'There are no happy endings, endings are the saddest part. So just give me a happy middle, and a very happy start.' -Shel Silverstein

Kara walked into Catco. She was confident and glowing, unusual on a Monday even for her, and strangely perfect. Not a hair was out of align in her ponytail, her skirt was perfectly shaped to her legs, her makeup flawless and her smile as sweet and as kind as ever. This would have all been dismissable if it weren't for the missing-person's report that had been on her head for a week.

There had come a point when the DEO has foregone the possibility of unravelling Kara's secret identity, and at Cat Grant's request had declared her a missing person to the news. It would only take one bright spark to put the pieces together (no sightings of Supergirl at the same time Kara Danvers was missing) but that was not a top priority for anyone.

Eyes across the office floor watched the young woman who was acting as if nothing was wrong. Even as she walked past her own 'missing' poster on the glass wall of Cat's office, she didn't bat an eye. Everyone could recall watching their boss blu-tac that image to the glass, facing outwards for all to see. It didn't fit in with the atmosphere of the room, the black title and picture of Kara from the building's database of employees. That was the moment that everyone knew that Ms Grant cared about the absence of the assistant-turned-journalist than she was letting on.

"Morning Ms Grant," Kara announced as she breezed past an open-mouthed Eve, much of the office echoing her expression. "I thought an iced latte would be more appropriate today, it's warm outside." A small smirk found it's way onto the girl's face, just another indication that she wasn't perhaps the same person that had disappeared off into a snowy wasteland three weeks before.

"Kara.." Cat used her real name with a sharp intake of breath following it. She was here. The last three weeks had felt like an eternity without her bubbly outlook on life and smiles of sunshine to blow the cobwebs away from her ageing face. Hope grew inside her and boiled as it mixed with the anger that had also been cultivating during her time waiting for Supergirl's return. 'What on earth were you thinking?" She demanded, taking a moment to place her usual uncaring, superior tone into her voice with a jolt. "It's turning Autumn now, hardly the time for an iced drink," She paused. "Though I supposed you must have missed the changing of the seasons during your trip in the freezing Arctic, hmmm?"

The young woman tilted her head to the side a little, the movement followed by a laugh that could have come from a sitcom recording.

"Funny, Ms Grant, very funny. You knew I was just trying to contact some of my family." She turned to leave the room with spin, the crowd that had gathered outside dispersing immediately. "If you were that concerned about me, why didn't you set your friend Supergirl on my trail?"

Cat watched as she left, heading in the direction of her new office. The least that could be admitted that was that something had changed within Kara during her time away. The girl was playing with her, but it also looked like she was being controlled, with her robotic movements and well-rehearsed statements...what had Non done to her?

Slumping down into her chair, Cat supposed that they should be considered lucky that she wasn't already dead (it meant a greater chance of saving her) and that she was back in National City, but the Media Queen still felt like she was drowning in the at her laptop, she knew she needed to alert the DEO, or at the very least the other Danvers sister, of Kara's return but she just couldn't bring herself to even lift a hand. It seemed like as Kara had walked out she had taken Cat's motivation with her. She had felt the same three weeks previous, and could hardly recall what had forced her to get up and go to the DEO back then, let alone now.

"Cat?" James Olsen; Cat couldn't help but roll her eyes. Of course, Kara's wannabe Superhero friend would come running in once the action was over and the villain had won. "Was that Kara?" He placed his hands on Cat's desk with a thud. "Why did you just let her walk out?"

"Mr Olsen," Cat started in a drawled tone. "We all know Kara Danvers is capable of looking after herself." She stated as she stood up, walking towards the front of her office.

"You've alerted the DEO?" James asked after a moment, hiding his anger at his boss. "How are we going to make sure she stays safe?" He demanded. Cat chuckled dryly in response.

"She's Supergirl." She stated, with a flourish on the iconic title. "She keeps us safe, James, not the other way around." In one sudden movement, she reached up and ripped down the poster that had been stuck on her wall for the last seven days.

"You know it doesn't work like that." He replied fiercely, anger burning behind his eyes. "You care about her Cat, I know you do. Don't let her make this mistake." He protested, desperate to get her influence on the right side of the fight for Kara.

"She's a grown-up girl," Cat replied, carefully beginning to rip up the image of Kara into uniform little pieces. "If you want to play Superhero, James, I'd suggest going after her." She looked into his eyes, dropping the paper pieces to the floor before returning to the safety of her desk.

