Linda holds in a curse by will alone as she struggles passed the lock on the door as quietly as she can be given the number of loud plastic bags hanging on her arms. Somehow though she manages it as the devil hunk of wood finally eases open.
"Right where I left you." She chuckles as her eyes fall on the softly snoring lump curled up on the bed. The low volume sounds of her sleeping patient's favored 'sick day' movie playing again as the mercifully quieter sounds of the nightlife of National City floats in thought the half-open window.
It had taken a little longer than she'd intended in gathering up everything she'd need for her one-woman attempt to nurse Maggie Sawyer back to decent health. She would prefer perfect but until they figure out exactly what those devils did to her that wasn't in the cards. Linda hadn't exactly taken care of anyone who was sick before herself, so she wanted to be prepared and all her googling, while her dude had slept cuddled up against her side, told her she needed to keep Maggie hydrated and fed.
The fact that her friend was fighting much more than a simple run of the mill fever was a worry for when said fever was finally beaten into submission.
Linda felt her earlier smile returning when she remembered the surprise she'd gotten after she'd apparently bought out the little stores complete stock of chicken and stars soup with extra broth. The fact she'd also swiped all the cough drops they had on hand was of little concern if it meant returning Maggie to Alex far better than when she'd at least left the DEO.
Maggie flinches when Linda kicks the door closed behind herself a little harder than she's intended. It would seem the detective hadn't been as knocked out in sleep as the returning super had thought as she sets her raid of the closest all-night convenience store down on the table.
"Sshh. It's alright. I'm right here Mags." She soothes returning to the sickbed when her restless friend hadn't yet settled back into sleep. "I'm right here." She repeats her hand intwining with Maggie's searching one.
"Alex." Maggie mumbles with a sleepy smile as she pulls Linda's hand tight against her chest.
Linda sighs with a rather goofy smile on her lips as she maneuvers as best as she can back up onto the bed. "Always second best huh?" she jokes as Maggie rolls over splaying herself out over a giggling Linda.
Humans were so amusing when they weren't feeling well. So cuddly and clingy it was beyond adorable.
"Alex." Maggie coos finally settling down nuzzling her face against the dip of Linda's shoulder. She was still too hot for Linda's liking but at least the fever seemed to have dropped a few significant degrees since they'd left the bar and then again in their mad (well Linda's mad anyway) rush to find a quieter safe haven when the rumble of the nightlife had become too much for Maggie's pulsing fever-induced headache to take at her other apartment.
"Mags?" Linda murmurs as quietly as she could whilst still being audible to human hearing making the Sawyer version of the Danvers crinkle appear between the dozing detective's brows. "Come on Maggie bear wake up for me." Linda coaxes running a soft hand against Maggie's back.
"No wanna." Maggie whined against her shoulder redoubling her grip on the front of Linda's tank top as if that alone would keep them from moving.
Linda sighs against the crown of Maggie's head "You need to eat."
Maggie shook her head burrowing deeper into the pillow she'd made of the super's collarbone. Again, Linda represses a smile at just how adorable human were when they weren't feeling well or at least her chosen humans.
"They're doing it again Lin."
The listening super stiffness at the news yet her arms never waver from their protective hold as Maggie once again claws her way back to a much more aware mindset. "Bit by bit. They are staling her away from me. The harder I try to hold on the more fragmented she gets." Linda's arms close in as best of a hug as she could give in their current position. "I'm losing her."
"You won't."
Maggie hide her face against Linda's shoulder trying to hide her sobs as best she could "It's already happening." She reminds her voice muffled as she lets more tears fall.
"yubikiri genman, uso tsuitara I won't let that happen." The honest determination behind the vow shakes the shivering detective to the core as her eyes find the warm yet hardened icy blue of the supers. A stack of journal like notebooks and a brand-new pack of pens and another of pencils sit ready for use on the small kitchen table when Maggie finds the strength to peek at what Linda was talking about.
"Stealing from the Notebook are we baby Danvers?" Maggie asks her throat scratchy and dry as she gratefully accepts one of the ice chips Linda offers as they pair untangle from one another.
"The what?" Linda asks honestly puzzled offering a steady arm when Maggie stumbles.
Instead of answering Maggie only rests her head against Linda's shoulder. "'m hungry." Linda nodes feeling Maggie's arms tightening around her waist almost as if she feared if she didn't hold on tight enough that Linda would disappear.
