Maggie walked back through from the kitchen, handing Alex down the glass of water. She wished Alex could have something stronger for the shock, but she knew that obviously wasn't an option. She sat down on the couch next to her, just giving Alex a moment to take this in. She saw Alex glancing to the glass of scotch that was sitting on the coffee table. "I wish I could drink that." Alex murmured.

Maggie rubbed Alex's arm, clearly knowing why Alex wished she could have a drink in that moment. "Hey, we'll find her."

"How many women?" Alex questioned.

"There's 5. Including you." Maggie told her, rubbing her arm softly.

"How can I help?" Alex questioned. She was trying her hardest to remember anything she could about that night, but it was patchy in her mind.

"I uh…just tell me everything you can remember about that night." Maggie knew this wasn't going to be easy, but she had to now know about that night. The night Alex thought she cheated.

Alex took a drink of the water, before putting it down on the coffee table. "I eh…" Alex closed her eyes. "She has a tattoo." Alex said, her right hand lightly rubbing over her left wrist.

"She does?" Maggie knew this would be helpful in identifying her.

"Hmm," Alex nodded, her eyes still closed as she kept rubbing her wrist. "Birds. A few little birds on her left wrist," Alex said. "I remember her being on top of me," Alex paused for a moment, Maggie moving her hand to Alex's back and rubbing it comfortingly. She didn't like hearing this, but knew it was needed if she wanted to find this woman. "I don't remember much else."

"It's okay," Maggie kept rubbing her back. "Do you remember anything about her place? We need something on where she lives." Maggie said. Because she was using fake names, it was hard to place this woman.

Alex took a deep breath, opening her eyes and looking at her wife. "It wasn't far from the bar. I remember walking past it as I left," Alex said. "Uh…there was a 7-eleven nearby and a tattoo shop. Uhm…." Alex shrugged. "I remember being in an elevator, so it wasn't the ground floor," Alex exhaled. "Sorry, I know its not much."

"It's good," Maggie told her. "More than we've got so far."

"Maybe if I go back to the area I'll recognise the building." Alex said, rubbing her hands together as her leg was shaking nervously.

"You think you could?" Maggie questioned.

"If you take me," Alex replied. "This woman needs to be stopped," Alex spoke quietly. "We need to get her so she doesn't keep doing this."

"I know we do," Maggie told her. "But sweetie, this is something so huge to have happened to you and I think you should process it first before making rash decisions." All Maggie wanted to do was protect Alex. She didn't want her doing something that could cause her a lot of stress. Alex had just come to the realisation she'd been raped so Maggie wanted her processing it first.

"I can," Alex said. She felt violated, but she knew she had support and that she just needed time to deal with what had happened to her. "But all I am going to think about right now, is her being arrested and paying for what she did to me and those other women," Alex felt herself choking up. "I can do it, Maggie. If I have you there, then I know I'll be okay."

"Okay," Maggie exhaled lightly. She couldn't fight Alex on this. She knew Alex would have to deal with this in her own way. "We'll go back. When you feel ready, I'll take you back to the area." Maggie rubbed Alex's back again as Alex gave a little nod, leaning herself against her wife, seeking a little more comfort. Maggie wrapped her other arm around her and held her wife, placing a soft kiss on the top of her head. She hadn't held her wife like this for a long time. It felt nice, having her in her arms again. She'd missed little interactions like that with her. She knew they had a way to go before things would be back to normal, especially now with Alex realising what had happened to her, but them working on things right now was enough, because she knew that eventually all that would come back for them.


Alex had come to the station to make an official statement. She was in the interview room with Officer Hall and Maggie, Maggie sitting next to her to make her feel a little more comfortable. They looked to the door as it opened, and Johnson walked into the room. "Detective," Johnson looked to Maggie. "What part of you being off this case made you think you could come in here?"

Maggie glared up at him. She was to close to Alex to be able to stay on the case and Johnson had wasted no time in kicking her off it. He'd recently been promoted to sergeant and was currently on a power trip so was even harder to work with than usual. "Because she is my wife and I am going to sit here with her when she is reporting her rape." Maggie retorted.

Johnson raised his eyebrows as he glanced at Alex. She usually looked so strong, but in that moment, she was so vulnerable looking. "I thought you two were separated." Johnson said as he walked over to the table and chairs and took a seat next to Officer Hall.

