With a quiet groan Kara rose from her couch and opened the door to the sight of her sister bearing gifts in the form of Chinese food. "Thought you might be hungry after today." Alex smiled, taking in her younger sister's haggard appearance.

Kara graced her with a tired smile, taking half the baggies and closed the door following Alex as she entered and began unloading the boxes onto the coffee table.

The blonde soon plopped back down onto the couch, tipping her head back and blowing air noisily past her lips at the ceiling. Straightening again at the feeling of a carton being placed in her hand and her elder sister settling in next to her.

The two ate in comfortable silence, Alex soaking in her sister's presence.

"Throw the bomb"

"Not yet, I have to get higher!"

"You're out of time. Throw it. Now!"

Alex glanced at her again, her sister, too preoccupied getting noodles into her mouth to notice her staring, was a mere day-and-a-half ago flying a bomb away from National City and falling limply into the water from hundreds of feet in the air.

The agent mechanically chewed more noodles in an attempt to get the image of Kara, her baby sister, lying still as death under the solar-wave emitters.

She swallowed hard. Her indestructible sister laid unmoving for hours, Alex all but burning a path in the hard floor where she paced endlessly waiting for some sign that she would be alright.

Her little sister wasn't moving.

By some miracle or good grace she found her cheeks blessedly dry, though she had to try valiantly to keep tears from spilling out of her eyes. She searched around for the remote control, turning the TV on for a distraction from the memories she so desperately wished to destroy.

Kara looked at her confusedly as she clicked through the channels. Cute and very much OK baby sister Kara who now has sauce on her chin and cheeks puffed out full of food. Alex told herself, wanting to burn this image of her Kara into her memory and not that.

Alex grinned a little at Kara's wide-eyed questioning stare as she finally settled on a channel. "Homeland is on tonight." she said by way of explanation and her grin turned into a full-blown smile as her little sister's blue eyes grew impossibly larger and an impressive excited womanly noise escaped her food-filled mouth.

The Danvers sisters settled down more comfortably together on the couch and Alex found herself with an armful of alien blonde girl as Kara laid her head on her shoulder and the elder Danvers wrapped protectively around her as they watched Brody do his thing on the television screen.

She's okay she told herself, looking at the blonde head tucked under her chin.

Her little sister is okay.