Maggie dragged Alex past the hallway, tied up and a gag shoved inside her mouth. Her head was still bleeding from when she collided with Alex's, the latter's heart still racing.

"She's finally agreed to join our cause. Stay here and make sure that other prisoners don't get loose. I'm going to check on Danvers and make sure he's subdued Supergirl and J'onn J'onzz."

"Yes Ma'am." The guard in front of their door gave a nod and motioned for them to exit the building. Alex had struggled against the ties and gag, glaring at the guard.

They reached the center of the building and Maggie held Alex's gun. She poked around before reaching Jeremiah, Kara and J'onn.

"All clear." She removed the gag and ties from Alex and kissed her forehead. They slowly walked out not to scare the others, so that they knew Maggie was herself. Maggie was still being careful, knowing Lillian could turn the neurotransmitters back on at any second. She thought to herself from the moments before their escape.

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

Alex held her gun at Maggie's leg, a nonlethal shot if she had to, scared that Lillian was tricking her, that it was some sort of nightmare where she would be taken again.

"How do I know it's really you?" Her voice cracked at the question. She saw the changing look in her eye, but wasn't sure.

"It's me. It's me and I don't know how to prove it to you, I don't know if I can even bring myself to prove it to you because I don't want them taking over my mind again. They can do this then have me do what Jeremiah did to you and I can't live with myself if I did that. It was awful, Alex. I couldn't fight myself, Cadmus inside my brain. I just wanted to break free and help you."

"Maggie I-" Alex's voice trailed off. She was hesitant to say it, knowing that it could be a trick, but conflicted since it felt so real.

"I know. I do too. Let me get you out of here." Maggie shifted her body and Alex rolled off of her. Hesitant at first, Alex knew it was her only chance.

"We need a plan. If I remember correctly, there are guards outside waiting to take us. I need to- You have to let me tie you up. Think that you joined us."

Alex looked conflicted at Maggie. It really was her, but she could still snap at any second. It could all be a trick to get her to come out with them, disappearing until she showed up. She had been so broken from the past two months and had worked so hard to build herself back up. It was so hard to do so, and she knew that she could be broken yet again. She eventually nodded. She trusted Maggie, and her heart was telling her to follow.

"Here." Maggie took the rope she somehow had hidden under her Cadmus-issued coat. It was eerily similar to her normal NCPD jacket that Alex had clung on to for the time she was missing. She gently tied Alex's wrists behind her back, careful not to hurt her too much.

Maggie then took a piece of softer rope and put it around Alex's mouth with an "I'm sorry." She gently pulled her up and walked her out of the prison block.

Maggie shuddered at the memory as she passed the dark sublevels of the cave. Alex and Maggie walked freely, the latter still gripping the gun as Alex rubbed her wrists from the rope. She was ready to shoot anyone that would try and stop her, even if it meant Lillian would pull a switch again.

"Alex!" Kara ran and hugged her sister as soon as she walked into the control room. "I was so worried. Vasquez had called us to tell us that you went missing. That-" She looked at Maggie, ready to fire her heat vision if she had to.

"It's her. Somehow she got knocked out of it for now, but we have to figure out how to get this out."

"I'm sorry, Kara."

"Maggie. I'm so glad- I- Alex wait. Jeremiah."

Alex looked over at her bleeding father, laying restrained in the medbay. She slowly walked over to him and Maggie agreed to have herself cuffed. She went up to him and glared, hints of anger and sadness in her eyes.

"Sweetheart, it's me. I can't trust myself to touch your hand, I can't forgive myself for what I did."

Alex said nothing. She was still hurt from the visions of her father beating her. The man who had always stuck up for her when Eliza had berated her, the one who he always said was his star. Everything was erased since that night. No matter how tough Alex had acted, everyone still knew she was broken.

"Alex it is. We confirmed the neurotransmitters that they had put in were deactivated for now. We still know that Lillian could turn them back on at any second." J'onn had added in when he went to read Maggie's mind. "Maggie isn't under anything too. It's not something hindering her mind. I'd be able to sense them, even in Jeremiah's."

"Maggie, we need to take your blood. They're working to get a cure for this before it's activated again." Kara looked over as Maggie slowly walked to the medbay, unsure that her body was still in control.

"That's fine but you need to keep me restrained." Maggie looked down at her cuffed wrists, not being able to look at Alex in the eyes. She felt Alex's piercing into hers, darting back and forth from herself to Jeremiah. Both of them were hurt, but they also knew it had to be done to end everything.

"We know." Kara looked sympathetically.

