X-Power

Disclaimer: If Supergirl was mine James would not be Guardian. Do not own, never will and I hate him anyway. Both James and Guardian, actually… And do not take my use of Batman's name in this as me ever planning to use him. I hate him as much as James.

Chapter 3: Revelations.

Lena stood beside the spotlight, looking up and waiting for Supergirl to show.

"You know this isn't Gotham," a voice said behind her, nearly making Lena jump, but she turned around and smiled regardless as she saw the familiar sight of Supergirl. "I'm not that Batcrazy."

"I think he's called Batman," Lena said, as Kara's feet landed on the roof of the building.

"Yeah, I met him. He's Batcrazy, or has a bat fetish," Kara said, rolling her eyes. "So what's with the light?"

"Well if you had given me your phone number I wouldn't need this," Lena stated, turning the light off. "But it worked anyway."

"And what do you need me for?" Kara asked, one eyebrow slightly raised.

"Well you saved my life… Again," Lena commented. "That's really becoming a habit. I'm thankful to you and your fast friend though. And don't pretend you don't know who I am talking about." '

"The Flash is new to his powers," Kara said simply.

"Obviously," Lena said, remembering the small fire he had started. "And he clearly needs something else to run in. Something that won't catch fire. So as a thank you I'm going to have it made for him." Kara was stunned into silence there. "I already know the material to make it out of. We're doing some work on firefighter outfits, and the fabric is perfect for his powers – resistant to friction and burns, obviously – but I figured I would give him a choice of style." Lena took out a couple of papers. "When I got back I called a couple of people and asked them to draw a design for a superhero outfit to match both gender and powers… They're rough due to the timescale I gave them, but have your friend look over these and come back to me with his choice and measurements."

"Thank you," Kara said, a little bewildered still, but taking the designs. "Any chance you can run Lord out of business? You're much nicer to have around." Lena laughed at that.

"Oh, now what has Lord been up to?" Lena asked wanting a bit of gossip.

"Not as bad as your brother, but getting there," Kara said, ignoring the flinch Lena gave at the reference to Lex. "Do me a favor, though… destroy that light." Kara nodded to the light, her looked hardened.

"Well, I guess if I need to get in contact with you I could just call Kara," Lena sighed, causing Kara to freeze.

"Kara who?" Kara asked, trying to not sound nervous.

"Oh, come on. CatCo's Supergirl Correspondent. I mean, she gets the articles about you and pictures so easily. It's very obvious that you two are friends." Kara tried not to sigh. relieved at those words – she'd almost thought Lena knew her human identity.

"Well, she's nice," Kara said with a small smile, and flew away trying not to laugh.

-Supergirl-

The next day Adam was in Cat Grant office with Kara and Cat, excitingly going over the papers Lena had given Kara. "Look at this red one!" Adam said. "Who would wear this?'

"Who designed it?" Kara asked.

"I don't know… Cisco Ramon," Adam said, looking at the name on the design paper.

"I've heard of him," Cat Grant said thoughtfully. "Up-and-coming fashion designer. I bought one of his dresses actually. It would look great on you though Kara, the dress I mean. Maybe for your date?"

"Speaking of that, do you like Italian?" Adam asked, and Kara nodded. "Good, I have plans." Adam gave Kara a smirk and Kara had to smile in return.

"Just pick one of these so I can bring it back to Lena," Kara said and Adam held up a design to Kara. It was a light blue outfit with yellow shoulders and yellow on the side of the legs and a simple mask over his eyes. "You sure?" Adam nodded.

"I'll give you my measurements, but there is one thing I want to add," Adam said and took a pencil and drew a lightning bolt on the design, in the middle of the chest. "I'm not a master at drawing but I want a lightning bolt right here." Adam pointed at his own chest.

"I'll pass it on to Lena," Kara said, taking the design, and giving Cat a look. "Maybe you should get to your own job?" Adam was confused for a moment but then realized Kara wanted a word with his mother and nodded, leaving.

"So, we kind of got cut off last night," Kara stated, the moment Adam had left.

"Yes, a favor I believe is where we left off," Cat said, wondering what her daughter wanted.

