Hey everyone, here's the next chapter. Thank you to the person who requested it and I hope you all enjoy.
Prompt: Kara is lonely when Alex is sent on a mission abroad, who brings souvenirs for Kara when she gets back.
Kara lay in her bed, scrolling absent-mindedly through her phone as she stalled going to sleep.
It had been an insane week for Supergirl, and Kara was feeling exhausted.
Not just physically, but emotionally too.
Alex was away on DEO business in Europe and had been gone all week. She was supposed to be returning tomorrow afternoon and Kara couldn't wait to see her.
Of course, she had offered to go with her sister on the trip but they both knew that National City needed Supergirl.
Besides it wasn't really a dangerous trip, Alex wasn't going on a mission, it was more like she was going to a business meeting.
So it was decided Kara would stay.
Which normally would be fine, of course Kara missed her sister when she was away, but it wasn't usually that big of a deal.
However, this week was different.
A few nights ago, there had been an attack and Kara hadn't been able to save everyone.
The images of the night passed behind her eyes every time she closed them.
Hence the stalling going to sleep.
When she could stall no longer, she finally got up to get ready for bed, intentionally taking her time.
As she was in the bathroom brushing her teeth, she heard a noise outside her room and nearly snapped her toothbrush in half in shock.
Someone was in her apartment.
She quietly stepped out, hands raised, ready to fight whoever it was.
Her stomach coiled in fear as she stepped out into her living room, expecting to see a villain or something dangerous.
But standing in her apartment was none other than Alex, bag in one hand and keys in the other.
"Alex!" Kara said, dropping her hands as the feeling of adrenaline faded.
"What are you doing back? And why were you trying to scare the life out of me?"
Alex laughed a little as she put her stuff down to walk over and give her sister a hug.
"Good to see you too." She said dryly as she wrapped her arms around Kara.
Kara relished the contact and held on a little longer than normal.
"Sorry" she said as the broke apart, "You just scared me, I thought you weren't getting back until tomorrow."
"I wasn't supposed to, but things went by faster than we thought they would and I figured I'd come by and surprise you."
It was true things had gone by quickly, but Alex had really come by because she had heard about the events of the week and wanted to make sure Kara was doing ok.
"Yeah well consider me surprised." Kara said as Alex walked over to her bag and pulled something out.
"I got this for you, I thought you'd like it." Alex said as she handed Kara a small object wrapped in a Walmart bag.
"Great wrapping skills." Kara joked as she grabbed the package.
"Oh shut up or I'll take it back." Alex responded.
Kara ripped open the present and dropped the bag to the floor.
"Wow Alex how did you get this?" Kara said looking at the hand-painted picture of Alex and Kara.
"Well there was this really cool painter guy there doing portraits of people, but I didn't really want a creepy picture of myself so instead I showed him one of us and yeah, there you have it." Alex said, gesturing to the colorful picture.
"Do you like it?"
Kara looked up, "Like it? I absolutely love it! I'm gonna get it framed. Thank you."
Alex beamed at her sister's words, "Yeah well I couldn't travel and not get you anything, now could I?"
Kara just grinned, still looking at the painting in her hand.
"Hey can I just crash here tonight? I can sleep on the couch or whatever I just don't feel like going back to my place this late." Alex asked as she walked over to her stuff.
"Yeah!" Kara said enthusiastically, "Sure of course you can. But I mean you can sleep in the bed with me if you want, It's more comfortable."
Alex smirked at Kara's lame excuse for wanting to have Alex with her.
"Ok, let me go get changed." She said.
Kara nodded and headed to her bedroom, placing the painting down carefully and waiting for her sister under the covers.
A few minutes later Alex came in and turned off the bedside lamp before crawling into the bed.
As soon as she was laying down, Kara pressed up against her sister, burying her head in Alex's neck.
"Well hello there." Alex said, rubbing her hand gently across her sister's back.
"I missed you." Kara said into the fabric of her sister's shirt.
"I missed you too. We'll catch up tomorrow, you wanna get lunch?"
"Yeah that sounds like a good idea," Kara responded.
A few moments passed and Alex was starting to think Kara had drifted to sleep when she heard her sister let out a whimper and curl closer into Alex.
"Kar, what's wrong?" Alex whispered, knowing her sister wasn't asleep.
"Nothing, just… thinking to much." Kara said.
"About those people this week?" Alex asked.
Kara lifted her head up to look at her sister in the dark, "How did you know about that?"
It's my job to know things, you didn't think that I would just leave and not keep up with what when on here, did you?" Alex said, turning her head to look at Kara's silhouette next to her.
"I guess not," Kara responded as she moved to lay her head back down.
"So is that what's keeping you up?" Alex asked, gently playing with Kara's hair.
"Yeah I guess, I just… I don't really want to talk about it. I just want to forget about it."
"Ok" Alex said, she knew the feeling and she didn't want to press.
"Well go to sleep, I'm right here and right now everything's ok, just focus on that." Alex said as she rhythmically rubbed her hand down her sister's head to her lower back and repeated the motion.
Kara snuggled further into her sister's grasp, for the first time in several days feeling relaxed.
As her mind began to wonder, she forced herself to instead focus on the image of the painting of her an Alex, focus on the colors in the picture, focus on her sister's heartbeat that she could hear beneath her.
Soon enough she found herself getting tired and drifting off
"Glad you're back." Kara said before sleep could claim her.
"Me too." Alex responded.
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