Maggie jumped at the knock on her car window, "Jesus," she held a hand to her heart. She must have dozed off.

"Sorry," Kara said sheepishly as she slid into the passenger seat. "I didn't mean to scare you," she handed Maggie one of the coffees from the tray in her hand.

"Thanks," Maggie sighed happily as she took a drink of the fresh coffee.

"You really need to sleep," Kara pointed out as she handed Maggie a donut.

Not usually one to eat junk, lately Maggie hadn't been very conscious of what she put in her body, simply eating for energy. But she couldn't deny that the donut was amazing, "I was literally just asleep."

Kara rolled her eyes, "I mean really sleep, in a bed."

"I slept in a bed," she paused trying to think. "Uh, a couple of nights ago."

Kara rolled her eyes, "Sure."

They ate in silence until Kara finally spoke up, "I know you and Sarah have been trading shifts. We have DEO agents here you know. I fly by every chance I get."

"I know. I just…I just feel better if I'm here," Maggie admitted.

"I get it. I try so hard to focus and do my job, but my mind is just on Alex. I shouldn't have listened to her. I should have fought."

"She knew what she was talking about. You did the right thing," Maggie meant what she said.

"I just…," Kara was cut off, by the ground trembling.

They both quickly jumped out of the car and raced to where the portal had opened before. Four DEO agents were already standing nearby, guns ready. It didn't take long for the portal to form and took only a second for Alex to pop out. She landed with a thud on her back, groaning as she rolled over onto her front pushing herself to her knees.

"Alex," Maggie kneeled in front of her, as Kara took a place beside her.

Alex was covered in blood, the scrub shirt she had been given by the DEO a week ago covered in it, as well as her face and hands. It was only then that Maggie noticed she was clutching her stomach, "Alex, are you hurt?"

Alex answers with a grunt, "Stabbed."

"Can I fly you to the DEO?" Kara asks. "Please," she pleads when Alex doesn't answer right away.

Alex finally nods, and Kara scoops her up immediately, "I've got her," the assures Maggie.

Maggie nods, "I'll be there as fast as I can."

Twenty minutes later Maggie finds Kara standing outside the DEO med bay, looking in worriedly as they work on Alex.

"She lost consciousness before we got here," Kara shared as Maggie stopped beside her. "She's lost a lot of blood."

It's a tense five minutes before one of the doctors comes out.

"She's going to have a bit of a recovery, but she's lucky and the knife missed everything important. We have her on some fluids because she's extremely dehydrated, but she refused anything for the pain. You can go in."

Alex's eyes opened as soon as they entered the room, instantly alert. There was no smile upon seeing them. She just observed, much like she had done from her cell, before she was taken.

"How long was I gone?" she finally asked, after a long silence.

"A week," Maggie answered. "Are they still after you?"

Alex shook her head, "No, I broke the connection. I'm free."

"What connection? Who were they?" Kara asked. "You can't just show up and then get taken again and not tell us anything," she laid a hand on Alex's arm.

Alex acted immediately grabbing Kara by the wrist and throwing her hand off her arm, "I don't have to tell you anything," she moved to sit up, grimacing only slightly.

"That's where you're wrong," a voice interrupted them. General Brosseau, had been put over the DEO two years ago, after an attack on the city had put to question the DEO's abilities. Him and a small team of military types, oversaw all the DEO's doing. "Aw the infamous Alex Danvers, I've heard so many stories about you."

"And you are?" Alex asked as she stood from the bed, all signs of any pain she had previously been in gone. Maggie knew that she was in fight mode.

"General Brosseau, I am here to make sure you aren't a threat to the DEO. So, you will answer some questions, starting with, where are the other agents who disappeared with you," the General snarled.

"Brosseau?" Alex tilted her head, thinking. "Your son was one of the ones who got taken with me. Right?" Alex asked.

Brosseau seemed surprised, "How…?"

"Mason talked about his dad being some big name General. That you never bothered to meet him, but he knew you were his dad. He thought it made him a badass that his dad was a General," Alex's voice was filled with disgust. "Mason got the other two agents killed because he thought he could make a deal with our captors. He wasn't smart enough to see that he was being played. He was a joke," Alex shakes her head.

Brosseau is fuming, he takes a threatening step forward, Alex takes a step forward as well, taunting him, "They threw us in a pit and made us fight. He barely lasted a minute before I killed him."

Brosseau lunged, getting a good punch in, that Maggie was sure only happened because Alex let it. Alex returned her own brutal strike before Kara was able to push him away from a smirking Alex, "I won't be answering to you," Alex turned her back.

Brosseau was still fighting uselessly against Kara's hold, "I'll destroy you, you bitch."

Alex calmly hopped back up on the bed, not bothering to wipe her mouth of the blood the punch had caused. The dark look was back, Maggie shivered.

Everyone finally left the room, leaving only Maggie and Alex, it comforted Maggie slightly to see Alex, deflate some, losing her battle-ready tenseness. Maggie grabbed a towel and handed it to Alex to wipe away the blood.

"How are you?" Alex asked into the silence.

"I don't know how to answer that right now," Maggie answered honestly.

Alex nodded, "Before, I almost thought it was all a dream. I was confused. I also knew that I was about to be taken away either way. Now, it feels real. I don't know how to handle it."

"I don't think any of us do," Maggie shrugged.

"I'm tired. I think I'll try to sleep," Alex laid back on the bed with a sigh.

"I'll be here when you wake up," Maggie assured. Alex was asleep almost instantly, but there was an unnatural tenseness about her that told Maggie she was waiting for something. Alert even as she slept. Maggie shuddered to think about what that could be.