Kara Zor El X Fem!reader- established relationship
Warnings: mentions of blood and injuries, hospitals, talks of grief and death, basically just hurt and comfort man, swearing, slight spoilers! But not really?
Summary: When you get badly injured during the final battle with Krem, Kara becomes terrified of losing the person she loves most in the world.
Kara's world had died, and with it, everything she had ever known and loved. Krypton had slowly rotted and succumb to disease and sickness. That fact would always remain true, nothing could bring her home back— her people, culture, entire life as she knew it, was all gone.
Nothing could replace Krypton— she would forever have an Argo City shaped hole in her chest.
Then somehow, albeit slowly, you had managed to fill that hole. You couldn't fill it perfectly, there was still gaps that forever remained. But you were something similar, something that made her feel whole again. Eventually, you managed to become everything to her, a new and different world that only she could call her own.
In you time together, you had made her realise that parts of earth, especially its people, could become things she cared for— as deeply as she did those on Krypton.
To her, you were now everything; she rotated on your axis, orbited round you like the sun.
It was because of that fact, when she saw the blade pierce through the vulnerable flesh of your stomach, Kara felt like her world had shattered all over again. Images of her mothers veined and slowly dying face flashed behind her eyes, instilling her with pounding grief she had tried to drown out with liquor and red suns.
Mind altering substances didn't aid her in this moment, nor as she carried you with bloodied hands to her ship. Stone cold sober, she had Ruthye put as much pressure her small hands could muster onto your wounds, desperate to staunch the blood as it fell in thick rivets— down you suit shirt, down the girl child's arms and finally, down you chin as it dribbled from your lips.
"Kara! The frequency in which her blood is being expelled isn't reducing, you must do something more severe and soon," Ruthye had always been a girl with a mind far greater than her age, but in this moment, she was reduced to her more child like attributes— the pure and utter fear in her voice echoed that fact.
Over the long and draining course of your intergalactic venture with the aforementioned girl, a bond had grown between you both: in the beginning, you found her utterly posh and theatrical, but since shedding blood and sharing experiences along side her, part of you had softened exponentially.
Your new found care towards the child was the sole reason why you restrained the inhumane groan that threatened to rip from your throat as she pushed on you weeping stomach, the pain was overwhelming, it numbed you to reality until all you could feel was the fire like burning radiating from you lower half.
In mere moments after the demand left the younger girls lips, Kara was there.
Kneeling by your bedside with shaking and bloodied hands, her eyes were wild and untamed as they dragged over ever single inch of your form. She pushed Ruthyes' hands away and replaced them with her own firmer ones, commanding that she leave and go strap herself into the co-pilots seat as the ships jet engines began to rumble into full throttle— soaring you through space as quickly as it could muster.
A thin sheen of sweat has begun to line the top of your pale forehead, Kara moved to wipe it away with her fingers but only managed to smudge a red streak over you clammy skin, whining deep in her throat when she realised, "Kara?" You mumbled, eyes bleary and throat dry.
"Hi, baby," She whispered, thumb rubbing constant stroked against the apple of your cheek, "Its okay, im here."
The alien girl looked down, for she couldn't bare to look at you in such pain, to watch as agony coated your features.
"Why are..you crying?" Your breathing was short and laboured, each new syllable seemed difficult for you lips to wrap themselves around, like a heavy weight had been tied around your tongue.
Thin trails of salty moisture had carved paths down the soft ivory of Kara's cheeks, her eyes were reddened with emotion and her mouth twisted into a deep frown, she hadn't noticed the tears had begun, too focused on the way you were essentially dying before her.
"I just got something in my eyes, its nothing," the Kryptonian was trying to be comforting, it seemed through the blood loss you had become rapidly confused, part of her was relieved that you couldn't feel the damage, but a larger part of her felt like sobbing even harder because she knew the confusion meant dangerous levels of haemorrhaging.
Tough shaking, you lifted a blood streaked hand, and tried to wipe the tears from you lovers cheeks, as softly as you could, making a noise of discontent when she sobbed out even harder at the action.
Just as Kara opened her mouth to say something, your head jerked hard, a convulsion rippling over your entire body as your eyes rolled into the back off your head and your consciousness finally sub combed to the fatal injuries you had endured.
