AN

Hey guys the story continues! Apparently the Universe has it out for Kara or it just wants to make her slow down.

Let me know what ya'll think :) Please... please...please

Upon arrival of the scene she puts out the remaining fires as quickly as she can and clears the remaining people from their entrapment using her xray vision. She helps the cars go upright all without much word to the local first responders. It doesn't take all that long, a little under two hours really, but cleaning up a mess she probably could have prevented was draining in the worst way. The police officer in charge of the screen gives her a thank-you full of gratitude that she doesn't much feel like receiving. She nods without a word and is off flying back to National City when she spots a large Alien smashing its way through a smaller city somewhere in the Midwest. The screams and sounds of destruction reaching her before she can even see it though.

She lands shortly, just in front of the massive alien-robot looking thing that lets out a deafening roar. She glances to the sign - Welcome to Carson City. Ok, so not the Midwest… she had made better time than she had thought. Focus dummy. Big alien smashing a city.

"Hey! Stop. I don't want to hurt you." Another roar is timed with the alien reaching back to slam a metal fist into her body. She flies easily out of the way leaving a crater of smashed asphalt in her place where the fist had just connected with the empty road. "Fine. If that's how you're going to be…" You wanna get punchy? Let's get punchy...

She flies toward the weird mixture of scales and metal coating this 10 foot tall alien skin. She knocks it down a few times but eventually it lands a blow slamming her down into that very same asphalt. She struggles to her feet, eyes starting to glow in frustration. Well if it's gonna be that way… she lets the heat vision release into the armored skin of her opponent when not two seconds later its sputtering to a halt. She lands from where she was hovering, her body no longer capable of flight. "Oh, crap."

The monster charges her realizing it had an opportunity. Kara fights him for a while, but her strength is fading. Where earlier her fists had easily sent the monster skidding backward they now graze off of the rough skin scraping her knuckles. It grabs her around the leg holding her up upside down when she spots a week spot under his chin… if only… She tries to swing to strike the weak spot in her if she could just get her leg to twist a little bit… Screw it. She knew this was about to hurt but she really didn't see another way. Using all the strength she had left she swings at an unnatural angle dislocating her hip she lets out a choked yell and connects her fist to the weak spot knocking the alien out cold.

She is tossed over its shoulder in the process as it falls to its back. She hits the stone wall of a building hard before falling to the ground with another thud. Her foot getting caught awkwardly beneath her, her ankle exploding with pain as she crumples against the wall. Good. This is good.

Just in time her earpiece crackles to life with the sound of her sisters annoyed-you need to be more responsible voice, "Supergirl, where are you? All hands meeting started 5 minutes ago. I know you're dealing with a lot but this is unacceptable."

Kara had completely forgotten about that as she had gotten lost in thought yet again on her way back from New York. "Alex" she chokes unintentionally. Her breathing becoming rapid in the pain ripping through her nerves. "Alex, help."

"Kara what's wrong?" Her voice had immediately gone soft from it's edginess just moments before.

"Big alien. Carson City. No powers. Hurt."

"I'm coming, hold on." Alex is there in what seems like seconds and years later at the same time. J'hon landing softly by her side letting Alex check on Kara while he made sure the Alien was subdued. Kara was slumped against the wall, bruised, bloody, short of breath, and eyes a little bit glassed over. "Did you hit your head?"

"Not sure."

"What hurts?"

"What doesn't?" She tries to laugh but the tightening of her core only aggravates her ribs causing a soft groan to sneak out of her nose.

"Kara."

"Breathing. My right leg." Alex tries to run gentle hands over the mentioned leg to check for any dire situation but Kara winces when she places a hand hear her hip. There's a twitch as Kara reflexivly pulls away but stops herself.

"Sorry." Alex mummers before looking up at her a second before turning her attention back to the aforementioned hip.

