Chapter 4
Alex was fighting against Scorcher. She had a deadly grip on her neck, she was lucky that the water contradicted Scorcher's powers, or else she would be a goner.
She had been trained in situations like these. Fighting in water was a lot harder than fighting on land, but Alex had the advantage here, even if Scorcher was holding her in a deadly chokehold.
Alex used all her strength to elbow Scorcher in the stomach, multiple times. Scorcher grunted in pain, but she didn't let go, and Alex didn't have the air or the energy to fight her.
But she knew… she knew that she just had to wait for Kara to get her, Kara would save her. She could tell.
She looked up and saw Kara staring at her with fear in her eyes, and she knew that look.
The look of contempt.
She watched Kara start to lurch forward, ready to save her, but something was wrong, suddenly someone grabbed Kara's neck.
Forcing her sister's knees to buckle.
And just like that, a rush of adrenaline ran its course throughout Alex's body. Someone had grabbed her sister's neck and injected kryptonite into her neck.
She tried to scream out Kara's name, but it was futile.
More water started to rush through her lungs before the darkness started to cloud her vision. She reached out one last time to grab her sister, but it was too late.
Alex jolted awake from consciousness, her heart was beating out of her chest, where was she? Where was her sister?
"Kara" She screamed, but her voice was hoarse, and her throat was sore. Her throat felt scratchy and it had a disgusting taste in it… probably from the sewage.
"Where the fuck is she?"
Alex heard someone scream from outside, she instantly recognised the small detective who barged her way through the D.E.O and into the medical room.
"Alex" Maggie cried out as she wrapped her arms around Alex's body that was wrapped up in bandages. She had been with Lena when she got the call that Alex had been injured, she felt her heart drop when she got that call.
"Maggie? How long have I been out?" Alex frantically asked as she looked around the medical room, hoping to see a pair of blue eyes looking at her. Alex winced in pain as her body suddenly flared up in pain, tears started to fall out of Alex's eyes when she realised that Kara wasn't here with them.
"6 hours" Maggie mumbled
"6 Hours?" Alex exclaimed, where the hell was her sister? She needed to see Kara, she needed to make sure that it was just a dream.
Lena too, barged her way through the D.E.O, "Where the fuck is she?" she shouted at the agents standing outside of Alex's room.
The agents, who were trained to withstand numerous forms of torture, flinched under Lena's intense glare.
"Miss Luthor" J'onn's voice boomed throughout the D.E.O, "I would appreciate it if you didn't scare half of my agents away"
"I would appreciate it if you told me where the fuck my girlfriend is" Lena shot back harshly.
Alex swung her legs over the bed, "Easy" Maggie muttered, she pushed her girlfriend back down onto the bed despite her protest.
"Where's Kara?" Alex asked with tears streaming down her face, "Where is my sister?" she screamed at J'onn.
Maggie grabbed Alex's arm, trying to calm her down.
J'onn shook his head with guilt, "We don't know" he clenched his jaw in anger.
He barely made it in time to save Alex, he almost lost her. Why did he stay in the van? He was so afraid of exposing himself as the last green Martian, that he let his own surrogate daughters go.
Alex almost died and now Kara was missing, what type of man was he?
"What the hell do you mean you don't know?" Alex screamed before Lena could.
"When we got there… Kara was gone… and you were barely breathing" He muttered, he placed his arm on his torso and let out a shaky breath, "We're doing everything we can to find her"
"That isn't good enough" Lena screamed at him
"I know" J'onn muttered weakly, he never let this side of him show. Only Kara and Alex have seen this side of him, "I'm sorry" he muttered.
Lena shook her head, she was not going to cry, she was not going to appear weak in front of these people.
No-one here gave a damn about her.
Only Kara ever cared about her.
And now she was missing.
Maggie saw Lena spiralling out of control, and so was Alex. She needed to keep everyone calm and under control.
Yes, she was worried about Kara.
But right now, everyone in this room was high on emotions.
J'onn was fuelled with guilt of a father.
Lena was going through a hurricane of emotions. It wasn't hard to read Lena's expression no matter how cold she tried to appear. Lena feels completely and utterly alone.
Maggie knew that Lena is thinking that Kara is the only person who cared about her, but that's not true.
Maggie, Alex and even Winn cares about Lena.
Yes, it was because of Kara that Lena earned their love, but just because Kara wasn't here, it didn't mean that love suddenly disappeared.
"Lena" Maggie's voice softened, she saw Lena bit her lip in attempt to stop herself from crying.
J'onn picked up on it and cleared his throat, "Miss Luthor, I would like to request your help in the investigation"
Everyone looked surprised by J'onn request, especially Lena, "You're going to trust a Luthor?" Lena scoffed, not believing it for one second.
"No" J'onn said firmly, he stared at Lena dead in the eyes, "I'm choosing to trust you, as Lena"
Lena was taken back by this, it seems that not everyone despised her.
"Plus, Kara made me promise that if anything ever happened to her, then I would take care of you" J'onn said, he recalled the conversation that he had with Kara after she announced that she was dating Lena.
"Kara, are you sure about this?" J'onn asked with concern
"Sure, about what?" Kara asked, she placed her hand on her hips and gave him a challenging look.
J'onn knew this was going to lead into an argument, but he couldn't help but be concerned, "Are you sure about dating a Luthor?"
Kara scoffed, "I've never been so sure about something in my life" she replied firmly.
