When this was all over Linda vowed that somehow some way, she'd make them pay for what they'd done.
She and her 'Sister' were just trying to have a nice time bonding over a love of chess, hot cocoa, and an iced creamed Oreo treat when those monsters had struck. Or more specifically when one of the two Cadmus agents sitting at the corner table showed their hand in having Linda and 'Alex's' second round of hot cocoa drugged.
Not only do those demons owe her family an apology for upsetting them but Max now owes them all cocoa and an ice creamed Oreo cookie treat when this was over.
Linda guesses it was Lord given the smugness of his grin when she comes to what seems like minutes later. A look to her right showed her that J'onn was back to his normal 'Papa Bear' self being dragged more than lead to a chair in the middle of the room by two uninterested looking Cadmus agents while Linda herself was laying on a too-small sofa a few feet away from him. Her head hazy while the rest of her seemed to be on fire. Not just any fire.
This pain was one she'd only known a few times herself. Her last time being the one she'd thought would have been her last. The searing burn of Kryptonite.
"This wasn't part of our deal Maxwell." Kelly was saying. "You got what you wanted weeks ago. You don't need her. "
Linda's head pounds even harder having to listen to Max laugh as he moves to pour himself a drink from one of the many expensive-looking liquor bottles lining the bar behind his desk. His movements so like Lex's that Linda was having trouble keeping the two men apart in her pained state while Kelly stands on the other side her arms crossed in front of her as he speaks. "Your deal was you bring us everything the DEO has on Harun-El. Did you really think Allison would be alright with those out of date data files when the purest source of it literally walked in our front door?" he questions taking a seat drink in hand.
"I did not walk. You forced me and Papa to come with you." Linda grunted as she pushes her protesting body into a more straightened sitting position before giving up and returning to her more reclined state. "This whole time you were working with Cadmus?" she clarifies her gaze fixed in Kelly's direction "Do you not remember hearing what they did to my family? To Alex?"
"Shut up." One of the guards standing close to the head of the sofa growls his hands slapping across Linda's cheeks to quiet her.
Kelly moves so quickly that it takes Linda a few seconds to remember that her 'savior' wasn't superpowered. "Touch her again I'm breaking it." She threatens grabbing his arm to hold him back when Linda recoils from the blow "Go check the perimeter…and take Campbell with you." She orders her eyes flickering to the other stationary figure standing beside the door something like pain in her eyes seeing even more green in the young Kaznian's complexion as Linda blinks away the pain from the cut to her cheek. "Get away from me traitor." Snowbird yells when Kelly makes a move to check on her. "Don't you touch my Papa either." She growls when Kelly only sighs and moves to check on J'onn instead.
Her words seeming to rouse J'onn enough that he lifted his head as the door closed behind the retreating guards. "Lin?"
"Papa Bear." Linda sighs leaning against his side as best she could just to have some form of contact with her segregate father.
"I'm alright little one," J'onn assured he didn't need his powers to know how worried she'd been for him. Not that he had them at the moment given the power dampening units humming in the background. No doubt a Lord tech upgrade. "Just a headache." He tries to laugh but it comes out more pained than he'd intended.
"Nice of you to join us, Director Jones." Max smiles raising his liquor glass in greeting. "Or should I say, former director. I hear that our Agent Danvers is top dog now." He chuckles while somehow making the already unrelenting pounding against the Martian's head worsen.
"Yes, yes enough with the niceties." Kelly scolds her eyes still fixed on the smirking man behind the desk. "This isn't what Allison and I agreed to and you know it. They weren't part of the deal."
"Have you learned nothing?" Linda chuckles "Deal with Cadmus never go the way you want."
Max laughs lifting the glass to his lips "Oh no no no. This isn't just Cadmus anymore. This is something new." He tells them like a proud father about to fawn over a favored child. "Think of this as a merger into what Cadmus could have been with the right leadership." He continues taking a measured sip of the amber liquid he was holding while swirling the rest in his glass. "True we do share a majority of the same views as they had but Checkmate…."
"Shut up Maxwell."
"You're a knight among pawns Olsen. Don't start questioning us now."
Kelly's arms cross over her font once again the guarded mask back in place as the two hold eye contact.
"We've upheld our end of the deal to a T." The businessman points out. "You have your relationship with Alex just like you wanted and although I will admit it has been more amusing than I'd originally thought seeing that feisty butch cop being our little lab rat Allison says she's more use to us alive."
Linda whispers a string of curses not all of them because the stinging bite of the cuffs around her wrists she was still trying to get out of as she listened. Max seemed to be amused by that but chose not to comment. So like Lex. Even without Kara's memories of what he'd done to their sister Linda would already be hating him. "So now it's our turn to reap some of the rewards."
