Authors Note: Hey everyone! Sorry this first chapter took so long to actually upload, but I have been waiting for someone to give me a prompt they would like me to write. Just a fair warning, some one-shots may be longer than the others. This first chapter goes out to xxTheMadHatterCharmedxx and the awesome idea they gave me to start this collection off with. I am going to start it off with how the prompt actually came to be and then get into the actual story from the prompt. *A.U. where Kara and Alex are best friends, not sisters.*
Prompt: Kara is temporarily paralyzed and determined to walk, so Alex helps her as much as she can.
The D.E.O. had been busy with activity in the past twelve hours, as something happened no one working in the building could have ever expected. The day started out completely normal, with the usual few aliens trying to show their power over the world and the D.E.O. interrupting their plans. But then a phone call had come in from the President of the United States with information about one of the Fort Rozz escapes terrorizing the Capital Building. Supergirl had left before receiving any other information on the alien. Alex tried to stop her, but her thoughts were interrupted when the person on the other side of the phone line said one simple sentence.
"The alien is another Kryptonian," the person informed the D.E.O. before the other end of the line went off abruptly. Alex looked over at J'onn, who stood by the computer with complete surprise written on his face. The only known evil Kryptonians to have survived the destruction of their planet had all been defeated within the recent years by both Supergirl and Superman. Even the Fort Rozz database had no information about a Kryptonian prisoner on board, which made everyone at the D.E.O. on high alert.
Alex began walking towards the special weapons vault with only one thought in her mind as J'onn followed quickly behind her. "I have to get out there and help Kara. The last time she fought another Kryptonian, I almost lost her. And now for this one to have spent most of its life in Fort Rozz, who knows how dangerous it is," Alex said as she opened the vault and speedily headed towards the back, where her intended item rested.
J'onn wanted to protest against the idea of Alex running into the line of fire between two extremely powerful aliens, but as soon as he saw her put on the Kryptonite armor for the first time since Myriad, he knew Alex wasn't going to listen to a word he would say. "I will stay here and try to monitor the situation from the side lines. But if you need me at all, I will be there faster that the Man of Steel," J'onn replied as he and Alex left the vault. "Maybe this thing doesn't know I exist; it could give us the element of surprise," J'onn added quickly.
"I don't know, but every second I am still here is another second Kara is out there fighting something potentially stronger than herself," Alex commented before running out of the D.E.O. and getting into the helicopter bound for the Capital House.
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The fight between the other Kryptonian and Kara started off with a bang, as the Kryptonian (calling himself the Eradicator) threw one of the armored trucks directly at Kara. Her eyes, nor her mind, could believe how easily the man threw the truck, causing Kara to remain frozen in shock until metal collided against her body. Regaining her focus on the current situation, Kara lunged herself in the direction of the evil Kryptonian before hitting him hard enough to send him flying almost across the city.
It seems he doesn't quite have a grip on his powers yet, must have just gotten out of the missing cell from Fort Rozz. Of all the cells to go missing before I took the prison into space, it had to be another Kryptonian's. Screams from civilians rushed through Kara's ears and stabbed at her heart, causing her to look around and assess the damage she caused so far in just five minutes. From sending the Kryptonian flying, Kara saw a few buildings were damaged, along with one of the monuments nearby.
The Kryptonian laid in the pile of rubble with a shocked look at his face, examining his body as Kara approached in the air. "How is this possible? Why did that not hurt me here? Did Rao bless me here with the power to take over this world?" he asked himself silently before looking up at Kara. "You... your mother put me in that prison and erased all knowledge of my existence from Krypton. You will-"
"Pay for what my mother did and join her in the afterlife? Yeah, you are not the first one to tell me that," Kara interrupted before flying quickly towards the Kryptonian, who now started to be aware of his full power. Kara swung her fist intending to connect it with the Kryptonians face, but a firm hand grabbed her own right before skin would have met skin. Looking up at her hand, Kara saw the Kryptonian's hand around her own with a smirk on his face before he started squeezing tightly.
Bones cracking and blood vessels bursting filled Kara's ears as she let out a scream loud enough to wake people ten blocks away from the fight. Kara connected her free hand with the Kryptonian's stomach, which caused him to let go of her breaking hand and slide back a few feet. She used her x-ray vision quickly and noticed most of the bones in her hand were either fractured or broken, with one of the smaller bones looking like powder. How is this possible? Kara focused back on the fight with only a split second to see the Kryptonian rushing at her with full speed before the feeling of two sledge hammers hit her side.
"What are you?" Kara asked in complete surprise.
"An abomination," the Kryptonian replied before the fight between them continued with full force.
