Hey everyone, I am so sorry for not updating last week, things got a bit uncontrollable and I know that is no excuses but hopefully this slightly longer one shot will make up for it at least partly!
Thank you to all who are reading and review please continue to do so as I love to hear form you all! And thank you all for the prompts and requests you have been sending I promise to do each and everyone of them for you.
Now this one shot is a request by a guest called:
Supergirl Fan
Kara has another panic attack at work (cause let's face it, a pep talk or two wouldn't get rid of all the negative feelings). Eve finds her and drags her to Kara's office. She then gets Lena who calls Alex while doing her best to calm Kara down.
Hope you enjoy what I have done with this one, and Si1verWings it's a Lena as the Boss of CatCo one again, hope you enjoy, don't worry I have plenty more of those in mind haha.
lena-effin-luthor, firstly can I say that I love that name! haha, secondly with regards to your prompt how bad I guy would you like Mon-El as personally I don't like him at all, but I don't want my own dislike of him to effect your prompt and what you have in your mind for it.
One Shot Name: Panic Overload.
Rating: T.
Teaser: Kara still has a lot more to deal with in regard to her past and the panic attacks that Psi brought on that she realises.
Warnings: Triggers for panic attacks, and warning for scenes of bullying at the workplace.
Kara sighed as she searched the store room, rubbing her temples while doing so. The last week had been tiring and she was exhausted which was causing her to have a headache.
It sounds silly doesn't it?
Supergirl, The Girl of Steel having a headache? Well it can and does happen, when she is overworked, overstretched and overly emotional.
Last week's fights with Psi and the resulting panic attacks they had caused had drained her and left her feeling vulnerable, a feeling which she wasn't used to and hadn't really aloud herself to feel since she was a child and first landed here on earth.
The confrontation had brought everything back to the forefront of her mind, all those feelings, all the memories, they were running around her head in a loop constantly.
She had already been sleeping poorly due to her mind being too active and finding herself unable to shut off all the noise around her. Alex always referred to these times as a sensory overload, Kara herself thought them to be a curse, and to top it since the confrontations with Psi she was now sleeping even less.
She was tired, and she was jumpy due to her senses being all over the place.
She was not her usual ray of sunshine and people were picking up on that, she was getting looks from co-workers. Eve had brought her coffee when usually it was the other way around, and Lena – Lena was asking her if she was okay more times than she could count on both hands.
It was nice to feel cared about in that way but also concerning, if Lena was able to pick up on her state of mind at the moment so easily then surely Lena had been able to pick up on all the lies she had told, all the secretes she had been trying to keep.
However, she pushed that to the back of her mind and concentrated on the task at hand. She was in the store room collecting supplies for Lena.
When Lena had asked her for what she was sure what at least the twentieth time today if she was okay Kara had caved and told her about the headaches and how they were keeping her up and making her tired. She hadn't said why, but she had told her enough of the truth that Lena accepted it.
In response Lena had told her how she was having trouble finding her way around the place and finding certain things, she had said that even though Eve was a great assistant she was sure Kara knew the place better than anybody after her time as Kat Grant's assistant. Lena was not subtle, and Kara could tell what she was really doing was trying to keep her close so that she could keep an eye on her and make sure she was okay while lessening her work load.
Usually Kara would refuse the suggestion of any kind of help when it came to her work, but she was so tired and drained and if she was honest a day being close to Lena sounded pretty good. The CEO had a naturally calming air about her and somehow always seemed to make Kara feel better about herself without even trying or knowing that she was doing it.
No one bated an eyelid to the fact that Kara had spent all morning in the office with Lena, not even Eve. Everybody knew of the close friendship the two women had so it wasn't surprising in the slightest to find them together, but it did create some tension with the other employees.
As Kara's headache grew worse and her super-hearing decided to go on overdrive, allowing her to pick up bits of conversation she was not trying to listen to, she could hear some of her co-workers grumbling about how she would end up getting special treatment soon due to being the Boss's favourite. Kara knew Lena wouldn't do that, and she wouldn't allow her to, part of her was hurt that some of her co-workers thought so little of her, she had worked hard to get where she was so far. She knew she would need to address the issue at some point but currently she was not in the mood to even attempt to deal with it, she was happy to keep busy and try to take her mind of everything that running around at one hundred miles an hour in her head while helping her best friend.
