AN: more things with Rebecca, who will get pretty close to getting kicked out of the room. Also Alura will come back in and Rebecca may try to open her mouth again.

Couch: Sara Oliver Kara Alura

Loveseat:Roy Thea

Couch: William Ruby Samantha felicity

Couch: Alex Lena sam

Couch: slade Dark archer black siren

Loveseat: Zari Laurel Rebecca Malcolm

Couch: Rene Curtis Dinah

Arm chairs:John and Quentin (are in separate ones)

Couch:Cisco caitlyn wally

Couch:Harry Joe Cecile

Loveseat: Barry Nora Iris

Couch:Jon Winn James

As the screen was about to turn back on, Alura walks in and says "can I watch too."

Laurel nods and Alura sits down. As Alura sat down Rebecca said "hey, her dad is-" she was cut off by Malcolm covering her mouth.

"No," Laurel said.

"But I want to-" she started.

"You know why you can't," Laurel said.

"Yeah," she sighed secretly planning to spring it on everyone later.

Kara spent two more days under the sun lamps before Alex was comfortable with letting her leave.

"In her defence super puppy no one would be comfortable with you leaving before at least a day," Sara said.

"Super puppy?" Kara asked.

"My new nickname for you, it matches your personality," Sara said.

What surprised Alex repeatedly was that at least one of the Earth-1 vigilantes was constantly watching over her. Alex would have thought that Kara would have had something against being overprotected, but Kara was never without a smile, whether she was chatting with Laurel about her new life on Earth-1 or discussing something in quieter tones with Slade or
Malcolm. Lena dropped by when she could as well, speaking with both Kara and Oliver from time to time.

In fact, with the four around, the only time Kara didn't smile was whenever one of the D.E.O. doctors came near her to check her progress. The smile usually vanished at once, and Kara's eyes went wider than Alex had ever seen them before. She even tried to squirm away from them sometimes, depending on if they carried anything in their hands or not. And as if silently summoned, Oliver found his way to her side, squeezing her shoulder supportively.

The shipping sisters were texting any time anything like that happened.

If Alex ever looked out of the corner of her eye, she could see Malcolm and Slade watching every move the doctors made. And when the doctors left, Laurel seemed to appear from nowhere to distract kara with news from National City.

About the third time this routine happened, Alex finally followed Oliver towards the training rooms. He knew she was following him, but she noted he had subtly changed the direction he was heading. Instead of the range J'onn had allowed the two archers to use, he was heading – Alex faltered in her step slightly – towards the training room where Alex and J'onn continued to spar with Kara.

Where the power in the room came from Kryptonite.

"What, why do you have a room for that," Oliver said.

"Training it just said that," Alex said.

"You can't find another way to dampen her powers to train," Oliver said.

Alex looked down in thought as she considered that.

Oliver stepped into the room, and Alex walked in behind him. "I'm assuming you have a question?" Oliver raised an eyebrow at her.

"What exactly happened when Kara went to help you?" Alex asked bluntly.

"You are very blunt," Winn said.

"Shut up Winn," Alex said.

"And don't say she saved every single one of you, I get that. How? What happened?"

Oliver folded his arms, leaning against the wall. "Did Kara ever tell you about a man called Prometheus?"

"No."

"He was the one that forced my hand enough to make me ask Kara for help," Oliver said bluntly.

"You're very blunt too," Winn said.

"Winn shut up," Alex said.

"Kara was the last person on my mind to ask. I didn't even think of her before Cisco said there was no one else on my Earth that I could have contacted. When I first met her, I didn't trust her one bit. At the time, the strangest person I ever met was Barry, the fastest man alive. And then,
when the Dominators invaded, here came Barry with this blonde cheerleader

"I'm not a cheerleader," Kara whined.

"Are you seriously whining right now," Oliver said.

She pout and murmurs about how she's not a cheerleader.

with an S on her chest and an innocent smile. I proceeded to watch her plow through the best of vigilantes and metahumans as if we were in beginning self defense class.

"Seriously, that was embarrassing," Sara said.

"Really I thought you said it was hot," Kara said smirking.

Sara blushed said "you heard that."

"Sara I'm an alien I hear everything," Kara said.

