Star Gazing
Alex has lost Maggie…
"Your rooftop is so much better than mine." Kara sighed as she tucked her arm under her head and gazed at the sky.
"Definitely smells better," Alex commented absently as she let her eyes move over the contours of her sister's profile.
"You're staring," the Kryptonian smiled.
"You're beautiful."
"So are you but I'm not staring. It's creepy."
They grinned at each other and then turned their attention back to the stars. Their hands found each other on top of the soft blanket and their fingers laced together in the shadows.
"This reminds me of home," Alex murmured. "All those nights we lay on the roof outside my window talking about Krypton and school stuff…"
"And boy stuff," Kara interjected with a chuckle.
"Yeah," the older woman smiled, her fingers curling to tickle Kara's palm. "We did that a lot, didn't we?" She took a breath then. "Who would have thought that I'd have ended up here? I loved her so much," she whispered. "And now she's just… gone."
"I know," Kara replied softly. She turned her head to look at her sister, blue eyes filling with tears as Alex's breath hitched and a sob escaped her. The hero turned onto her side, opened her arms and accepted her sister into them, wrapping them both up tightly in her cape against the chilly air and slowly rubbing her back as Alex sobbed out her grief.
Kara cried too. Maggie had been her sister-in-law, her confidant as much as Alex was, and losing her to a bullet she hadn't been fast enough to catch was eating her up inside. "It's my fault… I couldn't… I'm sorry… I'm so sorry, Alex," she choked out as her sister clung to her.
"Don't." Alex shook her head, pulling back a little to look Kara right in the eye. "This is not on you. Maggie knew what she was doing." The hero nodded slightly but she didn't feel any better. "Kara, you and I have talked about the risks of what we do. Maggie and I talked about it many times over the years too. She loved being a cop and neither of us could ask the other to give up what we loved, so we agreed to not blame each other for our decisions and instead, to back each other up."
Kara sniffled a little. "What you and Maggie had is what I want for myself," she whispered. "You were so lucky to have found each other."
The agent sighed. "She changed my life." She wiped at the tears on her cheeks. "And now I have to figure out a way to live it without her."
Alex gazed up at the sky and, in the stars, saw Maggie smiling down at her and she somehow knew that she'd be ok.