Thanksgiving approached. While Kara loved to spend the holiday with her adoptive mother, Alex wasn't as excited, especially since she thought that her mother would blame her for Kara becoming Supergirl. Luckily, Kara invited Winn, and Alex invited Maggie, so the two guests would provide much needed buffer. Unfortunately, neither Lena, nor James could make it.
Maggie was the first guest to arrive at Kara's apartment. "Hey Little Danvers," smiled Maggie, entering the apartment with a pack of beer.
"Hi, Maggie," said Kara. Maggie put the beer on the chair. "The others will be here shortly. Alex is still busy, but she told me she could handle it,"
Suddenly, a gust of wind has blown in the apartment, with Alex flying through the window, covered in green slime.
"Why are you so dirty, Danvers?" Maggie asked, winking.
"Who, me? I was fighting some alien, who kept spitting some green saliva. Luckily, he was rather weak, so I managed to subdue him rather quickly, only getting really dirty in the process,"
Alex then ran towards the bathroom, where she quickly cleaned herself.
Half an hour later, Winn has also arrived. "I thought James would come," said Winn.
"I thought so too at first, but he told me he was going on a date, so he couldn't come," said Kara.
Kara and Alex were finishing at preparing the table. Kara then went to the oven and opened it, easily taking the hot turkey and putting it on the table. Winn raised an eyebrow and coughed.
"Are you okay, Winn?" Kara asked. But Winn just coughed again, and then pointed his head at Maggie.
"Why are you pointing at me?" Maggie asked.
Winn just shook his head and then pointed at Kara's hands that just retrieved warm turkey from the oven. "Oh!"
"Winn, Maggie knows," said Alex.
"She knows?" Winn asked.
"Yes, Maggie knows that Kara is Supergirl and I am Powergirl," said Alex.
"Oh! Now that makes sense, because I was just wondering why Kara was so reckless at hiding her secret identity from Detective Sawyer," said Winn.
At eight pm Eliza Danvers has entered the apartment. By then, everything was ready. "Kara, Alex, I missed you," said Eliza, walking towards her daughters, and hugging them.
The group sat at the table. "So, I heard from Kara that you do IT work," said Eliza to Winn.
"Yes, I help Miss Grant with IT work, but also help Kara in case she ever needs my help with anything electronic," said Winn.
"And you must be Maggie, Alex has been talking so much about you," said Eliza to Maggie. Alex wanted to just disappear from the room due to being embarrassed.
"I protect people, both humans and aliens," said Maggie, "I work in the NCPD Science Division."
"You do good work, Maggie. What do you think of Supergirl and Powergirl?" Eliza asked.
"They, well they help of course, but I think that Supergirl sometimes ignores strategy and just attacks the bad guys head on, which frustrates me, especially when my department worked for months at gaining evidence to arrest the bad guys," said Maggie.
"Hey!" Kara looked annoyed, rising in the air, and looking at the opposite side of the room.
"Um, Kara?" Alex said.
"I actually wanted to talk to you two about this. Girls, have you lost your mind? Kara, I know that you saved your sister, but why continue? You shouldn't endanger yourself, especially not when the DEO is hunting you," said Eliza. "As for you Alex, I am very disappointed with you. You are the older sister, and you should've known to protect Kara better, but now she exposed her status as a Kryptonian to the world,"
"Well, I work for the DEO, and they are not hunting Kara," said Alex, "And Kara is old enough to make decisions on her own. And it's not like I am not helping her as Powergirl,"
"You being Powergirl is also stupid. Wait, hold on, have I heard it correctly? You work for the DEO?" Eliza asked.
"Yes, why? Alex stood up from her seat.
"Alex, the DEO took your father, and he later disappeared. I don't trust your boss, Hank Henshaw," said Eliza, also standing up. "And since you don't understand the stupidity of your decision, you will resign from the DEO and go work somewhere else, be a researcher, of if you want to get into action, join NCPD but leave the DEO,"
"I will work where I want to work. I do good work, I catch evil aliens," said Alex. "And you will not decide what I will or will not do!"
