Prologue
Kara and Lena were married for seven years now, they were happy, even thinking about having a child together. They met at one of Kara's matches, at her championship party for the french tournament of the year, one of the most important ones of her carrier, you see Kara used to be a professional tennis player, since she was a little girl she was always an athlete, but tennis was her favorite sport, she also loved writing. Lena was already a big fan of Kara, she also had a little crush, she was there accompanied by Sam, her best friend and co-worker, who pushed her to talk to Kara. Kara was talking to her sister Alex when she saw the most beautiful woman she had ever seen; it was love at first sight.
After that day they became inseparable, Lena was always at Kara's matches, following her through the world, which was very hard for her, since she had a company to run, one that she herself had started, although her parents were filthy rich, they owned the biggest real estate developer in the world, she always wanted to help people, so she started her own company to help make technology accessible to everyone, she was a scientist and a engineer, a genius really, and she was already successful on her goals. Sam was her CFO, so while she was following Kara, Sam was running her company.
Kara and Lena married two years after they met, both of their families were present, they had a big party, Kara always wanted one. She had lost her parents at twelve years old to a house fire. She was then adopted by the Danvers, Eliza and Jeremiah, who took care of her, five years later Jeremiah also died of natural causes. Lena's mother had died when she was four and she was adopted by the Luthor's, Lionel was her biological father and Lillian her adoptive mother. Although, Lionel was an exceptional father Lillian was always distant, she also had an older brother Lex, whom she loved dearly.
Two years after their marriage, Kara was at peak of her career, having just won an US Open championship against Serena Willians, Lena was so proud of her, they were very happy, their life was going great, and they were thinking about starting a family. Kara always wanted a family and Lena would do anything for Kara even though it wasn't her biggest dream before meeting Kara, but after meeting her she could see herself having a child.
Alex always travelled with Kara to her tournaments, she accompanied her specially when Lena couldn't go. Lena's company was based in National City, so that was where Kara would always come back to. Kara had just left a tournament at Central City, so Kara and Alex decided to go back to National City by car, and as always Alex was driving, Kara was never a fan of driving, so her sister usually did it. That day Alex was tired having stayed up all night taking care of arrangements for Kara's trip just the next day for an advertisement engagement at Metropolis.
It was late at night, roughly 2:OO am when a truck appeared out of nowhere in front of their car. Alex didn't have time to dodge, her reflexes were slow. Kara was sleeping on the back seat without a seat belt. The truck hit them full force, Alex didn't make it, and she died on the scene. Kara had a bit more luck, but not much more. She was taken to the hospital after bystanders called 911.
She had several injuries, many lacerations and bruises, a broken arm and a trauma to head, and the most severe one a spinal injury on her lower back, that being the more worrisome of all. She had five surgeries to try to repair the damage. Kara had broken her spine in two different places, one was a complete injury and the other only a partial one. After a week in an induced coma, the doctors could tell for certain Kara would never walk again, the complete injury had taken that from her, but her partial injury could be worked on, she would have a lot of difficulties at first with her hands, but that could be temporary. She had also some minor brain damage; she would have mostly some cognitive issues, which could be worked on.
Lena was wreck when she learned what happened, she almost couldn't take it, she only did it, because Kara needed her. And she was by Kara's side through her whole rehabilitation. Kara had a rough time with it all, she had just lost her sister and a life she loved. She would need to adapt. Eliza was there for her, and all of her friends, Nia, Winn, James and Brainy.
It took her a year in rehab to be able to go home. She had regained the use of her arms and had learned to cope with her sister's death. Her brain had healed too, but sometimes she would have seizures, that hadn't happened many times. She was left with lot of chronic pain in her body, and on some occasions she had a difficult time.
All in all it had been a life altering event. She was a professional athlete with a successful career. She could no longer do what she loved most, although she could still do it in the wheelchair, she didn't see herself making a career out of it again. So Kara decided to invest in a writer career, she wanted to write stories, and she started with the story of her life, giving her much praise for her first book. Lena was right beside her to support her, their initial plans to have a child were postponed, because Kara was the one who wanted to carry, but she could no longer do it and Lena wasn't sure it was the best idea at that moment.
They got into a routine, Kara was starting to be happy again. She started exercising regularly again, trying to maintain her body and becoming a bit of a fitness enthusiast. She worked on her novels from home, she had a manager his name was J'onn Jonz. Lena was leading L-Corp into the medical field, using her resources to develop tech for disabled people, that was a issue close to her heart now. She wanted to make her wife's life as easy as possible.