She was so engrossed in trying to find the fresh layout templates that Lena had wanted that she hadn't heard two of her co-workers near the room that she was in.
She hadn't heard them move the door stop she had placed by the door to stop it from closing until it was too late.
The slam of the door caught her attention and caused her to whip around quickly coming face to face with the closed door.
She heard the sound of the lock turning and heard laughter outside the door, her co-workers had locked her in the small storeroom with the keys that she had left in the door lock on the outside of the door.
She tried the handle, but it wouldn't budge.
Her breathing increased as she looked around the room.
Taking off her glasses and placing them on a small table to the side of the door she tried using her X-Ray vision to look through the door, she could see her co-workers, Hannah and Steven were still stood outside the door laughing.
She knew then with them right outside the door that he couldn't use her powers to blast open the door without them finding out who she was – she was stuck.
The thought made her shiver and back away to the centre of the room.
She couldn't be stuck, the room was too small, there were no windows.
Her breathing began to increase more as those feelings of being trapped started to make goose-bumps appear on her skin, "Guys let me out, come on! You're had your fun, I get it, this is really funny, but I have work to do." She called out, trying to control the growing panic in her mind.
"No this isn't funny, it's hilarious!" she heard Hannah reply through laughter from the other side of the door, "Sorry Danvers your work will have to wait, maybe your best friend can come get you out as you enjoy spending so much time together," Steven added, sarcasm dripping in his voice.
Kara started to gasp as her breathing picked up in pace, they were not going to let her out, not until they were bored with tormenting her.
She had dealt with things like this before, at school other children would pick on her, lock her in lockers and rooms and she would stay there afraid of being exposed. She would wait until Alex came and found her, Alex always came to find her.
The problem was that right now she wasn't at school anymore, and Alex wasn't going to come and find her.
She was stuck, she could feel the panic setting in, her X-ray vision was turning on and off of its own accord, her ears were ringing as the sounds of explosions from her memories started to sound in her head, "Let me out!" she screamed banging on the door as the room changed into the space sky she had seen as a child.
Panic was setting in fully now; the room was far too small, she could feel the walls pushing against her as the room looked more and more like what she had seen in her pod as a child. The laughter outside the door sounded harsh, just the whirling sound and the explosions did in her head. She could feel tears streaming down her face as she dropped to her knees with her head in her hands trying to make herself as small as possible, trying to move herself away from the walls. She felt like the room was trying to suffocate her, her breathing was now coming out in short sharp gasps as she began to whimper and plead saying 'no' over and over again.
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As Eve made her way down the hallway towards the storeroom her interest was piqued, she could hear laughter as she got closer to the storeroom, laughing that didn't sound like Kara's.
Miss Luthor had asked her if she wouldn't mind finding the bubbly reporter, she had told her that Kara had been feeling unwell and had asked her to check on the reporter who had been gone far too long just to get some supplies for the store room.
The idea of going back to the storeroom to find Kara made Eve blush, as the last time the two of them were there together was when Kara had found her in a rather compromising position with the new intern Mike Matthews who she had dated for a very short time.
Moving around the corner Eve became confused at what she saw, Hannah and Steven were standing outside the storeroom in fits of laughter, the storeroom door was closed, the keys in the keyhole.
"What's going on?" Eve asked as she came to a stop just outside the storeroom, she could swear she could hear mumbling and what seemed like an almost whimpering sound coming from inside the storeroom.
It took a moment for Hannah and Steven to stop laughing enough to reply, "Danvers it's your lucky day, looks like the Boss sent someone to come find you," Hannah said before walking back down the hallway, Steven following closely behind while Eve's eyes bulged.
She couldn't believe this.
What, were they in school again or something? Locking people in storerooms as a joke, it was so childish.
As she listened closer the whimpers became more noticeable, she could hear gasping breaths which made her blood run cold.
They may not be best friends, but they still got on well and Eve cared for Kara like she did anybody else she was friendly with.
"Kara? Can you hear me, I'm going to open the door, make sure you aren't too close, alright?" she called through the door, before turning the keys and carefully pushing the door open, hoping that Kara wasn't too close to it as she didn't want to hit her with the door by accident.
She managed to wedge the door open enough to slip into the room, making sure to take the keys with her this time so that they couldn't be locked in again.
Upon entering the room her eyes bulged bigger again, was Kara claustrophobic?
The sight that greeted her made her think so.
