You are my Kryptonite

Chapter 16

ALEX'S POV

    "Wait, wait. Slow the FUCK, down, Kara. You're talking a mile a minute!" I shouted at Kara angrily. She nervously rubbed behind her neck and looked at the ground. Ever since the coma, her entire personality is different, and frankly, that scares me. I know she lost her memory and all, but I'm not used to this Kara. I miss the happy, nervous and oblivious sister that I had. The sister I could comfort and make fun of for not noticing Lena's "not so subtle" flirting. This person was just a stranger that looked like my sister. I just wish she was herself again...
   
      Kara took a deep breath to compose herself and looked back up at me, a puzzled look on her face. "I..I was doing an interview for CatCo, and it was with Lena.. at first I refused 'cause I really don't know who she is to me, Alex and it scared me. Once I got into her office, I just... memories flooded to me. I had no idea what to do so I panicked and flew here."
   
      At her words, I practically lit up with happiness. "What?! Really?"
   
     Kara's tensed slightly at how my voice got a bit louder, but she only shrugged and sighed. "It's complicated. It felt like I was really there, reliving the memory, but I knew I was trying to do an interview and I was there with Lena, so I was confused."
   
      A grin spread across my face as I pulled out my phone and opened the notes app. I glanced back to Kara and nodded at her to continue while I took notes, excitedly. This was good! This meant the old Kara could come back! I could get my sister back!

    "When I walked into the office, one of the.. visions..started and I think it was time when I first met Lena. Once I actually sat down across from her I had another brief vision of her and me eating lunch..? I can't really remember now... I had one more and it was me as Supergirl talking with her on the balcony of her office."
    
      As I typed away, an idea began forming in my mind. What if we could get J'onn to help Kara remember... Or maybe we could take her to familiar places that have significance to her... This may actually work! All of these emotions bubbling up in me, made me feel as if I was about to burst. Luckily I was able to hold myself together.
     
       I slowly lifted my head up, tearing my gaze from the phone and looked at Kara with a giddy feeling in my stomach. "I have an idea."

        Kara's face lit up as she shot up from her chair in the DEO and grinned. "R-really? W-what?"

"It's actually quite simple. We are going to go to places that are special," I pointed to her heart. "To Kara Danvers."
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I sat in the car, my head resting on the steering wheel, sighing. We'd driven all over National City, trying to find places that might've been special to Kara. But...that was fairly hard considering anywhere she saw a puppy was practically a historical site. We gone from Noonan's to the alien bar to even the DEO desert facility outside of town.

       Right now, I was lazily resting in the car, waiting for Kara to come back from buying us a coffee. But, frankly, I didn't care right now. Nothing was working and the frustrations were building up.
    
      I had a hidden flask filled with whiskey in the glove department, underneath my special DEO pistol. It was for emergencies only, and honestly right now felt like one.
    
      I lifted my head and opened my eyes, realizing Kara was sitting on the hood of the car, staring out in the distance with the coffee beside her. I glanced at the glove department then back at Kara and decided to go with my gut. I opened the car door and sat beside Kara, who was expressionlessly drinking her coffee. There was silence for a long time until I heard quiet, muffled sniffles.
   
       I squeezed my eyes shut and took a long sip of my coffee, before finally saying something. "You know, you need to stop beating yourself up, it's not your fault. In fact, this mess is partially my fault. I'm a terrible sister and need to look out for you more, instead of letting you go off solo all the time."
   
       Kara glanced in my direction and stopped crying her eyes wide, and her face looking like a puppy more than ever. She quickly pulled me into a tight hug and began sobbing once again.