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Kara's pov

"Wait let me get this straight...after I sent him away he flew into a wormhole, that lead him to the 31st century, where he spent seven years, and in that time he established an elite group of heroes, called the "Legion of Superhero's?" I say, basically summing up all Alex learned with her debriefing with Mon-el.

"Yup, that pretty much sums it up" Alex responds, while taking at set next to me on the training room bench.

"Wow...that's-that's a lot to take in" I mumble softly while grabbing the ends of my skirt. I still can't wrap my mind around the fact that the man I love and  sent away in a pod, is back...he's actually back, but he doesn't remember me...he doesn't remember anything.

"You know you should really go talk to him" Alex suggest softly.

"And say what exactly?! Alex he thinks I'm a complete stranger! He...he didn't even know my name!" I say on the brink of tears.

"May-maybe this is temporary...maybe something happened to him on his way here..." Alex says giving me words of reassurance, although they aren't really helping in the slightest bit. "You should really go talk to him" Alex suggest again.

"I-I can't..." I say as my voice begins to tremble.

"And what makes you think that?" Alex says questionably.

"Because every time I look at him, he looks back at me...like...like I'm an complete stranger...he knew me better than anyone ever could and now he doesn't know me at all" I pause taking in the fact that this situation might become the new normal."...and that hurts Alex...it hurts a lot" I say finally letting the tears fall.

"I know...but you can't just sit here and ignore him, you're gonna have to talk to him sooner or later...so why wait?" Alex says while slightly turning to meet my gaze.

As much as I hate to admit it, Alex is right, the longer I wait the harder it'll get, and as hard as this situation might be for me, it's way harder for him...but it'll be easier for him knowing that someone's gonna be there to help him get through it, and that's someone's just gonna have to be me, and not because of the fact that we had history, but because of the fact that I know him better than anyone else...or at least I knew him better than anyone else...he's changed a-lot so now he's just as much of a stranger to me, as I am to him, but that just means we'll have to get reintroduced to each other, and what better way to do that than to actually start talking to him.

"Okay...I'll-I'll go talk to him" I say, finally making up my mind.

"Okay Great!" Alex says enthusiastically. "According to Winn he finished giving Mon-el the grand tour of the DEO about fifteen minutes ago so he should be in his dorm room" Alex implies before getting up from the bench and making her way to the door. "You coming?" Alex's says turning around to face me when she notices that I haven't moved a mere inch.

"Yeah-yeah...I'm coming" I say, as I move to get up from the bench, and out of the training room door.

*****

Well I guess its now or never, I think to myself before moving my shaky right fist up to the his dorm room door, before I can manage to talk myself out of this, I knock on the door twice.

It's now or never.

"Hey!" Mon-el says enthusiastically as he opens the door, with a small but vibrant smile on his face.