Your sister unnerved me, and I told her I don't get unnerved. Barry told me he didn't know she could get angry, and I did that when I tried to put her on the sidelines because she completely overwhelmed me. And then she saved my life fighting the Dominators. She probably still didn't like me at the time, and she saved me anyway."

"Of course I liked you, you were just being tough," Kara said.

"That's my sister," Alex's lips curled into a smile. "She thinks everyone deserves a chance no matter who they are."

"And when I apologized to her when it was all said and done, she told me hardships make us stronger," Oliver nodded. "I'd been through several hardships, but there were none that made me really think about those words until Prometheus took my team, my sister, and my son."

"What?" Alex's eyes widened.

"He made me extremely desperate," Oliver nodded grimly. "Desperate enough that the first people I reached out to were former enemies. In fact, one of them came to me first, after he learned his daughter had been taken."

Thea smiled and said "thanks dad."

Alex did a double take. "Malcolm?" she asked in surprise.

"Thea and I are half-siblings, which all three of us only discovered a few years ago," Oliver nodded. "My first year when I became a vigilante, Malcolm was my main enemy. He was also one of two enemies that had a lasting impact on my career as a vigilante. And it's partly because of Malcolm I became one, too. He was the one who orchestrated the sinking of my father's yacht, leading to his death and to me being stranded on Lian Yu. Malcolm's son, and my best friend, was killed during his Undertaking, and I swore I wouldn't kill while I was a vigilante because of Tommy. I hated Malcolm's guts for so long, and there were probably times when I wouldn't stop someone from killing him, but Malcolm came through when I needed him to. He put Thea's life before his on the island, and they've been working on their relationship since."

He took in Alex's
stunned look before continuing. "I spent five years on that island before returning to my city. Slade was with me for the first two of those years. The first year and a half, he was like my brother. He taught me to fight. He helped me learn how to survive. The last half of the second year, he was my enemy. The woman he loved was killed, partly because of a decision I made, and he put the entirety of the blame on me. A serum to heal him didn't help much other than that. He was driven by the need for vengeance, and it led him to my city my second year back from the island. Alex, he killed my mother in front of me. And I still gave him the cure for the serum because I couldn't kill him. He was, at one point, my brother. I didn't know if there was a way to bring him back from the brink, but I couldn't kill him. Three years after the cure was administered, Slade was back to himself,

"Why did it take so long," Felicity said.

"I had the serum a long time before you have me the cure," Slade said.

and he proved it. Never once did he betray me. Never once did he turn
his back on us." Alex had slid down the wall to sit down on the floor as she listened, her face pale.

"Why tell me all that," Alex said.

"Because you need to know their backrounds to understand why they are so indebted to Kara," Oliver said.

"And Laurel," Oliver sat down across from her. "She didn't always call herself Laurel Lance. In fact, she's not even the Laurel Lance of Earth-1. The Laurel Lance I knew, the Laurel Lance I grew up with, was murdered by a man named Damien Darhk. She was called the Black Canary. The Laurel who came here is known as Black Siren, and that's what we called her until Lian Yu. She came from Earth-2 with an enemy speedster named Zoom, and she was held in S.T.A.R. Labs until Prometheus released her to try and impersonate our Laurel. We recaptured her her in custody of a government organization on our Earth, except Prometheus freed her again. She allied herself with Prometheus on Lian Yu. She probably would have been imprisoned again, had she not taken your sister's advice and given me vital information about where my son was being held." He leaned forward.

"Three people who used to be my enemies. What do all three of them have in common?"

"The island," Alex answered. "Lian Yu."

"And in turn, Kara," Oliver nodded. "If it wasn't for Kara, Malcolm wouldn't have made it to the end at all. He stepped on a landmine to save Thea; Kara flew him away from the landmine before he could be blown up. To this day, I have no idea what Kara said to Slade before we rescued half of my team, but whatever she said stuck, because Slade kept his word the entire time.

"Well now we do what she said," Oliver said.

Even gave her a nickname, too," he cracked a grin. "That's when you know you've really earned Slade's trust, when he gives you a nickname."

"He still calls you kid," Alex recalled.

"I don't like that nickname," Oliver said.

"Okay, when you stop acting like a kid sometimes I'll stop, kid," Slade said with a smirk.

