Chapter 37
“Another family has gone missing,” Kara commented as she read through the Tribune. She had picked up a copy on her way to work and stopped at Winn’s desk to read it before making her way to her own. Cat was in a meeting so she focused on the words on the page rather than the occupants of the office. “Most signs point to them being aliens as well.”
“That’s what, the fifth family this week?” Winn questioned. He glanced around to make sure that nobody was listening and leaned towards his blonde friend, “Do you think Supergirl should investigate?”
“They’re missing persons’ cases Winn, there’s nothing that I can really do, but Maggie promised to keep me informed and will call me if it gets to the point where they need Supergirl’s skillset or a little extra muscle.”
“Do you think it’s a coincidence that they’re all alien families, or suspected to be aliens?”
“No,” Kara replied slowly, her head tilted, “And that’s what worries me…” She turned back to the front page where the headline dealt with the massive hack that took place at CatCo the previous day. “I really didn’t think that the Tribune would have put this on the front page, especially with the kidnappings taking place, and what with Ms. Grant…”
“It is news Kara, probably the biggest news in town, so it would be stupid of them to ignore it. Even the CatCo news channels are reporting it.”
“Who would want to publish Ms. Grant’s email though? What would they gain from it?”
Winn shrugged, “Probably to embarrass her? Or maybe find something that might force her out of CatCo, could be anything.”
Kara’s eyes narrowed as she thought about someone threatening her mother’s job, her empire, the very thing that she built from the ground up. A growl built in her throat, and a pleased smirk crossed her face as she thought about finding whoever it was and setting their head on fire. Cat’s office door clapped open and her mother and Lucy walked out with grim but determined expressions on their faces. “Hey,” Kara greeted as Cat walked away. “I’m assuming this means you got the job?”
“I did, and just at the right time too with this email hack going on,” Lucy responded before an odd look crossed her face. “Does your mom have a weird service kink?”
“I don’t want to know,” Kara said, holding up her hand.
“Lane!” Cat barked, “We have a meeting with the board members, I need my lead counsel in there with me.”
“Yes Ms. Grant.” Lucy looked at Kara again before she moved to follow the CEO. “I’ve been meaning to tell you, but I haven’t had the chance, I’m really sorry about what happened with your aunt, my father was out of line.”
Kara smiled sadly, “It’s okay, Luce, I know you didn’t have anything to do with it.” The woman walked off with Cat to the boardroom, and Kara returned to her desk, thinking about her aunt. After her talk with Astra didn’t lead to any clues about the DEO director’s whereabouts, General Lane took command of the woman and practically tortured her with liquid Kryptonite. She knew her aunt would not break under torture having endured much worse in the military guild, but finding out what that man did, ignoring basic fundamental rights, it was difficult to stop herself from burning his skin off one layer at a time.
Lucy was furious with her father for his actions, and reported him to his superiors for violations of civil liberties and war crimes. He was reprimanded, barely a slap on the wrist, and the woman was so incensed that she resigned her commission. She refused to work for an organization that ignored fundamental rights, whether the person was human or not. Cat soon snapped her up for the CatCo legal team, as well as her personal lawyer since her old lawyer, the one that helped facilitate her adoption, retired a few months previous. The DEO eventually managed to recover their director, but had to give up her aunt as their prisoner. Kara hasn’t heard from the woman since, and that worried the blonde more and more each passing day.
“I wonder what they’re talking about?” Kara muttered, absently biting her lip as she glanced towards where the boardroom was.
“Um, you have super powers,” Winn whispered before returning to his own work.
The blonde rolled her eyes at Winn’s words and returned to her computer to start rescheduling the rest of Cat’s day. She knew that her mother would kill her if she found out she listened in on a board meeting, or any kind of confidential meeting. Kara knew that Cat trusted her, but privacy had to be maintained for these meetings at all times, doesn’t mean she couldn’t listen when the meeting was over though. Her cell phone vibrated on her desk and Kara searched around under the papers for the buzzing device. “Mags?” She asked when she finally answered the phone.
