Twisting Tighter (8 AM)
Able to step away from comforting company gave her valid enough reason to shut her office door quietly go to the wall and start punching where she usually took her anger out on beside the book shelf. The news given to her made her punch in counts the way she usually did but the ragged rough breaths were result enough of the news she had been given.
Their plans to hand over the beast once returned to a more human state had now become null and void. The council that Alura worked with had denied the transfer and furthermore denied his presence anywhere near Argo City. Even once morphed back to the hideous bastard he was his toxic blood had sentenced his fate. She hadn't even thought about it and it showed the pitiful intellect she bore when it came to brash decisions regarding her agency even her family.
"How could I have forgotten that…" Punch, punch. "His blood could kill them.." Punch, punch breath punch, punch...punch.. How had she been that stupid? It would have been like asking her sister to take a full crystal of kryptonite by her bare hands and walk it up to her mother and other kryptonians. "I'm a fucking…" A hard knock at her door had her breathing hard hands still fisted against the wall her head partially down. "What?!" She heard the turn of the knob not even bothering to look over. She knew those scuffled steps.
"Alex?" The Director sighed grumbling. "How come you walked out? Was something said that had upset you? I mean, I know our talks were kinda you know. I mean was it something I said? Who rubbed you the wrong way? Should we have not brought up teenage stories? Was it something I did? I'll give you the rest of my potstickers, my dumpling...ummm…" Danvers shook her head chuckling at her sister's rambling and pushed slightly off the wall to turn and look at Kara but those beautiful cerulean blues lingered down to see her hands. "Oh my Rao! Alex!"
"I'm fine sis. Really." She should of known that answer wouldn't suffice the hero. "I'm okay. I just was doing some redecorating.."
"With your bare knuckles?" Kara wasn't a fool. "Alex…"
"Huff." She flopped into her chair and held out her hands putting her head down shutting her eyes. "Go ahead. Play doctor." Footsteps caught her attention along with her sister's whom was holding the first aid kit shakily.
"What did the wall do to you Danvers." Sawyer snickered snatching the kit from a pouty blonde. "Oh scoot over. You and I both know your first aid skills are rather meek." Brown met a couple of puppy eyed blues. "Don't even pull that card." Maggie raised an eyebrow and the two begun the staring contest even as she opened the kit and grabbed what she needed by memory. "Don't you have a girlfriend to chatter with?" She flashed her dimples and with Little Davers sighing shrugging her shoulders nodding sighing again to get up and walk out. "I've got her."
"Whoa.." Sam watched Kara walk away and slipped into the office to see the detective tending to the back of Alex's hands. "What the…"
"Mike Tyson'd the wall. This is her thing when she can't be around curious eyes that report back to her sister with the puppy dog pout." Maggie explained.
"So she comes in and says..Hi Mr. Wall! Can I punch you today?" Sawyer snickered while her ex grumbled and winced. "Why you beating up the interior Danvers?"
"Where is Ruby?" Her chocolates met hazel rivers. "Can she hear?"
"Only if she's got Super SUPER Super hearing. She went out with Nia for ice cream." Sam sighed and shut the door walking over to plop down in one of four chairs in the Director's office. "Why are your knuckles..shit Alex."
"I fucked up. We thought it would work to ship his ass off to Alura and have Argo punish him." Alex winced again. "Ow."
"Shut the fuck up boxer Danvers. Take it like a…" Maggie saw the glare and gave a cheeky grin. "Don't even think about getting smart with me Al." Sam laughed but the look on Alex's face had her really worried.
"Maggie." She set a hand on the detective's shoulder which brought Sawyer's head up to turn and look at Arias. "Alex, what is it."
"What can kill my sister.."
"What are we playing jeopardy Danvers?" Maggie interrupted Alex and got a growl in return. "Geese!"
"Kryptonite." Sam answered with two sets of eyes on her and that's when it donned on her. "Oh shit.."
"We were about to send a blood bank loaded with a lethal substance to Kara's mom and a place full of kryptonians. We could have sentenced them all to an excruciating death." Alex was still seething and winced once more as her ex wrapped both her hands. "Thanks Mags."
"Oh my god. Why didn't we…"
"I should have thought of it first. I run this damn place and I didn't see the danger of tossing the monster to a set of already fragile people."
"Well…" Maggie gave back Alex her hands. "...if it makes you feel any better it was your mom's idea first." Sam nodded.
