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Supergirlfan25 -Maggie and Lena will start to join forces.
"She'll be fine." Maggie said as she and Alex entered the elevator at the DEO.
"Then why isn't anyone answering my calls?" Alex asked as Maggie selected the floor.
"Hold it." They heard someone call.
"We don't have time for this." Alex said grouchily as Maggie pressed the door open button.
"Agent Danvers, Maggie." Landon smiled as he stepped into the elevator.
"Typical." Alex said moving over to the buttons.
"Has something happened?" Landon asked picking up on her agitation.
"Are you trying to get a reaction from me?" Alex asked punching the button repeatedly.
"You've lost me." He said as the doors finally shut.
"Don't give me that. You know full well why I'm here." Alex said, her anger obvious.
"I really don't." He said looking to Maggie.
"You've not seen the news?" Maggie guessed.
"No. What's happened?" He asked.
"Kara got hurt." Maggie said.
"How bad?"
"We don't know. That's why we're here." Maggie explained.
"Why are you here?" Alex asked Landon suspiciously.
"I forgot my notes. I just came back to get them." He said as the elevator juddered to a stop and the lights went out.
"Oh great. Now we are stuck in here with you." Alex said just before emergency lighting came on and the tannoy burst into life with an announcement.
"This is an emergency. We are now in lockdown. Do not leave the area you are in."
As Maggie and Landon shared worried glances Alex climbed up onto the hand rails and started to run her fingers over the ceiling.
"What are you doing?" Maggie asked.
"Trying to get out of here." Alex said jumping down before pulling a knife out of her pocket.
"You brought a knife to date night?" Maggie asked.
"As disturbing as that is, are we forgetting the lockdown, don't leave your area, message?" Landon asked.
"Not forgetting, just ignoring." Alex said climbing back up again.
"Why?" Landon asked.
"Well whatever the problem, it's not in here. Unless someone has finally figured out what you're up to, which I doubt. Which means I'm needed out there." Alex explained as she searched for a way to escape.
"Can't you just call someone to figure out what's happening?" Maggie asked trying to get signal on her phone.
"No. During lockdowns, comms jammers come on. Cell phones won't work." Alex explained as she tried to find the hatch.
"Alex, Kara is a superhero. She is practically invincible. If she can't beat whatever it is, you are not going to be much help either." Landon said.
"I'm not a bumbling sidekick." Alex retorted. "Besides we don't know if Kara is even taking part in whatever is happening." She added recalling the news report showing her sister plummet.
"Rushing out into the unknown to help protect Kara is brave, but probably won't do much good." Maggie argued.
"And it could endanger Maggie." Landon pointed out. "You are assuming that the lockdown is for an escaped alien. What if is a bacterial contaminant?" The question causing Alex to pause before reluctantly jumping down.
"Kara will be okay." Maggie said. "She always is."
"We don't even know if she was okay before this started. You saw the news." Alex pointed out.
"If anything bad had happened Winn and J'onn would have called you." Maggie argued.
"I told them not to call for anything." Alex reminded her.
"We both know they would ignore that if something bad happened." Maggie reasoned. "Kara will be okay."
Looking round Alex saw Landon watching them and commented. "You are being awfully quiet on Kara."
"As I said when I got in the elevator I had no idea what happened to your sister so I can't comment. But even if I did know what happened, giving an opinion would do no good. You tend to believe I am a pathological liar. If I tell you Kara will be okay you'll take that as an indication she isn't. And if I tell you she isn't okay you'll probably start interrogating me to find out why." Landon pointed out.
"And you call me paranoid." Alex commented to Maggie before sitting on the floor defeated. Noticing Landon glance at his watch she asked. "Somewhere you need to be?"
"No. Just seeing how long it will take for you to blame me for the lockdown." He said.
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After ten minutes of waiting Alex stood again.
"I've had enough of this." She said before starting to climb on the rails again.
"Say you do break out of here and we aren't immediately killed by a deadly virus. What's your plan?" Landon asked.
"Find Kara, J'onn or Winn and figure out what is happening." Alex said, sticking the knife in the crack.
"Three people more than capable of saving the day." Landon countered. "What's the real reason behind the escape?"
"You've got me." Alex said. "I am so desperate to not be near you I'd rather face certain death."
"That's not it either." Landon said.
"Seriously, we are trapped in here, whilst something really bad is happening out there and you want to turn this into a therapy session?" Alex asked as she thumped the hatch, which refused to move.
"You are trapped in a confined space with no way to figure out what is happening out there." Landon said. "Isn't it possible that you are having traumatic flashbacks to the last time you were imprisoned?"
"No." Alex said glaring at him.
"No?" Landon questioned. "None of this is triggering anything?"
"Is that so hard to believe?" Alex asked as she hit the ceiling again.
"That ceiling definitely has its doubts." He replied.
"I know it is your job to see everyone as messed up, vulnerable, broken toys. But I'm not. I'm fine." Alex said hitting the ceiling hard enough to hurt her hand.
"Alex babe, please come down." Maggie pleaded as Alex shook her hand hoping it would stop throbbing.
