Admittedly she can't tell how long she stays drifting on the current and listening to the buzz of the world when a three-track playlist catches her attention. It was so calming apart from actively listening in on her sister's heartbeats that is. She'd almost lost them several times already she wasn't going to let that happen again.

Just Give Me a Reason

Perfect

All Through the Night

She can't understand why those three songs have such a draw for her as she concentrates harder when the last in her mental list is played again.

All through the night
I'll be awake and I'll be with you

"…..For the love of God. Pick something else or I put that pretty head of yours through the dang thing."

It's the familiar hum of a weapon powering up after the slurred threat that has her speeding down into the twinkling darkness as fast as her surprised state will allow.

Linda only barely had time to right herself before she slams face-first into the pavement of the side ally. This time she doesn't need her x-ray vision to spot her target as she pulls the door to the bar open and almost completely off its hinges as she steps into the roar of the bar. Thankfully for them the bartender hasn't caught on to the fact Maggie was 'packing heat' as she thinks it's called given how tightly packed the crowd was around the bar as compared to the rest of the place.

Maggie is sitting alone her table the one right in front of the still playing jukebox nursing a traded off row of amber and clear shot glasses lined in front of her.

Faster than she maybe should have Linda is crossing the distance between the door and the back table her hand closing fast around the drunken man's wrist twisting his outstretched arm behind his back before he can do more than advance on the sickly, yet armed detective curled up on the chair on the other side of the corner table.

Not hard enough to rally hurt him but enough to get his attention. "Stand down comrade." She warns just loud enough that only he can hear her when his blurry angry eyes find her own.

Maggie is deathly quiet her shoulders hunched even more once she'd gotten a look at her rescuer. Even in her current feverish and buzzed state she'd know that body anywhere. Especially when its clade in that jacket. "When things look their worst come straight to a bar remember?" She laughs picking up one of the amber filled shots and draining it down before turning the glass over as she sets it back down on the tabletop.

Linda tilts her head puzzling over the word choice as she takes the seat across from her friend whilst the would-be bar brawler sulks off rubbing his shoulder and grumbling under his breath. She can tell just by looking at her that Maggie's fever was far from breaking. If anything, it was worse than before.

"We need to get you home Mags." She tries to coax. Apart from her clammy looking appearance, Linda could also feel Maggie's elevated temperature from across the table. She needed to get her cooled down and most important she needed to get her back to Alex.

Maggie snorts slamming another empty shot glass down upside down on the tabletop. "I don't have a home." She growls her eyes meeting Linda's for a half-second before dropping again.

Linda shakes her head "That's not true. You always have a home with us my D…." She starts to defend

Maggie barks a laugh her shaking fingers clawing at her hair in an attempt to get it out of her unfocused eyes. "'We can't be together.' That's what you said to me."

Tears sting her eyes as Linda looks across the table. She'd known of course. Alex had tearfully recounted every painful moment of her breakup to Kara. Just hearing it from Maggie made the phantom pain she felt on her sister's behalf burst open and ache anew. Unfortunately, matters of the heart weren't something nether she or Kara could make better just by punching it enough times.

"You can't still be my home and not want to be with me at the same time Danvers. That's not how it works."

Linda's hands flashes out knocking Maggie's away as she reaches for another of the shots. She knows human alcohol will have no effect on her but it least it will give her something to do with herself as she tries to talk Maggie into coming with her. To her surprise, it's the cool taste of water that hits her tongue rather than the fleeting burn of vodka as she 'd been expecting as she drains the glass

"To hydration." Maggie laughs holding up her own glass this one, one the amber filled ones in answer at the surprise flickering across the face of the blonde version of Alex sitting across from her. Not bad but Maggie definitely preferred the woman that still held her heart with darker hair. "Hey Jonzy….'nother round please…." She called over the den of the rest of the bar.

Linda shakes her head pushing her chair back from the table making Maggie flinch as if she'd be struck by the act. "We are going home now Maggie Sawyer." She says leaving no room for misinterpretation of her meaning as she rounds the table toward the shivering woman on the other side.

Thankfully for one of them at least when they finally stopped moving, they were already in a bathroom.

Blonde Alex kneels beside her holding her hair back as Maggie empties what little she had in her stomach into the toilet. Looking back on it now she couldn't really remember the last she'd actually eaten anything other than those few bits of trail mix she shared with Lin. Another wave of nausea keeps her from asking her ex how she'd gotten them out of the bar so fast. Let alone where they ended up.

