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A/N: This is set in Season 2 soon after 'The Darkest Place'

"You okay?" Alex asked noticing Kara was staring at her sticky bun rather than eating it.

"I guess."

"Kara, what's wrong?" Alex said.

"I feel like such failure." Kara sighed.

"Is this about Mon-El?"

"No, yes, maybe in part. But it's not just that."

"So what is it?"

"I let you down, I let Mon-El down, I'm failing at my job, James seems like he is leading a different life and I really miss Cat."

"You've not let me down." Alex said squeezing Kara's hand.

"Yes I have. Your life hasn't been complete and that is my fault. I so want to make it right, but I don't know how."

"Kara, listen to me." Alex said. "You are not responsible for what has happened or is happening in my life. When I have needed you, you have always been there. If it weren't for you risking everything I would have died on that plane. If you want though I can say that with scathing sarcasm and you can pretend I'm Cat." She offered, bringing a small smile to Kara's face.

"It's not the sarcasm I miss." Kara said.

"I know."

"The sad part is I never fully appreciated what a great mentor Cat was. I mean I knew she was a good mentor, but now she's gone I realise she was better than good."

"She'll be back." Alex said.

"I'm starting to doubt that. I have not heard from her for weeks. I mean I know there is no reason to contact me, but I kind of thought she may have sent a message about one of my articles."

"Maybe she thinks they're awful?" Alex playfully suggested before getting more serious and saying. "You said she told you to be more independent and realise how smart and talented you are right?"

"Yeah."

"Perhaps she thinks if she contacts you, you'll use her as a crutch. So maybe she is not contacting you so can realise what the rest of us already know, just how amazing you are."

"Thanks." Kara said.

-00-

"Carter?" Kara asked surprised as she saw Cat's son walk through the office a couple of days later.

"Kara." He said looking awkward and nervous.

"What are you doing here? Is your mom back?" Kara asked as she reached him.

"She's not here?" Carter asked as he fiddled with the strap of his bag.

"Not that I've seen. Did you think you were meeting her here?"

"No." Carter replied shaking his head. "I just hoped. She was meant to be back in the city this weekend but I've not heard anything and I'm getting worried."

"Carter I'm sure she is fine." Kara said hugging him.

"I miss her." He confessed.

"Me too." Kara said. "But I know she loves you and I know she misses you too."

"Then why doesn't she phone anymore?" He asked. "I mean I know she can't phone everyday. I mean she did at the start, but I understand with the travel and time differences it might be hard. But it has been three weeks and nothing, not even a text. And the last contact was a text message that said she wouldn't be in touch for awhile."

"Can I see?" Kara asked.

"Sure." Carter said getting out his phone. When Kara read the message she immediately became concerned by the coldness of the message.

"I tell you what, I will ask around and see if I can figure out where she is okay?"

"Thank you."

"In the mean time if you hear anything call me."

-00-

"Detective Sawyer?" Kara asked as she stood in front of Maggie's desk the following day.

"Kara?" Maggie said, surprised to see Alex's friend turn up at her workplace.

"Yeah, can we talk? In private." Kara responded.

"Um, I guess." Maggie said looking uncomfortable, assuming Kara was there to talk about Alex. "This way." She said standing. "How did you even get in here?"

"I kinda used my press credentials." Kara said. "Technically I'm not sure I should have done that but I needed to talk to you." She added as Maggie let her into a small windowless room.

"So what can I do for you?" Maggie asked mentally counting down to the insults and criticism she thought was going to be levelled at her.

"I want to report a missing person." Kara said completely surprising Maggie.

"That's not actually my department. But I can take you to someone who can help." Maggie offered.

"I don't think they'd take me seriously." Kara confessed.

"Why?"

"Well, I've got no proof and I'm not sure they are missing. But I think they're missing."

"What do you mean you think they are missing? And who is this they?"

"Cat Grant."

"The Cat Grant?" Maggie asked.

"Yeah."

"I thought she had gone on a sabbatical or something?"

"Leave of absence." Kara corrected. "But she loves CatCo she wouldn't just disappear and drop all contact."

"Why did she leave?" Maggie asked.

"She needed to find new seas."

"What?"

"She felt she had done all she could with CatCo. She needed a new challenge."

"So, isn't it possible that she is doing just that?"

"This is Cat Grant. When she finds that sea she'll make waves and the whole world will hear about it." Kara said continuing the metaphor.

"Okay, well she could still be searching for the right sea. Maybe she is silently contemplating her options." Maggie suggested.

"And I get that and I understand why she wouldn't return my calls and emails and probably not care I was getting worried. Cat may have a really bad reputation, but she isn't like that, not deep down. And although she may sacrifice many things to achieve her goals. She wouldn't do that to Carter."

"Carter? Who's Carter?" Maggie asked confused.

"Her son. Well her youngest son."

"And he's not heard from her?"

"No, well yes, but not really." Kara said.

"That's not the most useful of answers." Maggie pointed out.

"He was having daily contact by phone until about three weeks ago when he got a text saying she was going to be travelling and would be out of contact for awhile. They had been meant to be meeting this weekend and when she didn't respond to any of his messages he came to see me. A few hours after that he got a text saying Cat was fine, but stuck on an island and wouldn't be coming home."

"I sense a but." Maggie said.

"It's not Cat's style. She wouldn't just cut contact with Carter and she wouldn't not come back to meet him. And isn't the timing a little suspicious? Carter comes and sees me and then gets a text to say she is fine?"

"Kara, I can see you are really concerned, but even if this did fall under my area, which it doesn't, I'm not sure what I could do. It doesn't even sound like she was in the city when she went missing." Maggie said causing disappointment to wash across Kara's face. "But I guess I can ask around see if anyone has heard anything."

"Thank you." Kara smiled.

-00-

"Hello Cat. How are you today? Enjoying the news? I know I am." Dirk Armstrong smiled. "You've been here enjoying my hospitality for three weeks now." He said sitting down opposite Cat who was bound to a chair, her mouth gagged. "And yet not one hint that you are missing is on the news. It is like no one has noticed, or if they have they just don't care. It turns out it is a lot easier to strip you of everything than I thought." He said crossing his legs and straightening his tie. "Actually, I'm not being fair, two people are incessantly trying to get into contact with you." He said removing a phone from his suit pocket and scrolling through some messages. "It was three. Turns out, who was it now, Adrian, Alex, no Adam. That's it isn't it? Adam your abandoned eldest? Anyway, turns out he is so used to being abandoned he has stopped trying to get hold of you." He paused taking pleasure in the pain the comment caused Cat. "But your annoying former assistant and Carter keep trying. And that could be a problem, not the assistant, Carter. You see my sources at CatCo tell me he paid your former assistant a visit and as a result she has started asking questions. She even went to the police. So you see I'm going to have to do something. Obviously my associate has been texting Carter on your behalf, turns out he wasn't completely convinced." Dirk said leaning forward. "Before you get too excited, this isn't your phone. I've learnt my lesson, thanks to you, about leaving an electronic paper trail. My associate has your phone in Bora Bora so if anyone tries tracing it, it will just look like you are being self indulgent and neglectful. And let's face it, who is going to go to Bora Bora to verify that?"

TBC...

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