Alex didn't know what to do.

A team had gone to retrieve the suspect alien from the NCPD and J'onn had left the medical bay to go and meet them.

Part of her wanted to go, to interrogate the alien, to get right in his face and relieve some of her anger, to play bad cop until he crumbled and told her what she needed to know to save Kara and Maggie.

Neither of them had regained consciousness, not even stirred, but they were both breathing on their own, like they were just in some kind of deep sleep. The room was still teeming with medical personnel but Alex felt alone and useless, completely out of her depth to help her loved ones.

She needed her mom.

Alex pulled her gloves off and fumbled in her pocket until she found her phone. She watched the monitors next to both women's beds as she listened to the ringing of her mom's phone down the line until it finally went to voicemail. She tried one more time just in case her mom just hadn't been able to get to her phone in time but she still got her voicemail.

"Mom, it's Alex. Kara's not well, she's had a run in with an alien, well we think it was an alien, and now," Alex paused as her voice cracked. "She's not waking up mom, we need your help. Please call me when you get this." Alex ended the call and frustratedly wiped away the tears teetering on the edges of her eyes.

She let her gaze linger on Kara for a bit longer before she turned to the lead medic.

"I'm going to see if they've got anything from the suspect. Call me if anything changes," she pointed at him threateningly. "Even if you think it's nothing, call me."

She exited the medical bay and let the door slam therapeutically behind her but kept enough control to stop herself from running straight into the interrogation room. Instead she snuck into the dark viewing room. It was empty. On the other side of the one-way glass the alien was handcuffed to the table, with Agent Grant sat directly opposite, J'onn was wandering around the room, watching the conversation intently.

"Where are you from?" Agent Grant was only just getting into the main part of the interrogation. Alex fumed as she realised that J'onn was letting him take the lead on such an important interrogation.

She contemplated storming into the room and asking the questions herself but J'onn must have sensed her through the mirror because he turned to face her and gave her a warning look and shook his head.

Alex folded her arms against her chest and refocused on the alien who had remained silent. He was wearing overly baggy baseball shorts paired with a tight white shirt that was no way near long enough for him and as a result looked like a crop top. He was covered in dark purple scales except that his protruding stomach was soft and fleshy.

He looked scared.

"Fine," Agent Grant relaxed back in his chair. "How about you tell us what you did to Supergirl and the NCPD detective?"

The alien mimicked Agent Grant and leant back into his chair but he looked anything but relaxed. Alex almost felt sorry for him. He was clearly new to Earth, struggling to fit in on an alien planet with weird customs and fashion sense. His eyes were sad and lost, she had seen that same look before, in Kara when she first came to live with her family.

"I am…" the alien stuttered and bowed his head slightly as his purple tongue hung slightly out of his mouth, "Sor-ry," he finished.

Alex sighed, this alien didn't seem to be able to speak much English yet.

On the other side of the glass J'onn had clearly reached the same conclusion and Alex watched as his eyes glowed red and he tried to read the alien's mind.

After a minute he relaxed and tapped Agent Grant on the shoulder.

"I don't think we're going to get anything from him at the moment. Can you organise a cell for him?" he asked before he headed out of the interrogation room.

Alex rushed to meet J'onn in the corridor.

"What did you see?" she asked as soon as she saw him.

"He's definitely an alien and not a metahuman. I think I know where he is from," J'onn placed his hands on his hips and looked up and down the corridor.

"Where?"

"I need to liaise with Winn to be sure, but I think he's from a cluster of planets in the Caber System."

"What else? Do you know anything about what he did to Kara and Maggie?"

"No, I don't know anything about the species that live on the planets, I just saw a lot of planets in the sky in one of his memories, that's why I need to check the database with Winn," J'onn was still glancing around the corridor, not quite looking at Alex, he looked unnerved.

"What aren't you saying?"

"I just don't think I can trust what I saw."

"How do you mean."

"I mean that I think there's some kind of psychic element to him, I felt like he was manipulating what I saw in his mind, especially what happened with the NCPD."

"He looked genuinely scared in there," Alex nodded her head towards the interrogation room door.

"Yeah he did, but something is off about him and he also speaks better English than he is making out."

"So why not interrogate him properly now?"

"He wasn't going to talk and I want to get some more information. If I'm right about what I saw then we might be able to get the information we need to help Kara and Detective Sawyer without his cooperation," J'onn began to walk towards the command centre.

