This 5 part series that takes place on Earth 21 but is it's own storyline is named after teh first chapter of it I wrote. Wherein Superman talks with J'onn on the balcony at the DEO tower. J'onn is morose, I think that's the word. His biggest regret from a confrontation he'd had with Nikita wasn't that she compared him to Hank Henshaw, the military jerk who kept her a prisoner at the D.E.O for 5 years and tried to summarily execute him 6 years ago...but that the proverbial shoe had actually fit so well.
I haven't' actually written the confrontation in Nikita's apartment. I've only alluded to it in the chapters that came later. And having everything there except the beginning is unfortunate. But using chapter 2 as a guide to write chapter one is extremely difficult. But I do know one thing about that confrontation. Nikita stops just short of flat out asking J'onn to leave her home. Tells him that if this mess gets any more screwed up they won't be able to come back from it and she doesn't' want that. So J'onn leaves. After Nikita locks the door behind her, Me'gann, the White Martian she was defending asks for an explanation. Not so much why Nikita feels the way she does but why she would defy a man who is not only her superior officer but someone she so clearly respects, on her behalf.
"Because this is the second time history has repeated itself and I didn't know what else to do." Nikita replies. And without looking at her guest she explains. "When the former prince of Daxam was thrown in a cell for a crime he literally couldn't have committed. Mon'el was believed to be guilty and the hero who arrested him assumed the worst of him just because he was from Daxam, didn't even bother to ask his name. Yeah that actually happened, and that was the first time it felt like Hank was still running things. That's just because Superman...Kal'el didn't know how Hank ran things and how weird it felt that a hero of Earth was so suspicious of an alien stranger for thier race. Nikita turns slowly to face Me'gann. "I told you that J'onn is wearing the face of his predecessor, a man I served under before him. But that is an epic misnomer. He took the identify of a man named Hank Henshaw. the single most narrow-minded arrogant idiot I have known in over 74 years of life. It is disheartening to say the least when J'onn lives up to that man's face. Like I said, being around White Martians hurts me, physically. It's a fact of my biology and neither of us can help what race we were born as. But J'onn is the one who actually made me sick. His emotions were a pit I...He scared the hell out of me in a way I didn't even think him capable of. But slightly more importantly you are my guest and this is my home! Knowing what I know about the history of your races, if he'd found you at a restaurant or something and tried to arrest you, that is to take you back to the D.E.O I wouldn't have objected, not publicly. I would have made my case to give you a fair hearing when we were at the D.E.O. As I said, he cannot force me NOT to be true to myself. And whatever else is going on, I know you well enough to know that I can trust you. And no one with a brain in thier skull insults a friend of mine IN my house. Not even my closest friends can get away with that and nothing can force me to permit it."
For months after this confrontation Nikita does her duty at the D.E.O. Things are professional and not even very awkward between J'onn and Nikita. Although it is obvious to both of thier friends that something has put distance between them They both seem pretty determined to not let it get in the way of actually literally doing thier job to protect the Earth. It takes nearly losing Nikita to Queen Rhea of Daxam for that wall of separation, of enforced peace to finally be brought down. As in the actual show Supergirl Queen Rhea attacks Mon'el significant other in an effort to reclaim her son. Except in the show Kara aka Supergirl is Mon-el's girlfriend and along with 'doing what is necessary to reclaim him, Rhea thinks of Kara insisting Mon-el stays on Earth as Krypton trying to take her son from her. She literally says that once Mon-el makes his declaration to stay on Earth with his friends. "Krypton's taken everything from me, and now you take my son."
Here Nikita is a Xavallen and no threat whatsoever. Rhea tries to kill her and then makes a public speech about how a 'weakling' like Nikita had the arrogance to think she could stand in the way of her getting what she wanted, of putting her family back together and Mon-el going back to where he belongs. As reported by the half-Enkaren Elana standing in front of everyone, Nikita shared her memories of the attack and was...IS wearing a claddagh ring on her finger. Mon'el and Nikita were engaged and Nikita didn't even insist he stayed with her, only that Mon-el's own wishes be respected, whatever they are. Elana does not beat around the bush and flat out tells Queen Rhea why she's really doing any of this. You want what's best for you, not what's best for your son. Here on Earth a father is the most important person in a woman's life until she is married, and then it is her husband. I imagine that's the same everywhere. If you were really interested in what was best for your son, you'd listen to his choices, to his perspective on what IS best for him. You wouldn't try to destroy one family to put *your* family back together. You didn't try to kill; her for her arrogance or that she was a threat to your son's future, you did it because she was in your way." Which as you might imagine does not sit well with J'onn, Mon'el, Superman, Martin Stein or Me'gann Mor'zz.
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