I'm not going to bore you with excuses as to why the delay in the update.
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"Alex!" Maggie exclaimed at the sudden crushing grip on her hand as she bolted upright in the chair she had fallen asleep in next to Alex's bed.
"Maggie, Alex!" Kara herself exclaimed as she was awoken from Maggie's cry. "What.."
"My hand." Maggie replied grimacing looking at her hand intertwined with Alex's, Maggie's fingers starting to lose colour from the lack of blood. Suddenly Alex began to start thrashing and moaning.
"Seizure?" Kara questioned just as Ashley came running into the room.
"What's going on?" Ashley questioned as she made her way to the opposite side of the bed and began to check the monitors.
"I don't know she's got a death grip on my hand and she just start thrashing." Maggie replied as she brushed hair away from Alex's forehead trying to provide her some comfort. Maggie immediately noticed that Alex's did not seem as warm as before. "She seems cooler."
Alex started to thrash move violently and reached to pull off the CPAP mask with her free hand before Ashley could stop her. With the mask now off Alex called out for Maggie as her eyes opened but were completely unfocused.
Ashley realized that Alex was locked in a nightmare and grabbed Alex's face between her hands. "Alex! Hey come on it's time to wake up."
Alex was still thrashing and had started to gasp for air. "Alex please wake up." Kara pleaded as she squeezed Alex's thigh.
"Babe! Wake up!" Maggie demanded as she placed her free hand on Alex's forehead.
Alex suddenly took a deep breath her eyes suddenly coming into focus on Ashley who was still holding her face in her hands. "Well hello there, Danvers." Ashley smiled.
"Ash?" Alex murmured and then turned her head to the other side taking in Maggie. "Mags?"
"Alex." Maggie breathed out.
"Kara" Alex glanced down to the pressure on her leg.
"Oh Rao, Alex." Kara wiped a tear from her cheek.
"Hey." Alex smiled as her breathing began to slowed and she was able to take some deeper breaths. Ashley had pulled out her stethoscope and started to evaluate Alex's lung sounds.
"Hey yourself." Maggie smiled down at Alex placing a kiss on her forehead.
Kara wrapped herself around Alex's torso. "Please don't ever do that again." Alex reached down running her fingers through Kara's hair.
"I'm OK." Alex coughed lightly just as Dr. Hamilton came into the room.
"Agent Danvers why don't you let me be the judge of that. Ladies if I could ask you guys to step out so that we can check her over." Dr. Hamilton ordered as she approached the bed. Both Maggie and Kara looked up about to protest and was meet with a stern glare from her which caused both to turn back to Alex.
"We will just be outside, Babe." Maggie sheepishly replied as we softly placed a kiss on Alex's forehead. "Love you."
"Love you too."
"We'll be right back." Kara smiled squeezing Alex's hand before they both headed out of the room.
"Wow you have to teach me that glare." Alex chuckled weakly.
"Many years of practice, now if only I could get it to work on you." Dr. Hamilton laughed. "Now how are you really feeling?"
Alex coughed a little as she took another deep breath. The cough being far more loose than it had been. "Tired." Alex conceded. "But my chest does feel less heavy."
Dr. Hamilton looked up to Ashley who was finishing scribbling notes on the chart. "Whitz, what do we have."
"Well our favorite patient woke up about 5 mins ago ripping of the CPAP."
"It was suffocating." Alex defended.
Ashley smiled and continued "Pulse ox is back up to 94 on no O2, temp is back down to 99, resps are 17 still some cracking in both lower lobes but much less than they were, pulse 80."
Dr. Hamilton put her stethoscope in her ears and placed it on Alex's chest, "Deep breath." Alex compiled as she asked as she moved to check all 4 quadrants of her chest. "That is sounding much better." Hamilton smiled "Do you think you can sit up?" Alex nodded and Ashley grabbed onto Alex's hand and helped her into the sitting position. The change in position brought on a small coughing fit. "Ok deep breath again." Hamilton instructed as she checked all four quadrants. "Ok back you go." Ashley helped ease Alex back onto the bed.
"So Doc am I going to make it?"
