"Alura? What is it?" Eliza asks again her hand reaching out toward the alien mother beside them with a look of teary-eyed awe on her face.
Three times. The two human women as resided the Kryptonian healing prayer perfectly three separate times. One for each of the three occupied beds. The two baring her resting daughters and the last holding the one Linda had pulled from the crumbling wreckage of the Cadmus base.
"Kara taught it to us a few weeks after she came to live with is." Alex explains seeing the saddened sweet look on her adoptive mother's face. After all, in the last day and a half Alura has been just as much her mother as her own blood related one. When Alura had yet to speak Alex kept going needing to fill the quiet somehow rather than let herself dwell on the 'what could be happening' possibilities with her ex in the clutches of Cadmus.
"I'd broken my leg trying to beat her at…. God, I don't even remember now…but she was so upset about being the reason I was hurt that she wouldn't leave me alone."
Alura rested a hand against the glass wall separating her from her two sleeping daughters. At the moment she was shamed to say she couldn't tell just who was who. Her other hand went to Alex's arm in comfort sliding down to take her hand instead as Alex rested her head against Eliza's shoulder with a tired sigh.
"Kar would follow me around everywhere after Dad would bring me back from doctor's appointments those first few days and as soon as I was settled in, she'd start whispering to herself at least that's how I saw it at the time" Alura nodded in understanding earning another of Alex's guilty looks. "I'd yell at her to leave me alone, so she'd go out into the hall and sit down there instead but then she'd start the murmuring all over again." Alex kept going her eyes unfocusing as she lost herself in the memory of what she was saying.
Eliza slides her arm across her elder daughter's shoulder when Alex's started shaking in quiet guilty tears. "I was so mean to her." Alex sobs hiding her tear stained face against her mother's collar bone. For the moment she didn't care about keeping up the façade of the tough 'Agent Danvers' that could take down targets several times bigger than her or knew six different ways of harming someone with only her index finger. Right now, she was just a worn-out young woman in need of a hug from her mother while her world threatens to crash around her—again.
"You couldn't have known then what that prayer was for." Alura soothes wrapping her arms around the shaking woman's shoulders.
The mothers share a look between them not knowing how to help their respective daughters at the moment with Eliza turning to check on Winn and Lena in the conference room on the second floor once again looking for clues to where Maggie had been taken. The two were even considering jointly simi adopting Jamie into their little family.
"Yeah for all I knew she could have been cursing me in a language that I didn't know. At least not then." Alex agreed with a hiccupped laugh as she pulls herself together again while whipping her teary eyes on the sleeve of her tactical gear. "It took her somehow blowing out her powers and hurt her hand in gym a few weeks after Kenny was killed and my reciting it to her in the nurse's office while she was waking up that she finally told me what it was for."
Alura tries to brush her tears away only for more to fall as she looks from her sleeping daughters to their Earth sister and back again. Alex already seems to know what was going on in her head as she untangles herself from one mother to pull the other in for another hug. "Kara may not be my sister by blood, but she is my sister. Linda too."
That has Alura holding the other woman tighter also pulling a sniffing Eliza into the hug as well. It's not until they feel a weight pawing at their legs that they remember the other member of the little watch party.
"Feeling left out sweetie?" Alex sniffs taking some time to get to a decent kneeling position. She hadn't been as banged up as the other three now sedated or resting up under solar lamps, but she was still bruised enough to annoy her. Rory whines low in her throat at the question licking away the tear tracks on Alex's face as she scoots closer giving the kneeling human her own version of a hug.
A soft chuckle pulls the hovering mothers attention while Alex chooses to snuggle into the soft fur of her new friend for a little while longer.
"I didn't mean to intrude." Kate tells them honestly as she walks up her hands tucked into the pockets of her pants. "Its just Jamie thinks she's got a lead on tracking the signal that tipped off those Cadmus goons we were coming."
