A/N - Lots of Sanvers fluff towards the end. I'm sorry I'm so bad at it. Again, thank you for reading and your continued reviews, follows and favorites!
Kara grabbed Maggie and started flying before the shorter women could even ask what was going on. Gee Little Danvers, a little warning next time.
It took her less than 3 minutes to arrive onto the balcony, but Kara couldn't help but wonder, is she awake? Is she dead? Did she wake up but not remember anything? She decided whatever it was didn't matter. All that did was that for some reason J'onn needed her, and she'd be there.
"I know I've asked you this before, but please, for the love of god, tell me next time before you fly me out the window." Maggie fixed her wind-blown hair.
"Sorry." Both of them turned on their heels and ran into the medbay. They passed a crying Eliza outside the doorway and both thought the worse.
As they entered, there were familiar eyes staring at them. Warm, green. The brunette smiled, her voice hoarse from the tube. "Kara. Maggie. Hey."
They sighed in relief. Kara walked up to her sister and hugged her tightly. Maggie did the same and kissed her lips, something she's been missing for a month. She still had the wires in her chest and the IVs in for pain, but the breathing tube was out. She still had the same warm smile as she did before.
"When did you wake up?" Maggie asked, holding her arm.
"A little before J'onn called you. He just went to go get me something to eat. I'm still tired. Mom wanted some tests run on me before they called you, you know, just in case something happened to my state of mind. Sorry, I know she probably scared you. I think she was just relieved that I'm okay."
"Well that's why I'm crying too right now." Kara said. "I was so scared you weren't going to wake up."
"But you did." Maggie finished Kara's sentence and went over to wrap her arm around the blonde. "You must have gotten sick of us talking to you all the time."
Alex chuckled. "I didn't. I'll never get tired of you guys speaking to me, but it's weird too." Alex shifted herself to sit up with Kara's help. "I remember parts of everything that happened while I was in this coma. It was almost like I was conscious but fell asleep while you were talking to me, and I couldn't control it, couldn't respond. I heard you all talking to me, Winn and James, especially you two and J'onn. It was all of these vivid memories and conversations where I couldn't wake up. Like Kara, I know you told me that you made Maggie watch A Walk to Remember with you, and Maggie, you were talking about how you two are taking off work. Um, Winn said something about a new suit and I think James and Lena were talking about CatCo stuff. And tonight mom insisted you guys go out and have fun. Oh yeah, you tried that sushi place without me?" Alex raised an eyebrow and Kara looked guilty.
"Sorry," Maggie stepped forward and waved awkwardly. "My bad."
Alex laughed again. "I don't know, my body just shut down for awhile. I remember everything from before I was put into this coma to bits and pieces of what you guys were saying to me while I was under."
"So you do remember what happened." Kara looked down as she asked, the thoughts of Jeremiah hurting her sister resurfacing.
"I do. I was conscious until you two came."
"And how are you feeling about it?"
"Honestly, I can't even begin to process it right now. I know I didn't fight back. I couldn't. I mean he's my father. He raised me. I know I'm a federal agent trained in fighting, how to put my personal life aside, but there was something about that night. How stupid I was to let him take me somewhere, to leave my gun in his car, to let myself just trust him like that. Something about the way he threw me and kicked me and hit me that physically and mentally I couldn't even think about fighting him back." She put her head in her hands. "We had a conversation right before he grabbed me." She rubbed her hands on her neck, still red and slightly bruised. "He said he was hiding from other Cadmus agents, that he couldn't contact us because people were still out looking for him, but I just keep thinking. What if he lied to me? He lied to me before, and he did now, and then he almost tried to kill me. Maybe I didn't do anything about it because he is my father. I still love him." Alex sighed. "I'm sure there will be more feelings, and I know you'll all be there to help me when I do feel them. Right now I guess I'm just shocked."
"You have every right to be. You have all the time in the world." J'onn walked in with a few pieces of toast and some water. "I know these aren't the words you want to hear but we have to treat Jeremiah as a threat."
"I understand."
"Here, eat this. I'll be right back, we need to see if anything's going on. Kara, Maggie, can I have a word?" They looked at Alex, who gave them a reassuring nod, and went with J'onn. Eliza came back in and talked to her daughter more.
"I performed a psychiatric test on Alex. From what I can tell, she's alright and passed it. I didn't sense any other psychiatric activity that could have hindered her brain."
"What do you mean? Could she be a threat?" Maggie rubbed her arm nervously. She couldn't imagine Alex hurting her or Kara the same way Jeremiah hurt her.
"I mean that there's no reason why we should question her any further. We did thorough tests and there were no scans or anything that I detected that would see her that way. She's still Alex. I just didn't want to scare her anymore than she may be already."
"Okay good." Kara sighed. "So what else was it?"
"I need you two to realize that she's still not 100 percent. She's going to want to join the fight, but I don't know if she'll be able to handle it. I heard the last bit of what she said, about not being able to physically or mentally bring herself to fight Jeremiah. It's something she can't do. Rao's Alleviant helped with the healing process, but she doesn't have the mentality to even hurt him."
