A/N - So silly me pulled an all nighter and made a trailer the other day. It doesn't make 100% sense with what I want to do with the fic but if any of you do want to see it let me know! It's currently 5AM where I live when I'm starting this, so I'm sorry if this doesn't make total sense. (From the trailer,) what Maggie is saying is loosely from the show Floriana Lima was in called Lethal Weapon. This bridges into the final part of the story, so thank you for sticking with me. I'm pretty invested in this story, and I'm thankful for your reads and reviews!

The days that had passed were restless for Alex. She was still in a state of psychosis, unable to wake up from the nightmare of her father and girlfriend being taken by Cadmus.

On the nights she had fallen asleep, it would end with her jolting awake in a cold sweat.

Tonight happened to be one of those nights.

Alex woke up on a cold concrete ground. The sight was hazy around her but looked all too familiar. Rick Malverne and his contraption. Fabricated memories of her being put into a Cadmus van were in her mind, and she couldn't help but wonder why. She saw a figure walking towards her.

"There you are. I've been waiting for you."

"Maggie?" Alex rubbed her eyes. It was all too vivid for her to be dreaming. Her voice sounded hoarse from not talking for so long, while the sound of her girlfriend's voice was still as soft as ever.

"It's me."

"Yeah?"

"Yeah."

"Is this real?"

"No, babe. But it could be."

Alex stood up, still looking at the blurry figure. "What do you mean?"

"You're supposed to be here with me."

"But I am."

"You need to wake up. You have to join Cadmus."

"No. No, Maggie. I can't do this dream again." Alex was horrified at Maggie's mentioning of Cadmus.

"Do you still love me?"

"Of course I do, but not like this. Not when this nightmare is too vivid. The real Maggie Sawyer has been brainwashed." She backed up into the corner as "Maggie" inched closer.

"I still love you, regardless, forever."

"Maggie, or whoever you are, no. I can't. How do I even know that you're still alive?"

"I'm so alive, Alex. Look at all the things we can do together if you join me and your father."

Maggie held Alex's shoulders. Instead of the warm butterflies Alex had usually received, her hands were cold. Maggie stared into Alex's eyes, and looking back Alex could see different scenarios: Lillian telling her to blow up a road with NCPD officers on it, shooting at DEO officers, hurting Kara.

Alex squeezed her eyes shut.

Kara.

Kara had woken up to soft whimpers of pain from Alex. She looked over and saw her tossing and turning, tears running down her cheeks and heard her heartbeat was erratic.

"Alex!" Kara shook her older sister. "Alex, wake up."

"Alex, this isn't you! You wouldn't do this. You have to be stronger than this!"

Alex opened her eyes and found her over her sister, with the Kryptonite sword she used to kill Astra, and then almost kill Kara under Myriad. She found herself inching the sword closer and closer to Kara's throat.

"Kara, I can't stop this. You have to take me out."

"No. I won't do that. I-"

Whatever was controlling Alex's body wouldn't let her sister finish the sentence.

Alex finally woke up shivering. She looked at Kara next to her, eyes filled with concern. She finally broke out of her state and broke down into Kara's arms.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, Kara." Alex said between sobs.

"What are you sorry about? It was all a nightmare. You're safe, you're here with me."

"I killed you. I killed you and you probably hate me for it."

"Alex what? I could never hate you. You're my sister and I love you." Kara pulled Alex tight and kissed her forehead. "What else happened in your nightmare?"

"I saw her."

"Who? Maggie?"

"She told me to join Cadmus. She told me that I could have a good life. I don't know what to do Kara. What am I going to do?"

Kara was heartbroken watching Alex's state. She pulled her sister even tighter and tried to calm her down. "Alex, I'm here. I'm here and we'll find them."

"What if they're dead?"

"They aren't. I promise they aren't."

"They're brainwashed though. What if they're brainwashed and Cadmus just has them hanging by a thread?"

"No. Don't think like that."

"I just don't know what to do." Alex was still crying hysterically, overwhelmed by her nightmare, the thoughts racing through her mind, Maggie and Jeremiah. She was lost beyond control.

"Just let it out. Let it all out and you'll be stronger for it. We'll find Maggie and Jeremiah, we'll get them back. You will be stronger soon. I'm so proud of you for being so strong already."

