It's the third time she'd gotten her flat on her back that she considers actually injuring her.
"You're holding back."
Of course, she was holding back. Kate wasn't the one she was angry with. Jealous of maybe if she was being honest with herself, but not entirely angry.
Her mother had banned her from her own lab, Vaz was still handling the DEO side of things well enough that Alex didn't need to step back in to her Director role and if what Alura had said was right then Linda was taking a much-needed nap so this was her only option left to take her mind off what could be happening to her ex-fiancée and keep herself out of the medical wing with a stress-induced heart attack.
Alex had to admit that the adrenaline in her system was helping quiet her anxiety, but it did nothing for her guilt. She shouldn't be wasting time fighting with Kate when she should be out hunting those bastards that took her Maggie from her. "What about it?" she grumbles blocking a punch Kate was trying to land against her side.
"What I mean is." Kate smiles using Alex's own momentum to flip her over her shoulder. "Stop holding back." The wind is mostly knocked out of her when she lands again on her back with Kate hovering over her.
"Hey, just be glad our fight club doesn't have a bad monkey like they had the last time I got to go." Kara commented over the headset. Apparently her earlier Supergirl call had finished.
"Again, with the monkey." Alex sighs when Kate pulls her up already circling again letting Alex catch her breath.
"Hey, that was one mean monkey." Kara corrects while the other two listen to Winn's laughter over the coms. "Are you eating the last of my chicken fried rice?" Alex asked by way of changing the subject. "Mom said I could have it." Her sister defends in a pout at Alex's annoyed groan at her garbled 'maybe' in answer.
The sisterly banter would have gone on longer had the training room doors not been kicked open by a blur of power.
"Alex?! Alex?"
The worry in Linda's voice was equal parts heartwarming and guilt creating as Alex steps out of her hiding place. In all of this, she hadn't thought of what would happen if her other 'youngest' sister were to wake up to her heart rate galloping against her ribs.
"Easy easy Lin. I'm alright. I'm okay see." Alex jumps in stepping between Kate and her angry bull of a super-powered sister.
"Sorry I got your sister all hot and bothered Superberries, but she needed something to take her mind off what's going on or she would have put herself in the med wing." The Gotham police captain says by way of a greeting and explanation her hands raised in defense as she wisely puts some space between herself and Alex.
"Superberries?" Alex chuckles looking between Linda and Kate while the former's hand slide into her own. The slightly taller woman nodes with a small shrug of her shoulders. "Jamie kind of adopted her when she stopped by our neck of the woods to see Mags." Kate's low chuckle has Alex's eyes sliding back to her as her sister pulls her in for a hug. "I can even show you the video."
"The video?" Alex parrots peeking over at the woman beside holding her hand. Linda didn't say anything but her face colors up as her head dropped to rest against Alex's shoulder. "Everyone else is in the lab." The director adds seeing the puzzled look in those blue eyes she was still getting to know. jealousy evident in her voice as she presses a brush of a kiss against the side of Linda's head.
A loud bark draws all eyes toward the door. Linda dropping to her knees at the ready, but it wasn't her the eager pup leapt at as soon as she was close enough for the attack.
Alex's surprise at the height the pup made with the single bound was lost in an attack of wet kisses over every part of her face the dog could reach while the director unconsciously fixes her hold to accommodate the squirming ball of furry energy.
"Oh yeah, this is a good look for you Danvers." Kelly laughed taking out her phone to document while her girlfriend tries to lean away from the puppy's unrelenting attack. "the perfect blend of bad ass agent and goofy normal person." She comments snapping a few incriminatingly adorable pictures of the pair.
"Okay, okay Nova. Enough with the kisses bath sweetie." Kate sighs helping the other woman out while Linda continued to hold her sides in giggling laughter at the look on her sister's face. "I know." The closeted vigilante coos at Rory's unhappy whine at being taken out of Alex's arms. "I know sweetie girl. So exciting, but you need to let her breath okay." She jokes shifting the pup in her arms to she was still able to see a grateful looking Alex.
Kelly shakes her head her teasing smile never wavering while Alex whips the access slobber from her face and neck. "You're lucky. She kept trying to bite at me when Lin first passed her off."
"Maybe she just likes me better." Alex laughs unable to shake that she knew the cute attack dog from somewhere but at the moment she couldn't place where.
She knows her mother was doing it to protect her sanity, but it still hurt like an open wound to have to turn away and walk the other direction at Kate's "Come on Danvers lets to check in with the nerd court. Maybe they've found a way to get our woman back." Suggestion as she steers them toward the lab as soon as they exit the gym.
