Author: Ashley
Title: Finding Our Way Back
Rating: M
Part: 4/15
Pairing: Mon-El and Kara Danvers (Zor-El)
Word Count (Chapter Four): 1,767
Summary: "It had been almost two months and he wasn't getting any better. Her eyes were wide as she sat there staring at him. She didn't know what to do. She didn't know how to help him." - Kara and Mon-El break up in 2x16: Star-Crossed and the Music Meister never pushes them back together. After an incident with his mother, Mon-El has been put into a coma to recover from lead poisoning. Kara moves on without him. When he wakes up, will they be able to find their way back to each other?
Disclaimer: I don't own Supergirl, DC Comics or anything related to such things. The ideas, dialogue and plot points here were inspired by the show, but they are my own. Plagiarism isn't nice. Please don't steal my ideas.
A/N: Welcome back readers!
I know we're all a little upset at the decisions Kara is making and we're all not liking Eric too much and we're all worried about what's going on with Mon-El, so no more waiting and wondering (for a bit at least) because we're on to Chapter 4!
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Chapter Four
August 31, 2017
Alex removed the phone from her ear and shoved it back in her pocket. She had no choice. He was watching her through the glass. He knew she was talking to someone. She had to go in and tell him something. Anything. She sighed heavily as she moved toward the door.
The agents were starting to release him, their checking in on him now over and he sat up straight.
"Alex?" His voice was a lot clearer now.
"Hmm?" She hummed, having not yet figured out what to tell him.
"Kara? Did you talk to her? Was that her on the phone? Is she coming?" His voice was nervous, almost scared.
Alex nodded, "Yeah, but not right now."
He stared at her confusedly, "Is she okay?"
"Mon-El, please stop asking me that. She's fine. She just can't…get away right now.
"Get away from what?" he prodded.
"She's just…in a situation…a situation she can't get out of right now. Besides, it's late…she'll just probably get here tomorrow morning."
She hoped nobody showed him a window because it was barely six o'clock; the summer sun still bright and shining. Her eyes searched around the room for any sign of the actual time.
"Oh," he nodded sadly and she turned to look at him. She just stood there in silence, unsure as to what she should say or what she should do.
"How do you feel?" she suddenly asked, concern on her face, still hesitant as to whether or not he was at one hundred percent.
"Fine, I guess. I mean, a little tired. That's probably weird considering I've been unconscious."
"Your body will likely be tired until you get your powers back," the last agent in the room chimed in. "Give it a couple of days and you should be back to normal." She nodded before turning to leave. She pointed next to his arm. "Press the red button if you need anything from one of us." He nodded silently in response and then turned back to Alex.
"Alex, what happened to me?" he asked once they were alone.
Alex bit her lip. "What'd you remember?"
He thought for a long moment and finally shrugged. "Nothing. I mean…I remember I was with Kara…" he trailed off as he tried to concentrate. "We were at her apartment," his eyes slipped closed as he drifted back into the memory. "We were watching Game of Thrones," he smiled to himself. His eyes popped open to connect with hers. "We were watching all the shows she didn't have time to watch when she was at CatCo, you know, since she was always so busy. But after she got fired, we had more time for TV night. We made it to Season 3 before we got…distracted…" he trailed off again, a small smile sliding onto his face, a light blush hitting his cheeks.
Season 3? She could have sworn Kara had said…
"But that's it?" she asked, her eyebrows furrowed together.
He nodded. "Yeah, I mean, I don't understand how I got hurt watching TV," he laughed, "especially with Kara sitting right there." He sighed, "I just want to hold her. Rao, I feel like I've been sleeping forever. I miss her."
Hold her? They weren't exactly in a good place when…
"Mon-El, uhm," she started. "Standard question when someone wakes up from a coma: What day is it today?"
He paused for a minute, his eyebrows furrowing as he looked to be concentrating. "March 20th? Wait, I know we were watching TV together on March 20th. So maybe March 21st by now? 22nd?"
Alex's eyes widened and she nodded, trying to do it slowly, not frantically like she wanted to. It came out in the form of a question, but it didn't seem like he was confused. It seemed like he thought that was a dumb question for her to ask him. "You know what? I think you should rest. We'll talk about this later. Just take it easy."
"But, Alex, I-"
"No, no," she started, as she waved her hands in the air. "Tomorrow. We'll talk about this tomorrow. With Kara."
He nodded with furrowed eyebrows. "Uhm, okay. I guess I'll just-" he yawned widely. "Well, apparently I'm tired. So, I-uh, I'll see you tomorrow then."
She smiled, probably too widely and too forced as she exited the room.
She rolled her eyes at herself. Great, now she also had to tell all of the agents to stay out of his room and pretend it was the middle of the night.
September 1, 2017
Damn that phone of hers!
Its incessant vibrations along the end table were interrupting her sleep. She groaned as she leaned over and grabbed it, almost slapping herself in the face with it as she tried to get it to her ear.
"Hel-"
"Kara, you need to get here now."
"Alex?" her voice was scratchy, having just woken up. She looked over at Eric, flopped on his stomach, looking in the opposite direction of her, his face buried in the pillow. "What's wrong?" she whispered, blinking, a hand rubbing at her eyes as she sat up in bed.
"Kara," her voice was stern. "You need to get to the DEO. Right. Now."
She flung the blankets off of her body, her mind quickly jumping into Supergirl mode. "I'll be right there!" She was wide awake now.
