It's a typical day.
Kara Danvers is having her typical morning run with her sister.
Everything's normal until they see a little girl stepping onto the road, wanting to get her ball back
Everything's normal until they see a car speeding towards that little girl.
Everything's normal until Kara sprints forward to grab the girl out of the car's way.
"Kara!" Alex screams her sister's name, rushing towards them to make sure both Kara and the little girl are okay.
The little girl's fine, other than being shaken up by the accident.
But Kara seems not. She's pale, face clouded with pain.
"Kara? You okay?" Alex asked with huge concern, sensing her sister's pained expression.
"No" Kara's hands move to clutch her left knee.
"What's wrong? Talk to me, Kara"
"My knee, it hurts. Something's wrong with my knee" Kara is confused. Something must have gone wrong when she land on the ground with the girl.
"Okay. Stay still, I'm gonna call an ambulance" Alex keeps one hand on Kara's shoulder, uses another hand to call for help.
There's is so much pain. And Kara's scared.
What if she can't run anymore?
What if she can't use her legs anymore?
What if she can't even walk anymore?
She can't lose her legs. She's a runner, a marathon runner. She can't afford to lose her legs.
The thoughts make Kara panics and the pain seems to be more and more intense.
The ride to the hospital is blurry. Kara knows the paramedics are around her, and she knows Alex is comforting her. She recognizes all the things happening, but it's just blurred by tears in her eyes, and the pain, confusion and fear in her heart.
Until she is admitted into the A&E.
Until she sees the doctor who is going to treating her.
"Miss Danvers? I'm Dr. Lena Luthor, I'll be taking care of you while you're in the A&E." A soft yet confident voice breaks through the mist clouding Kara's head.
Kara looks up from her teary eyes to the young doctor. Lena's also at Kara's age, looking so gorgeous and dedicated.
There's one tiny moment that Kara seems to forget her pain. And she has to admit that she is falling for the doctor already, despite the circumstances.
"Can you tell me where does it hurt?" Lena asks while going through the report by the paramedics.
"My left knee. It hurts" Kara tries to make her voice sound less trembling, tries not to brust into tears.
"Shhhh, it's gonna be okay Kar. I'm gonna go call mom and Maggie and call in sick. You hang in here tight okay?" Alex swipes some of Kara's blonde locks out of her sweaty face. Knowing that she has to leave Kara's side while the young doctor checking her up, Alex drop a kiss on top of Kara's head before heading out the quarter.
"Is it okay if I call you Kara?" Lena asks softly, comfortingly.
Kara manages to nod.
"Okay Kara, let's find out what's wrong" Lena proceeds to check Kara's injured knee, as well as other possible injuries, while ordering a nurse to arrange a X-ray checkup.
The results turns out to be a patellar fracture. And luckily, according to Lena, Kara's broken kneecap is not out of place so there is no need of surgical treatments.
Both Alex ans Kara are relieved upon getting this news.
However, it still left Kara frustrated that she will need to put on a knee brace for at least 6-8 weeks, no weight bearing. Physiotherapy is also prescribed.
"Hey you will be okay" Lena says with a soothing tone, realizing there are tears reforming in Kara's bright blue eyes. She has to admit that she founds herself having some feelings towards the blonde.
"Yeah? Will I?" Kara's tone is filled with disbelief.
It hurts Lena to see Kara so devastated. She wants nothing but to stay by the blonde and confort her. But she's got work to do.
"How about this? I'll come by later at the end of my shift to check on you. And maybe we can hang out a bit? I would really like to know more about you, Kara."
Lena's sweet confident voice catches Kara's attention. But she's still in a haze that she can't process much of what Lena had just said.
Sensing Kara's shocked state, Lena decides not to tell Kara the arrangements of her following moments in the hospital.
So she turns to Alex, who is sitting by the bed, stroking Kara's free hand with her thumb, and explains to her briefly that someone will come by later to get Kara the brace before moving her into the room she's staying, and a physiotherapist will also come by to give them details of the recovery plan.