“Hey Little Bat,” the detective whispered. “Look, I really shouldn’t be doing this again, but have you heard anything about all of those missing person cases?”
“The families? Yeah, the Tribune ran a story on them.”
“Right, well it’s more than families, individuals too, and we’ve managed to confirm they are all connected. They’re all aliens.”
Kara sucked in a breath, “I thought they were, the author of the article did as well but didn’t come out at state it since there wasn’t any proof. Despite alien amnesty, many just want to live anonymously and blend in. Do you know who’s taking them?”
“That is why I’m calling, I talked to some of my pals on the street, organization called Cadmus, you heard of them?”
Her heart stopped, “I-ye- Maggie, if this is Cadmus, it’s bad.”
“You know who they are?”
“Anti-alien terrorist group, Lena’s family was involved with them somehow, some slightly illegal sub-section of the government.”
“Shit, Luthors are involved with this too? Just gets better and better, I’ll have to talk with Little Luthor about this.”
“I can do it if you want Mags?”
“No, no, Little Bat, I’ve got this, has to be official, but might be a good idea to have a certain someone around for backup in case something happens. I’m just grateful that you’re a lot more levelheaded than your cousin.”
“You can thank my mom for that next time you see her,” Kara replied. “I’ve got to go though, keep me informed?”
“Like I’d be able to keep Little Luthor from telling you everything anyway.”
When Kara ended the call, Cat and Lucy were walking out of the boardroom with several board members walking with them. “They want me out,” Cat said when she and Lucy walked into the office space. “Walking male privilege Dirk Armstrong was especially vocal about it.”
“They can’t force you out, not yet, but they can try to force you to resign if something embarrassing is published by the hackers,” Lucy pointed out.
“They’ve released my real age, how often I see my therapist, and my exorbitant grocery bill, just tacky so far.”
Kara winced a bit, knowing that she was partly responsible for the large amount of food passing through her mother’s penthouse, though her preteen brother was starting to consume more and more food. “We need to go through your emails and records, see if there’s anything that this hacker can use against you that would be damaging,” Lucy said.
The blonde wasn’t listening as Lucy and Cat debated about the validity of calling the hack a ‘scandal.’ She instead focused on the three board members that gave Cat smug looks with her back turned, and listened in on their conversation. “We’ve set the stage,” Dirk said, a slimy look on his face. “She'll be out by the end of the week.” She narrowed her eyes, and briefly considered using her heat vision on that walking sack of garbage.
Lucy’s voice broke her out her homicidal thoughts and back to the topic at hand. “Kara, Kara!”
“What?” Kara asked, “Oh, um, right, we need to go through Ms. Grant’s emails, look for anything scandalous.” Her phone buzzed again and she glanced down to see a text from Lena flashing across her screen.
My office, now!
“I’ll get you all the records and files,” Cat said as she walked to her office. “I’ll leave you to it.”
Another text flashed across her screen. Hurry!
“I'm sorry Luce, I really need to go, something’s come up,” Kara apologized.
“It's fine, I can always get Jimmy and Winn here to help me out,” Lucy grinned. “We'll get this sorted out.”
“Focus on Dirk Armstrong,” the blonde said, “I heard him in the elevator just now, he's behind the hack somehow I know it.”
Lucy furrowed her brow, “Armstrong? That makes sense, he was the most vocal about Cat resigning. I’ll look into it, you go deal with whatever it is you need to sort out.”
“Thanks Lucy, just… just make sure to take care of her,” Kara said, glancing in her mother’s office. “You have no idea how close I came to just melting Armstrong’s stupid face off of his stupid head.”
“Your restraint is remarkable,” Lucy smirked. “Go, we’ll take care of it. We’ll find the evidence we need to trap him, and make sure there isn’t anything to find in Cat’s data.”
Kara squeezed her hand before heading down out of CatCo and over to LCorp. She picked up some coffee at Noonan’s, and headed up the LCorp office building. Jess waved her into Lena’s office and she dropped her coffee off before walking into the room. She found Lena lying on her couch, an arm tossed over her eyes and a glass of scotch clutched in her other hand.
