"You are late!" The older woman said agitated as she held the door open.
" We are busy women. " (Y/n) shrugged carelessly.
Lena and (Y/n) walked into the room and sat on the sofa the other woman had indicated to.
"Still not friendly I see (Y/n) I am your mother."
" Yeah, you were very friendly the day you left. "
"I explained that."
" Still not an excuse to abandon your child. "
"I see you are nowhere near forgiveness."
" Just tell us what we came here to know, who was your cousin? "
"I told you this his name is Kal-El."
(Y/n) frowned feeling the frustration building. "You said that last time, what does he do where does he live etc?"
Kharys turned away from the two younger women, their eyes followed her as she moved to the window.
"(Y/n) you already know him."
Lena turned to her friend. "Do you?"
" No, I don't think so. " She shrugged.
Kharys turned back to them a battle going on in the depths of her.
"Yes you do (Y/n) the world knows him as Superman."
Two sets of eyes widened and loud gasps filled the room, Lena turned to her stunned. "Superman is your cousin!"
" No that can't be true. "
"It is (Y/n) I know who my own family is."
" If I am to believe this farcical story, this Kal-El is my cousin and he is Superman, the Superman, the guy who works with my Dad? "
"Yes."
"(Y/n) he is Supergirl's cousin too." Lena said grabbing her arm.
Kharys smiled at the gesture. " You are very right, Supergirl is also your cousin. "
My life is so screwed up right now.
"So the really annoying flying girl in a cape is my cousin?"
" Yes. "
"She isn't annoying (Y/n)." Lena defended.
(Y/n) rolled her eyes, of course, Lena wouldn't think she was annoying.
"You are a daughter of the house of El (Y/n), be proud it is an honorable position."
The chef frowned, she didn't care about houses or superheroes, she didn't want pride in a position she never asked for, she wanted her life to be normal again.
"How are we related to the Super cousins?"
Kharys smiled. " Well our father's were all brothers, Jor-El, Zor-El and my father, your grandfather Nim-El, he was the younger twin of Jor-El, they were all brilliant men, exceptional scientists. "
Nim-El what a dumb name sounds like a vibrator name. (Y/n) tried to smother the laugh that was threatening to burst out.
"I hated science in school." (Y/n) grimaced at the memory, Lena nodded.
"She did, she used to skip science classes all of the time."
(Y/n) smiled proudly. "I didn't need science when I was trying to get Matt Bliss, that was his actual name and oh my God was he bliss."
"He was a massive moron." Lena rolled her eyes.
"He had the bluest eyes I've ever seen, even a clear sky on a summers day couldn't compare to those eyes of his, and the most stunning long lashes."
Lena rolled her eyes again. "She was just jealous of his long lashes, she hoped he would give her some tips."
"I did ask a few times." (Y/n) shrugged.
Kharys watched the two women interact, it was strange she had imagined how her daughter would be many times but this had never been it, why was she with this human when she had so much chemistry with this Kryptonian? Although to be fair they'd only just discovered they were only half human.
"Back to my father, he was a great man, he and my uncles were highly respected but when Jor-El began telling the news about the end of Krypton no one believed him, my father, however, trusted his brother's findings, he did a very brave thing."
Kharys took a deep breath gazing away from the two pairs of eyes that stared at her.
"He arranged a pod, but there was only room for three, he gave his place up for my friend, Aethyr, her family had been gone long before and my parent's sort of adopted her I guess you could call it, he died when Krypton imploded."
"Do you ever regret Aethyr taking his place?" Lena whispered she was finding it hard to believe both sides of her gene pool were bad.
"No, I never regret Aethyr surviving with us, I miss my father like you wouldn't believe but it was his decision and Aethyr was like a sister to me, I could never regret him giving her life."
"I was lucky to have my mother some of my family left alone, with no one."
The woman turned back to face them, taking the short trip to reseat herself on the chair opposite her daughter and the daughter of the best friend.
"When you were little you used to ask me about my family all the time, do you remember?"
"No."
"No, I don't suppose they were very important to you in the long run, you had your father, cousins, grandparents, uncles, and aunts why would you care about some spare maternal relations."
"Hey, you can't blame me for not caring about people I had no idea ever existed!" (Y/n) jumped to her feet anger again taking hold of her, for a small second she had left herself think of her mother as normal, she should feel some pity for her, then she started her guilt trip.
"You are the one who should be ashamed, you left your daughter without even a word, you should feel guilt here but I guess you are an alien and have no remorse or self-hate, come on Lena let's get the hell out of here."
"But what about the necklaces?" Lena stammered.
"The necklaces hold back the powers you possess, when you were a child (Y/n) I don't know whether you remember but you were very sick, it was your powers your small body couldn't cope with them so I gave you that to stop the side effects and free you from the powers."
"Mine did the same," Lena said in wonderment.
"Of course, just because a mother leaves her child it doesn't mean she doesn't love her child." her voice cracked with emotion as she looked up at her daughter.
"When my necklace broke, or I should say when Kara broke it all that weird stuff was my powers?"
"What weird stuff?"
Lena took that moment to jump in. "The door handle incident, the car door breaking off, noise complaints, that really unfortunate incident with the broken bed when she and Alex got a little frisky."
