Deadly Beautiful (SuperCorp Medieval AU)

Part 35

or the one where ALEX?!

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"Oh, my gods." Kara gasped, stumbling backward a ways.

"Is that?" Winn asked, as the shock registered with him as well.

"I think it is." Lena whispered back to him with an equal level of surprise.

"Alex? Is that you?!" Kara yelled back. Without waiting for a reply she dropped everything she was holding and ran to the auburn-haired woman in the distance with open arms.

"Ok, Kara. Baby sister, you are crushing me." Alex chuckled in a pained voice after being squashed and spun around in circles.

"Gods, have I missed you." Kara loosened her grip and mumbled into her older sister's shoulder.

"I doubt you have missed me half as much as I have missed you. It has been far too long since we have seen one another. You were much too far away when I saw you at the stadiums." Alex replied, backing away and holding Kara at arm's length. "You have grown... broader, since the last time I saw you."

"Yes, well, the stick thin girls do no make it in the pits, Alex." Kara laughed at that as her sister poked and prodded at Kara's bicep.

"I can understand that." Alex chuckled. "The added muscle suits you well and will serve you often in the coming days. Welcome to the revolution, Kara Zor-El."

Kara nodded seriously and waved the other members of her party forward.

"Am I to gather you had prior warning of our imminent arrival?" Kara asked. "You seemed to be expecting us."

"I did receive notice from a particular lord who spoke in glowing words of your prowess. Am I to understand you threw yourself between an assassin and your charge over there? I do not remember you being quite this reckless." Alex had to smirk at her younger sibling. "It was only six years ago when you sold yourself into the life and left me with a bag full of money and the promise of a monthly payday... minus one sister."

"Shall I introduce, Lena Luthor and the Young Lord Schott? Friends, this is my elder and best sister, Alexandra Danvers." Kara said in her most formal of tones.

"Princess? My Lord." Alex greets them, sweeping into a low bow with her most dashing of smiles. "I was informed recently two more members of our small club are shortly behind you. M'gann and Maggie had to flee shortly after you. Suspicions fell upon the two of them after your 'mysterious disappearance'. It is being painted as though Lena were kidnapped and Kara and Winn fell in her defense."

"Oh, of course, he is. I am not surprised in the least." Lena rolled her eyes and groaned in disgust.

"I am not dead, the last I checked." Kara said, raising her eyebrows. "Are you dead, Winn?"

"I do not believe so, Kara." He replied in an overly enthusiastic tone. "I feel just as alive as ever."

Alex and Lena got a good laugh out of that one. Winn nudged Kara's shoulder with his own as Lena found herself once again unable to look away from Kara. Winn noticed, and he wanted Kara to notice as well. It went right over her head. Kara only saw Lena's smile and felt incredible pride at having been able to bring it to her face.

"Come along inside. I am sure the three of you must be exhausted from your journey and in need of a good long rest. I will have baths prepared and beds made up for you. God knows at least my poor sister is in desperate need of a wash, I do not know about the rest of you."

The group laughed at that and headed into the pub inn. Kara headed up the stairs and dropped all of their bags into the bedroom Alex pointed out. Kara caught Alex by the arm before allowing her to head back down the stairs. Alex turned back to face her just as Kara slipped the pendant off of her next. She grabbed her sister's hand and placed the necklace in it.

"When I presented this to you, I intended for it to remain in your possession indefinitely. My blood may not be your blood, but you will always be my sister, no matter the distance or the time between us." Kara told her softly, but with all of the steel she had built up in years of fighting for her life in the sands of the Coliseum. "Do not ever give this up to anyone ever again, you hear me?"

Alex Danvers looked up thoroughly ashamed. She picked it up and hung it around her neck once more, in the same place it had rested for the past six years. Her cheeks were pink with embarrassment and shame. She stroked the edges with one finger and allowed it to rest once more at her chest.

"I swear, I will never allow it to part from me again." Alex replied with tears in her eyes before throwing her arms around her sister's neck once more.