"Firstly, our marital status has nothing to do with you," Maggie sounded annoyed as she spoke. "Secondly, like I said, I am here to support her," Maggie said. "Now, instead of being a dick and annoying me for no good reason how about you do the job you took from me and start looking for who this woman is and where she lives."

"Well it would be helpful if one of these women could remember that," Johnson muttered. Officer Hall glared at him as he shook his head, not believing he actually said such a comment. "We have nothing to go on apart from a bunch of fake first names."

"Well, we know the area she lives in." Officer Hall reminded him.

"Yes but no CCTV footage or picture of her," Johnson sighed. "Honestly, it's going to be like looking for a needle in a haystack." Johnson actually looked annoyed with Alex for not remembering everything, like it was her fault and not the fact she was drugged and had a hazy memory.

"Well I'm sorry I got drugged." Alex murmured.

"Well you were the one who got yourself in that situation." Johnson retorted.

"Don't you dare blame the victim," Maggie sounded livid with him. "You need to put your dislikes aside," Maggie seethed. She knew Johnson had problems with the fact she and Alex were lesbians, or with gay people in general, but right now he needed to put that to the side and be professional and do his job. "Do your job and help these women who have been violated and taken advantage of. You took me off this case, so you better put your everything into it and get this woman arrested and charged soon."

"Well that is what my job is all about," Johnson murmured before he glanced to Alex. "Anything coming back to you yet?"

Alex shook her head. "I'm trying so hard but it's not there," Alex answered, rubbing her hands together nervously. Maggie noticed she looked uncomfortable, so she lightly rubbed Alex's back, Alex glancing at her with a smile. "Maybe more will come back eventually. I mean, these other women are remembering now so maybe in a few more weeks I'll be able to remember more too." Maggie kept rubbing Alex's back. In a way, she didn't really want Alex to remember it all so clearly. She knew it would be awful only remembering parts of it after realising you'd been raped but she felt like remembering the whole thing would be even worse and with Alex already dealing with the alcohol addiction and losing Carter, this was just something she didn't need on her mind.

"Just take your time," Officer Hall told her. "And you only realised this is what happened to you last night, so, you've done great with what you've told us so far," Officer Hall said, giving Alex a smile. He couldn't imagine how hard it was for these women to come forward and he wanted to ensure that they'd find the woman responsible. He glanced at Maggie, knowing she wasn't happy with being taken off the case. He knew now more than ever that Maggie would want to find her given that Alex was one of the victims. "We'll get her." Hall spoke reassuringly as he nodded his head. He knew once they'd got a decent lead, that it wouldn't take long for them to find and arrest her, which would only be a good thing for Alex and the other women in terms of them moving past what had happened to them.


Maggie had taken the girls to Eliza's for the night. It was now Friday and time for her date with Alex. She gave the girls lots of hugs and kisses, before leaving the apartment with Alex, the pair of them getting a taxi to the restaurant. "So, what was Emmi going about at the apartment?" Maggie questioned as they got out the taxi, Alex handing the driver a note to pay for it.

"Oh, I was supposed to by you a bonsai tree for our date tonight," Alex said as they walked into the restaurant. Maggie chuckled at her daughter's idea. "But you've probably got enough, right?"

"One can never have enough bonsai trees." Maggie joked, and Alex gave a little chuckle this time.

"Alexandra, Margarita," Lorenzo came over to them, his hands out in front of him. "I saw Danvers in the reservations and I hoped it was you," Alex and Maggie went to Alessandro's a lot and Lorenzo was usually their waiter. "No, bambini tonight?"

"No, no kids," Maggie shook her head. "They are with Grandma."

"Oh, a nice date night for Mama's," Lorenzo smiled as he grabbed some menus and led them over to their table. "It's been too long, ay?" Lorenzo put the menus down on the table as Maggie and Alex took a seat. "Where have you been?"

"Uh just busy, you know." Alex cleared her throat.

"Oh yes, yes," Lorenzo nodded. "Those little bambini of yours will keep you busy," Lorenzo said. "Especially the little one. Oh, she's a monkey." Lorenzo shook his head at the thought of Hayden.

"That's one word for her." Maggie said as she opened the menu, although she didn't really know why. She'd been there enough that she knew the menu by heart.

"I will get you started with some water?" Lorenzo questioned. "Sparkling, yes?"

"Yeah, please," Alex nodded, and Lorenzo walked off to get them the water. "So," Alex exhaled lightly, and Maggie put her menu down and looked to her wife when she was talking to her. "I went into the DEO today," Alex told her. "Talked to J'onn about starting back at work."

