Justice League Femme

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Supergirl

"So Brainiac helped destroy Krypton, didn't he?" Mon-El asked. His eyes were wide with a sad air to them.

"As well as any other planets nearby from the debris."

His eyes widened slightly. A frown appeaed on his face. "The debris of Brainiac's mess..."

I nodded. "It destroyed the Daxamites' home planet, Daxam, too." I looked over at Mon-El, who also had tears in his eyes.

He flew over and hugged me tightly. I felt my face grow hot. My eyes widened at this as my heart skipped a beat. "I know," I replied, "it hurts me, too."

After a few moments, I heard a small chuckle. I furrowed my eyebrows as he pulled away.

"I heard that skip," Mon-El said.

"What?"

"Your heart skipped a beat."

I felt myself blush harder. "It did?"

Mon-El chuckled again.

I felt my face get even warmer.

"I'm not gonna judge you, Kara," he reassured me, "if it makes you feel any better, my heart was probably gonna skip, too, once you hugged me back. You just beat me to it."

I smiled back at him. Suddenly, I could hear another heartbeat. My eyes widened at that.

Mon-El furrowed his eyebrows. "Everything okay, Kara?"

"Lee," I said, "I...I heard their heartbeat. I need to make sure they're okay." With that, I started flying back toward Earth.

Mon-El followed me. "Who's Lee?"

"One of my closest friends."

"Is he super-powered like you or me?"

"They're actually non-binary," I answered, "but no, I just go to school with them."

"School?"

"I'm a junior in high school," I anwered, "we both are."

He chuckled. "I'm so used to seeing you as Supergirl. I wonder what civilian Kara is like. Almost forgot you had a secret identity."

I chuckled. "Kara Danvers."

"Kara Danvers," he repeated softly.

"You're gonna need a secret identity soon, too."

Back on Earth, Lee's heartbeat only sounded louder. I listened closely to this before flying west. It was only a few moments before I got to the rooftop of City Hall in National City. A frown formed on my face at the sight. No one was there.

Mon-El flew in behind me. "Why did we fly here?"

"Lee and I usually meet up here," I said, "well, usually when I'm Supergirl."

"What about as Kara?"

"Only at school," I replied, "they don't know my secret identity."

"Why not?" he asked, "you clearly trust them a lot."

I sighed. "Supergirl helped them be able to give them hope when no one else in their life did."

"Because they're non-binary?"

I nodded. "What happened was, a year ago, my reputation was under fire."

Mon-El furrowed his eyebrows. "So, you used them?"

"What?" I replied, "no." I shook my head. "No, what happened was during that time, there was an attack from these weird cyborg robot thingys downtown."