Lena's Homeless Sacrifice

Chapter 15 - Kara's Recovery

"Kara!?! Are you still up there?!" Alex calls out as soon as she enters Kara's penthouse.

"Yes, Alex! I'm still under the yellow sun lamps!" Kara yells back from her lab, still laying on the bed.

Kara then waits nervously for the next for moments, while she waits for Alex to make her way upstairs and into her lab. Kara knows what Alex's response to everything is going to be. She is probably going to say bad things about Lena, and say that Kara is better off without her, and shouldn't have brought her in to her home in the first place. But Kara understands that Alex will only be saying that because she is her big sister, and wants to protect her, both from the emotional hurt Lena leaving has now caused, and the physical hurt from Lena shooting her.

Alex walks into Kara's lab, an assertive look on her face. However, Alex then notices Krypto lying in the lab on the floor by the door, and then grows a confused look on her face.

"I thought you said Keiran left?" Alex asks, confused.

"Lena, did leave." Kara says, correcting Alex with the right name.

"Then why.... why is Krypto here?" Alex asks, still confused.

"Because she left him behind, to keep him safe with me." Kara explains.

"Safe from what?" Alex asks.

"Her family." Kara replies.

"Her... what?" Alex asks, confused.

Kara sighs, already frustrated with this conversation. Kara knows that she could just explain to Alex everything that has happened, and what she has been told from Lena, but she is already emotionally exhausted from it all, so she really doesn't want to. Kara isn't sure she can go through that again, as she may just end up breaking into tears, and CEOs do not cry.

"She left me a letter in the room she was staying in. I left it in there. You can go read it. It explains everything." Kara says, sounding drained and frustrated.

Alex shoots Kara a concerned look, with a sad smile on her face.

"Okay.... but first..." Alex says, stepping forward, closer to Kara on the bed, "How are you feeling?"

"Hmm... I'll be fine... I just need to recover a bit longer." Kara replies, only mentioning her physical hurt, not her emotional one. Obviously, Kara knows that her sister cares about her emotional state too, but she doesn't think Alex will understand how attached she grew to Lena over the last few days. Kara thinks if she told Alex how she feels emotionally, then her sister may just be dismissive of it all, saying she only knew her briefly, and will get over it.

"Okay.... Well.... after I read the letter.... I want to run some tests on you.... just to make sure you're okay." Alex says.

"Yeah.... whatever." Kara replies, almost sighing.

Alex shoots Kara a slightly confused look, but Kara doesn't say anything back to Alex, so the older Danvers sister just takes that as her cue to leave the lab, and go read the letter.

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Alex comes back into the lab, about 10 minutes later, after having read the letter that Lena left behind for Kara. As Alex walks into the lab, she sees that her sister has fallen asleep under the yellow sun rays. Upon seeing this, Alex decides to let Kara sleep for a while longer, and recharge herself, as she is aware that her sister has clearly been emotionally affected by what Lena has done. Of course, Alex, for her part, is angry over everything, because she feels like she has failed at her job, at not only being Kara's big sister, who protects her, but her head of security as well. Alex thinks that the security she has in place at El-Corp should have never given Lena an opportunity to steal a prototype stun gun so easily. Then also, Alex is annoyed that she herself didn't somehow recognise that the homeless woman, that Kara has been spending her time with, was none other than Lena Luthor. Although, Alex isn't really that angry on the last point, because she knows that while Lex Luthor is very well known and famous, thanks to him being the CEO of Luthor Corp, Lena is much less well known. Alex remembers seeing pictures of the Luthors in the past, in the press, and them briefly mentioning Lena whenever she is there with her family, but other than that, not really focusing on her. But either way, Alex wishes she had picked up on that, as she feels she should have, as ridiculous as that expectation may be.