Author's note: Hey all here's chapter two. I'd planned on this section being one chapter but I haven't had as much time to write as I'd hoped so I thought it might be best to post what I've got. After all I did promise to at least try to post weekly!

I hope you like it. More soon I hope.

I still don't own Supergirl or any of the characters on the show.

Perhaps if Alex had caught on to what, exactly, Maggie had said she would have realized that Maggie felt the same way she did about moving on. Perhaps they could have avoided being separated for the next year but then some very important, very positive things wouldn't have happened either. So maybe it was just as well.

A Year in the Life: Alex (Part 1)

As it turned out, Kara's prediction of what would happen to Alex if she lost Maggie was only partly right. She was indeed broken but other than that first night she did not get drunk. That first night, after Maggie had left (to stay with a friend until she left for Gotham in a week) Alex drank pretty much all the hard liquor in the apartment. By some miracle, she managed to get herself in bed before she passed out.

The next morning she was just coherent enough to call in to work. Winn answered the call as she knew he would. "Hey Alex, what's up?"

"I'm taking a few days off" she answered brusquely "let J'onn know".

"Sure thing Alex, how long are you going to be gone?" He asked brightly, assuming she and Maggie had some wedding stuff to take care of or were perhaps taking a short trip to get away from wedding stuff. But Alex had already hung up.

"Rude much!" He exclaimed looking at the phone as if it was the offender.

"What was that about," Kara asked walking up to Winn's workstation with James who, at J'onn's insistence had started training with Supergirl on a regular basis.

"Alex just asked me to let J'onn know she's taking some time off but she hung up before she said how long she'd be gone!" Winn replied still miffed at the slight.

"Uh oh" Kara said, clearly worried.

"What, oh?" James asked just as J'onn walked up.

"Alex broke up with Maggie last night."

"What!?" Winn and James asked in unison both clearly shocked.

J'onn just sighed sadly "the kids thing?" Kara just nodded. "I really thought they'd work that out".

J'onn had been ecstatic when Alex met Maggie. Finally, the woman he'd come to think of as his third daughter had met her bondmate, a Martian term that meant essentially the same thing as a human soulmate. He had never seen Alex so contented with her life. It hurt his heart to think of her going back to who she was before Maggie. In fact, having lost his own bondmate, he knew that she couldn't really go back. Having once experienced that level of connection anything less would leave a lasting emptiness that over time you learned to compartmentalize so you could go on with your life with at least the appearance of normality.

While this conversation was going on at the DEO, Alex was still in bed, her face buried in Maggie's pillow. And in bed is where she stayed for the next week save for the occasional trip to the bathroom or the even more infrequent trips to the kitchen for what ever junk food happened to be easily accessible. She couldn't summon the energy to do anything more...except to flip through photos of Maggie on her phone and cry.

Kara stopped by to checked on her often but was at a loss as to how to help her. Although she had some idea what Alex was going through, having so recently lost Mon El, somehow she knew it was worse for Alex. Anybody, who had ever seen Alex and Maggie together knew they were meant for each other. Soulmates was a thoroughly human concept and Kara hadn't really understood it until she saw Alex and Maggie together. She'd rarely seen two people how fit together as well as Alex and Maggie had. The truth was, she like J'onn, had expected them to work out the issue of children just as they had worked through every other problem in their relationship. She was shocked when she'd learned that the two had broken up. As much as she wanted to, she couldn't bring herself to lie to Alex and tell her that she'd get over Maggie and move on. She knew Alex and Maggie belonged together.

During that first week she had visited Maggie and pleaded with her to go to Alex and try to work things out but Maggie was resolute in her determination to "free Alex to find someone who wanted the same things she did." Nothing Kara said could convince her otherwise.

In the end it was Alex who snapped herself out of it. On the day Maggie left for Gotham Alex showed up for work. She told herself that if Maggie could move on to a new life in Gotham than she could reclaim her old one. After all, she had been fine with the way things were before she met Maggie, she would be fine again. Somewhere inside she knew it was a lie but it was a lie she had to tell herself to move forward. During that first week, while she knew Maggie was still in National City, she had held out some small hope that Maggie would come back to her and they would work things out. But the morning Maggie left she had texted Alex to tell her she was leaving and to tell her she wished nothing but the best for her.

Alex had tried to text back with a similar sentiment but every time she tried it kept coming out I miss you, I love you, please come back. So in the end Maggie's text went unanswered.

Alex, dragged herself out of bed got cleaned up, put on her black tactical uniform and went in to work. To the untrained eye she looked like the old Alex. She smiled and said hello when someone greeted her but the smiles never reached her eyes. She avoided answering any questions about how she was doing and as quickly as possible headed off to the gym for a workout.

She told herself that after a week in bed she needed to workout the kinks but what she really needed to do was kick and punch out her anger and grief. A couple of the other agents offered to spar with her but quickly found excuses to leave after being tossed around the room for while by an overly aggressive Alex.

Fortunately for any other agents who were thinking of testing their mettle against Alex, the operations center got an alert of alien on alien violence down by the waterfront.

Alex jogged into ops donning her tactical gear. "I've got this."

"Maybe you should sit this one out" Kara said, worried about Alex's state of mind but Alex was already on her way out with her team.