Here's the next chapter, the continuation and final part of chapter 2. Someone left another request, so thank you so much for that. I will write that next and hopefully get that up soon. If anyone has any other prompts, please feel free to leave a comment and let me know. Hope you all enjoy this chapter.
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Prompt: Kara takes a kryptonite bullet for Alex, part two.
The light is what wakes her up. It is bright and harsh and one she recognizes.
It's the light from the sun lamps attached to the bed found at the DEO.
"How did I get here?" Kara wondered, willing her eyes to open as she begins to remember the previous events.
Suddenly it hit her, the fire… the kryptonite… Alex.
"Alex!" she yelled, sitting up and starting to stand, as she does, she becomes aware of an incredibly awful pain in her stomach that spreads to every part of her body.
"Easy," said a familiar voice as her vision goes white with pain and she feels her legs go out. Someone holds her up and sets her back on the bed, hands still pressed into her shoulders to keep her steady.
"J'onn" Kara said when she can speak again, "What happened?"
J'onn slowly let go of Kara, moving to sit back in a chair she realized he must've been sitting in beforehand.
"You jumped out of the building with Alex, remember? Luckily, I heard about the fire and I realized where it was, so I was already on my way there. I arrived about a minute after you both took your dramatic fall and I brought you here, that was maybe two hours ago, you had to go into surgery to extract the kryptonite and you've been recovering in here ever since. That was quite a fall, the kryptonite weakened you a lot Kara, you're lucky to be alive."
Kara nodded, only thinking about one thing. "And Alex, is she… is she ok J'onn?" she asked, not failing to notice the way he didn't mention her already.
He took one deep breath, rubbing his hands together gently. "She's gonna be fine, for a while we weren't sure, but she's gonna make it. She has several broken ribs from the fall, what looks like a stab wound in her leg, and a minor concussion. But she'll pull through."
Kara took in the all information, broken bones, a stab wound, what had happened in that apartment?
She would get her answers later though, right now she needed to see her sister.
"Where is she?" Kara asked, starting to stand up again.
J'onn stood up and placed his hands back on her shoulders,
"She's in the other room asleep, she hasn't woken up yet which is good because you both need to rest, so lie back down and when she wakes up you can see her." He said.
Kara was just about to start arguing when they both looked up to see someone standing in the doorway.
"Kara!" Alex said, running over with a stumble to hug her sister tightly. Both girls relaxed at the other's touch.
The knowledge that her sister was ok calmed Kara down much more than any resting would have.
And Alex needed to know Kara was ok, after her sister's stupid heroic move Alex didn't know if Kara had made it or not.
"Are you ok?" Alex asked, holding Kara back to check her over.
"I'm fine, really. Are you? You shouldn't even be standing up, J'onn told me you got stabbed? Alex what happened?" Kara said.
"I'm ok," Alex said, before being pulled into another, tighter hug.
"Alex," J'onn said, breaking the silence after a few seconds. "You're supposed to be resting, I'm surprised you're even awake much less able to walk, you're going to hurt yourself if you don't get back to bed. Both of you." He said, he knew how much they needed to see each other but they both needed to recover too.
"Please J'onn, just let me stay in here, I can sit in the chair and rest just the same as I would in the other room." Alex argued, not wanting to be apart from her sister yet.
"Alex just sit here with me." Kara said not waiting for J'onn's approval as she moved over on the bed and made room for her sister so they sat shoulder by shoulder.
J'onn smiled softly at the sight of the two women sitting together, hands tightly held between them,
"Fine," he said, "Just make sure you're actually resting."
"So, what happened?" Alex asked J'onn, ignoring his comment because she honestly hadn't been listening.
"Well, we don't know it all, but I was hoping you two could fill in the missing pieces. I'll tell you what I do know though. An alien set the apartment on fire on purpose, and captured you Alex, he was using you as bait because he knew Supergirl would come to save you." J'onn said, looking at both girls as they realized what this meant.
"Someone figured out my identity?" Kara asked, her voiced laced with fear.
"Not necessarily, he might have just realized that there's a certain agent Supergirl is seen a lot with, we aren't sure how much this guy figured out. He had kryptonite bullets so I'm hoping he still has some with him, that way we can track him before he does anything else."
Both girls were silent, taking in the information slowly.
Finally, Alex asked, "How did he know where I lived?"
Kara looked up at this, she hadn't even thought about it but if it really was a trap then Alex was right, someone knew where she lived.
"We aren't sure yet, we were hoping you could tell us what happened and maybe help narrow it down?" he asked, inviting Alex to share her side of the events.
"I mean nothing all that informative, I heard the fire alarm go off and started to head out the door, but when I opened the door that guy was there, and we started fighting. Long story short he won." Alex said, looking down.
She was clearly a little embarrassed that she hadn't been able to take care of herself.
Of course, it was a trap so there wasn't much she could have done, but she still felt stupid for letting herself get captured.
All three of them sat in silence for a minute before J'onn stood up. "I'm going to work on finding this guy and bringing him in. You both stay here and rest."
He started to walk out before he turned around and added, "Please."
Both girls watched him walk away in silence.
"Hey" Alex said, pulling them both from their thoughts. Kara turned to look at her sister.
"You can't do that Kara, you can't jump out of a window without your powers like that. What if J'onn didn't get there when he did, you could've died Kara." She said, a single tear leaked out from her eye and she quickly wiped it away before turning back to look at her sister.
"I had to Alex, there was no other way for us to get out, you knew it too, and you were going to sacrifice yourself to save me. How is that ok but not what I did?" she asked, recalling how she saw Alex position herself as a human shield before Kara had decided to jump out the window.
"That's different, I'm the big sister, I can do that." Alex said, "Besides if you had run when I told you too then you would've been safe."
"Alex, if I had run you would've been shot, you would've died. I won't ever do that; you know that."
"I know," Alex said, taking a deep breath to calm her emotions, tears threatened to fall from her eyes, "I know, I just… I can't lose you Kara I just can't." She said, tears finally falling as she pulled her sister in for another hug. Kara returned the hug just as hard, tears falling from her own eyes too.
"And I can't lose you either, I need you." Kara said, burying her head in her sister's shoulder.
The two women stayed like that for a long while, moving back only because Alex could no longer sit up with her ribs still hurting.
They sat back against the bed, gently leaning their heads against each other.
The room was silent again, apart from the occasional sniffle as they both tried to regain control of their emotions.
Before long, both found it hard to stay awake, and a glance at the clock showed it was close to midnight.
J'onn had yet to return, but they were sure he was being true to his word and was out there finding the alien responsible.
Without a word, Kara got up and turned the lights off, returning to sit in the chair next to the bed.
"What are you doing?" Alex asked, noticing Kara wasn't getting back on the bed. "You broke your ribs and you were stabbed Al, you need room to rest."
"Kara," Alex shifted in the bed slightly to look at Kara more clearly, "Come here."
Kara nodded and walked over, secretly having hoped that even though Alex needed to heal she would want Kara to come.
Kara didn't want to be apart from her sister just yet.
She crawled onto the bed and settled down, leaning her head on her sister's chest. Alex wrapped one arm tightly around Kara while the other found Kara's hand.
They slept like that all night, holding on to each other.
That was how J'onn found them in the morning when he came to let them know he had found the alien and taken care of him.
He opened the door only to shut it back quietly, leaving the sisters to sleep for a little while longer.
Hope you all liked it. Thanks for taking the time to read my story and have a great day/night!