Here's the next chapter, thank you to the person who requested it and I hope you enjoy. This story is a little different than the plot the show followed. For this story Kara doesn't go into a coma after fighting Reign. This picks up right after Kara is rushed to the DEO at the end of 3x09.
Prompt: One after Kara gets badly injured after battling Reign from episode 3x09.
Kara wakes up to the sound of beeping.
Her mind is foggy, and it's a struggle to open her eyes.
When she does, it takes her several minutes to see past the blinding lights in front of her.
As Kara's vision clears, so doe her mind and she begins to recall the previous events.
She remembers fighting Reign and being dropped off that building, but she doesn't remember anything after that.
As her mind catches up, so does her body and she becomes aware of the pain.
Pain that fills every part of her being and makes her want to scream.
And it's such an uncommon thing for her to experience that it only makes it worse.
A terrible knot forms in her stomach as she continues to feel the pain, both the physical and mental as she processes the night's events.
She failed, she couldn't defeat Reign, she let down everyone. What is she going to do now?
"Kara!" says a familiar voice, one that manages to take just a sliver of the pain away.
"Can you hear me? Are you alright?" Alex says from somewhere nearby.
Kara turns her head to see a worried looking Alex standing next to her.
How long had she been there? Kara wonders.
Kara tries to speak, at first her voices fails but she succeeds the second time.
"I can hear you." she says slowly.
Alex leans down and presses a kiss to her sister's forehead and holds it there for a moment before straightening up.
"Good, I've been calling your name for 30 seconds, I thought you'd gone deaf." She says, trying but failing to get a laugh out of her sister.
"What happened?" Kara asks.
"Reign and you fought, remember? You were badly hurt, we thought you weren't gonna make it."
"How long ago?" Kara says.
Her throat aches with every use so she tries to say the least bit possible, hoping Alex understands.
"You've been out for 6 hours. You need to stay here and rest for a while, you were technically dead for several minutes, it was close Kara." Alex replies, her voice getting smaller as she finishes.
The last few hours had been filled with worry and fear.
Even with the use of the sunlamps, Kara almost didn't make it, and Alex had been terrified.
Kara turns away from her sister, looking instead at the ceiling above her.
"I need to stop her; I need to go back out there and stop her before she does anything else." Kara says with determination.
"Kara," Alex says softly, gently playing with the younger girl's golden locks of hair. "You were hurt very badly. You need time to recover, when you do, we'll figure out a plan. We'll figure it out like we always do, but right now you need to rest."
Alex looks at her sister and notices tears streaking down her cheeks.
"Kara, what's the matter?" she asks softly.
Kara doesn't say anything, just glances at her sister before looking away quickly and wiping her eyes off. "Nothing, nothing is the matter."
Alex knows Kara in ways no one has ever known her.
She knows every little mannerism her sister has, and she knows what each one means.
But she doesn't even need to access this information because it is so very obvious that something is the matter.
"Hey" Alex says, "Look at me Kar." She says in a firm voice.
Kara's eyes find their way to her sister's.
Alex holds her gaze for a moment, desperately wishing she could take away all the pain she sees staring back at her.
"Talk to me, please Kara."
"I just- don't know… I feel like… I don't… I don't know." Kara mumbles.
"Try again, this time consider using a complete sentence." Alex replies.
Kara takes a shaky breath but doesn't break eye contact, "I'm afraid Al, I'm afraid I won't be able to stop her. I don't think I can and I'm afraid I won't be able to save everyone… again."
Alex doesn't say anything, just listens.
She still runs her hands through Kara's hair, but she stops after a minute and brings her hands together in front of her.
"I'm afraid of that too. That you won't be able to stop her because I'm afraid of losing you. But I'm always afraid of that, ever since you became Supergirl I've been afraid that I'll lose you, like I almost did tonight." She pauses and takes a breath, closing her eyes to block out the image of Kara laying on the ground that keeps playing on repeat in her mind.
"But Kara, everyone has fears. What makes someone a hero is that even in those fears they keep going. Kara you are a hero, and you've proven that time and time again. Not by never being afraid, but by being brave in those fears and still going. You may not always succeed. You might fail, like you did tonight. But you have to keep going, its ok to be scared, just don't let that fear define you. What defines you is what you do in the midst of the fear."
Kara stares into her sister's murky brown eyes, absorbing everything she says.
When Alex finishes, Kara nods and looks away. She closes her eyes in a failed attempt to keep the tears in, and Alex reaches up and wipes them away.
The touch shifts something in Kara and her few silent tears become deep sobs.
Alex pulls her closer, hugging her sister tight and wishing yet again that she could take away Kara's pain.
Finally, Kara grows quiet, and Alex looks down to see her asleep.
"Good," she thinks to herself, "She needs all the rest she can get."
Alex gently lays Kara back down and moves to sit down in the chair next her sister.
She has no plans of leaving Kara, so she begins to settle down in the chair for the night.
"Lex, can you stay here with me, if you want?" Kara asks into the darkness.
"There's absolutely nothing I'd rather do." Alex says as she climbs onto the bed.
Kara scoots over and Alex lays down on her back as Kara lays her head back down against her sister and reaches for her hand.
Alex holds Kara's hand tightly, gently rubbing her thumb over the back of it until she's sure her sister is asleep.
"Sleep well Kara, I'll be here when you wake up."
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