Kara was kneeling on the floor, head down in her hands as her body shuddered with breaths she was trying to take, she was rocking herself back and forth with her eyes shut tightly, tears could be seen streaming down her face as she mumbled incoherently between whimpers. She was a mess, from looking at her Eve would say the young reporter was in the midst of a panic attack if her breathing and shaking was anything to go by.
Thinking quickly, Eve dropped into a crouch laying a hand gently on Kara's shoulder only to move it away again quickly when Kara flinched visibly at the touch, "Kara? I'm going to get you out of here okay, just try to follow me. Can you stand?" Eve asked speaking calmly, she didn't get a response.
Bracing herself, Eve stood before bending to grasp one of Kara's arms in her hand and tug the blonde up to her feet as gently as she could, she had no idea what she was doing or if she was going to make things worse, but she knew she couldn't just leave Kara like this.
She could feel Kara flinch against her touch again, but this time she didn't let go, and after a moment she was rewarded with Kara's muscles relaxing a small amount under her hand, not much but enough to let Eve know that the touch was not causing her any pain.
After managing to get Kara standing she pulled the reporter from the room, grabbing the pair of glasses she could see on the side table that she knew belonged to Kara before closing and locking the door behind them. Slowly, she began leading an unresponsive Kara back through to the bullpen.
She had decided she needed to get Kara somewhere more open, more open but still private. Lena's office was far to open to prying eyes, perhaps Kara's own office would do better. It was large enough that Kara should hopefully not feel completely trapped like Eve assumed she must be have been feeling in the small storeroom but was still private enough and out of the way of prying eyes.
The only problem was that the only way to get her there was by taking her through into the bullpen where all their other co-workers would be.
Walking into the bullpen, Eve could feel eyes on them was she tried to guide Kara towards her office, it was not surprising that they were getting looks of concern and confusion. Kara was a mess, she was almost hyperventilating by now, her head was down to the ground, her shut tightly, she was still mumbling, her whole body was shaking, and her movements where jerky and uncoordinated.
Eve had an arm around the reporter's waist and another on her shoulder and she tried to steer her in the right direction, helping her friend to dodge other co-workers and desks that were in their way.
All the commotion must have alerted Miss Luthor to the fact that something wasn't right as the next thing Eve knew she was on Kara's other side helping to hold the reporter up.
Eve watched as Miss Luthor placed a hand under Kara's chin and pulled her head up towards her trying to meet her eyes, only for Kara to shake her head, eyes closing even tighter if possible before she turned her head towards the ground again as another wave of panicked whimpers and trembles consumed her body.
"I was trying to get her to her office, I found her locked in the storeroom like this, I've never seen her like this before, I didn't even know she was claustrophobic, that has to be what this is right? It's like she's having a panic attack or something, she's just unresponsive," Eve explained after receiving a questioning look from her Boss, who nodded in response to her answer, wrapping her own arm around Kara's waist, pulling the blonde reporter into her side.
"Do you have her glasses?" Miss Luthor asked, causing Eve to nod her head and quickly fish them out of her back pocket passing them over to her boss, who took them with a grateful smile. "I need you to call Alex Danvers for me, explain the situation and ask her to come as quickly as she can, then bring me a bottle of water, I'll take her from here," Lena ordered, while tucking Kara closer to herself as her breathing began to increase again with the loudness and commotion that was going on around her.
Eve watched, still in shock, as Miss Luthor directed a still highly unresponsive Kara Danvers through the building towards her old office. Eve could see her Boss whispering to the reporter the whole time, keeping her close to her body, not even bothering to look at any other workers who were in their path to Kara's office.
It took a few moments for Eve to register what had been asked of her, but when her mind and body finally caught up with each other she jumped into action, making her way over towards her desk to locate Kara's emergency contact number for Alex Danvers so that she could make the call right away.
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Kara and Lena had just made it through to Kara's office, as soon as they entered the room Kara pushed away from her best friend slamming her back into the wall and sliding down it so she was sitting on the floor with her knees drawn up to her chest in a protective stance, her breathing becoming even worse through the effort it took for her body to do so.
Lena paused for a moment assessing her best friend.
She had never seen Kara this way before and to be honest the sight was absolutely terrifying.
Kara may be naive and awkward at times but seeing her this scared was not something that she was used to, nor that she liked to see.
