A/N: Sorry it has taken so long to get this up, life kind of got in the way.
Bella: To be honest, not much planning goes into this, so I can't rule anything out or in.
"I know I will regret asking, but why are you frowning at your toast?" Maggie said the next morning.
"There is no smoke without fire." Alex said.
"I am assuming you are not talking about your burnt toast?" Maggie said.
"No. Landon. He has been arrested twice now." Alex pointed out.
"For completely different crimes and both times you proved his innocence." Maggie said.
"Don't remind me." Alex said. "The worst part of this is that when I am finally proved right I will have been the one helping him. I will have actively aided and abetted."
"Only counts if you know that they are a felon." Maggie pointed out.
"I do know that. It is everyone else who doesn't see it."
"Or he is innocent and you helped him." Maggie said.
"If I wanted groundless optimism I would talk to Kara." Alex countered just as the door opened.
"Talk to me about what?" Kara asked.
"Why I shouldn't feel bad about getting Landon off." Alex said. "There should so be a rule that if you are arrested you can't be a DEO agent."
"Wouldn't that disqualify you?" Maggie asked.
"Maybe we should see if he has been arrested for anything else." Alex said ignoring Maggie's comment.
"Haven't you done that already?" Maggie asked.
"Yes, but not his juvenile record."
"Isn't that sealed?" Kara asked.
"There are ways round that." Alex replied.
"I'm not hearing this." Maggie said before looking at Kara. "You ready?"
"I am."
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"Hi Captain." Kara greeted as she passed him in the ballpen.
"Danvers. What are you doing inside?" He asked, wondering if Maggie had lifted the embargo.
"Just waiting for Maggie. She wanted to show me some pictures. Don't worry I'm not looking at anything else."
"Right. Good." The Captain said before asking. "You planning on covering the Sinclair arrest?"
"Not unless Maggie has a time machine. I mean Sinclair is already behind bars."
"Right, I just wasn't sure if you'd be covering it."
"Do you want me to?" Kara asked.
"No. I mean I'm not sure the complexity of the case could be conveyed in four hundred and fifty words."
"You mean you arresting the wrong man and not investigating?" Kara asked.
"Yes. No." He said as Maggie appeared. "Sawyer, make sure you show Danvers some good stuff today. Let's make sure she gets a good story." He said walking off.
"What was that about?" Maggie asked.
"He's worried I will write how NCPD arrested the wrong man and then didn't investigate." Kara explained.
"Are you?"
"Not my job. Although Alex wants me to. She's thinking if we splash Landon's photo round people may recognise him."
"Well let's make sure we get you a story to support you job rather than Alex's malevolent and paranoia fuelled plans."
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"Something bothering you?" Maggie asked noticing Kara was being uncharacteristically quiet as they drove across the city.
"No one has called on me, Supergirl me, to negotiate."
"Regardless of how qualified you feel you are, people don't see you as a negotiator. They see you as a fixer. They want you as a fixer."
"But I could be a negotiator."
"The city already has negotiators." Maggie pointed out.
"Then why get me to do the course?"
"I didn't, you forced your way onto that course." Maggie reminded her.
"Because you said I didn't appreciate your job."
"You missed my point." Maggie said. "I don't want you to do every one's jobs. My point is you need to give them a chance to do their jobs so you can focus on yours."
"But you don't like it when I get involved."
"Occasionally I don't like it because the situation is in hand." Maggie said before trying to explain her point. "During Myriad, how did you save the city?"
"I flew Fort Rozz into space."
"Before that."
"I had my ass kicked by Alex." Kara recalled.
"After that, you did that whole speech thing. You freed everyone from the mind control. That is something only you could do. If you had been catching bank robbers no one could have stepped into your shoes for that speech. But while you were giving your speech there were plenty of people, well there would have been if they weren't zombies, to catch bank robbers." Maggie said before glancing over at Kara.
"The difference between you and your cousin is you work as a team. You, Alex, J'onn, the rest of the DEO work together. That's why you are better than your cousin. But there are other people who could join the team. Hell you even teamed with Landon to find us when we disappeared. All I'm asking is you think about including more people, like the police, in your team. Not taking over their jobs."
"I do. I mean two years ago you weren't on my team, now you are." Kara pointed out.
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"Agent Danvers." Landon said as Alex entered the meeting room where he and J'onn were talking.
"What are you doing here?" Alex asked confused.
"I work here."
"Shouldn't you be taking a mental health day, or week or even better, decade?" Alex asked.
"I appreciate your concern, but I am and fine and I wanted to th-" Landon started only for Alex to jump in.
"You know what I don't get?" Alex asked.