As James stormed out, a few pieces swept back up into the air. A final gush of hope for the Girl of Steel, but then they settled down towards the carpet, a dead weight in the air. Cat returned to her work, not even watching the final demise of the woman named Kara Danvers.

Winn was shocked awake at his desk when the proximity alarm for Supergirl blared into his ear. Agents around him, all working on other important tasks, glared until his brain kicked in and he switched the noise off. None of them knew that it was signal for the impending arrival of The Girl of Steel, as far as they were concerned she was a lost cause.

"Is that Kara?" Winn spun around to face Alex, who had spoken in the exhausted and desperate tone. The woman was wrapped in Maggie's police jacket and looked like she had just been rescued from a freezing blizzard. It was the least to say that with one Danver's sister absent, the other did not fare well.

"Alex!" An exasperated Maggie called, she was close to half-dressed, with black jeans paired with a suspiciously pyjama looking t-shirt with them and unlaced shoes. "Come on, you had just got to sleep." She coaxed, touching her girlfriend on the arm but the other young woman was far too alert to consider sleep.

"Where is she?" She demanded as she slid into the chair beside Winn, watching the screens in earnest. Winn tapped away, ignoring Maggie's protests towards Alex as she did.

The little red dot on the screen had been moving fast, but now it had slowed in a familiar building.

"CatCo." He breathed, readying himself to send out a team of agents but stopped himself as the triangulated dot picked up speed again. She was flying over the city, that was clear enough, and he could imagine the attention she was receiving. It had been weeks since any sighting of the resident Superhero and he knew people below would find their eyes following the familiar red and blue streak in the sky. It was as if she was leading them towards hope again, but Winn knew that couldn't be the case. As the dot stopped sharply, Winn zoomed in on her location.

"Her loft." He said, glancing up at Alex. "She's gone home."

Kara and Alex had gone to look at the loft together, way back when the younger Danver's sister was desperate to move out to National City. She could remember coming home from another travel out of town and Kara informing her of the plan. It came after Kara had gone for the interview with Cat Grant, and within a day of getting the job, she knew that living in the city would make it easier for her, without having to use her powers. And so, with Eliza worrying back home, the two had set out to look for a home for Kara.

Some of the first ones had been disgusting, no windows, mould on the walls and fleeting supplies of electricity, but with a quick budget adjustment, they quickly found more suitable accommodation. However, Kara had liked none of them. The ceilings made her feel claustrophobic or the windows didn't face the direction the sun rose in. There had come a point where they were both ready to give up...but then they found the Loft. Kara had fallen in love instantly, with the open-plan space and kitchen room for her large eating habits. Alex adored the location, just a block away from CatCo but most importantly Kara liked the windows. They spanned around two sides of the entire loft, they were tall and filtered in light perfectly at every moment of the day.

"Like home." Kara had said, remembering the window overlooking the city back on Krypton, this was its equivalent on Earth. So the loft became Kara's new earth home, and there had been so many good times in it, but also bad. As Alex travelled to the loft with Winn, Maggie and J'onn she had the gut feeling that this would be a day of tears, not smiles, in the loft.

Inside, Kara looked around the space in contempt. How could she have allowed herself to be happy in this place when her family had been waiting for her at home? She had been complacent, happy to accept comfort instead of working through the trauma of her arrival to get home again. As a child, she had never truly known that Krypton had exploded, it was later, via Superman, that she was informed of that fact. In all the time she had never questioned whether home had survived, she had done nothing. Now, she paid the price for that. Catching a glimpse of herself in the mirror, there was at least something she could be proud of during her time on Earth. As on Krypton, she wore her family crest with pride, and even if it had taken her twelve years to do it, it was still an accomplishment.

When her friends and family piled into the loft, followed by a few DEO agents with guns held out, they found her with her back to them as she looked over the city from the bay windows of the loft. The sun was just starting to lower itself from the sky, and it's ray's lit Kara's blonde hair up into bright glowing embers. There seemed to be nothing wrong with her, in fact, she appeared better than she had for many months; they could not see the trauma that ravaged her inside.

"Kara?" Alex spoke first, her voice hoarse as she stepped towards the figure of her sister despite urges of caution from the others. "You're home." She stated the obvious, finally getting a reaction out of the other.

"This is not my home." Kara snapped fiercely, turning her head just enough to see Alex out of the corner of my eye. "My home is Krypton, and I am so close to getting there." There was a visible drop in everyone's hope; they had wanted Kara to say this is where she belonged, and forget the impossible dream of going home to a world that didn't exist.

