So I know one of you requested that Alex be pregnant in this chapter, but it just didn't fit here. Maybe I will write that in the future though. Here is the final installment of this story!
Once Kara was gone, Maggie turned to her girlfriend.
"How bad is it right now?" Maggie asked, handing Alex the ginger ale.
"Well, I haven't thrown up yet," Alex said, "But I don't think that's gonna last very long."
"Anything I can do?" Maggie asked, sitting down next to Alex.
"Hold me?" Alex asked softly, smiling at Maggie.
"Of course," Maggie said climbing into bed with Alex.
They laid there for about a half hour before Alex felt her stomach flip over. Sitting up, she felt herself start to gag, throwing her hand over her mouth as she ran for the bathroom. Maggie ran after her, holding her short hair out of her face as best as she could.
"I hate this," Alex said as she spit into the toilet.
"I know Sweetie," Maggie said, handing Alex a cup to rinse with, "You'll be better soon. This bug only last twenty-four hours. Half my squad had been out at some point this week."
Alex nodded, putting her head on her girlfriend's lap.
"Do you want to go back to bed?" Maggie asked, stroking Alex's sweaty hair.
"No," Alex said, "The floor feels good, and if I move, I will throw up."
"Alright," Maggie said, knowing how stubborn Alex could be, "Just rest Sweetie."
Alex nodded a little, closing her eyes. Maggie got up, going into the bedroom and grabbing a pillow and blanket for Alex. She brought them into the bathroom, putting the pillow down and motioning for Alex to put her head on it.
Alex shook her head and motioned for Maggie to sit. The shorter woman sat down, wondering what her girlfriend wanted. Alex moved to put her head on Maggie's lap, closing her eyes.
Maggie smiled, leaning down to kiss Alex's damp forehead. She threw the blanket over her, rubbing her back.
The peace lasted about twenty minutes before Alex started throwing up again. The rest of the day was much of the same. Alex spent most of it with her head near the toilet.
Maggie tried to keep her as comfortable as possible, bringing her ginger ale, ice chips, cool towels, and an extra blanket when the chills set in really bad around midnight.
Alex broke down in tears around three in the morning after she threw up the little ginger ale Maggie had convinced her to drink.
"Alex," Maggie said, rubbing her back as the agent cried, "You're alright."
Alex cried as Maggie pulled her into her lap.
"What can I do?" Maggie asked as she rubbed Alex's back.
Alex shrugged, trying to get the tears to stop.
"I'm fine," Alex rasped out, "I just get emotional when I'm sick. Sorry."
"Don't apologize," Maggie said, "I just want to help you."
Alex nodded, curling into Maggie's lap.
By the next morning, Alex was sleeping and Maggie was uncomfortable from spending the night on the floor. Maggie picked Alex up, carrying her to her bed before getting into bed next to her. Alex immediately moved closer to Maggie, cuddling to her girlfriend's chest. Maggie rubbed Alex's back until they both were sleeping comfortably.
Eight hours later, they both woke up.
"How are you feeling?" Maggie asked, moving a stray piece of hair from Alex's still warm forehead.
"Eh," Alex said, rubbing her face, "Better than last night. Still pretty sick."
"Wanna try some ginger ale?" Maggie asked.
"Can you bring me some Gatorade instead?" Alex asked, looking at Maggie with her best puppy dog face.
"You don't need to use that face to get a drink," Maggie said, laughing as she kissed Alex's forehead, "I'll be right back."
Maggie brought Alex a cup of watered-down orange Gatorade. Alex took a few small sips of the drink before handing it back to Maggie.
"Can we just stay in bed and cuddle all day today?" Alex asked, looking at Maggie hopefully.
"Of course, Danvers," Maggie said, climing back into bed with Alex, "Nothing would make me happier."
Alex moved over and put her hear on Maggie's chest as the cop reached over and rubbed Alex's back.
"When I was little," Alex said, looking at up Maggie, "My dad used to take off day I got sick and hold me like this. We would eat popsicles and watch movies and just hang out. After he went missing, my mom tried, but it was never the same. This is nice. It's like that."
Tears were running down Alex's face when she finished.
"Hey," Maggie said, wiping the tears away, "Hey. It's ok."
It had been a few months since everything had happened with Jeremiah, and both Alex and Kara were still struggling. Maggie had held Alex through many, many nights of tears and breakdowns in the weeks following the betrayal. Both Danvers sisters were still struggling with the fact that their father betrayed them, but Alex was struggling the most.
Maggie did everything in her power to be there for her girlfriend. She stroked her hair, kissing her cheek and forehead and she got her to drift off to sleep.
Maggie did all this while trying to ignore the icky feeling growing in her own stomach. Maggie knew her catching this stupid bug was inevitable. Everyone at her work was getting it and as soon as she found out Alex had it, Maggie knew she was going to be next to go down.
Maggie made sure she had a way to get out of the bed without jarring Alex because she just wanted her sick girlfriend to get some rest.
