CHAPTER THREE: The Recovery.

As Kara's eyes open, the first thing that comes to her mind is one word, one person, one thought, she opens her mouth but only rasps.

"Lena…" She looks around and eventually spots her.

And her heart shatters.

"LENA!" She stands up but collapses, hitting the floor roughly. She crawls over and climbs into a chair next to her and grasped at her hands, she looked at her vitals, and her whole body froze.

Hurriedly, Kara looked around for anything she can use, she pats Lena's forehead softly and affectionately, Kara ran out and into the archive, past the box labelled 'Red K' and up to the box labelled 'Kryptonite'. She grabbed the box and ran out back into the medical bay, collapsing back into the chair, panting and sobbing.

At that moment, as Kara exposed herself to the kryptonite and began a blood transfusion, Alex and J'onn ran in, followed by a doctor.

"Kara! What are you doing?" Alex asked, worried for her sister and Lena.

"What's right…" J'onn murmured in time with Alex thinking it.

Kara suddenly felt weak, she attempted to throw it away, but the kryptonite had weakened her. She dropped to the floor and collapsed, her last words, her last thoughts before the black overtook her –

"Lena."

When she reawakened, Kara saw that Lena's bed was empty, and expected the worst until soft, delicate hands rubbed her brow and forehead, and Kara relaxed.

"Lena…" Kara murmured, the only words able to escape her lips as she lay there, thinking, wondering, worrying, knowing that her girlfriend, her Lena was in danger, she turned around and then it settled in how close Lena's presence really was when she felt her best friend, no, her girlfriend lying next to her as a tube ran from Kara's arm into Lena's, along with several cables connecting the pair to machines.

"Lee… Lena… I… I…" Kara tears up and they begin to stream down her cheeks but they are wiped away by soft and delicate but ultimately strong however loving fingers, Kara's breathing, however, didn't slow down and stayed at a heavy pant of concern.

"Kara… Hey… calm down…" Lena whispered into her ear.

Eventually, the pair managed to get Kara's breathing to a place where she could do things, and the first thing she did was ask Lena how she felt, to which Lena confirmed that she was okay and that a scratch couldn't stop her. Kara smiled and laughed with Lena but deep down her stomach churning, she knew that if she hadn't gotten so involved, if she had told Lena to run earlier, this wouldn't have happened.

"Lee, I'm so s- sorry, I should've to-"

"Told me to run. I know Kara, I know." She stroked the blonde beauty's hair softly.

Kara shivered at the touch. She could guess what this meant, she looked at Lena and Lena nodded softly. She was more blood with Lena than Alex. Then it dawned on her, and she began to panic.

"Lena! Lena! Lena! We need to get the blood out of you right now…" Kara panicked and blurted out before thinking and slumping down, defeated.

"What's wrong Kara?"

"Kryptonian blood… your weak to kryptonite…"

"Then we can be weak together." As Lena said those words, Kara shook her head but look Lena in the face straight on anyway.

"I'm sorry…"

"Don't be, you did what's right…"

"I've ruined you…"

"No you haven't."

"Yes, I have."

"No you haven't."

"Yes, I have."

"Kara."

"Fine… I'm sorry… I feel bad… and then… to save you… I exposed you to my one weakness… well… one of my two weaknesses…"

"What's the other one?" Lena asked.

"You."

Lena blushed, harder than ever as Kara said those words, she smiled.

"I love you Kara D- Danvers." She winced slightly at the cut on her stomach, an unusual feeling creeping over her, she groaned as she gripped at the tube in her stomach.

"Lena? Lena!" Kara began to unwrap the cloth to find the wound healing much quicker, at supernatural speeds, at Supergirl speed.

"K- Kara…" Lena managed to stammer out before she felt lightheaded. Kara knew what she had to do, tears fell from her face as she flicked a red sun lamp on, she began to cut away at Lena's skin, sobbing as her lover winced and groaned and cried out at the pain, Kara shakily pulled the tube from Lena before cutting her arm, extracting the tube from her also, in her final motions, she flicked on the yellow sun lamps before passing out, still gripping Lena's hand tightly as ever.

"How bad is it?" J'onn asked as she approached Alex, she turned to look at him as he approached.
"Current x-rays and scans show that it's not good, Kara's blood is the only thing keeping her alive, if she loses any of Kara's blood, she dies." Alex looked down, seemingly weighing up her options.
"Get Lena a laptop and phone, Dr. Hamilton!" She called the doctor as she walks past, she turns to look at the doctor. "Get Lena and Kara hooked up, how much blood can Kara produce?" Dr. Hamilton looks at her tablet for a moment before saying.
"More than normal amount, that's for sure, she should be able to produce enough for herself and Lena to survive."
"Amazing! Get her and Lena hooked up, they'll be in there for a few days but Kara should be able to heal Lena and herself... I know it's not the best case scenario..." J'onn sighs, sitting down in a chair as he looks over the map, running out and transforming into his Martian form before transforming into Supergirl as he leaves the DEO to stop crime. Alex sighed and prepared for the long road ahead...

A/N: Sorry this is another short one, I'll do longer ones in the future!
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