Disclaimer: I do not own Supergirl or the characters.
A/N: This is set a couple of weeks after Medusa. Thanks to SpencerFan for the prompt to consider how Kara would react to Alex going missing.
"No Alex?" Maggie asked when she arrived at the crime scene and only saw Supergirl.
"She's not with you?" Supergirl questioned looking round.
"No. I've not heard from her since yesterday afternoon."
"Wait, she wasn't with you last night?" Kara asked getting worried before asking, her tone accusatory. "Did you have a fight?"
"No. Did you?" Maggie countered, not appreciating the accusation.
"No. But she was meant to be spending the evening with you." Supergirl pointed out.
"She brushed me off. She sent me a message to say something had come up and she had to work. But from the look on your face you weren't involved." Maggie explained.
"No." Supergirl said frowning.
"Where's Alex?" J'onn asked as he joined Supergirl and Maggie.
"She hasn't made it here yet." Supergirl said. "Why didn't she come with you?"
"She hasn't been to work yet." J'onn said.
"Perhaps she stayed up all night trying to sort out whatever it was and overslept." Maggie suggested.
"Sort what out?" J'onn asked feeling like he had missed something.
"Alex cancelled her date last night saying she had to work." Supergirl explained.
"She left the DEO at five." J'onn said. "Nothing came up after that." Having heard enough Supergirl took to the skies as J'onn took out his phone and tried to ring Alex.
Just as he reached voicemail Supergirl thudded back to the ground.
"She's not at her apartment." Supergirl said.
"Any sign of a struggle?" J'onn asked.
"Not in her apartment. But her bag is missing and I'm not sure she made it back last night everything kind looks normal."
"What about her bike?" Maggie asked.
"I didn't look." Supergirl confessed.
"Barker, Root." J'onn barked causing two agents to rush over when they reached them he ordered. "Secure the scene. We have another case we have to go to." With that he turned and climbed back into his SUV. Noticing Maggie was doing the same he looked at her causing her to say.
"What? I'm coming too."
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When J'onn and Maggie arrived at Alex's apartment block Supergirl was already looking round.
"Her bike is here." She said. "So she definitely came back here."
"Winn is tracking her phone." J'onn said.
"I think I've found it." Maggie said carefully picking up a trampled phone that was lying under a car.
"Is that blood?" Kara asked as she noticed a red stain near Alex's bike.
Moving next to Kara Maggie took out her immunochromatographic test kit and collected a sample of the liquid. A moment later she confirmed.
"It's human blood." Seeing how worried Supergirl was looking she added. "There's not much here, so the wound probably isn't serious."
"I'll get a sample back to the DEO to confirm it is Alex." J'onn said.
"I'll pull surveillance footage from the local area, see if we can work out how she was transported out of here." Maggie said.
"I'll go look for her." Supergirl added before flying off.
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Two hours later Supergirl landed at the DEO hoping they had found something. However, J'onn's glum expression told her everything she needed to know.
"We will find her." J'onn said.
"How? We don't even know who has taken her." Kara said despondently. "What if it is Cadmus. We have been searching for them for months and still not got any closer."
"No matter who has taken her, I know that Alex will be raising hell." J'onn said. "She will find a way to get a signal to us." As if on cue Kara's phone buzzed as she quickly took it out and read the message.
"Alex?" J'onn asked hopefully.
"No. Snapper."
"You should go." J'onn said.
"I can't. Alex is still missing."
"Kara, right now we are chasing down leads. There is nothing you can do. All flying round the city will do is exhaust you. Go to your other job." Seeing Kara was going to argue he said. "You told me you needed your other job to keep you human."
"That was before."
"How do you think Alex will feel when Eliza blames her for you getting fired?" J'onn asked.
"Eliza wouldn't...okay she would. Fine I'll go. But the second you hear something-"
"I will call." J'onn promised. "And Kara see if you can use any of your reporter friends to get information."
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"Ponytail, nice of you to show up for work." Snapper said.
"Sorry. Family emergency." Kara said.
"You seem to have mistaken me for someone who cares. Don't do it again. Fortunately for you the subject of the next story was rather insistent on talking to you. If they weren't you would be fired."
"What's the story?" Kara asked.
"A new train is in the making. You need to find out if it will be the same terrorist target as Lord's last train."
"Who's building it?" Kara asked.
"I just told you. Maxwell Lord."
"But he isn't in the country." Kara said confused.
"And that lack of knowledge is why you are not a reporter." Snapper said. "Any reporter worth their salt knows he returned a few days ago."
"He did?" Kara asked jumping to conclusions about his involvement in Alex's disappearance.
"He did. I'm surprised you don't know, especially as you're the only reporter he'll speak to."
"I am?" Kara asked suspiciously.
"You are. No matter which decent, trained, reporters I offered he refused. Could be he is hiding something and assumes a rookie like you won't have a hope at uncovering it. Or maybe he likes you. You definitely have a way of worming yourself into billionaires' hearts. First Grant, then Luthor, now Lord." Snapper commented as Kara started to walk out of the office. "Where are you going?"
"To interview Lord." Kara said.
-TBC...
