suggested to Alex. "Like what is that word you keep using...Ie or ieu?"
"Ieiu?" Alex asked.
"Yes." Kara agreed.
"It's Kryptonian for mother." Alex explained.
"How many languages do you speak?"
"Properly four, including human. Or is it Earth or Earthlish?"
"English." Kara corrected.
"Do you think you can teach us a language?" MJ asked.
"You want to learn a language you will never speak?" Alex asked.
"We'd speak it with you." Kara pointed out.
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"Where have you been and what have you done?" When Alex saw the three muddy teenagers return.
"Just exploring." MJ said looking innocent.
"What happened?" Alex asked before noticing her daughter walking with a slight limp. "Kara?"
"I slipped. I'm okay."
"You are limping." Alex said. "Your leg?" When the teenage Kara nodded she said. "Let's get you upstairs and have a look at it."
"I'm okay."
"Now." Alex said firmly.
"What's going on?" The older Kara asked entering the kitchen.
"Kara's leg is hurting." MJ explained.
"I thought Alex said Kara's leg was fixed?" The Kryptonian Kara said to Eliza.
"It is." Eliza said. "But the technology is still new and sometimes it struggles to keep up with her. At the moment Kara is still growing and the nanotech sometimes lags behind. So if she overuses it it will hurt. A bit of rest allows the nanotech to catch up. She'll be fine."
"And you two?" Kara asked looking at her daughter and nephew.
"We're fine." MJ said as her daughter nodded without making eye contact.
Misinterpreting the lack of eye contact Kara drew her daughter in for a hug.
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"There's no swelling and it isn't warm." Alex said as she looked at her daughter's leg. "Rest it tonight and it should be okay."
"Are you going to make me stay in bed from now on?"
"Let's just see if it is feeling better tomorrow." Alex said. "But I need you to be honest with me."
"But if I say it hurts you don't let me do anything." Kara pointed out.
"I don't know what I would do if something happened to you or your brother." Alex said hugging her.
"I'm okay." Kara assured her as she returned the hug.
"I know. But I am still going to worry." Alex said pulling away. "So rest up. I'll bring you your dinner later."
"Hey." The older Kara said. "Eliza thought you might want these." She said holding out a bottle of pills.
"Thanks." Her niece said miserably.
"Everything okay?" The older Kara asked picking up on how subdued her niece seemed.
"She just needs to keep weight off it for a while." Alex explained.
"So I am stuck up here." The teenager said miserably.
"I could carry you downstairs, then you wouldn't actually be using your leg." Kara offered.
"Seriously?" Alex asked.
"What?" Her sister questioned.
"She is already perfectly capable of finding loopholes, you don't need to assist her with that."
"So I can't go down?" The teenage Kara asked hopefully.
"Go." Alex said. "But you do not move from the couch."
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"I'm sorry, it's my fault." The younger Alex said miserably to her aunt as Kara placed her namesake on the couch.
"What do you mean?" The older Alex asked.
"I fell and she came to get me. That's when she hurt her leg."
"That doesn't make it your fault." Alex said before asking. "Are you hurt?"
"No, I'm fine."
"You sure?"
When the teenager nodded, Alex turned her attention to her son and asked. "What about you?"
"Also fine." MJ said. Sensing he was hiding something she looked at him for a few seconds. But when he didn't say anything else she said. "Go keep your sister company."
"And how are you doing?" Eliza asked moving over to her eldest daughter.
"Me?" Alex asked.
"Yes you."
"Well I didn't ground her for life, so I'd say I was making progress." Alex said. "I know I am being irrational and over protective, but every time she hurts her leg it takes me back to the accident."
"I know. But you are doing great." Eliza said hugging her as the Kryptonian Kara entered the kitchen.
"Everything okay?" Kara asked.
"Just having a minor freak out." Alex said pulling away from her mother.
TBC...