“Lena,” Kara started, dropping the coffee off on the table. “It's not even 11 yet.” She pried the glass out of her best friend’s hand and sat her up, shoving the coffee in her suddenly empty hand. “Drink this, what happened?”
The brunette glared a bit at her friend, and downed some of the hot liquid. “My mother was here,” she bit out, her eyes distant. “I didn't even know she was in town.”
Kara winced, “What did she want?”
Lena sighed and sat up, “She was spewing some nonsense about wanting to catch up, be a family, protect the Luthor legacy, blah blah blah, like she didn’t ignore me all of my childhood and these last few years after Lex’s trial.” She snorted, “Lex was always her favorite, and she strolls in here like we can pick up with a happy family routine like I didn’t know that she always viewed me as less than Lex.”
“Why didn’t you call me when she showed up?” Kara asked, “Why wait until she had left?”
“She’s only briefly run into you in the past, any more encounters and she’s going to know who you are,” Lena explained. “And besides, she just surprised me, and was only here a short while. I was more shocked than anything, didn’t know how to respond to her being here. She left a while ago, but I needed some time to collect my thoughts.”
“So you poured yourself a drink?”
“That was my second drink really,” Lena muttered.
Kara rolled her eyes before something in Lena’s previous statement caught her attention. “Wait, why do you think she would figure out who I am?”
Lena smiled wryly, “Kara, darling, you can’t keep a secret, you try, but people can tell there’s something otherworldly about you.”
The blonde scoffed, “I’m not that obvious Lena.”
“I figured out you were an alien a few weeks after I knew you.”
“I was floating during a sleepover, I feel like that was a dead giveaway.”
“Or you were the crazy chick from the exorcist,” Lena shrugged, “Entirely possible.”
“Your affection is overwhelming sometimes.”
A knock came at the door and Jess poked her head in, “Ms. Luthor, a NCPD detective is here to ask you some questions, should I tell her you’re in a meeting?”
“It’s Maggie,” Kara announced. “She called me earlier and said she was going to have to talk to you about something. It makes sense now that you’ve told me that your mother is in town.”
“Send her in Jess, it’s okay, but try to cancel my meetings for the rest of the day, I probably won’t feel up to… any of them.”
“Yakimoto-san is not going to be happy about this,” Jess sighed, “Flew all the way from Tokyo for this meeting.”
“Extend his stay another day and book him a table at one of the best sushi places in National City,” Lena dismissed, waving her hand.
Jess nodded and disappeared out the door. “You do know that the best sushi in town is that little hole in the wall place with the chef that is missing 1 and a half fingers right?” Kara asked.
“Second best place then, have to keep that little gem to ourselves,” Lena snickered.
Maggie walked in a few seconds later to find the two women giggling on the couch. “I should have known you were going to head over here Little Bat,” the detective commented, rolling her eyes.
“I didn’t know when you were coming, and besides, Lena called me over,” Kara defended, sitting upright on the couch.
“Before we get too far in the blame game, what do you want detective?” Lena questioned, moving over to her desk. She waved Maggie to sit in the seat across from her and Kara decided to remain on the couch as an outside observer.
“What do you know about the group Cadmus?”
Lena narrowed her eyes, and glanced over at Kara before turning her attention to the detective. “Anti-alien terrorist group hell bent on returning Earth to those that ‘belong’ here. Why?”
“Reports have been flooding in about massive amounts of aliens being kidnapped all over the city and in surrounding regions, my sources indicate that Cadmus is involved and I was wondering if you had any knowledge about this situation?”
“That’s why my mother is in town,” the CEO murmured, “She must have something to do with the missing aliens.”
“Your mother?”
Lena leaned back in her seat and crossed her legs, “Cadmus is apparently my mother’s little project, started years ago when Lex was still out carrying a grudge against Superman. While Lex was focused on one alien, my mother focused on the bigger picture of all aliens and used Luthor Corp then Lex Corp resources to fuel her agenda.” She let out a loud sigh and folded her arms in front of her, “I’ve tried to root out all of the problems in the company, but they’re buried in deep.”
