A/N: English is not my mother tongue, so I apologize for any grammar and spelling mistakes.

Ok, so I misread something on the internet and I have to take back what I said about people shipping Max&Cat. Well agains, I'm talking crap.

This one-shot takes place after Myriad.

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Alex stepped into her dark apartment and looked around, as if just noticing how empty it was. How lonely and quiet it was. All the weight of today's events came crashing down. The door fell shut behind her and with the loud bang Alex's body slumped down to the floor. She was extremely tired, physically and emotionally.

Kara could have died. She didn't, but seeing her sister's unmoving body, floating in space made her assume the worst. Panic had settled in the pit of her stomach and she would never forget the feeling of helplessness. Again, for once in so many occasions she had wished she were the one with the powers, so she could save her sister. But she was born a human and even if she was trained to take down aliens, sometimes she felt like it just wasn't enough. Today she had saved Kara, but next time she wouldn't be so lucky.

And she remembered the things Kara said. She had promise her sister that she would live her life, but now she didn't know if she really could have lived on without her. The thought really scared her and she couldn't even imagine a life without the alien that had crashed into her life and became the most important person to her.

Suddenly the doorbell interrupted her thoughts and she pushed herself off the ground, only to find the person she had least expected standing in the hallway with a smug grin on his face.

"Max, what are you doing here?" she asked, trying to sound normal.

"Well, after today's events, I sort of had the need to celebrate the fact that our brains did not explode."

Alex raised her brow at his way of expressing their near death experience. Also she assumed that there was something else behind his words.

After a while Max added, "And I had no one to celebrate with, so I thought why not celebrate with the beautiful and intelligent DEO agent who had once locked me in a cell?" He held up a bottle of whine.

Alex looked at Max, not really sure what to say. Her shoulders slumped down; she felt exhausted.

"Max, I-" ,she stopped talking mid sentence, suddenly feeling a surge of dizziness. Her hand automatically went to her temple and she leaned against the doorframe.

"Hey, are you okay?" Max asked the brunette, already closing the space between them, ready to catch her if her legs were to give out under her.

"I'm fine. Just a little tired."

"Okay, that is a no. Let's get you inside." Before Alex could protest, Max had his arm

firmly around her shoulders and led her into her own apartment to the sofa. Max closed the door and sat down beside Alex.

"You okay?" Max asked again, his eyes analyzing the usually strong woman in front of him. It's not that she wasn't strong now, she just looked tired. She looked worn out and defeated, even though she shouldn't be looking like this. Today, they had won. Earth was safe and they were alive, for now at least. But it bothered Max that she was always carrying some kind of burden with her.

"I told you I'm fine. This is just the stress finally getting to me." Alex muttered, looking a little lost. The dizziness had finally subsided.

Max slid closer to her, their knees almost touching. He had already guessed what was bothering her. "Actually, I don't mean physically. I'm asking if you're emotionally okay." Max said, waiting for Alex to say something, but when she didn't respond he continued, "I don't know what supergirl told you before you decided to jump into the pod back then, but she is safe now. She is safe, Alex. You saved her." He looked at her with concerned eyes trying to figure out, what she was thinking right now.

"But I could've lost her! I could hav-" Alex's voice broke off at the end, letting a whimper escape her lips. She burried her face in her hands, as her body began to tremble. "I was so scared. I- she knew she was most likely not coming back and she said goodbye. Kar-she made me promise to live my life without her and do all the things she thought that kept me from doing by being her sister" Tears run down her cheeks, she didn't even bother to wipe them away. "I was so scared. I was gonna los-lose her and I felt so helpless."

Max's heart broke at the sight in front of him and he stretched out his arms to embrace the shaking form of the only woman he had started trust and care for. She was like him; intelligent, hardworking and even though they had no powers both of them tried to make the world a better place. Alex had lost her father and that made her the only (human) person he knew, how it felt like to lose someone important.

Alex didn't resist Max's embrace and buried her face in the curve of his neck. His heartbeat and warmth were oddly comforting and she just needed someone to hold on to right now. "Shhh..it's okay" ,Max whispered into her ear. "Supergir-… Kara is alive. She is alive and she is not going anywhere. Everything's okay" ,he went on in a soothing voice. He just wanted to hold her tight and make everything better. He kept whispering into her ear, words of comfort and rubbing her back, like parents would do to their crying child.

Max hadn't noticed, but after a while Alex had calmed down. She had stopped sobbing and her breathing was even, so was her heart beat. They stayed on the position where Max had leaned back comfortably, his arms around Alex's shoulders as she was almost sitting on his lap, her head buried in his neck.

It was now that Max looked down at the brunette und noticed her eyes were closed. Alex had cried herself to sleep in his arms, and for some reason he felt glad that he had gotten to see her vulnerable side. And he was glad that he was here to comfort her. At a closer look at her face, Max noticed how long her eyelashes were and for the first time saw the light freckles around the bridge go her nose. She was even more beautiful up close.

Alex just looked so peaceful, unlike a while ago. Max wasn't really sure what to do. He was in the agent's apartment, sitting on the sofa with her sleeping form in his arms. He had wanted to drink with her, but instead he had found himself comforting a very upset Alex, not that he complained having a very hot looking woman in his arms.

Max sighed. He was so exhausted himself after this crazy day, he didn't have any strength left to carry Alex to her bed. Also it had become really late. So Max just stretched out Alex's legs, put her head on his lap, covered her body up with his jacket and made himself comfortable. He wondered how she would react in the morning when she finds herself on the sofa, her head resting in his lap. Max smiled at himself; he was gonna find out in a couple of hours.

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So I think I decided to make it a series of one-shots about Alex&Max. See you next time (^.^)

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