Chapter 137 - Alex's Recovery

Lena's mom, the shadow woman, is currently sitting in a dark room, in an undisclosed location in National City, her head in her hands. Ever since the previous night, when she caused the car accident which ultimately led to the hospitalisation of Lena Luthor's future sister-in-law, Alex Danvers, the shadow woman, Elizabeth Walsh, has had certain images flooding through her brain, like loud noises. The images feel somewhat familiar, but Elizabeth has no memory of them whatsoever. Elizabeth sees images of a young girl, about 4-years-old, playing with her at the shore of a lake, the two of them both smiling, seeming to be very happy. Elizabeth also has other images of her working in the shadows, killing people for Leviathan, on missions she doesn't recall. Then finally, Elizabeth has images of her helping Supergirl, by saving her from being captured by a man in a suit with a bald head.

"I'm going crazy." Elizabeth says to herself.

Eventually, after a few more minutes, Elizabeth takes a deep breath to compose herself, and then exhales. Right now Elizabeth knows that she failed Leviathan in her very first task at taking out a member of Lena Luthor's family. When Elizabeth originally planned her attack on Alex Danvers, by getting access to the tracking system of the DEO agent's car, she thought that a car crash would do the dirty work for her, and kill the redhead. However, once Elizabeth saw that the agent was still alive in the car, she walked up to it, but then she just stood there. Elizabeth knew that she should simply kill Alex Danvers right there and then, and let the car fire cover up her tracks, but something was stopping her, a nagging feeling in the back of her mind. So, instead, all Elizabeth did was stand there, hoping that the flames and fumes would do the job for her. Although, a part of her did want to reach into the car to save the agent as she called out for help, but Elizabeth used all her will power to ignore those voices in her mind.

Despite the images in her brain, which are confusing, Elizabeth is still loyal to Leviathan, and Talia, their leader. Elizabeth knows that Leviathan will be displeased with her for failing, but she hopes if she just corrects her mistakes, they will punish her less harshly. However, Elizabeth also knows that she needs to be more careful moving forward, because she was spotted by the alien who saved Alex Danvers from the burning car, so all Lena Luthor's family and friends will be on high alert. Elizabeth knows that if she fails again Leviathan will probably just kill her, so she can't allow that to happen. Elizabeth knows that now she simply has to wait in the shadows, gathering as much information about Lena Luthor and her friends and family as possible, before striking at the ideal time.

"I won't fail Leviathan again." Elizabeth says out loud, before then disappearing into a shadow.

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"Momma?" Alura says, poking Lena's face.

"Hhmhmhmm...." Lena mumbles, having been asleep until her daughter just poked her.

"Momma?" Alura says again.

Lena grumbles again, and then a few moments later, opens her eyes, seeing her beautiful little girl lying next to her.

"Hello, darling." Lena says, with a loving smile.

"Momma, someone is talking in our house." Alura says, with a worried look on her face.

As soon as Alura says that, the events from last night come flooding back through Lena's mind, with the CEO remembering everything that happened at the hospital, and with Alex's accident. Then Lena also remembers how Alura was basically asleep during all of it, and likely doesn't remember any of it.

"That's probably Sam and Ruby." Lena explains.

"Sam and Ruby?" Alura asks, confused.

"Yes." Lena nods, feeling a horrible feeling in her stomach, as she knows she now has to tell her awake daughter about Alex being in the hospital, "What do you remember of last night?"

Alura grows a thoughtful look on her face.

"Uhmmmmm..... You woke me up.... and I remember.... we were in a car..... and J'onn was there..... but.... I was still sleeping." Alura says, clearly not remembering anything else.

Lena nods her head.

"Yes, that did happen." Lena replies, "Last night we had to go to the hospital, because aunt Alex was in a pretty bad car crash."

"What?" Alura says, wide-eyed, with a worried expression on her face, "Is she okay?"

"She's.... hurt..... but she's going to be fine." Lena says, wanting to alleviate her daughter's worries, "She just has some bad injuries, and is going to stay in the hospital for the next few days. But the doctor says she should make a full recovery."

"..... Can I see her?" Alura asks, now with some nerves in her voice.

Lena nods her head.

"We are planning to go see Alex in hospital later today, once she is moved to a private room, where she can have visitors." Lena explains.

"Okay..." Alura says, in a sad voice.

"Hey...." Lena says, pulling Alura closer to her, "It's going to be okay, darling. Aunt Alex is going to be okay."

"Yeah..... I just.... wish that mommy was here...." Alura says, with a frown appearing on her face.

"So do I, darling. So do I." Lena says, taking Alura in for a hug, and placing a kiss on her cheek.

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It is now just after 12PM and Lena, Sam, Ruby and Alura have all just arrived back at National City General hospital again. The group would have arrived much earlier, but because of how late they were up the previous night, and how exhausted they were all from what happened, the group slept in very late. However, before the group left for the hospital, Sam told Lena that Eliza had called her, and she had explained everything to Alex's mom, and they'd planned for J'onn to go and fly Eliza down from Midvale as soon as Eliza had sorted out some urgent things at her work.

"Hello, we are here to see Alex Danvers." Lena says at the hospital front desk.

"Yes...." The receptionist says, and then types away at her computer.

The group stand there in tense silence for a moment, anxiously waiting for the information as to what room Alex is in.

"Okay, she is in room 212." The receptionist says.

"Thank you." Lena replies, and the group then all walk through the hospital, heading for Alex's room.

As the group walk towards Alex's room, Lena notices Sam anxiously moving her fingers about in one of her hands.

"It's going to be okay, Sam." Lena says, grabbing her best friend's hand.

Sam looks at Lena, and then nods her head.

A few moments later, the group arrive at Alex's room, and then pause for a second, before all going inside.

As soon as the group step inside, they see that Alex is asleep still, with her vitals still all showing good signs. Sam, however, gasps as soon as she sees the injuries to Alex's face, being unable to hold her reaction in. Admittedly, since yesterday Alex's injuries look a bit worse, but that is only because her face has swollen up from the gashes and bruises to her face, a sign that it's healing.

"Alex?" Alura calls out.

"Shhhh." Lena quickly says to her daughter, "Alex is still sleeping. We should let her get some more rest."