Maggie came back to the DEO looking like she was going to kill someone. She saw her wife across the command center but only held her gaze for a second. She walked up to Winn's desk and spun his chair around so he was facing her.
"What the hell Winn! You said that we had only 2 perps waiting for us! We got surrounded the minute we broke into that warehouse we got surrounded. You're lucky I know how to fight practically every species of alien we have info on."
Maggie was pissed. She knew it wasn't Winn's fault that they had been ambushed. But the new rookie Smith almost died. She had almost died trying to protect him. If she died Alex would never be the same.
"Maggie I swear I gave you accurate info. They could have been using some kind of cloaking devise. But hey you made it out and everyone is alive so that's a good thing right?" Winn said jokingly.
"No Winn, Smith almost died and I almost died trying to protect him. Figure out what the hell happened so it doesn't happen again."
Maggie walked to the med bay she needed to get her cuts stitched up. She also needed to cool off. She knew Winn had done his job. They had known each other long enough that he wouldn't take what had happened back there to heart. It happened almost every time a rookie almost got killed when intel wasn't accurate.
Maggie had been so lost in thought that she hadn't noticed that Alex had walked into the room and sat in the chair across from her bed. She knew by the look on Alex's face she was going to lay into her. She wasn't in the mood for it.
"Alex I know what you're going to say and I'm not in the mood."
She started to lift her arm to wave Alex off but she couldn't because she had been stabbed in the shoulder by one of the alien's pointy spines that covered its arms.
"Mags you didn't have to yell at Winn. You never have to yell at Winn but you always do."
Alex got out of the chair to sit next to Maggie. To take her good hand in hers and squeeze it reassuringly.
"I know why you do it and Winn knows why you do it. Which is why he lets you yell at him in front of every one. Maggie your good at this job. Sometimes better at it than me. Things happen that we can't always account for. You did good today. You brought everyone home alive."
Maggie knew she was right. This was the same speech she got almost every time Maggie blew up at Winn after a tough mission that almost ended badly.
"I know what will make everything feel better."
"Babe I don't think anything is going to take this pain away."
Alex just smiled she was about to tell Maggie she was wrong when 2 familiar voices came into the room.
"I got a call from Winn that said someone needed some snuggle time with the cutest person in the world."
Maggie and Alex both looked at Kara and the little person whose hand she was gripping. Maggie just smiled and looked at her and Alex's daughter. Hating that she had yelled at Winn because she could have left this behind. Her family behind without her.
Alex lifted their daughter into her arms and gently placed her into Maggie's lap. Telling Mackenzie to be careful. Mama had gotten hurt. Maggie would be lying if she said her daughter wrapping her arms around her and squeezing her gently didn't take some of the pain away. That those hazel eyes that looked just like Alex's looking at her right now didn't melt her heart in the best way possible. Mackenzie's hazel eyes always told her she was a hero. That she was loved and was always needed the same way Alex's always did.
Maggie had never wanted a family growing up. But now that she had one she couldn't imagine her life without it. She mouthed a thank you to Kara and watched Alex's sister walk away with an amused smile on her face.
"Ok maybe your right. I shouldn't yell at Winn every time a mission goes slightly wrong. And that this cute little cuddle bug would make me feel better."
She tickled Mackenzie's side eliciting a giggle from her daughter. A sound she would never get tired of hearing.
"Mama are you going to be ok?"
That very small voice that reminded her so much of Alex. That could get her to do anything. Was now asking if she was going to be ok. She smiled down at her daughter and told her the truth.
"Yeah baby Mama is going to be ok. Just a few scratches. They'll be better in no time."
Mackenzie snuggled in closer to Maggie, nuzzling her head against Maggie's abdomen.
"Good I don't like it when your hurt. Mommy looks sad and I don't like it when mommy looks sad."
Maggie looked at Alex and Alex couldn't say anything couldn't do anything.
"She is almost a perfect copy of you, you know. We are going to be in trouble when she starts dating. Doesn't matter if it is boys or girls she is going to be a heart breaker either way."
"Well we already have almost a carbon copy of me I think what Mackenzie needs is a brother that has the hardest parts of us. To keep all the future suiters in line."
"A brother? You don't think 2 over protective mothers would be enough to keep the crazy boyfriends or girlfriends at bay. Especially when you could tortureā¦"
Alex put a finger on Maggie's lips she didn't want their daughter hearing that Alex could torture someone 6 different ways with her index finger.
"A brother? Am I going to have a brother mommy?"
This wasn't how Alex wanted to tell Maggie they were having another child but she could think of worse ways for her to find out.
"I'm not sure baby. It could be a brother or it could be a sister."
Alex looked at Maggie and Maggie wasn't there. She was processing what Alex had just said.
"Alex did you just say what I think you just said?"
Maggie wasn't functioning anymore. Alex was pregnant. They were going to have another baby. Mackenzie was going to have a sibling. Maggie was going to be a mother again. And nothing made her happier.
