Chapter 1
Holy shit I'm back. I know it's a supergirl fanfic and not a Rizzles. I've lost a lot of inspiration for those fics. (should be finishing 72 hours eventually). Anyway I'm back. New story, new OC's. So thank you for reading, please let me know what you think and as always enjoy.
She had been thrown into things before, sides of buildings, concrete sidewalks, hell even the back of a cement truck (that one had been the worst) it didn't mean it hurt any less when it happened. The alien was faster than she had first thought, having caught her in a sideswipe that sent her tumbling to the ground. Before she knew it, the beast was on top of her, its razor-sharp teeth latching onto her shoulder, tearing the flesh and causing blood to run down her arm. It hurt worse than anything she had ever felt in her life, but she bit her tongue willing herself not to cry out in pain.
With her free hand she punched it repeatedly in the face. instead of letting go the alien dug its teeth in farther, shaking its head causing even more blood to spill. She needed her staff if she wanted to get out of this with her arm still attached, but her weapon lay just out of reach.
"Stop biting me," she said through clenched teeth. "It really fucking hurts."
The alien didn't listen, nor did she think it could even understand. It didn't matter, as long as it was content with tearing at her arm, she was free to use her powers to get it off. Focusing on her free hand she felt tendrils of light start to form, converging in the palm of her hand as solid light until it finally formed something close to a dagger.
"I said, stop biting me!" She brought the light blade up into the creature's chin, puncturing the skin until she felt the blade under the alien's tongue.
It screamed in agony, releasing her arm and slinking away. She rolled onto her stomach ready to push herself onto her feet only to collapse back down, suddenly feeling weak. I am not getting eaten today. The alien was still pacing around her, not daring to come any closer. She took the chance to crawl to her staff, using it to force herself to her feet. Her armor was destroyed, and her left arm was completely numb, there was no way she would be able to repel another attack.
"You're one ugly SOB y'know that?"
The alien snarled at her. She raised her staff challenging it to charge. It leapt at her, she braced for the impact. It never came. When she looked up all she could see was Supergirl's red cape and the alien collapsing to the ground.
"You sure took your sweet time."
Supergirl turned around grinning. "Sorry, taking care of another emergen- oh Rao!" If it hadn't been for her superspeed Supergirl would have missed the other superhero collapsing. She caught the armored woman barely keeping her up right. "You're hurt."
The woman grunted, letting Supergirl support her. She had to admit she was starting to feel light headed and her legs weren't cooperating with the rest of her body. She was so out of it she barely noticed when her feet left the ground as Supergirl took off, racing to the DEO.
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Alex was delegating the retrieval of the alien to her agents when Supergirl landed on the outside balcony of the DEO. She paid little attention to the super as she made her way over to the command center, not wanting her sister to see how annoyed she was.
"Bring it here, we have a containment cell open." Alex turned to Kara, noticing the second hero her sister was holding. "Is there something about non-lethal that you don't quite get Flare?"
Flare raised her head, but Alex couldn't see her features behind the woman's helmet. "I didn't…kill it…" Alex raised an eyebrow.
"Excuse me?"
"It isn't dead."
Alex couldn't keep the annoyance from her face. She had gone over the DEO's non-lethal policy repeatedly with the woman. "I'm getting really tired of this Flare." She wanted to continue, but something stopped her. For the first time she noticed Flare's torn armor and bloody arm. It sent her into an immediate response, her annoyance quickly dissipating. "Get her to the med bay now."
Kara nodded, disappearing in an instant with Flare in tow. Alex followed behind sending a text to Lena to get to the DEO ASAP. When she reached the med bay, she cleared out all of the agents in the room before moving to the gurney Kara had laid Flare on.
"Help me with her armor."
Together the two of them removed Flare's chest place and jacket, tossing it aside. Alex was finally able to see the extent of the wound. It was deep enough that bone was visible. Normally it wouldn't have worried Alex to much but the fact the wound hadn't even begun to heal was concerning. Flare not only had an enhanced healing factor on her own but haranel coursing through her veins. She should have never sustained this kind of damage.
"This looks really bad Alex," Kara said.
"It does but she'll be okay, she always is…" Alex didn't sound very convincing even to herself. "I don't understand why she isn't healing. Or even how this injury got this bad."
"Might be the alien, I've never seen anything like it before," Kara suggested.
