Disclaimer: I do not own Supergirl or the characters.
A/N: This is set a few weeks after the season 1 finale. It will be a little angsty.
"What are you doing?" Alex asked when she saw Kara pick up her phone.
"Texting James to let him know I can't make it tonight."
"No." Alex said. "We can handle this. Go have fun."
"James understands." Kara shrugged.
"Kara, you deserve to have a life away from being Supergirl. Don't forget or neglect the Kara part of your life."
"There is an alien on the loose that makes that a little hard."
"Kara, we have this. We were catching aliens along time before Supergirl burst onto the scene. Besides whilst we don't have any information we will just be sitting at the DEO scouring the archives for information and checking surveillance feeds for locations." Alex pointed out. "Until we have a location there is nothing you can do. Apart from get under my feet."
"I could bring you coffee." Kara pointed out.
"It actually sounds like you are missing being Cat's assistant." Alex smiled. "But J'onn provides me with all the coffee I need." Alex shrugged.
"You make it sound like he is your assistant not your boss." Kara pointed out. "Also I thought he started switching it for decaff."
"He did, but I switched the contents of the jars around so he thinks he is serving me decaff whilst he is actually giving me real coffee. And if you tell him that I will kill you." Alex explained. Noticing Kara was still standing in her lab she added. "Go have fun with James. If something happens I will call you."
"You promise?"
"I promise." Alex smiled. "Seriously have fun."
"You'll call?" Kara checked again.
"I'll call." Alex agreed. "Now go."
"Okay. I love you." Kara said hugging Alex.
"Love you too." Alex smiled.
-00-
"Hey." James smiled as Kara walked up to him.
"Hey." She smiled back.
"I didn't think you'd make it." James confessed.
"Alex pointed out I can't do anything useful until they can figure out where the alien is so I get a night off."
"Well you deserve it." James said.
"Thank you, although you may be a little biased." Kara pointed out.
"Maybe." James agreed.
"So what's the plan?" Kara asked.
"Um, well, seeing it is you, I thought food would feature high on the agenda." James smiled.
"You know me so well." Kara grinned.
"Then after that I thought we could hit the new club. Then take a midnight stroll, with ice cream."
"I love ice cream." Kara said.
"I know. Well in that case, food?" James asked. When Kara nodded he added. "I have to confess I was so sure you were going to bail I cancelled the booking I made. So we are going to have to wing it when it comes to the restaurant."
"I like winging it. Plans are over rated." Kara said.
-00-
"You okay?" Kara asked laughing as James pulled a face a few hours later whilst he ate his ice cream.
"Brain freeze." James explained.
"If you can't handle your ice cream you should just give it to me." Kara said as her phone rang.
"Sorry I have to take this." Kara said frowning when she saw it was J'onn's number.
"No problem." James smiled as Kara answered the call. The smile was removed from his face though when he saw the concern on Kara's paling face. As she hung up she said.
"I have to go." With that she ran away from James before changing and taking to the skies.
-00-
"Where is she?" Kara asked as she entered the control room.
"Infirmary, she has just come out of surgery." Vasquez replied. "Director Henshaw is down there."
"How bad is she?"
"You should get down there." Vasquez said not wanting to worry Kara with the truth.
"Right." Kara said hurrying off.
Her entrance into the infirmary came to an abrupt stop when she saw her sister, pale and lifeless, lying on a bed with various tubes poking out of her.
"What happened?" She croaked.
"Agent Danvers managed to get used as a punch bag. Again." Hamilton said. "This time though she took some serious damage. The wrist fracture, broken ribs, punctured lung and knee damage will heal, but my concern right now is her head injury. There was brain swelling, which I have managed to reduce, but we have to monitor her carefully. Currently she is in a medically induced coma. Which I will keep her in for forty-eight hours. Once I am happy that all the swelling has subsided we will wake her up. Currently there is nothing you can do, I suggest you go home and get some sleep."
"I'm not leaving her." Kara said.
"That's your choice. But I should warn you when we wake her she will have a long road to recovery, during which time she'll need your support, so if you stay make sure you get enough rest."
"I will." Kara said unable to take her eyes off her sister.
When Hamilton left Kara looked at J'onn and asked.
"What happened? Why didn't she call me? Why didn't you call me?"
"She didn't want to stop your social life." J'onn said, anger in his voice. "She begged me not to call you."
"She promised she would call." Kara said quietly. "What happened?"
"What happened was Alex went in without backup and got her ass handed to her because you were too busy to help."
Feeling too guilty to defend herself Kara just looked at J'onn who went on. "She could have died Kara, she still might." J'onn's voice trembling with emotion. "This is what I was afraid of. You have made everyone complacent. Every agent here assumes you'll fly in and save the day and when you don't people get hurt. It's time you decide what life you want because this half in half out is hurting my team." He said storming out of the room. Having made it twenty paces down the corridor though he stopped and punched a wall, cursing as he did so. Taking a calming breath he immediately felt guilty about what he had said and returned to Alex's room to apologise. Only when he got there Kara had disappeared.
Walking up to Alex he squeezed her hand and said.
"I'm sorry. I will fix this." He then looked at her once more before setting of for Midvale.
TBC...
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