A/N: Sorry I haven't updated "Replaced" in a while. I just ran out of inspiration and encountered a huge writer's block. I hope to finish it eventually, but as of now, it is on hiatus until inspiration strikes once more. I'm hoping that writing smaller pieces can help give me ideas on how I want to finish it off. If you have read it and have any ideas or requests, please feel free to suggest it to me. I'm hoping with maybe a little push and a couple of ideas, I can finish it out.

Anyways, this piece will likely be on the shorter side. If you have any prompt suggestions for coming pieces, please PM them to me or leave them in a review. The rest of the chapters in this fic won't be this long, just to let you all know.

Inspired by a review I saw from user Lennat.

Hope you guys enjoy :)

"Alex!" Eliza caught her daughter's arm as she ran up the stairs at full sprint, eyes clouded over in rage.

Kara listened from behind her room door, feeling like everything wrong in the world was her fault. Just a few weeks ago, the Danvers family had received word that Jeremiah had passed away on a DEO mission. Alex did her best to contain her grief, but found herself lashing out at Kara more often than not. Kara was afraid that today might have been the last straw.

Earlier in the Day

"Please, Alex? I really want to watch the movie!"

Alex shook her head in protest. "I'm sorry, Kara. But today I'm going out with my friends. I can't just bring you along, they wouldn't like it. They're not supposed to know that you and I are related, remember?" Alex made a habit of separating her family life from her social life. She had gone out of her way to convince Eliza to give Kara a different last name, just for school purposes. She could be Kara Danvers anywhere she wanted to be, as long as it was not on campus grounds. Nobody at school knew the "new freak kid" was Alex's adopted sister. And she intended to keep it that way.

Alex was at the top of her class, and her athletic abilities were unmatched. She had the perfect boyfriend, and she was the most popular girl in school. She was not willing to let her untarnished reputation take a hit, just because Kara wanted to watch one movie. If her friends ever found out about her relation to Kara, or god forbid her boyfriend found out, Alex's life would be over.

Of course, Kara understood all this. She was totally fine pretending to not know Alex if it made her big sister happy. She knew how Alex was revered in school by every single student, and she understood because she looked up to Alex too. Kara wouldn't put Alex's reputation at risk.

So she nodded.

Alex walked out the front door, not even sparing a glance back at her alien sister who had managed to singlehandedly ruin her life. She took her car and drove out to the theater to meet her friends. Kara watched as Alex left without even a single trace of remorse. Kara knew she had to let Alex go, but she still wanted to watch the movie.

The little alien grabbed her favorite jacket, and flew out the upstairs window, headed towards the theater. She paid for her ticket with the last of her money from the month's allowance, and grabbed a seat as far away from Alex as possible. If they were seen together, she could completely tank Alex's entire social life, and Kara wouldn't risk that for anything.

Alex and her posse walked into the theater to take the back row, but as she climbed up the stairs, she caught a glimpse of a small alien huddled alone in a chair. Her eyes bugged out - half in annoyance, half in surprise - but she tried to hide it before her friends noticed. None of them suspected anything between the two girls, but her friends did see Kara sitting alone.

Alex felt her boyfriend, Connor Williams, tug on her sleeve. He was absolutely picture perfect, and just as perfect on paper. He was the school's starting quarterback, he placed in the top 10 for GPA and SAT scores, and he was involved in half of the school's extracirricular clubs. He and Alex were the resident power couple of Midvale High. The only thing Alex disliked about him was that he didn't know when to hold his tongue.

But, she put that flaw aside. He was great to her, and nice to most of the students at school. Plus, he did wonders for her social status and school reputation. So she overlooked the small jabs he would make at some kids during school hours. She didn't want to say anything and risk him breaking up with her. That would be the first step to social suicide at that school. Defending the "freaks" to her own boyfriend.

Connor and the rest of their group pointed out Kara and started laughing. As they headed to the top row, he very vocally made fun of her with the others cheering him on.

"Look! It's the loser from school. Sitting all alone because she has no friends." He looked around and found all of his friends laughing with him. That invigorated him. "How did she even get in here? They shouldn't allow freaks into public places. And where are her parents? Probably too disappointed to be seen leaving the house with her."

Alex shifted uncomfortably. She couldn't risk causing a scene in front of her whole friend group and her boyfriend, but Kara was sitting there unwilling to defend herself. Of course she had heard all the remarks, the whole theater had. But she refused to fight back because she didn't want to make the situation any harder on Alex. She sank further into her chair and tried to focus on the trailers that were playing, but Alex's friends were having too much fun.

Abigail Matthews, one of the school's more popular cheerleaders and an esteemed member of Alex's posse, joined Connor in his attempt to humiliate the defenseless girl. "We know you can hear us. What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?" She went to take her seat and she snorted. "What a loser." All her friends giggled in agreement.

Just as Connor was about to take another jab, Alex stopped him. She couldn't sit back and watch anymore. Sure, Kara had gotten Jeremiah taken away. Sure, Kara had ruined her life, her family. Everything. But sitting back while Kara just took the abuse was making her feel sick. Something inside her stirred up and she pushed her boyfriend.

"Hey! Cut it out. Can't you see you're making her uncomfortable? She catches enough flack from the people at school, why don't you just leave her alone? What has she ever done to you, huh?" Connor brushed himself off, taken aback. Alex had always sat idly by when he would tease some of the underclassmen. He had never received any resistance when he would pick on the younger kids. "Yeah, Danvers? And what's it to you?"

He drew himself to his full height after recovering from being pushed back, which caused Alex to hesitate. All of their friends sat intently watching. She cleared her throat. "Just... shut up and watch the movie." As Alex moved to sit, Connor pulled her arm to prevent her. He started squeezing, maybe a little too tight.

