Kara, on the other hand, has never been in a serious relationship before now. Well. Before then. Mon-El had been the first real relationship she'd been in. Mon-El had been the first man she'd fallen in love with. Maybe it's her own fault for getting ahead of herself by picturing what her future could have looked like.

It probably is her own fault for losing herself in it, but that sort of thing comes with the territory of no experience in something at all. When she first started being Supergirl, Kara made plenty of mistakes. This is no different, it just hurts in a way that she didn't think she could ever feel for someone who wasn't family.

A weak smile crosses her expression when he calls her the pet name in passing and it falls away again almost immediately when he goes on. Another soft sigh escapes her and this is, she realizes, so, so much easier when he's wasted. "You haven't had nearly enough to drink for us to have this conversation, Dean," she says, frowning. "I just...let myself think that he was going to be the one because he said he loved me; he literally gave up being royalty for me...I just thought that—" she sighs again. "I don't know, if I couldn't make it work with Mon-El, then I have to start all over again and it just...it's frustrating. I had this whole...I don't know, plan for myself and now I have to start over and it's..." Kara trails off and frowns, closing her eyes in a slow blink and shaking her head.

"I just want more in my life. Supergirl is great, but I don't want to just be Supergirl."