When you're gone, the pieces of my heart are missing you | OPEN

[zor_el]

ACTION

Kara Danvers knows loss. Of course she does. Her planet died; her family with it, with the exception of Kal. Most people would know him by his human name: Clark Kent.

But this...this is so much different. This feels like a heavy ache that refuses to do anything other than persist. It doesn't want to fade. It doesn't want to go away. It hurts to have been so much in love and to know that the sentiment was shared and still to be torn apart so cruelly. It's almost worse that he'd been so brave about it.

She'd needed some time alone. She'd needed to get away from everyone asking her if she was okay; she's not okay. She's not going to be okay with this probably ever. Even when she heals from what feels like a gaping wound in her heart, she's still never going to be okay with losing her first love the way she did. But maybe she can move on a little faster if she doesn't have an older sister and several friends hovering to try to make sure that she's all right. So Kara walked through the door.

...and when she immediately regretted her decision and thought better of it to head back, the door opened to nothing more than a wall. There had been punching of said wall. There had been feral screams of pent up depression and anger and raw emotion. There had been tears.

And then she'd walked away. Now she's roaming the streets of this new place, trying to decide whether it's the Universe's way of telling her she really does need this break from life or whether this is something more sinister. Tear tracks are mostly gone by the time she starts to see othe people walking the same street she is and she assumes she's further into town at that point. Seeing what's clearly a bar — Houndstooth, huh? — nearly sets her off in tears again because Mon-El worked in the alien bar and she has a ton of great memories with him in bars, but instead, she lifts her chin and pushes the door open, marching in with purpose. She can't drink her sorrow away but maybe she can knock back a drink or twenty and reminisce for a minute while she tries to figure out what the heck she's supposed to do with herself.

Well. That and bartenders and regulars tend to know a lot more than most people think they do, in Kara's experience. Maybe someone can offer her some insight. Worst case scenario, she can blow off a little steam. The alcohol hardly touches her, but she does get that little warm sensation in her cheeks and there's something weirdly comforting about that. In a pinch, maybe that'll do.

TEXT

What is this? Does this connect to a special app or something or am I just calling out into the ether?

Hello? Can anybody see this?

Comments

[zor_el]

That's...weirdly reassuring, actually, thank you for sharing that.

[ If that's true, at least maybe National City won't fall to pieces in her absence while she figures out how to get back. ]

...there's no paper here? Like at all? No newspaper here? How do people get their news, though?

[ They must get the news in some fashion, right? Maybe they just have news broadcasts on television or something. That's a thing in National City, too, of course; it's just not a thing Kara ever has a hand in. She supposes she could just...be Supergirl, but that's complicated and she wouldn't want to abandon this place and leave them Supergirl-less if they got used to having her around to protect them. ]

[alwaysaudrey]

You're welcome. I found it reassuring as well.

[ She's had the same thought about Haven.]

None at all. Word of mouth? We talk on the network some. Anytime I need to inform people about something going on, like to stay in because it's dangerous outside, I use the network.

[It's a bit like broadcast news, but done by everyone rather than one or two people]

[zor_el]

You don't find that to be disconcerting?

[ Because Kara does. Not suspect, necessarily, but disconcerting that there's no news. What if the locals can't access the network? Don't they need to know when there's an emergency, too? ]

What about the locals?

[alwaysaudrey]

That there's no newspaper? Yeah, a little, but it's more the idea that I could be missing out on major news events back home rather than that no one is reporting on what's happening here.

For the most part, they're nice, usually quiet.They don't use the network much.

[zor_el]

Okay, that's fair enough. I feel like all of it is disquieting, but I'll concede; that's a good point. I want to know more what's happening back home and I imagine that feeling isn't going to diminish anytime soon.

If they're not using the network and there isn't any news, though, then how do they know when there's danger...?

[ Or is this just going to be Kara's new purpose? ]

[alwaysaudrey]

It hasn't for me and I've been here almost a year.

I'm assuming they're looking at the network. I'm honestly not sure. I've always put out notices when I knew there was danger from the police department.

[ She could be doing worse things. ]

[zor_el]

Yeah, I'm hoping I won't be here quite that long, but I imagine I'm going to feel much the same.

How often does that sort of thing become a necessity? Putting out those sorts of notices, I mean.

[ Call her curious. ]

[alwaysaudrey]

I'm not sure any of us have a say in that.

I've only had to do it a couple of times since I've been here.

[zor_el]

Well, I certainly haven't gotten one, anyway...so that doesn't surprise me.

That's not too bad...hmm. Anything else I should know about this place so that I'm well-prepared?