“Do you know for sure that your mother is involved?” Maggie questioned, furiously scribbling in her note pad.
“If I could prove it, I would’ve handed the information over to you as soon as you asked about Cadmus. All I can do is recognize her handy work and digital fingerprints.”
The detective growled and rubbed at her forehead, “Of course there’s no proof, that would be too easy… Do you have any idea what they plan to do with the aliens?”
“Nothing good,” Lena replied. She glanced over to Kara before she continued, “Might need some reinforcements for this particular missing persons’ case detective.”
“Need a little ‘super’ assistance hmm?” Maggie murmured, winking back at Kara.
“I’ll help however you need,” Kara said, moving to the other chair next to Maggie. “But what about the DEO? Don’t they keep track of these things?”
Maggie shrugged, “I don’t know, Alex has been a little MIA recently, but I’ve heard that they been dealing with some internal trouble, so shouldn’t count on them too much for this.”
Kara’s phone sounded in her pocket, a familiar tone that had dread rolling down her spine. “Oh no,” she muttered, pulling it out to confirm the message. She glanced up to see Maggie and Lena looking at her curiously, and she rolled her eyes. “I set an alert for whenever Katherine Grant decides to make a trip to National City. She’s either coming because Christmas is soon, or she caught whiff of the latest scandal and she’s coming to lord it over Cat.”
“The emails? I saw that yesterday,” Lena replied. “She has some interesting names for Lois Lane doesn’t she?”
“And with that, I’m going to go, I hope you’ll both keep me apprised if you learn anything.” It was phrased like a question, but the younger women knew that it was a statement as Maggie walked out of the room to get back to tracking down the missing aliens.
“So what’s Ms. Grant going to do about the email situation?” The brunette asked once Maggie left the room.
“Oh,” Kara sat up, “That reminds me, Mom hired Lucy as her lead council, so she’s dealing with the issue. Some of the board members orchestrated this, so she’s on the warpath looking for proof, and you know what she’s like.”
“A damn bulldog, I know, I know,” Lena smiled ruefully, “I should’ve hired her for L-Corp, but of course, Cat Grant is on top of these things.” The blonde’s phone beeped again and Kara hissed, shoving it in her purse before scratching at her scalp, “Argh, there’s just, there’s just so much going on! The hack on CatCo, Cadmus snatching aliens for Rao knows what reason, Katherine showing up, Christmas coming and I haven’t even really started to decorate, my aunt being evil planning to take over the world…”
“Not to mention the wife you have that still doesn’t know that she’s your wife,” Lena commented, glancing through the papers on her desk as she sipped her coffee. She sensed the glare Kara sent her way and just looked up to give her friend an unimpressed look. “What? I’m getting tired of this Kara. I’m your friend, your best friend, and I always will be, but you really need to talk to Alex, and soon. If this goes on any longer without you saying anything, you’re both going to end up hurt.”
“I know, I know,” Kara growled, “But I don’t… I’m scared Lena, what if she hates me for this? For not telling her, for being an alien…”
“She might,” Lena answered, “And I probably would hate you too, so it’s entirely justified, but it’s at least better than not knowing, this holding pattern you’ve been in for months since you both reconnected.” She moved around her desk and sat next to her friend, “I know you don’t want to hear this, but you might be able to move on after this if it does go south.”
“I can’t Lena…”
“I know, I know, against your culture, but maybe you could think about it just in case?”
Kara sniffed, willing the tears to stay away, and nodded. “I will Lee, I promise,” she said, taking a deep, shuddering breath. “How are you dealing with everything? All of this with your mother and Cadmus?”
“I should’ve known that she was up to something,” Lena sighed, shaking her head. “No, I did know, but I didn’t think it would be kidnapping aliens…” Her voice trailed off as she looked out the window, “I hope she’s not hurting them…”
The blonde was about to reply when her phone vibrated in her bag. Pulling it out, she noticed a text from Lucy across her screen. ‘We found something,’ the first text read and Kara clicked to reply when another one flashed across the screen, ‘Come back now.’
