A/N: Thank you for the comments.
Guest (1) - There will be a reunion with Ruby.
Guest (2) - There is a different explanation for Kara's powers, but not completely disconnected. Regarding Batwoman I confess I have no mental image of her. I'm not sure I have ever read a comic with her in. So I don't know who would be a good choice of what traits they should have. - Do you have a strong preference?
"Alex?" Kara asked as she woke up.
"Hey." Alex smiled.
"You're really here?" Kara asked.
"You going to ask that every time you see me?" Alex countered.
"I thought that you were dead. That I'd killed you."
"Kara, I pushed you off the ledge not the other way round. What happened was not your fault." Alex reminded her.
"But it was. You said so yourself on the mission." Kara said confusing Alex. "You said I always got distracted when I was meant to be listening out for Eliza."
"Something you admitted was deliberate." Alex said. "Don't think I've forgotten that. When you are better we are so talking about that."
"I'm being serious. I should have heard them. I should have protected you."
"It's my job to protect you." Alex said resolutely. "Also we were attacked by a sniper, even with your hearing unless you knew they were there, there was no way to pick them out." She then paused before saying. "I know you had some weird guilt and Kryptonite induced dreams, but what happened was not you fault." She waited for her words to sink in before asking. "How are you feeling?"
For a moment Kara didn't answer as she considered the question. Finally she said. "Not sick."
"Hopefully that is because all of the Kryptonite is gone. I still can't believe you didn't tell anyone how sick you were."
"I didn't think I was sick. I just thought I was sad and in pain."
"From now on you tell me about everything that isn't right." Alex ordered before asking. "How is the pain? And don't lie."
"It sucks." Kara confessed. "How are your ribs?"
"Unlike you I have spent the last few weeks healing so they're okay."
"Liar."
"Can I get you anything?" Alex asked, ignoring the accusation.
"A hug?" Kara asked.
"I meant food." Alex said before gently and awkwardly, due to the injuries the pair had, hugged Kara.
"A hug is all I need." Kara said before suddenly pulling away.
"What's wrong?" Alex asked concerned.
"Where's Eliza?"
"J'onn took her to your apartment so she could get some sleep."
"I'm sorry I didn't look after her better."
"When you are fully healed and have your powers back we can go through your long list of apologies. Right now focus on getting better."
"Alex?" Kara said as tiredness washed over her again.
"Yeah."
"I'm sorry." Kara said before she drifted off.
-00-
"Where are we with the Cadmus and Jeremiah investigation?" J'onn asked.
"No further forward than last week." Brainy said. "Every time we identify a base, by the time we reach it, it has been destroyed. My hypothesis is that every time Jeremiah Danvers, or another suspect we have not identified yet, attacks a facility, they access their database and extract more information, which is how he, or they are ahead of us."
"Unfortunately if we have figured it out Cadmus can't be far off coming to the same conclusion." Maggie said.
"Meaning they'll set a trap." J'onn concluded.
"One he'll probably walk straight into." Maggie said. "Do you think we can let him know Alex is alive? I mean it might stop him walking straight into a trap."
"We have no way to contact him. Even if we could it might place Alex in the firing line." J'onn said before turning to Brainy and asking. "Can't you get any information from the bases?"
"The electronics were very badly damaged in the fires. I have tried to extract information, but it will take time."
"That is something we are running out of." J'onn said.
"Does Alex know about any of this?" Maggie asked.
"No, she's been focused on Kara." J'onn replied. "But I'll tell her soon."
-00-
"How is she?" J'onn asked when he entered Alex's lab where Alex was reviewing the latest scan results.
"Physically she's starting to show signs of recovery." Alex said. "I mean she still doesn't have powers but she is healing at a human rate."
"You don't sound very happy." J'onn pointed out.
"I'm just worried." Alex said. "I thought her powers would be back by now."
"Any theories on why they aren't?"
"To over come a solar flare she needs an adrenaline rush, something she hasn't had for awhile. Or deep down she doesn't want them back. Or long term exposure to Kryptonite has caused major damage."
"We'll figure it out." J'onn said. "But I'm also worried about you."
"Why?"
"Ignoring your injuries, you're angry." Seeing Alex's confused look he said. "I spoke to Raffa. She still senses all your emotions. She is finding it overpowering. She said you are angry."
"I am."
"About what?"
"Angry at Cadmus for going out to kill Kara, angry at everybody here for not figuring out there was something wrong with Kara and angry at myself. If I had been paying more attention to my surroundings I wouldn't have been shot. If I hadn't been shot, Kara wouldn't have been shot."
"I've read the mission report, you did it by the book." J'onn said.
"Then the book is wrong. Besides I haven't even written my report yet." Alex pointed out.
"Kara wrote hers."
"She's biased."
"So are you." J'onn countered.
"I'm worried about her. I've never seen her so fragile. I don't know how to help her." Alex sighed.
"You can't. Not alone anyway." J'onn said.
"Sometimes it's easy to forget that underneath the powers and the uniform, she is still the scared girl from Krypton who lost everything." Eliza said joining them. "Kara does such a good job of pretending to be okay, it's easy to forget how much she has been through."
"So what do we do?" Alex asked.
"I don't know." Eliza confessed. "But we'll figure it out together. Right now though she needs to spend time with you."
"Before you go there's something you both need to know." J'onn said.
"What?" Alex asked.
"We think Jeremiah might be back."
-TBC...
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