When Kara returned home, she found someone she'd honestly been expecting waiting for her in her penthouse.

"I'm guessing that the fact that you didn't call ahead of time means that this isn't a social visit." Kara said to her foster mother, Eliza Danvers, who she saw sitting on her couch, drinking a glass of her scotch and rubbing Krypto behind the ears.

"We both know it's not Kara. It's about what you're wearing right now." Eliza said, since Kara was still wearing her super suit.

"I made a choice that I should've made a long time ago. This is who I am." Kara said unapologetically as she poured herself a glass of scotch, since while she did have alien alcohol in her apartment, now was not the time to crack it open.

"This is very dangerous." Eliza said.

"And yet Martha Kent has never jumped down Clark's throat about being Superman. She accepted that it's a part of who he is. So why can't you do the same for me?" Kara asked her.

"Kara, listen to me, the world already has Superman." Eliza said.

"So you think that it doesn't need Supergirl too? Because that's the same thing Jeremiah told me not long after I came to live with you. You both seemed to want to do whatever you had to in order to keep me from following in Kal's footsteps." Kara said.

"Because we were trying to protect you." Eliza said.

"And it was one thing when I was a scared little girl who'd just lost her whole world, but I'm an adult now and it's my life. You always said that you were doing everything you could to make me feel welcome and accepted on Earth and in your family, but what you really wanted to do was prevent me from being who I am. You were trying to make me more human." Kara said, trying hard to keep her temper in check, but this was an anger she'd had towards her foster mother for longer than she'd realized and now that it was finally starting to appear, she wasn't sure she could rein it in.

"What's wrong with that? Being human?" Eliza asked.

"Nothing, but I am not human and I never will be. I'm a kryptonian, one of the last kryptonians in existence and it felt like and it still does feel like you're trying to get me to forget about my heritage." Kara said as Krypto jumped up and ran to his mistress's side, since he could tell she was upset.

"Kara, I was trying to keep you safe." Eliza said.

"Maybe, but that doesn't justify trying to get me to forget who and what I am and where I came from. I am the last daughter of Krypton and I'm done pretending that I'm not. When I wear this suit, this glyph, I feel like I've finally connected to my people again. This is who I am. And I'm not going to stop just because you're uncomfortable with it, because while I appreciate everything you've done for me, you're not my mother!" Kara shouted before she could stop herself.

"Kara." Eliza said, hurt clear in her eyes.

"Eliza, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that." Kara said.

"Well you did and you can't take it back. I'll see myself out." Eliza said as she walked out of the penthouse without another word and leaving Kara frustrated and sad about what had happened.

Eliza was currently at a bar in National City, trying to drown her sorrows when she heard someone walk up to her.

"Yeah, I think you've had enough." Alex said to her mother as she sat down next to her.

"Alex, I'm not in the mood right now. I still can't believe you let her do this." Eliza said.

"You really think I could stop her? I'm not her caretaker mom, Kara is free to do what she wants and this was her choice. But this isn't about her deciding to follow in her cousin's footsteps, this is about what she said about you not being her mother." Alex said as she made her mom look at her.

"I have done everything I could to be a mother to that girl and the fact that she said that." Eliza said.

"She only said that because she lost control of her temper after keeping it in check for years. She didn't mean it." Alex said.

"But it's true isn't it. I'm not her mother. Her mother died with the rest of her family. I'm just a stranger who gave her a place to live." Eliza said.

"Who fed her, clothed her, paid for her to go college and so much more stuff without asking anything in return. Who took her in when she had nothing and gave me the best little sister I could ask for." Alex said.

"You didn't always feel that way about her." Eliza remembered and Alex chuckled.

"Well, she did hog the bathroom a lot. But I love her now. And it doesn't hurt that she gives amazing presents now that she's rich." Alex said.

"I know. And honestly, I expected her to say something like that down the line, but I hoped I was wrong." Eliza said.

"And you are." Kara said as she joined them.

"Kara, how?" Alex asked.

"I have 6 satellites that I can use from anywhere on Earth, you do the math?" Kara asked and Alex chuckled.

"Eliza, I am sorry about what I said, I just got so angry and I lost control." Kara said.

"Maybe we should take this back to your place." Alex said to her sister, who nodded.

When they returned to Kara's apartment, all three Danvers women sat down in Kara's living room.

"I shouldn't have said you aren't my mother Eliza. You may not be the woman who gave birth to me, but you've sacrificed countless times for me since I arrived on Earth and if I can't acknowledge that then I'm an idiot. The only way you could be more of a mother to me is if we actually shared blood." Kara said and Eliza smiled.

"I appreciate that Kara and honestly, maybe I did come off as a little overprotective, but Clark trusted Jeremiah and I to protect you, his only living family and I guess that need to protect you never really goes away." Eliza said.

"Is that why you made me Kara's chaperone all the time when we were kids?" Alex now asked.

"I know Alex, it wasn't fair of me to put all that responsibility on your shoulders, but after what happened to your father, I couldn't lose either of you, so I became as protective as I could. But I shouldn't have made you feel like you always had to watch your sister and Kara, I shouldn't have made you feel like I was trying to get you to forget your heritage." Eliza said.

"Eliza, we know." Kara said.

"Know what?" Eliza asked as Alex shot Kara a look that read shut up, but Kara ignored her.

"We know what really happened to Jeremiah and about how he went to work for the DEO to get them to leave me alone after I first came to Earth." Kara said.

"How?" Eliza asked as Kara looked at her sister, since it was time to put all the secrets on the table and Alex sighed.

"Because I work for the DEO mom. I was recruited back when I was flunking out of school. It gave me a purpose. I was recruited by a man named Hank Henshaw, but it wasn't the same man who conscripted dad." Alex said.

"How do you know that?" Eliza asked, shocked.

"Because the real Hank Henshaw died the same night Jeremiah did. Jeremiah died trying to protect an alien refugee that Henshaw had falsely thought was a threat and after Henshaw died and before Jeremiah did, he made the alien promise to look after us and since the alien is a shapeshifter." Kara said.

"He took Henshaw's form to reform the DEO to its true purpose." Eliza said.

"Yeah. And Kara and I both trust him." Alex said.

"Ok, I'd like to meet him at some point though. And Kara, I promise I'll back off on the overprotective thing, though I have to say that you always did look good in blue." Eliza said and Kara smiled.

"Thank you. And Krypto is very happy to be Superdog as Catco is calling him." Kara said.

"You really do need to do an interview with Cat Grant soon so you can control that narrative, since didn't Superman approach Lois Lane to write the first with him?" Alex asked.

"He did and trust me, I plan on doing an interview with Cat Grant as soon as I'm sure that she won't be able to tell that Kara Danvers and Supergirl are the same person, since she's interviewed Kara Danvers a few times." Kara said.

"You'll be fine." Eliza said as the three Danvers women continued to talk.