Kara took a breath. "For reasons I would like to explain fully to Alex first, I can't continue to use the last name Danvers," Kara said, causing Cat to raise an eyebrow. "It would be inappropriate."

"I'm guessing it's something to do with the reason why you can't let go of the anger at Alex?" Cat asked and Kara nodded. "Okay, so the favor?" Cat had an idea she knew where this was going but had to let Kara say it.

'Well… I'm sure Clark wouldn't mind if I used Kent, but, well, I would…" Kara was unsure how to express this. "I would like to change it to Grant. If you're okay with that?"

"You can use my last name," Cat said simply, and Kara sighed relieved. "Although there is one thing I've been thinking." Kara raised an eyebrow. "Why don't we make this informal arrangement we have official?"

"What?" Kara asked, clearly confused.

Cat took out some paperwork. "I've been talking to lawyers for a while," Cat said, "and was wondering if you would want me to legally adopt you?"

"I'm not a child," Kara said, her confusion not going away as Cat talked.

"You can legally adopt an adult," Cat said. "This would make me your next of kin. Meaning if something happened to you, I would get notified. The DEO would have to notify me and I would get a say if something really bad happened to you. It would make me feel better knowing I had some legal auditory over you." Cat paused for a moment. "And if something were to happen to me it would be easier for you to take Carter."

"What about Adam?' Kara asked.

"Just because you'd legally be my daughter doesn't mean you can't date my son or even marry him some day," Cat said with a little laugh, kind of liking the idea of Kara marrying Adam. Of course, no matter who Kara ended up with, Kara would always be her daughter but if it was with Adam and they had kids, the kids would biologically be Cat's grandkids. Something she couldn't help but smile at. "This wouldn't change anything at all, besides some legal stuff and while we're doing the adoption it would be very easy to do a name change for you. Of course, Eliza Danvers would prove difficult to negotiate with…"

Kara looked at the paperwork Cat had handed her. Not that she really understood it, but nodded. "Okay," Kara said with a smile. It really wasn't a hard decision to legally become Cat's daughter after all. She already considered Cat her mother anyway.

"Good," Cat said. "I'll contact the lawyers and get on this right away. But you should get back to your job. This doesn't change anything here either. I'm still your boss." Kara laughed and turned around to leave the office, ignoring the repair works underway due to Siobhan's attack.

-Supergirl-

Later that day, Alex was sitting in her apartment when she heard a disturbance and turned around, gun in hand instantly pointing it at the intruder, who turned out to be Kara in her Supergirl outfit. "Hope you don't mind that I used the window?" Kara said, pointing at the window behind her now, the gun not fazing her at all

Alex lowered the gun, a little surprised and wondering what Kara was doing here. Was this what she had been waiting for for months? "Cat made me realize why I couldn't let go of my anger at you." Kara went straight to the fact, pacing the floor now, and avoiding looking at Alex. "I didn't realize I was doing this. Not really…"

"Doing what?" Alex asked.

"There's not a human word for it. The closet thing would be a 'blood feud'," Kara said, deciding to sit on the counter. "You remember when you told me Aunt Astra told J'onn she would kill him with honor?" Alex nodded. "She wasn't being mean or saying things for the sake of it... Honor is a big thing in Kryptonian culture. It goes back to the days of the house system formation... Before we became a democracy and survived to the day of destruction. Honor. The house you were a part of, all very big on Krypton."

"I don't understand?" Alex said shaking her head. "What does this have to do with us?"

"When you stabbed Aunt Astra in the back, you denied a warrior of the house of Ze the honorable death she deserved," Kara said. "I may be of the house of El, but my mom was the house of Ze before being married. It makes me the last surviving member of the house of Ze, and remaining head of both El and Ze. On Krypton, if I had kids, the first would actually be of the house of El and the second, the house of Ze, to keep both houses going."

"Okay… and us?" Alex said.

"When you took the honor away from Astra it enacted an old Kryptonian tradition. A blood feud between houses. On Krypton I would never be able to speak to you or any member of your house again"

"Mom…" Alex said, remembering that the anger at herself had gone over to Eliza for no reason. This, however, was reason. Kara nodded and Alex sighed. "J'onn was right." Alex remembered of before, when J'onn had told Alex that part of Kara's old culture was hard to let go of. "There was more behind this than just killing Astra and the lie, wasn't there?" Alex sighed, her heart dropping, and Kara stared at her. "So what now? I mean, for us?"