"Yes thank you, Lena! Yes, all that stuff." (Y/n) blushed slightly.
"Yes, your powers, who is Kara?"
"Alex's sister."
"Hmm." The older woman said strangely.
"What is hmm?"
"You live in National City where Supergirl works her magic, my cousin was called Kara, Kara Zor-El."
"It's not her she is too young." Lena shrugged. "Also Kara Danvers as a superhero, just the thought is funny."
"True I've never seen anyone as clumsy as her."
"Oh."
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"Chef do you need anymore Salmon?" A shout called out from a voice so disguised by the noise and chaos of the kitchen that she didn't know who asked it.
"No, I think we are okay for Salmon right now thank you."
"Okay chef."
It had been a few hours since she and Lena had left Kharys, the necklace around her neck seemed to weigh heavy around her neck.
Just because a mother leaves her child it doesn't mean she doesn't love her child. weigh heavy on her.
She shook aside the thought, she had so much to take in Superman was her cousin, freaking Supergirl too how was any of this possible.
"Err chef that is the sugar, you need to season the salmon with salt."
"Damn it!"
She was too distracted, she knew it, all she could think about was this, how did you deal with this information Lena had been proactive and gone and done her research, looked up newspaper reports, online she'd looked everywhere she could for information.
(Y/n) had just buried her head in the sand and hoped it had never happened.
"Take over here Sammy my head isn't in the game tonight."
"Yes, chef."
The young chef eagerly took over from (Y/n) whose hands were slightly shaking, as she walked distracted to her office collapsing into her chair with such a relief she felt her body mold to the chair.
Her cell phone began to ring, she picked it up and glanced at the screen smiling when she saw who it was.
"Hey, you."
"I miss you."
"I wish you were here with me now." You have no idea how much.
"I could be there with you now." Alex's voice sounded suddenly mischievous.
(Y/n) narrowed her eyes suspiciously. "What are you up to?"
"Oh nothing, come to the door."
"The door." (Y/n) got up far too excited to see if what she thought was happening was actually happening.
She opened the door slowly poking her head around to see, nothing.
"Oh."
"You sound disappointed. "
"I thought you would be there."
"And me not being there has disappointed you?"
"Yes."
"Come out of your office and look to your left."
(Y/n) opened the door and did as Alex had told her, anxiously waiting until her gaze finally met a lone figure, barely visible in the slightly darkened hallway but she'd know her anywhere.
"Alex." She couldn't explain why she felt tears running down her face, she'd missed her, but an even greater thought came to mind, the thought that she could lose her, and that was just something else and it terrified her.
There was something about Alex, she'd never felt this way about anyone in her life, whether they were guys or girls, no one had ever had the impact Alex had made.
"You can hang up now." Alex smiled having closed the gap between them, running a finger along her cheek to clear away the stray tear. "You missed me that much huh?"
"Yes, I always miss you that much."
"Come on I'm taking you home."
"But I.."
"Nope, home now with me." Alex pulled her closer and planted a quick yet heated kiss on her lips.
"Okay, you've convinced me."
Alex laughed. "You are so easy."
"Only for you."
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Morning sunlight shone through the window, Alex had left half an hour ago, (Y/n) felt the emptiness of the apartment around yet, yet somehow it was comforting because she could feel her everywhere.
She held the blue necklace in her hands caressing it between her hands as she pondered whether to wear it or not, some part of her told her to leave it off, be natural and true to herself, but she battled that side, battled with it hard.
She took a deep breath and fighting every human instinct she had she placed it on her side table, and left, today she was necklace free and so where these so-called powers she possessed.
Lena was at the door when she opened it, startling her for a moment.
"Jeez Lena knock maybe, you scared me just standing there."
"Sorry."
"What is wrong?"
"Last night I was in my office doing some online research and Supergirl came, I really was so engrossed in my research I didn't hear her and she..."
"She saw what you were doing." (Y/n) sighed.
"Yes, I tried to give an excuse but I don't think she bought it and then I said something, something stupid."
"What did you say?"
"I asked her if she had any family, and she had this really intense look, she looked so sad (Y/n) that I just couldn't help myself."
(Y/n) frowned deeper her eyebrows hung so low over her eyes she could barely see anything except the lines of the hair of her eyebrows.
"I didn't tell her about you don't worry, but I did ask what she would do if she knew she had a cousin she didn't know about."
"Lena, you are seriously crazy what the hell are you doing?"
"She just looked so sad I wanted to hold her."
"You need to get this crush sorted out Lee I swear before you let it all slip."
"But surely if we can tell anyone it is her, I mean she is one of the good guys."
"No, we can't."
"(Y/n) you only had your Dad, but now there is someone else out there, and you've freaking met them for goodness sake how messed up is that?"
"Enough, Lena we do not tell anyone okay, no one else can know before Alex."
"Supergirl could help."
"No Lena, Alex can't be the last to know, she would be so hurt, damn it I know she will be hurt I told you before her, but I have to risk that, I can't take any more risks with her Lena."
"Tell her then."
"How do I start that conversation, Lena? Have you tried to go through that talk because I have, and it never ends well."
"You'll have to do it soon (Y/n) because these things have a bad habit of coming out whether we want them to or not."