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Alex arrived in the helicopter moments later to find the two in the midst of a heat vision battle with Kara looking to be growing weaker with each passing second. Alex grabbed her advanced sniper rifle and other weapons from her bag before running in the direction of her best friend, loading the gun with a Kryptonite bullet. Bringing the scope up to her eyes, Alex watched with anxiety as the heat vision from Kara's eyes disappeared and the Kryptonian rushed at her before her finger could even touch the trigger.
From a distance away, Alex watched every part remaining in the fight move in slow motion, while Kara couldn't be quick enough to see it at all. Through the scope of her gun, Alex saw the Kryptonian grab Kara by the collar of her shirt and smirk before he started speaking. Even with all her training, there was too little space between Kara and the Kryptonian to fire a clear shot without the possibility of hitting the wrong person. Alex's eyes stayed focused on the Kryptonian while her heart remained focused on Kara.
You need to hurry up and take the shot Alex. Kara must have blown her powers again, which means this guy could kill her at any moment right now. One scream. That was all it took to break Alex from her thoughts and watch the fight with complete horror in her eyes. The Kryptonian had thrown Kara to the ground with extreme force, breaking her back against a large piece of metal from the building behind them. What Alex couldn't see from her distance was the piece of metal piercing into Kara's back and digging straight into her spin.
Without further hesitation as a clear shot opened for Alex, she felt her finger pull tightly against the trigger as the scope of the gun aimed directly for the Kryptonians heart. Ringing filled her ears quickly as the Kryptonian standing over Kara fell over slowly beside the blonde. Running as fast as her legs would carry her, Alex reached Kara and checked for a pulse before calling for the medical evacuation team to her location.
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The elevator door opened down the hall from Kara's apartment with a silent bell alerting the person inside they had reached their floor. Alex moved out of the elevator and held the door open with one arm to allow Kara enough time to exit without being accidentally shut in the door. Silence invaded the air around them as the two women moved down the hall to Kara's apartment, with strict orders from J'onn to relax and not allow Kara to push herself to hard. Reaching for the door knob, Alex opened the door and moved to the side as Kara moved into her home on wheels.
"It feels like I haven't been in here in forever," Kara silently commented with an emotionless tone as she continued to move the wheels on her wheelchair in order to go to her room.
"More like three days... But I guess they have been some of the hardest three days of our life," Alex replied unintentionally as she shut the door and took a seat at Kara's table. Alex watched as Kara suddenly stopped moving towards her room, taking a deep breath to break the silence between them. Ever since they got back to the D.E.O. after the fight with the Kryptonian, who J'onn pronounced dead later that evening, something inside of Kara changed and even turned cold. She refused to talk to anyone for a couple of hours when she woke up in the solar bed, needing time to process her health state.
Kara turned the chair around to face Alex with cold eyes and a broken heart lingering in here chest. "You think? Alex, I can't feel my legs right now or even move them. One of the vertebrae in my back is currently shattered from a piece of metal that dig into me. Even with my powers slowly coming back as we speak, it will still be a good week before I can move my legs again. After that, who knows what will happen; I asked the hologram of my mother about this before we left and she even said a broken Kryptonian back is something to be worried about," Kara started saying slowly, but the anger and pain in her voice growing as she continued. "I feel useless right now and it is my fault! I left the D.E.O. without even knowing the threat I was up against and almost put you in harms way!" Kara slightly yelled through her gritted teeth, clenching her fists so tight her knuckles turned white.
Alex felt her heart start to shatter in her chest from watching her best friend in the entire world struggle with something huge for the first time in her life; especially without any blood family to help her get through it. As tears filled her eyes, Alex moved over to where she was bent down in front of Kara, who looked towards the floor trying to avoid Alex's eyes. Kara never meant for any of this to happen; she had been extremely grateful to hear Alex hadn't gotten hurt, but the thought of Alex getting hurt if she wouldn't have taken the shot kept haunting her mind.
"Look at me Kara," Alex quietly pleaded to the Kryptonian while gently taking Kara's hand into her own. "You have no idea how scared I am right now because there is nothing I can do to fix this fast enough for you. It is slightly my fault... If I would have taken the shot sooner, you would still be able to walk and feel your legs right now. But I was scared; I was scared the bullet would have hit you and I would lose the one person who means the most to me forever," Alex said as a small waterfall poured from her eyes.
Kara reached up slowly and wiped the tears from Alex's eyes gently before putting her hand on Alex's cheek. "This is in no way your fault. No matter how much I want to blame myself too right now, it isn't going to fix anything. You did what you had to when you could and I am glad you came to my rescue. Honestly, laying on the ground as pain filled my body and the Kryptonian stood over me, I saw my life flash before my eyes," Kara replied, the last part causing Alex to cry harder and cover her eyes with her free hand. "I saw every moment we spent together; from the day you saw me in high-school to Friday nights game fiesta, it all came back to me like a movie. And it made me realize something I have been trying to hide since that moment in the bathroom on your senior prom night," Kara finished saying.