The look he was giving her made Linda's stomach turn but she fights back nausea and pain enough to force the words out "I want to see my dude."
"Your Dude?" Max scoffs his eyebrow raised.
"Sawyer. She wants to see Sawyer." Kelly translates trying yet again to get J'onn at least to drink some of the water she'd poured in an attempt to at last keep them hydrated. She was taking a chance given how Linda looked ready to murder her if she got the chance. Lucky for her the kryptonite was keeping her in her place.
Max rolls his eyes. "Then why not just say she wanted to see her?" Kelly shrugs a shoulder at the question.
"I stay with you, but you at least let Papa see Maggie before you let him go." Linda bargains looking from the smirking man behind the desk then over to a sickly looking J'onn and back again.
"You don't have much of a choice in the matter of staying or going Kara .2." Max reminds standing up and moving around to the front of his desk. "As for letting J'onn here go…." He muses and Linda guesses he would have gone on gloating but a rather loud alarm cuts him off.
Kelly slides behind the desk pulling up the security feeds of the lower floors while Max advances on the restrained pair. "I told them I spotted them." She groans not looking forward to the conversation about to happen as she watches her possibly soon to be ex-girlfriend and her equally angry and super-powered sister storming the halls like twin hurricanes.
"Looks like your getting your wish super twin." Max decides
J'onn tries to come to her aide but after a few swipes from his watch, Linda can only watch in horror as her 'Space Dad' crumbles off his chair nothing but pain in his expression as he folds into himself. "A little idea I picked up from a 'Star Trek' episode." Max explained, "Like a white-hot fire poker right to your brain huh J'onn." He questions "A little something 'your dude' helped us tune-up I might add." He added dragging a struggling Linda back from her pained Papa Bear.
"Also." Max muses as Kelly rushes around the front of the desk to try and help the whimpering Martian.
Linda tries to push his raising hand down mostly to avoid her Papa being hurt anymore but in her weakened state, she may as well have been pushing smoke for all the good it did her.
"Time to go I think yes?" he asks as if commenting on the weather while Kelly holds in curses as she presses her hand against the bullet wound, he put into her thigh. The shot is just shy of a fatal wound.
Linda makes it to the door of the room before she gives in to the darkness of her long exposer to the green rock searing her system with every breath she took.
When she next opens her eyes, Max was absent, but it only takes a roll of her head for her mouth to open in a soundless scream as soon as her eyes refocused on the world around her.
She'd woken up right into something straight out her nightmares.
Only this was somehow worse. Because this wasn't something, she was experiencing herself not second hand from her sister's lingering memories in her head. Only this time instead of her beloved Alex it was her newest sister.
The tiny one with the wildness of a tiger in a fight the one that always carried the scent of leather and scotch when she hugged her. The cause of her eldest sister's happiest of smiles just from hearing her name or walking into a room. The one who'd adopted the cutest of cutest dogs and named her after the sun.
This was her Maggie.
Her Maggie.
Her Maggie laying almost suspended in a tank of liquified kryptonite. Her Maggie that going by her slowing heartbeat was losing her fight to hang on.
Alex's Maggie was slipping away just feet from her, and Linda could do nothing but crawl on her stomach toward the tank with pitiful sobs. 'So much for being a God.' She thinks feeling more and more like Gadsby in his last moments reaching out toward the green light at the end of the dock or the ringing telephone on the end of a too far away table as she drags herself more into the green fire of the kryptonite not caring at all about the black clade military-looking team surrounding her or the soft furry one on her belly beside her helping her along.
A gentle hand against her back startles her with a cursed cry as the move was like fresh salt into her already painful kryptonite created wounds.
"We got her now."
The rough voice startles her more than the soft kisses Rory is lapping at the injured woman's cheeks as does the looming blurry figure in red and black kneeling beside her
"You did good Superberries." Kate praises momentarily shedding her Batwoman voice as pained blue eyes find her own. "You brought her back." The older woman whispers while Linda looks from the seeming to be sleeping woman being pulled from the torture tank to the still masked veganity and back again.
Alex was there her expression changing between relief to fear to determination after a glance at something Linda couldn't see as she bends over the sleeping tiny one laying too still on the DEO med stretcher.
Linda grins happily content that the last sensation besides the searing burn of the fire in her veins is her mini furry sun snuggling against her side trying to keep her away just by her closeness while the last thing her blurry eyes see before falling into the green rock created darkness is her sister pressing her lips to the tiny scotch scented ones like a tactical gear clade princess kissing her tiny tiger of a sleeping beauty back to life.