For the record, she was completely against this.
How could she not be?
They were perfectly capable of waking Alex all on their own.
True they hadn't exactly found a way to do so just yet, but they hadn't given up. After all, they had some of the best minds working on this. Herself, Lena, Eliza, Alura, J'onn, Kate, Nia hell even Winn and Sam had come back to offer what help they could even when that help was just being a shoulder to cry on after another failed attempt to wake the stubbornly badass sleeping beauty currently resting in the Watchtower med bay.
They didn't need Her barging back into their or Alex's lives just when everything seemed to become a little more stable after the latest and hopefully, last Crisis blew over.
"Katie's plane just landed." Kara determined pausing her pacing long enough to tell them before starting the nervous walk all over again. The airstrip was a little farther out from J'onn's newly rebuilt office than she would have liked but with her powers Kara could have the new arrivals back in seconds rather than minutes and that was without traffic slowing them down even more, but with Lex keeping an even closer eye on the skies nowadays none of them want to risk him following her back in order to reclaim the 'stolen property' currently keeping her older sister trapped in that VR world.
Kelly bites down hard on the inside of her cheek when Eliza seems to perk up at that. As if she'd just heard that a long-lost daughter was finally coming home and Winn looking like it was going to burst with excitement over the news.
"I still think this was a bad idea." She says louder than she intended as she slumps lower in her seat.
"Alex's body is running out of time with all the stress her overactive mind in putting on it. What else do you propose we do?" this time it was Lena who asks her eyes hard and cold as emeralds despite the adorableness of her disheveled 'just rolled out of bed' college student type attire with her messy ponytail keeping her hair up away from her makeup-less face blending perfectly with her oversized sweatshirt and jeans clothes combo.
Beautiful.
Not Alex beautiful but still head-turning in Kelly's opinion.
"We could try sending someone in again trying to talk her out of this."
Winn sighs offering a grumpy Lena another round of coffee while Alura and Eliza leave the table together both Kelly guesses heading to check on their stubborn daughter.
"We are." He reminds resting a comforting yet restraining hand against the CEO's shoulder "Look we've all tried…." Winn paused looking pointedly at her first then casts a look toward every other person before continuing. "None of us could reach her. Not even Kara or Nia."
Sam gives each of the quietly crying heroes in question a soft hug while across the way Alura was offering a watery-eyed Eliza a comforting smile while the mothers worked on collecting the latest round of medical readings.
"But why Her?" Kelly sighs running her hands through her already unbrushed hair. "I mean they haven't talked in months what makes you think she'll even…." She starts to rant not caring at the moment about the possible anger her words would cause as her eyes once again fall in the unmoving form of her girlfriend laying in the adjoining room.
It's the sound of the elevator that stops her this time.
"Already?" Winn asks way to hopeful for Kelly's liking as all eyes turn toward the two metal doors.
Every face that wasn't Kelly's falls when only J'onn steps out from between them his arms full of different take out bags and pizza boxes.
"Sorry to disappoint Agent Schott." The Martian greets as the elevator doors slide closed.
"Nah. You have food…that's almost as good." Winn shrugs pushing his chair back to go help carry everything over to the conference table in the corner of Watchtower.
"Any change?" J'onn asks to the room as the pair start carefully setting each bag and box down around the scattered notebooks and other papers around the tabletop.
"Kate's plane landed a few minutes ago." Lena offers as if he hadn't already heard from someone's thoughts as she snags a doughnut from one of the mixed boxes of chines and pizza choices available
"Good." The tired Martian sighs easing himself into a chair beside a yet to unwind Kelly.
She seemed to have dozed off at some point during the lull in activity seeing as the next thing Kelly hears is a new voice say "I have to say J'onn. This is still some serious Bond villain hideout level coolness."
The Martian in question was also the first to reach her and from where he had exited from Kelly guesses he'd be in to check on Alex himself at some point during her nap.
"Maggie."
Kelly bristles at the fatherly warmth of greeting while the two embrace.
"J'onn." The Latina smiles nuzzling her face against the Martian's strong chest.
Wow. Even looking at her from behind Kelly couldn't deny that she was beautiful. She already knew she was of course. She'd seen more than a few pictures of her girlfriend's ex-fiancée since she and Alex had started seeing one another. Seeing her in person, however, was a whole new ball game.
"Maggie?"
Every eye in the room turns in their direction at the sound of that particular tone. Kate who'd just managed to slide passed J'onn and Maggie to head up the steps toward the waiting spread of food paused mid-step to watch. All of them seem to be holding a collective breath as the two moves closer toward one another.
"Eliza."