Taking a deep breath herself, Lena crossed the room sitting on the floor in front of her best friend, congratulating herself in the back of mind for wearing a pant suit and not a dress today, making sure that she wasn't touching her. She had noticed on the walk through in the office that Kara's muscles had been tensing under her hands, she had been trying to flinch away from the touch, and Lena did want to overwhelm her best friend any more than what she obviously already was.
"Kara?" She called softly, "Kara, do you know where you are? Can you look at me?" she continued, getting a head shake in response. "It's okay, you can keep your eyes closed, just lift your head then I can put your glasses back on for you, alright?" Lena said. She had noticed before how Kara had reacted at being forced to look at her in the bullpen, and wondered if it had to do with the fact her vision was probably blurry from the tears and from the fact she was not wearing her glasses.
Though deep-down, Lena knew the blonde almost definitely did not need them, she had thought that they hold some sentimental value, and would at the very least provide some comfort for her best friend if nothing else.
Lena waited as Kara slowly lifted her head eyes still shut tight, before carefully starting to slip the glasses back into place, "It's alright," she murmured softly when Kara flinched at the feel of her fingers brushing against her cheek as she fixed the frames in place. "That's better, you can open your eyes now when you're ready," Lena assured.
It was silent in the room for some time bar for Kara's gasping breaths and small whimpers.
Lena sat with her, not touching, but close by, waiting till Kara felt her panic lessen to open her eyes properly.
It felt like hours to Lena when really it wasn't more than a couple of minutes, but eventually Kara's face relaxed as her eyes slowly blinked open and began darting around the room quickly trying to scan and take in her surroundings. From the way the blondes breathing had picked up once again Lena wasn't entirely sure that she was seeing the room in the same way that Lena herself was.
"Hey, focus on me, stay with me," she said softly ducking her head slightly so that teary blue eyes met dark green, when their eyes locked Lena was startled at the range of emotions she saw in her best friend's eyes.
Fear was most prominent.
Lena desperately wanted to question her friend and find out what had happened to cause this reaction but was currently much more worried with calming down her best friend's erratic breathing before she made herself pass out.
Taking a breath Lena turned her body to face Kara completely, reaching out a hand towards Kara, silently asking if it was alright to touch her. She watched as Kara's eyes flitted down from her own for a moment to look at her hand before slowly uncurling one hand from around her legs and taking the offered hand shakily.
Lena smiled gently as Kara looked back up to meet her eyes once again, threading her fingers with her the reporters and squeezing softly.
"I'm going to ask you some questions now, and I want you to answer with the first thing that comes to mind, okay?" Lena asked, remembering how one of the maids used to calm her down when she was younger.
Lena had gone through a phase during the beginning of high school where she felt as though she wasn't good enough, she would stress about tests to the point of bringing on panic attacks and the exercise she was about to do with Kara was one that one of the maids taught her. It always helped to calm her down, she was hoping it would have the same effect on Kara too.
She waited until Kara nodded, her eyes still fixed on Lena's own and her hand squeezing Lena's back now as though trying to ground herself, "Okay so first I want you to name four colours you can see in the room," Lena instructed, watching as Kara's face scrunched up slightly in confusion, the crinkle becoming noticeable as her eyes quickly flitted around the room.
"W-white…bl-ue…b-black…green?" Kara stuttered out slowly, between large gasping breaths. Lena smiled in encouragement and squeezed her hand, it didn't go unnoticed to her how green was said with the most conviction, or the fact it was said after Kara's eyes met her own once again.
Lena inched a slight bit closer to her best friend after another whimper sounded when Eve entered the room with the bottle of water she had asked for, Lena payed her no attention keeping her eyes focused on Kara's as Eve placed the bottle on the floor next to her and left the room again shortly afterwards sensing that Kara needed space and Lena was the best person to help her right now.
"That's good darling, okay, now tell me three things that you can hear," Lena instructed when she was sure she had Kara's full attention again.
Kara nodded, her hand squeezing Lena's own tightly for a moment as she listened, "Ring-ringing…printers…voices," Kara listed, her voice beginning to sound stronger, her breathing calming although still very fast in pace.
"That's great, your doing really well. Tell me two things you can smell," Lena instructed further noticing how Kara was not shuddering as much now, she was still shaking but her posture was becoming more relaxed.
