"Kara Luthor Danvers, I know you're here somewhere and I'm not leaving until you get that sexy ass of yours out here so I can smack the hell out of it."
Maggie found herself showing the first hint of humor since losing that oh so important light in her life as she trails after the CEO on a mission. "Seems like Aunty Kara is in the doghouse." She muses to her 'daughters' padding along beside her ever-loyal baby girl Belle on her right with her trouble-making girl Gurty seeming to skip along on her left.
So, like her Mamma that pup was. Finding complete joy in what others deemed the little things in life. A soft touch, a loving look, of course, food but when angered she turned so dangerous that sometimes it even scared the normally unshakable Maggie Sawyer. Gertrude Danvers-Sawyer's eyes find her 'mother's' her tongue lolling out of the side of her mouth in that adorable doggie smile of hers as she nudged her head under Maggie's hand surprisingly not to seek attention but more of offer comfort to her human while they walked.
"Director Sawyer." Her third in command greets as if Lena hadn't so bluntly announced their arrival with a soft undertone of surprise in her voice as the group came to a stop at the heart of the government agency.
Maggie barely registers her title nor does she offer any greeting of her own in return as she hugs her arms around herself trying to trick her mind into believing her arms were actually Alex's back around her.
"Hey, Vazy." Lena greets instead letting out a giggle when Susan rolls her eyes and ended up covered in dog slobber when the agent knelt to give at least one of the two dogs some greeting pats. "You wouldn't happen to know where my wife is right now would you?"
Susan hesitates her eyes flickering to Maggie then going back to Lena as she stands once again still whipping at her slobber coated cheek with the sleeve of her tactical gear clade arm. "Erm…. Hey, did you know that Lin got in on an earlier flight? Why she thinks hopping on a plane in her condition was smart it still up for debate right?"
She was hiding something they both knew it but Lena wasn't about to just let it slide regardless of playing right into the dodging agent's hands whilst she answered: "Her sister is missing V the fact she's a few days shy of actually showing is irrelevant."
Alex had accidentally spilled the baby beans to them during one of their last mini visits to the 'youngest' of the Danvers sister currently on assignment working some new angle on an article for her job. Winn had yet to find out he was going to be a father and it was killing Maggie not to tell him. He was her best friend apart from Kate or the 'blondie twins' as she jokingly calls her sisters in law.
"Where is Kara?" Maggie asks not in the mood for dodged questions.
Susan stiffens at the commanding tone behind the question. "Containment level C." she answers obediently then flinches at her own actions. She wasn't supposed to tell until they had some real leads.
"Why would she be there? No one is in containment there….accept….hang on wasn't that where Kar said….." Lena started to say only to pause when the two dogs at Maggie's sides start growling as if they had come to the same conclusion.
Maggie's jaw flexes. "Why wasn't I informed of this sooner Agent Vasquez?" she snaps as she stomps toward the closest computer pulling up the surveillance feed. It was cute when Belle even reared up on her hind legs so she could see too while Gurty paces heckles up teeth still bared.
"The security feed was looped we didn't know about it until just about an hour ago now Director." Susan defends
"You call this looped footage?" Maggie laughed honest humor in her voice as she leans back to let the others see.
What should have been Richard Malverne's cell was occupied. Not by the slippery metahuman himself but by Maggie's second in command currently pummeling the one who should have been the guard on that block.
Agent McGill if she's seeing him right as Kara tosses him around the cell like a rag doll.
That was until J'onn intervened dragging a still kicking and snapping Kara out. Maggie quickly linked the audio from that block to an earpiece as she and Lena jogged backed toward the elevators with Belle and Gertrude close behind them.
'He can't tell us anything about what he knows if he's dead or even comatose Kara." The former director argues in Maggie's ear as her hand slams on the button she needed.
"You don't think I don't know that?" Kara barked and Maggie could tell she was struggling against the hold of the man she saw as a second father nowhere near calm enough to think clearly. "he flipped on us J'onn. He's been working with them for who knows how long. Hell, he probably let Malverne out when we were distracted trying to find where that blue furry ball came from."
"We don't know that Kara." J'onn reminds just as the elevator doors pinged open.
Again, Maggie lets Lena take the lead when the doors slid open.
The kick of her heels makes the DEO director grin when she noted how the sound alone was enough to make at least some of the tension drain away from Kara's shoulders but her second kept her back toward the elevator while J'onn was the one who smiled in getting.
"Afternoon Papa Bear." J'onn jokingly rolls his eyes at the nickname as he accepts the hug Lena offered. "baby bear five." He answers making Kara snicker whilst trying to hide behind her hair when Lena's eyes snapped toward her.
"Don't think you're off the hook for standing me up so much this last week just because your sister is currently MIA Kiara Danvers."
"And where are we on finding her?" Maggie asks mostly to stall a mini blow up whenever anyone uses Kara's full first name.
Instead of answering Kara simply nodes for them to follow her back toward the elevator. The ride up several floors was a quiet one.
"Please tell me you at least picked up Winn's hot wings this time Kar." Kate Kane's tired voice calls when the doors opened again this time on one of the few floors left unused in the building. Actually, until she watched Kara hit the button for it Maggie had completely forgotten that floor was even still available to be called up by the elevator controls. "I keep forgetting what a baby he is when he's hungry."
Winn's muffled voice sounds shortly after that, but no one was able to catch just what he says.
"Sorry to disappoint babe." Maggie answers instead as J'onn and Lena both break away each going to a different computer or one of the many dry erase boards for a look at just what was going on in the last week.