Alex nodded moving to clean what she could of the wound. "Vasquez," she said knowing the agent was listening, even if she didn't respond. "Turn off the audio and camera's in here." The request was answered in a heartbeat with a small click letting Alex know that no one would hear or see what she was doing. "Get Kelly's helmet off for me." She didn't like using Kelly's actual name at the DEO, but this was one of those cases where treating the girl like her daughter instead of an agent was necessary.
Kara did as she was asked, setting the helmet aside. Her niece was unconscious from the loss of blood but breathing steadily. She felt guilty for not arriving to help Kelly sooner, but the young hero was a capable fighter, having been trained by Alex since she was sixteen. She had thought she could handle it. She had been wrong. She watched Alex do her best to close up the wounds but because of the tearing and how deep they were she could only do so much. They would just have to hope that Kelly started healing on her own soon.
It took thirty minutes before Alex finally called it quits, confident that Kelly's wound would start to heal on its own shortly. She wasn't too concerned, so long as she remained stable. If anything changed she would be forced to bring in the other medical personal, something she would rather avoid.
"How's she doing?" Lena asked entering the room. She noticed the bloodied gauze laying on a tray near Kelly's unconscious form.
"Still not healing," Alex said. "Thanks for coming. I was hoping you would help me analyze the saliva from the alien that did this."
Their relationship hadn't always been perfect. What started out as a mutual dislike for one another had morphed into a light friendship which eventually turned flirty when both wound up single and drunk one evening. Eventually it had turned into what it was now, a close bond, but one that still had its problems. Alex was still cautious around her because of her relationship with Kara which Lena couldn't blame her for. But when it came to Kelly (or even Lori) they were always on the same page.
"Do you have a sample?"
"I have a couple agents getting it now, shouldn't be much longer."
Alex was one of the toughest, most held together, people Lena knew, but even the strongest of people had cracks in their exterior. She could tell Alex was more worried than she was letting on. It was her daughter after all. Lena supposed she would be the same way if it had been Lori laying there instead.
"Have you talked to Maggie?" Lena figured the detective would have already heard about the attack, whether it be from Alex or the media.
Alex sighed, shaking her head. "She's in the middle of a big case. If anything changes I'll call her." Alex didn't look at her but Lena knew she could feel the look she was getting from both her and Kara. "Look she can yell at me later. Unlike you two our fights don't go on for days."
"No, you two just screw each other until you aren't mad any longer."
"Kara!" Lena elbowed her wife in the ribs to no effect.
"What? It's true."
Silence settled over them, Alex not bothering to argue her case. Her sister wasn't wrong, not entirely. She and Maggie would fight, have sex then work I out later. It wasn't exactly healthy but sometimes they both got so frustrated they needed to burn off steam, usually with each other. Maggie would understand Alex not telling her, she knew that. If Kelly were in any real danger she would have told her wife.
The silence drug on becoming almost unbearable. Alex was starting to wonder what was taking her agents so long to get the sample. The alien had been incapacitated by Kara before she had brought Kelly back to the DEO. She didn't have to long to dwell on it. Between them Kelly groaned, her eyes blinking open as she groaned.
"My arm is killing me…" she mumbled.
Alex quickly moved to hold her daughter down when she tried to sit up. She noticed small threads of light start to pull together the remaining pieces of torn flesh. At least she's healing. It made no sense that she would start to heal the second she was conscious. Alex remembered when Kelly was sixteen and had nearly died from a synthesized virus. Even in a coma Kelly's body had fought to keep her alive, yet now it was only doing it as she woke up.
"Don't move to much Kel, you were hurt pretty bad, your arm hasn't had time to heal."
"Then can I get a trash can or something? I'm gonna be sick…"
Kara flew out of the room, returning just in time to shove a bucket into Kelly's hands right as she started to throw up. Emptying anything she had on her stomach until she was able to hand the bucket off and collapse back onto the gurney. Alex let her have a minute to recover. As angry as she was, she still felt for Kelly. The young woman had only been doing what she thought she had to do. Alex couldn't fault her for wanting to be the Flare, for wanting to use powers she was born with. She did sometimes wonder how different things would be had Kelly's biological parents actually wanted her.
"I take it you're going to yell at me?" Kelly said, glancing at Alex. "That's how this usually goes isn't it?"
Alex sighed. With Kara it usually did end in argument one way or another. If Alex was reckless Kara would yell at her, if Kara was reckless Alex would yell at her. Kelly wasn't any different. Not completely. When Kelly would be called out for being reckless, she always managed to bring it back to Alex and how she had double standards. She would say one thing and do another. Do as I say not as I do didn't exactly sit well with Kelly.