J'onn quietly assessed the situation, stood up and pulled Alex aside. He could read her memory, able to tell that she was confused and felt betrayed.

"Alex, are you alright?"

"I don't know."

"I know you're worried. I know you're tired of fighting and tired of whatever Lillian's trying to do. You're feeling broken and betrayed, and like you've lost everything that you trusted, but I assure you though it's going to be alright, okay? We're going to reverse this. Let me clean that wound for you, will you let me do that?"

Alex looked up at J'onn, unshed tears glazing over her eyes. She nodded before opening her mouth to speak. "I don't know what to do. I can't trust them right now, and if she switches them back I don't know if I can bring myself to stop them."

"What you need to do is let us handle it for now. You've been training nonstop and trying so hard to find them and bring them back. You might not believe this now but you did it. They're here, and they're stable and not under Lillian's control right now." J'onn held Alex firmly by the shoulders. He pulled her into a close hug before guiding her towards the medbay to sit down and clean the cut on her head.

Vasquez walked into the room. "Sir, Ma'ams, there's something you need to see." She pulled a flash drive and plugged it into the computer. "Agent Schott found that these neurotransmitters needed another component to create this. It's almost like a virus that they hadn't had prior. He checked the cameras and saw that the real Henshaw broke into L Corp and stole some sort of vile from them. L57 it's called, but we don't know what's in it.."

"So if we're going to reverse this, we need Lena." Kara looked over to J'onn, who gave an affirmative nod.

"I'll grab her. She'll figure it out sooner or later anyway."

Kara took to the skies, the lockdown temporarily disabled so that she could get out. She arrived at L Corp's top office to get to Lena.

"Supergirl, what are you doing here?"

"There's no time to talk. Somehow Alex and I knocked Jeremiah and Maggie out of their brainwashing. Turns out the last time Henshaw broke in, he stole something from you to do it in the first place. Something about L57. But we need it to reverse their effects before Cadmus takes them back again."

Lena's eyes widened at the mention of L57. It was something that she had created to stop Reign and try to neurologically subdue her.

"That's not good at all. L57 was something I created to try and stop Reign. If my mother is putting that into humans with god knows what else, there's no telling what it might be able to do. What do you need me to do? Let me go get it." Lena paced and unlocked her vault, grabbing a small vial.

"Thank you. We have to get to the DEO as soon as possible. I'll fly you there. Are you okay with that?" Kara was nervous thinking about Maggie and Jeremiah. She didn't know how many other Cadmus guards were around them.

"Let's go." Lena wrapped her arms around Kara's shoulders and felt herself being lifted off her feet and up into the air. It only took minutes to reach the cave, but she felt her heart race at the thought of her mother's destruction.

"Everything alright here?" Kara walked back in with Lena, checking immediately on the medbay where Jeremiah and Maggie were laying. Alex was laying down two beds away from them, still staring into space and drifting off to sleep.

"I'm alright. A little sore. You really do pack a punch, Supergirl." Jeremiah had been propped up, a cooling bag on his head.

"J'onn's over there, see if you can help him and Vasquez with the data?" Kara gestured over to the two, and Lena nodded. "Maggie, how are you?"

"I'm alright. It's just… Alex." Maggie looked back over at her girlfriend, now asleep. She knew that if she did, she would break down any second from the pain she caused.

"After you two were taken, it was just a shock. It hurt her too much. She'll come back in time. We just need to make sure you stay this way." Kara managed to give them a soft smile before walking over to Alex. She stroked her hair, praying that there wouldn't be any complications.

An hour passed and there had been moderate progress. Lena had finally synthesized half of the cure, while Winn guided Vasquez on computing Maggie and Jeremiah's bloodstreams into the system for immediate results.

Alex had woken up and started talking to Maggie and Jeremiah, mostly about Kara's cooking or her recent movie binges. It still pained her to talk about anything else, she couldn't yet. Meanwhile, Kara and J'onn kept themselves busy taking down Cadmus guards that were still littered around the DEO base.

As they returned, they were surprised to see Alex smiling with the two. They thought that it would really be over.

"I guess you really didn't think I'd be back for my subjects." The voice echoed in the DEO, sending shivers up everyone's back.

Alex was the first to look up, to hold her gun up. Lena looked up with a glare, Kara's heat vision ready, J'onn ready to erase her mind. Maggie and Jeremiah looked on with worry, still laying down restrained.

"Get the hell out of here."

"You really think that you threaten me? We'll see about that."

A/N - So I'm all moved into school, but with homework and classes, chapters still won't be as fast as they had been during the summer. I'm nearing the end of the story though, hopefully you'll like it! Thank you for your continued reads and reviews!