The two hug in a tight embrace with Maggie seeming to be the more stable of the two the longer it lasted. "about Jeremiah…." The cop says when they finally decide to pull apart her eyes like Eliza's shining in yet to be shed tears. The Danvers mother shakes her head once again pulling Maggie in for an even closer hug. "I know dear. And I really appreciate it." She whispers again Maggie's hair while behind her back Maggie seems to be trying to get Kara to come close enough to join in the embrace.
It takes far more coxing than Kelly would have thought even for the great Maggie Sawyer and a little prodding from Eliza before the normally bubbly super to move close enough to be pulled into the three-person embrace.
Another wave of jealousy twists her heart when Kara continues to cling to the newcomer even after Eliza untangles herself to return to her eldest daughter's side.
"She'll need another nourishment injection soon, but her vitals are at least stronger than they were an hour ago."
Kelly is sure she can taste blood on her tongue the next time her teeth find her lower lip in her attempted to stop from laughing aloud at Maggie's startled reaction to Alura's sudden presence.
"Forgive me." The Kryptonian mother pleads while Maggie's eyes drop a little in embarrassment.
Maggie shakes her head while Kara chokes out a giggle the first really since this new nightmare started as she pillows her head against Maggie's shoulder. "It's alright." She whispers shyly.
Surprisingly it's not Alura but Maggie that speaks next as a flash of recognition crosses her face.
"Oh, my Rao…."
Beside her Winn leans in resting his chin against his palm as a wide grin spreads over his lips. "here she goes." He murmurs as he like Kelly and Lena watch the shorter woman's eyes flicker between the two Kryptonians. "I've missed those detecting skills of hers." He laughs as he picks up and drains a chilled bottle of some kind of futuristic soda.
It was true that the Kryptonian mother had put aside her usual red supersite for a more human look of a pair of jeans paired with a graphic tee shirt amusingly enough baring the NASA logo.
"H—How?" was all Maggie could think to ask while Kara only giggled again a little louder than before at the disbelieving look on Maggie's face the longer she looked at her alive again mother.
"Where's all that detecting power you were so proud of Mags." The young hero teases earning a playful slap to her shoulder from a grinning Maggie that earned one of Alura's warmer smiles as she watched the sister like banter as the detective rounds on her daughter with a wounded pout.
"Oh, come on Little Danvers, you're the one from two of the craziest intelligent families I've ever known." Kara's smile widened as Maggie leans over just enough to catch Lena's eye before adding. "No offense Luthor."
Kelly sighs stabbing her spork into her container of chicken broccoli rice at Lena's laughed "None taken Sawyer." While Kara leads Maggie over to the food-laden table all the while keeping a tighter than a human grip on her jacket sleeve. She didn't want to risk accidentally crushing her hand but going by the look Maggie was sending her Kara knew that she understood.
"For all I know you and the better Luthor somehow found a way to clone her from that cool spacy diary thing you have at the DEO." Maggie points out but Kara shakes her head glancing back over her shoulder to be sure her mother was following them. "She's as real as you and me Mags."
"Alura Zor-El."
"Maggie Sawyer."
The detective knew it had to be silly telling Kara's mother her name considering she must have already heard it at some point during what had to have been a rather heated talk about asking her to do this but Maggie felt compelled to say it all the same as she took the other woman's outstretched hand.
"Yes, yes. As nice as all this meet and greet is can we get on with moving on to the real reason you're here?" Kelly snaps pushing her chair back from the table with enough power she was sure she'd accidentally left marks on the hardwood under there feet.
Kelly had to admit she was a little upset that the only thing she saw when Maggie's eyes meet her own was an unsettling kind of understanding with her haste and anger over what was going on.
As if she could understand anything when it comes to Kelly's feelings for Alex Danvers.
Maggie nodes not saying a word in actual response, yet her hand did slide back into Kara's while Kelly pushes away from the table in order to lead them over to her sickly girlfriend herself.
"Just get in talk her down and get out as fast as possible please." Kelly orders while they walk. Again, the detective's answer was a simple node the closer they got to Alex's 'sick room'
"You okay Mags?"
Kelly gritted her teeth when a glance back over her shoulder shows that Maggie had stopped just steps away from the actual doorway to the makeshift med wing they'd made out of a spare room of the newly rebuilt Watchtower.
Don't they realize that Alex is running out of time?
Winn shots her a rather uncalled for glare in return to her instant huff at the delay in getting her girlfriend back.
"Haven't seen her since that night." Maggie admits in a cracked breath now leaning heavily against Kara's side for support as her eyes stay trained on the remained stretch of space left between her and her ex.