"No, you did good today," she said turning away from Kelly. "Get some rest, let your arm heal, once it has come find me so we can debrief."
She couldn't see the confusion on Kelly's face, but she could hear it in her voice. "That's it? No 'you could have gotten yourself killed'?"
"That's it," she said, glancing at Lena. "You ready to look at those samples?"
"Yes, after you," Lena said letting Alex take the lead.
Kara stayed back with Kelly, unsure if she should follow or stay with Kelly. In the end she decided to stay, taking up a perch in the gurney next to Kelly's. She stayed quiet, lost in her own thoughts, not knowing what to say or if she should even say anything at all.
"So, she's definitely going to kill me in my sleep, right?" Kelly said earning a snort from Kara.
"In your sleep?" Kara chuckled, "I'd be surprised if she doesn't kill you in the next hour."
Kelly laughed. Only one thing scared her more than being eaten alive and that was Alex Danvers when she was angry. Even the Devil would run if Alex Danvers came at him in a pure rage.
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Lena struggled to keep up with Alex's pace as they headed towards the lab. Heels on the DEO's polished concrete floors was not a great pairing. Once in the lab Alex handed Lena the vial her agents had collected from the alien. Lena took it assuming that Alex was going to let her do most of the work for one reason or another. As she was preparing the sample, she felt Alex watching her from behind.
"Is everything alright?"
"Is Lori ever this difficult?"
Lena chuckled shaking her head. "No but she is only 15. She hasn't exactly gotten to the point where she's chomping at the bit to be like Kara." She wasn't going to admit it but living with two Kryptonians was exhausting in its own way. She spent more time worrying about Kara than Kara spent getting hurt. Since Lori was born Kara had become a lot more careful, which could have explained why Kelly tended to get into situations that led her to get hurt.
"You need anything?" Alex said changing the subject, she wasn't sure where she would have gone with the conversation to begin with. She loved Kelly and was extremely proud of her, she just didn't like worrying all the time.
"A blood sample would be helpful," Lena replied.
Alex walked over to a fridge, carefully thumbing over frozen vials before finding the one she wanted and returning to Lena. "It's a few months old." She turned the vile over in her hands a couple of times. "After what happened I made a point of testing her blood every few months…" She felt like she needed to explain herself, even though the look Lena held said otherwise.
"You know you don't have to explain yourself to me Alex," she said, taking the vial, "I get it. I was so worried when Lori was born, I'd be running tests every other day. You're worried about her, I understand."
They were words that she didn't know she needed to hear. There were times where she felt she was doing to much, being overbearing. But she obviously wasn't the only one. Lena was right, it was alright to worry as long as that worry didn't seep into everything else. Which, to Alex's credit, it hadn't. Lena took the vial, working it back and forth as the sample thawed.
"Do you think its worth it?" Alex said avoiding Lena's eyes.
"What?"
"Letting your daughter sacrifice herself for everyone else?"
Lena paused, falling completely silent. Her daughter was half Kryptonian, but she wasn't like Kara, at least not yet. Kelly was a different story, becoming a vigilante at seventeen only to shortly thereafter becoming a so-called superhero working for the DEO a year later. The change had come as a surprise to Alex and Maggie, not so much to Lena, who had seen Kelly slowly evolve into a hero. Lena attributed it to being Kelly's aunt, she was on the outside, she saw more of Kelly than her parents did.
"I think we both knew going into it that nothing would ever be simple," Lena started, "Kelly was never meant to sit in the background, she was meant to be something, just like Lori. As much as I don't like it, she was meant for something greater. When it comes with raising children that aren't completely human there are sacrifices to be made, and letting them be something more is one of them."
A harsh laugh came from Alex, "I guess. Let me if you find something, I'm going to check on Kelly." She saw Lena nod before she left, heading back down to the infirmary. Once there she noticed that Kara was absent. Kelly was still on the gurney only now she was sitting up and in a DEO issue uniform. She heard Alex coming and turned around giving her a slight nod.
"I thought you wanted me to find you?" she said, rising from her perch. "I was just about to leave…"
"Changed my mind," Alex shrugged, "Up for a walk? We can debrief while we go."