Alex looked up with glossy eyes at the mention of that night, searching Kara's eyes for some kind of hint to what she was saying. Memories of her last high-school prom filled her mind; the dark red strapless dress she picked out to wear months before purchasing tickets to the dance, the knock on her door before revealing Kara standing there in the simple blue dress with a lone carnation in her hand, the constant battle of telling her mom they were just friends even though her mom secretly hoped for more between the girls. A small smile appeared on Alex's face as she watched that night replay in her head in slow motion.
"I still remember the dance we shared before all of the water we drank finally hit our bladders. The way you looked at me is still engraved on the back of my eyelids for me to see every night before I go to sleep. Sometimes when I really stop and think, I can still taste the peppermint chap-stick we swore to never share again the same way we did that night," Kara said smiling while holding Alex's gaze. "I know we promised to never bring that night up again, but here in this moment, feeling like a useless person because of something I did, it reminds me you are the reason I keep putting that suit on every day. You are the reason I didn't jump last time I blew my powers and the world came crashing down on me. You are my symbol of hope Alex," Kara finished saying.
Both women stopped crying for a moment while looking into each other's eyes, trying to speak emotions without words. Kara uses her hand that is still on Alex's cheek to gently move the woman closer to her, while locking the wheels on her chair with her other hand. Alex allowed herself to be pulled closer to her best friend without fighting the butterflies growing in her stomach or the horses beating in her heart. Both of their eyes slowly close as the distance between them does the same. Lips meet together for the first time in years, but move together like a dance practiced every day. Alex moves her hand to gently hold the back of Kara's neck as Kara moves her own hand to run through Alex's short hair.
But the kiss is suddenly stopped by Kara when she feels something hit her foot, believing it had only been a dream. This isn't possible... It has only been three days and I don't have my powers back yet. "Alex, are you standing on my foot?" Kara asks with extreme curiosity dripping from her voice. Alex moves back a little and notices her foot had indeed been pressing onto Kara's, which she moved quickly after realizing that.
"I guess I was. I am sorry... Wait, how did you know something was on your foot Kara?" Alex asked, interrupting herself. Kara leaned her body forward in the chair and looked down towards her foot, trying with all her might to move it or feel something on it again. But when nothing happened, the look of disappointment spread across Kara's face and throughout her heart. But the expression soon faded into a smirk when a single idea popped into Kara's mind.
"You know Alex, I felt my foot while you were kissing me... Maybe if you help me walk over to the couch, we can see if it works again," Kara said suggestively as Alex stared at her with a red face. Even with the voice of J'onn in her head reminding her to make sure Kara took things slow, Alex liked the idea of trying to help Kara regain the feeling in her foot. So slowly, she moved her arm around Kara's waist as Kara moved her own arm around Alex's neck, before standing up to help the Kryptonian walk over to the couch.
The process of them moving five feet took a total of twenty minutes, as Kara slipped from Alex's grasp more than once and fell to the ground. Alex knew Kara wouldn't be able to walk any time soon, but the pleading looking from Kara's puppy face always got Alex to do things she would normally say no too. So after a couple falls, many laughs, and much struggle, the women finally made it to Kara's couch. Alex didn't know what to do next, as she sat Kara down on the couch as careful as she could, after carrying most of her weight to it; but Kara didn't hesitate the moment between them.
Grabbing Alex by the arm, Kara pulled the brunette quickly to her while closing the gap between their lips. Still slightly standing over Kara, Alex melted into the kiss and ran her fingers through the Kryptonians beautiful blonde hair. Moving to sit on Kara's lap, the kiss broke when Alex started to lightly laugh into Kara's shoulder.
"What is it now, giggles?" Kara asked playfully, the same way she did at Alex's prom.
"At least I don't have to hear you complain about my boney ass sitting on you until you heal completely," Alex replied. Kara rolled her eyes before moving Alex to reconnect their lips once more, never wanting to go without the feeling of the most beautiful girl in the world on her lips. Even though her legs decided to take a vacation from their job, Kara didn't mind her heart and mouth doing some extra work.
Authors Note: And the first one-shot is done! I honestly loved how it turned out between Alex and Kara in this one, really letting their emotions out after such a crazy event. Please let me know what you think of this one and leave a review about what one-shot you would like to see next! I am going to try to do all requests while also mentioning the person who gave the request. I enjoy writing for you readers because without you, my words would mean nothing. Until next time!