"It's fine." She mutters through gritted teeth. Her attention stolen from the look in her sister's eyes calling her a lier by a DEO helicopter landing in the distance. "I think it might be dislocated."

"Kara! What the-"

"Just a hunch." She tries to push herself from the wall, stabbing pain in her ribs stopping her. "Ouff."She grunts as she lets her head fall back against the wall as Alex brown eyes bore into her. Really it is a miracle her sister doesn't have heat vision. Kara would have been vaporized long ago if she did…

Alex lifts her hands to the hip again trying to gently untuck the top of Kara's uniform from the skirt. Before shifting her against the wall so she could lay down. Kara's all too aware of all the movement, both from Alex moving her very much not "located" hip and the press starting to swarm their position. She tries to sit back up once Alex has her on the ground but a hand stops her. "Quit moving. You'll make it worse." Surly a photo of an injured supergirl would be great for the front page.

"Alex…"

"What!" She nearly yells. "You need to let me look."

"Not here." It's then her sister follows the wide blue eyes gazing just beyond her shoulder. Cameras flashing already. "Please. Not here."

Alex sighs and looks back to the injured hero with sad but understanding eyes. "Ok." She rubs her temples for a second too, hating herself for asking this next question. She didn't want Kara to move let alone try to walk but Supergirl had appearances to keep up and they both knew she had to try. "I'll look at it at closer at the DEO. Can you walk?" Walk? I just told you I think I dislocated my hip, Alex, but sure, yeah, I can walk.

"Psh… yeah. Supergirl remember." Kara tries to stand up and fails unable to use her right leg, her muscles exhausted as she only tries to really use one leg pressing her sore ribs back into the building to help. Alex helps her with an extended arm and shifts to loop Kara's arm around her neck when her little sister takes a step away on her own. The hero nearly falls back to the pavement with a sharp intake of breath. "Nope. Nopenopenopenopenope." Alex is at her side instantly. Before Kara can get any closer to being back on the ground she is ducking under Kara's arm and wrapping her own arm around Kara's waste so their hips press together, much to Kara's discomfort. Kara has to fight from letting her eyes roll into the back of her head from the onslaught of pain that came with the collision of the two sister's hips. The agent's hand presses to Kara's abdomen to steady her as well, given that the hero is slightly taller than her. Also much to Kara's discomfort.

"I've got you." She holds her little sister upright waiting on J'ohn to get there to help her. She turns to a junior agent and barks at him over her shoulder nodding toward the press. "Get them out of here. Fucking press." Alex gets too much of a kick out of ordering the boots around not too really. They're all terrified of her and J'ohn. It's hilarious actually. Those two are the biggest space teddy-bears if Kara had ever met any.

"I am the press." Kara tries to joke back, the soft chuckle disturbing her ribs just enough for a little noise of discomfort to make it to Alex's ears. It wasn't a whimper, that seemed too pathetic for how hard Kara was trying to not make her pain known, but more a hum from her nose.

"Hang in there. We'll get you back soon. And shut up. Right now you're law enforcement."

"Don't tell Maggie that."

Alex snorts a laugh at the expense of her fiance. The agent stands in silence with her hero after that though, feeling the heat radiating off of Kara and the shortness of the Kryptonian's breath as she's tucked close into her side straining to hold her upright. She keeps her hand on the injured Supergirl's stomach absentmindedly moving her thumb across the material of the suit in an attempt to comfort her hurting sister.

The martian slides under Kara's other arm after getting the offending alien into the second helicopter that had just landed. The two basically carry the battered hero back to their ride, helping her get settled in the back as painlessly as they can.

The ride is silent much to Kara's relief. She really didn't want to get scolded right now for being reckless. She just wanted… well she didn't really know what she wanted but her head was spinning and her eyelids felt incredibly heavy. When her head dropped forward in attempt to ride out the dizzy spell and save some energy Alex's hand shakes her shoulder softly. "You ok? Try to keep your eyes open, Kar."

