And From Here Everything Changes.
Disclaimer: I do not own Supergirl, unfortunately, nor do I own its characters or any storyline relating to the show and comics, this story is written for fanfiction only.
Information: All human AU High School Fanfiction. Maggie and Alex are 17 years old and in their final year of high school, Kara is 14 (3 years younger than Alex opposed to just 1) and is a in 9th grade making her a freshman, Lena is 15 years old and in her sophomore year (10th grade). This story will deal with a range of different topics that may need warnings, all warnings will be given where needed, but I will forewarn you all that this story will deal with some large and somewhat dark topics at times such as and including; anxiety issues, abuse, bullying, and possibly more.
A/N Update 30/05/2018: Please note this story now has a beta. Thank you to Sinca, for editing this chapter for me!
Trigger Warnings: This chapter contains scenes of bullying and violence.
Chapter one – This is where it all begins.
This was it; she was 17 years old and in her final year of high school.
This was the year that was meant to count, the year that was meant to matter, to help her pick the college she wanted to go to and to help her write her future.
This was also the year that her Aunt had decided to move them both across country to a small town named Midvale.
In her last year of school Maggie Sawyer was having to get used to living in a new town; she was going to have to get used to a new school, new teachers, new prospects – a new everything.
The worst thing about it all? She didn't know anybody here (other than her Aunt of course).
As of right now she was a 'Billy no mates' as they say. Her old friends were just that, old friends that were gone now, not through her choice but through their own. After her parents had disowned her and left her in her Aunt's care, one person after the other, people that used to be her friends, had started to see her differently and disowned her as well.
Why, you ask? All because she liked girls. She was a girl who liked girls.
In a day and age like this it shouldn't matter who you liked, people were meant to be less narrow minded now. Or at least that's what the media would always say, but for Maggie her experience had been different. She didn't know whether that was due to the fact she seemed to live in a tiny pocket of closed-minded people, or whether it was just a problem with her.
The move had been a long time coming, in hindsight. Her Aunt had also been unhappy back in the small-minded town they used to call home, but it wasn't until she realised how miserable Maggie truly was that they decided enough was enough, why flog a horse that couldn't keep standing? So here she was, stood outside Midvale High School, about to start her first day, in a new school, in a new town, with new teachers, and maybe, if she was lucky, new friends.
Maybe she would have better luck this time and make proper friends, the friends you dream of having but only seem really in those overly cheesy films. Although, as she made her way into the school and down the corridor towards where she was hoping the principal's office was located, she started to doubt that this school in this small town was any different from the last one.
Down at the end of the corridor she was walking down, she could see there was something going on, and, as she got closer, her heart sunk as she realized what it was.
On the floor was a young girl; she couldn't have been older than fourteen. She had blonde hair that hung down past her shoulders and bright blue eyes that Maggie could tell were incredibly striking even from a distance. Surrounding her was a group of six girls who looked much older than the girl on the floor, papers were scattered around the floor. As Maggie approached she heard a crunching noise as one of the girls stood on a pair of glasses on the floor breaking the lenses.
Maggie felt her heart clench for the blonde girl as one of the gang of girls kicked the glasses across the floor towards her before sending a second kick to the girl's stomach. She watched the blonde head slam back into the lockers with the force of the blow.
She knew this scene all too well; she had lived it herself time and time before, but there was one difference.
She always fought back. She defended herself, and right now it seemed like this girl either couldn't or didn't know how to. She was just sat, head bowed, taking everything they threw at her as the gang of girls tormented her, beating on her and bullying her into submission for whatever they wanted.
Maggie hated bullies in any shape or form, she couldn't stand people thinking they were better than someone else. She couldn't stand people hurting others for their own fun and enjoyment – and she certainly wasn't going to stand for it now.
She had no idea who this girl was, nor did she want to make enemies on her first day, but she knew she had to do something. She couldn't just sit back and watch this girl get picked on like this.
"Oi!" she yelled, causing the group to turn and look at her, "Six against one is hardly fair," she continued as she walked up to the girls, noticing how the one that stepped on the glasses and delivered the kick was squaring up to her, making herself known as the leader of the pack.
"What's it to you?" the girl sneered, she was tall, and she had long curly brunette hair.
Maggie smirked looking the girl up and down, "Just trying to give you some advice is all, wouldn't want my dad to have to arrest you for assault," she said staring the girl down Her dad could in fact do that, he was a cop after all, these girls didn't need to know the fact that she hadn't spoken to him in almost four years though.
"Whatever, let's go." The girl spat, brushing past Maggie who watched as the other five girls followed suit, "Catch you later 'kl-kl-kl-klutza'" the leader yelled down the hallway, the name causing the girl on the floor to flinch and the group of other girls to laugh as they walked around the corner out of sight.
With a deep sigh Maggie crouched down the floor, using her hands to round up papers she assumed belonged to the blonde in front of her who had yet to move; she seemed to be staring at the floor, blinking slowly.
"Here," Maggie said, moving to hand the girl her papers, "Woah," she said, noticing the girl flinch back into the lockers behind her, "I'm not gunna hurt you," she continued wondering how much the girl could see.
Maggie assumed the broken glasses on the floor belonged to her, as she seemed to be looking more to the left of Maggie's head than directly towards her and she was squinting as she reached out trying to take the papers but missing, her hand instead brushing against Maggie's arm.
