Author's Note: This is my first Supergirl story, so I hope you all enjoy it. Do please give feedback if you like it, or if you have an opinion on how to make it more to your liking. Be honest and kind with me and enjoy!

Emerald-Eyed Hero

Part I: Heroes

Kara and Henshaw had left, but the ringing was getting louder all the time. Bodies, all around, twitching, whimpering, weeping. The General was beginning to lose consciousness, the oldest person in the room, and it showed. "Dad, stay awake!" Lucy pleaded softly. General Lane's eyes were scrunched in pain, and it was only building. But he adhered to his daughter's voice.

Suddenly, Agent Vasquez's console beeped. "Agent Danvers, it's Supergirl, she needs to talk to you." Lucy looked up as Alex Danvers eagerly took the earpiece she was offered and walked to the other side of the room. Vazquez's face was contorted in agony, same as the rest of them, but she had a flash of inspiration upon seeing the acting Director Lane and the General Lane at the foot of her chair. She quickly sent a glance at Alex, who had her back turned, before sharply nodding her head and committing to her choice. "Director, you should hear this," Agent Vasquez said as she handed Lucy her earpiece.

"–going to fly Fort Rozz into space myself. It's the only way we can get Myriad off the planet." Supergirl was saying, voice layered with fear and resolution, in equal measure.

Alex's response was louder in her ear, since she had moved off away from most of her compatriots to lean over the planning table. "That is not an option Kara. Once you're in space, there's no atmosphere. There's no gravity. You wouldn't be able to generate thrust, you wouldn't be able to breathe," Lucy's eyes widened as she heard the unshakable Alex Danvers' voice tremble when she finished with, "you wouldn't be able to get back."

Supergirl's reply was as frank as it was horrific, "There's no other way."

Lucy missed the next bit from Alex as the unshakable feeling of sorrow welled up in her throat. Lucy's thoughts settled on one clear truth: She's gonna die…for us.

"There's no time, Alex!" Kara was insisting despite Alex's futile objections. "Listen to me!" she shouts down Alex's last objection. Lucy dares to send a look at Alex, across the room. The Agent is hunched over the planning table, slumped in defeat, her right leg is shaking, and her hands are gripping the table impossibly hard. Lucy looked over then towards Superman, lying unconscious while the last of his family was negotiating her heroic suicide.

Lucy's breath caught at Kara's next words. "I was sent to protect Earth, and that's I'm gonna do." Kara's voice was becoming more layered, sad. "I need you to promise me something. I need you to promise me that when you find Jeremiah, you'll tell him that I never stopped wearing the glasses."

Across the room, Alex let out a sob, and even General Lane, who could only make out bits of Alex's side of the conversation, seemed to grasp the gist of their conversation. He looked up at Lucy and saw that her eyes were shimmering now. "She's gonna save us, dad." She whispered as she gave him a long hug, and for the first time since she was a teenager, a heartfelt hug without reservation.

Lucy's attention was brought back to Kara and Alex's conversation, "–a great life. A life I never thought I'd be able to find outside of Krypton." Kara audibly inhaled, "He needs to know that everything good I did, it came from you being my sister."

"You taught me, Kara" Alex replied brokenly before Kara spoke again, faster this time.

"I want you to have a good life. I want you to find love, and be happy." Kara's voice hitched now, "I want you to do all the things that being my sister kept you from doing…Promise me."

Alex's tears were flowing freely now. "I, I can't."

"I need you to promise me, Alex." The Girl of Steel took a deep breath, trying to stave off her tears.

Lucy was crying now, she had let go of her father, and was watching Alex break down. "I promise," she got out amid sniffles.

Kara let the breath she had been holding, and Lucy was once again reminded, She's just a girl; a girl on the verge of losing her people, us, again.

Alex looks sharply at the space ship over in the corner gathering dust, but turns back towards the table, hopelessness in her eyes. Lucy's eyes however, flare brightly as she realises there's a way to salvage this sacrifice, just maybe.

Alex's voice breaks as she says a final, "I love you Kara."

Kara's voice is almost aggressive in her reply, "I Love You." and then there was no more from her. She's gone to save us. Lucy thought sadly. But we have a duty to her now, to repay her love.

"KARA!" Alex begged into the forsaken earpiece despondently.

Lucy rose, slowly, staggering and catching the rail as the ringing begun to reach a crescendo.

"ALEX!" Lucy screamed above the death note in her head. Alex turned, eyes red and cheeks splotchy. Lucy beckoned to Vasquez who followed her over to Alex.

"Lucy–" Alex began as sobs threatened to overtake her voice, but Lucy didn't give her the chance as she gave Alex a tight hug.

Alex latched onto Lucy, crying openly now. "Alex, I'm asking you as your Director, to focus, so we can save Kara Zor El."

Alex Danvers' reaction was a powerful as it was expected. Lucy's use of Supergirl's full name worked exactly as she had hoped. She immediately put Lucy at arm's length, eyes blazing, "How?"

Lucy's lips quirked into a smile, "How good are you with Kryptonian Aviation?"

A couple minutes later, Agent Danvers offers a grim smile as she said quietly, "Lucy, I owe you everything."

Lucy offered her a shrug, and despite herself, she was crying too, "We already owe Kara everything. Bring our girl home. That's an order, Alex."

Alex made her descent from the heavens in a rush of fire. She had opened her cockpit, exposing herself to the vacuum, pulled her sister into the Kryptonian ship. She then immediately directed her ship towards the ocean.

She blacked out then, the lack of oxygen won out, in the end. Alex took comfort in knowing her sister would survive the inevitable crash.

The last thing she sensed before she lost consciousness was the weight and smell of Kara Zor El, the sister she didn't ask for, and the best part of her life. Goodbye Kara, I hope you'll forgive yourself, and me, in time.

Perhaps it wasn't the worst thing, to die saving, and holding onto her most important person.