randomthingsthatilike123:

ok but au instead of j’onn going into catco at the black mercy and winn telling cat that there was a tick winn tells a somewhat truth–they went to kara’s apartment. and she was on the floor, unconscious. and that she’s being treated right now but they don’t know what it is

like. at that point???? where cat is still angry at kara and the last words they exchanged was cat saying that she and kara should remain strictly professional but what if the reason why she was acting so strangely with adam and “broke his heart” or even bothered writing the letter in the first place and why winn was “covering for her day after day” was because kara was sick and just worrying so much?????????

like. that would be a whole other set of problems, because if cat paid for Leslie’s hospital bill she certainly would pay for Kara’s and probably be like yeah she’s getting the best doctors I can find.

Now Winn (very noticeably Winn, not Witt or hobbit or anything else, there’s no messing around) where is Kara.

and it’s not like Winn can be like you see she is at a secret government facility with a parasite exerting 100 lbs of force stuck to her chest sucking her life away and her sister is the doctor working on her yup that’s totally legal and normal and something I can explain to Cat fucking Grant

he probably ends up nervously saying that he doesnt know, her sister’s with the FBI and was there with her when she got taken away he doesnt know where she went k bye

and probably runs out of there and a lot of his sadness and nervousness is real because now they dont have the distraction of making j’onn blend in as Kara–doesn’t have his friend’s face in front of him (even if it’s not her, it’s easier to tell himself it is, that kara’s fine).

kara could genuinely die and they have no idea how to stop it

and Cat would probably head right down to HR and get Alex’s number and start spamming her with texts and calls because where is Kara do they need help she can fly in doctors from anywhere in the world just tell her what needs to be done she’ll do it.

but Alex is radio silent, which just makes everything worse in cats head (alex is admittedly pretty damn busy) because no news is the worst news she probably starts calling hospitals and simply gets told about doctor patient confidentiality or just a flat out no again and again

and then when Alex finally wakes kara up she looks at her phone and holy fuck what do they do she has so many phone calls from Cat what do they even do how do they handle this because right now she has an even more deeply traumatized than usual kara to deal with, along with non and astra and now astra is dead who knows what kara is going back to and now cat grant is blowing up her phone and they have to come up with an excuse for what happened to kara

they probably figure the simplest lie–rooted in a kernel of truth–is easiest: kara was in a coma. They figured out what it was, and now they’re just having her rest.

but lbr cat would still probably be like are you messing with me i’ve been trying to get a hold of you for hours no i am seeing her for myself tomorrow.

kara, turning on her phone: alex. alex i have 117 messages from Cat. what happened

alex, after the boys are gone: uhhhhhhhhhh so. we’re gonna have to go to the hospital the DEO sometimes uses because Winn told her you were in a coma we’ll go early tomorrow here’s more ice cream!

kara: wat

the entire thing is so awkward they gotta go to the hospital and talk to a few doctors and nurses that sometimes discreetly fix up DEO agents and have to be like so…..here’s the thing (not saying that kara is supergirl but just an agent) and in the whirlwind of stopping non and then having to create a cover story to convince cat she’s definitely been avoiding thinking about astra and the black mercy and sure physically kara is fine but she’s finally all alone as alex goes to wrangle the details out while kara is in the hospital bed she probably rapidly starts losing color because she lost all of them again. and then she lost astra, held her in her arms as she died and her friend (she thinks) was the one to do it.

which is probably when cat walks in on her, looking absolutely distraught, the kind she knows kara isn’t a good enough actor to even attempt to fake–although she cant say the same about the smile kara puts on when she spots cat because that smile is faker than max lord’s new nose

kara’s almost starts freaking out again because cat is being nice??????? cat can be kind and empathetic and righteous and wise but she is not nice–not to anyone who isn’t her sons. but here she is, insisting that Kara take time off and take care of herself more and

like…..you know have a situation where cat hiring siobhan is less seen out of spite or trying to make kara jealous and cat is like “you almost died you have to recover from that and I need an assistant I’m hiring a second one”

and so she still hires Siobhan but it’s a very different dynamic this time because like Cat Grant gets a second assistant so that the first one can relax while she’s recovering from an illness–of which she paid the hospital bills. like. instead of thinking there’s a situation with James and Kara she’s definitely like ok something is going on with Cat and Kara and tries to get on Kara’s good side as well, which Kara just freaks out about and does not comprehend (and is still jealous that Cat gets Siobhan’s name right)

but just so many different things could happen!