Kara held Alex until she cried herself to sleep. She thought to herself, what am I going to do?

SGSGSG

A week passed the nightmare and Alex had started to talk. She started to chuckle at Winn's jokes, talked when Kara asked about her day, talked to Lena about science. Anything Alex did was to keep her mind off of Maggie and Jeremiah, waiting for the inevitable day Cadmus would take her too.

J'onn had allowed Alex to observe at the DEO. She'd train with him every day, making her both physically and mentally stronger. She knew that she had to put a block on her mind when it came to fighting Maggie and Jeremiah, something that could kill her if she forgot that it was Cadmus they were really fighting.

He had agreed to shapeshift into the two some days when Alex really needed to focus. It's Cadmus. It's not really them. Every time she reminded herself, the more angry she became. J'onn took it as a good sign, that Alex was still going, still fighting to protect who she loves.

"Good job, Alex." J'onn shapeshifted back from Maggie. "Whenever we face Cadmus, you'll be okay. We'll get them back." Everyone had reminded Alex that they vowed to get Maggie and Jeremiah back. It was important for her to know that, to know that they weren't going to be another DEO casualty, to know that they were still people under Cadmus's brainwashing.

Alex sighed at J'onn's words. She was still feeling conflicted about when the time came to fight them. She had still been fighting the rage that was in the back of her mind, the anxiety coursing through her body, but she had become stronger. She had taken Kara's words to heart, fighting and training to take Cadmus down once and for all.

"Sir, maam, we have an update." Vasquez came in rushing her sentence. They knew it was urgent.

Alex was taken aback at the sight. On the monitor were Maggie and Jeremiah, in the same fashion Cadmus had first appeared to them so many years ago.

"Residents of National City, we're coming to take back what's ours." Maggie's voice was hollow. "Bring Alex Danvers to us, and we will not harm anyone else. For now." Both her and Jeremiah had the same expressionless faces, no emotion, no feeling.

Alex's eyes widened.

"My daughter, if you're listening, come find us. We won't hurt anyone else if you do. 15 West, 5:00."

The screen turned back to its normal monitors.

"They're a terrorist organization. Why isn't the government doing anything?" Kara stepped forward and asked J'onn.

"They are, but they're leaving most of it to us. Our job is to protect aliens of Earth, and that's what we have to do. We're the government too, remember."

"I have to go."

"No, you're not going. Alex, we've been training so you can fight. We're training so that when they do strike, you'll be ready to bring them back."

"Why the hell do they still want me?"

"We don't know, which is why we'll figure it out."

SGSGSG

Hours passed from when the message was sent. Alex checked her watch, 6:00. Nothing had happened. She was safe in the DEO, Kara was waiting in her own apartment, J'onn in Alex's, if they were to strike. Alex had thought about the possibility of them knowing where the DEO was, the one in the cave. The one that she was hiding safely from inside central intelligence with a multitude of agents, a whole arsenal of weapons, ready in case anyone was to break in.

In the few hours, Kara had finally told Lena what was going on with her mother after the broadcast. That she was the one behind her sister's girlfriend's kidnapping, her adoptive father's brainwashing. Lena wasn't surprised, wasn't upset, but she was angry. Alex had saved her life and protected her multiple times, and she knew that she would get to work to get the brainwashing technology out of their heads before it was too late.

"Any signs of Cadmus over there?" Alex was fidgeting with nothing to do but wait.

"No. I flew over 15 West and there was nothing. It was probably a trap. Winn, any update on the transmat portals? Heat signatures? Anything?"

"Not yet. I'm working to get those online still."

"I'll check to see if Lena has anything." J'onn flew across to L Corp.

There was a flash and all of the agents in the cave jumped. "J'onn, Kara, something just flashed here."

"We're on our way."

"No, not yet. We don't know what it was."

Another flash. A flash grenade. Maggie.

"Okay, yeah come now! Everyone hold your fire and check your six. Get in your formations and split up."

Alex led her squad down the stairs. Her hands were shaky as she knew what she was about to face. She held her gun and slowly opened the door.

"There you are. I've been waiting for you." Deja vu from the nightmares filled Alex's memory. "Why'd you keep me waiting so long?"

Maggie threw another flash grenade down and Alex felt a tug.

As the light cleared and the squad adjusted their eyes, Vasquez looked around her.

"Where's Director Danvers?"