"No, Alex. I want to know why you care so much. You've never stopped me before. So why now? Who is she?" His grip on her arm tightened exponentially, if that was even possible, and Alex's eyes started watering in pain. As soon as Alex had started arguing with Connor, Kara had turned around to watch how it would play out. And she was not pleased with what she saw.

She began calmly walking up to the large group of kids and stepped to the edge of their row, near where Connor was standing. She looked him straight in the eye and growled in a low tone. "Let her go."

Connor laughed in her face. "Yeah? And what are you going to do about it if I don't, huh?"

Kara's eyes lit up in rage as she advanced towards him. "I said. Let. Her. Go." All of the girls began moving out of her way, whispering about how much of a freak she was. But Kara didn't pay any attention to them. All she could think about, all she could look at, was Connor's iron grip on her sister's arm. And how it seemed Alex was in a lot of pain. Connor tried to taunt her by attempting to move across the row in the opposite direction, but all of his friends had moved out of the way so Kara had no problem keeping pace with him.

She caught up to him and grabbed his arm with an iron grip of her own. She looked straight at him, and demanded. "Last chance. Let go of her arm." He snickered and moved to push Alex, hoping it would get a rise out of Kara, and that's when the alien snapped. She tried to hold back her strength, but she still wanted to teach the older kid a lesson. She rammed into him shoulder first, and he went flying back a couple chairs, skidding to a stop on the ground. He released his grip on Alex as soon as Kara bowled into him, and all of the whispering from his friends immediately stopped upon seeing the strongest kid in school get knocked aside by the loser girl.

Alex looked at Connor with disdain for the first time in her life, and pointed to Kara. "You want to know who she is? Kara's my sister, asshole."

Disgust washed over Connor's face at the revelation, and all of their friends collectively gasped. Connor started standing up, and he gritted out. "If that thing is your sister, and you choose to defend her? Then we're done. We're through." Before he could fully stand, Alex kicked him back to the ground. Hard.

"Fine." She took Kara by the arm and stormed out of the theater to the car.

Kara started to thank Alex from the back seat, but was immediately interrupted. "Kara..." Alex sighed in frustration. She knew how rumors worked in high school. Everyone would know about this by the next morning. Everyone would know she was related to Kara. And everyone would know that Connor had broken up with her.

"Kara, I don't want to hear it right now. Okay? I told you to stay away from the theater. I knew nothing good would happen if you came. But you didn't listen. You never listen! And after that stunt you pulled? Hitting Connor? No one at school will even look at you. And for defending you, I just doomed myself to a fate worse than yours. You should have stayed away!" Alex had tears in her eyes as she drove them both back home.

Kara rode the rest of the way in silence, feeling horrible for the way the night had gone.

Present Time, Danvers Household

Kara listened from the safety of her bedroom as her adopted sister and adopted mother got into it on the staircase.

"Mom, I'm so done with her ruining everything good in my life! I've just lost all of my friends, my boyfriend very publicly broke up with me, and no one at school will even spare me a second glance. Everything I've worked for is tumbling down. And it's all her fault!"

Eliza tried to calm her daughter down, full well knowing that even without super hearing, Kara could hear the entire argument. "But you did the right thing, Alex. You stuck up for her, and you chose her over your friends. They were picking on her, and you stood up for her. That's exactly who I raised you to be. You chose her over your friends, and for that I am sure she's grateful. I know I am."

Alex huffed in anger. "I shouldn't have been forced to make that choice! Don't you understand? If she had never come to this stupid house in the first place, none of this would be happening. I even told her to stay away from the theater because I knew something like that would happen. She should have listened to me!" When she saw Eliza about to come to Kara's defense, she butted in again.

"And you seem to conveniently forget that she was the reason Jeremiah was taken. Your husband! My father! Jeremiah left to that damned organization to protect her, and he died on one of their missions. You can't seriously tell me that his death isn't her fault. Our family is broken because of her! I wish she had never landed on Earth. If she had just stayed in that stupid Phantom Zone, Dad would still be here. He would be alive. I would have my boyfriend, I would have my friends, and I would be happy. Instead I've been left with a dead father, a sister I never wanted, and nobody at school to support me."

She pulled her arm free of Eliza's grip and stormed into her bedroom. Before she slammed her door, she looked Eliza right in the eye. "Stop kidding yourself, Mom. She ruined my life. She ruined everything. And you know it."

Kara heard the tail end of that argument and she did her best to hold back her tears, but to no avail. She looked down at the jacket in her hands. It was her favorite because it had been given to her by Alex. It was a particularly bad day and Alex lashed out at her. She had gotten the jacket for Kara because she felt bad.

It was a simple black jacket, because Alex wouldn't buy anything that wasn't black, but it had the symbol of the House of El in the front left corner. It was a bright red logo, and it reminded Kara of home. Of Kal-El. Once he became the great hero of Earth, stores started selling merchandise in his honor. Alex had picked one up for her, and even though it had been given to her to alleviate Alex's guilt and not as an actual gift, it still meant everything to Kara. Alex hadn't taken the time to get to know her or even ask for her size, so the jacket itself was humongous on Kara's small frame. But she didn't care.

So Kara threw the jacket around her, and she flew out the window, careful not to make too much noise. She felt that she didn't even deserve to be upset because everything Alex had said was true. She thought that maybe Alex would be better off without her, so she fulfilled Alex's last wish.

Kara left, and never came back. She knew nothing would bring back Jeremiah, or Alex's old life, but she had a sliver of hope that maybe her leaving would give Alex the happiness that she deserved.

Her heart had shattered when she heard how Alex felt about her, and that's when it dawned on Kara that she had completely and utterly ruined an innocent girl's perfect life. Her heart was broken beyond repair.

And Alex had been the one to break it.