Hero or weakness?

Weakness

It was a beautiful day out for a fly. I could just put on my suit and patrol around the city but I don't know. The sun is brightly shining through the windows. I tilt my head back and absorb the sun rays that land on my face. I feel my glasses slipping and I lift my hand to adjust them, but I just decided to take them off.

Why do I still where them when nobody's around?

"Kara?" Alex asks as she pushes the door and walks in.

"Hey." I look up from the couch, forcing a slight smile.

The look of concern, she always seems to have around me, crosses her face. "You doing alright?"

"I don't know" I say looking down.

Ever since Mon-El left, after I told him we needed space from the rushed feelings we've been having lately, I've been sitting on the couch. I keep staring at my glasses my adopted dad gave me when I first came to Earth.

"What you up to?" Alex seems to sense the mood I'm in, softly walks over and sits down next to me on the couch.

"I'm just thinking about stuff." I move to put my glasses back on so she doesn't get suspicious, but she's Alex Danvers and nobody can hide from her.

"Why are you staring at the glasses dad gave you. Are they broken?" She grabs them out of my hands. "They don't look cracked or anything." She stares into my eyes and I see something in her's change. Like she reading my mind or something and realized I have a problem.

"They're not broken Alex, I was just looking at them." She looks at me with concealed concern and huffs.

"What's going on Kara?" She gently put my glasses on my face and pushes them up my nose so that they fit right.

I look at Alex. I mean really look at her. She's this smart, weirdly funny, beautiful woman who seems to have her life together. She has the awesome job, kickass girlfriend and people who lover her for who she is. She doesn't have to hide from the world, from her friends... from herself.

I sigh, "I'm just so tired of everything Alex." I get up and move to the kitchen to get something to snack on and so I don't have to look her in the face. "I keep thinking about this thing I have with Mon-El and it's so confusing."

"Why is it confusing Kara?" Alex realizes I need some space so she stays on the couch but turns to face me.

"Because he all 'You're my weakness Kara' and I'm freaking out because really I'M his weakness? Why? Because he seem to thinks I need saving. He thinks that all the dumb stuff he's been doing is for me." I rant as I try to get a bag of chips from the cupboard. "I told him he had the potential to be a hero. I didn't tell him that because I wanted to be this superhero couple that fights crime. I told him because he has the powers and mental strength, that I don't even have sometimes, to do it." I finish as I rip the bag in half. Alex just stares at me with wide eye and says the one thing I know will break down my building walls.

"What's this really about Kara?"