A/N: Here's the final chapter for this fic. Thank you so much for all the favorites, follows, reviews, and reads! It means so much.

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Looking back, Alex couldn't recall the name of the movie she'd put on. She wouldn't be able to tell you the names of the main characters or even remember a fragment of the plot. She could, on the contrary, tell you that Kara had finally fallen into a deep sleep at exactly three fourteen in the morning. The hours before that had been composed of Kara mumbling, talking nonsense in her sleep, and twisting and turning on the small couch. Alex could recall that in the small conversations she'd had with Kara, the latter woman had sounded so tired, so barely coherent, that Alex was pretty sure her sister wouldn't remember it when she woke up. Alex, though, could remember being terrified and heartbroken for Kara. The agent could recall fighting sleep until she was convinced Kara was settled, and she could recollect running her fingers through Kara's hair and rubbing her shoulder, long after Kara fell asleep, just to be sure she knew she was loved and she knew she was safe.

Night was barely ebbing away, morning light scarcely making its way across the sky when Kara woke up. She peeled her eyes open, blinking a few times. Her head was resting on something warm and soft, something familiar. She sighed heavily, nestling closer against the figure she'd identified as Alex. At some point, in the few hours she'd slept, Kara had moved from leaning against Alex to curling on her own side, her head slipping onto Alex's leg. A blanket had been tucked around the blonde and the TV was dark now.

In the dim light, Kara shifted slightly, trying to remember what events had led to her sleeping on the couch and practically in her sister's lap. The red kryptonite experience still burned in her mind, that wasn't something she would probably ever forget.

The previous day, however, was coming back in small pieces. In images of the CatCo building and almost breakdowns and oh, yeah falling apart on the bathroom floor until Alex showed up and helped her home before talking Kara down again from another near catastrophe.

Half of Kara wanted to shake her head or roll her eyes at how badly she'd reacted yesterday, another part of her was on the verge of trembling and sobbing all over again, instead, fatigue was blanketing Kara with calm and dulling her emotions. She was simply too tired to feel much.

She was thankful to be eased back into awareness. If Alex hadn't been so close, Kara was convinced her sleep would have been plagued with nightmares, and waking up alone would have only made things worse.

Kara wished there was a way to show Alex how grateful she was, but maybe the best thing to do right now was let Alex sleep. Taking care of Kara probably wasn't easy, and she knew Alex had a tendency to cut herself short on sleep.

So Kara turned into Alex, still lying beneath her big sister's arm, and closed her eyes.

The next time Kara woke up, the sun had made significant progress in its ascent across the sky and light was streaming into the living room. After peeking out from beneath her blanket Kara slipped back under it, trying to shield her eyes against the sudden light.

"Hi," Alex said, and when Kara's head emerged from the blanket, Alex smiled, pulling her gaze from her phone to look at her little sister.

"Hey," Kara said and reciprocated the smile as she shifted upward until she was sitting.

She leaned over until she bumped Alex's shoulder. "Thanks for staying out here with me last night and everything else you did. I really appreciate it."

Alex moved toward Kara, bumping her in return with a grin. "What else was I gonna do, Kara? You're stuck with me."

"No," Kara said with a laugh that made Alex feel so good. "Somehow I don't think 'stuck' is quite the word for it."

Alex stood up, offering a hand to Kara and helping her off the couch. "So, what do you want to do today?"

Kara shrugged. "I have to go to work." She glanced at the clock. "Cat expects me to be there in an hour."

Alex shook her head. "I really think you should call in sick. Yesterday was pretty rough and you didn't get a lot of sleep last night."

Kara looked down, contemplating the idea before Alex continued. "I have a few small things to do at the DEO, you can come with. After that we can just hang out. You need to rest."

"I don't know," Kara said with a sight. "I feel bad cutting out on work."

"It's only one day. Plus, you really shouldn't have been there yesterday, but you were, so it'll cancel out. And, you have a medical checkup at the DEO later today, so you'd have to leave work early, anyway."

"All right, all right," Kara said, rubbing her eyes and turning toward the bathroom. "I'm going to take a shower."

"When you get back, there might be doughnuts."

Kara spun around, wide eyed and grinning. "Really?"

"Really."

"I'm gonna go fast," Kara warned.

"Me too," Alex replied, challenging Kara with a raised brow.

"3… 2… 1… Go!" Kara yelled with a smile, darting toward the shower.

Alex laughed, heading to the front door and knowing for sure that Kara would be finished before she was back. But Alex couldn't bring herself to care about losing their race, not when it made Kara laugh and smile and seem a little bit like her old self. That was enough of a win for Alex.