Alex sat up straighter at that "Sorry I didn't trust…." She stared to say, but Kate holds up a hand to stop her. "Given who is at stake here I can fully understand your want to charge in guns blazing." Alex nodes falling into step as Kate leads the way back up to the conference room with Rory padding along between them. "But we also need to have a better plane of action next time."
"How is Snowy?" Lena asks as soon as she sees them. Her hair was up in a messy ponytail and her normal neatly pressed business attire swopped out for loose sweatpants and an old college sweatshirt. She had even dawned those black framed glasses she seldom wore in favor of contacts.
"Resting." Alura answered taking a seat between her and Kelly at the long table scattered with empty coffee cups, crumpled bits of paper with half finished equations, scribbled notes, or jotted down quadrants, dry erase markers, broken pens and pencils and paper plates with barely touched food littering its surface. "How is it going up here?"
Lena sighed running a hand in her unkempt hair. "They got us one time. Not going to happen again." she promises with a determined edge to her voice.
Alex and Kate had to clap their hands against the mouths to keep quiet when they noticed the couple sleeping on the conference rooms new pull out sofa. It had been Eliza's idea the second time she'd caught Winn dozing off still sitting hunched over the table. For once he'd refused both the mother's insistence, he go to the bunk wing when Alura had gently shaken him awake.
After a glance up at Alex Rory trots over to the bed and hops up with relative ease settling herself between Winn and Jamie with a soft huff from the effort while Winn rolls over and ends up throwing his arm over her back in his sleep. Eliza shares a smile with her daughter knowing how much Winn liked the idea of owning a dog himself.
"Hey yeah, Sunshine." Jamie greets lifting her head from the pillow she'd made of her own arm. Rory hummed low in her throat leaning over to give Jamie's face an affectionate mini bath of kisses in greeting. "Yeah missed you too baby girl. Sleepytime now." Jamie grins too tired to care about having dog slobber on her face as she snuggles as close as she can get to the bed's furry occupant with Winn's arm in the way.
"What did you say?" Alex asked but Jamie had already gone back to sleep and hadn't heard the question.
"She is still running on Gotham time." Kate reminds resting a hand against Alex's arm when it looks like Alex wanted to go over and shake Jamie awake again.
"But she called Nova Sunshine." Alex reminds already feeling Kelly's arms around her waist when her caffeine crash makes her hands tremble at her sides.
Lena nods wishing Brainy wasn't down keeping an eye on Kara and Linda and running a few of their newest Pandora leads in the DEO database for more possible Maggie leads. If he were here maybe he could tell her why Alex was making such a big deal about the cute dog name.
"Well yeah. Why do you think I call her Super Nova?" Kate chuckles crossing her arms over her front as she sinks into an open chair her eyes still trained on Alex's.
"She is your dog, isn't she?" Given how close she and 'Nova' seemed to be Alex had just guessed she was to pups owner if it wasn't Jamie.
Kate shakes her head "I wish but sadly I wasn't the one Rory picked for her Mama that night."
Alex opened her mouth to ask who that lucky someone was, but Kelly pressed a hand over her lips to quiet her. "We can talk about puppy parents later Al. Right now, you've had a rough few days and based on what my brother has told me about Cadmus we're going to have a few more before we find the detective."
Everyone not already asleep winces at the reminder. "I may not have gotten to meet her myself, but I already know that Maggie wouldn't want any of you overworking yourselves like you are even for her." Kelly says looking into each pair of eyes around the table. When she came to Alex it was to see her girlfriend absently tugging at the necklace she was wearing. Spinning one of the rings on the chain around her finger.
Brainy tapped on the edge of the door with a nervous look in his eyes as he holds up a memory drive. "I haven't yet found a new possible location on our missing detective." He admits with a defeated sigh. "But I have found bits of the security film from the compound…."
Alex's hand closes tightly around the twin bits of metal hanging from the chain at her neck "Put it on."
Brainy hesitated but its Lena that takes the drive and plugs it into the computer instead. "This may be hard to watch but at least it will give us an idea of what they are going to her." she reminds glancing over toward Alex as she starts up the first of the three videos Brainy had been able to piece back together.