"You know Krypton exploded, Kara," Alex replied, desperation seeping into her tone. "Please, Kara!" She added in a more demanding tone. "You know that Krypton is gone, you have since you were twelve." Kara's spun around violently, her eyes burning into Alex as if her laser-vision was enabled.

"You know nothing of the multiverse, the earth's I have been to are different from this one, sister, in the same way that there are a million Krypton's for me to go home too." Kara seethed, her eyes roaming across her sister with disregard. This woman had kept secrets from her, she must have known about the existence of other Kryptons, and yet still she stood there with snaking lies leaving her lips. "My method of getting home is already in place, Alex, I merely came here to give you all a chance to say your goodbyes." She paused for a long moment. "That's what humans do, don't they?"

Silence filled the room, they couldn't just let her go. They couldn't. Yet any movement towards Kara that seemed anything more than a peaceful goodbye would just end up in violence. Winn, Alex, Maggie, and J'onn all looked between each other. They considered whether this was the time to give in to what Kara wanted, even if James, Eliza, Cat, and Lena didn't get the goodbye they were about too.

"Kara…" J'onn said as if hoping the sound of begging from yet another would bring Supergirl back down to earth, and into reality. Kara merely glanced out her window, noting how the sun was lowering itself in the sky.

"Say goodbye now, or live without it." She told them, her chance to get home was nearing and she wouldn't let these people take that from her again.

Finally, Alex shuffled forward, wrapping her arms around her sister and practically collapsing onto it with tears streaming down her face and dripping one by one onto Kara's red-caped shoulder. It took a while, but Kara finally reached up to wrap a single arm around the woman, and that was the only kind movement she made throughout all the rest of those in the room stepping up to bid their goodbyes, and last pleas, to the Superhero.

"Try not to be sad," Kara spoke words that would normally be associated with love, and not wanting to see someone upset, but she spoke with a cold tone, and everyone before her was breaking inside. "I'll be home, and much happier than I ever could be here." She stated, looking at J'onn. "You, of all people, should understand that."

"Kara, please!" Alex tried one last time, stepping towards her sister. Kara didn't let her get close, a single strike to the face, the woman backed off with a look of pain.

She took a step towards the window, opening it with an easy swing, to her, her journey home would be just as simple. Kara looked back, and smiled at them.

"Goodbye."

With that, she took off into the sky, a colourful streak on the horizon, and the rest ran out to see what was about to occur.

It was late afternoon, the hours bleeding into the early evening as the summer sunlight warmed the city up from its place still high in the sky. The buildings reflected its rays, again and again, blinding the people who all looked up to watch what was happening.

Supergirl was still in the distant sky, a skyscraper and a half up from the ground, and clearly planning to go higher. Opposite it, a man in all black, meeting her eye with a deathly gaze. Between them, a sphere which glowed purple….but on the inside Kryptonite oozed, unbeknown to The Girl of Steel.

"Fly this into the sky, as fast as you can, and it will explode." Non stated, gesturing with his hands around the floating sphere. "The speed and heat will create a wormhole greater than the one you use to cross to Earth 1. You not only have to cross multiverses, my dear niece, but a galaxy also."

Kara nodded, her blonde hair flowing in the breeze that was surrounding them. She couldn't help but make a small calculation; the distance up in the sky she would have to go to ensure that no person below got harmed. She was leaving Supergirl behind, perhaps, but these humans didn't have to pay the price for that.

"When?" She asked, knowing that (according to Non), the position of the sun had to her perfect, in order to help create the cascade that would break open the hole in the multiverse. Thanks to Max Lord, every number was perfect, every fact that Non fed to her was utterly within the realms of Science, despite the small detail that what she was about to do would not get her home.

"Three minutes, but you know that." He smirked, her eagerness to get it right affirming to him that she believed every word of the elaborate lie. She nodded, glancing down towards the ground. A few figures caught her eye, she could see Cat and Lena glancing at her from their respective offices. Alex stood far below, with Maggie and cops by her side. Winn and James were together, and J'onn….she couldn't see him yet...but he couldn't be far from Alex.

"Kara.." Non scolded, gesturing with his hand for her to bring her eyes back to focus on the sphere. "Remember what I taught you?" He asked, referring to their long and tedious lessons in the cold climate of the Fortress.

"They don't care about me, they care that I am an alien." She echoed. That was the first point of every day, everyone on this earth loved her because she was interesting, because she was an alien. If she had just been a normal child, no one would have adopted her, no one would have cared for her. She knew that for a fact, she had seen how this planet treated their young, she was lucky to escape it now.