"You eat I'll write for you until you feel up to doing it yourself," She offers making quick work of dishing out and heating up some soup for the both of them once the pair settled at the table. Linda on one side closest to the door and really the only way into and out of the apartment just in case Maggie once again thought someone would come after them.
Maggie curled up on the other side her eyes flickering between her soup bowl, the door, and Linda's concerned expression whilst her fingers therapeutically skimmed back and forth over the sleek deadly weapon resting beside Maggie's slightly steaming supper. Just an added level of calm for Maggie considering feverish or not she knew that Linda Danvers was more than capable of keeping her safe. "No, use the blue. Alex likes blue best." The detective says around another mouthful of broth heavy soup. True she was talking louder than she may have if she wasn't shivering and still fighting off the last of her fever, but it was important.
Blue was an important color to her Alex, so it was going to be just as important for Maggie.
Across from her Linda only smiled guiltily but was pleased Maggie was finally able to remember one of the smaller details about her older sister as she quietly set aside the red colored pen she had pulled out of the pack and instead slid out one of the blue inked ones.
"So, what do we start with first in the grand story of you and Alex?" she asked genially curious as to what Maggie remembered or at least what she was willing to share in regard to her relationship with Linda's treasured older sister.
Kara sighs trying to keep her annoyance in check as she ducked yet another wildly thrown haymaker as the drunken man tries yet again to get close enough to land a hit as the rest of the bar seems to close the two in a human ring all drunkenly chanting 'Fight'.
Why the bartender hadn't stepped in yet was a question that was really getting on her nerves as Kara straightened her glasses as her would-be attacker angrily grabs a beer from someone in the ring with a jeered "I'm coming for you blondie." and drains it down.
"How the hell should I know?" she asks at the currently computerized version of her sister's voice asks again what she did to warrant such a welcoming reception once she'd managed to make her way to an open spot at the packed bar to ask about her other sister or Maggie.
"Twice in one day. Girls remind me to have a little talk with Lin when we find her." Eliza sighs pressing a light kiss against Alex's head having spent most of the day in the lab with Jamie analyzing the samples they'd taken from Maggie's 'torture tank' as Jamie called it. "What? Although I will admit her first brawl was more than appropriate given why she stepped in a bar fight isn't a way to end a visit no matter what the movies say." The mother backpaddles at Alex's and Alura's amused expressions while Lena giggles from behind her computer.
"Then steer clear of any of the Gotham haunts." Kate comments earning an almost laughter worthy bark from Rory who was playing guard at the end of Alex's bed. "Trust me. It's not considered a good night unless the place has seen three or more fights." The police captain sighs when all eyes turn toward her as she puts up a halfhearted attempt to shield herself from Rory's eager greeting as she attacks Kate's face in greeting kisses.
She was about to ask if there was anything new when Vasquez rushes into the room with a rather giddy spring in her step. Its Kate who speaks first. "Either you've had a hit of some seriously juiced up coffee or you've somehow got a lead." She guesses.
'Or Luc stopped by for a.' Alex started to type but Susan quickly 'shuts her up' as best she could given that not even Alex could type as fast as Winn. "I don't know what you're implying about Lucy and me Miss 'badass agent that breaks protocell left and right just to see a certain cop smile' but in answer to your lead question Kate yes we do have something." Vaz teases as her arms cross tight over her chest.
Alex chucks one of the smaller of her extra pillows at her friend with a raspy blushing laugh when Susan grins as she sidesteps and flips her sister of a boss off only to falter a little under the dual unamused looks she got from the DEO den mothers.
"Sorry Moms."
It's Alura that breaks first this time pulling a still blushing Vaz in for a one-armed hug just as Jeremiah and J'onn joined them both looking hopeful. "Did you hear? They have a possible actual triangulated location for her...them. You know who I mean."
Alex huffs snapping her finger to get some means of attention seeing as Kara had unhelpfully taken off her glasses in order to call up her super suite hopefully heading toward wherever it was, they'd found out Linda was jealously guarding Alex's Maggie but Kara speaks first before Alex can get her thought in enough of an order to start typing out what she wanted to say. "ETA right now three minutes," she promises and just from the change in her breathing Alex can tell she was taking a few of the turns a bit too quickly in her hast to shorten that time. "I swear Ally next you see me I'll have your girl and our sister with me. yubikiri genman, uso tsuitara." Her little sister adds confirming Alex hunch before the rush of wind becomes too much for her com to take as it cuts out.