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When Kara woke up the following morning her side was throbbing. Carefully sitting up she removed the bandage and was relieved to see that the bleeding had stopped. However, to her dismay the area round the wound was a fierce red, she also felt feverish. Knowing she needed help she called the one person she could think of. After four rings she heard her foster mother greet.
"Hey Sweetie."
"Hi Eliza." Kara replied, trying and failing to sound upbeat.
"What's wrong?" Eliza asked picking up the tension in Kara's voice.
"I need some advice."
"Okay."
"When you were helping Kal did he ever get hurt even though he had powers?"
"No. Why? What's happened?" Eliza asked getting worried.
"Nothing." Kara lied not wanting to worrying her. "I was just curious."
"Sweetie, please don't lie to me." Eliza said knowing her youngest to well. "What's happened?"
"Something is wrong with me and I don't know what to do." Kara confessed.
"What do you mean?" Eliza asked.
"I got cut by a knife and it isn't healing, but I have my powers."
"Did some of the blade break off?"
"No, I don't think so. I couldn't see anything in it and I don't feel Kryptonite." Kara said.
"Is it still bleeding?" Eliza questioned.
"No, not really."
"Does it hurt?"
"Just a little." She lied. "But I'm sure it's nothing and if I spend some time in the sun I'll be fine." Kara said feeling guilty for worrying Eliza. "It's just now I don't have Alex to talk to about things like this I guess I just needed a little reassurance. Anyway I should get to work or I will be late."
"Perhaps you should take the day off?" Eliza suggested.
"No, I'm fine." Kara said. "I love you."
"Love you to." Eliza said as Kara hung up.
-00-
"You look like crap." Alex commented as approached Kara's desk at lunch time. "You getting a cold?"
"A cold? Um, sure, a cold."
"Perhaps you should go home and sleep it off." Alex said.
"I'll be fine." Kara replied before deciding the sun would be good for her. "But I might get some fresh air." She said standing. But as she stood a wave of dizziness passed over her.
"Easy." Alex said seeing her swaying.
"I'm okay." Kara said wincing as she moved her side. "I just stood too quickly. And I may have missed breakfast."
"That's not like you." Alex pointed out.
"Well like you said I have a cold." Kara lied.
"You need to go home." Alex said.
"I can't. Too much work."
"Screw work, your health is more important."
"Alex, I'm fine." Kara said.
"No, you're not." Alex argued as her phone bleeped. "Damn it." She muttered as she read the message.
"Go." Kara said. "I'm okay."
"No you're not." Alex said.
"Go to work and I will finish this then go straight home." Kara suggested.
"Fine. But I will go straight to you apartment when I have dealt with this. I expect to find you there."
-00-
"Stairs suck." Kara grumbled as she finally reached her front door, feeling light headed and breathless. After a couple of attempts she got her key in the lock and opened her front door. As she stepped into the apartment she saw a familiar figure and asked confused.
"Eliza? You're here?"
"Of course I am here, you are hurt and scared." Eliza said hugging her. But as she held her adoptive daughter she felt the heat come off Kara like a furnace. "How long have you had a fever?" Eliza asked pulling away.
"Fever?" Kara asked.
"You are burning up." Eliza pointed out.
"I kinda feel cold." Kara confessed.
"Let's have a look at the wound." Eliza said helping Kara through to the bedroom.
"You really didn't have to come." Kara said, her guilt growing.
"Something tells me I did." Eliza said as Kara lay on the bed and lifted her shirt.
"I'm going to have a look, okay?" Eliza said as she removed the bandage. As she saw the large inflamed gash an anger rose inside her and she asked. "Who did this?"
"Attempted mugging, but he got scared off." Kara said wincing as Eliza touched the area round the wound.
"This doesn't look like a normal wound." Eliza said frowning. "Have you talked to Brainy?"
"Nia needs him more than I do right now." Kara said shaking her head.
"Go have a shower and get ready for bed, I'll run down to the pharmacy." Eliza said.
-00-
When Eliza returned to the apartment twenty minutes later she saw Kara sitting on the couch wrapped in blankets.
"Kara, what's wrong?" Eliza asked hurrying over to her.
"Cold, really cold. Side hurts." Kara said miserably.
"Let's get you to bed." Eliza said helping Kara up, concerned with how much of her daughter's weight she had to support as they walked to the bed.
"Any other symptoms?" Eliza asked.
"Tired." Kara said.
"Lie down, I want to clean the wound." Eliza instructed taking Kara's glasses and putting them on the bedside table. "Do you want some water?" Eliza asked as she went to retrieve the supplies she got from the pharmacy.
"No." Kara said groggily.
Picking up the bag she returned to the bedroom worried with the fact that Kara was already asleep. As she gently put the bag down on the edge of the bed she heard the front door open.
"Hey Kara, I've brought soup." Alex called as she entered the apartment. But when she saw her mother walk out of Kara's bedroom she asked. "Mom? What are you doing here?"
"Kara is sick." Eliza said.
"Hence the soup." Alex said. "You really came all the way from Midvale for a cold?"
"It's not a cold." Eliza said knowing she couldn't keep Alex in the dark.
"What do you mean?"
"She has an infected wound."
"Wound?" Alex asked. "What kind of wound?"
"A knife wound."
"She's been stabbed and it's infected?" Alex asked before saying. "We need to take her to a hospital and get her antibiotics."
"We can't." Eliza said.
"Sure we can." Alex said as she entered Kara's bedroom.
"No we can't. If we do they will figure out who she is." Eliza said.
"What are you talking about?" Alex asked as Kara woke up. Seeing Alex Kara quickly scrambled for her glasses, gasping in pain as she moved her side. "Easy." Alex said moving to the bedside table and picking up Kara's glasses. As she she handed them to her sister though she finally saw the similarity with Supergirl and hesitated. As she mulled over her mother's words Kara suddenly yelped in pain.
"Kara?" Eliza asked rushing to her side. "What's wrong?"
"It hurts." Kara said clinging to her wound.
"Let me look." Eliza said gently pushing Kara back down before lifting her pyjama top. As she removed the bandage Alex asked.
"What happened?"
"She was attacked." Eliza said.
"By who?" Alex asked as she squeezed Kara's hand.
"I don't know. But the wound looks infected and she has a fever." Eliza said as Kara passed out again.
"Why didn't she tell me?"Alex asked as she looked at the wound.
"She thought she'd heal." Eliza said.
"From a knife wound?" Alex asked as her brain continued to put the pieces together as it did she started to have flashbacks to her childhood and scenes that should make no sense started to seem believable. As she became lost in her thoughts Eliza continued to examine the wound looking for anything that had become embedded. Eventually Alex snapped out of her thoughts and asked her voice full of disbelief.
"Is she Supergirl?"
"Yes." Eliza confirmed.
"How?" Alex asked still trying to reconcile everything in her head.
"Alex, I will explain everything, but not now. Right now your sister needs help. We can't take her to hospital, but we need to run tests."
"I'll get some samples and take them to L-Corp. We can use Lena's labs." Alex said going through the bag finding supplies to take swabs with. As she worked she tried to understand what was going on.
-TBC...
A/N: Thanks for reading and reviewing.