"I could try talking to him if you want," Alex had to walk fast to keep up with J'onn.

"No, not right now."

"But…" Alex started.

"Alex," J'onn stopped in the middle of the corridor. "You are not in the right frame of mind right now."

"But…"

"Please, you need to be with Kara and Maggie, you're the best chance they have against whatever this alien has done to them."

"I need my mom's help. I called her and left a voicemail but she hasn't got back to me yet."

J'onn nodded, "Keep trying, I'll see if Winn can try to locate her as well. But for now, focus on Kara, I can handle the rest."

Alex clutched at Kara's hand, stroking her soft skin, hoping the gentle motion would somehow awaken her from unconsciousness. For the last hour she had been sat in between both beds in the medical bay, eyes flitting helplessly from Kara to Maggie and then back again. Nothing had changed, both women remained unconscious, but their vitals were all in an acceptable range. They were both now dressed in matching hospital gowns, Maggie was covered with an itchy blue blanket, but Kara had been left uncovered for exposure to the sun lamps, not that they seemed to be helping.

The medical team had done a thorough head to toe examination but hadn't found anything wrong with Kara and apart from a bloody nose and not waking up, there didn't appear to be anything wrong with Maggie either.

Alex stood up abruptly to adjust the neckline of Kara's gown, which had slipped down slightly, and then started to check the settings on the sunlamps and the monitors next to her.

She then moved to Maggie's side and triple checked the monitoring equipment and the infusion running through the cannula in her hand.

Alex flinched as the alarm from the monitor next to Maggie's bed began to beep. The once slow but steady trace from her heart monitor had been replaced by a fast, erratic waveform.

"Maggie?" she called hopefully as she reached out to silence the alarm.

Maggie stirred and she curled up onto her side to face away from Alex, but her eyes stayed shut and her heart rate remained fast and irregular. Alex rushed around to the other side of the bed and crouched down so that her face was level with Maggie's.

"Maggie, open your eyes," she gently brushed the hair off her ex's face. Maggie only responded by pulling the sheet up right under her chin and continued to snuggle into the pillow.

"Maggie, come on, time to wake up," Alex gently shook her shoulder.

Maggie sighed but didn't open her eyes. Alex let her own eyes drift to the monitor. Maggie's heart rate had settled down to a normal, regular rate.

Alex settled into a chair next to Maggie's bed. Maggie looked peaceful, like when they had shared a rare day off together, lazing in bed until noon. Alex let a tear slip down her cheek as she remembered how safe she used to feel in Maggie's arms. At that moment Maggie opened her eyes groggily and sat up before Alex had managed to wipe her tear away and stop her.

"Hey," Alex took Maggie's hand and pushed her back down onto the bed gently.

Maggie relaxed back onto the bed and looked blankly at Alex, there wasn't even a hint of recognition. Fresh tears burned at the edges of Alex's eyes, the pain from the look hurt like a fist to the face, it overwhelmed her. She dug her fingernails into her arm to refocus herself and then rubbed Maggie's arm.

"Have you got any pain?"

Maggie didn't reply, she turned her head away and closed her eyes again.

"Mags?"

Suddenly Maggie sat bolt upright, eyes wide and panicked.

"You're alright," Alex tried to sooth.

Maggie didn't settle, she began to retch and the nurse that had been trying to mind her own business at the desk in the corner ran to her side with a bowl just in time to catch the vomit.

"It's okay, it's best to get it all out," the nurse rubbed Maggie's back until she finished coughing and then wiped her lips and helped her to take some sips of water.

Alex heart broke again as she watched the nurse do a better job of comforting Maggie than she could.

Once Maggie was settled back in the bed, the nurse left them alone again to dispose of the sick. Alex took Maggie's hand again and rubbed her thumb up and down it as Maggie watched the movement.

"We think you were sedated by that alien this afternoon," Alex whispered, watching Maggie's face for any sign of recollection. "You and Supergirl both got hit before he made you disappear to try to create a distraction for him to escape. You ended up all the way out in Greendale, but Kara managed to fly you back here before the sedation finally worked on her. She completely wrecked the command centre in the process and J'onn is secretly fuming, but she got you here, not a scratch on you." Alex knew she was rambling, but Maggie still didn't acknowledge her, her eyes seemingly growing heavy.

