"You know if you do that long enough your leg may end up phasing right through the floor? Kind of surprised it hadn't already." He ends in a laugh as he takes a seat beside her. Close enough to be comforting but far enough apart that he won't crowd her.
Until he points it out, she hadn't noticed the rapid shaking of her leg. Although she hadn't noticed much of anything apart from the sounds of Alex's resting heart rate from the floor below. She'd been using it as a calming distraction with Kara and both their mothers choosing to head out on yet another hunt for their tiny detective rather than stay pacing the halls like Linda had done before taking a seat instead as she waited.
"Sorry." She sighs needing to consciously make the effort to at least slow the movement.
Alex had been moved into recovery a few minutes before. The surgery had been a long one. Multiple broken bones needed repairing, internal bleeding stitched back together. She knew there was more but remembering everything would just reignite her anger.
"What are we going to tell her?" Linda wonders aloud unlocking herself enough from her curled place against the wall to rest her head against his shoulder as the warm band that was his arm tighten around her shoulders drawing her against his side to press a soft kiss against the side of her head.
Everyone with a brain knew as soon as she was awake even with the temporary loss of her voice because of the fight Alex would ask for Maggie. Was she alright? Was she safe?
How where they going to tell her already worried sister, they'd lost her soulmate again?
"Take everything throw-able out of her reach first I guess." Jeremiah Danvers offers with a laugh earning the smallest start of a smile from Linda. "Wise choice." The young super agrees pillowing her head against her 'human Papa's' shoulder. "Not that she'd need anything within reach considering Kara or I could just….."
It was her other father that answers this time with a warm chuckle of "What did your mothers say about not tossing people into space?" as he clams the open spot on Linda's other side. The young hero immediately curling against his side making her 'human papa' give a little pout and mutter about becoming second best. She interlocks their fingers instead sending him a shy smile what quickly morphs into an angry pout as she turns back to her 'Papa Bear'
"But she deserves…." She started to defend but it was Jeremiah that answers this time. "What Kelly did to our family is unforgivable, but we can't incinerate her for it." Angry tears sting her eyes, but she holds them back. She can't cry. Not yet. 'Gods do not cry.' She whispers to herself. She hates herself for falling back on her own traitors' ideals but for now, she needs them.
When her family is back together again then she will cry. She will cry happy tears instead of sad guilty ones. Right now, her family needs her to be strong, so she'll be strong.
For them.
"That detective of yours is a sly one, Alexandra."
Well. that means that at least one of her mothers was back from her search.
Linda still feels a jolt of surprise at being able to hear that breath of a laugh again in more than just memories. For so long she'd thought her mother dead and gone. Just like the rest of Krypton. "You'll have to introduce us properly once we find her. Last time your sisters hoarded her time cheating me out of my introduction." It Linda's turn to grin when she adds an even softer "after all I think it only fair that I officially meet the woman that has so completely captured my little girl's heart."
Linda had to bite her lip to keep from laughing aloud at the tease. Alex groaning in her sleep as if on some kind of que only adds to the adorableness of the moment.
"Sshh sweetheart." Alura murmurs and after a quick glance passed the floor Linda can clearly see her mother leaning over her sister's bedside calming the pain flashing across Alex's face with a brush of her hand in her hair. "It's alright now. You're safe now my brave girl." Alex turns into the touch without opening her eyes. "That's it. You're safe. Just rest. Rest now." Alura soothes her fingers gently unclenching Alex's from the sheets.
J'onn's shoulder ended up being Linda's pillow this time when her mother started singing that soft Kryptonian lullaby from Kara's childhood. The one her sister had nearly forgotten herself since losing their first home.
Next time her eyes open it was because of the sounds of shouting floating down the hallway rudely rousing her from a surprisingly pleasant rest considering the stressful events going on in her life.
"Goddammit let me go. Why won't you believe me? I'm trying to help."
"Yeah, we've all seen what your help has done so far." Susan growls "Now let's get you back where you belong shall we?"
Linda groaned as she rolled over onto her back as the traitor continued yelling for rights, she'd lost the second she turned her back on her sister on their family.
"I know right, so loud." Her own much softer tone sighed pulling the falling blanket that was Linda's long cape back across her shoulders as she takes the seat J'onn had been using before Linda had closed her eyes.
