When the helicopter landed in the base, Kara was crashing. Alex had been keeping her emotions in to help her sister the best she could but it was too much. Now, like Alex had done with Cat, it was Hank who was trying to get the agent away from her sister. Alex's grip on the stretcher was so tight, that it took Hank and Astra to let her go. Adam was following the stretcher until Doctor Reed faced him and said that he couldn't go further. The young man watched, helpless, the unmoving body of his girlfriend go out of his sight.
Hank had a lot of work to do regarding Non's death and the containment of his body. With big regrets, he let Alex and Adam in the hands of the most capable person at the moment: Astra. The alien was very affected by what was happening but she was a leader, a soldier, and she knew it wasn't the time for her to cry. Even if she wanted to so badly.
Alex was pacing in front of the door that no one but the medical staff was allowed to open.
"This can't be happening...She is going to die! She's dying!" Alex snapped
"You can't say that! You don't have the right to!" Adam yelled
"You don't understand. Kara was caughing blood, she probably have an hemothorax. Her lung is bleeding!" the woman screamed
"Agent Danvers! He is right. I'm sure Kara is in good hands. We can't make assomptions when we don't have all the informations." Astra started putting her hand on Alex shoulder. "I suggest that you two take some rest."
"But-" Adam began to protest
"I promise I will wake you as soon as I have further information.
The two humans looked at each other. They both knew it was the right thing to do as the doctors would probably be in there for a long time. Still, they needed some kind of aprouval from each other.
"Come on, follow me to the dormitory." Alex said
The agent nodded to Astra, thanking her silently, and left with Adam. After a few minutes, the two arrived to the dormitory. Without hesitation, Alex climbed to one bed whils Adam took the one bellow.
"Do you think she is going to be ok?" the young man asked staring at the bed above him
"Honestly...I don't know." Alex sighed
Soon as the others were out of sight, Astra looked one last time at the forbidden door before feeling tears fill her eyes. Before anyone could see her crying, the general ran in the only safe room she knew: Alex's office. Once she had shut the door, Astra threw herself on the bed and started shaking incontrolably. The cry came a few seconds later. The woman curled in a foetal position and let herself go. No one was looking. What if agent Danvers was right? What if Kara was going to die? Astra couldn't accept the fact that her niece would be taken away from her, again, whils they had just started to become a family again. This couldn't be happening, she hoped so hard it was just a horrible nightmare. An other thought suddenly struck Astra. Her husband was dead and she was his murderer. A sudden feeling of digust came in Astra. The kryptonian knew Non's death was for the better but he was the man she had spent her life with, the one she had married, the one she had even loved. After twenty minutes, Astra started to relax, exhausted by the fight, the angst, the cry.
An hour later, Astra was almost asleep when someone disturbed her.
"Alex...Oh I'm sorry ma'am." Reed said entering the office without knocking.
"It is ok." the kryptonian started sitting on the bed. "Agent Danvers is resting in the dormitory."
Doctor Reed stayed unmoving as she was streched between waking her friend or telling Kara's aunt what she had to say.
"What is it you want to tell? Is it about Kara?" Astra asked standing up
"Yes." Reed hesitated before telling more. "My team and I are still working but I came to update you. Supergirl has a hemothorax and is still losing blood but we will handle it. Her liver is hit. She is under constant transfusion. For now I can't tell you more." the doctor explained slowly to give time to Astra. "I have to go back." she finally said
"Thank you" Astra nodded before Reed left.
The general sat back on the bed to digest all that she had been told. All that she could conclude was that her niece wasn't out of danger.
Slowly, she stood up and went to the dormitory. Astra had made a promise and she wasn't going to break it, especially when she had made it to agent Danvers. Quietly, Astra entered the dark dormitory and quickly found the occupied beds thanks to her supersenses. The two humans were sleeping. The alien thought about letting them sleep but again, she didn't want to face an angry agent Danvers.
"Agent Danvers." she said shaking the woman's shoulder.
"What..." she began wondering where she was. "Kara?" Alex asked quickly
"I have more informations." Astra explained.
Alex lifted herself in a sitting position, her legs dangling. All the movements around Adam were enough to wake him up. When he opened his eyes, he saw Astra and knew she had informations he needed.
"What do you know?" he asked
"A doctor came and confirmed what you said earlier, agent Danvers. Kara's liver is hurt and she is still bleeding."
"No..." Adam said to himself
"Anything else?" Alex asked impatient
"Only that it will take more time to the doctors to operate."
"I have to go there." Alex stated as she jumped off the bed.
The other two looked at her leaving the dormitory.
"So you're Kara's aunt?" Adam asked breaking the silence.
"Yes I am." Astra answered sitting next to him. "I don't think we have been properly introduced. General Astra." she said presenting her hand.
"Right. Adam Foster. I'm Kara's boyfriend." he said shaking her hand.
"That I already knew." she smirked. "I figured it out when I saw you and and my niece very lightly dressed." Astra reminded him, making him blush
"Yeah...That wasn't embarassing and scary at all."
Seeing the glare of Astra, Adam quickly corrected himself.
"Uh...It was just that you suddenly...appeared out of nowhere and Kara told me things about you but it was before your big reunion so I thought at the time that you were evil-"
"Say no more. I get it." Astra cut. "I have never been evil. I just had the wrong methods." she explained feeling guily.
"Sorry..."