Kara was quiet for a moment, sniffling as she tried to clear her nose that was blocked due the tears she had been crying, "umm…jasmine and lav-ender?" she answered unsure, getting a smile in response from Lena, again it didn't go unnoticed to the CEO how that was the fragrance of shampoo she had used to wash her hair with this morning.
"Good, last one now. Tell me one thing you can feel," Lena said squeezing the hand that she was holding causing Kara to look down at the hand wrapped around her own before looking back up into Lena's eyes again. "Your hand, I can feel your hand in mine," Kara replied confidently taking a deep breath afterwards as she began to feel her lungs fill with air properly, the panic slowly reducing as she started to become more aware of her surroundings.
No longer could she see the depths of space where her home planet used to be, no longer were her ears ringing with the sounds of explosions, no longer did it feel like the walls were trying to suffocate her.
She felt grounded, her best friend was in front of her holding her hand, smiling at her softly keeping her in the present and stopping her mind from reliving the past on a continuous loop.
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A quiet knock on the door twenty minutes later caused Lena to open her eyes when she had closed them she couldn't remember. She remembered moving to press her back against the wall next to her best friend. She remembered keeping their hands entwined the whole time while she and Kara spoke quietly while her best friend continued to calm from her earlier panic. She remembered helping Kara drink half the bottle of water that Eve had brought in for them. She remembered that after some time Kara had leant in closer towards her and dropped her head against Lena's shoulder while they continued to talk.
She assumed that somewhere between the comforting warmth of Kara pressed closely to her body and the steady breaths she could feel the blonde make against her shoulder where her head was resting must have been enough to lull her to sleep herself, and from how Kara had yet to move she can imagine it had the same effect on her best friend as well.
Turning her head to face the doorway, she could see that Alex Danvers was looking at her a expression on her face that was half amused half confused at the position in which the two best friends were sat in, huddled together against the wall of the Kara's office.
"Hey," Lena spoke groggily, lifting a hand to gently rub her eyes the movement causing Kara to grumble slightly and tighten her hold on Lena's other hand.
"How is she? Your assistant said she found her locked in a storeroom?" Alex asked, walking further into the room. There was a clear edge to her voice, anger Lena assumed, though she could tell the anger was not directed at her.
It directed at whoever had locked Kara in the storeroom to begin with, Lena herself was angry with that thought as well. In her mind she was adamant that she would find who did it, and if it was done on purpose that person or persons would be looking for a new job by the end of the day.
"She's – well she's not okay clearly. I managed to calm her down, but she is exhausted, I asked Eve to call you, so you could take her home, she needs to rest. She told me earlier she hasn't been sleeping well and has been having headaches?" Lena said, enquiring at the end of her explanation to see if Alex knew anything about it.
From the blank look and concerned expression she could see on Alex's face she was going to assume that the elder Danvers sister did not know about this.
Alex sighed, running a hand through her hair as she sat on the floor on Kara's other side, leaning forwards to brush a stray strand of blonde hair out of her little sisters face, "She didn't say anything to me, but that is not entirely surprising." Alex said, feeling bad for not picking up on this herself in the first place.
"She's been pretending she is fine when I know she isn't." Alex admitted, "I'm not going in to details, but something happened last week that caused her to relive what she saw of her parent's deaths. I think it brought back a lot more than she has admitted to anybody, including herself. Sometimes she is so busy trying to help other people that my sister forgets to help herself when she needs it." Alex explained truthfully as she softly stroked a hand down her sister's face, looking both amused and concerned again as Kara murmured in her sleep shifting and turning slightly to rest against her with Lena's hand still clutched in her own.
Lena watched the two sisters interact, noticing how at ease they seemed with being close to one another. She could see how attuned Alex was to her sisters needs even when the younger woman was sleeping, and how peaceful Kara seemed now her older sister was in the room with her.
She continued to watch as Alex lifted her right arm gently, wrapping it around Kara's shoulders to pull her slightly closer. She watched as Kara let out a sleep filled sigh when her head fell on top of her sister's chest, her hand now leaving Lena's to clutch at her sister.
"When we were kids, when she first came to live with us after her parents had died, she had claustrophobic episodes," Alex said softly, drawing Lena's attention back to herself, "she would panic in the most unpredictable places, the slightest thing would trigger her, and it would take hours to calm her down afterwards. She would work herself in a frenzy and would become completely unresponsive." Alex explained, as she did so Lena found herself drawing similarities to what had happened today, what Alex was describing is what she and Eve had witnessed from Kara earlier on.
