CHAPTER 36

A/N Hey guys sorry I have been MIA. My life has been so up and down the last year. But I am getting back to normal now. I am starting with finishing this story. We all know the ending but I am going to play around with the ending a little bit. I am working hard to bring you a good story staying true to the programme with a few added extras. Thank you for sticking with me. My other stories will be updated soon too. Much Love xoxo

Winn was so excited seeing on the screen that Alex was using her smarts to get in contact. He beamed with pride. He couldn't stop himself and he ran to find Kara and Maggie to let them know.

"GUYS, WE FOUND ALEX...I found her!" He shouted as he came to a stop by Kara and Mon El.

"You did?" Kara asked not quite believing what she was hearing.

"We got a ping from her sub dermal tracker. She's not far away!" Winn continued still beaming.

Kara turned and moved quickly to the door of the interrogation room and opened it. She just walked straight in.

"Maggie, we found Alex!" She said as she came to a stop by me.

"What? How?" I stuttered out. I couldn't let myself get too excited.

"I guess you underestimated my sister! Let's go!" Kara ordered.

I turn to look at Rick. He doesn't look phased by this announcement.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you!" He said to Kara.

"You're delusional, and when I get back here with Alex you're going to prison with your dad!" Kara sneered.

"Don't say I didn't warn you!" Rick replied with a shrug of his shoulders.

Something didn't feel quite right about this. He was too calm and collected. I followed Kara out of the room and down the hallway.

"Watch him!" I ordered the DEO agents who were outside the room.

"Hey stop! Malvern still thinks he is in control. He isn't acting like someone who has just lost. He didn't even flinch, it's like he expected it!" I say concerned that Kara is just going to go and rush in head first.

"No, No we're not listening to that psycho, every minute we wait matters!" Kara said, I guess she had already made her mind up.

"I wanna get her back as much as you do, but we can't punch our way out of this, we gotta get it right!" I say hoping that something would resonate with the stubborn Kryptonian.

"If the shoe was on the other foot, Alex would already be out the door!" Kara replied defiantly. She turned and started to walk away.

"You're not the only one that cares about her!" I call after her, my heart sinking.

"I'm going!" Kara shouts back as she turns the corner and leaves.

I go to sit at the desk outside where Rick is, I must have been sat there a while when Mon El comes up to me with a bottle of water.

"Kara is just wanting Alex back, but I do agree she should have held back!" He says quietly as if not wanting to go against his girlfriend.

"It's not that she is going forward, I just think that he is playing us!" I sigh pointing to the room.

"If he is then you need to show him that he is not dividing you both as I believe that is what he wants. Pitting the two people that love Alex the most against each other is quite the cop? Is that the right word? Now I don't understand why a cop is this thing," Mon El babbles but he is making some kind of sense.

"The word you mean is coup! But I get what you mean!" I say smiling up at the young man. He may be a bit docile but ultimately his simple knowledge makes him a huge asset.

I get up and make my way to the control centre. I get there just as Kara gets to the location that pinged when Alex connected her tracker. Kara isn't saying much at all.

Alex in her cell

I hear a smashing sound coming from above me, I jump up from the bench where I have been sitting.

"Kara!?" I shout into the nothingness beyond the screens capturing me. I hope against hope that she can hear me, but I hear nothing.

"I'm here!?" I try again to get the attention of whoever is making the noise.

I stand leaning against the screen straining my hearing, and I hear what sounds like metal being crushed. I smile to myself. She's here! I start to move constantly around the cell hoping that any little noise would lead her to me.

The noises from above stop, so I stop moving as I stop I start to hear a creaking sound, almost like water, this sets of alarm bells in my head.

I look around to see where the noise could be coming from, I look at the pipe in the corner and realise that water is trickling out of the pipe, the flow slowly getting faster. Panic begins to set in, I grab my jacket off the floor and begin to try and stuff it into the open end of the pipe and try and stem the flow but it doesn't work. I keep looking around in case I missed something. I hate being so useless!

At the DEO

Kara arrives back and she has a laptop in her arms, she doesn't let anyone see it and she just goes straight for the interrogation room. The anger evident in every move that she makes. I heard her say that the timer had gone from 22 hours to 4. Panic gripped me. I didn't hear anything else after that. I had gone to the wash room to wash my face and take a few minutes to regroup. I couldn't believe that I was about to lose Alex. Anger pricked at me and I wanted to show Kara just how angry I was but even I knew I was no match for the feisty alien. I waited outside the room as I heard her talking to Rick.

"Where is she?" Kara demanded.

"I told you not to go there!" Rick replied calmly.

"Tell me where she is now!" Kara was starting to get annoyed. I was glad I stayed outside.

"I gave you 36 hours to break my father out of prison, but you didn't listen. So now that room is going to fill up with water in less than 4 hours. I think it's time you got moving?!" Rick said and my heart lurched in my chest. I knew Alex would be scared.

"Let me talk to Alex!" I heard Kara say to Rick. "Alex!" She said loudly after Rick did something to the laptop.

My heart leapt "Kara I... I... I put out a signal, I thought you were coming?" Alex's voice came through the air. She sounded tired.

"He rerouted the IP address, he sent us somewhere else. Do you have any idea where you are?" Kara said I could tell she was clutching at straws.

"I was unconscious. I... I... I could be hours away or, or somewhere in the city, I don't know!" Alex said, she was struggling to keep it together, her voice kept breaking.

"Alex, it's Rick. I don't wanna hurt you. I keep on telling your sister. Tell her to get my father and this can all be over, you can get home and get dry!" He still sounded as calm as ever. I was doing all I could not to go in there and hit the smug look on his face.

"No! Kara, No! You do not give that terrorist what he wants, you cannot let yourself be blackmailed, you can't open yourself up to that. Do you understand me? Supergirl is bigger than me!" I loved hearing that fighting spirit back in Alex's voice. She was going to go down fighting.

ALEX

Hearing Kara's voice again was so good. I didn't think I was going to hear it again. The only thing that would make this day even better was to hear Maggie again. My god how mush I was missing her. I just needed her to know I was alright. That I was still alive.