She rolled her eyes at Lucy’s demanding tone and looked up at Lena, “It’s Lucy, they found something about the hack, I have to go and deal with this.”
“Go, go,” Lena waved her out, “I’m going to see if I can track down leads on Cadmus or where they might be stashing the aliens.”
“Thanks Lena, I’ll talk to you later,” Kara replied before heading out the door. Waving goodbye at Jess, she hit the button for the elevator and waited for it to open.
As soon as she entered and hit the button for the lobby floor, her phone buzzed again with another text from Lucy. ‘Is your mother keeping a lover in Opal City???’
Kara slowly slumped into her apartment hours later and let out a long sigh. It had been a long day dealing with the hack and blackmail attempt on Cat, and subtly trying to locate the missing aliens. James and Winn broke into Armstrong’s office to look for clues on his computer, while she kept watch and Lucy grilled her about Cat’s ‘lover’ in Opal City. It was altogether ridiculous and Kara contemplated slamming her head against the wall repeatedly to escape the brunette’s interrogation, but she didn’t feel like getting the drywall and plaster out to fix the hole that would form.
She lightly pushed herself off the door and floated to the kitchen and pulled out several large containers of Chinese take-out that she had leftover from the previous night. Kara shot out controlled blasts of heat vision into her food and soon she had boxes of piping hot Chinese food, smelling fresh from the restaurant. “Don’t even try it Krypto,” she warned her dog when she sense him float off the ground towards the box sitting on the counter. The dog let out a long whine, before settling back down and looking petulantly at his own empty food bowl. He immediately perked up when Kara dumped a can of wet dog food in his bowl along with a large pile of dry food.
The blonde left him to his food and grabbed her own food, floating over to the table to look out as night fell over National City. “Lucy thought that Mom had a lover stashed away in Opal City,” Kara said between mouthfuls of food. “James and Winn thought so too, but I managed to get dissuade them from that line of thinking.” She demolished the rest of one container before moving on to another, “I can’t believe that she didn’t tell me that she was sending money to him.” Glancing away from her food, she found Krypto sitting near her, his attention shifting from her to the box of food in her hand. “You think it would come up sometime, or that she would mention that she was sending money to Adam. I’ve found letters she’s addressed to him and never sent, but I thought she left it off there, especially after everything that went down years ago…”
Kara had never met Cat’s oldest son, but she’s heard about him from both Carter and Cat, and overheard the few times that her mother has managed to speak with him. He wasn’t happy when he found out that Cat had adopted someone his age, a girl, and accused Cat of trying to replace him or seek some sort of redemption. It was a cruel and biting conversation that left Cat in tears, and Kara furious at a boy she never met. Now he had grown into a man, and while she didn’t think he has changed much in personality, Kara knew that Cat wanted to reconnect with him, needed to see him again.
Her phone rang from the counter where she left it and Kara quickly finished off her food, knowing better than to leave it where Krypto could see it, before answering her phone. “Lee?” She mumbled around the food in her mouth, swallowing part of it to ease the load.
“Kara,” Lena whispered out, “I think I found where Cadmus is keeping the aliens.”
“Wha?” The blonde quickly swallowed her food and focused on the conversation. “Are you sure?”
“Yeah, I looked through LCorp’s holdings, and found a defunct warehouse from when my brother was in charge. It’s supposed to be closed down, but it is sucking up lots of power and has seen a lot of activity recently.” Kara heard shuffling on the other side of the phone and her ears registered Lena’s elevated heartbeat.
“Lena?” She asked, “Lena?” Spinning into her suit, Kara took out off the balcony, not realizing that her dog had sensed one of his favorite people was in distress and shifted into his Great Pyrenees form to fly out after her.
Supergirl reached the LCorp office tower just as Lena was chased off her balcony and was plummeting towards the ground. Diving down towards her friend, Kara carefully caught her just in time to look up and spot her dog dashing into the office to chase after the men who tossed her over. “Was that Krypto?” Lena asked, her arms wrapped around Kara’s neck as they both looked up at the office in bewilderment.
