MOM!

"CARTER!"

She woke up in a sweat imagining that day.

It had been nearly two months since they'd seen each other. Kara seemed to understand the fear Cat felt after their last…encounter. The Kryptonian never apologized, but somehow Cat talked herself into understanding Kara's reasons.

It helped that when she asked Carter about it he had a more understanding view of what happened and how necessary it probably was. When she told him about Supergirl and her, he imagined bragging to his friends about it. But after the incident, he could only see his friends being the one in his place.

She too thought about how she lied that day. Lied straight to Kara's face when asked if she'd was only saying yes because it was Kara. It could have been anyone. She'd have given up Kara's identity, blown up her life, all for her son. She would never have had the confidence in Kara's ability to rescue them? Not enough to just…drop her son over the edge. She prayed the day never came where they had to put themselves through that again.

In one cruel, cruel half hour, Kara had saved him, and guaranteed that both mother and son understood what they were getting into with her. She even reassured Cat the boarding school question was just for the boy's safety. If they ever had to put him on witness protection, she needed to know that Cat could do it. Could avoid seeing Carter for the rest of her or his day's on earth.

It pained her to even consider such a thing. She'd had a lot to think about. That hollow feeling, she got inside when she thought her son was dead. The fact that she felt she could have betrayed Kara's every secret in revenge. It all boiled down to one thing.

She didn't trust Kara. Part of her felt ashamed, another part justified.

She made me drop him over the balcony! She countered. That's just, it's ab-

It's no worse than pushing someone over the edge of a cliff with a bungee cord attached.

Cat growled in the dark room.

It's not the same!

No, people usually have much more confidence in a rope.

Cat felt shame at herself. If she had trusted Kara, it would have been no less difficult to drop her son, but perhaps she wouldn't have felt so…guilty at the end. So horrified in herself. The issue was how she saw the superhuman. Cruel, mercurial, unreliable.

She was two of those things, but the third? Never.

No. I, I just can't.

Cat closed her eyes.

But I don't have a choice. Kara has kept her promise, I must keep mine.

She slept again that night, and woke up still to the sound of Carter falling, but this time, she kept her eyes closed and imagined a red cape swooping in to save him. Because that's exactly what happened.


Did i do a good mind fuck?

Because that's what this is. Don't let anyone convince you otherwise. Kara did some fucked up shit, we're just gonna let it slide because she has very strong plot armor.