A/N - Updates will unfortunately become even more sparse in the next few weeks! I'm preparing to go back to school and then I'll be starting classes. There's only a handful of chapters left, but they're going to be good, I promise (or I hope anyway)! Thank you for your continued reading and reviews!

"Where's Director Danvers?"

Vasquez looked around, her and the other agents worried about their squad leader and director.

"Supergirl, come in. This is Vasquez, we just lost Alex."

"What do you mean lost?" Kara's voice filled with worry, looking at J'onn.

"No, no, not that kind of lost. Cadmus Maggie took her. We don't know where she went though. There's almost thirty sub-levels of the cave to look in, but we've been in lockdown since the flashes."

"Start looking. J'onn and I will find a way in without you having to cancel it. Stay safe."

"Roger that. Alright guys, let's start looking. Notify the other squads, we still the prisoners to watch and see if there's anyone else here."

"Wake up." Maggie's brainwashed voice was still stone cold as it coursed through Alex's ears.

"What the hell?" Alex was shocked when she wasn't in any pain. "Why didn't you just kill me?"

"Didn't she tell you? Join us and you get me and your father to snap out of it. We'll have our whole life ahead of us."

"You're a coward hiding behind her voice. Hiding behind her mind." The only thing she could see was Maggie, a single blue light shining down on her face. Everywhere else was dark. "Where am I?"

"You're still in this silly little cave. They shut down anything that would let us transmat out of here. Smart agents you have, aren't they?"

"Why did you come here. How the hell did you find me? I thought you were going to show up at my apartment or my sister's. You're smart too, I suppose." Alex grimaced and then let out a strangled laugh.

"We've been watching you. Waiting to play our next move. You're in check now, Alex. You're making this so much harder for me and your father." Maggie inched closer to Alex. "Didn't you get our message? Did you see everything that we could do together? Then Lillian won't bother us."

Alex realized the nightmares weren't just her dreaming. They were messages from Maggie, from Jeremiah, from Lillian Luthor somehow transmitted into her brain. "Screw you. Tormenting me while I'm sleeping. You're a freaking coward, just show yourself already!"

There was a flicker in Maggie's eyes. The real Maggie. She looked down before she was seemingly taken in control again. "Alexandra Caroline Danvers. We can either do this the easy way or the hard way. Either kill me or we'll have to force you into our cause."

Alex flinched at her full name. Maggie had only used it to "You know I won't do either."

"So it should be easy then, hypothetically." Maggie paced around Alex, going in and out of the darkness. "You're not restrained, we specifically stunned you with the flash grenade specialized with knocking a specific target out and no pain afterwards. You are at full strength right now. I have nothing on me and you still have your pistol. You could kill me, your father with a single shot to the heart."

The thought sent a chill down Alex's spine. She could run, but she didn't even know what floor she was on. There could be twenty guards outside wherever she was put. She closed her eyes, hoping for J'onn and Kara to come now and take her and Maggie away before the situation escalated.

"How are we going to get in? The whole thing is encased with lead, I won't be able to find her. We don't even know if she's still in the building, do we?" Kara's concerns were flying a hundred miles a minute.

"I can phase us through the lead. It's where they specifically put her that's going to be hard. When the Daxamite invasion occurred, we installed transmitters that specifically blocked portals like the transmatter one. They won't be able to get out, and no one else can come in unless they're like me."

Kara nodded. "We're almost there."

J'onn pulled her close. "Remember this? This is going to feel a little weird." His flying became faster as they phased through the lead.

A startled Vasquez held her gun to the sudden intruders, lowering it when she realized who they were. "Sir, Ma'am."

"There's no damage?" J'onn looked around suspiciously.

"Not even any other Cadmus agents that we've seen." Vasquez's report was unusual. They were all wondering how a single person entered the DEO base, how she was able to stun everyone in Alex's squad long enough to take her.

"Let me see if I ca-" J'onn felt a punch to his face.

"Hostile found! Fire at will!" Vasquez, who was commanding in this situation took the first shot as J'onn fought the unknown stranger.

Kara looked and saw that it was Jeremiah. "Dammit." She ran towards them and fought her father as the sounds of gunfire rang out all around them.

J'onn was thrown towards the wall, temporarily disabling him, and Jeremiah grabbed Kara by the arm. He didn't speak, but the expression in his face showed that he was still brainwashed. As he motioned to throw her, Kara flipped over and kicked him in the head, pinning him down to the ground.

"Jeremiah! Snap out of this! I know it wasn't you that hurt Alex. I know you wouldn't hurt your daughters like this."

He still didn't speak as his eyes fluttered from red to brown. They became brown long enough for him to speak two words: Kara. Alex. A sudden jolt of seemingly invisible energy had him back to fighting his daughter again.

J'onn got up and ran back towards the fight. He stopped when he heard Jeremiah whispering at Kara, being held down by his throat.

"I meant everything." He laughed menacingly, staring deep into Kara's eyes. "I wanted Alex to die. I wanted to watch her suffer as she bled out, as she begged me to stop kicking and throwing her around. She's a federal agent and couldn't fight me. Even after all that happened. She was always the best part of me, but now I'm just disappointed. And you, Kara, you're a whole other story." He grinned as his eyes became dark, J'onn watching with shock.

