A/N: Thank you for the comments. To the Guest reviewer, Alex will talk about how the latest drowning has effected her over the next couple of chapters.
As Kara swum through the dark, icy water she desperately searched for the capsule. The further down she swum, the darker it got and the more worried she became. Refusing to give up hope she kept swimming towards the dark depths until finally she saw an out of place glint. Swimming faster she reached the capsule and banged on the window. When Alex moved she rested her head against the glass in relief. However, as she saw the water rise in the capsule her relief was replaced by near panic.
In the capsule any hope Alex had from seeing Kara was quickly replaced by concern as she did the mental calculation on how long Kara had been without oxygen. Screaming at Kara to leave, Alex was frustrated when Kara stubbornly shook her head and moved to the bottom of the capsule. Once underneath the capsule Kara used what strength she had left to propel it to the surface. All the while water continued to flood into the capsule.
When the capsule finally broke through the surface Kara gulped in air as she flew the capsule to the ground, concerned she could no longer hear Alex's heart. Moving round to the front she saw Alex was unconscious and completely submerged in water. Ripping the door off she pulled her limp sister out of the capsule as Oliver and Barry reached them.
"Alex!" She cried. "Her heart, it's stopped."
"I've got this." Oliver said as he started CPR. As Kara watched on in horror Barry tried to offer comfort. As Kara was loosing all hope Alex suddenly coughed.
"Easy." Oliver warned.
"Kara?" Alex spluttered.
"Right here." Kara said pulling Alex into her arms. "I thought I'd lost you."
"Not on your watch." Alex said clinging to Kara for comfort and heat. Eventually Alex pulled away and slapped Kara's arm.
"What was that for?" Kara asked.
"What were you thinking? You could have drowned." Alex pointed out.
"I was never going to leave you." Kara said pulling her shivering sister back into her arms.
"Alex!" Maggie called as she ran over. "What happened?"
"I'm okay." Alex said.
"Apart from nearly drowning." Kara said pulling away and letting Maggie get close to Alex.
"Again?" Maggie asked in disbelief as she hugged Alex who reached out and held Kara's hand.
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"Do I really need to remind you that you have a son. You have a responsibility to him to not come home broken." Felicity said as she led Oliver into the infirmary on the Waverider.
"I'm not broken. It's barely a scratch." Oliver responded.
"You and I have different definitions of a scratch." Felicity countered before she saw Alex and Kara. "Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt." She said before realising it was Kara who was being checked out in the infirmary. Confused she looked at Alex and said. "I thought it was you who drowned."
"It was." Kara said.
"Then why are you being tested?" Felicity asked.
"Because Kara was hit with enough electricity to do serious damage and it wasn't that along she lost her powers." Alex explained.
"I'm fine." Kara said. "It was you you technically died."
"I'm fine." Alex said squeezing Kara's hand before doing another test. "But if I take you back in anything less than perfect condition mom will kill me. So if you are really worried about me let me run the tests."
"Fine." Kara conceded happy for Alex to keep herself busy.
"Why can't you be more like that?" Felicity asked Oliver as she examined his wound.
"More like what? Chirpy?"
"I was going with compliant, but you're right a little more optimism wouldn't hurt." Felicity explained.
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"Alex, wait up." Maggie called when she saw Alex walk down the corridor of the ship.
"Hey." Alex smiled.
"Should you be up and moving?" Maggie asked.
"I'm fine." Alex said. When Maggie just crossed her arms across her chest Alex confessed. "Physically anyway."
"You're safe now." Maggie said hugging her.
"I panicked." Alex said.
"When?" Maggie asked pulling away.
"In the capsule. The water was coming in. I knew Kara was outside. I knew she was pushing me to the surface. But the water...it kept rising, I was trapped and I had a panic attack."
"That's understandable, I mean you were drowning, again. And we both know you still aren't over what happened last time."
"I'm meant to be better than that."
"No you're not. You can't just get over what happened. It takes time." Maggie reminded her. "It will take time this time round as well. But just like last time Kara and I will be here every step of the way." She said hugging Alex again. She silently held Alex for several minutes until Alex pulled away and commented.
"Maybe I should start working from the DEO desert base again."
"Kara doesn't like the bats there." Maggie reminded her.
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"We're just about ready to go." Sara said walking onto the bridge a few hours later. "Jax has fixed the Waverider and all prisoners are secured and ready to be returned to their own time, just not the right place. I know an uninhabited, cursed island that seems like a good place to keep them."
"Sounds fitting." Oliver said.
"Apart from the fact that things associated with the island have a nasty habit of coming back." Thea pointed out.
"I don't care where you take them. Just try not to bring any other psychopaths from the future back here." Dig said.
"And try not to lose your prisoners on the way back." Oliver suggested.
"Funny." Sara said.
"We should go too. Eliza is already going to be mad." Kara said.
"With Alex." Maggie pointed out. "Speaking of whom, where is she?"
"She was just through there." Ray said as a loud thump sounded from the adjacent room.
"What was that?" Oliver asked. Before anyone could answer Alex sauntered out.
"Everything okay?" Kara asked concerned.
"It's great." Alex said. She then looked at the crew of the Waverider. "It's been interesting. Don't take this the wrong way, but don't screw up our timeline."
"Sometimes we screw things up for the better." Nate said.
"We've covered that." Ray pointed out. "For the record my delivery was better."
"See you around. But not too soon." Dig said to the crew. "We have enough problems."
"I'm not feeling the love here." Sara said.
"Everyone has a dry patch once in a while, even you." Ray said earning a punch to the arm.
Once everyone had left the ship Sara moved to the room from where Alex had emerged and saw Mick on the floor, a pained expression on his face.
"Rory?" Sara asked.
"You okay?" Ray asked.
"Fine." Mick said. His voice strained.
"What did you do?" Sara asked.
"What did I do?" Mick asked. "I'm the one with a broken hand."
"Did you hit on her?" Ray asked.
"No."
"Oh, you said you wanted to sleep with Kara." Ray guessed leaving.
"You're braver than I thought. Way dumber, but brave." Sara smiled as she walked out.
"At least she didn't touch the nose." Mick commented.
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"So you ready to go home?" Barry asked when they returned to S.T.A.R. labs.
"We are." Kara said.
"Well thank you." Barry smiled.
"Technically you saved my world first." Kara reminded him.
"After you saved ours." Barry countered.
"Which was after you helped with Livewire and the Silver Banshee."
"Friends don't keep score." Alex cut in before adding. "Mothers do. So we need to get back."
"Well you know where we are. Anytime you need anything, just call." Barry said to Kara before hugging her.
"You too." Kara said before pulling away and looking at Alex and Maggie. She then passed the inter-dimensional extrapolator to Alex who raised an eyebrow,
"I know you want to press the button." Kara shrugged.
"Really?" Alex asked excitedly.
"Really." Kara smiled.
"Plus this way when we get back Eliza will have evidence that you are responsible for the Earth jumping." Maggie pointed out.
TBC...
A/N: Thanks for reading and reviewing.