Get ready for some Mama Bear Maggie :) (Kind of Mature toward the end if your good at reading between the lines)

"Maggie…."

The scratchy croak of my name as we rounded the corner into the start of the med bay was the only real warning I had before I collided hard with a solid red and blue super suit wearing body and my sight was engulfed in a blur of grimy dirt smeared blonde hair.

Huh…and here I thought she hated me for hurting her sister. Yet here she is clinging onto me like I'm a fleshy teddy bear and crying softly into my shoulder while I struggle to keep us both standing.

"Easy Little Danvers." I whisper in a low cooing whisper rubbing little circles along her back as best I could while Andra's arm dropped away from me as the woman herself sped past us down the hall to another of the already occupied rooms leaving Sara standing guard beside us in the eerily empty hallway. I mean compared to the body filled space of the surrounding control room this was like full on ghost town halls.

"Come on Kara." I prompt waving off Sara's questioning eyes to take over when she noticed that my legs were threatening to collapse under the strain of holding up the sobbing Kryptonian. Besides I didn't need Vasquez's annoyed glare over Kara's shoulder in the room the young hero had obviously been resting in to tell me she was breaking the rules as I guided the wobbly-legged super back to the warm yellow solar lamps she should be resting under with Sara shadowing us every step of the way.

"You know you're going to get me in trouble if you don't get back in bed, soon right?" I question trying to make my tone as jokingly soft as I could knowing full well that Kara was listening in on everything going on with Alex's surgery. "Hey. Kara…. Kara…. Kara…. come on Little Danvers listen to me please." I whisper nudging her with my shoulder until watery blue eyes met mine as her hold on my waist tightened and her steps grew slower to the point that I was all but dragging her along with me back to the solar-paneled table.

"You and I both know how much of a badass your sister is. She hung on this long and we both know she'll hang on a lot longer. Then she'll be out, on the mend and worrying about you and everyone else that helped you guys out in that other Earth grudge match in one time." I tell her interlacing my fingers with hers to keep some kind of reassuring contact with her once I'd finally managed to get her to lay back on the table again.

"I'll…I erm…I'm just go get you both something to snack on while we're waiting." Sara suggested already backing catlike out of the room with Vasquez not far behind her with a soft "I'll help you." While I pretended not to notice that both of them where quietly blinking back the wetness in their eyes on the way out.

I hadn't noticed that I'd fallen asleep with my hand still clasped with Kara's while she slept until Winn was gently shaking my shoulder causing the blanket someone had draped over my shoulders to slip down to bunch up at my back when I sat up and pushed my hair back out of my eyes to look at him better.

"Papa Bear said to let you know that we'll be bringing her in soon." The tech genius informed me kneeling beside the hard chair I was curled up in. "She'll be under heavy sedation, but everything got back on track after we found out just what was tipped on those stupid arrows that jerk shot her with." He rambled only stopping when I pulled him in for a one-armed hug considering my other hand was still locked in Kara's sleeping grip. "You did good Schott." I tell him in a motherly tone I didn't know I could use letting my hands ruffle his hair when we pulled apart.

"Now can you help a girl out? I really need to run to the bathroom and well…" That got a shaky laugh out of the man I'd come to see as a little brother as I nodded toward Kara and my still joined hands. "No problem." Winn smiles poising himself beside me as I mouthed a countdown then letting him take my place beside the sleeping Kryptonian. "I'll be back." I promise them, but Winn just waved me off in that brotherly way of his before he reached over pushing a few strands of Kara's hair back out of her closed eyes as he watched her sleep.


It wasn't until I was splashing warm water across my face therapeutically breathing deeper to calm myself down as I thought over everything that I'd been told since I'd been shrilly woken up in the dead of night while I leaned over the sink in one of the D.E.O private washrooms that our paths finally crossed.

"Huh…I've always wondered what I'd look like with longer hair."

My back stiffened at the cracked tone behind me as I slowly looked up into the mirror to meet her eyes over my shoulder.

"Got to say. I kind of like it." My tank top and sweatpants-clad copy smiled pulling an IV with an already half empty bag of some gray liquidy thing along beside her as she leaned heavily against the wall taking small steps closer to me. "Lt general Maggie Sawyer second in command of the Earth X Freedom Fighter's under the command of General Schott." She introduced holding out a shaking hand toward me in greeting while the other stayed white-knuckled around the IV pole.

"Detective Maggie Sawyer NCPD and GCPD science divisions." I answered feeling a weird kind of awe at shaking hands with myself "Hang on did you say, 'General Schott' as in Winn Schott?" I ask eyes wide at the statement and what it meant while my soldier double let out a ragged laugh as she nodded "Alex had the same reaction to his rank as you just did." she told me turning so her scared and badly burned back was pressed against the cool stone of the backsplash when she'd hobbled her way to a small leather seated bench along the wall.

"Do you know how she's doing?" the soldier questioned her eyes closed as she rolled the IV closer letting the arm connected to it rest across her knee.

I shake my head sliding down the wall beside my strangely graying skinned self "Only that she will be out of surgery soon and that they are moving her into Kara's room once she's out." I admit taking a seat beside her with my head in my hands. "It's okay." My double whispered as I felt a comforting hand against my back "Let it out already." She goaded when I stubbornly pretended not to know what she (well I) was talking about. "Come on Sawyer you don't need to be so strong all the time." she whispered finally breaking me with the bluntness of her (well my) tone.

That was how Andra found us.

Still hiding out in the little hallway washroom. Me with my head pillowed against my doppelganger's lap as she let my tears stand the knees of her sweatpants and her free hand combing soothingly in my longer hair quietly letting me cry myself out over the fact that if Sara and Andra hadn't come and got me that my Alex. The woman I am still madly in love with could have died yet again from some alien-related fight and I would have never known.

"Just thought you'd want to know that Alex is being moved into Kara's room." My love's counterpart told us after taking longer than probably needed to scold the soldier above me for sneaking out of her room in her less than healed condition. Her tongue flicking out to wet her lips as she looked us over making the tell-tale spark in her eyes darken until the only color left was just a little chocolate rim around the outer part of her eyes the longer her gaze stayed trained on us while she busied herself with changing out the IV bag beside 'Rambo Maggie' with a fresh still gray stuff filled bag.

"As fun as that would be now is not the time for those kinds of thoughts." Soldier me sighed just glancing up into our companion's clouded brown eyes while I stared up into them unflinching as I rolled over onto my back still with my head in the other Earth Maggie's lap.

Cause Dear God, how I've missed that look.

"I didn't say anything." Andra scoffed now worrying at her lower lip as she dropped her gaze but both RM and I could hear the breathy whimper in her voice as clear as day.

"Didn't have to Danvers." I correct knowing all too well what was going on in the Earth X Alex's beautiful head as I sat up brushing the rest of my tears away on the sleeve of the blanket I didn't know I'd brought with me.

"Come on babe we all know you are thinking it." Lt. G. Sawyer laughed when the Infernian still tried to deny anything as she helped us both up.

"Okay but come on I'm only human." Andra gave in with a low groan as she walked between us back down the hall toward Kara's room just as a familiar white bed started to round the corner ahead of us sending me running down the hall to meet it. To meet Her.

My Alex.