Kara never did understand the world around her as much as others. Her memories of krypton wax still able to be so vivid in her mind and often made her heat blasts much stronger. But she rarely would allow her emotions to get a hold of her, she knew the dangers now. She thought lived rather well did her job, hung out with friends and part of the army and a captain that feared kryptonians. Kara was doing a few jobs around her small apartment when she hears on the news that a gang had taken a house hostage in the outskirts of the city. Well she wasn't about to let that happen while she knew her powers had to be limited when dealing with humans not wishing to kill. She also knew that she had to be forceful enough to stop the men cold in their tracks unless they prove too dangerous. She smiled as she ran out of the apartment and into the back alley and then with a thrust against the ground and springing into the air she shot into the air sharply with a yell. Kara hears her phone go off but didn’t pick it up not wanting to unaware that the tip would have allowed her not to be so surprised when another cape crusader come into the picture this fine day.

As she got to the house she came through the roof slamming into the middle of the house to see four gun men spring up and guns aimed. She stared at them and spoke lowly,

“Come now no need for such weapons we can do this the hard way or easy way” she said shortly to them it was only two options she gave no more or no less. The men didn't seem to take kindly to her words of offering peace or violence and ran out with guns. She flew up and using her breath she froze their weapons and then flew down kicking them out of the house sharply and turned to hear a scream. She ran through the house to find the ring leader of the gang with a gun pointed to a small girl.

“Stop yourself she has done you no wrong” she said sternly not wanting a girl to get hurt, she knew the feeling of getting hurt too well. The man growled annoyed, gun cocked and safety was let off.

“This isn’t your affair girl” he snapped sharply as Kara frowned deeply , afraid to attack that the girl would get hurt. She waited till she knew she had an opening. Well that opening came with the sound of something crashing through the window and making her jump to see a man figure coming in.

“Superman” she breathed more in fright at the idea of Superman finding out about her more then the gunman now. Seeing the gunman was now shocked and freaked out she jumped over knocking him down to the ground and got the gun away breaking it. She looked at the small girl that started now crying

“no no no don’t cry , where is your mother?” she asked the small girl who was now just bawling her eyes out in fright. Kara frowned she didn’t know what to do to calm down a freaked out child. She saw the mother come out from another room rushing over to her child as Kara now turned her attention back to the man that came in. She backed away slightly more in fear if he should attack she knew she was screweed.

"You can't honestly believe that Lex isn't somehow involved, do you?" Clark chuckled at his partner's sardonic question, straightening out a crease in his pant leg as he looked into those inquisitive chocolate colored eyes and responded:
"I can be optimistic. We don't know if there were any other pods that landed on Earth, so maybe...she IS a Kryptonian." Lois sighed, eraser on the end of her pencil creating a pink blob on Clark's desk.
"But why would this girl just suddenly make an appearance? I mean, if her pod crashed around the time yours did...well, no, she looks younger than you-" A teasing smirk crossed his features, prompting Lois to stop her verbalization to interject:
"Oh stop it, you know what I mean!"
"I do. She looks barely twenty, if that. The pod probably crashed later, meaning that her pod was in orbit or transit for much longer than mine."
"Mmm. Which means SOMEONE must've taken her in, but we've looked seemingly everywhere the past few weeks and there's no reliable record of a second pod crashing or even of a mysterious girl just 'showing up' on someone's doorstep. Someone as remarkable as her should've drawn SOME attention."
"Well, there is that strange possibility that one or more of the people we talked to wasn't telling the truth."
"Your sarcasm is not appreciated." She flung the pencil in his direction, Clark catching the flying writing utensil at the speed of...well, light.
"And I'm well aware that someone or someone's are covering his, her or their tracks. It's up to us to find out."
"Can it wait until tomorrow?"
"But why-" She surveyed the usually bustling news room, finding that workstations and offices were practically empty.
"Oh fine. You're cooking tonight."
"Aaaaaaas always."
"And I'll make sure to kiss the chef. Aaaaaas always."