"M'k." Easy for you to say. Sleepy didn't just punch you in the face.

Her sister lets out a snort "Supergirl: knocked out by dwarf. I can see the headline now." Oh, I said that out loud.

"Yes, dummy." Alex rests her hands on the straps over her shoulders as she lets out another laugh. "Almost there, doing great Supergirl."

Once the helicopter lands on the roof of the DEO they help Kara out slowly as the stubborn hero insists on doing it and not just letting them put her on a gurney to take her down to medbay. When Kara's foot hits the ground she turns away from her help to lose the contents of her stomach, suddenly much dizzier than she had been on the ride back. It splashes some Agent's feet and Kara looks up at them with an apology in her eyes.

"So you did hit your head."

"Alex" don't. She feels much more awake now with fresh waves of pain running through her freshly moved leg. Also the puking helped with that too probably she supposed.

"I'm not nagging. I just need to know. I believe you that you didn't know. Ok?" She slides under Kara's arm bracing her against the helicopter to take the weight of her sister's imbalance yet again.

Kara's head drops forward again wiping her mouth with the back of her sleeve. "Yeah, sorry." Is muttered as they finally get to the elevator. Alex and another agent still basically carrying her into the medbay as she hops on her one working leg and gently deposit her on a cot.

"Kara, it's ok. We'll get you set here then get you home to rest." Oh Rao… no. No, no-no-no. How long will it take to get my powers back to heal? Sitting around with nothing to do is literally the worst thing she could imagine right now, alone with her thoughts and means of distraction.

"Alex my hip. It really hurts and it's all catchy and weird and not working." Her voice goes scratchy as she lays her head against the pillow. Did they get new pillows in here? About time. And yeah her ankle was really hurting too but her help was worse, the pain was shooting up her side even and it was making it really hard to concentrate. Totally just the pain that was messing with her concentration though. Definitely not the concussion.

Alex glances from over her shoulder where she is digging into the medical supplies no doubt looking for some leads to stick to Kara's chest. "Well if you would have let me look at it in the field or I don't know.. used the fucking gurney…"

"Alex, please…" Kara lets her eyes close. Her head hurts and she really - really - didn't have the energy to fight with her sister right now. And Alex always got a bit testy when she was worried about her. Her hip was killing her and her toes felt all weird.

"Ok. Think you can help me get this off of you or do I need to cut it off?" Alex gently starts pulling the blue material, already torn some the fight, from the waistband of her skirt. She's careful but it still doesn't feel great, not even a little. Kara gets the feeling that her torso is littered with bruises and scrapes, she can feel the shirt already pulling open some fresh scabs.

"Winn will be pissed." She half grunts half laughs through gritted teeth, hoping it looks more like a smile than a grimace. She had gone through more super-suits…

"Please he loves playing with the design. You didn't answer the question." She holds up the special scissors and snips at the air. Kara doesn't realize her teeth are chattering together as she quivers on the table straining against the pain as it grows with each passing moment.

She looks up into Alex's knowing brown eyes and gives her a short nod. Cut it. I don't think I can move.

"Easy, Supergirl. Keep breathing." Alex rests a hand on her sister's upper arm for a second before making quick work of the suit.

"Easy for you to say." Kara chatters out as her teeth knock together. Alex initiates a sharp breath once her torso is revealed and Kara is out of the top. Her sister is cut and bruised all to hell. However, it does make her want to laugh a little bit that Kara now chooses to wear a sports bra under the suit. She didn't used to but with so many close calls and torn suits over the last year or so Kara really didn't like being that extra little bit exposed. In the moment she never cared that much as she was generally was a little out of it, but later when she realized she'd flashed everyone in the room the embarrassment and gotten to her. Aaaaaand there was that one time she had almost flashed half of National City.

