They'd set it up under the pretext of going out for the desert Linda, Maggie and J'onn had chosen after winning the mock shooting match. Really it was just a chance for the newly reunited exs to talk in relative peace or as much as they could get considering they were in a house with not one, but three super hearing aliens and a Martian who could read minds.
It was only the duel warning looks from both versions of their Mother that kept the 'super twins' from following them on their walk to the beach. But not before one of the blondes pulled one of them aside with an adorably fearful expression akin to a skittish puppy.
"Promise me now. Regardless of what is said between you that you still stay with us?" Linda asks in a low whisper catching Maggie's arm as the shorter woman reached for her jacket.
Maggie smiles at the genuine concern in the other woman's eyes. Really, she'd only know this version of Kara for less than a full day and already she just wants to wrap the young woman in a warm blanket and hide her away from the evils of the world.
It wasn't until she noticed the reflection in a hallways mirror of her twin not so stealthily peeking over at them when Kara was meant to be talking with J'onn that she found that concern was shared between the two Kryptonians. Linda had of course been hoarding most of Maggie's time since she arrived, but Kara had always seemed to be hovering close by.
It was such a difference from how they'd first saw one another.
"Just as long as the three of us can build a blanket fort in the living room and I can pick the movie."
Linda is already nodding in agreement before Maggie's full request was made. "Da, whatever you want." The Kansan answers seeming to be blinking away happy tears as she accepts the hug Maggie pulls her in for.
"Then I'm coming back." The detective smiles as she steps away to pull on her trusty leather jacket.
"Hey, you ready Mags?"
Unbidden Maggie's traitor heart speeds up at the question, yet that could just be because of how close Alex was standing against her back while she too stops at the coat rack for her own jacket. It was like Alex hadn't even realized she'd said anything out of the ordinary. Like for a moment they were still together and haven't been broken up for nearly two full years now.
"Uh…Yeah…yeah just a second." Maggie agrees shaking herself out of those kinds of thought as she turns to the other blonde-haired alien hovering by the door.
Neither said anything as they embraced. Right now, they didn't need to in order to understand what the other was trying to convey.
Alex's curious puppy look had Maggie wishing she could easily get to a camera, but she waves her off. "No more stalling we have two hungry Kryptonians to fed." If any of the other three picks up on the subtle crack in her voice they don't say anything "Let's go get these ladies some victory ice cream."
Kara and Alex flinch with twin whines of "gross." While Linda smiles at the reminder.
"I still can't believe she talked you into trying that stuff." Alex grumbles with a shudder "So gross."
Maggie crosses her arms her eyebrow raises as she catches her ex's eye. But she holds back on voicing anything considering how those particular memories of the time she'd gotten Alex to not only try for the first time but also admit to liking vegan ice cream where both too painful to fully remember considering they were no longer in a romantic relationship and mostly because they were too private for the sensitive ears of the duel Superwomen currently standing on either side of them.
Going by the color rising up Alex's neck however, she was remembering them too. Well, that and the pointed cough they were getting from the mind reader currently hiding out in the kitchen with Eliza and Alura. The caught no longer a couple, couple both directed a guilty "Sorry Papa Bear" toward the kitchen at the same time making the twin Kara's grin like cats just given fresh cream.
"Alright, no more of this standing around. Go for ice cream please." Linda says playfully shooing them toward the door that Kara was holding open for them. "And Al don't forget to try and sneak in some of the actual good stuff before you get back."
"Kara no. Your sister's team won fairly, and you agreed to the terms of the victors choosing the dessert item before the game began." Alura scolds from the kitchen making sure to talk loudly enough that those without super hearing could hear her.
"You heard her Alexandra." They hear Eliza add before Maggie can finish tugging a pouting Alex out the door.
If anyone asks them later they will swear that the reason they don't drop the other's hand as they weave their way down the darkened side streets is so Maggie won't get lost while Alex leads the way to the town beach with only the moonlight and her own knowledge of her hometown to guide her.
"How much you want to bet the 'super twins' are listening in on us right now?" Maggie wonders aloud the second Alex's hand drops from her own as she slides her hands into the pockets of her jacket before the chill of the water can chase away the lingering warmth from her fingers.
Alex laughs aloud sounding so free and content in one sound and Maggie quietly hates how just being able to hear it again still melts her heart. "Oh, no doubt. Probably sitting together on the couch pretending to be watching something. Maybe splitting a bowl of popcorn like we're the newest drama series."
This time its Maggie's turn to laugh at the image now forming in her head at the comment.
"I still can't believe that Lin can be a literal clone of Kara, yet she can't stand the taste of potstickers."
The mischievous spark in Alex's eyes brings with it more treasured memories of their shared past, but Maggie shuts it down in order to return her smile with a playful wink.
"I know she loves pizza just as much as Kara, but when it comes to take out tastes those two are like polar opposites." Then she pauses thinking something over before adding. "unless it involves stealing my chicken fried rice."
Maggie giggles at that. "No, say it isn't so. Not your chicken fried rice."
