Chapter 147 - Lena's Decision

It is now a few days later since everything happened, and since then things have slowly got back to normal, with all the friends and family healing, both physically and mentally. So far this has all meant that Lena and Sam have both gone back to work at L-Corp, Ruby and Alura have gone back to their schools, and Kara has begun to work from home for her job at L-Corp too.

Also, over the last few days, Lena and Kara have made sure to arrange further appointments with Alura's therapist, Dr Lawson, and the sessions have clearly already had a noticeably impact on their daughter, with Alura being less clingy. So far, Alura has still not yet slept in her bed on her own, but Dr Lawson has told them that she thinks Alura will get there soon, she just needs to, once more, feel more safe and assured in her own environment, and the fact she doesn't, is completely understandable after everything that happened. The big positive has been that Dr Lawson has told Kara and Lena that it is much easier for children to get over traumatic events than adults, because they are still growing and everything.

Lena too has been attending some therapy sessions, with her own therapist, making sure for them to sign multiple DNAs before she does of course. These therapy sessions have been helping Lena, with the most success coming from the therapist guiding her to give her tools to deal with certain situations. The big goal Lena wants to take out of her sessions is for the situation where she ended up laughing, and basically going insane, to never happen again. So, Lena now feels like she has some of the beginnings of the tools to deal with more difficult and challenging situations like that, if they unfortunately occur in the future. However, Lena doesn't think that there will ever be any challenging situations more extreme than she has already experienced.

As for Kara, to deal with everything that has been happening she hasn't gone to any therapy. This isn't because Kara doesn't believe in therapy, or like it or anything. Kara hasn't gone to any therapy because she has decided to work out her emotions in a different way, by punching things. Honestly, Kara's real problem is that she is very angry with everything that has happened over the last few weeks. Not only is Kara angry at Leviathan, but she is angry at herself too, and maybe also the world in general for just allowing everything to happen. Kara is obviously angry at Leviathan for them attacking her family members, but she is then also angry at herself for allowing Alex, Lena and Alura to be put in a situation where they were attacked with her being away, on an entire other universe. Kara knows that her family has told her it's not her fault, but she still has some angry feelings about it, directed towards herself. Then finally, Kara also just feels angry at the world in general, because she hates how things have played out and been allowed to happen. Kara hates how there has just been this constant battering of things, with the most recent stuff being the attack on Alex, then the attack on Lena and Alura, and finally the information that the woman that attacked them all is Elizabeth Walsh, Lena's mother, who they all thought has been dead for the last 20 years. Kara just thinks that it's all unfair, and is angry at the universe in general for all of it happening to her family.

Outside of the emotional situation of things, over the last few days things have been rather quiet. After Kara sent her message to Talia Al-Ghul, and Leviathan in general, a part of her did expect some sort of blowback, but it hasn't come. Then at the same time, there haven't been many other incidents that have required Supergirl's attention, meaning Kara punching things has mostly been confined to DEO training rooms. Although admittedly, while Kara has been working out her anger at the DEO, she has been walking past Elizabeth Walsh's cell often, just looking at her. Kara hasn't tried to speak to her again, because she wants to wait for Lena to be ready to do that, but she still has been very curious none the less.

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It is now a few more days later, and currently Lena, Sam, Alex and Kara are all gathered in Lena's private lab in L-Corp, with both Alura and Ruby being at school right now. The reason the adults are all gathered is because Lena is about to remove Alex's cast, as her leg should be healed, only in a few weeks thanks to Lena's incredible technology.

"Are you ready?" Lena asks, as she looks at Alex.

Alex looks from Sam to Lena, to Kara, and then finally at Sam again, and takes a deep breath.

"I'm ready." Alex nods, nervously.

Lena then begins to break apart the specialised cast with certain tools, all the while Kara, Alex and Sam watch on in anticipation.

For Alex, she is very nervous about this process, as while she completely trusts Lena, and her technology, a part of her also has some of those dark thoughts that worry about how her leg will feel once it has mended. Alex knows, both from her own medical experience, and information about other people who have broken bones, that some say broken bones never feel the same after they are broken, or just feel a bit weaker. Alex knows there isn't really any scientific evidence behind this, as a large majority of broken bones heal to be just as strong as before. But Alex also knows that there have been cases where people have said that their healed bones feel weaker than before, even though all doctors' scans have said there is nothing abnormal, or different than before. So, Alex just worries that once her cast is off her leg will feel weaker than before, and things won't be the same. With everything that has been going on, specifically with Leviathan, Alex wants to be at her strongest to eventually help Kara, and her other friends, to fight off this enemy, and punish them for what they have done to their family, and everyone on Earth through their hundreds, or maybe thousands, of years of existing.

"It's going to be okay, Alex." Sam says, in reassuring voice, knowing what Alex's worries are, because her girlfriend has already expressed them to her.

"Yeah, it is." Kara agrees, recognising her sister is nervous about something and just supporting her, despite her not knowing what Alex is nervous about.

Alex shoots both Kara and Sam a smile, thankful for both of their encouragement.

Over the next minute or so, Lena slowly removes all of Alex's cast, eventually freeing the leg entirely. Once Alex's leg is free, the group sees the usual thing, of a few scars down Alex's leg from where the surgery took place, and a bunch of dead/dry skin. Lena then begins to feel about the leg, obviously testing it, not caring about the dead skin at all, or the slight smell.

"Okay.... that looks good.." Lena nods, after she has felt Alex's leg for a little while.

"Okay..." Alex nods back, nervously.

"So.... should she test it?" Sam asks, looking at Lena.

"Yeah." Lena nods, "That's the next thing we need to see."

Kara, Lena and Sam then all look at Alex, who is still sitting down in a chair, and now looking down at her leg. Eventually, Alex takes a deep breath and nods her head.

"Okay." Alex says, again.

Alex then slowly gets to her feet, first putting all of her weight on her other leg, with both Kara and Sam standing either side of her, ready to catch her if she falls over from losing balance or something.

"Here it goes." Alex says, as she begins to put weight on her leg again.

Thankfully, as soon as Alex puts weight on her leg, it feels just like before, although maybe a little bit weaker. However, Alex knows that for now that is nothing out of the ordinary, as her leg will have lost a bit of muscle mass from the surgery and not putting weight on her leg for over 2 weeks. Lena, Kara and Sam all break out into smiles upon seeing Alex standing on her leg with no problems.

"How does it feel, Al?" Kara asks her sister.

"Good." Alex nods, and slowly begins to walk, although making sure she stands close to the side of Lena's lab tables, in case she needs to catch herself.