Mostly it was the D.E.O taking point on cases involving alien missing person's but this time around the NCPD had bluntly insisted on joining the case and hadn't backed down until J'onn had allowed it.
"Will you be alright with this?" J'onn asked as they drove to the precinct. To Her precinct.
"Even if I wasn't I'm lead agent for this case and if they want to be a part of it for some reason then I have to be." Alex answered lifting her chin defiantly. But J'onn could tell even without hearing her thoughts that she was nervous about this meeting.
Alex noticed an odd panicked and pained look flash across the director's face when they finished the paperwork and weapons check to get past the visitor's security. Not that she could ask about what had caused it as the door buzzed open the second she had seen it. "Conference room 3. Everyone's already waiting for you." The woman behind the desk told them.
The D.E.O second in command could feel angry eyes from several officers following her as she followed her boss down the halls fighting down twinge after twinge as they passed supply closets and offices that she and Maggie had often used for stolen tender and often heated moments together. But that didn't even compare to the pained twist in her gut that hit just as they reached the door now separating her from the one woman she still missed more and more every day.
What Alex wasn't ready for was the fact that her former lover wouldn't be waiting for her on the other side of said door.
"Director Jones, Agent Danvers. Good of you to join us. Now we can begin." The Captain grunted turning away from what seemed to be the end of a stern argument with a man Alex had never seen before when J'onn closed the door behind them leaving only the four of them alone in the room.
"Huh, so You are the famous Danvers I've heard about?" 'Scruffy' smiled spinning around in the chair to face them. Alex had already decided on the name, so she could fight back the wave of defeated pain at not getting to see Maggie again. "Who the hell are you?" Alex asked bluntly crossing her arms tightly over her chest rather than take his outstretched hand as she looked at the scruffy bearded man now sitting at the chair Maggie should have been sitting at while she, the Captain and J'onn took the others around the table.
"Detective Ethan Daniels NCPD Science Division." He answered mirroring Alex's crossed arms as they sized each other up across the table "But you can just think of me as the new Maggie Sawyer." He added with an overly flirtatious smile.
"Why would we need a new D.E.O. liaison?" J'onn questioned more for Alex's benefit than anything else when Alex's breathing hitched at the comment before she schooled her face back into an unreadable mask.
"Detective Sawyer needed a change of scenery for a while." The Captain answered quickly "Detective Daniel's is just a temporary replacement." Alex repressed a shudder at the pouting look 'Detective Scruffy' made at the comment as he was obviously still checking her out from the corner of his eye.
"Yes, Yes all very amusing now can we please get back to talking about how we are going to stop this new threat before whoever it is can leave another body for us to find?" J'onn asked a husky growl in his voice as his eyes shifted from Alex's ridged position to the computer projection the Captain pulled up for them.
"The threat seems to be from a planet that even we don't know about." Alex started pushing her own curiosity at the change in her 'Space Dad'/Boss as she focused in on the facts of the case. "But whatever they are they are smart stalking the victims for a time to see when the person will be the most venerable." Ethan jumped in his eyes narrowing when J'onn and Alex both winced at his words. "And they've also stepped up the game seeing as this time around they've taken two potential victims instead of one." The precinct captain added in his jaw flexing in barely repressed anger.
"Right now, we are calling them "G" and "Q" seeing as giving their names even to you and your team could spark more fires than they put out." Daniel's backtracked when Alex opened her mouth to ask. "Both were taken at 2 a.m from the same vicinity but seeing as that ally also houses a bar that is frequented by more off-world species than most it's impossible to know if the attacker was a patron or if it was just a coincidence." Ethan finished while the image that filled the screen had Alex's stomach dropping faster than even Kara could fly at the mangled remains of an all too familiar looking motorcycle.