SuperCorp Chronicles

Chapter 15

When Kara returned home, she found someone she'd honestly been expecting waiting for her in her penthouse.

"I'm guessing that the fact that you didn't call ahead of time means that this isn't a social visit." Kara said to her foster mother, Eliza Danvers, who she saw sitting on her couch, drinking a glass of her scotch and rubbing Krypto behind the ears.

"We both know it's not Kara. It's about what you're wearing right now." Eliza said, since Kara was still wearing her super suit.

"I made a choice that I should've made a long time ago. This is who I am." Kara said unapologetically as she poured herself a glass of scotch, since while she did have alien alcohol in her apartment, now was not the time to crack it open.

"This is very dangerous." Eliza said.

"And yet Martha Kent has never jumped down Clark's throat about being Superman. She accepted that it's a part of who he is. So why can't you do the same for me?" Kara asked her.

"Kara, listen to me, the world already has Superman." Eliza said.

"So you think that it doesn't need Supergirl too? Because that's the same thing Jeremiah told me not long after I came to live with you. You both seemed to want to do whatever you had to in order to keep me from following in Kal's footsteps." Kara said.

"Because we were trying to protect you." Eliza said.

"And it was one thing when I was a scared little girl who'd just lost her whole world, but I'm an adult now and it's my life. You always said that you were doing everything you could to make me feel welcome and accepted on Earth and in your family, but what you really wanted to do was prevent me from being who I am. You were trying to make me more human." Kara said, trying hard to keep her temper in check, but this was an anger she'd had towards her foster mother for longer than she'd realized and now that it was finally starting to appear, she wasn't sure she could rein it in.

"What's wrong with that? Being human?" Eliza asked.

"Nothing, but I am not human and I never will be. I'm a kryptonian, one of the last kryptonians in existence and it felt like and it still does feel like you're trying to get me to forget about my heritage." Kara said as Krypto jumped up and ran to his mistress's side, since he could tell she was upset.

"Kara, I was trying to keep you safe." Eliza said.

"Maybe, but that doesn't justify trying to get me to forget who and what I am and where I came from. I am the last daughter of Krypton and I'm done pretending that I'm not. When I wear this suit, this glyph, I feel like I've finally connected to my people again. This is who I am. And I'm not going to stop just because you're uncomfortable with it, because while I appreciate everything you've done for me, you're not my mother!" Kara shouted before she could stop herself.

"Kara." Eliza said, hurt clear in her eyes.

"Eliza, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that." Kara said.

"Well you did and you can't take it back. I'll see myself out." Eliza said as she walked out of the penthouse without another word and leaving Kara frustrated and sad about what had happened.

Eliza was currently at a bar in National City, trying to drown her sorrows when she heard someone walk up to her.

"Yeah, I think you've had enough." Alex said to her mother as she sat down next to her.

"Alex, I'm not in the mood right now. I still can't believe you let her do this." Eliza said.

"You really think I could stop her? I'm not her caretaker mom, Kara is free to do what she wants and this was her choice. But this isn't about her deciding to follow in her cousin's footsteps, this is about what she said about you not being her mother." Alex said as she made her mom look at her.