That had them both dissolving into giggling laughter while they walked side by side down the beach. Their shoes and socks already discarded in favor of feeling the still warmed sand under their toes.
Already they could hear their phones pinging in their pockets with incoming messages but neither made a move to answer or even check who they were from.
"So, Linda kind of already filled me in on your new girlfriend." Maggie admits her hands fisted deeper in her jacket pockets as she rips on the 'she's moved on' band-aid.
It's only because she knows her so well that she picks up on Alex's shoulders tensing up, yet her face remained natural while Maggie chuckles under her breath at the mild annoyance in the scoffed "Of course she did."
"So, an Olsen huh?" Maggie keeps going already feeling the nonexistent salt seeping into her own Alex created wounds.
"Kelly." Alex nodes. "And it's not that serious. We're still getting to know one another." She shrugs feeling rather guilty in talking about her new girlfriend with the woman that at one point had been her fiancée.
She still has both their rings. She keeps them on a chain. The same one hanging around her neck at that very moment. She'd tried not wearing them, but at the same time, she just felt so naked without the comforting feel of them under her shirt that she'd started to see them as a kind of good luck charm.
"I know you Danvers. 'getting to know one another' already means kissing."
Rather than answer Alex chooses to change the subject as she stops in order to pick up a rock and watch it skip across the water. "What about you?"
Maggie exhales slowly thinking over her answer a shy smile spreading across her lips, "Actually, there is one special lady in my life."
Alex's hands clench against the inner lining of her jacket pocket, but Maggie's eyes are fixed on the rolling waves to notice. Not that she had a right to be jealous or anything. She'd been the one to end things so she should be happy Maggie's found someone to take her place.
"I'm telling you, Danvers, the two of you would absolutely love one another."
"Oh yeah?" Alex was only a little upset with herself for not paying closer attention to what her companion had been saying to have a better comeback than that.
Maggie nodes playfully nudging Alex's shoulder as they make another path down the short line this time in the opposite direction. "Just ask Lin. She's met her already and let me tell you I almost had a theft on my hands she was so smitten."
That she wasn't ready for. How could her sister not tell her something as important as her ex-fiancée meeting the obvious love of her life? At least she could have given Alex some kind of warning to the new woman in Maggie's life before flying her back into it.
"Trust me on this Alex." There was something in her eyes that made Alex wish she'd elaborate farther not only on who this new mystery woman was now Alex was paying better attention, but so explain why Maggie believes so strongly that she would somehow want to be friends with the new woman that had taken her place in Maggie's heart. "God, Al, I just—I just love her so much. She's my little ray of sunshine." And she does. Alex can hear it plain as day in her voice as her ex unleashes the full power of her gorgeous smiles. Maggie is utterly in love with this new woman. Maybe even more in love than she had been when they were together.
Possibly, but Alex hopes she's wrong as she plasters on what she hopes is a friendly smile as Maggie's eyes meet her own. "That's great Mags. I'm so happy for you."
Maggie smiles then glances at her watch with a disappointed sigh. "We…. we should go get that ice cream soon. You know before the super duo starts attaching the drapes at your Moms."
Although she selfishly wanted to prolong her time with Maggie a little longer Alex nods in agreement. "Yeah. I guess so."
Again, their hands gravitate toward one another after they'd slipped their shoes and socks back on and had started back toward civilization.
Yet the pair had barely made it around the corner from the beach when a green and black van pulled up out of nowhere. The side door already opened while six burly looking thugs in ski masks poured out three tackling Alex while the other three fly at Maggie.
"Hurry up." The driver barked also in a mask while Alex struggles to help her ex as the three manage to drag the fighting detective toward the waiting van. It only takes one shock from a taser to make Maggie go limp against her attackers.
The triple whooshes of arriving super speeders has Alex grinning despite the terror spreading over her as she has to watch her ex being tossed into the van like a rag doll, but that soon turned to horror when what she'd originally thought was just an oddly chosen paint job on the side of the van started to glow a brighter shade of green each time one of the three Kryptonian's tried to go near it.
"You keep moving and your girls' brains paint the sidewalk."
Alex hadn't thought the others would have actually let Eliza come with them but she could see her mom now falling back with Linda and Alura to a safer distance as the cool metal from a gun burial it pressed closer against the side of her head while Kara struggles forward only to be sent flying backward by a blast from a waiting gun firing a consecrated blast of the deadly green rock.
"It's the Martian. Blast 'em."
J'onn had been watching them from the skies no doubt looking for a weak point only to be knocked out of the sky by a second blast from the same weapon that had taken Kara out of the game.
God, whoever had planned this attack had done some serious homework. That knowledge just had Alex struggling harder against the unrelenting arms holding her down against the pavement.
Yet just as soon as the attack had started it was over with the van vanishing into the night like a phantom.
Author Note:
Please don't hurt me. I may be the one writing this but even I didn't see that coming, and before you ask no Maggie was in no way in on her own kidnapping. She had no idea that would happen to her. Her checking the time wasn't some kind of sign she was waiting for something to happen she was just checking the time to remind herself and Alex of the world outside their own little bubble of togetherness.