P.S: I do not own or claim any credit regarding all of these characters, they come from the amazing show Supergirl on the CW.
P.P.S: I'm trying out a new idea here, let me know if you guys want me to continue with this or not, I'm on the fence! Though I do have quite a few ideas for what could happen next. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this chapter!
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Kara's POV:
Kara felt herself being lifted as she began to lose consciousness.
She quickly missed the feeling of the air around her as it was harshly replaced with cold stone, the floor cracking under her body as she was slammed into it.
Kara tried to grab at his arms, but was immediately met with a sharp pain stemming from her shoulder blade to her elbow, it was far more painful than it should have been.
Uh oh.
Hissing in pain as Korvax let go of her cape, she crumpled to the floor. The Fort Razz escapee measured a good meter or two taller than her, so when he looked down at her it made it that much more intimidating, with his shoulders squared and head forward, looking into her eyes.
His long, tendril of an arm snaked towards her, reaching for her neck as she tried to escape.
To move.
But her body wouldn't respond, she was paralysed with fear.
Come on! MOVE!
His eyes were literal voids, black wisps of ether seeping out into the air around him and surrounding him with a deadzone of darkness making him almost impossible to effectively be frozen or hit with Kara's laser vision.
Her eyelids started to droop as unconsciousness overtook her thoughts, the last thing she felt was a tear slide down her cheek. She knew this was the end.
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Alex's POV:
"Supergirl? SUPERGIRL?"
Alex held her breath as she waited for a response. Please be okay Kara, please be okay. After what felt like a lifetime of silence, she finally heard something. A sniffle maybe.
"Supergirl? Are you there?"
It was J'onn asking this time. Alex could here the worry that was etched into his voice, despite his efforts to hide it behind authority.
A sniffle. Now she was sure. Why's Kara crying? She barely ever cries.
"Kara…what's going on?"
Alex was getting more desperate, she needed to get her to respond. Relief washed over her as Kara's voice finally cut through the silence that had enveloped the DEO's command room.
"Alex…" There was so much pain in Kara's voice.
"Kara, Kara I'm here. What's happening? Are you hurt?"
"Alex… it hurts so much. I can't move. He did something. I think…
I think he broke my spine Alex."
Alex's relief was short lived. If she wasn't already hella worried, that pretty much topped it off. She started to panic, they didn't know that it was even possible to break Kara's spine let alone in broad daylight when she was at her strongest. Is the threat still there? Is the prisoner still with ka- Alex was pulled out of her thoughts by Kara's voice returning to the coms.
" Alex please. Please help. I- I can't move. It hurts so bad. There's so much blood, oh Rao I think I'm going to die. The bones aren't meant to be visible are they?"
Before Alex could so much as turn around J'onn was gone, no doubt going out to find Kara.
Without turning off the audio feed, Alex ordered a squadron of agents to converge on the location in case of back up being needed. She turned to Winn who then returned her gaze, there were unshed tears glistening in his eyes.
"Winn, keep an eye on Supergirl's tracker to make sure that it's heading towards the DEO, and I'm going to need you to see if you can hack into any cameras that might be near where the fight happened, try to get some footage of the prisoners face."
"Will do. Do you need the audio too?"
"Visuals are our priority but if you could get sound as well then by all means do so."
"Gotcha. This fucker's going down."
Winn looked relieved to be able to actually do something, and started to furiously type on his keyboard with more determination than she'd ever seen from him.
Alex walked towards the balcony, silently praying for her sister, praying that Kara would be okay. Though deep down she knew this was serious. A broken spine? That would pretty much be instant paralysis for a human, she had no idea if it would be as bad for Kara. Screw that, what if she bled out. What if Kara died. Alex didn't know how she'd continue to live without her sister.
"Hey Danvers, you up for- what the hell is going on?!" Maggie was temporarily hidden behind an armed squad of soldiers rushing past her, guns rattling on their backs as they stormed towards the door.
Alex didn't immediately reply, still lost in her thoughts. She wished she could go out, help assess and deal with the situation. She wished she could get to her sister. J'onn would be furious if she did though, she was second in command and so if he was out in the field she had a duty to keep the whole base in order. And unluckily for her, J'onn had a way of getting through the door faster than humanly possible because, well, he's not human.
"Alex?"
Alex jumped a bit, startled by the sudden and unexpected presence.
"Oh uh Mags, now is not a good time for you to be here."
"Why? What happened?" Seeing her girlfriend's worried expression Alex let out a deep sigh, her body visibly falling in on itself as she exhaled.
"It's Kara, she-"
"MED-TEAM A, MEET ME IN THE MEDBAY, TEAM B GO BRING THE DEFIBRILLATORS AND TITANIUM BRACES STAT!"
J'onns booming voice, rife with anger, filled the agency, bringing the noise of bustling soldiers and nervous chatter to a stand still. Alex ran up to the medbay, with Maggie following closely behind as other surgeons and biochemists grabbed various, dangerous looking tools from the shelves around her.
Alex felt the tears almost spill over as she saw the limp body in J'onn's arms. Kara was definitely correct when talking about her spine, because she should not have been able to bend as far backwards as she was while the director held her. He gently laid her onto the operating table, that was instantly surrounded by sunlamps as the surgeons and Alex got to work. In the background Maggie stood stock still for a little bit, completely unable to decide what to do with herself. After a minute or two though, she knew what she could do, and walked out of the room.
Alex had to keep hold of her brave face, if she lost it then that's one less worker that could be saving her sister. Hiding behind her profession, a skill she that had honed to perfection over the years.
"Scalpel"
"Scalpel!" A younger agent complied, handing her the smallest, most delicate blade.
Alex forced her hand to stop shaking as she gently separated bone shards from muscle tissue, occasionally having to cut away the small fractured ligaments that tangled around a few areas of the spine.
It continued on like this for a few hours, until finally she gave in to exhaustion and passed the job over to another agent. Alex removed her latex gloves and all but collapsed into the chair only a few meters away from the operating table.
Kara's arm dangled out from under the operating tarp, and Alex could see at least a dozen angry, purple bruises beginning to rise. Alex couldn't hold it together anymore, she bent over and started silently sobbing into her hands. It shouldn't have to be this way. Kara shouldn't have to always be jumped by some bigger, badder evil that decides to show up. They'd planned on a sisters night that evening, though there was no way in hell that that was going to happen now. Kara had a life too, why doesn't she get to live it. Kara HAS a life. And she WILL live it. Once she gets better and recovers, we can have plenty of sisters nights then. Because she's going to get through this. She has to get through this. I can't do this witho-
"Hey, babe." Maggie put a comforting hand around Alex's shoulders as she handed her a warm cup of coffee.
"I know you're not hungry or anything, but if you're going to stay up super late dealing with this then you need the extra energy."
Alex gratefully accepted the beverage and sat back a little bit, letting her shoulders sag. The agent felt a lot more relaxed whenever her girlfriend was around, even in situations like this, Maggie always managed to find some way to bring her back to reality and out of her deep, drowning well of thoughts.
Maggie temporarily left Alex's side to grab a chair, and moved it to sit next to her girlfriend.
"I know it doesn't seem like it at the moment, but Kara's going to be okay. We both know that she's so strong, I don't doubt that she'll pull through this like she has done before. It'll be okay, it's okay." Tears silently rolled down Alex's cheeks as she moved her head to be resting on Maggie's shoulder. Alex took in an uneven breath before she spoke.
"We don't know that."