"Alex…" Kelly starts to say but her girlfriend had already turned in the direction of the hub. "Trust me. I might be the DEO director, but even I'm not dumb enough to pick a fight with my mother after she's made up her mind on something." She says without turning around to see it Kelly would follow her or Kate.
It's not until she's halfway to her secondary hideout of her office that she hears the click of paws following her. As soon as she stops so does her shadow. Adorably the dog is sitting patently as if waiting to see what she would do next when Alex turns to look.
"Hey, you." If dogs could smile, then this one sure as science smiles at her. "Don't attack me with kisses this time alright." She adds as she kneels. The dog tilts her head to the side as if not understanding what was being asked as it pads closer. Now that she wasn't finding off wet dog slobber Alex could get a look at the vest the cute dog was wearing. She had to hand it to those Gotham techs. If she didn't know any better, she'd swear the vest was DEO grade.
"You know I know another cute doggie I think you'd love." Alex says conversationally letting the dog circle around before laying down pressed as close as she could get to her side without really being in her lap. Its not long before the cute pup is sleepily drooling into her leg.
It's the fifth loop of her new favorite animal-related video that she hears twin footfalls coming down the hall to where she and her three-legged shadow were hiding out.
"Mom is mad."
"Yours or mine." Alex asks without looking up at the newcomers while she continues scratching the sleeping dog at her side behind her ear.
"Yes." Her sisters say at the same time.
"Oh, my gosh is this her?"
The twitch of her dog's paws at the louder than needed squeal in her sister's voice has Alex peeking up at the pair with a warning "Kara I love you dearly, but you wake my dog I'm having Lin punch you in the arm as hard as she can."
Kara pouts while Linda chuckles. "This isn't your dog Alex its Ma…." Kara starts to argue but her twin jumps in before she could finish making Alex laugh when she actually does slap her twin in the arm. "Kara remember what Mom asked about that thing…. the one she asked us to go get for her before we ran out of the room."
Alex would have laughed at Linda's poor attempt to quiet Kara if she wasn't also intrigued as to why Linda was trying to quiet Kara about just who the dog that seemed to have attached itself to her belonged to.
"Winn got yelled at too. Mom and Mom tag-teamed him into going to take at least a three-hour nap." Kara says already seeing her older sister trying to intimidate her into telling her why her twin didn't want her to know who the dog at her side belonged to. Whoever they were had better be prepared to share because Alex was already in love.
"Da but they were a little nicer when they sent Lena to bed. She was running on coffee and curses when we pulled her away." Linda agrees with a shy smile. She'd let Kara be the one to carry a sleepy Lena to the on sight sleeping quarters like they had at the compound back in Kasnia.
"El mayarah. Remember. We are not stronger when we are worrying ourselves to sickness or working ourselves into exhaustion." Alura reminds as she and Kate stroll into the same hallway as the Danvers sisters.
"We found something?" Alex perks up at the sight of them yet for all her unease about what had been found she couldn't bring herself to move and risk disturbing the animal at her side. Lucky for her 'Nova' seemed to wake up at the sound of Kate's voice.
"Should have known you'd defect on us." The billionaire sighs with only a mild undertone of a dramatic air about her. Her phone was already out snapping a picture of the two on the floor. "You're Mom's going to flip out when I show her this you know." She warns sliding the device back into her pocket.
'Nova' only sighed going back to resting her head against Alex's side after a small headbutt against her hand wanting her ears scratched.
Alura smiles at the banter murmuring about how cute Earth people were with their animals before getting back to the matter at hand. "Maybe. As I've told your mother and the others. My husband was always better with the science things than I but between us…."
"I'm dubbing the gang we've created the 'Nerd court' just so you know." Kate jumps in with a laugh when all she earns is groans.
"You're worse than Cisco." Kara concludes from her place on the floor. She'd managed to coax 'Nova' over enough that now the dog was laying across her and her sister's lap. Kara getting the front end while Alex had to handle 'Nova's' excited thumping tail against her stomach.
"Yes yes." Alura sighs her annoyance at the interruption mirrored on Alex's face "According to what we have on hand Pandora is unstable but that is actually good news for us seeing as it makes some of the projects components trackable. The trail, however, scatters like leaves on the wind so pining your detective's exact location will be difficult."
"I'm thinking its because these goons are playing set up with us. Get us to hit a stable target while they take this show on the road." Kate adds
"I don't care how haywire this theory is. At least we have something to go on now instead of just flying blind." Alex sighs resting her head back against the wall.