"What?" J'onn asked.
"Maggie heard a scream and then went to the alley. It took her less than twenty seconds, probably closer to ten. And there you were." She said looking at Landon. "That wasn't enough time for the real murderer to confront the victim, scare him, murder him and then run off."
"The scream wasn't from the victim." Landon said.
"It wasn't?"
"It was me. I don't do well with blood and brutally murdered bodies."
"You're a doctor." Alex reminded him.
"I practice psychiatry. The last time I saw a recently dead body was years ago, med school in fact."
"So you screamed?"
"It was a cry for help."
"Maggie said strangled cry." Alex countered.
"It was a cry for help, which may have sounded like a cry, but I was busy trying to figure out if he was alive."
"Is that why you tampered with a crime scene?" Alex pressed.
"I wanted to know if I could help him."
"By stabbing him again?"
"What?"
"You were holding the knife." Alex reminded him.
"I moved the knife so I could check his pulse without nicking myself."
"You contaminated a crime scene." Alex pressed.
"I am not an active agent. Crime scene processing is not what I do."
"You displayed a complete lack of common sense in moving that knife. Something that not only contaminated the scene but almost cost you your freedom." J'onn said. "One thing that is clear though is we need to review the training everyone gets."
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"What's wrong with you?" Maggie asked that evening, when she saw Alex frowning.
"I have to go to extra crime scene training?"
"Why?"
"Landon admitted to screaming like a girl and removing the knife."
"See that doesn't surprise me." Maggie said.
"Why?"
"I have said from the first day I met you the DEO don't know how to process a crime scene. What happened with Landon proves that."
"Or Landon is a bad learner. And if he is that bad at crime scenes it proves he is a bad shrink."
"For a scientist you are terrible at math." Maggie said. "One and one does not make five. I mean that is like saying Kara is responsible for the destruction of Krypton because she survived."
"You are equating the destruction of a planet with a bad wife and bad timing?" Alex asked.
"Of course not." Maggie said as Kara entered the apartment. As she did so she looked at Alex and asked.
"Why do I have to go to crime scene training?"
"Landon." Alex said.
"But I have seen every CSI episode, what more is there to learn?"
"Thank you Kara." Maggie said.
"For what?"
"Proving that the DEO should stay away from crime scenes."
"I didn't say that." Kara said confused.
"I have worse news as well." Alex said to her sister.
"What?"
"Landon is back at work so we have therapy tomorrow."
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"Alex, Kara." Landon greeted. As the pair sat down he said. "Before we start I want to thank you again for proving I was innocent."
"Technically we proved Sinclair was guilty, not that you were innocent. And if we are being accurate about this, it was Kara." Alex said.
"Thank you Kara." He said.
"It was the right thing to do." Kara shrugged.
"Neither of you sound happy." Landon said. "How did it make you feel?"
"You are turning this into a therapy session?" Alex asked.
"This is a therapy session." Landon reminded her. "And it is your therapy session and you can talk about anything you want. But seeing you seem uneasy with your path I thought you might like to discuss it." He said before looking straight at Alex. "I mean I get the feeling that you would have happily left me in jail. Does it concern you that you would have left a guilty man on the streets?"
"I didn't." Alex reminded him.
"But if you had your way you would have done."
"Well I have a moral compass for a sister."
"What if Kara isn't here."
"Are you threatening her?"
"What? No."
"Really? It sounded like a threat and those who are arrested for murder should be more careful about throwing threats around." Alex said.
"It wasn't a threat." Landon said after a moment. "But it is interesting you see it as one."
"I find it more interesting that you don't see it as a threat." Alex said. "Was that because you saw it as more of a promise?"
"It was a hypothetical." Landon said.
-00-
"So are we team Landon or not team Landon tonight?" Lena asked.
"We have never been team Landon." Alex said.
"Yet you bravely fight his corner."
"That was Kara. And Landon is making us pay for her kindness." Alex said.
"How?" Lena asked before Maggie could stop her.
"Threatening Kara." Alex said as Maggie pointed out.
"It wasn't a threat."
"But Kara saved him. Surely he should want to protect her." Lena said ignoring Maggie.
"The fact he doesn't shows Kara is his target." Alex said.
"So what does the alleged framing have to do with it?" Lena asked. "I can't keep up, is the today's theory that Landon framed himself or he really was guilty or he was framed by someone else?"
"Working on that. Did you dig up the old records?" Alex asked.
"I so did not hear that." Maggie said.
"Do you want me to repeat it for you?" Lena asked.
"I'm going." Maggie said. "Even then this probably is aiding and abetting."
"Then you may as well help properly." Lena argued.