Hey, apologies for the delay. I swear I was about to press that submit button last night around 8pm EST, and then a big windstorm hit my rural college town and created upwards of 1100 power outages in my county and the next one over. Please enjoy the sneak peek of the 3rd chapter I've posted below, and hit that review button if you have something to say! It means a lot when you do.

So I wanted to write a fic where Alex, Maggie, and Kara are doing some top secret DEO stakeout stuff, and an accident happens. This is the tail end of that fic. Sometimes shorter is sweeter. (Also, I'm better at dialogue than plot.)

This is some fluffy shit you're about to read.

Chapter 2

It was loud. Too, too loud. Loud and loud and Kara was forgetting how to breathe in it.

The crash. Sweeping Alex into her arms without question, without thought. Zooming in on Maggie, still running below them, making sure she was safe.

And then a terrific weight slamming into the back of her head.

And then nothing.

And then she woke up next to Maggie, arm hanging limply, shoulder bent and dislocated at the oddest angle, but Kara pressed her fingers to her neck and she was alive, alive, alive.

But then the reverbs started.

Maybe something else happened, after that. She didn't know. She was on her knees. She was screaming. She didn't know for how long she'd been on her knees or how long she'd been screaming. She couldn't see. She couldn't hear. She didn't know! Where was Alex's heartbeat?! She had to know!

Kara roared. "ALEX!"

And, like the miracle that she was, Alex arrived.

Alex running towards her. Alex falling to her knees. Alex pulling Maggie into her arms, quickly checking for her pulse, mumbling both their names in a hoarse whisper. Kara's vision swam. She could see Alex, but it was still so loud, and she didn't know where she was anymore. "Alex... Alex..." she whined. "Maggie's... o-okay, Mag -" she gasped, cut off, feeling the earth again, angrily, terribly, shaking her heart. She couldn't hear right. She didn't know how to breathe.

"Kara, Kara, I've got you," Alex was saying now, shushing her, pulling her close. "You're alright, Kara. Listen to my voice, sweet girl." One hand remained at Maggie's heart, one hand scooped her little sister into her side. "Listen to my heartbeat. I'm okay, Maggie's okay. We're okay now, it's over." Her hair matted and sweat-swept, clinging messily to her forehead. Her face flush and bleeding from a few fresh cuts. And she was okay. She was breathing.

Kara reeled, clinging to Alex, anchoring herself in all that familiar scent. Blood, sweat, cinnamon, home, home, home. She gasped, cried, burrowed into her big sister. "Alex."

Alex nodded, unable to say anything more in return. Her heart hurt. The shock of it. The swell of gratitude when Maggie's heartbeat was steady and thrumming and alive, alive underneath her fingers.

Maggie, her best girl. Kara, her baby sister. Alive with her.

"We're okay," she repeated. "We're okay now."

Exhausted, she slumped into Kara, let her eyes close. Her fist was curled loosely into her girlfriend's chest, and her last brief thought was about a dog named Gertrude.

Maggie blinked awake. Time was slow. Pain echoed hard and wide in her chest and shoulders.

Ally - where was she?

"Hey, wake up sleepyface."

Alex blinked awake, groaning at the light. What was she sprawled over? So warm, humming and - humming?

"Kara, oh my god, are you alright? Did I pass out on top of you?"

Kara smiled sleepily. "I healed in the sun. You were so comfy. Reminded me of cuddling when we were little kids. You'd always manage to flop most of your body onto me." She gave Alex a lopsided look. "Maggie's awake. Her pulse is still steady."

Alex burst out laughing. Except she was crying. Except she felt Maggie's warm hand around her and then she was sobbing, sobbing with relief.

"Hey Danvers, hey li'l Danvers," Maggie slurred softly. "My girls."

"H-hi. I love you."

Maggie smiled. "I love you too." She reached up and pressed a thumb to the corner of Alex's mouth and her heart slowed to meet her girlfriend's almost instantly. Her Alex. Soft, wonderful, puffy-eyed Alex. "Need a tissue there?"

Alex tried and failed to scowl, and then buried her face into Maggie's chest. "I just, I needed you to know right away. I love you so much, Mags."

"God, you sap. I'm gonna marry you someday for sure."

Kara snapped to attention, a surprised sound rumbling from her throat.

And Alex just stared.

"You... you're gonna marry me someday?"

Maggie short-circuited, stumbling over everything she'd ever said. She paused. Steadied herself. Felt Alex's hand in her own. "You know you got me, Danvers."

Alex's head whooshed with the sound of happiness and Maggie and sunlight. So much love all at once and she was full to bursting.

"Yeah?" Maggie prompted.

Alex could feel Kara'a eyes and smile practically burning a hole into the back of her bulletproof vest. She could feel Maggie's eyes, too, so sincere and so brown that they turned gold in the morning light.

She realized that the most beautiful woman in the world was proposing to marry her someday. And she swooned.

"Yeah, I'm gonna marry you someday too."

And then they were 200 feet above ground, enveloped in the steel arms of a Kryptonian positively overwhelmed in the presence of so much love.

"KARA L. DANVERS, PUT ME DOWN RIGHT-

"Kara, this is unreasonable, you should ask first-

"I SWEAR TO GOD OR RAO OR THE FREAKIN SUN IF YOU DO NOT PUT ME DOWN RI-

"SORRY I'm sorry I'm so EXCITED I'm so happy this is the Best Day! This is crazy I was dying three seconds or hours ago and now you're practically married! You gave Maggie a key like what, like MONTHS ago, like two weeks after you two started dating practically, which is gross, to be honest, and now you're gonna get MARRIED? Maggie has a key, and Alex has Maggie, oh that's great, should I tell someone? Who do I tell? I have to tell someone something! OH I know, I'm gonna call Winn and James AND LENA at the same time! NO! J'ONN! What am I thinking? Wait should I call Mon-El? Hmm he is my boyfriend right, I'll call him! Is he working? Who cares! I'll call him."

