Disclaimer: I do not own Supergirl or the characters.

A/N: This is set soon after the end of season 2. It is going to start off dark, but will get happier as the story progresses.


"Alex, I came as soon as I could." Kara said rushing towards her sister who waited in a hospital corridor. "Are you hurt?" She asked seeing the blood covering Alex's shirt.

"It's not mine." Alex said numbly.

"How is she?" Kara asked. The question bringing Alex out of her shocked state and igniting an ire in her belly.

"She was shot Kara. How do you think she is?" Alex replied, her voice bitter and angry.

"I'm sorry. I tried to get there."

"Well you didn't try hard enough." Alex said.

"I-" Kara started only for Alex to cut her off.

"She was bleeding in my arms for fifteen minutes. I held her, watching the life drain from her."

"I'm sorry." Kara said. "I wanted to get there, I tried to get there, but I couldn't."

"You didn't try very hard. Was it because if you can't be happy the rest of us can't be either?" Alex asked.

"What? No. It wasn't like that." Kara said as Alex's accusation felt like a punch to her gut.

"Just go." Alex demanded. "I can't deal with you right now."

"I'm sorry." Kara said trying to hide how hurt she was. Without saying anything else Kara hurried down the corridor away from Alex.

As Alex sat back down she kept seeing the look Kara had had on her face and Alex replayed the conversation hating herself for what she had said. Taking out her phone she tried to ring Kara only to realise her battery had died. Angrily she threw the phone into the wall, watching it shatter.

-00-

"How's Maggie?" Winn asked when Kara arrived back at the DEO.

"Not good. She's in surgery."

"You couldn't have done anything." Winn said before reminding her. "If you had gone to help her the nuclear missiles would have hit the city and thousands would have died, including Maggie and Alex. You did the right thing."

"Maybe I am sick of doing the right thing for the greater good." Kara said sadly.

"You don't mean that." Winn said. "And even if you did, it was still the right thing."

"Well Alex doesn't see it that way." Kara said.

"Does she actually know what you and J'onn did? What it cost J'onn?"

"No."

"You should tell her." Winn said.

"She hates me right now and she has bigger problems."

"It's Alex. She doesn't hate you." Winn said. "When she has calmed down she is going to regret saying what she said and she is going to need her sister."

"No she won't. But she will need food and clothes. I can do that." Kara said. "I'm going to check on J'onn then I am going to drop a bag off at the hospital. You know how to reach me." She added hurrying to the infirmary. When she reached it she paused outside before taking a breath and entering.

When she saw J'onn lying motionless wrapped in so many bandages he looked like a mummy she felt her guilt well up once more. Walking to his side she gently took his hand.

"I'm sorry I couldn't stop you getting hit. If I were faster maybe I could have stopped you getting hurt. Maybe I could have got to Maggie. Alex is mad at me and I don't blame her. But she needs help. She doesn't want to see me right now, but I know she would like to see you. So please J'onn, wake up and go to Alex. She needs you." With that she kissed the bandage on his forehead and left.

-00-

Having dropped a bag and care package off at the nurses' station Kara returned to her apartment feeling lost. Just as she reached her door she saw a familiar but unwelcome figure on her doorstep.

"Max? What do you want?" Kara asked.

"I need your help. Can we talk, in private?"

"Why would I help you? You hate me." Kara said letting them into her apartment, too tired to argue.

"I thought we had put that behind us." Max said glibly before growing serious and saying. "You are right I don't trust aliens, including you. So the fact I am here asking you for your help should tell you I am desperate."

"You lost your train set?"

"Cute. But I wish that was all it was. I screwed up. And I can't fix it by myself and now countless lives are at risk."

"What have you done?" Kara asked.

"I tried to save the world."

-TBC


A/N: Thanks for reading and reviewing.