"Do you want to talk about your action on the roof?" the kryptonian proposed not very subtil
"I-I...Not really." he said looking at his feet
"I have rarely seen such rage in someone's eyes. You have to be careful, young man. Rage is what make us do things we do not normaly do, and that we will regret when the anger is past. It wasn't your role to kill Non." Astra started anyway
"And it was yours?" the young man asked curious to where this conversation was going.
"I would have prefer to capture him, however, I had no choice. But yes, in the end, I was the one meant to kill him. I'm a soldier and that's what I do when it has to be done."
"It's just that...I care a lot about Kara...I love her. And seeing what he did to her made me so mad." Adam explains
"I love her too and I was mad too. But you have to control and use your anger or it will eat you like it ate my husband." the general started. "I think you already know that my niece doesn't kill and she doesn't want anyone to die, even the criminals. So if you do this again, you will hurt her."
"I don't want to hurt her." Adam admited guilty
"And you won't because if you do... Know that I'll be there to remind you of your mistake." Astra finally warned but still in a gentle way
"Thank you." Adam smiled weakly. "I think I'll stay here for a moment. I need to think."
"Of course." Astra said standing up.
The kryptonian walked out of the dormitory and headed to the medical sector.
When Astra arrived in front of the door, she wasn't surprised to find Alex staring arm crossed at the door.
"Any news?" Astra asked standing next to her
"No..." Alex said with deception in her voice.
"She is going to be fine, agent Danvers."
"Alex...Call me Alex"
"Very well...Alex" Astra started glad she had gained the other woman's trust. "I think we should go in your office. It is not very usefull to stay here."
Alex knew Astra was right. It couldn't help Kara in any ways and she had to admit...standing there unmoving wasn't very confortable.
The agent started to move, quickly followed by the kryptonian. When Alex entered her office, she let herself fall and sat on her bed. Astra closed the door and sat on a stool. The young woman took her head between her hands and sighed heavily before looking up at Astra.
"She's my sister...Kara is my sister."
"What?" the general asked surprised. "Now I see how you are so strongly bonded to her." she paused. "May I ask how?" Astra finally added
"When her pod landed on Earth, her cousin brought her to my family. I was fourteen at the time. We adopted her and we taught her everything she had to know about this new planet. It was awkward at first." Alex started smiling. "But after a few months, I felt like I had to protect her. And I never stopped trying."
"Thank you for taking care of my niece."
"Did you know that she had escaped Krypton's death?" Alex asked serious
"I had no idea. I thought she was dead like the rest of my people."
"Then why, when you saw Kara for the first time, you tried to kill her?" the agent asked with resentment
"I-I did not really want to..." Astra started with shame. "All this years of solitude, guilt and mourning were blinding me. I couldn't let anyone keep me for executing my plan to save Earth. I didn't want to appear weak in front of my soldiers so I fought Kara. But when I was finally alone, I could not stop crying. It was at this moment that I decided to try to bring her on my side. Appearing like a determined leader to my troups was the hardest thing I have ever done." she paused as she was now crying.
Alex felt angry when she had asked her question. But now, she could only share the pain Astra was feeling. Hiding herself to her entourage, pretending to be someone else...Alex knew how that felt. Hiding her job to Kara had been really hard and the relief she had felt when her sister had forgiven her wasn't even mesurable.
"I have to go." Astra added wiping the tears on her face.
Cat was still trying to focuss on something else than her assistant bleeding out when she noticed the night was falling on National City. Cat looked around and saw the empty desks. Her employees were long gone. The Queen of all Media was tiping on her computer when she heard a very familiar sound coming from her balcony. Hope rised in her heart like never before: Kara was fine and she had just landed on her balcony. Except when Cat lifted her head and turned, she didn't find the red cape and the blonde hair.
"You were on the roof earlier." Cat said sadly as the tall brunette woman with a white strand of hair walked in her office. "Who are you?" she asked standing up
"My name is Astra. I am Kara's aunt." the kryptonian answered facing the other woman
"Oh...Why are you here? Is she ok?" Cat asked surprised by the answer
"I came here because I saw on the roof that you cared about my niece and I wanted to update you on her condition." Astra started. "When I left, she was still with the doctors but I am sure she will be fine. Kara lost a lot of blood and her lung and liver are hurt. However-" she said as the other woman became more afraid. "-the doctor assured me they would have it under control."
It took a few seconds for Cat to cope with the informations before breaking the silence.
"And Adam? How is he?"
"He is taking it hard but right now I think he is asleep. Why?" Astra asked not knowing why Kara's boss was worrying about her boyfriend
"He's my son." Cat explained quickly. "How is he doing after...what he tried to do?"
"Adam is aware of his mistake but we talked about it and now, I think he will feel better only when my niece will be out of danger."
"You talked with my son!?" Cat said incredulous. "You seem like a very caring person."
"I would do anything to help my niece." Astra stated
"Well, I think I owe you a thank you." Cat smiled.
Astra nodded and flew away. Cat was so thankful. She really needed some news on Kara and Adam. Even with her cold look, Astra seemed like a nice and attentionate person, something she shared with her niece, Cat thought.
AN: I re-uploaded this chapter because someone told me it had more mistakes than the others lol. But I am very busy right now and maybe I'm paying less attention when I write. The updates might take longer.
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I think the story's rythme will be slowing down starting from now. I think there will be a lot of conversation and less action obviously.
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