About ten minutes after Alex fell asleep, Maggie got out of bed, walking into the bathroom. She grabbed a washcloth, wetting it and putting it on her neck, trying to ease the fever she knew she had along with the horrible nausea.
It didn't really help, and Maggie had to lunge for the toilet. She tried to be really quiet, not wanting to disturb Alex. Maggie continued dealing with her sick stomach alone for another few hours. She just stayed in the bathroom, throwing up every half hour or so.
Between the sixth and seventh time she threw up while Maggie was trying to sleep on the floor, she heard footsteps followed by a sigh. Maggie opened her eyes and saw Alex standing over her.
"Why didn't you wake me up?" Alex asked as she sat down on the floor with Maggie.
"You needed to sleep," Maggie said, stomach twisting.
"How long have you been in here?" Alex asked, grabbing a washcloth and wiping Maggie's sweaty face.
"A few hours," Maggie said, "I've probably thrown up 6 times."
"Maggie," Alex said, "You should have woken me up."
"You're still sick," Maggie said, looking up at Alex, "You needed to rest."
"I could have helped you," Alex said, rubbing Maggie's back, "That's what girlfriends do."
The two of them stayed curled up together in the bathroom, Alex holding Maggie's hair every time she lunged for the toilet.
Alex discovered that she apparently had picked up an extra symptom when she started having diarrhea around three am. She had been feeling some cramps in her tummy, but figured it was just a result of having spent the whole day and night with her head in the toilet.
However, she realized what was going on as she felt her stomach gurgle.
"Maggie," she whined, "I need you to leave the bathroom."
"Why?" Maggie asked, looking at her girlfriend with confusion.
"I need to use the bathroom," Alex said, "Like really bad and right now."
Maggie grabbed a trash can and crawled out of the bathroom. Alex jumped on the toilet not a minute too soon. When she finished, Alex went to find Maggie in the bedroom. She found her girlfriend curled up in bed, trashcan right next to the bed.
"You alright Babe?" Maggie asked, watching Alex walk back to bedroom.
"I have the runs," Alex said, wrapping her arms around her stomach.
"I'm sorry," Maggie said as Alex climbed into bed.
The rest of the night was rough for the two of them. Maggie continued throwing up in a trash can by the bed so Alex could bounce back and forth to the bathroom as her intestines continued to hate her. They learned this was a good strategy when Maggie was vomiting and Alex almost had an accident because she couldn't wait.
By ten the next morning, both women were finally asleep together.
Alex woke up around noon because her phone was ringing. She untangled herself from Maggie and went to answer it.
"Hello," she said, wrapping a hand around her aching stomach.
"Hey Alex," Kara said, "How are you feeling?"
"Better than the past few days," Alex said, sitting down on the couch, "Maggie caught the bug yesterday, and I started having diarrhea in the middle of the night so it's been a long few days over here."
"I'm sorry," Kara said, "I know how bad that sucks."
While the alien girl didn't have a ton of experience with sickness, diarrhea was something she was more familiar with than she wanted to admit. Kara's body did not handle periods well at all and the intense cramping she got from having muscles of steel often lead to a day or two of a rumbly tummy as well. On those days, Kara would just curl up on her couch with a hot water bottle and let her stomach do its thing. Alex always tried to help ease her sister's symptoms, but there was no pain pills strong enough to work over her kryptonian biology. Supering was sometimes even put on hold because Kara was in so so much pain.
The first time it happened, Kara was in eighth grade and swore she was dying because of how much pain she was in. She said she never remembered anyone on Krypton being in this much pain. However, Eliza concluded that because her muscles were so much stronger on Earth, Kara had more painful cramps. Alex felt bad for her sister because periods suck enough without having super muscles that make everything worse.
Kara had gotten better at handling the pain as it became a monthly occurrence, but there were still months she had to call off work because of it. She would sometimes go in the training rooms at the DEO that Alex had designed to train her in hand-to-hand. The rooms took away her super strength which also took away the super cramps.
Whenever it was her time of the month, Alex could almost always find Kara curled up with a blanket and Netflix in the training room. Alex hadn't told Kara yet, but she was currently designing a bedroom-type room for Kara for her that would have the same effect.
"Do you guys need anything?" Kara asked, pulling Alex out of her thoughts.
"Let me check," Alex said, going into the kitchen.
"Can you bring some more ginger ale and maybe two bottles of Gatorade?" Alex asked, seeing what they were out of.
"What kind of Gatorade does Maggie like?" Kara asked, knowing Alex's preferences already.
"Blue or purple," Alex said, smiling as she thought of how much her sister cared about her girlfriend.
"Alright," Kara said, "I'll be over in like 10 minutes."
"Thanks Kar," Alex said, smiling a little.
As Alex went to sit back down on the couch, she heard a noise from the bedroom. She detoured her trip to the couch to go check on Maggie. She found her girlfriend back in the bathroom, throwing up.
"Babe," Alex said, scooping Maggie's hair up.
When she was done, the shorter woman collapsed back into her girlfriend.