Eric mumbled something and she turned to him. "Hey, Eric? I gotta run." He blinked sleepily at her and she kissed his cheek. "I'll see you tonight."
She hopped out of bed before he could say anything and she was long gone before he really registered that she was leaving.
She flew into the DEO, landing smoothly as all eyes looked up at her. Silence. Nobody was saying anything. Nobody was moving. Everyone was just staring at her. It didn't look like an emergency situation. Nobody was running to her with instructions. Then she saw Alex walk through the crowd of agents, steadily stepping towards her. She moved slowly down the steps and in her direction.
"Alex," her voice was low, eyes concerned. "What's going on here?"
"It's Mon-El…"
"You woke me up to talk about Mon-El?" she sighed loudly, her voice tinged with annoyance. "It's barely 7:00am. I told you to tell him I'd see him tomorrow."
"Well, it's tomorrow," she said shortly, "and this is important." She grabbed her sister's arm. "Not in front of everyone," she commented as she tugged her in the direction of the med bay.
"What's so important?" she asked, her voice at a whisper while they walked.
"Well for one, he just woke up from a five month coma."
Kara rolled her eyes, "Alex, I know. That's fantastic. I'm happy he's finally awake. But...but I'm still mad at him you know…I'm not exactly excited to have a conversation with him. Or for him to yell at me about making him go talk to his mother and getting him attacked by the woman."
"I know you're upset with him, but Kara…he doesn't remember."
"That I'm mad at him?"
Alex shook her head.
"About his mother?"
"Anything," she answered.
Kara blinked at her, "Well, he was in a coma. I didn't think he'd actually remember anything that he'd heard or what was going on around him while he was out, I mean-"
"Kara, listen to me," Alex stopped her, "he doesn't remember anything that has happened."
She stared at her sister confused. "What'd you mean he doesn't remember what happened? What happened when? What's the last thing he remembers?"
"You. With him. On your sofa. Game of Thrones."
"What?" she asked, her eyebrows furrowing.
"Season 3. And I know for a fact that you're all caught up. And that you watched the rest of the series with him. You told me so yourself."
Kara just stared back at her sister.
"Kara, he literally thinks it's March."
Kara shook her head. "You're kidding. Alex, this isn't funny."
"I said, 'What day is it?' and he said March 20th. And that was after he told me that he can't wait to hold you in his arms again."
Kara blinked at her, mouth agape.
"He's literally missing like three weeks of his life, Kara. He doesn't remember that you broke up with him. He doesn't remember his parents hacking the electronic signals and sending out their message when they were looking for him. He doesn't remember the ship and that you went up there with him and met his parents. He doesn't remember his mother attacking you or shooting that lead into his neck. Kara," she paused, her eyes wide as she watched her sister's face, "It's all gone."
Kara cleared her throat, "Alex, this doesn't make sense. How can this be?"
Alex sighed heavily, "Kara, sometimes after a coma, there's some memory loss. A short term coma might lead to some short term memory loss. A prolonged coma…something like what Mon-El went through, it could be temporary memory loss, it could be permanent. Really, there's no way to know other than to sit around and see what happens. The whole ordeal might have been traumatic to Mon-El. This could even be some kind of PTSD caused memory loss. He could be blocking it all out: having to deal with his parents arriving unexpectedly, you breaking up with him, then his mother attacking him? These are not easy things to deal with, Kara."
"So what am I supposed to do now?"
Alex shrugged. "You're gonna have to tell him."
"What? Me? Why me?" her eyes were wide and worried.
"He's your boyfriend."
"He's not my boyfriend!" she shouted, louder than she intended.
"Well, he still thinks he is, so you're gonna have to go in there and tell him why you broke his heart and that you've moved on. He won't want to hear it from me, Kara. He's been begging to see you since the second his eyes opened. He's not going to listen to or believe anybody else. You know that."
Kara sighed heavily. She knew Alex was right. He'd believe her. She knew she had to go in there. He owed her for lying to her, but she owed him the truth about how this happening to him was her fault. Her eyes drifted down the hallway and she could see him sitting there on the bed in the med bay. He looked fidgety: his foot was bouncing, his eyes darting around the room. She sighed before she walked past Alex and headed toward the med bay.
A/N: Just one quick thing I wanted to mention - I've participated in it with some other fandoms, but some of you may not have...a Fandom Map.
Basically, you add a pin to a map of the world with your location (city/town, province, country - however much detail you wanted to add) with your name or Twitter handle and in the end, we have a giant map showing how widespread us fans are across the world. I haven't seen one for Karamel fans, so I started one. You can find it at Zeemaps . You can search Karamel Fandom Map OR add this /map?group=2594021 to the link (FF doesn't allow direct links btw). Instructions (should you need them) are also in the Photos on my Twitter page, but it's pretty simple.
If you're on a computer: Click on the link to take you to the map. On the top bar, slide your pointer over "Additions" then click "Add Marker - Simple". Type in your location and add your Twitter handle (if you have one) or your name or your nickname in the first two boxes. Change your marker colour at the bottom if you'd like. Click submit and you should see yourself on the map!
On your mobile: Click on the link. "See Map" and click the little gray box followed by + Add and fill in the same set of info.
We've got 37 pins right now, and I know there's more of us than that ;) . It'd be awesome if you guys could add yourselves if you haven't already. We almost have at least one person on each continent of the world (where you at Australia, Africa and Antarctica?) already!
Y'all are amazing and thank you again for your lovely comments and praise. I appreciate every word of it!