Title: The Deepest Dreams
Author: InBetweens
Rating: T
Plot: An alternate version of "For The Girl Who Has Everything". The Krypton that the Black Mercy helps Kara imagine is far more complex than Alex can imagine. It's even harder for her to imagine that although for them it has only been a few hours for Kara it has been a few years. This story may be a precursor to a much longer chapter story, AU in nature.
Disclaimer: I do not own Supergirl or any of its many characters.
Author's Note: A HUGE shout out to Shipitlikeasteamboat! She has been an amazing beta for this story and story board. I appreciate all your help and hard work on this. Any mistakes are still mine-as sometimes I just don't listen to her good advice.

Part 1 of ?

The night was alive with energy. Dark, ominous energy that flashed across the sky as the heavens wept tears that Kara Danvers nee Zor-El could not shed herself. With a longing beyond anything anyone had felt before Kara longed for peace. Peace from the tumultuous thoughts and feelings that raged within her like the churning waters of a black ocean during a storm.

Against strict orders from Hank and Alex to take it easy, Kara left her apartment. Without real thought of the 'fuck you' it would send to Hank and Alex both as she slipped away. Being cooped up in a place that wasn't safe, was counterproductive to her recovery. If she could call this recovery. She was just expected to bounce back. It was expected of her to be okay come the day light, and she couldn't be. She couldn't be okay. She'd done that once before. She'd faked being okay. She often days still did. Tonight she would allow herself the chance to mourn, because come the sunrise there would be things expected of her. Happiness and sunshine and the ability to take and take and take blow after blow after blow and still smile with blood dripping from her broken lip as she asked for more.

Kara couldn't do that, not tonight.

The walls were stifling. Even standing by the window and staring out at the city had made Kara feel empty. National City was a vast metropolis full of people Kara held a deep connection with, but tonight, that wasn't enough. This city wasn't where her mind was, it wasn't where her heart was.

Not tonight.

Her thoughts and heart were hundreds of thousands of lightyears away in a void in space where up until three hours ago she believed she'd been living, thriving on the planet she first called home. Never in a million years had she thought it was nothing but an open swirling black hole of nothingness. But that was three hours ago and three hours ago everything was different.

Before Kara knew what she was doing she was running through the rain soaked streets. Flying was out of the question, she didn't trust her powers to hold out with the way she'd used them to fight Non,.

Kara ran through the flooding streets, kicking up water and creating a vacuum of air that lasted several seconds after she'd already disappeared. She ran and ran circling around the city, over and over again until she stopped.

She stared up at the stretch of an extravagant apartment building. The top three floors owned by Cat Grant, her tyrant of a boss, and the one person Kara needed more than anything in this world or the next.

With what felt like no self-control Kara stood there on the sidewalk, staring, till she could not help but use her super vision and hearing so she could see if Cat and her son, Carter, were home.

"After reading the passage what do you think…" Carter's voice was like a balm on her soul that was torn to shreds at the same sound.

Cat was cooking dinner while Carter asked her questions about his school work and Cat explained what she could or directed him to where he could better find the answers he was seeking. Carter talked about the upcoming school trip to the Science museum that he was hoping his mother might be able to chaperone. Cat didn't agree right away; she was gentle with her hesitance but even Kara could hear the soft sigh of acquiescent Carter couldn't contain.

Kara stood on the street for nearly an hour, just listening to mother and son interact as they went through their normal nightly routine.

The cold rain continued to douse her as she stood as still as a statue. The world around her continued to live while she waited, frozen in this moment.

At first, Kara was trying to convince herself to leave, to let them have their time together, refusing to be the bolt that disturbed the flow of their night. Somehow though, she ended up standing in front of their door soaked down through every layer of her clothes and dampening the rug beneath her.

Kara sought relief, peace, solitude and she could find all those things here. She just didn't know how to ask for it.

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-.-.-.-.-.-.-Black Mercy, Month 30, Day 1-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

"Kara, please…uff…" Two Kryptonian guards knocked Alex Danvers down to her knees. Kara stood just in front of the fallen agent, expression hard and hateful, "You have to listen to me!"

"Give me one reason why I shouldn't kill you where you stand!" Kara's fists were clenched at her sides.

"Because I'm your sister!"

"You are as delusional as they said." Kara sneered as she took two menacing steps closer to the restrained woman. "You have no right to speak to me. To breathe. I should kill you myself." Kara's face turned red as a steaming rage settled within her chest. Her teeth were clenched and her eyes glistened with the anger simmering so close to the surface, the lines across her face pronounced. "You've taken everything from us."

"I swear, whatever happened, it wasn't me. This…everything, Kara. It's not real."

"Do not listen to her, darling. She would say anything to get away with the heinous crime she's committed." Kara turned at the sound of her beloved Aunt Astra's voice. The gentle hand that Astra rested on Kara's shoulder nearly broke the blonde's resolve. It offered her the support Kara needed to face the woman in front of her but reminded her of just how fragile her heart was at the moment. The touch helped keep her grounded and sane through all of the confusion circling around her like a drain overworked to release the water above that was becoming murky as fast as it rose.