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Dinner had just been cleaned up when Clark turned on the television.
"Police standoff in the suburbs."
"What?!" Lois watched the television report with a knowing silence, looking to her lover with a nod.
"Go. I'll try to figure out why a seemingly peaceful neighborhood has armed gunmen running around taking hostages."
"Don't get shot. Please."
"You give me too little credit."

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As he arrived at the home, he spotted a gaping hole in the roof, floating through to discover that "Supergirl"(as the press labeled her) was in full costume and attempting to defuse one of the gunmen who had a young girl in his custody. The gunman dropped his weapon upon seeing the Kryptonian, allowing Clark to grab the would-be assaulter and slam him to the ground, knocking him out cold. Turning, he found "Supergirl" attempting to calm the child.
"I'll go look for her. Just stay with the girl." Speeding through the home, he flitted down a few hallways before entering the garage, finding who he assumed to be both father and mother, chests barely rising and falling. Within a matter of moments, he had delivered both parents to paramedics who had joined the police outside the home.
"The gunmen are all down. Should be easy arrests."
"Thanks for the help...as always." With a nod, he flew back to where he had left the two girls, arms folding across his chest.
"You and I need to have a talk. Drop the girl off with the police and meet me on the roof of the Star Labs tower downtown Don't skip out. Cause I CAN fly as fast as you."

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It had only been a few minutes, but Clark's level of anxiety had exponentially risen with each passing second. Here he was, about to confront someone with the same powers(for all he knew) he had, the same noble sentiments about helping mankind, the same anonymity he had maintained for so long(which MEANT she had a secret identity)...it was unsettling, nerve-wracking, monumental-

He could hear wind breaking above him.

She was here.

Kara groaned at that , she didn’t want to freaking talk to him she just wanted to go home and sleep and pretend none of this happened. But when he told her that he was capable of flying as fast as she could she groaned again. Course he could he was SUPERMAN!!! She sighed as she smiled and took the child out to the police explaining she was the daughter of the couple that lived here. She then shot off in the sky.

She might not have known where um the building was so she kind of used her hawkeyes to pinpoint where the man was. So after about a few minutes of flying she finally got to the building she spotted the man and slowly lowered to the roof and looked at him. WHY DID EVERYONE HAVE TO BE SO TALL??!!!

“.........So yeah……..Uh Hi?” she decided to start with that because she honestly was the worst social butterfly in the world really. She scratched her head, like what were you to say to a superhero like superman huh?

“So….Um…...What you want to talk to me about I hope its not be stealing your thunder. I know we girl heros are so hard to find these days” she smirked a tease deciding to lighten the mood and no be so skittish as well as she crosses her arms and tries to mimic him and puffed up. But giggled to herself and relaxed once more ready to get out of the way if he freaking tried to grab her. She wondered who he was and raised an eyebrow at him.

“So another Kryptonian like myself how interesting indeed to see another on earth. Who do you hail from?” she asked wanting to know if she possibly knew his family from Krypton. She had been older than Clark when he was told to leave krypton she was still his sister both unaware of it. She drank some water from a waterbottle she had brought with her and smiled to herself slightly .

She was so...girly. No, no, wrong term. Bubbly? Energetic? Exuberant? Nonchalant? All of the above?

The self-proclaimed Kryptonian was difficult to pin down in terms of personality, but at least from what Clark could tell, she posed no threat.
"Wait just a second." He held up his index finger.
"Shouldn't I be the one asking the questions? Seeing as you were the one who just...materialized out of thin air?" The tone of his questions came out a bit more confrontational than he had wanted, so he quickly added:
"Sorry, didn't mean to sound so agitated, but to think that there's someone else like me that-" He motioned to her costume.
"That even dresses like me is sort of disorienting." With an apologetic chuckle, he gave into her question:
"I can't exactly just throw details about my life onto the table before I know that we actually share the same blood. And since I assume you can't speak Kryptonian(I can barely manage myself), I'll just say that I crashed here on Earth in a pod in the middle of the country. Raised by ordinary people and I came to Metropolis to make a difference. How did YOU get here? I assume that you arrived in similar fashion? If so, how have you kept such a low profile until now?"