Chapter Thirteen

                                    

                                          
Reader Info: Writing in bold italics is speech from a phone.
Warnings: References of In-Human Experimentation, assault, threats and violence.
Chapter Thirteen
It was now hours later since Doctor Hamilton had reduced the sedatives and painkillers administered to Jeremiah Danvers in the attempts of waking him up, and still he was unconscious. Maggie had to leave some time ago, she still had a few hours of her shift to finish and reports to write following everything that had happened downtown and at the warehouse where she had found Jeremiah. Lena and Winn were still working in the labs, the theory they had on changing Kara back was now in full test mode and they were using alien plants as test subjects to try and get the right codex to change her back with. Currently Alex had her little sister sitting on her lap, her back pressed into her chest with an arm wrapped around the small girl's stomach.
The talk they had earlier may not have fixed everything, but it had definitely helped matters, and since the two sisters had returned from Alex's office they had been stuck together like glue. Part of Alex knew this could also be down to the fact that Kara was still a little nervous around Eliza, and the fact that they were back in the medical bay again, but she'd take comfort in her sister's familiar presence regardless.
It was getting late and all three Danvers' in the room were tired, Eliza was probably the most awake and alert of the three of them at the moment, as she still sat upright in her chair watching over her husband for any signs of a change. Kara was struggling to stay awake from her position of sitting in her big sister's lap, she was still exhausted from the distress the nightmares had been bringing her earlier on in the day. Though the nightmares for the meantime had seemed to have stopped, she was still reluctant to go to sleep and was fighting her drooping eyes with everything that she had in her. Alex too was struggling to stay awake, she would find herself drifting in and out of sleep, but Kara's proximity meant that her small flinches as she woke herself up again would in turn jerk Alex awake.
Alex was very worried for her little sister's state of mind with the questions she had been asking while they had been waiting for Jeremiah to wake up; she had kept asking in many different ways as to whether Jeremiah was angry with them, with her, for not finding him sooner, and even though Alex and Eliza had both been trying to do their best to reassure her that she was not to blame, they were both worried about how much the little blonde was really taking in. Furthermore, they couldn't be sure that her worries were not correct without having yet spoken to Jeremiah.
Until he woke they would have no idea what his own mind set was like, they had no idea what had been done to him by CADMUS, other than the obvious extra metal-ware that was now all over his body, and they had know idea how much that may or may not have changed him.
Alex herself was just as worried as Kara about the thought of their dad holding resentment for not being found sooner, she too was worried that he would be angry with her- with them. So, trying to assure Kara that wouldn't be the case was hard when she wasn't completely sure herself.
"Alex," Eliza called softly, "Alex," she said louder this time, startling both Alex and Kara into wakefulness, making Kara whine quietly, moving around on Alex's lap to cuddle into her sister's chest so that Alex's arm was now wrapped around her back.
Alex rubbed her eyes with the back of her spare hand, pulling Kara in a bit closer to herself before looking over to her Eliza. "Hmmm, sorry. Is he waking up?" she asked, eyes flitting from her mother to her father expectantly.
"Not yet no -you should take Kara home," Eliza responded with a smile, she had noticed her girls struggling to stay awake the last half an hour, and even before then Kara had been drifting.