Winn and Maggie looked at one another. Neither of them expected to witness so much family drama. "Eliza, Alex knows how to look for herself," said Kara.
"But she has no idea how to look out for you! I bet the reason you even had to save Alex in the first place because those rogue Kryptonians targeted Alex due to her being a member of the DEO, so if she hadn't been so stupid as to join the DEO, you wouldn't even need to save her, and you both would not expose yourselves as Kryptonians," said Eliza.
"You know what? This dinner, this party, it was a mistake. If you don't have anything else to say, leave, I have a busy day at work tomorrow," said Alex, glaring at Eliza.
"Alex, I am just worried about the two of you," said Eliza. "You are so smart, yet you make such stupid decisions in your life. I am so disappointed in you."
"Leave," said Alex. Eliza sighed, leaving the apartment. She then turned to Maggie and Winn. "I am sorry you had to witness that,"
"That's alright, Danvers. Thanks for the invitation. I guess I will be going. I will see you later if you decide to help me out on some case," said Maggie. She then left the apartment.
"I think I should leave the two of you alone," said Winn. He also left.
Only Alex and Kara remained in the apartment. Alex just fell on the sofa. "No matter what I do, I only disappoint my mother. Why, why can't she just be proud of me?"
"Alex, Eliza loves you. She cares for you in her own way," said Kara. She sat on the sofa, hugging her sister. "I know she says hurtful things but she still cares about you. But don't worry, even if Eliza is still disappointed in you, I am not. You are my sister, and I love you,"
The Danvers sisters hugged, and sat quietly for an hour. Kara soon noticed how her sister fell asleep, putting her head on Kara's shoulder.
Next day, when Kara and Alex arrived at the DEO, they saw General Lane. "Supergirl, Agent Danvers," said General Lane.
"Sir," said Alex.
"Why are you here, Lane?" Hank asked.
"I have orders from the President. I need to test an android, and Supergirl will fight it," said General Lane.
"No," said Alex. Lane turned towards her.
"I beg your pardon?" Lane asked.
"No, I will fight your damn robot, but leave my sister alone," said Alex. "I have the same exact powers as her,"
"I know you do, Agent Danvers, but you are the second most senior Agent at the DEO, and you are valuable. Your sister will fight the android, since the DEO cannot afford to lose its best Agent," said General Lane.
"And my sister is not valuable?" Alex asked.
"She might be, just not to me. And just so we are clear, it's an order for you not to interfere with the fight, Agent Danvers. Your sister will fight the android tomorrow, and the only thing you can do is watch," said General Lane, leaving the DEO HQ.
"I don't like this," said Alex.
"I know, Agent Danvers, and I wish that Supergirl would win," said Hank, leaving Alex by the computers. Alex looked around herself, and then sat at the computer to check on her father's disappearance.
Much to Alex's annoyance, Kara decided to make her sister feel better by inviting Maggie, James, Winn to the Game Night. Lena was still too busy, doing some business deal. Lena texted Kara that she wanted to come, but she just wanted to buy some company, and was talking to one of the company's employees before deciding whether to actually proceed and buy the company.
During Game Night, Kara saw that James arrived with his date, Lucy. "Hi, I am Kara," said Kara.
"Lucy Lane," said Lucy.
"Any relation to Lois Lane?" Kara asked.
"She is my baby sister," said Lucy. "Oh, hey Agent Danvers, my dad told me that he met Supergirl and she doesn't seem to be that impressive,"
Both Kara and Alex glared.
"Your glasses are cool, I wouldn't have expected a DEO agent to wear glasses," said Lucy.
"I wore contacts but they grew annoying, so I decided to wear glasses unless absolutely necessary for me to wear contacts," said Alex. She was bothered how quickly both Maggie and Max learned her secret, so she decided to now also wear glasses so that people who saw both Alex and Powergirl would not make an immediate connection between the two.
The group decided to play Trivia. Apparently James and Lucy were getting many points, since they knew one another very well. James and Lucy smiled, kissing one another.
