Kara's POV

"Just be careful. Her feelings get hurt easily!" I said, turning to Lena and smiling. She gave me a glare before turning back to the conversation that I had interrupted. I listened for my moment to come in and stop her from a rant that was inevitably about to happen.

"The crime rate is going up, criminals are all over the streets these days."

"That doesn't matter. We need to tell these people that there isn't anything to worry about. I'm sure those new vigilantes can take care of the criminals." Here comes her rant. I have just learnt to accept that people call Lena and me vigilantes but she has a certain opinion about it.

"Sam! The word vigilante implies..." I cut her off with a hand on the shoulder. She looked at me and nodded. "We have to go. See you later?" She nodded and we walked out of her apartment. Lunch with Sam was nice but we needed to get back to work soon.

"Alex, are you coming?" The brunette was staring at nothing so I put an arm around her.

"Sorry, yeah."

"I'm not letting you into surgery if you are going to zone out halfway through."

"I'll be fine. Let's just get this done." I noticed a tear roll down her cheek.

"Why are you so worried about this? It's no different to any other surgery we have done in the past. The guy is basically fine."

"Exactly. Nothing to worry about, right?" I grabbed some gloves and squeezed them onto my hands. Alex did the same and we walked into the room. Daniel was awake when we arrived.

"Dr Danvers..." I heard a whisper from him as I tried to put the mask on to put him under.

"Yes?" I said.

"Will it hurt?"

"No, you won't feel a thing." I lied. I knew this surgery could go anywhere. Anything could happen, he could wake up or the anesthesia could put him to sleep permanently. The risk of surgery was that anything could go wrong and all of the surgeons had to be aware of that. I told him to count to ten but he only got to three when he fell asleep.

"You lied to him, Kara." I nodded and grabbed the tools needed for the surgery. I stared at the monitors and waited for them to be at the right spot for us to start the surgery.

"He's under," I stated and looked up at Alex. She took a deep breath and looked back at me.

"Let's do this."

Four hours of surgery later and we were just getting to the main problem.

"Alex, grab me a syringe." She gave it to me and I used it to draw the fluid from a cyst on his spine. "We weren't told of this, were we?"

"No. Just like..." Another tear fell down her cheek. I furrowed my brow, trying to think of what might be bothering her.

"Like what? Alex if you are distracted..."

"I'm not! It's just. The majority of this surgery is what we had to do... to you." She looked down. My mouth parted in the shape of an 'oh'. I couldn't speak. After she stormed out, I just stayed silent while I fixed the last of the poor man's fragile spine. When I had finished, I told one of the doctors behind me to stitch everything up.

I ran to catch up with Alex. "Where do you think you are going?" She was just reaching the lift.

"Leaving. I couldn't handle being there. We had to fix a guy's fractured spine. The exact same discs that you broke." I closed my eyes and breathed out. "I don't know if I'll be able to help you with any surgeries that are similar to what Lena and I had to do to fix you."

"Alex, you are just shaken b everything. Trust me, I am still traumatized by being awake during that surgery. But I understand."

"Wait. You never told me you woke up. You..." She took a step back and covered her mouth with a hand. "You woke up?"