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I throw my keys on the kitchen counter as I walk through the door. After filling a glass of tap water, I moseyed over to the TV table, swiping up the remote control. I pushed the red button, turning on the TV. I scroll through the channels; something about The Green Arrow was on channel 52 which I leave on. Sipping on the water I turn around in search of something eat when the sound for Breaking News sounded and I turn back round, hitting the volume up button, taking interest as to why an image of myself was featured front and centre.
Newsreader: “Today we have breaking news; an unidentified source reported to the American Government that the flying Kryptonian known as Supergirl, cousin to Superman is actually known as Kara Danvers who works for CATCO World Wide Media run by Catherine Grant…”
Next to the reporter were two pictures, one of me as Supergirl and the other my secret identity as Kara Danvers.
I drop the glass I was holding.
I.
Had.
Been.
Outed.
Holy crap, I think. Quickly I pick up my mobile phone on the TV table next to me, hitting the 1 on the speed dial. It rings once then goes through.
‘Hello.’
‘Alex… have you seen the news?’ my voice trembling.
‘Yes I have. I’m so sorry Kara; we couldn’t stop the transfer of data in time nor convince the news station to stop the story. I have already made a new identity, job and everything. There is a car outside. Leave everything.’
I drop the phone without even ending the call, Alex was still talking on the other end asking what I was going to do myself. I couldn’t take that offer; I had to start completely anew with no interference. I had to forge a new identity of my own.
Getting in a taxi downtown with only my suit packed in a bag, I asked the driver to take me to Central City; I was in no mood for flying.
I stare out the window, thinking about what I was going to do and I had one moment of doubt until I saw a billboard flashing the two pictures of me. I hide my face from the driver.
‘We are here. Where would you like to be dropped off?’ I think carefully.
‘You know that abandoned building in the middle of the city with the three tall towers?’
‘Yeah.’ I nod to the driver. It takes us five minutes and then I am out the car and the taxi driver is gone. I walk into the building and down to the lower foundations which can only be entered if you are a meta-human or well someone like me. Finding the pad on the wall next to a seemly empty space, I type in the coordinates of Earth-1.
A couple of weeks later
After using most of my savings to alter my looks so nobody here could recognise me and gaining a new identity which was surprisingly easy, I settled into my new home in Central City. I had locked my suit away in the attic of my new house, swearing never to use it again.
However the woman I would met at the coffee shop Jitters later that day would change my life in ways that I never even believed was possible until the day she was kidnapped and Team Flash would learn of my real identity.
I never accounted for the fact I would fall in love, let alone with Dr Caitlin Snow from S.T.A.R. Labs.