"Alright Kara, let's try this," said Winn, but was unable to provide meaningful descriptions of many cards. Finally, Winn found a card he liked. "Oh, this one is easy. Your cousin,"
Maggie face palmed, and Alex's eyes turned red due to annoyance at the description; she was glad that Lucy hasn't noticed Alex's eyes.
"Um," said Kara.
"Oh," Winn noticed, "I guess pass,"
"No, let's me see," Lucy was curious. She looked at the card and saw Superman. "Superman?"
"It's embarrassing but Kara has a cousin back in Midvale who once was rescued by Superman," said Winn.
"Cool, I like Superman, and I think I might have dated him but he likes my sister. I was surprised that Lois broke up with Superman and decided to date Clark Kent instead," said Lucy.
Kara and Alex looked at one another, relieved that Lucy did not make a connection between Clark and Superman, and Superman and Kara.
When Alex and Maggie tried to play the game, they actually managed to score a point higher than James and Lucy did. "Oh wow, I didn't know you two are dating," said Lucy.
"We are not. I mean, I don't like girls, not that way, and I heard that Maggie has a girlfriend," said Alex very quickly.
"Yup, we are friends not girlfriends," said Maggie.
After playing monopoly and poker, the group dispersed. James and Lucy went to have a dinner, while Maggie went to work, leaving Kara, Alex, and Winn in the apartment.
"Hey Winn, I need to talk to you," said Alex.
"What can I do for you, Agent Danvers," said Winn.
"Alex, call me Alex. So, I looked at the files about my dad, but I did not find anything. All the files were deleted. Can you help?" Alex asked.
"No, I can't, I," said Winn, looking at the faces of the Danvers sisters, who looked hurt. "No, why are you making it so difficult for me!"
In the end, Winn decided to help Alex, which prompted Alex to hug Winn much to his surprise. Alex went to drink some wine; while it did not affect her, she still liked to drink it.
Next morning, Kara and Alex were standing in the desert, facing General Lane. "Oh, you've got to be kidding me," said Alex, noticing that Lucy arrived with her dad.
"At least you decided to wear Powergirl and not your DEO uniform today," said Kara.
"Yes," said Alex.
"Supergirl, Powergirl, I hope you've been notified that one of you will be fighting the Red Tornado," said Lucy.
"Not one of them. Supergirl will. Now Powergirl, leave the area, or stand down," ordered General Lane. Alex glared at him, which General Lane noticed, but ignored. "Supergirl, you will fight the android. Don't stop fighting it, and give it all you've got,"
Kara flew at the Red Tornado, who dodged a few of her attacks, and then punched Kara. While some of the punches landed on Kara, none of them actually hurt her.
The android rose in the air and produced air currents, sending them at Kara, who ignored the strong winds, flew through them, and punched Red Tornado again. Red Tornado span, and created a mini tornado, sending it at Kara.
Kara flew towards the tornado, and began flying around it, quickly extinguishing it. She then flew at the android and began punching it with increasing power, some of the punches began to shatter portions of Red Tornado body.
"Supergirl, stop!" General Lane ordered but Kara continued. She began fighting even more quickly; after doing a few more punches, Kara used her breath to freeze the android. One of its arms fell to the ground, while the android itself disappeared from sight.
"Well done," said Alex, flying towards Kara.
"What have you done? Do you know how expensive was it to build that android?" General Lane said.
"You said I had to fight it, so I did," said Kara. She then flew away, with Alex following her sister.
The day went quiet at CatCo. Kara helped her boss, while talking to Winn and James during lunch break, while Alex helped Maggie with catching some bank robber.
"Thank you Danvers, you saved me a lot of time dealing with this robber, so that I could spend more time with my date tonight," said Maggie.
Alex smiled, although she was unsure why she was feeling some jealousy, or even jealousy for what reason.
As Maggie read the Miranda Rights towards the robber, Alex noticed that Red Tornado has returned. It flew at the restaurant where Alex noticed that James was having dinner with Lucy Lane and her father.
"I need to go," said Alex. Maggie nodded.