"After a while they stopped, she worked through what was causing them, but honestly, I don't think she ever properly dealt with the triggers that caused them, she just managed to become less affected by them." Alex continued, pausing to look down at her exhausted little sister, "Last week was the first time she has had one of these episodes in years. Maggie, my fiancé, was with her when it happened, and she tried to calm her down, but she couldn't. When we were younger my parents couldn't calm her down either. For some reason it always only me who could calm her down when she got herself into a full-blown panic, and just like when we were kids I was only one who managed to calm her down last week." Alex explained.
She paused again, looking up from her sister to Lena before continuing, "Until today that is - other than me – you, are the only person who has ever made her feel safe enough to bring her through the panic. Thank you for that, you have no idea how glad it makes me feel to know she has someone else in her life other than me who can help her like this." She finished gratefully.
Lena was speechless, she really didn't know what to say.
Yes, she had calmed Kara down, but she was terrified herself at the time. She had no idea about what she was doing. She was just hoping that what used to help her would help Kara and she was lucky that it did.
Perhaps the familiarity of the feelings that Kara was having helped her to emphasis with her best friend and allowed her to understand what she needed, but she doubted that was the case.
Nodding Lena stood, she glanced down briefly to where her best friend was sleeping cuddled up to her older sister, part of her wanted to stay with them, but with Kara asleep she felt awkward in the room.
She and Alex did not know each other that well, and the knowing looks she kept receiving from her best friend's older sister were starting to unnerve her.
Plus, she wanted to find out what had happened to Kara, she wanted to find out who had locked her in the storeroom and why they thought it was acceptable to do so.
Kara was safe, and she was calm, Lena knew she could leave the reporter in the care of her older sister and that she would be fine.
Bending slightly, she ran a hand over the blondes head under the watchful eye of Alex who was giving her a knowing smirk before straightening back up, "There are a few things I need to take care of, if you leave before I come back let me know," Lena said, straightening out her clothes now that she was standing as Alex nodded in response offering the CEO a smile before watching her leave the room.
She was quiet for moment, making sure that Lena had gone before addressing her sister, "You have always sucked at fake sleeping, you know that right?" she asked with a chuckle.
"I do not!" Kara replied indigently, her eyes still closed, her voice was raspy showing the signs of her earlier panic and crying.
Alex laughed in response shaking her head, Kara had only proved her point more so with that response. After calming her laughter, she shifted slightly, using her arm to tug her little sister closer towards her before resting her chin on top of the blonde's head. "Why didn't you tell me about the headaches and that you haven't been sleeping? I could have helped you, if you let me." She asked softly.
"You have so much to sort out with the wedding I didn't want to distract you over nothing," Kara replied quietly with a small shrug, her eyes still closed as she relaxed into her sisters hold.
Alex scoffed at the answer, rolling her eyes, "This," she said waving her spare hand over Kara's body, "is not nothing." She finished. "You and your feelings whatever they may be are not a distraction, they are just as important if not more important than any wedding plans. It doesn't matter what I'm doing, I'm still your sister and you can always come to me no matter what time or what the problem is. You've got me always, alright?" Alex said, waiting until she could feel Kara nod against her.
"You too," Kara replied tiredly.
Alex smiled in response, "Well, I know that silly," she responded, using the same words Kara had said to her last week, getting a small laugh from her sister in response.
"Lexie, I'm really tired," Kara said after a few moments.
Alex pulled her closer again, running a hand up and down her little sister's arm, "Oh I can tell, you haven't called me Lexie in years," she replied, smiling fondly. "How about I take you home and you can get some proper sleep?" she asked, knowing that it would be better for Kara to fall asleep at home on her couch, or preferably in her bed, than sleep on the floor of her office at CatCo.
"Will you stay with me?" Kara asked after some time, sitting up to look at her sister properly for the first time since Alex had entered the office.
Alex smiled, lifting her hand to rub her thumb softly under Kara's eyes, removing the tear streaks form earlier as she did so, "Always, little sister. I'll always stay with you when you want me to," She replied softly.
Slowly Alex stood from the floor, tugging her little sister up with her, she threw an arm around Kara's waist before leading her out of the room towards Lena's office to say goodbye quickly on their way home so that she could help her little sister get the rest that she needed.
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