The words were enough to activate Kara's heat vision. In the back of her mind, she knew it was still Lillian that was speaking, that was controlling him, but it was enough to make Kara scream in rage at Jeremiah himself.

"You bastard." She let herself punch him in the gut, not even realizing what she was doing. "You almost killed your daughter. My sister." Another punch. "You leave, you left us to think you died for thirteen years, come back and fight J'onn, and you hurt everyone at the DEO, right? Then you came back and you betrayed us. You broke her. You come back again, you make Alex let her guard down, then you almost beat her to death. You almost took my sister!" Kara punched his face this time. "You put her in a coma for a month, left her with nightmares she couldn't even explain, broke her yet again. Then you took Maggie, another sister, one of my best friends, another person Alex loves, breaking her yet again! You hurt her, you hurt me, Eliza, J'onn, and I will not let you get away with this. I won't forgive any of you."

Kara let herself punch Jeremiah one last time. He was bleeding heavily, but it was enough to trigger something. His eyes changed again. His grin fell, and he looked up with pleading eyes.

"Kara." He coughed up blood.

The blonde looked down at what she had done. Her fist was trembling, still holding it over his face and the other arm against his throat.

"You can't trick me, Lillian."

"It's not. You just knocked me out of it."

Alex had stood up, her and Maggie circling around each other. Her gun was still holstered, hand hovering over it.

"Are you going to make a move, Danvers?"

"No. It's exactly what you want me to do."

"So? Like I said, it's me or you."

"I won't hurt you. Even if Lillian's controlling your mind, once I bring you back I want you alive."

"We'll see about that." Maggie was the first to lunge.

"What the hell?" Kara looked down and slowly pulled her arm away from Jeremiah's throat. The DEO agents around them promptly cuffed him and roughly pushed him up so he was sitting against the wall. "Who are you?"

"It's Jeremiah. I swear. And I deserved that beating." He wiped the blood off of his mouth with his shoulder. He had labored breathing, but was smiling gently, unlike before.

"What happened?"

"After the real Henshaw knocked me out that night, the night of the ship, they took me again. I was the first subject of many. I could see and I could hear, but I couldn't speak. I couldn't control what I did. I- Alex." He started to tremble, remembering what he had done to his daughter.

"How do I know what you're telling me is the truth? How do I know I can trust you?"

"I don't expect you to. I can't trust myself right now. I met with Lillian, or rather she took me to another lab of hers, and she explained to me how she was going to find Alex and kill her if she didn't join Cadmus. I couldn't do anything to stop, she put something in me that brainwashed me. Your punches somehow knocked it out, for now. She could turn it back on any second once she realizes. I tried so hard to stop myself but I couldn't."

"How can we shut it down?" J'onn stepped forward. He didn't make an effort to have the DEO agents lower their guns, him still not being able to read his mind or trust him.

"I don't know. It's in our bloodstreams. That much I know. They're neurotransmitters specifically designed to procreate in our veins. If you can create technology to shut it off, you might be able to temporarily shut it down. It doesn't mean Luthor doesn't know that though."

J'onn looked at Vasquez. "Get a team on it now. Winn, see if you can help them over holographics. We're sampling your blood, Danvers."

Winn gave an okay as Vasquez nodded and motioned for any technicians that were around to follow her.

"Be careful. I don't know if it can be transmitted through contact. All I know is I need to make this right. This needs to end soon. Where's Alex?"

"Maggie took her." Kara looked down again.

"You might have a better chance with her. The neurotransmitters haven't been in her bloodstream for that long, if I'm remembering right."

"They only took her a week or two ago."

"Then it won't be as hard to get through to her. Alex should be able to do it. I only met her for a half hour, as me anyway, but I know she loves her enough to listen."

Alex was panting as she dodged Maggie's swings. She knew Maggie every move, but so did the other. Even if she was brainwashed, she still retained her fighting mechanisms.

"Just say the word and this will all be over, Danvers."

"I won't hurt you. That much anyway. Even under all of that brainwashing you're still Maggie." Alex punched her and Maggie didn't flinch. Her mouth was bleeding, but she wiped it off with a smirk.

"Damn, Alex. You know how to throw a good punch."

"Not like you could feel it anyway, Luthor."

"I'm surprised that you're fighting me. You didn't fight your father when he hurt you. I guess I know who you love more. I guess I should expect you to kill me. I was the one who comforted you when you woke up. Did you forget all of that?"

Like Jeremiah's words to Kara, it was enough to anger Alex, though she still knew it was Lillian Luthor. She lunged at Maggie, pinning her down in a similar fashion.

"You do not get to talk to me like you're her. You are not Maggie Sawyer, you are not the woman I love, the woman I want to marry. I was going to propose to her before you started all of this, you bitch. Maggie, please, come back to me. Come back to your family, the ones who love you."

As Maggie whipped her head up, Alex's collided into hers by accident. Their lips touched briefly, also by accident, enough for sparks to go off in both of their heads, their hearts.

Maggie blinked and stared at Alex. There was shock in her face, looking at her with her own eyes.

"Danvers. Whatever you did, you brought me back."