Alex drapes a heated blanket over the shivering hero's legs despite the fact that she's not really shivering from the cold. It helps though as Kara takes a deeper breath and tries to relax. "Don't be so dramatic. We've all had our share of broken ribs." Alex snorts as she sticks the leads to Kara's very purple upper half applying as little pressure as she could. After hooking Kara up she moves the portable Xray to take pictures of her sisters chest, hip, ankle and head. She was kidding though, and Kara knows it. Teasing helps Alex deal with the worry and the guilt that creeps up for her not being able to protect her baby sister from this, even with her superpowers.

She cleans the cuts and scrapes quickly making sure to blow on each one after wiping it with the alcohol swab. Kara had started with her neck straining to hold her head up to watch but after a while she gave up and just let Alex work quietly. One hand reaching up to rub Kara's upper arm when it wasn't busy applying bandages. The doctor usually didn't bother, as the cuts would be gone in a few hours tops of Kara laying in the sunbed but she had a feeling this one would be a few days.

"Alright, Kar. Ready to take care of this hip?" She cuts the skirt off and lets it fall against the bed and gets rid of the boots quickly as well, cutting the right one away from a clearly broken ankle. That would have to wait though.

The blue eyed hero lifts her head a moment to look down at the very unnatural lump where her hip is poking through her running spandex. Kara makes quick eye contact with her sister who only smiles softly in apology before the hero lets her head drop back down to the pillow. "Let's just get this over with."

Alex squeezes her hand in gentle reassurance before checking the joint. The moment her fingers touch the hip through the fabric of Kara's preferred spandex on-the-job-underwear the blonde sucks in a chestful of air much too quickly and presses her head back into the table. Her other leg bending at the knee as if she were about to push away. Alex wraps her inside arm around the blonde's thigh gripping near that very same sore spot getting in position to set the hip, noticing that Kara has yet to breathe out.

"Kara. You have to breathe. You're very annoying to deal with when you're unconscious."

Some air escapes the young hero's lungs as she mutters "Just do it already." So Alex does. Luckily it wasn't completely out so it was a quick twist of practiced hands but it had been out enough. Kara yelled through the lip held tight between her teeth and arched off the table just enough with her upper back. She was panting now, even with the broken ribs, sweat beading on her forehead. A watery laugh found its way into the room though almost immediately as her hand wiped tears from her cheeks that Alex had yet to see from where she was trying to gently lay the leg back down. "Ouch."

"You good?" The older sister takes the hero's shaking hand from the bed beside her hip where it was fisted into the thin sheet covering the table. She wipes her hand over Kara's scrunched forehead taking sweat and stray hairs with it. The hero lets out yet another shaking breath as she tries to slow her breathing. "Talk to me, Sis."

Blue eyes finally peek out from clenched eyes to look sheepishly up at her older sister. "Yep. Good. Hardly felt a thing."

Tears leaking from the corner of her eyes beg to differ. "Kar-"

"I'm good." She turns her head to look at her sister who is still holding her hand. They both knew she wasn't. That hurt like a bitch but Alex still had to cast her ankle and Kara had every intention of letting herself not be ok for a second as soon as that was done. Her sister nods and gets to work wrapping her ankle, not without noticing Kara white knuckling the sides of the bench.

Kara is still straining against the bed when Alex finishes. Alex stands over her allowing her hand to cup the side of her sisters face and rub her thumb softly against the curve of Kara's cheeks now wet with tears. "Hey, hey, hey. Kara, look at me." Kara's bright blue eyes come into view beneath her dark wet eyelashes. "We're done." She lets go of Kara's cheek a second to move a hair behind her sisters ear before moving back to bracing her face. "What can I do?"

"Can you grab my clothes from my locker? I just want to get out of here."

"You think you'll be able to get into those pants you keep around?" Alex snorts out a laugh. The pants her sister kept were her usual form fitting chinos. No shot were those going to get over the cast.

"I can't exactly wear DEO sweats back can I? I'm sure my neighbors are already curious enough with everything that happens in my apartment."

