A/N: Thank you for the comments.

Guest - I'd like to agree that the need for an oven mitt is a lesson you need only learn once, but personal experience is that is not always the case! Little Kara will be looking after her aunt a little in this one.

As the adult Alex made breakfast for her sister the apartment door opened and her eldest walked in.

"Everything okay?" Alex asked.

"The DEO is trying to get hold of you." The teenager said passing her mother the phone. "I can finish breakfast if you want. That way aunt Kara may actually want to eat it."

"Thanks." Alex said kissing her daughter's head. "I'll see you later."

As Alex left the apartment her daughter looked at the plate Alex had been working on and asked as she threw the contents away. "How can you screw up toast?"

As she started from scratch her aunt came out of the bedroom.

"Kara?" The adult Kara asked confused when she saw her niece in the kitchen.

"Mom had to go to work. On the bright side it means breakfast will be edible."

"How's Alex?" The adult Kara asked.

"Ticked at you." The teen said bluntly. "For what it is worth she is worried you are going back to how you were on Trini. Which means nothing to me, but I assume she meant you were like mom, you know, serious, grumpy, strict. Although I can't really picture the last one." She said putting a plate of food on the table. "But I am sure she'll feel better when I tell her I saw you eat breakfast."

"You can't lie to her." The adult Kara said.

"I wasn't planning to, because you are going to eat breakfast."

"I'm not very hungry."

"Do I need to get grandma over here?" The teen asked.

"No." The adult Kara said as she started to pick at the plate of food. As she did so she asked again. "Alex is really okay?"

"She misses you. But grandma spoiled her all evening." The teenager said before adding. "I know you feel bad about what you said to mom, but she'll have heard far worse. Mostly from me."

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"What's up?" Alex asked as she approached Vasquez, who immediately led her into a briefing room.

"You know how I said all our chemicals were accounted for?"

"Yes."

"That turned out to not be accurate."

"What?"

"According to the manifest we have exactly the right amount of the chemical in stores." Vasquez said.

"I'm not seeing the problem."

"It was one of the chemicals needed to synthase the antidote for the virus. According to our logs some of it was signed out and transported to L-Corp. The thing is the amount signed in by L-Corp was less than we signed out." She said handing Alex a tablet.

"That's way more than I asked for." Alex said looking at the DEO logs. She then looked at the L-Corp logs and said. "That is how much I asked for."

"We are going through to see who could have altered the amount and who had access to it during transport. The thing is some of the compounds your mother need to make a cure we made here. Others we had to send the raw components to L-Corp as we didn't have the right machinery. That chemical was obviously one of those."

"Are you saying the toxin was a sick way to get their hands on this chemical?" Alex asked.

"No. But you can't deny it's a possibility. And if that guess is correct it means they wanted Supergirl to go on a rampage."

"But you said there was a company linked to Sloane Syndicate who had the chemical."

"I did. But their complete supply has been accounted for. It looks like we are the leak."

"So Sloane Syndicate may not be behind this?" Alex asked.

"Or they are good at diverting attention away from themselves." Vasquez replied.

"The second you find out who did this, I want to know." Alex said. "But keep this between us."

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"Sam? What are you doing here?" Kara asked opening her front door, still in her pyjamas.

"Well, Ruby is at work, so I was getting a little bored. I thought we could catch up. I mean you have eighteen years to catch me up on"

"I won't be very good company." Kara said.

"That's fine." Sam said entering the apartment. "Let me guess, you feel guilty about what happened?"

"Alex told you?" Kara asked.

"She didn't need to. I've been where you are now." Sam said. "And I don't want to turn this into a competition and then beat you, but when I was Reign I killed people. I nearly killed you. I broke Alex's leg. And I did the one thing I still can't understand, I tried to kill Ruby."

"That was different. Reign was a different entity living in your body. Reign is gone now. But what I did, that was all me."

"I was still aware of what was happening. It wasn't me, but it was. The way I see it is you helped me remove Reign from my body, whereas you seal that darker side within you." Sam said. "So it is kind of the same thing."

"I was so mean to Alex."

"She seems okay with it." Sam pointed out. "In fact the only person who isn't is you."

"How did you forgive yourself?"

"I realised I didn't have the luxury of blaming myself. Ruby needed me not to. So I took a leaf out of Lena's book and boxed all my guilt up."

"And that worked?"

"Kind of, I mean I doubt I or anyone can ever reach Lena's boxing ability." Sam said. "But it gave me a short term fix and over time it got easier. But the important thing was Ruby saw me acting normally and that is what she needed. Plus I had Lena to talk to and as soon as I actually started to be honest with her, it got easier. It will for you to, but only if you don't shut yourself off." She said before noticing Kara's laptop was out. "What are you working on?"

"Trying to figure out who released that virus."

"Well I have a vested interest in that." Sam said. "So what do you have?"

"Option one, aliens connected to Mongul. Option two an insane bounty hunter called Lobo. Option three the Kai gang who are likely to be acting under orders or with financial help from Sloane Syndicate."

"Sloane Syndicate?" That sounds familiar." Sam said.

"Familiar how?" Kara asked.

"I don't know. Give me a minute." Sam said shutting her eyes. After a moment she asked. "Can I borrow your laptop?"

"Sure." Kara said before passing her laptop to Sam.

"The last time we teamed up to take on a corrupt CEO we did pretty well." Sam pointed out.

"We didn't stop Edge." Kara reminded her.

"But we saved Lena." Sam countered. "And Edge went down eventually."

"Not fast enough." Kara said miserably. "Do you want a coffee?"

"Sure." Sam said. As Kara went to the kitchen a phone buzzed.

"That was yours." Sam called.

"Who is it?"

"Someone called Steve." Sam said looking at the notification.

"I'll be over in a sec." Kara said finishing the coffee. Noticing Kara struggling to carry two cups because of her burnt hand Sam quickly jumped up and took a cup off her.

"Thanks." Kara said following Sam back to the couch. As she sat down she read the message on her phone before quickly firing off a reply and saying.

"Where have you come across Sloane Syndicate?"

"Technically it wasn't Sloane Syndicate. It was a company called VLT."

"Let me guess they are owned by Sloane Syndicate?" Kara asked.

"They described it as being financed by Sloane Syndicate." Sam said. "The more I looked into them the more unsound a deal it seemed. Nothing I found was illegal, but it left me feeling really uncomfortable."

"What happened?"

"I requested further files from them and they pulled out."

"Can you remember what you asked for?"

"No, but I may have the old emails." Sam said as Kara's phone buzzed again.

"Sorry." Kara said replying to the message before putting her phone back on the coffee table.

"It's fine." Sam said as she kept searching her phone for old emails. When Kara's phone buzzed again she glanced over at it and saw it was from Steve again.

"Boyfriend?" Sam asked as Kara fired off another reply.

"No." Kara said moments before Sam said.

"Found it. I requested files 20351023-final-section01-VBX03 through to 09."

"That doesn't mean much to me." Kara confessed.

"Or me. But they must have been referenced in the documents they had already sent over. Let me dig into those." Sam said.