"I feel terrible," Maggie said, rubbing her hands over her face.
"I know," Alex said, holding her close, "I know."
They stayed there until they heard a noise in the living room.
"It's just Kara," Alex said, sensing Maggie tense, "She's bringing over some supplies."
Maggie nodded and both got up. Alex helped Maggie back to bed as Kara came into the bedroom.
"Hey guys," Kara said, hands full of bags, "How are you two doing?"
"I've been better," Maggie said, climbing under the covers.
"Thanks Kar," Alex said, smiling at her sister, "We're both working on getting better."
"I've got goodies to help with that," Kara said, holding up the bags.
"Thanks," Alex said, moving toward her sister, "I'll help you put that stuff away."
"No," Kara said, shaking her head, "You go rest or at least cuddle your girlfriend. I've got this."
Alex nodding going to climb into bed and snuggling close to Maggie. Kara went into the kitchen, putting the Gatorade in the fridge as well as the ginger ale. Even though Alex said only a bottle or two of Gatorade, Kara had picked up about four of each flavor that the older women liked. Kara left a bottle of both purple and orange on the counter. She stocked their freezer with popsicles and the cabinet with soup.
Then, Kara pulled out some glasses, filling about half of each glass with water and half with Gatorade. Then, very carefully, she used her freeze breath to ice the glasses. This froze some of the liquid. Kara then grabbed a spoon and mixed the ice and liquid, creating a slush.
She had learned this trick when Alex was sick with strep throat one day when they were young. Her sister had desperately wanted something cold for her throat, but no one had time to go to the store and get her something. Kara had tried this, and after breaking two glasses because she froze them too quickly. However, Alex had started crying out of joy when Kara brought her the cold drink.
Kara threw a straw in each glass, the metal kind that Alex loved. She then went back into her sister's bedroom, finding Alex and Maggie cuddled up together. Neither woman was sleeping, but both looked drowsy.
"I brought you guys some Gatorade slushies," Kara said, holding up the cups as the women looked at her, slightly confused.
"Thanks Kara," Alex said, sitting up a little bit and reading for the drink.
Alex took a sip, smiling at her sister before helping her sick girlfriend sit up.
Kara held the cup for Maggie, who was clearly too weak to hold her own cup. Once both women had some hydration, the settled back into bed.
"Do you guys need anything else?" Kara asked.
"Can you bring me the remote?" Alex asked, "I'm tired, but I don't think I'm going to be able to sleep."
"Of course," Kara said, "Hey, do you guys want me to change the sheets on your bed? I think I could do it in about two minutes."
"Yeah," Maggie said, sitting up and nodding.
"Why don't you guys go take a bath or a shower?" Kara said, knowing how much better she felt after she had taken a bath when she was sick.
"Can you run the bath?" Alex asked, looking at her little sister.
"Of course," Kara said, going into the bathroom and starting the tub.
Kara found a bath bomb and dropped it in the water, hoping the mint and eucalyptus scent would help them relax a little. Kara exited the bathroom, letting Maggie and Alex know the bath was almost ready.
Alex helped Maggie into the bathroom before coming back out of the bathroom to grab pajamas for both of them.
"Thank you, Kara," Alex said, smiling at her sister.
"Of course," Kara said, going out to the closet in the hall to grab new sheets.
Kara quickly changed the sheets on the bed, having heard from friends in college how nice it was to have clean sheets on your bed when you felt sick.
Once the sheets were changed, Kara went and warmed up some veggie broth for Maggie and some chicken noodle soup for Alex. Kara also decided to go run the sheets down to the laundry room while she waited for the soup. Kara also grabbed the clothes out of Alex's bedroom. She went downstairs, throwing the sheets and clothes into the washing machine.
Kara then headed back upstairs. Before she even entered the apartment, she heard Alex and Maggie getting out of the bath tub. Kara smiled, entering the house again.
She gave Alex and Maggie a few minutes before dishing out the soup and carrying it into the bedroom. She found both women back in bed, still looking exhausted, but slightly better.
"Chicken noodle soup for you," Kara said, handing Alex her bowl before going to Maggie, "And veggie broth for you."
"Thank you," Maggie said, smiling.
The two sick women ate their food slowly, Maggie only finishing about half her bowl before deciding her stomach was done. Alex ate her whole bowl, realizing just how hungry she had been.
"Do you guys need anything else?" Kara asked, taking the bowls.
"I'm good," Maggie said, curling up under the blankets, "I just need to sleep this off."
"I think I'm good too," Alex said, snuggling down with her girlfriend, "I think at this point, sleep is going to be all we do, maybe forever."
Kara smiled, bringing the bowls into the kitchen. She washed up the dishes and got ready to leave. She left cups of Gatorade, water, and ginger ale for both Alex and Maggie, bring the laundry back up from the basement, quickly folding it and putting it away while the sick women slept. Kara then snuck out of the apartment, glad that her big sister had sound someone who loved her as much as Maggie did.
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