"S-S-Sorry," the girl stuttered out in a small voice, recoiling in on herself again, as she moved Maggie noticed that her nose was bleeding, and one side of her face was red as though she had been hit.
"It's okay," Maggie assured her, "you can't really see me that well, can you?" she asked, getting a head shake in response.
Settling the papers under her arm, Maggie made her mind up, she wasn't about to leave this girl alone in the hallway like this when she couldn't see properly.
As Maggie busied herself gathering the blonde's possessions including the broken glasses, the girl listened, her head changing direction to follow the noise she could hear, "A-Are they broken?" she asked, "t-t-the glasses?" she elaborated further.
Maggie had noticed the girl seemed to speak with a stutter, seemingly the first word was the hardest for her to get out, the name one of the bullies had yelled out when leaving before now making more sense, and also making Maggie angrier.
"Yeah, they're pretty smashed up," Maggie responded, noticing the girl looked worried by what she said, "Look, my name's Maggie, I just started here today so I don't really know my way around… But, if you don't mind helping direct me, I can take you to the nurse's office alright?" she asked, standing from her crouched position and holding a hand out close to the blonde, making sure her hand was in the direction the girl was looking.
She was about to prompt the girl to feel for her hand when she was suddenly grabbed from behind and shoved into a locker, "Get the hell away from my sister!" A girl yelled in her face looking livid. She had short brown hair and brown eyes, she was a little taller than Maggie but looked to be roughly the same age as her.
Maggie's eyes widened as she took in how this must have looked - this girl's sister on the floor, with a bloodied nose, Maggie standing in front of her holding her possessions with a hand out in front of her face, "Woah, hey- I swear I didn't touch her I was just trying to help her," she defended herself.
The girl grabbed a fistful of Maggie's shirt holding her in place, "I should give you a taste of your own medicine you-"
"Alex d-d-don't! S-She was helping me, she didn't h-h-hurt me," the blonde girl called out, cutting her off, seeming to realise what her sister was about to do.
The girl – Alex – had her arm raised ready to swing for Maggie but paused after hearing her sisters voice, her eyes hardening, not leaving Maggie's for a moment, "Kara, you don't have to defend them, if she hurt you I swear to god-"
"Sh-she didn't. I-It wasn't her," The girl on the floor – Kara – repeated, cutting her sister off again, causing Alex's arm to drop and her grip to lessen on Maggie's shirt.
Alex breathed out once, then twice, before letting go of Maggie's shirt completely and stepping back, she moved to where her sister was still sat on the floor and crouched down in front of her, "Can't leave you on your own for five minutes can I?" Alex joked softly.
Alex cupped her sister's cheek and turned her face to get a better look, "S-S-Sorry, Alex," Kara replied quietly.
"Hey- no don't, this wasn't your fault okay? You have nothing to be sorry about; you didn't do anything wrong Kara," Alex responded quickly, both girls seeming to have forgotten that Maggie was still standing by the locker that she had been thrown against before by Alex.
"Come on, let's get you up," Alex said quietly, her hands moving to Kara's sides to help lift her up from the floor. About half way up Kara hissed in pain, backing away from Alex's hands with a wince, her face contorted in agony. "Kara?" Alex questioned concerned.
"One of the girls kicked her pretty hard from what I saw," Maggie supplied as Kara was still catching her breath, her voice causing Alex to look back at her remembering that she was still there with them, before turning to her sister again slipping an arm gently around her waist to keep her standing.
Maggie watched, seeing how Kara's eyes closed for a moment as she leant into her sister, burying her head against the slightly taller girls shoulder, "H-Hurts," she stuttered out.
"I know, I've got you okay? Lean on me as much as you need to; we're going to go to the principal's office and get them to call mom, so she can come pick you up," Alex said, speaking into Kara's hair as she rested her cheek down on top of Kara's head.
If it wasn't for the situation Maggie would have smiled. These two sisters seemed like the kind you would see in the movies. They were close; you could tell that from just watching the way they interacted with each other. It was endearing, but as Maggie remembered the way those girls were acting earlier it was probably also a part of what made Kara a target to them.
"Do you think I could come with you?" Maggie asked after a silence, Alex turned to look towards her once again, raising an eyebrow in question, "It's my first day, I was meant to report to the principal's office, but I don't know where it is..." Maggie trailed off with a shrug, looking away from Alex as she continued to watch her, finding it hard to keep eye contact.
"I guess," Alex responded, "I mean I do kind of owe you for helping my little sister…and about that, I should probably apologise for being so aggressive before," she continued, looking sheepish, which Maggie couldn't help but find adorable.
Oh no, not good! This was going to be a problem. She had been at this school for less than one hour, potentially put herself on the firing range of the resident bully squad it seemed, almost got punched in the face, and now, as she looked at Alex, she couldn't help but find herself thinking about how beautiful her eyes looked, how the clothes she was wearing made her look so unique, and how the way she cared so deeply for her little sister was cute and completely charming.
Yes, Maggie Sawyer had been at Midvale High School for less than an hour and already had a crush on one of the first girls she had met. She had no idea if Alex was into girls, or if there was even the remotest possible chance that she would be into her.
The only thing she knew for sure was that this year was going to be one of the most important in her life, and if so far was anything to go by, probably one of the most interesting as well.
A/N: So yeah, this is my first story, all mistakes are my own, and I would really be interested to hear if you want to see any more, if you think I should continue it, what you think will happen and what you think should happen, feedback would be great.