“Unless you know any other flying dog in National City,” Kara hummed, slowly floating up to the balcony. They found the dog in question sitting triumphantly on top of two, unconscious men, his tongue lolling out happily as he panted. The blonde set her friend down and scratched Krypto behind the ears, “Good boy Krypto, good boy.” She stood upright and the now white dog moved obediently to stand next to her.
“Well I guess that makes you Superdog,” Lena murmured, bending down to scratch his head. “Thank you Superdog.” Krypto wagged his tail happily, mindful not to slap it against the floor in case he caused a crack in the balcony.
“You mentioned you found where Cadmus is keeping the aliens?” Kara asked once Lena was vertical again.
“Yes, let me get the address,” she hustled back into her office and pulled up a map. “The building is a large warehouse on the outskirts of the city, you can’t miss it. Though I have something for Krypto too.” She opened her bottom drawer and fished out a blue dog collar with the crest of El on it and a large red cape. “I’m a good dog aunt,” she defended, snapping the collar to Krypto’s neck. “There, now Superdog’s hero identity is complete, and it’s good because you definitely need backup dealing with some of the villains you have to battle.”
Kara glanced at the map where the warehouse was located and glanced down to see her furry friend ruffling his new cape with his nose. “Alright Superdog, let’s go get the bad guys.” The two took off and Kara quickly pulled out her phone to send a text to Maggie only to find that the detective was already there with Alex. Her heart nearly stopped as she tried to focus her hearing in on the two women, but was receiving major inference from the lead in the warehouse walls. “Holy shit,” Kara breathed as she saw a large spaceship start to lift up out of the warehouse. “We’re in trouble Superdog…”
Alex stared in shock as her father triggered the launch sequence for the spaceship behind her, the spaceship that held all of the missing aliens. Cadmus had decided on a non-aggressive stance to rid the world of aliens by simply sending them to the other side of the universe. It was surprising for such a radical terrorist group, but Alex had found out that her father was the one behind the idea. Her father who was supposed to be dead, her father who was the greatest and kindest man in the universe, her father who worked for a terrorist organization set to rid the world of aliens.
When J’onn found her at her lowest point, locked in a jail cell to sober up during her failed medical degree, she was told this fantastical story about how her father sacrificed his life to save J’onn’s, to protect him from the then fanatical head of the DEO Hank Henshaw. In honor of her father, J’onn took Henshaw’s place to make the DEO a better place. Alex has spent the last few years believing that her father died a hero, joined the DEO to carry on what he was doing, but it was a lie, her father isn’t dead, and he’s not a hero. She took her new gun out of her holster, something she picked up from one of the alien prisoners, and fired at the Cadmus goons around her.
As soon as she fired, all hell broke out around them as a series of explosions she had rigged with Maggie’s help started to go off. The spaceship continued rising through the air as the engines powered up, and Alex knew there wasn’t anything she could do for them on the ground. Her entire focus was on the three people in charge of this problem, Lillian Luthor, Hank Henshaw aka Cyborg Superman, and Jeremiah Danvers. Henshaw fired back at her with some kind of blast as he shielded his and Lillian’s escape, while her focus remained on her fleeing father. She fired her gun again, hitting the ground in front of him, causing Jeremiah to stop in his tracks.
“I want to know why?” Alex asked, her gun trained on her father as he slowly turned around to look at her.
“I did this for you Alex,” Jeremiah pled, “If I didn’t help them, they were going to hurt you and your mother. I had to do something, and I realized that I was wrong, giving Superman more attention than you growing up. I wanted to make amends.”
Alex scoffed, “By sending aliens away?! What is with you Dad, you didn’t used to be so narrow-minded. Cadmus has obviously done something to you, something horrible, just let us help you.”
Jeremiah shook his head, “I’m sorry Alex, this is for the greater good.” He pulled out a small item and was about to throw it at her when a loud, piercing bark filled the air, causing both of them to drop to the floor clutching their ears.
The loud bark was followed by a series of quieter ones but still commanding, and Alex was confused, did one of the aliens bark? When her ears quit ringings, the agent looked up and was met by the absurd sight of a Great Pyrenees wearing a red cape sitting on her father, his tail wagging as he kept the man from standing up. “What…” Alex started, wondering if she hit her head on the way down.
