"Weren't they for me?" Alex asked as she opened her eyes and saw Maggie and Kara eat some of the chocolates that had been left for her.
"They're bad for you." Kara said while chewing.
"Besides you are just lying on your ass all day so it is not like you need the energy." Maggie smiled. "Some of us have been fighting crime."
"And saving the Earth." Kara piped in.
"I am more than happy not to lie on my ass all day." Alex said trying to sit up.
"Alex, you are meant to be resting." Eliza said choosing to enter the room at that moment. "And please watch your language."
"Yeah, delicate Kryptonian ears here." Kara smiled earning an eye roll from Alex who asked.
"Shouldn't those delicate Kryptonian ears be talking to a certain Daxamite? Unless you have solved those issues in my absence."
"That's a low blow." Kara pointed out. "And no those issues are still there."
"What issues?" Maggie asked.
"He kissed me, but doesn't remember it."
"Claims he doesn't remember it." Alex corrected.
"You think he's lying?" Eliza asked.
"His memory is pretty clear on everything else that happened when he had the virus." Alex pointed out.
"With my track record over the last year him forgetting would be right up there with normal." Kara sighed.
"I'm sure it is not that bad." Maggie said.
"Kiss number one was followed by me being kidnapped by Bizarro, led to me dumping Adam, upsetting Cat and being demoted to assistant number two whilst having to work with someone who hated me so much she screamed me out of a window. Kiss number two resulted in me freaking out and Winn not talking to me for weeks. He and only really started talking to me again after I caught him in a very compromising position in a stationery cupboard with the woman who would scream me out of a window. Kiss number three was immediately followed by James turning into a mindless zombie and the world nearly ending and kiss number four Mon-El can't even remember. I think I'm cursed." Kara said as Eliza wrapped an arm round her.
"Mild amnesia seems to be an improvement." Maggie pointed out before Alex asked.
"Do you want him to remember?"
"I don't know. I just want a simple life."
"You're an alien with a dual identity." Maggie pointed out.
"Simple for me life." Kara corrected.
"Even if he doesn't remember, he still likes you." Eliza said.
"Fairly sure he doesn't. But that is for the best anyway I mean he is from Daxam so it is not like it would ever work between us."
"Your two species aren't….um...compatible?" Maggie asked.
"Think more Romeo and Juliet." Alex said. "Krypton and Daxam were Mortal enemies."
"For a mortal enemy he was working really hard trying to get information on who had taken Alex." Maggie said. "And he got you a story."
"What story?" Alex asked.
"He uncovered a money laundering operation." Kara said.
"Wow, even Mon-El is achieving more than I am." Alex said.
"Not everything needs to be a competition." Eliza said. "Right now you need to rest."
"And I need to finish my next story before Snapper fires me. I'll see you later." Kara said kissing Alex's head.
"Don't work too hard." Eliza said as Kara walked past. She then turned her attention back to Alex and asked. "Do you need another pillow? Those are looking flat. I'll go see what I can find."
"I'm fine." Alex called after her but she was already gone.
"You okay?" Maggie asked. "You look concerned."
"I'm just not used to mom running round after me."
"Well you scared the hell out of her. Out of all of us." Maggie said.
"Wasn't my intention." Alex said grimacing as she shifted in her bed. "So I hear you and Kara have been talking."
"We have." Maggie said. "She's nice and she adores you. But you could have warned me she was a hugger."
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you." Alex said.
"I figured it our pretty quickly. The whole being engulfed in her arms was a give away." Maggie said.
"I didn't mean that. I meant I'm sorry I didn't tell you she was Supergirl."
"I was kind of hoping she wouldn't tell you she told me. I was going to torment you for a while." Maggie confessed.
"Harsh Sawyer. Remember I'm on my sick bed."
"Never mind. She told me plenty of other things for me to hold over you." Maggie smiled.
"Oh god." Alex groaned. "What did she say?"
"Plenty." Maggie grinned. "Many interesting stories. Although none as interesting as what I learned from Maxwell Lord."
"You spoke to Max?" Alex asked surprised. "How? Why?"
"He's back in the city and seemed like a good suspect. Kara was pretty convinced he was involved. During her less than calm conversation with him he talked about how you smashed his head into a desk and illegally detained him."
"He deserved it. He threatened my family." Alex explained.
"That's what Kara said." Maggie replied. "I'm starting to think you are a bad influence on her."
"Don't let mom hear you say that." Alex said.
"So can I get you anything?"