"Maggie has a point. I mean she knew, she saw the charts. I mean...not even Susan and Amelia caught on to that one." Alex smirked for a moment then looked away sighing.
"So we have to keep his ass and…" All three heard the door open which brought a growl from the Director. "Knock! Knocking is good!"
"I...um...I…" Brainy stood there looking from one to the other to his boss and Alex growled again making him gulp. "They um...the calcula.." Another growl and he was jumping in place. "They were able. It had...100 percent and...he's...it worked." He felt as if the Director was burning holes into him with her stare. "I'm leaving now."
"Good idea." She watched the man run away smirking. "Too easy."
"I really need to know that secret. Perhaps you know to use on my daughter when she gets her not so bright ideas." Arias smiled with Sawyer nodding. "Alex.."
"I appreciate everything you both have done for me, for my sister for all of us." Alex stood up and stepped around the chairs walking out leaving the two women just staring at the doorway she'd gone through.
"What did we...miss…" Sam gasped as did Maggie. "...she gonna go where he…"
"Yep. Shit.." They both ran out but didn't see the Director anywhere. "Dammit Danvers!" The slight yell caught a few agents attentions along with a certain Co Director. "Vasquez...where is Jeremiah being kept?"
"Three levels down in the reinforced holding cell why?" Two grim looks and she was cursing. "Dammit Danvers."
"Now you know why those two words are one of my normal responses." Maggie told Sam as the three ran down the hall to the elevator..
Her choice words were warning growls in her phoenix suit to the guards whom shook with fear backing away as she pointed for them to exit the box. She looked up at the clock that read Monday morning's nine and sighed to turn her attention back to where it was needed. Did she have any business to be down here by herself? No. Did she care? No. Should she? That was the real question. She must have been stark bat crazy to do this, let alone by herself.
"At least he isn't as strong as an ox now." Alex spoke quietly but a sickening chuckle had her clenching her gloved fists threatening the flames to ignite along her suit she had the power to manifest. She knew what that meant and knew better to let it get her worked up to the point her rage reamed front and center. She took a few deep breaths to calm herself taking a few more for good measure. Slowly her hands relaxed along with the rest of her body. She adjusted her shade to darken it. She would not let him see her face. He didn't deserve any luxury.
"Is that you Alexandra?" His voice was groggy but it rang true to his identity. "It is isn't it?" She brushed her thumb along the two dials to adjust the tone of her voice through the helmet. She slowly turned to face him and with that motion his head came up. She smiled knowing he couldn't see it admiring the delicious work Remzi and his team did to tune up this bastard. "Come to talk?"
"You will address me as Director and nothing more." Her voice low flat and empty of emotion. "Is that clear?"
"I knew they would give you the reins her Alex. I am so proud of you."
"Director. Or I will leave." She would not slip up and show him any sign of weakness. The man nodded putting his head back against the wall cracking his bruised knuckles.
"Very well, Director. I am still proud of you." His voice held a caring nature but she was no fool. "What can I do for you Director? Am I not going with that monster's mother?"
"Your sentence will be carried out elsewhere." She felt her bones rattle when he let out a disgusting belched laughter.
"Figured out I would carry a death sentence to them? I was wondering when that would cross your mind." She was seething and made sure he didn't hear it. He knew..
"Your sentence will be carried out elsewhere." She repeated and then the idea struck her head with one solid flick of a light bulb. Ohhhh it the was perfect punishment. She needed to talk to J'onn. It was more than perfect. "You are convicted of nine different crimes.."
"By humans or their kind?" His hatred of all aliens was evident in his voice.
"Did you know it wasn't long ago that same sex couples weren't allowed to marry?" Alex started up and this time she had his undivided attention. "The laws didn't recognize unions between our kind." She began to slowly walk around the cell not pacing just keeping a steady calm collected stride. "There were no rights or healthcare and you had to be in a full relationship, living together for seven years before you could sign up for things a normal married couple could. Did you know transgender people had no rights at the DMV and weren't allowed in the military or any other government service because to others it was a violation amongst men and women? How they couldn't be doctors or officers even firefighters because of their gender identity." He still kept watch his eyes following her movements. "People may be different Jeremiah...but they really are all the same. I'm the same. I enjoy the company and companionship of women. I take them to my bed…" He growled deeply raising his voice.
"I don't care that you want me to call you the Director Alexandra. BUT I will not stand for you telling me to accept everything you mentioned. I put up with the fact you were with the Detective. I put up with it to a degree but if you think I agreed with it you are wrong. Women should be with men. That is God's law." She felt her anger bubbling to the surface and it took everything in her not to react. She heard two different people clapping and turned to see whom was standing in the door that her agents had let in. She smiled pleased..