"Don't feel good." She mumbles against the side of the toilet bowl when she does pause long enough for speech.

Linda hated seeing her friend in such a sickly state. She hated feeling so powerless to do anything but crouch beside her and make sure Maggie didn't get sick on her pretty hair. "I know Mags." She whispers rising just enough to get a washcloth and wet it with mild temperature water despite Maggie's attempt to pull her back down by the sleeve of her jacket. "This will help." She promises as she rests the cloth against the back of her friend's neck.

"Why is it so cold?"

Linda was about to apologize about the water temperature until she noticed the full-body shivering Maggie was making as she curls even closer around the toilet as her stomach lurched again.

"Let's get you warmed up tiger." The super offers looking thought the doorway of the small bathroom into the rest of her dimly light apartment for something to do just that.

Oh, Rao I really need to go shopping. The young hero sighed to herself as she continues rubbing slow circles against her friend's back when Maggie once again tries to empty her already vacant stomach into the toilet bowl.

"I call it….Kara Cam."

Alex rolls her eyes at Winn's overly dramatic tone as she takes the tablet the closest thing to a brother offers

"Ha-ha very funny." Kara's voice answers over the sound of rushing wind in the same unamused tone Alex would have used if she could speak for herself at the moment. "So original." Kara adds as she flies in lower before ducking down into the cover of the closest alleyway to her target.

Alex knew her sister's annoyance was for her own enjoyment. Really this had been Kara's idea as a way to keep her older sister from taking to the streets herself. Linda and Maggie should have been back hours ago and the fact that they were not raised everyone's anxiety levels another notch.

Sure Linda was more than capable of taking care of herself but given Maggie's condition when she'd somehow slipped undetected out of DEO protection and with the looming threat of this new organization wanting to harm them no one liked the idea that something else could so easily go wrong.

"Um, Kar? Lena said the signal was coming from across town, not downtown sweetie." Eliza cuts in leaning over Alex's shoulder to get a look at the video feed from the small camera they'd managed to create in place of the lenses of Kara's glasses.

"I know Mom." Kara answers pulling the collar up on her jacket "I won't be long promise." She adds as she climbs the steps of the apartment building. It was just a hunch. Something that she would do herself in her sister's position that she had to get out of her head before she could get back to the mini recovery mission she was on. True Linda did seem to have a slightly closer relationship with Maggie than she did including her time first warming up to her sister's first-ever girlfriend turned fiancée, but she still felt the pull to protect her just the same.

Maggie didn't deserve to be poked and prodded by any more goons in those too white lab coats even the ones at the DEO who were only doing it to help her. She deserved to be coddled and fussed over while she recovered.

'Maybe' Kara mused walking through the lobby of her younger sister's apartment building her hands fisted in the pockets of her jacket as she headed quickly toward the door for the stairs. Her suspicions were somewhat confirmed when she neared the door at the end of the hall. The tv was on a low volume to human standers but Kara couldn't detect either Maggie or Linda's heartbeats mingling with it as she'd hoped.

As she'd thought the door was unlocked and swung open with just a small flick of her wrist.

It's the change in her heartbeat that signals Alex's disappointment the more Kara moves into the apartment.

The light was still on in the bathroom and Maggie's sweat-dampened shirt and her jacket hung over the shower rod to dry out so they may have just missed them, but Kara doubted it.

If Lin had moved her again it had to be for a very important reason as her eyes once again scan the room for any other clue as to where her younger sister had gone this time.

Kara does pick up a little giggle from her own commlink when her eyes find the dull glow of the still running tv. The Great Mouse Detective was just about over. The final belle just about to strike. An adorable yet really not so surprising choice for a sickly Maggie feel better movie. Alex herself remembering a few times she'd needed to pull up the cartooned mystery on her own tv whilst she snuggled against a shivering and adorably runny-nosed Maggie.

"I'll check again after I head to the bar." Kara says closing the window and turning off the tv. "Thanks Kar." 'Robo Alex' answers as she watches her sister turning off the bathroom light before turning back toward the door. Maggie's jacket cradled over her arm as she takes one last look around before letting the door click closed behind her. This time making sure it was locked before she headed back toward the stairs.

Notes:

pt 2 to be posted this Friday.