Supergirl zoomed through the sky trying to clear her mind of everything except for the feeling of air rushing past her as she pushed her superpowers to their limit. She wanted to forget about everything that had been going wrong in her life lately.

She had been angry and hurt when President Baker had fired her from the DEO after she refused to reveal her secret identity. But that hurt was nothing compared to the devastation she felt when her sister, Alex, had to have her memories erased to protect Kara's secret. And although Alex had tried to assure her everything would be okay, Kara felt like she had lost the one person whom she could always confide in. The thought brought tears to Kara's eyes.

It had only been two days since J'onn had performed the mindwipe, and already Kara had felt the absence of her and Alex's old relationship. J'onn had tried to assure her Alex was still the same person they knew and loved, but Kara hadn't worked up the courage to see Alex in person yet. Their only contact since the mindwipe had been a few phone calls and texts.

Kara continued to fly for the next couple of hours, watching the Earth below move past in a blur, until her phone rang. She stopped and hovered mid-air to look at the screen. It was Alex.

"Hey, Alex what's up?" Kara greeted her, struggling to make her voice sound normal.

"Hey, where are you?"

"At Catco," Kara lied, knowing she couldn't tell her sister she was hovering several miles over the Pacific Ocean. "Why?"

"Why, because I'm at your apartment. I take it you forgot we planned a movie night for tonight."

Kara realized they had made plans a few days ago to get together tonight, but that was before everything happened with Haley.

"I'm so sorry, Alex, I just got caught up with work and it slipped my mind."

"That's okay, just come on home, work can wait for one night and you sound like you need a break. I've got a double cheese pizza waiting."

Kara thought briefly about saying she was swamped and asking Alex for a raincheck, but she knew she was going to have to see her sister sometime.

"I'm on my way. See you in a few minutes."

She turned and headed home. When she came in sight of her apartment building, she remembered she couldn't fly in through the window like she used to, so she landed in the alley and changed out of her super suit. Then she walked up to her floor and entered through the front door.

"Hey," She took at the seat at the table beside her sister who was already munching on a slice of pizza. "I'm sorry I forget about tonight. Things have just been so crazy at work and it slipped my mind."

"Don't worry, I get it. I've been busy at the lab myself."

Kara frowned. She knew when Alex had her memories erased, she would have to start lying to her sister. But she hadn't realized Alex would also be lying to her. Apparently, one of those erased memories had been the one where Kara found out her sister was a DEO agent and did not really work at a lab.

Not knowing how to respond, Kara grabbed a slice of pizza and began eating.

"So besides being busy how was your day?" Alex asked.

"Fine."

"Anything happen?"

"Nothing out the ordinary."

"Okay," Alex looked at her sister with concern. "Then what has got you so upset."

"I'm not upset." Kara lied.

"Yeah clearly, you are. It's not like you to forget we had plans, especially when there is pizza involved. And you have a terrible poker face, I can always tell when you're upset. So come on, what's wrong."

"It's nothing really." Kara stalled, trying to come up with a believable lie. She knew Alex wasn't going to let this go, but she couldn't tell her the truth. "Just work stuff. You know working in the news industry is not the most uplifting line of work. I hear so many depressing stories. Sometimes it just gets to me."

"Uh-huh," Alex muttered, clearly not buying it.

"Like today, for example, James told me a story about this wreck. A man crashed his car into the side of a light pole, he wasn't hurt, but a fire started in the engine. So he tried to get out, but couldn't because the doors were jammed. So he started yelling at the top of his lungs for someone to help him. A few people came over and tried to help him, but no one could get the door open."

"I take it the guy was killed."

Kara shook her head. "Luckily for him, Supergirl also heard his cries. She flew down and with her x-ray vision saw there was a leak in the fuel line and some gas was about to reach the flames. So she ripped the door off the car, flew the man and everyone nearby to safety several feet away, and then used her freeze breath to put out the fire before the car could explode. Then she turned back to the man to make sure he was okay. And he started screaming at her, saying she ruined his car. He yelled he was going to sue her for damages and 'roaches' like her should just go home."

Kara could feel her anger flaring up from telling the story. Worst of all, it hadn't even been the least grateful response she had received for her heroics that week. That honor had gone to Haley, who had threatened to place Kara's loved ones in danger by exposing her identity if Kara didn't comply with everything she ordered (mere seconds after Supergirl had saved her from an alien attack). She had wanted to call her sister to vent immediately after what happened today, but since that wasn't an option, she had taken to the sky to try and calm down.

"Wow, that sucks. People can be so ungrateful. She saved the guys life, even if it probably would have been smarter for her to put out the fire with her freeze breath first. Then she would not have been rushed to rip off the door."

"What?!" Kara exclaimed. "She saved the man's life and the lives of the people trying to help him and then got verbally assaulted for it! How can you criticize her for that?"

"Relax, I'm not criticizing her. I think what she did was great. I was just wondering if maybe there might have been a better way for her to have gone about saving him."

"Well considering she knew the car was going to explode any second, I doubt she was too worried about the order she did things in. And since no one was hurt and the only property damage was to a car that was going to blow up anyway, had she not arrived, I think she did pretty well."

"Okay, you're right, but why are you taking what happened with her so personally?"

"Because she's saved the city so many times and she doesn't expect anything in return, besides to not be treated like crap by the people she saves, but apparently some people think this is too much for her to ask!"

"Kara, are you sure this is why you upset or it there something else going on? You hear these kinds of stories all the time in your line of work and you never let it get to you. You're usually the eternal optimist. If something is wrong I want to help you. I'm your big sister, you can tell me anything."

Kara felt tears forming in the corners of her eyes. I used to could tell you anything. She thought. Not anymore. Forcing all the anger and pain out of her voice she said. "There is nothing going on, Alex. Even eternal optimist have days where we feel cynical, don't worry I'll get over it."

Alex looked like she was about to pry some more, but before she could her phone rang. She looked at the screen and sighed. "Hang on, I've got to take this, but we're not done with this conversation."

She walked to the other end of the loft and answered. "Danvers."

"This is Colonel Haley. I thought you should know. Two Circadians attacked and injured several civilians downtown. I've sent a team to apprehend them."

"What do mean, what exactly happened?" Alex kept her voice low, not knowing her sister currently was using her super-hearing to listen in on both sides of the conversation.

"I don't have all the details. We intercepted a 911 call saying there were two aliens, who look like giant insects, attacking and injuring people. If you want more information you can interrogate the Circadians once they're in our custody, assuming we don't need to use lethal force when apprehending them."

"Circadians are known for being a peaceful species. We've never had any confrontations with them before. Something doesn't add up here. Have Brainy send me the coordinates and tell the team to not engage them until I give the order."

"Danvers this phone call is just a courtesy. I'm not asking for permission to apprehend these aliens and I don't intend to let aliens who've hurt innocent people get away."

"I'm on my way to the scene. Don't do anything until I arrive."

"I report to the president, not you," Haley said before hanging up.

Alex turned back to her sister. "I'm sorry that was work, there was a problem at the lab and I've got to go take care of it." She quickly gathered up her purse and darted out the door.

Kara gave Alex a few minutes headstart before she changed into her suit and followed her. She might not be able to assist the DEO thanks to Haley, but she still intended to stay close by in case her sister or the other agents needed backup.