When Alex arrived to the destruction, she saw cars spinning in the air, pavement destroyed, and James, Lucy, and General Lane trying to hide from now rogue Red Tornado. A few seconds after Alex arrived, Kara joined her sister.
"Let's do this together," said Alex. Kara smiled, and the sisters flew at the Red Tornado android, quickly punching it from many sides. The android evaded, creates more winds, and scared the populace.
At one point, Red Tornado tried to fly at General Lane but Kara punched it, and the android hit a wall, destroying a portion of it. It then lifted a large chunk of pavement using the winds and hovered it above General Lane, ready to drop it on him.
Kara and Alex flew at the android, hitting the rock and destroying it quickly. Red Tornado evaded the punches, then flew to the opposite side of the street, and began spinning rapidly, creating a large tornado. Alex flew towards the tornado that already began moving towards a school bus, while Kara flew at the android and hit it very hard.
The android dropped on the ground, and Kara used her heat vision with the highest possible intensity she could, trying to use more and more power to overwhelm the android. After thirty seconds of using this power, the android exploded into many pieces, which scattered on the pavement.
As Kara dropped on the ground from exhaustion, she noticed that Alex managed to extinguish the tornado that Red Tornado has formed. When Alex was done, she waved to the kids on the bus that exited the bus to look at Powergirl, and flew towards her sister.
"We did it!" Kara said.
"Yes, yes we did," Alex said.
"Is everyone alright?" Maggie Sawyer arrived on the scene, trying to calm the public down. She saw that while the pavement, road, and some building were hit and semi destroyed, no one was seriously injured.
"Are you alright?" Maggie asked General Lane, James, and Lucy.
"I am; I guess we all are. You see, Jimmy? Now, this woman, Detective Sawyer, she is a good woman, and would have been a much better match for my daughter. Her only flaw is that she likes to date aliens," said General Lane.
"Excuse me? Supergirl is one such alien, and she just saved your sorry ass," said Maggie.
"She did, but while she did a good thing tonight, she might hurt other people tomorrow. I don't trust the Kryptonian," said General Lane. "I guess I will return to Washington and report my findings on the test about the android. Oh, and Jimmy? I still don't think that my baby girl deserves you,"
General Lane left. "How about we resume our date?" Lucy asked. James nodded and the pair left.
"Today was hectic," said Kara, standing up, and looking at Alex and Maggie.
"Yup, I hate this General Lane so much. I get it, he thinks some aliens are evil, but not all of them are!" Alex said.
"You are right Alex. While there always will be some bad aliens, most aliens are good and want to just have a normal life," said Maggie.
"Maggie! I was so worried about you! First the robbery, then the android," said a woman as she arrived on the scene, hugging Maggie and kissing her passionately on the lips.
"Oh, hello Supergirl, Powergirl! Thank you for keeping my Maggie safe," said the woman.
"See you," said Maggie, walking away with her girlfriend.
"Alex, why are you glaring at her? This woman seemed friendly," said Kara.
"I don't know, I just don't like her, ok?" Alex said.
"Alright, let's get back to CatCo. Winn texted me that he wanted to talk," said Kara. She tried to fly but couldn't. "What?"
"Don't worry, I will drop you off at CatCo," said Alex. Alex flew Kara to Kara's apartment, where Kara changed, and then Alex flew Kara to CatCo. Alex then quickly changed herself, and the sisters went to search for Winn.
"Hey Winn," said Kara.
"Kara, Alex, I think I found something," said Winn. The three people found an empty office room where they sat on the chairs. "Alex, your father and one DEO agent had a mission tracking an alien, where both of the agents went missing. Later the DEO agent returned, saying he had no memory of the event or what happened to your father, and I saw that the same DEO agent deleted the files about that mission. Alex, that DEO agent was Hank Henshaw,"
"No," said Alex, walking from one end of the room to another.
"Alex, if Winn is right, and I am pretty sure he is right, since he is great at IT, Hank Henshaw is the reason your dad went missing," said Kara, hugging her sister.
A/N: more Sanvers scenes. Next chapter will be about Kara exploring life without powers, while Alex would be the sole superhero in National City. Jealous Alex is funny.