Hey everyone, here's the next chapter. Thanks to the person who requested it, I hope you like it. If you have prompt you'd like to see, let me know.

Prompt: An extension of the Alex vs Kara Myriad scene, Alex left Kara more hurt than she thought.

This picks up right after Eliza gets Alex to wake up.

"I'm so sorry," Alex cried, clinging to her mother.

"It's ok," Eliza said, returning her hug with an even tighter one, "It's ok."

A moan from Kara pulled them apart as they moved over to where she lay.

Alex's stomach twisted in guilt and shame.

The sight of Kara hurt was always upsetting to Alex, but to know she was the reason for the pain made it so much worse.

"I- I'm sorry," she stuttered as she leaned down, "I'm so sorry."

The words felt weak in comparison to what she had done, and Alex knew no matter how many times she said them it would never be enough to fix the damage she did.

Whether she meant to or not, she hurt Kara, the one person she was always trying to protect.

Kara winced as she moved to sit up, pain etching itself across her features as she did so.

" 'S ok," Kara mumbled.

Alex knew Kara's body would heal, physically she should be fine in a matter of minutes.

But she couldn't help but wonder about any permanent damage to their relationship.

After all, she had almost killed her sister, that was bound to create some problems.

As Kara started to stand with Eliza's help, Alex realized she might have assumed Kara was fine a bit prematurely.

The back of Kara's hair was covered in blood from some injury hidden beneath it, and the gash on her side from the kryptonite sword looked worse now than it did originally.

How was that possible? It should be starting to heal since the kryptonite was gone.

Kara faltered as she stood, and Alex instinctively reached out to steady her, but Kara flinched a little at the contact and Alex immediately retracted her hands.

Luckily Eliza jumped in and grabbed Kara before she could topple over.

The three of them now stood in uncomfortable silence.

Alex couldn't blame Kara for her reaction, her mind was telling her that given recent events she had lost all privileges for physical contact with her sister, and it made sense.

She tried to kill her.

But it still hurt Alex to know her sister felt unsafe around her.

The apologetic look on Kara's face told Alex that Kara didn't do it on purpose, but it only made it worse to know that she unconsciously didn't want Alex.

Alex swallowed the lump forming her throat, right now they had bigger problems to deal with.

Kara swayed on her feet and her eyes flickered open and close like she would pass out any minute.

"Let's get inside," Eliza said as she began to help Kara walk, Alex walking on the other side, a large gap between her and Kara.

J'onn came over and met them and together the four of them made their way across the lot, the only sound Kara's heavy breathing and occasional whimper.

Then without warning, Kara completely collapsed.

Eliza tried to hold her up, but she had become dead weight.

"Kara!" Alex yelled, closing the distance and carefully helping her mom and J'onn lower Kara's body to the ground.

Her eyes were closed and no amount of shaking or yelling her name was rousing her.

Eliza ran a hand across Kara's forehead.

"She's burning up," she said as she looked up at Alex and J'onn.

Tentatively, Alex touched the wound in her sister's side, trying to get the best look at it that she could in the poor lighting.

She couldn't be sure, but she could've sworn she could see tiny little faint glows of green buried in the torn flesh and blood around the wound.

"We need to get her inside right now. I think I know what's wrong," Alex said, ignoring the sickening guilt that continued to build in her at the knowledge that this was her fault.

She would deal with that later, but right now she needed to help Kara.

Eliza and J'onn nodded and together they got Kara up, still unconscious, and carried her inside.

After placing her on a table, Eliza and Alex scrambled around to find any makeshift medical equipment they could to get started on cleaning Kara up.

Cat and Maxwell Lord hit them with an onslaught of questions about what had happened, but Alex let her mother and J'onn answer all of them.

"I think the sword left shards of kryptonite in her, that's why she's not healing," Alex said after everyone was caught up enough on what had happened.

"We need to get the pieces out as soon as possible."

Everyone nodded in agreement, and even Cat offered her help, although there wasn't much she could do.

Mostly it was Alex and Eliza, working quickly and quietly with each other to remove the pieces and patch Kara up.

Once they were finished, it was hard to tell if they had gotten everything.

It was still dark outside and there were no synthetic sun lamps laying around, so they couldn't give her any sunlight to help speed the healing process up.

Kara still hadn't woken up since she initially passed out, and her skin was raging with the heat of her fever.

The flesh around the wound was even hotter and a bright red, but it looked better than it did before.

Lord, J'onn and Cat were in the other room, working on getting the signal from the station to broadcast, Eliza sat near Kara's head, gently tracing her finger across Kara's flushed face, and Alex sat on the other side, an awkward distance away from Kara.

She took a deep breath to settle her emotions as she surveyed the condition of her sister.

Kara was healing, she was going to be ok.

Alex had to keep reminding herself of that, focusing on the fact that Kara's body would heal to ignore the more prominent question of if it they're relationship would.

She felt sick to her stomach, not only with what she did do, but what she could've done if her mother didn't arrive in time.

All Alex could think about was what if Eliza had been too late, what if Alex killed her sister?

That had been so close to happening, and the reality of that ripped Alex apart.

