"You trust me enough to do that?" Lena asked. "After everything I put you through?"

Kara shrugged. "You broke my heart, not my stomach." She joked.

Lena smiled sadly. "I'll never be able to apologize enough for that. You deserved so much more from me than abandonment."

Kara smiled tensely. "Well, we'll get past it together."

Lena's heart flipped. "Just the way it should have been from the beginning." She said breathlessly.

"We can't change the past, Lena. But we can move forward from it, so let's get down to business. What do you think the problem is?"

Lena puckered her lips. "There could be a problem with the way your body is intaking the sun's radiation. Much like your Evil Doppelganger from Earth X."

Kara frowned. "But it's my abdomen that hurts. Not my heart."

Lena nodded. "I know, that's why I am going to do whatever I can to figure out what is going on. It might just be a simple bug that you are no longer immune to."

Kara nodded. "Alright. Can we start tomorrow?"

Lena smiled through the worry she was feeling and nodded her head. "Of course, we can."

XXX

They met in Lena's lab the following day, Kara in a pair of sweatpants and a loose t-shirt, Lena in a pantsuit and her lab coat. "Okay. So, the first test I think we should run is just a simple blood analysis. We'll get the levels and then go from there. What do you say?"

Kara bit her lip. "How are you going to get my blood?"

"Oh don't worry, no kryptonite. I have a red sun lamp from when we…" She cut herself off and cleared her throat. "I have a red sun lamp."

Kara nodded. "Okay. Blood work it is."

XXX

Kara laid on the medical bed under the red sun lamp, arm bared and ready for Lena to prick with the needle when she said something that took Lena's breath away.

"You look beautiful today, Lee."

Lena almost dropped the needle. "Th-thank you, Kara. You always look beautiful."

Kara smiled and shook her head. "No, I don't, but thank you for trying to make me feel better."

Lena frowned. "I'm sure Sam thinks you're always beautiful."

Kara chuckled. "Except when I have morning breath."

I never cared about your morning breath. "Oh?"

Kara nodded. "She says my morning breath could wake the dead."

It really isn't that bad unless you forget to brush your teeth before bed. "I'm sure she's just teasing."

"No." Kara laughed, "She really won't kiss me until I brush them."

A sure of anger towards Sam rushed through Lena… Why would she be so petty? She had the luxury of Kissing Kara Danvers; she shouldn't squander it. "Well, that's her prerogative I suppose." She said as calm as she could. "Now, you're going to feel a little pinch, and it'll be all over, okay?"

Kara nodded and then flinched slightly as the needle inserted itself into her vein. Lena watched as the dark red blood entered the vile and decided to change the subject. "Your blood is darker than a human's."

"Is it?" Kara asked as she looked at the bag. "I don't really ever see it so I wouldn't know."

Lena huffed out a laugh. "I'd say that's a pretty good thing, wouldn't you?"

"Not knowing the color of my blood?" Kara asked thoughtfully. "Yeah, I suppose that is."

XXX

They were waiting for the tests to come back when Kara brought up another topic that Lena wasn't ready to deal with. "Have you been seeing anyone?"

No, because you don't love me anymore. "No." Was all she could manage to say.

"Why not?"

Lena pursed her lips, trying to find the right words. "The one for me isn't an option."

"Who is this mystery person?" Kara asked, curiosity evident on her face.

Lena let out a sardonic laugh, knowing that she couldn't tell her the truth. "That's for me to know and you never to find out."

The machine buzzed, signaling that the test results were ready. Lena looked them over and frowned. "Let's get you into the Cat Scan." She said as calmly as she could manage.

XXX

She was terrified about what they were going to find in the imaging. The results of Kara's blood analysis came back with twice as much ionized radiation than there should have been, which Lena could fix quickly, but what she couldn't fix was tumors… and Kara was complaining about pain.

She looked at the scans, each one making Lena's heart fall further and further into the pit of her stomach… Kara didn't just have one tumor… She had eight.

"What's wrong, Lena? Is it bad?"

Lena bit her lip to stop it from quivering. "I… Um… I think it's time we worry your sister and Sam."

Kara frowned. "Oh."

XXX

Alex had verbally assaulted Lena the moment she answered the phone, "Why the fuck are you calling me?" Alex asked. "I don't know who you think you are. But you can't just break my sister's heart and disappear for no reason. Come back, and expect all to be forgiven."

Lena sighed, realizing just how many people were no longer fond of her. "Alex, you can beat my ass later, right now this is serious, I need you to come to my lab."

"And why the hell would I do that?"

"It's Kara, Alex… She's not well."

XXX

Sam and Alex both showed up around the same time, and Lena had told them everything she knew, and about why she couldn't do the surgeries herself… she had no medical degree, and Alex did.

Now, it was time to explain this all to Kara and hope she wouldn't take it as hard as all three of them were.

XXX

"I need surgery?"

Alex nodded. "Kar', your body is fighting against the ionization in your bloodstream, which can be fixed, but the tumors are all over in your abdomen, and they need to come out first, but we can't let the sun heal them and spread even more radiation through your body. You'll have to stay here or at the D.E.O until the surgeries are finished, and you heal under a red sun lamp. After that, we can give you a serum that will regulate the radiation in your body and help your body rejuvenate itself with the Sun's rays again. Your cousin had to do this before too."

Kara looked terrified as she clung on to Sam for dear life… but it wasn't Sam she looked at for advice. "Lena? What do you think I should do?"

Lena's heart swelled with joy that Kara cared about what she thought. "I think you should listen to us and let your sister remove the tumors asap."

Kara gulped, kissed Sam's forehead and nodded. "Let's do this."