Kara panicked instantly, choking on her breath and trying to shake you awake, pushing her fingers beneath your ear and remembering the suck air into her lungs when she felt your heartbeat, even if it was sluggish and struggling, "Fuck!"
The next time you woke up, all you could hear was a steady, albeit rather grating, beeping coming from your left hand side. Beneath you was some government issued hospital bed, you could tell because the mattress was as hard as thick bricks under your already aching back.
It was late, window blinds being drawn shut and blocking the dark room out from the rest of the world, a shoddy night lamp being the only illumination in the entire room, painting the ceiling in soft hues of orange.
There was a pressure on your hand, and when you looked you realised a person was sitting, asleep, with their face pressed into your thigh— using it as a makeshift pillow. Kara's hand was interlocked with yours and she had drawn them both against her chest, so tightly you could feel each even beat as it thudded through her t-shirt.
Her cheek was smushed and flushed pink with sleep, you laughed softly at the sight, she still managed to look endlessly beautiful with her hair curled and messy, supersuit traded in for casual clothes. Movement of you stomach made pain spike through you, all the way up to the tips of you fingers.
You gasped lightly as the pain slowly faded, you pulled the sheet down as quickly as you could and let your eyes drift over the stitches holding your skin together with thin black thread.
Memory's rushed back in then, fragmented and blurry— a sword, sliding through you belly with ease before being pulled out gracelessly, you remembered bright and hot lights as Kara laser-ed offender away from you, then the pain and a familiar bed.
After that it gets misty and disjointed, flashes of red and blonde hair, you remembered the feeling of Kara's cheek as you held it— but nothing else, just darkness.
All the moving of the sheets, even though subtle, must've awoken your girlfriend and her keen alien senses.
At once, she was awake and staring at you with wide eyes and an open mouth. Without waiting, she pushed froward with insane speed and wrapped her arms tightly around your shoulders, pressing her face deep into your neck. Simultaneously, your own arms raised and mirrored hers on you.
"Holy shit, you awake." Kara mumbled the words into your neck, her happiness was apparent, so was the thick sound of relief in her tone. The girl pulled back then, meeting your eyes, leaving just inches between you as her arms stayed strong around your shoulders, "Don't you ever do that again or I swear to Rao, ill kill you myself."
A soft smile spread onto your mouth at her words, "I love you to Kara."
Wetly, she laughed at your words before moving closer and smashing your mouths together, kissing you like shed lost you, and she nearly had. Kara poured all the words she refused to vocalise inot the kiss, hoping with her entire being that you could understand them.
Moving a hand, you cradled her jaw in your palm, sitting up slightly so you could kiss her deeper, taste more of her, over and over and over— until your breath ran out and darkness threatened to slip back in.
The blonde kissed you one last time, deep and loving and everything you needed in that moment, before pulling away and settling back into the chair— not before pulling it closer to the bed so she could hold your hand more comfortably.
"Where Ruthye and Krypto?" You asked, missing them both already.
"At Clarks appartment, they needed sleep." Shrugged Kara.
A wince overtook your features, imagining the chaos, "And how is Clark fairing with a spoiled super-powered dog and a teenage alien?"
"Probably terribly, but that's not my focus right now," she smiled, "You are."
With a squeeze of your hand, you questioned the girl, "Are you okay, Kar?"
You watched as Kara swallowed thickly, and pushed fingers through her messy hair, ripping through the deep knots as they appeared, "You died. It was just for a few seconds, barely even four," a tremble had settled over her words, "But it felt like my world disappeared all over again, and i cant stop thinking about it."
You tugged at her hand, pulling hr up from the chair and moving over so she could slip onto the bed with you, laying so you faced each other. At the proximity, you could see the creases of anxiety as they dug into her features, the scrunch of her eyebrows and the frown tugging at her lips.
"Im so, so sorry Kara," you pushed some hair behind her ear and intertwined your legs, "But im not going to leave you, I refuse to."
You lifted your pinky and met hers, locking them together before brining hers to your lips and kissing it in protection, "I promise."
She kissed you again then, sweet and soft, tasting of peppermint and strawberry gum, it lingered even as you both closed your eyes and let sleep take over.
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