Kelly returned the shrug with her uninjured arm. "Beats sitting around here." She joined Alex by the door. "Lead the way Director." There was a mocking tone in her voice, but Alex ignored it. She led Kelly out of the infirmary into the hall, passing by a few interrogation rooms and the locker room.
Alex glanced over to her daughter, noticing the younger woman was biting her lip. It was a look she got whenever she was trying to think of something to say after she'd gotten in trouble. Alex let her mull over it for awhile longer. It wouldn't hurt her to sweat a little after the fiasco that was her fight against the alien.
"I should have been more careful…" she finally admitted. "It caught me off guard at one point, which is when it got the upper hand."
"Talk to Lena, see if she'll let you take a few hours off work to come in and train," Alex said. "I meant what I said, you did good today. Everyone makes mistakes, me included, you just have to get up, dust off and try again."
Kelly stopped, tilting her head just like Maggie always did. "Lena gave you some speech about the whole raising an alien thing again, huh?" Alex couldn't help but laugh at Kelly's deduction skills.
"She did," Alex said, "I guess that I always thought out of all of us Danvers you'd be slightly more normal."
Her daughter grinned. "Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm anything but normal." Alex returned the smile, patting Kelly's shoulder.
"And I couldn't be happier, as much as I hate this whole vigilante thing," when Kelly frowned she continued, "however, you make me proud, and I know you'll be alright this time. But I'm your mom and gonna worry and I'm going to hate you getting beat up. I also know nothing I say will change your mind. The least I can do is stand behind you and do my best to make sure you're capable of taking care of yourself."
"That mean I can leave? It's my turn to pick up dinner and I need to change."
"Get out of here, I'll see you in about an hour."
Kelly nodded, not wasting any time before taking off down the hall, disappearing in a flash of light just around the corner. Alex shook her head after the girl. She still needed to talk to Lena about the alien. She checked her phone expecting a text from Maggie only to find a message from Lena instead.
I've got something, meet you in the command center.
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"The alien's saliva has a very concentrated venom in it," Lena said the instant Alex entered the room. "Concentrated enough that it completely ignored Kelly's healing factor. I'll need more time to figure out the exact make up of the venom, but for now it's a start."
"It seems to be working the way out of her system, wound is healing," she turned to Kara, "right Kara?"
"Slowly but surely, it was a really deep bite."
Alex nodded, the wound no longer seemed to be bothering Kelly, but she could always be putting on a brave face.
"Alright, well I'll leave you to test it as much as you want, but what you do have is enough for me right now," Alex said. "Got time to work on it tomorrow?"
"Can I use my own lab?"
"If you can give up Kelly for a couple days, she needs to brush up on her training."
"I think I can manage with the security I have on hand," Lena held out her hand with a smile. "You have a deal."
Alex took her hand. "Good, I'll get a few more samples over to L-Corp in the morning. As for now I'm going home, it's been a long day." She would be happy to get home, take a hot shower and have dinner with her family. After saying her goodbyes she headed out, stopping by the med-bay to grab Kelly's ruined armor, the helmet was gone telling her Kelly had taken it. Alex would look into getting the armor repaired later. For now, she just wanted to get home.
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Unknown location
Warden glared at the pacing man; he wouldn't stop moving which was giving her a headache. Across from her stood another woman, looking just as annoyed as her, only she was less likely to kill the man.
"My client has very specific requests," he said, pausing in his pattern.
"I am well aware," Warden said, running a gloved hand over the blade of her axe, "but I don't answer to your client. I answer to her and only to her." She pointed to her boss.
"You do as you're told," the man growled. "That's what you are being paid to do, we have a deal."
"I will do as she tells me. As for you," she rose from her place, moving so fast the man didn't register her until her axe was against his throat, "I could gut you like a fish and still get my job done."
The man looked like he was about to piss his pants. Warden smirked, proud of herself. Good he should be afraid of her, maybe he would learn not to talk back.
"That's enough, you've made your point," the woman said. "Mr. Marrison, I assure you that my warden her will take care of everything. Your client didn't go through the trouble of finding us for nothing."
Mr. Marrison glanced over at the woman, then back at Warden before adjusting his tie. "Very well, I expect to hear from you soon." He didn't wait for them to say anything more before bolting.
Warden waited for a moment before turning back to the woman. "Your warden? Last I checked I was your loyal servant." The woman smiled, shaking her head.
"You are a lot of things to me, but you are the Warden on our Earth, and you will be the Warden on this Earth as well."
