Survivors

Chapter 14: Rage

Kara sat on the porch with Alex, gazing at the setting sun, Clark in between them, doing nothing, which in and of itself was strange to the blonde who had her days in her previous life mapped out. In the last eight months on Krypton she also had Kal's days mapped out.

"Kal El, are you hungry? Want a bottle?"

The boy looked at her with a face that was obviously confused.

"Bottle? Seriously? I have spoken to you in our language since you were born and since we landed and you don't know what bottle is?

"Hey Clarkie, are you getting hungry?" Alex asked.

"Uh huh."

"Wow, he has never used uh huh...Kara? Your face is red. Are you going to have...are you feeling okay?"

"I feel fine." she nearly snapped, looking away from Kal and Alex.

"Seriously, you can lie to other people but we don't lie to each other, right? Whats wrong?"

Kara sighed. "I just asked him if he wanted a bottle and he had no idea what I was saying. We haven't even been here that long and he is already forgetting our language."

Alex closed her eyes, not having thought of that. "And you feel like he is the last link you had to that aspect of your home, right?"

Kara nodded her head. "He has gotten better with his speech but all he hears now is English. I understand...I guess I just had the idea that we would always have our language, even if he wouldn't remember our home. I don't know why it bothers me so much. It is not...isn't a big deal. I'm just being ...stupid."

"Whoa! Never call yourself stupid. Never. I get it okay? You want someone to talk to in your own language. I can understand that. But Clark, he is going to...I don't think babies are great at learning two languages at the same time. Maybe they are, I don't want kids so have never had a need to research them but it seems it could be confusing."

"I know." Kara grudgingly admitted.

"But..." Alex reminded her, "I promised you, if you learned to speak English, I would learn to speak space talk. So maybe you can start teaching me. Your English has come a long way. I'm not saying that I would pick it up in three weeks like your super brain did but I like to think I am pretty bright. We can start tonight."

The blonde perked up a bit. "You would do that? Learn Kryptonese?"

"Sure. It would be cool. We could talk to each other in a language only we would understand. How many sisters can say that? Think of all the things we can plan to get away with right in front of Mom and Dad. Start me off however you want. We can feed Munchkin and then go to our room and start. I know you don't have any Kryptonian Dora the Explorer DVDs around so I am game."

"Thanks Alex." the girl told her gratefully. "I would really like that. I know I am supposed to blend in but I love to speak my language. It feels natural. English feels forced. In my nightmares...dreams, I speak in Kryptonese. I think in it as well. I just can't give it up. My home was nothing like Earth. It didn't have clear blue skies, or beautiful lakes and rivers and the blue ocean. There were no mountains I could see from my bedroom window, though there were mountains in other parts of the planet. Seeing how this planet is, how beautiful the creatures and nature are, makes me realize how ... not horrible, but ruined Krypton was. I never thought it was because I didn't know any different. It was normal to me. Despite this, I still miss it so badly. I wish I could look out our window and see the red light of Rao over this beautiful planet. I think Krypton used to be like Earth. I hope Earth never changes. I wish I could have shown you my old rooms and my drawings. I miss our Kelex..."