"Yeah, and he calls her little one," Oliver chuckled. "And yet, she could snap him like a twig if he pissed her off."

"Yeah it's really hard to remember that when she has that giant smile on her face the whole time," Sara said pointing to Kara.

Alex smiled at that, and Oliver waved a hand. "And Kara helped Laurel after the final fight against Prometheus. She told us where my son was located, and Kara flew off as fast as she could. And she got to him before Prometheus did, too. Except there was one problem."

He looked Alex in the eye. "I assume you know what a dead man's switch is?"

"Something is triggered when someone dies," Alex nodded, and she froze. "No."

"Prometheus had bombs planted all over Lian Yu," Oliver nodded. "Kara, William, and I were off the island, but Slade, Malcolm, Laurel, Thea, and the rest of my team were still trapped. Prometheus pulled a gun on himself. I couldn't have stopped him if I tried. Kara did. She forced him to shoot in a different direction, and punched him until he wouldn't wake up for a while."

Alex's eyes were wide open, and Oliver leaned forward. "My entire team owes Kara their lives," he told her seriously. "But it's much more personal for the three I brought with me. They have another chance to live their lives a new way because of Kara. They all agreed to come the very second I told them I was coming to check on her. And whether we can help her by talking to her or supporting her or destroying Cadmus completely, we will do it."

"She never told me any of that," Alex whispered.

"Did you expect her to?" Oliver raised an eyebrow.

"No I guess not," Alex said sighing.

"I shouldn't have," Alex admitted. "It didn't happen on our Earth, I had no idea who any of you were, so I probably wouldn't have understood half of it." She looked up at him. "But I can thank you for your dedication to making sure she isn't hurt again," she smiled.

That smile quickly faded as she pointed at him. "And if you so much as even risk betraying the trust she has in you – "

"The I hurt her, you hurt me spiel?" Oliver couldn't help but grin. "I'm not her boyfriend, Alex."

"Are you sure," Thea said while the rest of the shipping sisters nodded.

"Thea!" Oliver yelled.

"I'm just saying," she said.

"Shut up," Oliver said.

"Aside from J'onn, I think you're the one guy she trusts the most here."

"There's Winn."

"Yeah, but he's like her little brother. And no offense to Slade or Malcolm, but I can't see Kara with them."

"Oh dear God no," Laurel said.

"Why because over Malcolm," Sara said.

"No, because they're overgrown children," Laurel said.

"Oh my god," Malcolm murmured.

"You do not even try to deny it, you know it's true." Laurel whispered.

Oliver snorted loudly. "I won't tell them if you won't."

"Deal," Alex snickered.

"On the topic of hurting Kara," Oliver's face turned serious. "Why the hell do you have a room powered by Kryptonite here?"

"Uh oh that might not go over well," Winn said.

Alex cringed. "It's to help train to fight," she answered. "When she put on the suit, she had no experience fighting. Barely knew how to throw a punch. The only strength she had at the time was just that – her strength. We knew Kryptonite existed, knew there was a chance that somewhere out there, someone could have some. And what if they used it against Kara when she
was untrained?"

"OK, I see your point there," Oliver conceded.

"And we never used it to the point Cadmus did," Alex added.

"Never," J'onn said

"Good," Oliver sighed. "That was my concern."

"I would never forgive J'onn if he did that to her," Alex stood and started pacing. "And to be honest, I don't think the D.E.O. would survive that long if Clark knew – " She froze. "Oh, God, Clark."

"Oh my God it's been two days and you didn't tell him he'll be pissed," Kara said.

"Who?" Oliver blinked in confusion.

"Clark," Alex sighed, pulling out her phone. "Kara's cousin. I don't even know if anyone's told him she's been rescued. You'll probably be high on his list of good guys when he finds out what you did," she added.

Oliver grimaced. "That had to be hard for him."

"Oh, he complained quite frequently that we weren't saving her," Alex nodded. "But he couldn't do anything."

"Because of Kryptonite," Oliver nodded, frowning at the green lights in the room. "You know, when Kara told me she had a weakness, I didn't know it could be this extreme."

"Honestly none of us did," Barry said.

Alex paused at the doorway before grinning. "You're sure you're not her boyfriend?" she teased. "You're concerned enough to be."

