"Ignore it."
Alex was tempted to go along with the idea the longer her girlfriend's mouth made that tantalizing kiss trail from her jawline to her shoulder as they took advantage of being the only two in the apartment.
Besides Kara wouldn't mind if her older sister engaged in a little innocent make-out session in the middle of her living room, would she?
"Sorry babe." the agent sighs untangling enough to grab her screaming phone before it vibrated itself off the coffee table. "It may be import….." she started to say but stopped her mouth hanging open when she recognized the number for National City General scrawled across the screen.
With a shaking hand, she answers a half-second before the call would have been kicked over to her voice mall. "Hello?"
"Thank goodness. I wasn't sure this number was even a real one given how weak she was when she finally gave it to us." Alex blinked puzzled by the laughed information. Her new phone wasn't the one she'd been given by the DEO it was a new one Winn had built from scratch for her meaning only an incredibly select number of people are allowed to know the number. How would someone mistakenly ramble off numbers that just happened to be the exact combination that made up her personal cell phone?
"Seriously it was like pulling teeth with that woman just to get her to give us someone to call for her." the nurse on the other end sighed "Anyway, May I speak to an Alex Danvers please."
Kelly is sitting ramrod straight beside her curiosity and worry on her face as Alex answers with a quick "This is Alex Danvers." as her fingers closed around the bridge of her nose. She was really regretting taking this phone call.
"Oh well then hello Miss Danvers."
Alex bites back a growl. "What is this about?" she was about eight seconds away from just hanging up.
"Well I don't know the best way to tell you this, but it seems that you are Maggie Sawyer's emergency contact."
Alex was on the move before her mind had fully registered just why she would be getting a call like this so late at night. "Please tell me she's still alive."
Kelly paled at the plea in her girlfriend's tone but no. Her eyes flickered toward the television showing how Kara was rather gleefully dragging the five men and woman responsible for threatening to hurt Lena down the front steps of the L-Corp building and over to the waiting mix of police and DEO agents. Without comment, however, she gets up with a stretch and helpfully goes to retrieve her girlfriends tossed away tee shirt.
How it had managed to land in the open doorway to the bathroom was a surprise while Alex hoped on one foot attempting to put her shoes back on with one hand as she listened to the night nurse give her a brief rundown of her ex-fiancée's condition.
They'd found evidence that she'd been resuscitated before being brought in, but her heartbeat was getting stronger on its own. Most likely the CPR had been done by her partner who'd apparently just dropped her off then turned around and left her there without giving them one scrap in information on who Maggie was or what had caused either of the gunshot wounds she had come in with along with her cracked ribs they found on her x-ray, but in the same breath, the woman on the other end of the line suggested that the rest of Maggie's doctors guess those were most likely from the lifesaving act of restarting her heart.
Alex's hand clenched around her phone making Kelly slow her steps as she returned with her shirt. Oh, how she was going to enjoy making that so-called 'partner' the precinct had saddled her Maggie with pay when she got her hands on him Alex vowed shoving her bike keys into her pants pockets with trembling hands.
Kelly shakes her head resting a hand against Alex's shaking shoulder. "I'll drive babe. Just tell me where we're headed."
"I will let you know it looks like Miss Sawyer had to be taken into surgery to remove the second bullet she'd taken to her side, but she should be out and on her way to recovery by the time you get here."
Hot tears pool in Alex's eyes as she lets Kelly guide her out of the apartment and toward the elevator.
Surgery. Her Maggie was in surgery right now.
"Ally? Al baby, I'm going to take your phone for a second alright?" Kelly tells her while Alex's mind spirals as the elevator doors slide closed.
Maggie was so hurt she needed surgery to patch her back together again and all Alex could think of before they'd called her was some stupid idea of physical intimacy.
What kind of monster was she?