"Fair point. I'll see what we have around." Alex bends over to kiss Kara's krinkle, now formed as she thinks about how much she doesn't want to go home but how much she really doesn't want to stay here. "Close your eyes for a little bit, Kar. I'll be back." With that Alex is out the door.

The hurting kryptonian twists her head against the pillow to find her phone on the instrument table and grabs it, suffering through a uncomfortable pull at her ribs at the movement. She opens her phone to find the the light is quite bothersome to her eyes and building headache. The concussion becoming more obvious not that the pain in her hip and ankle are calming down a little bit. A missed text from Lena makes her push through the throbbing, that pared with the spinning makes her head feels like it's wobbling on an axis more than anything.

Lena: Are you ok?

I saw the news. Kinda goes without saying at this point, Kara supposes.

Kara: yes

Lena: What is hurt? You better tell me

Kara: I'm ok. I swear. Just a little banged up

Lena: Kara Danvers you better tell me. I will call Alex

Kara huffs out in frustration. What was with everyone and threatening her with contacting her sister today? This was like the third freaking time.

Kara: mid-grade concussion, broken ankle, dislocated hip and some separated/cracked ribs. But I promise, Lena, I'm fine.

Lena: As your boss, you are officially on a medical leave of absence for 2 weeks or until your powers come back.

Kara: Don't be ridiculous. That's excessive.

(She wanted to say: This is exactly why I didn't tell you I was supergirl. But Kara quickly deletes that as soon as she types it, that would not be the best thing to say here probably.)

That's when Alex comes in and not-so-gently pulls her phone from her hands. "No, Kara. No texting. You have a concussion."

"But Al-" She tries to sit up leaning on her elbows only to be met with a firm but cautious hand on her shoulder pushing her back down.

"Don't you "but Alex" me. You're hurt. You need rest." As if that were the final word Alex turns her attention to Kara's phone as Kara gives a defeated huff. Her hand falling to rest across her still bare stomach. The blonde is still shaking a little bit but that much pain will do that to anybody.

Kara: Lena, this is Alex. Thank you. She won't be texting anymore b/c concussion. Feel free to stop by later if you're free. I'm sure she will appreciate the company.

Kara: and by that I mean come over. I have a feeling she's going to need it.

Lena: I will. Let me know if I can do anything. Take care of her.

Kara: easier said than done… see you later

The two stay relatively quiet as Kara sits up, more like Alex helps her up but she didn't really want to admit that. After holding Kara steady for a long moment against her chest Alex gets her twisted on the bed. The exhaustion now clear in those distant blue eyes. First, and as quickly as she can, Alex helps Kara into a training bra that will be much more comfortable than her current red sports bra. The older sister slides a simple grey flowy shirt she found in Lucy's stuff over Kara's head. She slides the jean shorts over Kara's cast and up as far as she can before helping the young woman off of the bed. Kara's hand on her shoulder as she pulls the shorts up the rest of the way as she fastens the zipper and button.

"You doin ok?" Alex hands Kara a pair of crutches and slides her glasses over her eyes. Her hand lingers a moment on Kara's cheek. The blonde hero lets herself lean into her sister's touch for the first time in months.

"I'll get there." She smiles sadly looking up at her sister through her eyelashes from where she had let her head bow forward a little. Kara let the handles dig little bit into her armpits as she leaned into her crutches. Alex lets out a sigh as her hand falls to her hip-that was the closest thing to an honest answer to that question she'd gotten in three months. The moment interrupted by a knock on the medbay door indicating that one of her little boots had brought her car up to the door. Kara can't help but snort at her sister's slight abuse of power.

"OK Superstar. Let's get you home." Kara nods in attempt to speak without giving away with how not ok with that she is. The car ride is quite, largely because Kara's head was leaned back against the headrest, her eyes closed, and Alex's hyper awareness of how terrible her sister was actually feeling.