“So it seem you’ve met Superdog,” Maggie came up behind her and helped her up.
“Super… dog?” Alex questioned, blinking her eyes trying to focus.
“Yup, Supergirl brought him as backup, and he dealt with the goons while she managed to get the spaceship stopped,” the detective said, pointing back to where the massive frigate was settled back down on the ground. Supergirl was helping several of the aliens off the ship and Alex recognized a few officers and DEO agents talking with them.
She turned back around and saw Superdog still sitting on her father, but he was looking at her with a pleading expression on his face. “Um, good boy?” The dog’s face lit up with a wide smile and his tail wagged faster, butting into the man beneath him.
“He was a very good boy,” Supergirl said, walking over to them. Superdog immediately stepped off of Jeremiah and stood next to the blonde heroine, who knelt down to rub the dog’s head as he licked all over her face. Alex didn’t know what to do with the sight in front of her, though she did try to ignore the way her heart melted at the superheroine’s laugh, and turned back to face her father. She slapped a pair of cuffs around his wrists and had a few of the other agents escort him to one of the vans to take back to the DEO.
“If you have everything under-control then here Detective Sawyer, Agent Danvers,” Supergirl’s voice, Kara’s voice, came again, and Alex resisted the urge to immediately turn and look into those familiar, enchanting blue eyes. She still didn’t know what to make of the woman she lik- the woman she had a crus- her friend, being the girl of steel, an alien.
“We’re good,” Maggie said, noticing the tension in Alex’s back. “Thank you for the assist Supergirl, and Superdog.”
Kara glanced briefly at Alex before nodding at the detective and taking off with Krypto trailing not too far behind her. Maggie waited a few moments until she was sure the hero was out of hearing range before turning to her ex-girlfriend and best friend. “You want to tell me what that was about Danvers?”
Alex looked at her friend for a moment before glancing away, “I have to get back to the DEO, I have to interrogate Jeremiah, see if he knows where Lillian and Henshaw have gone.” She stalked off before Maggie could get another word in, and located her bike, quickly speeding back to the central DEO headquarters.
By the time she reached the building and parked in the underground parking garage, her anger had reached new heights. J’onn stopped her as she made her way through the building towards the holding cells where she instructed the agents to place her father. “Don’t do anything rash Alex,” the martian cautioned her, looking at her with a worried gaze.
“Don’t do this J’onn,” Alex pleaded, “I need this.”
J’onn studied her for a moment and released her, letting her continue on her path to the back room. “Alex…” Jeremiah started again when he saw his daughter walk into the room.
“Don’t,” she replied coldly, a glare on her face.
“Alex please…”
“Don’t talk to me, you aren’t the man I knew, you aren’t the man that raised me, you aren’t my father.”
“I’m still your father Alex.”
“No!” The woman yelled furiously, pacing slightly to keep from lashing out at the barrier separating them. “No, you’re not my father, my father… my father wouldn’t condone any of this…”
Jeremiah sighed and sat back down, raking his hand through his hair. “I really did help them to protect you and your mother,” he said finally. “I didn’t convert to their line of thinking, yes some aliens are dangerous, and I felt terrible for letting you grow up in the shadow of Superman, but my main concern was making sure that you and your mother were safe and happy.” A small, sad smile crossed his face, “They would bring me pictures of both of you, give me updates on what you were doing, where you were. It was to let me know that they could always find you and kill you if I went rogue, but I soon grew to appreciate them since it was the only way I could see you both.”
His eyes were filled with tears as he spoke, staring lost at his daughter’s shoes, and Alex fought to keep her own tears at bay as she stared at her father, seeing the broken expression on his face. “I missed so much,” he murmured, finally looking back up at her. “I missed you graduating high school, college… I missed helping you with your PhDs, walking you down the aisle… That might have been the hardest, when I saw that marriage license…”
The tears immediately cleared as her father’s words registered in her mind and confusion filled her. “What marriage license?”