"Good work agent Danvers with the alien but right now you have monitor duty." Henshaw handed her the stack of paperwork before walking away all huffy she stared after him in absolute shock. She had stopped a huge mess, she had taken control of the situation without any training and now she had to do monitor duty plus the paperwork.
Huffing she sat down and got to work cursing her boss under her breathe for he was probably doing zilch in his office just reading the news or something.
"You done well before." Jane came up and gave out condolences for how Henshaw had treated her by just lying a hand on her shoulder.
"Thanks. Hey do you think we can swap monitor duty tomorrow I have something I want to do after work with a friend so I thought we could swap for mine next week." Alex looked up hopefully
"Sure thing. So who is this friend?"
"I can't say."
"Oh come on give me some sort of gossip that I can trade with."
"This is none of your business." Alex knew that by that afternoon it would be around the DEO like wildfire. Jane had a gleam in her eyes knowing very well what type of gossip she had in hand.
"Right so is he just a friend?"
"He's just a friend." She replied heatedly not knowing why she was blushing she just was, getting up and walked away smiling okay she couldn't tell anyone who I liked but I could release it from my chest a bit. I knew that I couldn't really make a move he was a prisoner. She was meant to be his captor. There were laws, rules that dictated that she shouldn't even be making contact with him. If that had been crossing a line letting him out into the world without anyone knowing was putting that line a good mile behind her.
She just trusted him not knowing why, she just had this feeling that he was an innocent.
Walking to his cell she sat down and listened to him talk about his home. She had asked a while ago and to her surprise he suddenly felt comfortable talking to her about his past. A whole new light went onto their, what she now called friendship. He talked about his past family and she complained about her mother and her father whom was still in a coma.
"What's a coma?" J'onn asked after she talked about her Dad
"It's a state of sleep where they might not wake up for a long time or ever." She chocked out fighting the tears that were defiantly building up.
"We never had anything like that. Will he be okay?"
"I…I don't know." Alex confessed leaning dejectedly against cell looking away into nothingness her eyes clouding over
"Wait was his name Jeremiah?" J'onn suddenly recognized what he had been trying to pin point since he first saw her.
"Yes. How did you know that?" Standing up abruptly suddenly wondering if he was the reason her Dad was in a coma. Her eyes had begging in them begging that he had just guessed
J'onn looked away grief on his face before he spoke up small quiet sad voice.
"Jeremiah tried to save me. He stopped Henshaw from killing me." Alex looked up relief was all over her face. Her father had tried to save him he hadn't attacked him.
"Tell me why the DEO hunted you in the first place."
J'onn's face became pained looking ashamed at what the truth was. Alex had to know no matter how bad it was so she sat there waiting for him to speak up.
"I lost my mind. It was attacked by a man-made machine I couldn't control what happened. And I don't remember anything besides waking up in that jungle and knowing someone was hunting me. I felt so…" He fell silent before Alex spoke up
"You felt frightened. Everyone does at some point J'onn." She reached forward as if she were going to touch him but she had forgotten the cell her hand brushed against the wall before she let it fall by her side once again.
"I…I want you to take me flying tomorrow." Alex gulped not knowing what to expect as a girl she had always wanted to fly across the night's sky like Peter pan. Only now she had finally worked up the courage and trust to ask him. They knew so much about each other it was weird. No one not even Kara knew how she felt.
J'onn nodded smiling ever so slightly gazing at her the electric light illuminating his red eyes. And for one she met his gaze not even recoiling at the fact they were nowhere near human.
"If you're sure." He whispered
"I'm certain."