"Maggie please, say something," Alex pleaded. "I just want to know that you're okay."

Maggie's eyes shut and she didn't open them again.

It wasn't until much later, sometime around midnight, that Kara finally began to shake off the alien's sedation. Unlike the relative calmness that accompanied Maggie's return to consciousness, Kara was agitated and fighting, hard. Arms waving, hands clawing out for something, anything, as she screamed and shouted and wailed. The sound was unlike anything Alex had ever heard anyone make.

Alex managed to avoid Kara's flailing arms with relative ease but as she made her way around the bed, one of her sister's legs kicked out and hit her in the chest.

For a second, Alex couldn't breathe. All of the air had been forced out of her lungs and she desperately gasped for a breath. As she struggled to gain her composure, Kara landed another kick, this one to her hip and Alex was sent sprawling across the floor, sliding across the ground until she hit a table. The impact was enough to startle her lungs back into action and she managed a few harsh breaths as she curled into herself on the floor, instinctively trying to protect herself from a further onslaught.

Alex stayed on the floor until her breathing settled and Kara's screams had ebbed into whimpers. After a few failed attempts at pushing up off the ground, Alex successfully got to her feet. Even when she stood up, Alex's legs barely seemed capable of taking her weight, yet alone carrying her back to her sister's side.

The first step she attempted only served to amplify the crushing pain in her chest and she doubled over in agony, the only reason she stayed upright at all was that J'onn had heard the commotion and had come to investigate. J'onn wrapped his arm tightly around her waist and Alex could only concentrate on pulling oxygen into her lungs as J'onn guided her into a plastic chair away from the beds. When she finally managed to open her eyes again, she was confronted by J'onn's concerned face. She looked away and tried to get her bearings in order to find Kara.

Despite all the thrashing, Kara was somehow still on the bed. Even though she was no longer screaming, she was still kicking out, struggling to fight off an invisible foe. Alex tried to get to her feet again but J'onn stopped her gently and went to Kara himself. He placed his strong hands on Kara's shoulders and whispered something into her ear. Whatever it was seemed to calm Kara down because she stopped screaming and her limbs fell limply to her sides.

As Alex's ears adjusted to the silence again, her eyes found Maggie. Her ex-fiancée's eyes were still closed, her breathing was soft and even, suggesting that somehow, she has slept through the chaos.

"J'onn?" Alex called out to her boss, "Is Maggie alright?" she managed to get out before a coughing fit overcame her.

She watched helplessly as J'onn called Maggie's name softly and he touched her arm. Maggie didn't stir and J'onn looked back at Alex before calling Maggie's name a little bit louder, shaking her shoulder. Again, Maggie didn't respond.

Alex found the strength in her shaky legs and made her own way over to Maggie's bedside. J'onn's eyes were glowing red when she finally reached them. Alex waited silently for him to finish his assessment, clutching the bed tightly for some kind of support.

"She's dreaming, she's okay," J'onn reassured and took hold of Alex again.

"And Kara?"

"You know I can't use my psychic powers on her," J'onn sighed.

"What did you say to her?"

"I just told her she was only dreaming," J'onn told her as he led her to a more comfortable chair.

"Can I have a look at your injuries?"

Alex nodded hesitantly and then lifted her shirt to reveal her chest, a dark red mark covered the whole of her left side and J'onn couldn't hold in his gasp.

"I think your ribs might be broken."

Alex could only nod, it did feel like Kara could have broken her ribs.

"Let me go and find the doctor."

"No, don't. I'll be fine, there's nothing they can do to treat broken ribs anyway."

"Alex, please," his voice was soft and Alex didn't have the strength to argue further so she let him leave to find help.

Two minutes later she let the medical team poke and prod her, she let them do an x-ray and some pain medication. Throughout the whole ordeal her eyes barely left the sleeping forms of Kara and Maggie.

"You're lucky Agent Danvers. Nothing is broken, just very bruised. You're going to be sore for a while."

"Thank you," Alex mumbled without looking at him and the doctor took the hint to leave. J'onn followed the doctor out into the corridor and Alex watched them talking though the window until J'onn turned to look at her. She turned away and slowly made her way to sit back between the two beds, sitting closer to Maggie, out of the reaches of Kara's limbs.