Next of Kin - SuperCorp

Next of Kin Part 9- Get Over It

"You okay?" Alex asked Kara as the younger sister stood around in the DEO facility wearing her Supergirl uniform.

Kara nodded, not making eye contact, thrumming her fingers on a panel.

"That wasn't very convincing. What's going on, Kara, and why didn't you show up for dinner last night?"

"I got busy."

"Too busy for food? I know for a fact that's a biological impossibility for you. Now spill it. What's going on?"

"It's Lena. She's getting an MRI this morning and told me not to waste my time coming by. It wouldn't be a waste," Kara added that last part as a mumble.

"She just doesn't want you standing around there doing exactly what you're doing here. Maybe you get on her nerves."

Kara shot Alex a dirty look.

"I'm not saying you get on my nerves," Alex added with a shrug. "Did they say when they'd have results?"

"No. How long does it usually take?"

"The actual MRI?" Alex considered that. "Maybe an hour depending on what they're doing. They likely know the region they're exploring but might want to continue below the injury site. It's the interpretation of the MRI that takes time. That's usually 24-48 hours."

"That long?"

"I..." Alex blew out some air. "She's Lena Luthor. I don't think she follows the rules."

"Or the laws. She breaks them," Kara said with a little, wistful smile.

"What was that?" Alex asked, smiling also and nudging her sister.

Kara's smile grew, and she said, "It's something Lena said. She promised she'd walk again. Lena said even if the law of biology, or something like that, said she wouldn't walk she still would. She said all Luthors are natural lawbreakers, and the natural science police could come and arrest her for breaking the law."

"Oh, my God, Kara." Alex gently elbowed her sister again. "You are so crushing on her."

"I know," Kara said, giggling into her hand. "Don't tell anyone. Have you told anyone?"

"Maggie, only I didn't tell Maggie, she told me."

"Maggie told you?"

"She's perceptive. I didn't know why you were being so ... severe in your reaction to Lena being shot." While Kara sucked in air to fire back a response, Alex held up a hand and hurriedly added, "I'm not saying you shouldn't have been upset. It was horrible, Kara, just horrible. You deal with horrible every day though. With Kastrati, you crossed a line. You were more than toes over for several days there, sweetie. The DEO thought you might take a big old step and if you did, there's no going back from that. Kara, if an alien becomes a threat to human life, you know what the DEO's job is then, don't you?"

Kara considered that not liking the answer. Instead of responding, she leaned her forearms on the console and thought about everything she'd felt those days when Lena was in a coma, and she was looking for the man who did it. She'd watched her world, Krypton, destroyed in front of her eyes, literally torn apart. It left her with an anger that seethed inside. When she turned and saw Lena fall to the ground, blood pouring out of the woman's body, it happened again. Her world was being destroyed in front of her eyes. When Krypton was destroyed, she had no place to focus that rage. This time she did. This time that rage had a name, and that name was Kastrati.

"Hey, Kara, what's going on?" Alex asked rubbing little circles on her sister's back.

Kara dropped her head, shaking it. "He deserved it."