"We know that." Kara crossed her arms. "I just don't know what this means for her, for me even. Our family. I know that Maggie and I don't have as many ties to him, but would Alex be able to forgive us if-" Her voice faltered. She looked back to when Alex killed Astra. It felt like if it came down to it, it would be different. Kara's aunt versus Alex's father. She had no idea if Alex would be able to come back from that.
"You have to keep her safe. We still don't know what we're dealing with and we can't have Alex's personal feelings in the way or hinder our ability to take down our threat. If it comes down to it, it will affect all of us. For now, help her through physical therapy. She may be okay now, but there will be emotional trauma soon. I don't know how severe it will be, but you need to be there."
With everything Alex had been through - being kidnapped, almost drowning, breaking up with Maggie, a near-death plane crash, Jeremiah betraying them the first time - she had her fair share of emotional trauma. She'd take it to a bottle of scotch, party hard or invest herself in work, but this time was going to be different. Maggie and Kara knew that they had to help her through it, as it was undoubtedly the worst thing that could happen to her. Her father. Her life, shattered again.
"When will we be able to take her home?" Maggie asked.
"If all goes well tonight and the morning, we can let you bring her home tomorrow evening. I take it you two will want her with both of you together, so maybe you can keep your current arrangements. Otherwise you'll have to decide where you want her to stay."
"I can stay at your place for a couple more nights. Or do you want to come to our apartment?" Maggie looked over at Kara.
"We can go to yours. I'm sure she'll want her own bed. But if you do any funny business remember I have super hearing! Plus I'm a light sleeper." Kara elbowed the shorter woman.
Maggie laughed. "I don't think she'll be up to that just yet anyway."
Kara turned around. "I'm going to go talk to her alone for a few minutes, do you mind? You can talk after if you want."
"Go ahead. J'onn?"
"She's all yours. Just remember what I told you."
"Got it. And J'onn? Thanks." Kara smiled and walked back to the medbay. Alex looked up at the footsteps and Eliza left to give them privacy.
A few minutes later, Maggie entered the doorway. She loved hearing the two sisters laugh, smiling big, everything about it. It was a perfect memory to look back on after so many bittersweet ones in the past month.
They both looked up and Kara left to give Maggie some privacy with Alex. It would be the first time that she really got to talk to her alone after she woke up.
"Hey, you." Alex looked at her girlfriend. "To think it's been a month since I've gotten to see you face to face."
"Yeah, remind me to never let that happen again." They both laughed and Maggie sat down. She kissed her softly before lingering closely to her face.
"I'll try not to, but you better not have any run-ins yourself." Alex looked down and smiled to herself. A few moments passed before she spoke again. "You know, it worked."
"What did?"
"What you said to me. I heard all of it. About you bonding with Kara, you asking me waking up, everything you said you loved about me."
"And I meant every word. I love you so much Alex. I want to spend the rest of my life with you. With Kara as my sister, with Eliza as my mom. Your friends and family rallying around us? I love that. I love how they do that for you and how they welcomed me again. I know it wasn't easy for a lot of them but they still did it. Did you hear I gave Kara the photo album? She loved it. I told you it was better than the hat."
"Hey!"
"So yes, I did mean every word I said. It really did work?"
"It did. I kept fighting, but you gave me that push to wake up. What I needed to hear. I know you've all been asking me but it was something about you. Your voice. About the very real possibility of losing us again, and I couldn't live with that. Kara helped too, I hated when she cried. I knew I needed to get back, but I don't know. I just needed that. And now I'm here and can take care of my favorites again."
"You need to take time for yourself too. You're awake and they gave you some medication, but you're not 100 percent yet. You're always so selfless and we all want to be the ones helping you now. Let us."
Alex huffed then laughed. "Fine. Does this mean we can watch my movies instead of Kara's?"
"Please. God, I didn't know she could cry that much about a movie."
"I know right? Also, thanks for bonding with her. I'd love to see more of that in the future."
"It's actually really nice. I've become her surrogate big sister. I told her I know that I would never be able to replace you if god forbid this took a turn for the worst, but I'd be there. And I think we both needed each other this month. We stayed together at her apartment and we'd just bond over you. You'll love it next time we're all together. J'onn said that could be tomorrow. Kara will stay with us at our place if that's okay. We figured we'd both need to be with you."
"That sounds perfect." Alex felt her eyes become heavy again. "Come here?" She shifted over on the bed and Maggie crawled in next to her. She let Maggie melt into her, let her snuggle up to her head, let her kiss her mouth, her neck. "What you said about me being broken. I can't feel it right now, but I know I will be. I also know you'll be there to help me through it. So thank you."
"Ride or die, Danvers. Now get some rest." Maggie nuzzled her head into Alex's neck.
"Ride or die."
With that, the pair fell asleep, content, ready for the next day when Alex could finally come home. She woke up, and even though there would be tough times ahead of them, her being awake, talking, it was all everyone needed now.