Kara, sweetie, you've gone a bit mad," Alex said.

"Yep. Uh. Can I tell anyone? Sorry. I'm not... thinking before I leap." Kara paused. "You really should call Eliza though, because I am certain with a little effort I can magnify my voice so loud, everyone here to Kansas will know about the engagement of the millennium."

Maggie rolled her eyes and pulled her into a hug. "How about we get our bruised asses to the DEO first, okay? I know for a fact Alex and I have concussions."

Alex blinked. "Why?"

"Uhh," Maggie began, wincing at the memory. "I saw you fall. We were holding hands and then the building was exploding behind us, I was scrambling to get closer to you both, then that pillar crumbled in front of me and I froze just to see the debris knock Kara in the head. And you, you were falling. I could see it. I could feel it." She squeezed her eyes shut. "I was so scared, Ally. I dove, rolled, got knocked in the head regardless, and I woke up and saw you and just knew I wanted to be yours forever." Now her eyes were twinkling. "Life is too short, right? We should be who we are, and we should marry the girls we wanna marry..."

"And I really wanna marry you, Maggie Sawyer," Alex finished for her.

Maggie brimmed with gratitude. Alex brimmed with hope. Kara could barely tell who pulled whom in quicker, who hugged whom the hardest. She watched them, grinning from ear to ear, and then blushed and glanced at the floor briefly when their lips met.

Her amazing, badass, beautiful big sister. Her astonishing, badass, tiny sister-in-law.

And then Kara gasped with excitement. "I'm official Little Sister Danvers now! Right Maggie? I mean - is that - wow."

Maggie grinned at her. "Wow what, Official Little Sister Danvers?"

Kara beamed and meant to giggle but started crying instead. When both Alex and Maggie instantly reached out to comfort her, she just nudged them away and rolled her eyes. "Stop that, I'm crying because, agh. Because, I - you're brilliant, Maggie, and you make my brilliant sister so happy and I can't believe I get to have the best sisters in the world."

"Well... Supergirl... super sisters..." Maggie trailed off, still grinning.

Alex shook her head. "Wow, Sawyer. You definitely hit your head on something."

"Yeah. Pretty sure it was a small chunk of heavy lighting equipment."

"So that's how you got your lights knocked out!" Kara joked quickly, and then pressed her lips together. "Sorry. Um. MARRIED oh my goodness. Okay. Great. We're all okay, you two are injured humans, let's do this efficiently since I still feel less than a hundred and don't want there to be even a chance of you newly engaged lesbians making out midair. Maggie, you okay to go first? I will fly you - slowly - to the DEO, and then it'll be two minutes and then Alex will be there too."

Maggie tilted her head to the side. "I never thought I'd hear you put "fly" and "slow" in the same sentence."

"Yeah okay Detective Smartass, let's go."

"Detective Smartass - I like it!" Maggie mouthed at Alex with a wink before she and Kara took off. Alex just gave her a wide-eyed smile, still spinning and reeling with love.

When Kara returned exactly two minutes and twelve seconds later, Alex was in almost the same exact spot, her eyes glued to her phone. Kara paused for two seconds to look at her, listen for her, and she smiled. She still heard that beautiful heartbeat.

"First off, holy shit what a day. Secondly, how does your phone still work when the screen looks like that? Thirdly... Alex. Are you staring at a picture of Maggie right now?"

"Yeah," Alex replied. "I'm happy."

Kara bit her lip, squared her jaw, scrunched up her nose, and still couldn't keep from crying. "Oh, Al. You deserve it. You two are so good to each other." She paused. "And she knows you're not for trifling with."

"Well... she also knows who she'd have to reckon with if she tried," Alex said. "But, yeah. She's soooooo gay for me. It's so great."

"Wow, who knew you could sound cheesier than me?"

"Oh, Kar. You don't know the half of it."

Coming up next...

She gave Kara that unreadable look again before smiling in earnest. "Let's raincheck for Thursday after work, then?"

"That's perfect! And I'm glad to hear you could clear up a little of your schedule. I thought this week was especially crazy - up to the neck in bureaucratic incompetence, as you said?"

"Well, managing a company usually means managing some level of bureaucratic incompetence. And sometimes it's my own incompetence, at that." She smiled softly, and Kara mirrored her, thinking to herself that incompetence was the last thing she'd expect from Lena Luthor.

"Besides, there is obviously much to discuss. For example, this picture you sent me of that darling hunk eating waffles with you in bed - Mike, right? - now come on, Kara, you can't make me so jealous at some boring trustee meeting."

Kara's jaw hardened. "What picture?"

Lena furrowed her brow, noting the reporter's sudden tension. "Ah... Here, this one - you sent it on Sunday, mid-noon."

Kara took the phone from Lena's hands, careful not to crush it. She stared at what appeared to be Mon-El, the usual cheeky grin on his face, smearing whipped cream on his own nose. She was curled next to him in the photo, also grinning. The angle of the photo made it look like a selfie. Kara frowned deeply, seeing that they were both somewhat exposed - Mon-El with his bare chest and left leg free from the sheets, and Kara's breasts highlighted by a semi-translucent black polka dot cutoff she usually wore after sex.

All of a sudden she felt horribly sick.

"I did have brunch in bed with Mike on Sunday," she said slowly. "And I remember that exact moment. But I didn't take that picture, Lena."

BUM-BUM-BUM... ; )
~ M