"Oh, I'm babe again huh?" Kate laughs as she spins in her chair to face the newcomers. It was a teasing joke between them considering before she's moved from Gotham to National City to take J'onn up on his offer to join the not so secret DEO after her time on the Gotham police force Maggie and Kate had been a rather serious couple. "Better not let Lexie find out. I have a board meeting on Monday, and I don't think being tossed into orbit would get me out of it."
"Got that right," Lena calls with a playful laugh from her place sitting across her wife's lap as she and Kara shift thought the mess of papers scattered across the desk. "Um, Katie…. what's this counter thing for?" she asks seeing a very ominous looking counter pop up on the screen beside Kara's elbow.
Kate scrambles over to them with a rather happy shout of "Schott get in here." That brings Winn speeding into the room so quickly that for a second they could believe he was the one with the superpowers.
"What the hell is going on here?" Maggie calls over Winn and Kate talking over one another as they collide with Lena and Kara over that the computer in question.
"Basically, we figured out a way to track your super wife using the tracker we put into our yet to be accounted for friend Ricky boy cause logically they are in the same place. Cool huh?" Kate answers talking around the pen she was now chewing on while Winn's fingers fly over the computer keys like a man on a mission.
Kelly curses yet again as she feels the crunch of broken glass cut past the cotton safety of her shirt as she stumbles back to her feet amidst the broken remains of the coffee table cradling her now broken wrist against her chest.
At the time it had seemed like the best option that one of them stay behind to wait for the others considering the genuine army worthy level amount of food they'd need for this week's game night and only one of the two Alex's had conscious enough to want to go. Now, however, she'd wished she'd let Kara stay instead as she watched more of the chocolate brown, she loved bleed to fiery orange.
Alright so her resolve to let this new Alex have her space had only lasted into the afternoon. Could anyone really blame her when she'd already heard that on that other earth she and this new Alex were married? She was curious and according to Kara 'Super Alex' had retired to the bedroom for a much-deserved nap about an hour or so before Kelly and her Alex had stopped by the apartment so really all Kelly could do was curl up in a chair with a book and watch the steady rise and fall of the sleeping Alex's chest.
That was until Alex had started showing signs that she was having a nightmare.
Mumbling in Kryptonian again so Kelly was having trouble grasping what it was that was going on inside the sleeping Alex's mind but from the tone of her whimpers, she was guessing nothing pleasant.
What kind of wife was she if she didn't do something to offer some kind of comfort?
At first, this new Alex seemed to calm down as soon as she allowed Kelly to crawl close enough to get her arms around her in a loose hug even rolling over and snuggling closer into the cocoon of Kelly's arms as she settled back down but as soon as Kelly had started whispering soothing words in her ear 'Super Alex' had proven she was worthy of the nickname with just how fast and hard she'd thrown Kelly off of her and completely across the loft while she was at it.
"Ally please." Kelly tries to sooth.
"No one but my Maggie…." The Alex looming over her snarls but stops abruptly at the ping of the elevator along with the carrying argument between the Danvers sister's that breaks the 'super' version of her girlfriend out of her angry haze as the sound of footfalls draws closer.
Kelly had just managed to drag herself over to the kitchen and pull an ice pack out of the freezer as the tornado that was 'other Alex' finishes her clean up when the door swings open.
"Come on just because you liked them was not only the reason, they were taken off the menu Kara." The Alex Kelly loved was saying as she struggled over the threshold her arms loaded with bags of food.
"I don't know Alex; Kara was the only one who seemed to ever order that particular thing." Winn reminds as he follows her into the apartment also carrying several bags.
"What the heck happened to my coffee table?"
Kelly flinches at the accusing note in Kara's voice apparently she'd been to preoccupied with whatever it was they had been arguing about to hear what had happened in her apartment on the elevator ride up to her floor but it's her attacker that speaks first whilst she continues to hide her injury behind the kitchen islands.
"Sorry super sis. I um…. I was sleep flying and when I woke up…." 'Super Alex' mimicked falling hard onto something complete with the comical whistling and the crash. "Olsen was standing a bit to close too."
All eyes turned toward Kelly then. She wished they didn't especially her Alex who was hurting to rid herself of the last of her food bags to get a look at just what her twin meant by 'she was standing too close.'
"Hairline fracture." Kara diagnosed before her sister could ask having done the slide glasses down her nose thing as she stared intently at the kitchen island Kelly was still trying to use as a shield.
"Oh, baby."
Kelly didn't miss how 'Super Alex' recoils her fingers going to therapeutically caressing the hidden tattooed band around her wrist at the coo of her twin's voice and if their expressions were anything to go by neither did Winn or Kara but they didn't say anything out loud.
"Sorry guys but looks like Halo is out for the night." Kelly sighs wincing when her girlfriend's probing fingers brushed a tender part of her injured wrist.
'Super Alex' and Kara both look up at the same time listening intently. It was amusing seeing both supers sliding back into the room both dressed in full 'super glory' before the sounds of the sirens could reach human-level hearing.
"Well, you can't both go." Winn sighed breaking the tension as the two supers stared the other down.
"You stay…..I need to punch something anyway." The Alex in black says leaving little room for argument as her eyes briefly flicker to meet Kelly's before sliding back to hold Kara's. "I'll be back in a little while. Just save me some rice and a few potstickers okay?"
Alex is stopped at the balcony by Kara's hand on her wrist making her pause hovering just above the fire escape.
"Stay safe."
Kara can't tell if the tears in this new Alex's eyes are from her using her…their alien tongue to wish her sister luck or just that she had as she it pulled into a midair hug with a whispered. "Always." Against her ear before Alex takes off in a flash of black and blue.