"Yes. Alright, thank you. Yes, Alex and I will be there as soon as possible." Kelly was saying somewhere beside her as the metal box moved at a snail's pace toward the lobby of Kara's apartment while Alex's fingers drum against the hand railing trying to will the dammed thing to go faster.
Rao why hadn't they just taken the stair?
Kara was already waiting for them when they'd manage to make it past the front desk.
What a nightmare that had been.
Didn't the doctors realize a woman Alex had once been engaged to was possibly still in surgery at that very moment? She had to find someone to tell her how Maggie was doing.
Had they fixed her ribs? Did they manage to get the bullet out without causing any lasting damage to the surrounding tissues and muscles?
"Alex."
It was so hard not to break down as soon as her little sister's arms had closed around her offering her a safe harbor in the middle of her storming thoughts.
"J'onn is on his way and Kate went to find someone who actually knows that anyone named Maggie Sawyer is even checked into this hospital so we can find out what's going on." She tells them mostly talking to Kelly while Alex struggles to keep herself in check despite the traitor tears spilling from the corners of her eyes as she hides her face against her super sister's shoulder.
"Maggie Sawyer's family?"
Alex bristled at the unsteady question behind the words, but it was Kelly that answers for them while Kara pulls her sister over toward one of the softer backer chairs doting the waiting room. "Sit. Breath with me before you have to be admitted too." Kara orders her hands never dropping from Alex's shoulder as she started to take a few deep and unlike Alex's actual steady breaths.
"Um…. I'm sorry but which of you is Alex?"
Seems Kelly had slipped off for a coffee run early after pointing the man in their direction leaving the doc all alone as he went up against two visibly upset Danvers women.
Alex once again hands over her old badge not caring right now if it was set for F.B.I or D.E.O when it sounded like the doctor wasn't convinced, she was who she said she was.
"Well, Miss Danvers." The doctor says handing Alex her id back after taking less than a glance at it whilst he straightens his glasses. "Miss Sawyer has been moved into a more private recovery room on our second-floor number 208 if….."
Alex didn't let him finish heading as quickly as she could toward the stirs. She like taking the stairs. Taking the stairs means she can get to Maggie faster.
Fine time for J'onn to just up and walk out of the place like that without telling them why he was leaving or when he would be back leaving stern-faced Vasquez and a less than happy looking Winn to handle whatever it was that chose now of all possible times to join their little party.
"You have my back-right Schott?" Susan jokingly asks her weapon raised and at the ready as the not supposed to be activated planet jumping portal shimmered in power before their eyes.
"Yeah, yeah of course." Winn agrees his voice much stronger than his nerves as his own gun trembles only a little in his grip as he took up a defiant stance on the agent's right side.
Before anyone could ask what their orders were one lone figure clad head to toe in DEO issue armor stepped out of the swirling light of interplanetary space travel with two smaller animal like shapes both dressed in dog-sized tactical vests flanking her before the portal seemed to power down just as quickly as it had turned itself on.
The two the half-ring of armed agents assumed were some kind of alien dogs bristled at the less than friendly greeting while the one they guessed to be their owner was already dropping to their knees, their hands resting against the back of their head.
"Take off the mask," Susan commands earning a husky chuckle from the new arrival after the low whistle to get the pups pacing beside her to settle into a more manageable state.
"Oh. My. God." Vaz gaped when the mask melted away revealing just who it was that dropped in for a visit.
"Rao." The newcomer and Winn correct just like Alex or Kara would.
"Shh Belle baby. We'll find Mama soon sweetie don't worry." She coos one hand going to soothing the heckles on the shepherd mix closest to her as her eyes lift to meet each one in the stunned ring of agents spread out around her. "Hello DEO agents of Earth-Prime, my name is Margaret Ellen Zor-El Danvers Sawyer. My sources tell me that somehow someone on this Earth managed to steal my wife away from me. On our anniversary no less. Prepare to have your asses severely kicked until I get her back where she belongs. IE with me and our two fur babies here."