Tears filled her eyes and threatened to spill, she looked down and hoped no one saw.

Her hands tapped rhythmically in her lap, a habit she had had for years.

If she was ever nervous or stressed out, her hands would start to tap. Kara always thought it was annoying.

Kara.

Alex had hurt Kara and almost killed her.

The thought replayed in her mind, making her fingers tapped faster.

Kara, Kara, Kara.

A moan pulled Alex from her thoughts.

"Hey," Eliza said to a waking Kara, "Hey honey, how do you feel?"

Alex leaned forward, but still didn't move closer, the distance a reminder to herself of what she had done.

" 'Liza…" Kara slurred as she sat up a little and looked around.

The movement sent pain through her side and she fell back, wincing.

Alex felt guilt swell in her at the sight, and it was all she could do to still look at her sister even though all she wanted was to look away from the image of a hurting Kara.

Hurt she inflicted.

Eliza ran her hand over Kara's cheek gently, "Easy," she said, "You're still healing."

Kara looked at her, shallow, shaky breaths forcing themselves in and out as the pain died down.

"Where's Alex?" Kara asked after a second.

"I'm right here…hey," Alex said, leaning forward more so Kara could see her and giving an awkward little wave.

Instinctively she wanted to move closer, grab Kara's hand and kiss her forehead.

She wanted to, but she remembered how Kara had flinched from her touch and the memory kept her glued to her seat.

Kara gave her a weak smile, "Hey."

"Are you feeling ok?" Eliza asked, hands still gently stroking through Kara's hair.

Kara gave a nod, "I'm good."

She sat up, ignoring the pain, and swung her legs over the side of the table she was on.

Silence filled the room.

Kara tried to meet Alex's eyes, but Alex purposefully refused to look at her.

Eliza stood up after a moment, sensing the tension.

"I'm so glad you're ok, sweetie, I'm going to go see how everything's going with everyone else."

Alex knew that her mom was just using that as an excuse to give them some privacy, but Alex wasn't sure she wanted any.

Inside she screamed for her mom to stay, she knew what Kara would say, and she didn't want to hear it.

She didn't want to hear Kara tell her it wasn't her fault, she didn't want Kara to comfort her.

She didn't deserve it.

But nonetheless Eliza left, leaving the two of them alone, still separated by several feet and silent.

Alex stole a glance at Kara, noticing the pained expression she wore now that she thought no one was looking.

The image was all it took and silent tears began streaming down her face.

She ducked her head down in a futile attempt to hide them from Kara.

But Kara saw.

Within a second strong arms were wrapped around her, pulling her into the familiar touch of her sister.

The action brought more guilt than comfort to Alex, and she only cried harder.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," she choked out through tears.

"Shhh," Kara murmured, one hand rubbing gently across her sister's back as the other cradled her head, "you have nothing to apologize for."

Alex pulled back a little, "I- almost killed you, I hurt you , I-"

"Lex," Kara interrupted, leaning down to catch Alex's gaze, "that wasn't you, that was Non, not you. What was you was when you got control again and helped save me, that was you."

"But I still hurt you, Kara I didn't mean to, I didn't want to, I'm sorry."

Kara gave her a smile, a gentle soft smile that somehow calmed Alex, just a little.

"I'd say I forgive you, but there's nothing to forgive."

Alex nodded, she knew Kara would say these things, but she wondered if she truly meant them.

Alex thought once more of how Kara had flinched under her touch.

For that moment, Kara was afraid of her, and Alex would never forget that.

"You were scared of me, you were whether you admit it or not, you were scared of me when I touched you."

Kara's smile faltered, "I wasn't afraid of you, I was just… unsure if you were completely back yet. But I know you would never hurt me, not the real you. Besides," Kara pulled Alex's hand into her own, "as someone once told me, you're my sister, and I love you, no matter what."

Alex recognized the words as the ones she had said to Kara after she was woke up from the red kryptonite.

Alex had meant every single word.

Sure the things Kara had said to her hurt, but Alex knew it wasn't really Kara saying them, and ultimately they had worked through it, their relationship coming out stronger on the other side.

Maybe this would work out the same way.

Because one thing Alex knew for sure was that the Danvers sisters were stronger together, and nothing could change that.

Not even this.

"I love you," Alex said, squeezing her sister's hand.

They leaned into each other, resting for a second in the comfort of each other's embrace.

"I am sorry," Alex whispered.

Guilt still plagued her and she felt like she needed to say it, she needed Kara to know just how sorry she was.

Kara let out a little laugh, "If you apologize one more time I'm gonna throw you."

Alex chuckled, "Ok, I'm sorry I keep apologizing," she said with a smirk.

Kara lightly swatted her in the back of the head.

"You're unbelievable," Kara said lightheartedly, and Alex heard a smile in her voice.

Suddenly the door opened, and they both turned to see Eliza standing at the doorway.

She smiled at the sight of Alex and Kara hugging each other, clearly they had been having a heart to heart.

"If you guys are ready, we think we got something."

Alex and Kara looked at each other, speaking to one another silently with just one look.

Kara stood and Alex followed, "Yeah," Kara said as they made their way over to the rest of the group, "Let's do this."

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