"Kara, I know…I know this is exactly where you want to be. I know this is your home with your family, and it's not fair. It's not fair that you were taken from them and them from you. But this isn't real, Kara."

Kara turned to stare at Alex as her friend, her betrayer, continued her impassioned speech. The more Alex spoke, the more she expressed herself, the more that drain in Kara's brain had to work to keep itself from becoming clogged, the basin above it nearly full as the muck sloshed to and fro.

"This isn't real. You aren't on Krypton. You're on Earth, and you're being attacked by a Black Mercy. It's creating this illusion. It's making you see and feel all of these things. These great things."

"She's lying…" Kara turned to the soft, broken sound, the voice that was once so imposing and sure was now heavy with tears and heartbreak. Heartbreak Alex Danvers had created within them both. The pain resonated so heavily upon her chest Kara could hardly breathe.

"Kara…please. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you lost your family, your home, everything you ever knew. I know things are hard on Earth. It will never be easy, wherever you are not with that kind of loss, but please, Kara. Earth is your home now."

"Take her to the prison cells. She will stand trial for her crimes." Kara stood tall and proud even as her heart raced within her chest and a dull ache began to make itself known against her chest and in the back of her head.

"No, Kara, please. Please, I need you Kara. Please, I need you to trust me. You're my sister and I can't leave you here." Alex was throwing her weight forward and from side to side trying to gain some kind of purchase so she could reach Kara. Her actions desperate as she felt the strong fingers of her captors dig into her, keeping her restrained. "I won't leave you here by yourself. I won't let you be by yourself ever again."

Kara felt the pain in her chest more acutely as her legs weakened beneath her weight. Two pairs of arms came and wrapped around her, but their grip wasn't comforting or concerned, it was restraining, firm, resolute. It wasn't as it should be. As she looked into her aunt's eyes and the gorgeous hazel eyes of her hero she saw something in them, something…inhuman. Black, unkind blackness that was trying to beacon her forward as the pain in her chest increased.

Kara groaned at the throbbing pain.

The room around them began to shake as if affected by an earth quake. Was this the end? Was Krypton finally giving in? Had they been too late?

"Kara!"

No, this was something else. This place…it wasn't right. There was something suddenly very wrong about it. Like a mirage it began to wear away around the edges revealing that merciless blackness she'd seen shadowed in the eyes of her loved ones.

"A…Alex?" Kara asked unsure as she suddenly was struck with…images…feelings…memories. Kara reached her hand up towards her face as if by memory, as if she knew that she should be able to remove something from her face, something thin and wiry…made of led that helped keep the noises at bay and her eyesight from seeing too far and deep. But there was nothing there. She touched air.

Kara squeezed her eyes closed as she stepped away from the arms that tried to keep her still. "What's happening?" Kara asked no one in particular. The answers were out of reach and the pain was tremendous against her racing heart. "Al-lex…" Kara bent forward at the waist and extended her arm towards her sister.

"No…no! Kara!" Alex fought against the men holding her, knowing that the reality around them was crumbling and it would kill Kara if she let it. With all her strength she broke free of the man to her left, kneeled and tripped the one on her right and raced forward to grab onto Kara's outreached hand. The disbelief and joy that Kara was reaching out towards her, that she believed her, was short lived.

Alex heard her heart race in her ears as she stretched, her fingers barely touching Kara's when she suddenly woke up and was staring at the ceiling of the DEO.

"NO…no…why? Why would you do that! How could you…damn you! Damn you. I was so close. I was so close." Alex jumped up and grabbed at Max Lord tears falling from her eyes as she began to realize that Kara was gone, she'd been so close and Kara was gone.

"We didn't pull you out…" Lord said as he touched both of her shoulders, softly, awkwardly, his eyes appearing to show his true concern.

"What?" Alex snapped her eyes up and looked around the room to the bed on the exam table next to her own. Kara was convulsing and the monitors were shrieking before suddenly it stopped. The noise of the machine stopped for a second before the readings went stagnant…flat lined.

"NO!" Alex cried as she practically ejected herself from the table, falling on shaking knees as she scrambled to reach Kara's bed. The flat lining continued, the sound piercing something crucial within Alex's very being. She felt like she was going to be sick, her body rejecting the images, the reality, that her eyes were seeing.

"No…" Alex's voice was soft, a whisper, her hand trembled as it touched Kara's hand. "…please…"

A tear fell from her eye in her moment of weakness and devastation. The sound of the heart monitor suddenly spiked, the sound emitting a soft, miraculous, beep… then another one …beep… and another …beep…

Lord pulled Alex back as the Black Mercy detached itself from Kara and slithered off of her, falling to the floor at Alex's feet where it withered around the floor like a flailing fish.

The second the alien slithered off of Kara, Hank grabbed his gun, within the next second he stepped into a clear line of sight and shot the Black Mercy over and over again.

Alex kicked the thing away from her path to Kara. The wound her soul had sustained at Kara's near death experience healed as she watched beautiful blue eyes open and look at her with confusion, recognition, love, and above all, trust.

-.-.-.-.-Present-.-.-.-.-

"Kiera?"

TBC…