A/N: Iiiiiit's drama time! (oof that sounded so cheesy...) Of course, there'll still be some fluff involved. For this story, I'll just assume that Lena has already forgiven Kara, but is still somewhat recovering from the situation. There's a little bit of headcanon stuff here, too. As always, hope you enjoy!


"You know, I think you've recovered early," Alex said. "Your vitals are back to normal, for the most part,"

"Finally. Wait, but didn't Brainy say it would take a week to get better?" Kara asked.

"I guess you just recovered early, then," Alex guessed.

"This means I can go home now, right?"

"Go ahead," Alex opened the door. "But be careful," she warned Kara.


"I've got the next article just posted," Andrea showed it to the others. It showed the incident the day before, with sone sort of headline about Supergirl being sick.

"Just a question, do you think she would object to this being shared with the world? I mean, everyone deserves privacy," Nia said.

"Lots of people already saw what happened, so I'm sure it wouldn't be too much of a deal," she reasoned. "Besides, why would you care?"

"Uh.. no reason, just pointing something out,"

"Okay then. Meeting dismissed,"


Kara walked into her apartment. It's nice to be back after all this time. she thought.

Something didn't feel right. The sense of recovery felt almost...overwhelming.

She wasn't sure what happened before she blacked out.


Lena walked out of the elevator and towards Kara's apartment. She had promised to hang out with her earlier that week.

"Kara? You left the door open," she said as she went in.

She didn't expect what she saw next.

"What happened here? Oh my-" Kara was unconscious on the floor. How did this happen? Lena thought. She tried to wake her up.

"Wh-who are you? Where am I...?"

"It's me, Lena. Are you okay? What happened?" She tried to stay calm.

"I don't know..."

Honestly, Lena didn't know what happened either. All she knew was that it shouldn't have. Whatever she had against Kara didn't matter right now. Lena felt the heat radiating off her.

"You're burning up," Lena commented, her hand brushing against Kara's head. "I thought this...couldn't happen to you,"
"Couldn't happen...Can't..."

"What?"

"Why can't you stay...I don't want to go..."
"You-you're not making any sense here. Is it-" Lena realized what was going on. She pulled out her phone. "Hang in there. I'm calling Alex. You're hallucinating from the fever,"


Please pick up. Lena listened to the rings. One passed. Then a second. And third.

"Hello?" Alex's voice came from the other end. Lena breathed a sigh of relief.

"Alex, I need you to come to Kara's place. Now." she explained.

"Why? Is something wrong?"

"She's...I don't know how to explain this. It shouldn't be happening," Lena glanced at Kara. She noticed faint lines of gold in her skin. Kara said something she couldn't quite understand.

"What do you mean?"

"Does semi-unconscious with a high fever explain anything? Because that's what it is," she tried to stay calm. "I'll give more details when you're here,"

"I'm on my way." Alex hung up.


Alex watched the numbers on the elevator move up. Come on... Is it always this slow? When she got there, Alex rushed to the door.

"I...got your...call," she panted, leaning on the doorway to catch her breath. After a moment, she walked in and stood next to Lena.

"Is this connected to what happened yesterday at the waterfront, by any chance?" Lena asked.

"It actually is," Alex replied. "A few days ago, Kara somehow contracted some sort of weird disease that made her powers act out of control, which caused that incident, and what happened a couple days before. She recovered today, but I don't really know how this happened..." she explained.

"Should I tell anyone else about this?"
"Just give them a text. Wouldn't want to get them too worried..." Alex noticed the marks. "Wait. I think I know what happened," she realized.

"What?" Lena typed out the texts to James, Nia, Kelly, and J'onn.

"I think she might have an overdose of sunlight," Alex guessed.

"Which means?" Lena looked up from her phone, after notifying the others.

"Whatever she had was manipulating the solar radiation in her cells. It probably released them when she 'recovered'," she explained further. "I'm not sure how to reverse it, though..."


Kara looked around. The view was hazy, but she knew the place all too well. She was stuck between two states. In one, she was in the present, and her living room, with Alex and Lena watching her with concern. Wait, when did they get here? She heard a say something about having too much sunlight, or something like that.

In the other, she was a child again, in her last moments before getting sent to Earth. This isn't really happening, part of her mind reminded her. But it felt so real in that moment, Kara wasn't exactly sure what was. She could feel the planet start to crumble beneath her feet.

"Hurry!" a voice called to her. Kara recognized it as one of her parents.

"Don't leave me..." she protested weakly.

The dream shifted, to outside in a city. She saw a streak of fire from the sky, from a crashing plane. Five years ago. she remembered. The other part of her mind, the part which believed it was real, told her to go after it.

But this was different. This wasn't how she remembered that night. Something was tying her down, like an invisible string. No matter how hard she tried, it was like she had lost her ability to fly.

"Why is it not working?"

She could only watch it fall further.

"I'm sorry. I failed you..."

"Kara, please, wake up!" someone said. She couldn't tell who it was. The view faded into darkness, then back to her loft.


"She's awake," Lena said.

"Thank goodness you're okay. What happened?" Lena helped her up from the floor. Kara stood shakily, with an odd sense of pain throughout herself.

"I was back before I came...here. It felt so real," she explained. "And then..." her voice trailed off.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Alex asked. "You don't have to,"

"The first dream was before I came to Earth, and, well, you know the story. But the second one...It was back to when I first became Supergirl , five years ago." she recalled. "You were on that plane, but I couldn't-I couldn't save you... And I knew, it wasn't real, but I just..."

"At least you're back now. Anyways, we need to get you back to the DEO to get you checked out. Lena, you can come too, if you want," she led her to the door.

"Sure," Lena followed them.


"What happened?" Brainy came up to them.

"I don't know, but I'll have to check," Alex replied. She explained the situation to him.

"I got your text," J'onn landed in front of her. James, Kelly and Nia walked in a few moments later.

"Wait, what are they doing here?" Kara asked. "Did I miss out on something?"

"I might have told them about what happened," Lena admitted.

"Anyways, let's get you to the med bay," Alex said.


Alex led Kara upstairs and onto one of the beds, with the others following close behind. She typed info into one of the monitors. "Brainy, can you run some tests?"

"On it," he waved his hand across the screen, showing the results within moments. "The analysis confirms what you thought. Her internal temperature has gone up to 105, which, under other circumstances, would most likely be worse. However, this doesn't explain how she appeared to recover a whole 96 hours early,"

"I guess this counts as part of it?" Alex guessed.

"By the way, when is this thing going to stop? It sort of burns," Kara commented.

Brainy began to explain. "Well, you will adjust to the changes, and it's only for three days,"

"Okay, so then what?" Kara asked. "Are my powers still going to act up during that time?"

"Most likely,"

"You heard him, now let's get you back," Alex turned to Kara. She followed her to the holding cells.


That's all for chapter 4! Also, I made an alternate ending for this chapter, which might be posted if you want. (Poll on my profile) 3-4ish more to go!