Kara's single shake of her head when their eyes meet crushes the hope blossoming in Linda's chest. "We only found Her." the original of the two admitted her voice breaking "Dad said they'd take over but…." Her sister stopped her head dropped her shoulders already shaking as tears spill from the corner of her eyes. Luckily for Linda her twin didn't fight as she wrapped her arms around her. "Rao what are we going to tell Alex?" she asks between sobs. "She's out their Lin. Our Maggie. She's out their alone, scared, running a fever if what the DEO docs said was true."
'Armed' Linda adds in her head when Kara didn't add it aloud. Since Kara hadn't said anything about finding their sister's favored weapon on the traitor and Vaz had said she'd had every inch of the DEO quadruple checked after everyone had been contained once again then the only option left was that Maggie had it.
What their tiny unstable detective was going to do with the weapon was a question for when they found her.
"I've looked everywhere." Kara sobs in defeat "Everywhere I can think of that she would go withing a reasonable limit given how groggy she seemed in the security feed."
It surprises the crying super to feel more than see her twin smile at the news. Going by the shake in her hold Linda wasn't holding up much better than Kara herself. "Well, it's a good thing you have two heads for thinking then huh?"
Kara blinks apparently not getting the joke tears still sliding from her eyes as their eyes meet. "Let me try." Linda summarizes as she wipes away some of the moisture with her thumb. "You stay here. Eat, rest, finish that article you've been stalling Snapper on."
Kara groaned having completely forgotten about her 'normal job' until now. "Write it for me." She moans against her twin's shoulder making Linda laugh harder as she shakes her head leaning in to press a soft kiss against Kara's in support as she stands.
"Sorry Kara Danvers, I have a tiny tiger to find." Linda reminds giggling a little at the accented purr of her own voice and the repeated groan from her super suited clad sister as she starches her arms over her head to work out the stiffness whilst she heads toward the balcony leaving her sister grumbling behind her.
Obediently her body lifts like a feather on the wind taking her out into the darkened sky as soon as she'd stepped out into the chilly afternoon.
"Where do you think you're going?"
Linda turns in midair hovering just out of reach of the balcony.
The speaker melts out of the shadows her arms crossed tight over her front and a scowl on her lips. "I'm going to go look for Maggie." She answers feeling more like a child caught doing something wrong as she looks from her unmoving companion to the nightly buzz of the city.
"Every second we….." Linda starts to say but Lena holds up her hand to quiet her as Linda hovers closer to the edge of the balcony then deices to fold herself so she was sitting cross-legged in midair under that stern yet compassionate gaze of the better Luthor standing on the balcony as she moves as well taking a step closer until her hands are resting against Linda's knees as she leans in.
Caught off guard by the move Linda wondering if the beautiful Luthor woman was about to kiss her given the number of times Lena's eyes flickered to her lips then up to her eyes as if asking for permission as she continues to speak to the zoned-out super. The brush of Lena's hand against her hair brushing it back behind her right ear as she fits the DEO issue comm link into her ear isn't helping matters either.
She knew from Kara's thoughts in her head that Alex would do that a lot with Maggie before they kissed. Even the snippets of her sister's time with Mon-El, James and even her stolen kiss with Winn has given her even more insight into the practice than her time simply reading about it.
Linda had never been kissed before herself. Not like that anyway. She was curious as to what it would be like for her when she was finally able to be kissed by a lover rather than by those, she considered family.
Lena's lips curled upwards in the faintest hint of a smile under her gaze as if she could hear the questions bouncing around in Linda's mind as their eyes met again.
"At last take a jacket before you fly off, Superberries. It's cold out here." Kate Kane advised putting an end to the little moment the two had been having, yet even as she rocked back on her heels putting much more distance between them as was needed the ghost of a smile never wavered from Lena's lips.
At first, as she blinks out of her dazed state Linda assumed the jacket that was then dropped onto her crossed legs was Kate's own given how warm it was until she pulled it on. Alex's shampoo and distinct scent tickled the blonde super's nose as she pulled up the collar against a sudden burst of cold on the air.
"Go get the girl, SuperRed."
If anyone asks Linda will deny the fact her eyes return to Lena at the comment as Kate turns sliding back into the shadows leaving only Lena to watch as Linda lifts higher into the protective cover of the darkened clouds.