"Already?" Maggie questioned, feeling a little surprised.

"Well why not," Alex shrugged. "It will give me something to do and it'll now also keep my mind off the…" Alex trailed off, looking downwards as she cleared her throat. "Any progress on that today?"

Maggie shook her head. "Hall and I went to the bar but no-one who matched her description turned up."

Alex looked a little confused. "I thought you were off the case."

"Technically I am but Johnson was off today, so…" Maggie gave a little shrug. "I want to help with this, Alex. I'll be dammed if he stops me from finding the bitch who…." Maggie trailed off, shaking her head. "But are you sure you are ready to go back to work?" Maggie sounded a little concerned.

"Why would I not be?" Alex questioned. "I'm sober and you know I can't stop work completely."

"True," Maggie nodded. "But I worry, Alex. You've just discovered this huge thing has happened to you and I want to make sure you are processing it."

"What's there to process?" Alex questioned. "I was ra…." Alex stopped talked. "It's happened. Nothing is going to change that. All I care about right now is us," Alex told her wife. "Okay, it's me and you fixing everything and me moving back home," Alex said. "I mean, we've established I didn't technically cheat on you." Alex's voice went quieter.

"No," Maggie shook her head. "And obviously it does change things but you…" Maggie paused. "Look, let's just talk about this later, yeah. Let's just have a nice dinner."

"No, Maggie, what do you want to say?" Alex questioned, knowing Maggie had clearly stopped herself from saying something that was on her mind. "We are here to talk, so let's keep talking."

Maggie pursed her lips. "You still went out there drinking and you started talking to another woman," Maggie said, not making eye contact with Alex. She didn't like what she was thinking right now, but she couldn't help it. "With the drinking, Alex, I…"

"I wouldn't have," Alex shook her head, knowing what Maggie's worries were. "I didn't want to have sex," Alex told her wife. "You know I wasn't feeling like anything, never mind sex," Alex said. "I just used her as an ear. As someone to listen to my problems because she was a stranger and she didn't care about me or I didn't care what she'd have thought of me," Alex told her, brushing her hand over the edge of the table. "But I do care about you and your thoughts. That's why it was hard for me to open up with you."

"But I'm your wife," Maggie stopped talking as Lorenzo brought the bottle of sparkling water over to the table, pouring two glasses. "Sorry we've not looked at the menu yet. Can we have 5 minutes," Maggie told him before he even had the chance to ask if they were ready to order. Lorenzo looked between the both of them, seeing he may have interrupted an important conversation so he just nodded and walked away. "You should be able to be fully open with me, Alex," Maggie told her. "I should be your safe place. I shouldn't be the one you close away from."

"You are my safe place," Alex told her. "I was suffering from PND, Maggie, I…I couldn't control all my thoughts." Alex didn't want it to seem like she was making an excuse, but the facts were that she wasn't herself after the loss of Carter and it most likely all stemmed from the postnatal depression.

"I guess not." Maggie murmured as she picked up her water and took a drink.

"I love you so much, Maggie," Alex told her, reaching her hand across the table and taking a hold of Maggie's. "You know that, don't you?" Alex questioned, and Maggie gave a little nod, a smile appearing on her face. "And I'm sorry I screwed us up so much but I'm better now and we can talk as much as you want because all I want is to fix us."

"I know it is," Maggie gave a little nod, her lips pursed. "And we are talking, right?" Maggie exhaled lightly. "This was never going to be easy or fixed after one conversation."

"No," Alex answered. "But we are going to get there because it's what we both want."

"Yeah." Maggie smiled as Alex rubbed her hand with her thumb.

"Are you off work this weekend?" Alex questioned, after Maggie was silent, Alex seeing she wasn't adding any more to the conversation.

"Yes." Maggie looked rather pleased about that.

"Maybe I shouldn't have but I told Emmi that I'd see if we could do something together," Alex told her. "The 4 of us. Emmi picked the aquarium of course but I told her I'd needed to check it with you first."

"The aquarium sounds nice," Maggie said. "And a family day out is good too. Let's Emmi see we are still a family and give us a chance to try and get things back to like they were. Us out with the girls, having a nice day," Maggie exhaled. "Maybe in a family setting like that we'll relax a little and enjoy each other's company," Maggie suggested. "Let us have normal conversations again."