"I trust you. And your judgement. All I want is for you to be happy" J'onn said with uncertainty
"Lena makes me happy" Kara replied honestly, "She makes me feel… so many things that I cannot describe. Every time that I see her, I get this feeling in my chest, in the pits of my stomach… it's like how Winn described it to be. Wam Pow!" she said with a small smile
J'onn noticed, how something as simple as mentioning Lena's name, sparked something in Kara's eyes.
"Okay" J'onn nodded his head, "If you're happy, then I'm happy"
Kara started beaming, "Thank you" she flew into J'onn's arm and gave him a hug. J'onn was thrown off by the hug but he kept his stance and hugged her back.
After a few seconds, he started to notice that some of the agents started to stare at them funny. He quickly cleared his throat and pulled away from the hug.
"J'onn?" Kara said before J'onn could leave.
"What's up Supergirl?" He tried to compose himself, trying to sound like the director of the D.E.O rather than a concerned father.
"If anything happens to me… I need you take care of her" Kara mumbled softly.
J'onn hated when Kara spoke like this, "Nothing is going to happen to you that will need me to take care of her"
"I know" Kara nodded her head, "But… please… promise me? I need to know that Lena has someone else looking out for her", that's all Kara ever wanted. She wanted to give Lena what she had. She wanted to give Lena what she craved for.
The love of a family.
"Kara really said that?" Lena mumbled softly, even when Kara wasn't here, she was still looking out for her. God, she loved Kara so much.
J'onn nodded his head.
"You know what? Little Danvers said something like that to me… but it was more passive aggressive then that" Maggie told the group.
"Really?" Alex asked in surprise
"Yep, little Danvers gave me a little pep talk after you told her we were dating" Maggie replied
Maggie was waiting at the bar. Kara had called her, asking her to meet up with her at the alien bar. She waited a couple minutes until she saw Kara running into the bar.
"Sorry I'm late" Kara said as she slid into the booth, "There was this robbery with this guy… long story short, he's in jail and now I'm late for our meeting"
"Meeting?" Maggie cocked an eyebrow at her, "Sounds to formal"
Kara shrugged her shoulders, "Well…it's not supposed to be formal… I just wanted to talk"
"Eugh, well, shoot" Maggie replied, she was wandering why Kara wanted to talk one on one.
"Your dating my sister" Kara stated firmly.
Maggie nodded her head, she was starting to understand where this was going, "Yes I am" she replied as seriously as she could.
She didn't think that Kara had it in her to be scary enough to do a pep talk.
"Why?" Kara questioned seriously, there was no sunny smile, no frown, no emotions. Just a simple question, but it threw Maggie off.
"What?"
"Why are you dating my sister?" Kara repeated herself seriously.
Maggie didn't know what type of game Kara was playing, but she decided that if anyone should know why she's dating Alex, it would be Kara.
"Alex has this… insistent drive to protect the people that she loves. She tries to hide her big heart the badass D.E.O agent façade. At first, I thought that Alex was just another agent doing her job for the money"
"But then… I saw her with you. I saw Alex risk her life, not to protect herself, but to protect you and the citizens of national city. I've never seen someone so… beautiful and… selfless like her before"
"When I was kidnapped by Scorcher, I was so sure that no-one would come for me. No-one would care enough to notice that I was missing… but then your sister came… your sister was the face that I saw, when I lost all hope"
"So to answer your question, I love Alex because… she is so brave and beautiful, strong and selfless… she is just everything that I want in a girlfriend, but more" Maggie replied with so much love in her voice.
She's never spoke about someone like that before. Too be fair, she never felt this way towards someone before.
After a few seconds of analysing Maggie, Kara smiled, "That didn't answer my question" she said softly, but her eyes were beaming with happiness and love.
"What?" Maggie asked with confusion, was that not a good enough answer for Kara?
"I asked, why are you dating my sister… not why do you love my sister" Kara explained.
Maggie sat in the booth with a surprised look, she didn't even realise that she said she loved Alex. God, she didn't even say that to Alex yet.
"I can tell that you love my sister. Can you promise me something?" Kara asked
"Anything" Maggie said without hesitation, she knew that Kara would never make her promise something that made her uncomfortable.
"Alex has always taken care of me, she's always been the best big sister… sometimes she forgets to take care of herself. She needs someone to take care of her, someone that she can lean on. So, promise me that you won't leave her?"
"Promise me that you won't hurt my sister. And no matter how hard things get, you won't walk away, no matter how scared you get because I can assure you, Alex is 10x more scared about this relationship than anything in her life. She loves you so much that she is afraid of messing this up, so she will do anything to keep this relationship strong"
Holy shit, was it possible to be intimidated by Kara despite fact she was using the softest tone that no human is capable of using.
"You don't need to worry about it little Danvers. I promise" Maggie replied firmly. There was no hint of hesitation, and that was enough reason for Kara to be happy.
"Good" Kara finally gave her a welcoming smile, "If you break your promise, I will throw you into the sun" Kara said way too enthusiastically before climbing out of the booth and walking away after hearing a siren go off in the distance.
"Oh my god" Alex mumbled with embarrassment, "I can't believe that she said that"
Deep down, a part of her was happy that Kara said those things to Maggie. She was glad to know that her sister had her back, no matter what.
"Little Danvers is tough, we will find her" Maggie reassured