Kara breathes a sigh of relief watching some of the tension drains away from the shorter of the leather jacket clade shoulders the second the trio had stepped across the threshold.

"See told you I knew where I was going." Maggie bragged a happy skip in her step as they were waved past the security desk with nothing more than a glance and a soft "Been wondering when you'd come back." from the board looking alien sitting behind it with her legs propped up against the wooden surface as she flipped to another page of her magazine.

Linda, of course, was on high alert after catching the not so muffled sounds of gunfire, but Maggie's hand in hers seems to calm her as Kara trails behind them her hands sliding into the pockets of her jeans.

"Just trust me, please. I promise you'll have fun here." Linda raised an eyebrow while Kara muffled a giggle at being able to see an exact copy of her disbelieving expression as Maggie hurries on as they are buzzed past a rather intimidating looking door.

"Okay yes my mind maybe swiss cheese right now thanks to those Cadmus docs," both supers flinch at the reminder and going by the sharp intake of breath fluttering in Kara's ear so did Alex. "But just think of this as a road test."

"A road test?"

Maggie let out a sigh of amusement when the twins spoke at the same time as she leads the way toward the room she needed. So cute how in sync they were.

"Thanks to that rather forced trip down memory lane I remembered how much I wanted to bring Alex here for a date night, but I never thought it would be good enough and then everything got turned upside down with the Daxm thing and the proposal I just forgot about it." Maggie explains with a shrug and a bitter yet guilty note in her voice as she lets the door swing open.

"Its…." Kara starts to say as more of the automatic lights click on at the motion of their entrance, but the words cut off as she looks around and Alex wasn't much help as more lights clicked themselves on the farther Maggie and Linda got into the room.

"I know indoor paintball. Cool right?" Maggie laughed throwing her hair up into a loose ponytail as she lets go of Linda's hand once they reach the weapons wall.

"Paintball?"

Kara nodes letting out a little chuckle at the string of happy and jealous-faced emojis Alex was sending to her. "It's like a chess game strategy-wise just with special kinds of firearms and protective gear." She tries to explain to her youngest sister while reading all of Alex's jealousy filled texts crawling across the inside of her glasses while they all gear up.


The detective soon had them both pinned down clearly taking advantage of the twins idea to team up against her to make the game more interesting.

"So, L."

Linda perks up but going by the look on her face Kara guesses she already knew what topic Maggie was about to bring up as they dodge around the back of an inflated target to avoid the electric blue paint pelts Maggie aimed at them.

"I said I don't want to talk about it." That had Kara interested as Linda gives some nice retaliation fire of her own splattering Maggie's hiding place in a hale of red-colored pellets.

There was annoyance in her sister's voice but also a dusting of a blush in her cheeks as Linda's avoids Maggie's eyes. "Head in the game Supergirl." Linda advises over her shoulder smoothly snapping a fresh clip into her chosen weapon.

"Come on Snowy. This is your first love." Maggie sighs from across the 'battlefield' with a puppy-like pout as she reloaded her own weapon. "it's a big deal that needs to be talked about."

Kara rather comically stumbled over nothing in her surprise over what the new topic of discussion had turned to.

"You okay over there little Danvers?" the detective asks genially concerned

"Oh yeap. All good." Kara nods a little hot under the collar herself as she listens and more to the point that Alex and whoever was in Alex's room at the DEO was listening to everything being said.

Please don't let Lena be listening in.

After a little more light pressing from Maggie as the three trade 'blaster fire' Linda gives in enough to shake her head with a sad look that has Kara feeling like she'd been punched in the heart herself just witnessing the heartbreaking look. "There is nothing more to tell." She says just loud enough for Maggie to catch. "He doesn't like me like Alex likes you or how Kara likes Lena."

'Wait…. he?'

Going by the look Maggie sent her over the top of her newest hiding place at her louder than she'd thought intake of breath at the description the detective could tell what was going on inside Kara's head.

"Oh, come on little Danvers don't look so surprised. You two were bound to differ on something things sooner or later." Maggie jokes only a little out of breath when she speaks momentarily letting Linda off the hook as she rounds on Kara instead. "Besides unlike with you we don't seem to have a spare tall emerald-eyed, Irish accented super-genius with flawless skin and some serious unresolved trust and family issues laying around."

Kara's heart was throwing itself against her ribs by this point. "I don't know what you're talking about." She lies.

"Sure. Just like Alex didn't realize at first that she liked the ladies too." Maggie tosses back before her eyes slide back to the other twin speaking out from the other side of their hiding place; she'd gotten to know fairly well the last few days as she nursed her back into a more loosed mindset. "Look I know you've said he's been spending a lot of time with Jamie J recently but that doesn't mean you don't have a shot."