"A way out of here?" Alex asked hopefully.
"No can do. J'onn has laid down the law on that. Anything else?"
"Real clothes would be nice."
"That I can do." Maggie smiled.
"Thanks. There's a key in my desk."
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"Miss Danvers?" Max smiled when his assistant showed Kara into his office. When the door shut he asked. "What do I owe this pleasure to? Or is it time to threaten me again? If it is going to be a recurring thing I am sure my assistant can put something in my schedule."
"I came to apologise." Kara said. "I shouldn't have jumped to conclusions about you. I'm sorry for accusing you of being involved in Alex's disappearance."
"That's very magnanimous of you." Max said. "I assume this change of heart means you have found Alex?"
"We have."
"Is she okay?"
"She will be." Kara said.
"That's good. Regardless of what you think of me I would hate for something to happen to your sister." Max said before asking. "So now your sister is safe can we talk trains?"
"You really want me to write an article on your new train?" Kara asked suspiciously.
"I do. I love trains and want others to enjoy them too." Max smiled. "Although in the interests of fostering a new more positive relationship, I do have ulterior motives."
"Which are?" Kara asked.
"I don't like the idea of aliens roaming the Earth with powers. A friend today could well be a slaver tomorrow. However, you did save all of us, almost at the cost of your own life. So I will concede that maybe your intentions are more honest than I originally thought. And although uncle Non was insane, he did make me refocus my research for saving the Earth. I mean he wasn't wrong we, as a race, are destroying the Earth. We pump chemicals into the atmosphere with no real understanding of the effects. We are stripping mines and forests bare. All the while we starve half the population and overfeed the rest. I have always been of the belief that we need to help ourselves. Face our problems on our own. Perhaps I was wrong. Perhaps we need help and perhaps you can help. But not with hope, as noble as that was."
"Then how?"
"Technology."
"I don't understand." Kara said.
"Your uncle created and distributed a signal that controlled the city." Seeing Kara's horrified face he added. "Relax, I don't want another Myriad. People need to accept they need to change. We can't just impose change."
"Then what are you after?"
"He managed to power the signal using Kryptonian technology. Something the size of a tennis ball has the capability of powering the city. We could overnight turn off our reactors. The availability of free energy will allow us to concentrate on bigger problems."
"You want me to give you a Omegahedron?" Kara asked.
"Why do you have one?" Max questioned. "From the glare I'll take that as a no. But no I wasn't suggesting you give me one. I doubt you would trust me with such power. I was hoping you could teach me about them, the physics behind them. I am not after an answer now, I just want you to consider it. But in the mean time let's talk trains."
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As Maggie reached Alex's apartment she heard a noise coming from inside. Knowing that no one should be there she drew her gun and listened. Content the noise was not coming from close to the door she took out the key that Alex had given her and silently opened the apartment. Looking round and seeing no one but still hearing noises she followed the sound to the bedroom, keeping her gun raised. When she saw a figure with their back to her she glanced round looking for anyone else before saying quietly but firmly.
"Put your hands on your head and turn round slowly."
"Maggie?" Winn asked spinning round.
"I said slowly." Maggie said keeping the gun trained on him, wondering why he was there.
"Don't shoot. This isn't what it looks like."
"Really, because it looks like one of the people responsible for Alex lying in a hospital bed is now breaking into her apartment."
"While that is technically true, there's a good reason." Winn said still holding his hands above his head.
"Start speaking." Maggie ordered.
"Well, like you said it is kind of my fault what happened to Alex."
"Kind of?" Maggie asked.
"Ok. Definitely my fault." Winn corrected nervously. "Anyway, I know Alex will be off her feet for awhile and needs bed rest, which she will hate, because she really doesn't like sitting around doing nothing. It will drive her crazy. From you expression I am guessing you know that."
"If your plan is to babble until I no longer feel the need to shoot you, it's not working." Maggie cut in.
"That wasn't my plan." Winn said. "But I'll get to the point. So as I was saying Alex is going to go crazy so I'm installing a TV in her bedroom. Fully connected to Netflix so she can watch what she wants. I mean it's not a great TV, just 42 inches, but-"
"Forty-two inches?" Maggie asked. "That's like ten bigger than mine."
"Wow, that's small. That's like nineties small." Winn said earning a glare from Maggie.
"Breaking into someone's apartment is creepy. Then drilling holes in their bedroom wall even creepier." Maggie said.
"I wanted it to be a surprise." Winn said.
-TBC...