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AN: How fitting, to be posting this on the day Supergirl returns. Enjoy the final chapter!

Chapter 2 - Amends

Alex ignored the knocking on the door and instead tried to fall asleep, head buried deep into her pillow. She was in no mood to be talking and the throbbing in her rear and back still had not gone away after the few hours she had stayed locked in her room. Most of all, the storm in her mind had not quieted either and that caused her the most pain. The knocking sounded again, jarring her from the swirling turmoil in her mind.

"Alex, answer me, please," her mother's muffled voice came from the other side of the locked door. "I know you're awake. Don't even try to ignore me."

Alex sighed and lifted her head off from her tear-soaked pillow. "What do you want, Mom?" she asked, irritated at the interruption. "And no, I don't want to talk about it. Not to you and not to her."

"It's time for dinner, sweetie," came the reply. Alex knew it was coming and she already had her response prepared.

"I'm not hungry," Alex called back. "Just leave me alone." She buried her head into her pillow again, half-expecting her mother to continue trying to convince her to come out of her room. When there was no response, however, she glanced at the door again. It couldn't have been that easy, could it? She shrugged to herself, settling back down onto her bed. At least I'm alone now.

Kara watched as Eliza walked away from Alex's locked door, shaking her head sadly. "I'm sorry," she said. "Maybe she just needs a little more time and space."

Kara nodded numbly. "Thank you for trying," she said. She gave a sad smile as Eliza walked back downstairs. Though she knew that she was the last person Alex would have wanted to talk to, the feelings bottled up within were too much and she couldn't keep them in for much longer.

She walked slowly to the door, trying to gather the courage to knock. Her hands were shaking as she stopped in front of it and she stared down at them. These are the hands that caused my sister pain, she thought as she squeezed them together nervously. Slowly, she raised her right fist and, making sure to keep full control of her strength, rapped twice on the door.

"Mom, I said I don't want to talk," came the irritated reply of her sister.

Kara took a deep breath, trying to calm her nerves. "Alex," she said softly, voice breaking with emotion. "It's me."

Several seconds passed with no answering reply and Kara wrung her hands anxiously. Did she hear me? Does she just not want to talk to me? She opened her mouth to speak again, but Alex beat her to it.

"Hi Kara," Alex's muffled voice came from behind the locked door.

Her mind went blank and she realized that she had not expected Alex to answer at all. She fumbled around, searching for something to say but in the end, she couldn't find anything. "Hi," she replied awkwardly, before looking down at her feet in embarrassment.

Once again, there was no answering reply so Kara gathered her courage and looked back up at the door.

"May I come in?" she asked hesitantly. She desperately wanted to see her sister and to make sure that Alex had suffered no permanent damage but she also knew that it had to be a choice that Alex made as well.

"Um...I don't think that's a good idea right now," Alex's voice responded.

There was a hint of wariness to Alex's response that increased Kara's feeling of hopelessness. She knew that what happened had changed something between the two of them, possibly irreversibly, but she knew that she needed to try to salvage their relationship, if only for her sanity. The mere thought of living without her adoptive sister brought tears to her eyes but she stubbornly pushed them back. There's no time for crying until all is well, she told herself firmly.

"Please, Alex," Kara pleaded desperately, leaning her head against the door. "I want to talk to you about it and I think it would do us both good if we-"

"I said no!"

Kara stumbled backwards, shocked at the intensity of Alex's shout which was accompanied by a loud bang on the door, presumably from Alex's fist. Never before had she experienced this side of Alex and it scared her. She stayed quiet, waiting for a response from her sister, but there was none.

Cautiously, Kara lowered her lead-lined glasses and peered into the room with her X-ray vision. Alex had moved back to the bed, slightly doubled over. Her left hand was cradling her right, which had a liquid dripping-

"Alex, you're bleeding!" Kara cried in distress as she shouldered the door open, breaking the lock off. Immediately, she angled straight for her sister's position at the side of the bed.

The older girl let out a shriek of fear and rolled to the other side of the bed, left hand raised towards the Kryptonian. "No!" she cried, tears streaking down her face. "Don't come closer. Please…"

The sheer terror in the brunette's voice froze Kara mid-step. A handful of emotions crossed her mind, from shock to confusion, until she finally came to her realization. She's afraid of me, she thought to herself, devastated. My own sister...

Tears sprung to her eyes and Kara found herself unable to move as she fought a losing battle against her own emotions. Alex still refused to look at her from her position sitting on the bed and it was then that the floodgates opened. One tear rolled down, then another, and Kara sank to her knees on the ground biting her lip and squeezing her eyes shut.

She'll never love me again, she thought as she cried softly just meters away from her beloved sister. I've screwed it all up and she'll never forgive me. Though it had only been a few months, she couldn't imagine a life without her Alex at her side The thought of it only brought more tears and she clenched her fists, grinding them into the ground.

Kara stayed rooted to that spot, her soft sobs mixing with those of her sister until she could no longer tell the difference between the two. Although Eliza had forgiven her, the only forgiveness that she truly needed was Alex's but she knew it would never come. My life is over, she cried to herself. There's nothing I can salvage…

She didn't know how long she stayed in the room kneeling on the floor. She didn't know where Eliza was. She only knew that the bond between her and Alex, still barely emerging, was over.

Two arms closed around her as a warm body gently wrapped around her and a warm and wet face pressed next to hers. Kara knew immediately who it was and she clutched the other body tightly to her own, afraid that what she was feeling was simply a trick.

But it was no such thing. The feel of Alex's warm body, the smell of her hair, and the tightness of her arms were all real to Kara. She knew in a split second, as the two of them cradled each other, that all was forgiven. Suddenly, her cries were those of regret for what once was and relief for what was to come.

Neither of them spoke, but neither of them needed to. They knew without spoken words that their bond remained unbroken and would continue to grow. They knew they would get past this. Most of all, they knew that they would have each other. Love bonds us all.

-End-

Special thank you to my wonderful beta reader, MarvelDC31, for waiting patiently for me to finish this. You always do such great work in helping me edit. And also a big thank you to all of the readers who have stood by this even though I couldn't finish this in a sorta-timely fashion. You all make writing so much more enjoyable for me.