"Got to say though, she was a real stud between the sheets." Sawyer smirked in her own suit all shiny and black scooting to lean against the wall by the door letting Arias by in her own midnight blue and burgundy Super armored suit. Both had their helmets off. "What do you think Sammy?"
"She gave me her sweet lollipop. My favorite flavor now. I enjoyed the licks." Sam smiled smacking her lips after licking them. The man was fuming and it was showing in his posture. "She gives the best gifts to kryptonians like me." He spit and snarled thrashed in his restraints.
"Get the FUCK away from my flesh and blood!" Sam didn't bite and neither did Maggie as they both walked over to slide an arm around her at both sides leaning up to kiss her metal covered head. His rage had boiled over and that's when they chose to put their helmets back on standing at guard with arms crossed as Alex tilted her head side to side to look straight at him. But just as he had seethed and cursed spit and spat he composed himself then began laughing.
"I don't like that sound." Sam spoke in their private headsets.
"I wanna smash his balls Danvers." Maggie snarled. "Why is he…"
"Ohhhhh what a show." He clapped with bloody and bruised hands jingling his metal shackle chains. "How about we change the channel. Perhaps a little recap of what I did to that scum you call a putrid pitiful sister. How good it felt when I rammed that bar into her over and over and over. Or when I made her swallow her own sickness"
"Alex.."
"Danvers no." They both looked down without him seeing and new the Director's fingers were twitching behind her back. "Alex.." Maggie and Sam could hear the hard breathing in their ears through their communication devices.
"It was really fun to watch Guardian take the filthy alien like the animal she is. Me and the others enjoyed her to. Did you know I remember everything I did in that form? How wonderful it was." He was pushing his daughter's buttons and one look at her shoulders even in the armor and he noticed the tension. "You should have heard the noises that mongrel made after a few could hits of Lillian's drug. She could barely talk. Her words were slurred. Her languages all jumbled and she panted when two of my boys took her. I even heard her moan."
Alex had sped forward to slam her fists into the cage bars instantly denting them with both women lunging to grab her and pull her back from the cell. "What sick things makes those noises when handled like that hmm? Only an animal responds that way." She fought both women and even in their armored powered up gear she pushed forward trying to get to the bastard. Jeremiah looked straight at her smiling. "Bring her down here. She isn't my flesh and blood. I can show you exactly what she enjoys. Do me a favor would you? Go get my little lead box where James and I keep the kryptonite gloves. Bring me two then toss that thing into the cage with me. Show me that inner hatred you have for your so called sister with how worthless she made you feel. How she ruined your career as a doctor because you had to take care of something not of the planet we live on. I think deep down Alexandra...you want to. I think deep down it would satisfy you to have Daddy make you happy." He was laughing even louder and it was no longer just Alex trying to get in the cage. It was Maggie and Sam but it was another whom pushed them all back without any armored suit with clenched fists clenched teeth and burning yellow orbs that grew so hot they turned orange. "What in the…"
"My Aunt is NEVER to be talked about by you again! You want a human punishment? Did you know that in some countries they still cut out a person's tongue? It's a form of torture. I know quite a bit about that from human history classes. You know, in schools? Bite your tongue off for all I care. If you don't I will have a couple agents staple your lips apart while they use a laser torch to burn it off." Ruby stood before the cage before the monster and relaxed her muscles with her eyes still glowing. She smirked then hawked a loogy to spit his way as it landed in one of his eyes. "Take that malice you bastard."
All three backed up as the teen walked passed them to hold up her hand and snap for them to follow her. They had no problem doing so. When an agent stepped forward Ruby looked at him as he gulped. "You heard the orders. The Director's orders." The man nodded.
"Damn…..she's got balls." Sawyer whistled.
"The biggest balls of them all." Arias spoke up.
"She's gonna make one hell of an agent don't you agree Sam?" Alex chuckled.
"Like in five years!" Sam was floored by the Director's offer.
"I can hear you three just fine." All three dropped their jaws. "Can we leave this place now? It has spiders." Her mother broke out in heavy laughter. "Not funny!" All four of them headed to the stairs not even bothering with the elevator. Danvers was still seething by what was said but she felt like she could breathe a little better for what the young Arias did and said. They all needed that. They would thank her later when her head wasn't so big…