Dr. Hamilton looked up to the monitors that surrounded Alex's bed taking in the numbers on them. "Whitz can you put her on 5L nasal cannula, please." Alex looked up to protest but Hamilton cut her off, "Once you can maintain on your own at 97% or above it can come off."
Ashley could not hold her chuckle in as Alex went into immediate pout mode. "What are you laughing at?" Alex asked annoyed that Ashley was finding this funny.
Ashley was placing the O2 tubing around Alex's ears cinching up the slid around the bottom to ensure it would not fall off. "Me? Nothing, nothing is funny." Ashley smirked, Alex glaring up at her.
"Well Agent Danvers I think the antibiotics are working and IF you follow my directions and rest I think it's safe to say you will live." Hamilton paused a moment before continuing as she looked back to the door. "OK Kara you and Maggie can come back in." The door immediately flew open and Kara speed back in while Maggie followed her.
"Eavesdrop much?" Ashley smiled.
Kara just sheepishly smiled.
"Doc she going to be OK?" Maggie asked taking Alex's hand in hers again.
"Alex is going to need a lot of rest and a minimum of 2 days here so that we can ensure her lung function is back to somewhat normal as well as continue the IV antibiotics and then we will send her home with 14 days of oral antibiotics just to make sure that it does not come back." Hamilton explained as she took the chart from Ashley and made a few of her own notes.
"Don't worry Doc whatever she needs she will do, I will make sure of it." Maggie smiled.
"I'm counting on it." Hamilton smiled. "Alright Alex you get some rest and I will be back before the end of my shift to check you again."
"Laurie." Alex spoke up. "Thank you."
"My pleasure, Alex." Hamilton smiled. Both women had grown close over their time together at the DEO. Dr. Hamilton had been the Chief Medical Officer even when Alex had first joined the DEO. With Alex's medical background and her numerous trips to medical over the years the women had developed a close relationship.
Kara could no longer contain her excitement at the news Alex was on the road to recovery and enveloped Alex in a hug draping herself over Alex as Alex made "whuf" noise. "Alex I was so scared."
Alex could hear the quiver in Kara's voice. "Hey I'm OK." Alex tried to comfort Kara rubbing small comforting circles on her back. "Thanks to you and Maggie I'm OK." Alex could feel the tears as they escaped Kara's control. The weight of the last few days, the no sleep, the worry all just became too much. "Hey look at me." Alex lift Kara's chin getting her to look at her and then wiped at the tears with her thumb. "I'm OK." Alex stared Kara eye to eye. "I'm OK."
"I love you." Kara said quietly.
"I love you too, Kara" Alex replied as she reached forward with her head to place a kiss on Kara's forehead.
From the other side Ashley made a cough noise. "OK ladies, I'm going to be the bad guy and kick everyone out again."
"Uh no." Maggie stated.
"Maggie you and Kara both have been going non-stop for days now. You're both exhausted and you need a proper meal. If you don't take care of yourselves you both are going to end up in beds on this ward too!" Ashley stated matter of fact.
"But she just woke up." Kara pleaded.
"And she is already falling back to sleep." Ashley said pointing back down to Alex whose eyelids were in fact starting to droop.
"Ash is right guys." Sleep was heavy in Alex's voice. "Please just get some rest and food."
Maggie knew they were both right. She could not remember the last time she felt this drained both physically and emotionally. With a heavy sigh she conceded, "OK but you have to get some sleep too." Maggie ordered as she place a kiss softly on Alex's cheek and then leaned into her ear. "I love you, Alex." she whispered placing another kiss on her forehead as she stood up and looked to Ashley. "If she gives you trouble you know how to reach me." She smiled. "Come on little Danvers." Kara had her classic pout out in full force."You know that will not work on me"
"Fine." Kara sighed and reached over to place a kiss on Alex's forehead. "Love you."
"Luv….you...guys.." Alex managed to get out before see was out like a light.
TBC
I will do my very best to make the next update MUCH sooner than this one. The last couple eps of Supergirl actually got my creative juices flowing again. With the 9 week hiatus I'm sure I will be able to crack a few chapters out and maybe even complete this!
Many thanks for taking the time to read and reviews are always welcome and appreciated.