Watching Her Love You

Chapter 14

Two weeks later Cat sat on the couch next to a sleeping Kara and smiled. She looked so at peace lying there with her head on the couch's armrest a look of content on her face. It was a comfort to see her like that.

They'd been through a lot in the past two weeks, and although they were still working to find an antidote to make Kryptonite harmless against Kryptonians, the only way Alex and Lena could think to help reverse Kara paralysis was futuristic technology that only people they called 'The Legends' had.

Knowing that she would wake up from this slumber, instead of being worried senseless for over a month, fearing that she may never wake up again, gave Cat a sense of comfort. The month that Kara had been in a coma, knocking at death's door, had brought with it so many emotional battles and making alliances with two of the people she thought would hate her for the rest of her life.

She sighed, hating that she had caused Kara so much pain in the past, and hoping beyond hope that Kara would eventually choose her own happiness over Cat's and Lena's and just choose the one that made her the happiest. She picked up her laptop and began going through the CatCo news website when she spotted an article titled 'Strange Behavior of Supergirl'.

She immediately crinkled her eyes as she saw that the author of the article was none other than Snapper Carr himself. She growled, in contempt... More and more people were realizing that Supergirl was acting differently... Conspiracy theorists were having a hay-day. She hated that no matter how hard J'onn tried there were still far too many differences between himself and Kara to make it passable to the entire world.

She knew that Kara was struggling to cope, not just with the loss of her legs, with not being able to be Supergirl as well. There were so many reasons that Cat hated this situation, but Kara's suffering was the most agonizing of them all. Kara was a mastermind at hiding her pain, but she couldn't mask it from the ones closest to her (Cat, Lena, and especially not Alex). The selfless woman that she loved more than anything deserved so much more than what life had given her. She'd lost her home, her family, her customs, and her entire race, and had been forced into a life of hiding. Then when she finally let the part of herself she'd been able to let the part of herself that she'd been hiding free, (for the benefit of the world only), she'd been destroyed.

She fought back a few tears at the realization that this was just another traumatic experience on a long, long list for Kara, but before she had to get the tissues out, Kara's phone started vibrating on the coffee table.

The Media Tycoon grabbed her phone and walked into the bathroom before answering Lena's call; she didn't want to risk their conversation waking Kara up from her peaceful catnap.

The phone had only rung once before the line clicked through and Lena's worried voice rushed out emphatically. "Cat? Is she okay? Has she eaten? Is she taking her calcium pills? Can I talk to her?"

"Stop talking before you pass out from lack of oxygen, dear." Cat snarked.

She heard Lena's annoyed huff and smirked before continuing. "Kara is fine; she's napping peacefully on the couch. I'm not going to wake her right now because she's had an exhausting day, but I will certainly have her call you when she awakes."

She heard Lena's breath of relief and smiled. She didn't particularly like Lena, but she didn't dislike her either, and it was nice to see that someone else cared for Kara's well being as much as she did. "Has she been doing those exercises that Alex and I worked out for her?" The brunette inquired.

"Yes." Cat nodded into the phone. "She's been doing them as often as possible and taking your magnesium and calcium supplements that you and Alex insist on her scarfing down like candy."