Authors Note: For this story Jeremiah never worked for the DEO and didn't disappear. Also, Lena knows Kara is Supergirl.

Those 4 words echoed in Maggie's head the whole time on the drive over to the DEO. Soon after Kara had passed out J'onn arrived and gently picked Kara up and flew her to the DEO where doctors were awaiting her arrival. After J'onn left Maggie had grabbed Alex's hand, which was shaking and got her into Alex's SUV so she could drive them over to the DEO. Maggie sped the entire way and looked over at her girlfriend who just stared blankly ahead the entire time not saying a single word. Before Kara had passed out, she had placed her hand on the detective's shoulder and pulled her close. Maggie could barely hear what Kara said as she was breathing very heavily from the pain but the four words that came out almost made Maggie's heart stop.

"Take care of Alex" was what came out of the younger girl's mouth before she passed out.

In that moment Maggie was truly scared for Kara's life because Kara would only say that if she truly thought she wasn't going to survive this. Maggie looked over to her girlfriend once more and knew she had to keep her promise she made to Kara to take care of Alex.

Both women jumped out of the car and ran to the med bay of the DEO. Dr. Hamilton was already yelling out orders to her staff and they could see Kara's suit had been cut away and she was now attached to a series of wires. She had an oxygen mask over her face to help with her breathing and was still unconscious. Alex still hadn't said a word since they had arrived and had kept a straight face the entire time. Maggie knew that Alex wouldn't break down in front of all her coworkers and would wait until she felt safe to fall apart. Kara's eyes suddenly opened, and she shot up out of bed in pain, it took Maggie, Alex, and Dr. Hamilton to get her laying down again and Dr. Hamilton yelled to an assistant to get Kara some pain meds. Alex inserted the medicine into Kara's IV and held her hand as she waited for the medicine to take effect. She didn't have to wait long as Kara's eyes slowly began to shut. The room was calm for a second until Kara's monitor started beeping erratically and Dr. Hamilton began to yell out orders.

"She's going into shock from the blood loss and we need to get her to surgery right away to take the bullet out and stop the bleeding." Alex shook her head to give permission and let Dr. Hamilton wheel her sister away knowing she wouldn't be much help.

Before Kara was wheeled out Alex took her sister's hand and kissed her forehead. "Kara, I need you to hold on for me because I can't live this life without you." With that the room quickly cleared and Alex was left alone with Maggie.

It only took a few moments after Kara was wheeled to surgery until Alex broke down in Maggie's arms. Maggie just held her and whispered reassurances to her. "I know my Danvers' girls don't give up that easy, Kara is the strongest person I know, and she is going to be alright."

Alex just shook her head and continued to cry. After about 30 minutes Alex had calmed down and realized her phone had been going off for a while in her pocket. She took the phone out and looked at the screen to see multiple missed calls from both her parents, Lena, James, and Winn. Realizing they had probably seen footage of Supergirl falling on the news she knew they were all concerned for Kara. Alex pulled herself from Maggie's arms and prepared herself to talk to her parents as Maggie took care of calling the other three super friends.

000

"Alex, your father and I saw the news and we are on our way to the airport to get on the first flight out to National City." Eliza was glad that she finally got ahold of Alex as Jeremiah sped their car through traffic to arrive at the airport as soon as possible. "Just tell me that my daughter is still alive," Eliza pled and held her breath as she waited for the news.

Alex could hear the worry in her mom's voice and felt guilty for not answering her call sooner. She was trying to hold back the tears that came as soon as she heard her mom's voice on the phone. She didn't want her mom to worry any more than she needed to.

"Mom, Kara was shot in the abdomen and was taken into surgery. Dr. Hamilton said it would be a couple of hours before we knew any news, but I really just need you and Dad here" Eliza let out her breath when she heard that her baby girl was still alive and felt Jeremiah's hand grab onto hers. "Alex, I promise you your dad and I will be there in a few hours."

They talked for a few more minutes and then Eliza hung up the phone. She turned towards Jeremiah who had his eyes focused on the road but could see the sadness and worry planted all over his face.

"While you were talking to Alex, I was just thinking of the first time we met Kara. She was terrified of everything but then you leaned down to her and told her everything was going to be okay and her face lit up for a split second. I would give anything to be able to see our little girl smile like that one more time." Eliza grabbed Jeremiah's hand tighter and sighed. "She is strong Jeremiah, the strongest person I know, and I just have a feeling that she will get through this. I am not going to lose my daughter today" With that both of them became silent again each thinking of different memories they shared with the stranger who become a second daughter to them.

Alex ended the call with her parents telling them that they would have a DEO agent pick them up from the airport and returned to the med bay to Maggie who had just finished her phone call with Lena.

"James and Winn are on their way over here and Lena is about to get on a flight back from Moscow. She said she is going to get here as soon as she can." Maggie continued as she embraced Alex. "You know I wasn't sure about Lena when I first met her but I know how much she cares for Kara and trust that she will keep Kara's secret safe, I also think that she might have a little bit of a crush on Little Danvers" Alex smiled when she heard Maggie say that, "of course she has a crush on Kara, I knew it since the moment I first saw them together. Kara insists that they are just friends but none of us are buying that." Maggie laughed at this and was glad her and Alex could still have a moment of happiness even with everything going on.

000

Maggie, James, and Winn all sat in the med bay waiting for news while Alex had paced around for the last hour. J'onn had been in and out of the room as he was still running the DEO and needed to take care of other matters. J'onn reentered the room followed by Eliza and Jeremiah who had just arrived from their flight. They both ran up to Alex and hugged her and held her as she silently cried.

Not long after Dr. Hamilton walked into the room looking extremely tired but had a slight smile on her face. "So good news and bad news, the good news is that we were able to get the bullet out of Kara safely and stop the major bleeding. The bad news is that the bullet did some damage to her internal organs and it is going to take her longer than normal to heal. The kryptonite used in the bullet was synthetic and since it was lodged in her body for a long enough period of time its drained Kara of her powers completely, meaning for now she will heal like a human would. We are hoping after a few days we can use the solar lamps to recharge her powers and she should make a full recovery."

Everyone sighed in relief as this news was relayed and James and Winn offered to go out and pick up food for the family since no one had eaten in a few hours. Maggie went out into the hallway to update Lena on the situation and to take a call from her boss about the robbery. This left Alex, Eliza, and Jeremiah to go to the recovery room to see Kara. Dr. Hamilton had told them that she was still unconscious but should be up soon. Alex walked into the room and could barely stomach the sight of her little sister looking so pale and weak. Eliza and Jeremiah each took one of her hands as they sat down by Kara's bedside. All of them feeling grateful knowing that this night could have ended very differently.