"Don't tell me you buy into that." Alex said jumping down again.
"All I know is we are trapped and this place was built to stop people, and aliens, getting free, so whatever the reason you want to escape, chances are you can't. Rather than watching you break your hand or cutting it off, perhaps you can just sit and wait." Maggie said.
"She probably can't." Landon said. "Patience is not her strong point."
"Reverse psychology won't work on me." Alex said causing Landon to slide down the side and sit on the floor before pulling out a notebook.
"Now what are you doing?" Alex asked suspiciously.
"It is obvious you don't want me here. And you don't want my opinions so I am going to sit quietly and do some work."
"Work? As in watch me and take notes?" Alex asked.
"For someone who grew up with an alien taking over the central place in the family, I am impressed that you have managed to keep such a high opinion of your importance." Landon said.
"That wasn't a denial." Alex pointed out as the normal lighting came back on and the elevator juddered back into life.
"Finally." Alex said moving to the door and waiting impatiently for the elevator to reach the correct floor. The second the doors opened she marched down the corridor almost skipping in relief when she saw her sister.
"Kara!" She called.
"Alex? Why are you here?" Kara asked when she saw Alex rush towards her.
"Are you okay?" Alex asked hugging Kara.
"I'm fine. Why are you here?" Kara asked confused.
"Why am I here? Because I saw on the news that you had your ass handed to you by that alien. Then no one would answer my calls."
"I'm fine." Kara said.
"Then why didn't you answer my call?"
"You were meant to be on a non-interrupted date." Kara said.
"You fell from a skyscraper."
"I'm fine."
"Then why didn't you answer my call?"
"My phone is less fine." Kara confessed before looking past Alex and seeing Maggie and Landon causing her to ask. "You were trapped in the elevator with Landon?"
"Yes."
"How'd that go?"
"He tried to turn it into a shrink session." Alex complained.
"Fun." Kara commented.
"You sure you're okay?" Alex asked looking for damage.
"I'm fine. Really." Kara promised her.
"Hey Little Danvers." Maggie smiled as she approached them. "You okay?"
"I'm fine."
"So everything is contained?" Landon asked.
"Contained?" Kara asked confused.
"The lockdown." Maggie said.
"Oh that. That was nothing. Winn was upgrading some of the security protocols and sent everything into lockdown." Kara explained.
"I will kill him." Alex muttered as she went in search of Winn.
-00-
"So your romantic date night ended up with you being trapped in an elevator with your nemesis?" Lena asked trying, but failing, not to laugh. "And to think I thought my blind date was bad."
"It's not funny." Alex said.
"It is. And you have made me feel so much better about my failed date. Thank you." Lena smiled.
"I'm glad you are amused by me being stuck with someone who spent the time trying to annoy me and manipulate me." Alex said, far from impressed.
"Technically all he did was argue that you shouldn't break quarantine, refuse to get involved in the 'is Kara okay' debate and then imply that you may have had more than one reason to break quarantine." Maggie said.
"I can't believe you bought into that." Alex commented.
"Why? You've never exactly dealt with it." Maggie pressed.
"Yes I have. I talked to you, J'onn and Kara. Just because I prefer to confide in my family rather than a shrink with a hidden agenda doesn't mean I'm not okay." Alex argued.
"But it would be okay to not be okay." Kara said. "I mean you nearly died."
"You too? You weren't even there and you are buying into his crackpot theory?" Alex asked dismayed.
"I'm just worried about you." Kara said.
"See, this is what he wants." Alex said.
"Us to be concerned about you?" Kara asked confused.
"No. To divide us."
"So you think that Landon is trying to drive a wedge between you by manipulating everyone into caring for you?" Lena asked, pausing before adding. "So that we don't believe you when you say there is something strange about Landon? As in classic divide and conquer?"
"Exactly." Alex said pleased that someone got her point, whilst Maggie and Kara observed looking confused.
"But you could use that against him." Lena said.
"How?" Alex asked.
"It will only be a wedge if you let it. Manipulate the situation to your advantage and the wedge goes, instead you'll have a united front." Lena pointed out.
"I'm not following." Alex confessed.
"He's saying you have a problem and you are saying you don't. But you also said you are happy to talk through what you are feeling with your family. So you could confide or lean more on Maggie and Kara, making them relax more and accept you are not nuts. And then you can go back to focusing on Landon." Lena explained as both the sisters' phones buzzed.
"I've got to go." Kara said reading the message.
"I'll meet you down there." Alex said as Kara flew off. She then kissed Maggie goodbye before leaving.
Once Lena and Maggie were alone Lena noticed the strange look Maggie was giving her and asked.
"What?"
"Don't what me. You are trying to manipulate her."
"You tried to manipulate them into taking therapy seriously. Something I'm not sure Alex will ever do. All I did was suggest she talks more to you and Kara. What's wrong with that?" Lena asked innocently.
"You suggested that, whilst suggesting you bought into their paranoid theories." Maggie pointed out.
"Did I?" Lena asked.
"I'm just glad you're on our side." Maggie said.
TBC...
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