"Well, I'm changing my last name," Kara said, shocking Alex. "These feelings aren't just going to go away, and it would not be right for me to keep using your name. In fact…" Kara paused. "Cat is going to adopt me fully into her family. As for us…" Kara stood up and shook her head. "I don't know, Alex. Maybe if I never had Cat and Carter and found another family we could have gone back to what we were. Maybe I would have needed you so much these feelings would have gone away, but I have them now. I don't think we can ever go back to what we were. And I clearly have issues. But I'm going to say this… I understand what you did, I do. I know you were right, but I can't just dishonor my Aunt any more. She was family."

"But we are family… or we were," Alex said. She no longer felt emotional over this. She thought she knew some Kryptonian thing would be the reason behind Kara's attitude change, and while before she would have wept, would have begged for her sister to come back to her life, now she had already partially accepted it. She did feel bad for her mom though, who had no say in this whatsoever.

"Which makes this so complicated," Kara agreed on the family comment. "Aunt Astra raised me, basically. When my parents were always I was with her. She taught me the stars. She taught me about history and honor. Our traditions. It's ironic her death and those traditions is splitting us up."

"Then don't let it," Alex tried.

"I can't ignore this, Alex. If I did it will always be there. Now that I know though, I can work out these issues, but right now I need to live my own life. To talk to Clark, to hold my niece and teach her what Aunt Astra taught me. To have Cat and Carter. Even date Adam…" Alex opened her mouth. "Please don't. I know I'm technically dating my brother, sort of. It no weirder than Twilight though." Kara looked at Alex, surprised at her own joke. "Maybe with time these feelings will work themselves out and we can become really great friend, maybe possibly sisters again, but what we had is gone, Alex. The complete need for each other… having no one else. That's never coming back. I don't think it should."

"Why?" Alex asked.

"Because it held me back," Kara said simply. "It stopped me from becoming who I was for so long. And even when I became Supergirl, knowing I had you to back me up, that my big sister would not let anything happen to me, it held my skills back. I have gotten so much better at doing what I do, I don't need backup all the time. And I think it held you back too."

"What do you mean?" Alex didn't want to hear this, she wanted Kara to leave now. She was beginning to understand what Kara felt toward her. All these revelations were leaving her feeling disdainful to her former-sister already.

"Look around Alex. What's your life without me?" Kara indicated the empty apartment. "You dedicated your whole life to protecting me, you put everything on hold. You even choose a job you thought would benefit me. That's not right. It's not what being a sister is. Before we can be anything, you need to look at your life. I built a life outside of you, you need to build one outside of me. You need friends who are not my friends. Maybe find someone special. Date, do things. Live life."

Alex sighed as she took in Kara's words and knew she was right. She needed a life outside of Kara, especially now that Kara had her own life with The Grant family. "Okay," Alex sighed, nodding her agreement. "And what now? What about mom. You should at least tell Eliza; give her that dignity before you cut her from your life and change families."

Now it was Kara's turn to sigh. She knew Alex was right on that one. She knew it was better to face Eliza and tell her this than let Alex do it, especially as she was indeed, going to cut her former foster mother from her life, even only temporarily, to replace her fully with Cat. There was honor and respect in the Earth families as well as her Kryptonian ones, and she would do the Danvers no honor by not at least explaining herself to the matriarch of that family. She nodded to Alex. She would do it.

Kara turned to leave, just as an idea crossed her mind, she turned to Alex once more. "Oh, and please don't settle for Maxwell Lord. You can do better." Alex smirked as Kara jumped out the window and flew away.

THE END

Post Chapter Note: Well, that's it for this story. I hope you all liked. Next time you will see this world will be in something Millma Verse-related and I can say no more right now – but it's exciting, I'll let you know that!

If you have read my other stories or the note on Trapped, you know what the Millma Verse is. If you do not know what the Millma Verse is, then please go back and look at the note on Trapped. It's all explained. Sort of.

That's it. Please review.

Karry Master OUT!