"Alex!" Kara yelled embarrassed.

Oliver glared at her, making her laugh as she left. "As bad as Thea," he grumbled, walking out after her.

Slade was standing there waiting for him. "Kara got her phone back," he told him as they walked back towards the main hub of the D.E.O. "First thing she did was tell that cousin of hers she's all right." He grinned. "It was entertaining to hear him yell at J'onn when Kara gave him the phone.
Martian looked like he swallowed the most sour lemon ever."

"I wouldn't want to be the wrong end of a Kryptonian's yelling," Oliver admitted.

"No one would," Barry said.

"And another guy showed up," Slade added. "Man named Jason Olsen."

"It's James," James said.

"James," Winn corrected from where he sat by his computer.

"I said that, didn't I?" Slade blinked. Winn opened his mouth, then apparently thought better of it and went back to work. "Like I said," Slade smirked smugly.

"Really," Oliver said.

"You don't think very highly of him," Oliver stated.

"No," Slade answered bluntly.

Oliver shook his head with a sigh. "I remember hearing Barry ask Kara about Winn and a man named James back when the Dominators invaded. He's a friend of Kara's, Slade. He's probably fine."

"Yes, I think that's what Kara is currently trying to convince the Magician of," Slade snorted.

"Hey, he called you Magician you can hold that over him," Laurel whispered to Malcolm.

Oliver rolled his eyes and entered the medbay – sure enough, there was Kara speaking to Malcolm about her time at CatCo, Laurel watching with amusement.

"I feel like putting a label on Malcolm that says 'overprotective,'" she joked to Oliver.

"Make one for Slade, too, in that case," Oliver said with a straight face.

"I swear to God, kid," Slade growled warningly.

"Eh, I stand by that still," Oliver said.

"Oh, he's a vigilante, too?" Malcolm suddenly asked in genuine surprise.

"You are?" Oliver said in surprise.

James nodded and said "Winn even made my suit."

"We should talk sometime," Cisco said while chewing on a twizzler.

"Where did he even get that?" Kara whispered.

That caught the three others' attention. "James?" Oliver asked, walking over.

"Yeah," Kara sighed, rubbing her forehead. "I spoke up against it, thank you very much. But he was insistent that it was his way to be a better person and help others."

That even had Laurel rolling her eyes at the statement. "There are more ways to help others than risking your life every night," she remarked.

"Yeah," Kara closed her eyes. "I tried telling him that, too."

"Now I'm more interested in meeting this guy," Oliver frowned. "And then when he's a vigilante."

"Green Arrow meets Guardian," Kara mused. "I'd cover that story." At three-fourths of the group's confused looks, she elaborated. "I'm a reporter where I work." She paused, eyes widening in horror. "And Snapper might actually kill me when I get there tomorrow."

"Oh no I didn't think about that," Kara said.

"Actually, that won't be a problem," Lena's voice came from behind the others, making them turn. "Hey, guys," she added with a smile.

"Hi, Lena," Kara sat up straighter. "What's going on?"

"I told your boss," she answered, walking in. "Not that you're Supergirl," she hastened to say when Kara blanched and the four vigilantes narrowed their eyes. "I told him about your connection to Supergirl got you captured by my mother. He grumbled something along the lines of 'of course Ponytail did,' but he seemed to accept it."

"Well that's good," Kara said.

"Oh, good," Kara slumped. "That's a relief."

"And Cat seemed very relieved to know you're alive," Lena added. When Kara looked at her dubiously, Lena rolled her eyes. "In her very Cat Grant way, at least."

"That makes more sense," Kara said.

"Well," Kara seemed much more relaxed than before, "guess I'm back to work tomorrow."

"And while you're there, we can start digging more into Cadmus," Oliver nodded.

"Thank you for what you did, Lena," Kara added with a smile.

"Of course," Lena smiled, giving her a hug. "And it's good to see people are finally starting to take my mother seriously."

"Trust me," Oliver's eyes darkened. "Your mother won't like what happens when my team gets to her."

"No she won't and I entirely agree with you," Lena said.

Kara silently commended Lena for not giving Oliver a reaction to what he just said.

"Seriously I'm surprised you didn't say anything," Kara said.

They all watched as the screen turned back on.