Maggie didn't need to have x-ray vision to know that Linda's shoulders had dropped in defeat at her words it was clear enough in her voice when she finally answers. "It is like I've said already, Maggie Sawyer. You didn't see the way he looks at her, how he laughs with her, he isn't like that with me. He is more careful and guarded with me than he is with her as if he thinks I'm more breakable than his human friend."

Again, Kara's mind stalls at the information as Linda stands firing off a few more shots getting Maggie to combat roll to a different vantage point.

Even she'd noticed how much Linda had seemed to stay in a room longer if Winn was in it. How the two would trade little glances and small shy smiles between them while everyone else would be going up the wall in worry over Maggie.

Kate had even started a pool for how long it would take for them to step up and tell the other how they felt. "I mean come on its so blindingly obvious they can't not know how the other feels. Exhibit A for instance." Kara remembers Jamie say with a happy smile one night after Linda and Winn had finally given in to their need for sleep that had ended with them snuggling together on the pull out bed in the corner of the conference room.

The resulting picture Eliza had taken of the sleeping couple becoming the centerpiece of the 'betting wall' Kate had set up in one of the smaller meeting rooms to track the pool's progress in the following days.

"But Winn and I already decided to just be friends."

"Exactly." Linda answers angry tears in her eyes as she spins around to face her wide-eyed 'older sister' "You and Winn decided to just be friends. But I am not you Kara Danvers.".

It was just by chance that Kara caught the sharp gasp from the hidden transmitter tucked over her ear. Kara pals a little when she realizes who it was.

Winn was listening in.

She feels a little guilty as she lets her mind drift straining her ears to catch every line of the broken argument Alex and their 'little brother' were now having back at the DEO. It takes a little longer considering Alex had to keep typing out her words rather than answer for herself.

By the sounds of it, Alex was trying to keep Winn from going to the range himself reminding him over and over again that neither Linda nor Maggie knew Kara was secretly transmitting everything they said and did back to the DEO regardless of the fact that Alex had the only access to said surveillance feed.

"She's already hurt about how you haven't made a move do you really want to add being a privacy breaker to the list of reasons she doesn't trust you?" her older sister was asking in that creepy robotic version of her current voice.

Kara wants to slide her glasses off like Alex was suggesting but the hurt in Winn's voice as he pleads for Alex to turn the volume back up on the tablet was so heartbreaking, she didn't have the heart to follow up on the act.

"-so, what chance do I possibly have with him when all he sees when he looks at me is how much you've hurt him?" Linda was yelling when Kara came back into the conversation.

Maggie now sitting on the floor letting Linda cry into the front of her shirt while she whispers over and over how sorry she was for bringing it up in the first place as she brushing her fingers in Linda's hair.

Kara dropped to her knees in front of them swiping off her glasses letting them drop upside down onto the floor at her side all the while ignoring Maggie's motherly level glare for her to back the hell off. "Lin…" her own tears were sliding down her cheeks as she struggled over what to say.

How to fix this.

She was coming up empty. Something she had been doing a lot lately whilst Linda continued softly sobbing into the collar of Maggie's shirt.

'And now I'm falling for ya, falling for ya
I know I shouldn't but I
I just can't stop myself from
Falling for ya

The only thing that comes to mind was "Really Teen Beach?" but Kara holds her tongue when she realizes who must be calling for that song to be playing while Linda fishes the phone out of her pocket.

Falling for ya
Can't hold on any longer
And now I'm falling for you

"Answer it silly." Maggie encourages but Linda shakes her head her tears forgotten but her hands trembling as she watches his name flashes across the screen. "it's going to kick him to voicemail soon just answer it you goof." Maggie tries again but for a second time, Linda shakes her head cradling the still ringing phone against her chest a soft smile pulls at her lips when the song starts playing over again.

She frowns when it stops almost as quickly as it had started.

"Better?" Maggie asks hopefully while Linda carefully hands Kara back her glasses.

"A little." Linda nodes swiping at the last of her tears with the back of her hand as she slides her phone back into her pocket.

"Would some Oreos help?" Kara suggests already picking up on Winn and Alex's cute brother-sister type of fight for when she can get Linda and Maggie back to the DEO.

"They always help." Her sister reminds letting Kara pull her to her feet than in for a tight guilty feeling hug as Maggie jogs toward the door with a called "wait here I think they have the mini ones in the vending machine down the hall."

That has the Danvers twins chasing after her hand in hand at what to them at least was a normal human stride.


Notes:

Everyone alright?

I promise Sanvers will meet again in the next chapter.
And to prove it here's a little sneak peek:

Five little words.
Alex felt her life completely change in the form of five simple tiny words falling from the lips of the woman she was in the middle of falling in love with all over again.