Maggie's body was healing nicely the patchwork of bruises already fading while the broken bones continue to mend one after another under the DEO and Alex's care but her mind. Healing her mind was a completely different story.

Will she even be the same Maggie when she wakes up?

It was a terrifying question that had been running in her head more and more the longer she sat at the sleeping woman's bedside.

Rise and fall

That had become her only safety now whilst the rest of her world was sprawling over that repeating question. Her heart had already stopped twice under Alex's hands she wasn't going to risk it again. Not when she'd just gotten her back.

That steady rise and fall of her chest was really the only thing keeping her from dishing out some well-deserved payback the longer she was forced to wait to see those detecting light brown eyes looking into her own.

Even if she was too late to try again with a relationship Alex wasn't ready for Maggie to leave her life again. Not by a long shot.

Such a simple motion. Like the soft push-pull of a wave.

It grounded her. Calmed her.

"Alex please." Her patient tries again breaking the spell of her calm. "Please talk to me."

Despite the anger now pulsing in her system her hands never wavered really, she was mentally counting each beat from the monitor in the adjoining room to keep her cool. Surely she could work out by now that Alex wasn't in the mood to talk. Not only had this woman who had claimed to like her in more than just a friends kind of way offered her Maggie up to those Checkmate devils without much thought as to what would happen to the detective afterward, but she had just stood by and hell had possibly even helped those monsters in violating the woman Alex loved.

They'd played with her mind on top of bruises and breaking her body doing Rao knew what whilst using her for their unwilling lab rat. Alex wanted nothing more than to vent her tangled mess of emotions on the one she was sure had suggested the idea in the first place, yet she held it in.

A smile brushed her lips as she thought of someone else who hadn't been so good at that task. No one blamed her really. Truly she had every right to want revenge.

"Alex?"

Her eyes didn't drop from Rory's just yet and she had to admit it was cute to see when the pup's still red-stained lips pullback in the start of a growl heckles up when Kelly's restrained hand moved to rest against the zoned-out agent's arm.

"If you wanna keep them I'd suggest you drop them, Olsen. She's already gone after Maxie."

Alex chuckles at Kate's warning call almost forgetting that Maggie's new girlfriend had taken over her vigil when Kelly had been brought in.

The bite in question only a nip really considering Kara had intervened before the angry pup could do any real damage. Going by the look of betrayal she can still catch in the dog's eyes as they shift to the woman in question quietly reading in the corner of the room Alex was sure that had she not been stopped Rory Sawyer would have shown just how much Max Lord at least shouldn't have messed with her human mom or the rest of the dog's chosen family.

Linda had begged to take over the 'heroing' for the night needing a distraction Alex guesses remembering Rory's less than pleased whimpering when her sister had spun into her own version of the now shared 'super suite'.

"I will be safe little one." Linda had promised in a soft whisper as she tucked her much loved cape around the displeased pup. "Take care of them until I get back alright?" she'd bargained her eyes like Rory's lingering on Alex herself one hand holding Maggie's while her other hand played with the rings hanging around her neck before the 'youngest' Danvers sister had left the room.

Kelly takes a shaky breath as Alex soothes out the last bit of tape before she pushes her chair away wordlessly saying she was finished with her.

"Alex." She tries again visibly flinching at the soft snap of the gloves as Alex pulls them off but this time its Vaz that quiets her. "Let's go." The agent orders as Alex turns her back to them preferring to stair passed the glass wall into the adjoining room at the woman that still held her heart.

"Hey, Al?"

She could see the sting of tears in Kelly's eyes when she turns around at Jamie's questioning call from the doorway but that was the only glance, she spared the deceiving woman being wheeled toward the door and back to her holding cell.

"What's up J?" Alex asks her throat a bit scratchy from lack of use as she draped an arm across Jamie's shoulders returning the younger woman's comforting hug with one of her own.

"She speaks." Kate jokes with a hint of a sarcastic edge to her tone as she offers over a cup of ice chips to help the agent's scratchy throat. "Speak again oh badass angel." She adds with a playful wink as the pair switch places. Alex rolling her eyes as she takes a seat biting down on a few of the icy pieces as Kara giggling behind her book.

Jamie takes a seat on the floor beside Kara's leg before she answers while Kara shifts closer to her as Jamie leans in against the added heat the Kryptonian gives off while the super turns a page in her book. "Eliza wanted to be sure you were taking care of yourself." She admits once they've settled.

Alex shakes her head "I had a power bar earlier." Was all she answered with, but Kate shakes her head as she moves in untangling Linda's cape from Rory to drape it over Alex instead. "Not food Danvers." She reminds earning a glare from Alex.

Only Maggie was allowed to call her by her last name.

"She keeps trying to talk to me but I just….I can't." Alex confesses after a pause pulling Maggie's hand up to brush it with her lips. Rory shimmies up the bed seeming to want to be pressed against both her favored humans at once in comfort. "At least not right now." Alex finishes with a guilty sigh as she rests her head against the side of Maggie's bed.

"Well, when you are ready give one of us a heads up alright?" Jamie says in a yawn. "I'm sure Mags will get a real kick out of seeing you use those legendary 'I can take you out with just my index finger' thingy. I know I would."

Alex shakes her head with a shy smile. "Deal."