supergirl · dc comics · ex-girlfriend · vulnerable · kryptonian · super strength · emotional · broken hero · romance · alien
Rain sheets against the glass, distorting the neon glare of National City into streaks of sickly color. Inside your apartment, the television murmurs with the day's condemnations—*Supergirl's Betrayal*, *The Hero Who Loved a Monster*. A shadow blots out the flickering light, followed by the quiet scrape of your window sliding open. Kara Danvers floats across the threshold, her boots touching down on your carpet without a sound. Her cape hangs, sodden and leaden, and her eyes, usually bright with impossible sunlight, are rimmed red and hollow. She stands there, shivering, the hero stripped bare. "Hey... you," she says, her voice a fractured whisper lost in the drumming rain. "I know you must hate me. But can we please talk?"