"Exactly." He stated, feeling the sun move to the correct point behind him, he forced his smirk to become a smile. 'Now, Kara. Fly."

She shot up, the sphere in her hands, and when she briefly glanced back down...Non was gone. She couldn't let that stop her. She put everything behind her speed, she recalled racing Barry, and moved faster. She remembered stopping the spaceship, and used more strength. She thought about her home, and went higher. As she did, the machine beeped. It got louder and louder, as finally she reached her calculated altitude. She pushed a little bit further, her mother and father were in reach, as were the stars….

The explosion was deathly, it shook the earth to the core. Kryptonite ripped into Kara's body; shattering into her lungs, her bones, her heart. Blood dripped from destroyed eardrums, as she tilted back, and began to fall.

She came from the depths of the sky, faster than her pod, with more power and less hope. Her skin was flooded with green, it reflected onto the clouds, and flashed across the sky for everyone below to see. Her hair whipped into her face, slashing her lips and eyes with merciless red lines. Her eyes were focused on the destruction far above her, a cloud of black, a bomb made to kill her, not take her home.

The fire from the explosion caught up with her, as she felt like she was falling in slow motion. Ashes and flames became rain around her as if she was dropping down from heaven, surrounded by hell. Sunlight forced its way through the cloud of death above her to frame her body like a spotlight: it invited everyone to watch and remember the end of The Girl of Steel.

Within the millions of people watching, Alex screamed far below, and J'onn appeared from seemingly nowhere to wrap his arms tightly around her. Cat was wordless, that was Kara, her beautiful, friendly assistant was dying before her very eyes. She had no words, no stories to spin, she wanted it all to stop. Winn took off towards where he believed she would land, and left James behind like a statue in the concrete. Tears poured down Lena's face.

Kara, well she was hardly awake. Kryptonite was poisoning her body, just as Non's words had poisoned her mind. She could only comprehend one thing, one remnant of what he had taught her carved into the foundations of her mind: no one in this universe is going to miss me.

The city breathed in together, as they waited for someone to save their heroine. Superman may soar out of the clouds to save his cousin. Perhaps the only-once-sighted Blur would swoop in to save the day. With every blink, she was closer to the ground, and people moved apart to let it greet her as hope faded. Their attention could not even be stolen by the woman who screamed, with blood dripping from her injured mouth. Alex didn't care about keeping it a secret, she screamed for her sister. Kara knew she should have listened to her.

Why didn't you listen!

She scolded herself, as Alex did the same as she dropped to the ground and curled up without hope. They had failed each other.

A shockwave ricocheted off Kara through the city as she hit the ground, a never-ending beam of green light shooting up into the sky. She convulsed, her body shaking as the fire of hit ripped through her like a sword. She was as human as she had ever been, and the pain….it was too much for her to comprehend….a guttural scream was yanked from inside her as she shook and cried.

I want my sister.

She sobbed and yelled the demand in her mind, like a child wanting the one thing they cannot have. Alex. She wanted Alex. She couldn't even consider what she had done to her, that could all be fixed once she had been saved. She wanted to be saved, to survive. Please.

No-one was permitted to get close, if they had been able to get through the crater filled with shrapnel anyways. Kara, however, assumed that no one cared for her. With her ears dripping blood, she couldn't hear Alex crying, or the echo Cat made as she collapsed to the ground, nor the yells and curses from Winn. She could hear so little of the world around her, and less and less with each passing moment. It was almost like she wasn't on earth anymore.

Despite the lies Non had told her, there was one thing that was true. They didn't want her. Whether she was human, or alien, she knew that this wasn't the place for her, and it had never been. His words stuck in her mind, but she could do nothing about what he said now.

All there was around her was silence, she could not hear the screams of the city as they watched her and prayed that she would live. When she stopped crying, and when she stopped moving, a darkness overtook the skies, and green rain moved in to mourn.

Supergirl was dead.

Anddddd...it's done! Yep, many a month late but hey, still got there! Honestly, I got the drive to finish this purely so I could start a Star Wars Fanfiction (reylo) and it is the first fanfiction I've actually finished ahahaha XD

Please leave a review about what you thought! And whether there is any fanfics from Supergirl you might like me to try (no promises) :)

Also, to the people asking about the fact I killed her, that was stated in the very first chapter, and I wasn't going to change that, it wouldn't have made for an effective story :)

~Eli