"Yeah," Alex nodded, agreeing with what Maggie was saying. "So, we can go? You didn't have other plans?" Alex asked. She'd hate to make Maggie change any plans she had.

"No," Maggie answered. "I was just going to take it easy. Suggest we met up anyways, so…." Maggie paused, looking into her wife's eyes, the smile on her face growing larger as Alex smiled back at her. "I would love to go to the aquarium with you and the girls."

"Great. It's a date then." Alex squeezed Maggie's hand a little tighter as she kept smiling at her.

"Yeah it is." Maggie replied, before she looked down to the menu to see what she wanted to order, Alex still keeping a hold of her hand, as she got a smile on her face, already looking forward to the family day out to the aquarium.


Alex walked back into the apartment, locking the door behind her. She turned around, seeing her mother in the kitchen, getting herself a glass of water. "Hey, sweetie, you okay?" Eliza questioned.

"Yes," Alex answered as she walked over to the breakfast bar, leaning against it. "The girls okay?"

"Sound asleep," Eliza yawned. "I was just about to head of to bed myself."

"I'm not that late back, am I?" Alex looked up to the clock on the kitchen wall, seeing it was little after 10.

"No," Eliza shook her head. "But the girls can be tiring." Eliza answered, and Alex gave a nod of understanding. "So, how did it go?"

"Yeah, good," Alex felt a smile forming on her face. "We talked a bit and made plans to take the girls to the aquarium tomorrow," Alex informed her. "You can come too, if you want."

"No, no," Eliza shook her head, refusing the offer. She knew Maggie and Alex needed some time to work it all out without her being around all the time. "You 4 go out and have a nice day together," Eliza gave her a little smile and Alex nodded. "Bet Emmi will love that."

"Yeah," Alex answered. "She's going to be stoked."

Eliza gave a little nod as she took a drink of her water. "Did Maggie say anything about the case?" Eliza spoke tentatively. When Alex had returned home from the house a couple days earlier, Alex was clearly upset, and Eliza had eventually gotten it out of Alex that she'd been drugged and raped, but then Alex refused to talk to her about it and Eliza had been giving her the space she clearly wanted at the moment, but she knew Alex had been to the station and they were trying to get the woman responsible.

Alex shook her head. "Well nothing positive anyways," Alex murmured. Eliza opened her mouth to talk but stopped when she saw Emmi appearing from the hallway, rubbing her tired eyes. "Hey, sweetie, what you doing up?" Alex questioned.

"Did you get Mama a bonsai tree?" Emmi questioned.

"No," Alex shook her head. "She doesn't need a bonsai tree."

Emmi scowled. "Did you have a nice dinner?" Emmi asked as Alex started walking down the hall, ushering Emmi back down to the bedroom.

"It was lovely," Alex told her daughter. "And Mama and I did some talking and we're working hard to fix everything."

Emmi looked up at Alex with a smile, clearly pleased at the news. "Did you ask her about the aquarium family date?" Emmi wondered, her eyes going all wide.

"I did," Alex nodded. "And we are going tomorrow," Alex said and Emmi grinned, excited about all of them going to the aquarium together. "But only if you get back up into bed." Alex said, giving Emmi's sides a little tickle, Emmi giggling lightly.

"Okay." Emmi sighed.

"Go on, you can dream of all the fish you'll see." Alex said. Emmi nodded as she climbed up the ladder of the bunk beds. She sat on the top bunk and leaned down, giving Alex a kiss.

"Night Mum." Emmi yawned.

"Goodnight." Alex whispered before she leaned down and looked into the bottom bunk, Hayden curled up into a little ball, hugging Hallie hippo tightly. She watched her daughter for a moment, a smile on her face before she left the room, leaving her girls to sleep. She walked out into the hall, seeing Eliza walking out of the bathroom.

"Do you want to talk anymore about…." Eliza couldn't bring herself to say it. It killed her that her daughter had been taken advantage of.

"I'm okay, Mum," Alex told her. "I don't really remember much of it, so it's not like there would be much to talk about," Alex said. "I uh…I'll see you in the morning, yeah?" Alex questioned, and Eliza nodded in response, knowing not to push Alex. Alex walked into the guest bedroom and took a seat on the edge of the bed as she kicked her shoes off. She took a deep breath as she felt her eyes welling up with tears. She lay back on the bed, and closed her eyes tightly, trying to stop the tears from falling.


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