Her coughing fits were getting worse with each painful breath she took but she pushed past the painful burn of the kryptonite in her system as she drove her fist yet again into her victim's stomach watching happily as he doubles over.

His teeth and lips now stained with his own blood Rick Malvern continued grinning like a fool. "I did what you wanted…. dragged that no good copy cop to the hospital…. yet you're attacking me for it?" he wheezed spitting even more blood onto the floor at Alex's feet.

"She wouldn't have needed the hospital if you'd left her alone." The angry super reminded slamming him hard enough into a wall to leave a deep crater behind before another round of hard coughing took over.

The dust and the soot from the fire she reasons. Must have weakened her a little. It also didn't help Rick had painted this Earth's Maggie's lips in liquid kryptonite.

As if something as painful as the radioactive remains of her home planet would keep her from giving aid to the copy of the woman, she loved more than life.

She would gladly take the agony if it meant Maggie lived. Any version of her.

Alex backs off struggling to catch her breath around the burn in her lungs also there was a stinging pain in her side that she couldn't place. She must have gotten nicked by glass or something as she tossed the Maggie hurting jurk face around the already destroyed warehouse like a rag doll.

"Everything alright there Supergirl?" Rick asks picking himself up from the floor with difficulty considering how much he'd allowed himself to be tossed around to ensure his plane would actually work. "Seems like your…. coming down with something." He diagnoses when Alex staggers back her head pounding like a drum as her heartrate picked up.

"Wha…." Alex asks but her lungs burned too much for her to finish the question.

"What?" Rick offers pushing his shoulder back into place while Alex dropped to the floor with a weak moan of pain. "You want me to completely spill my plan? Is that it?" he coughed a laugh of his own shaking his head "Sorry Alexandra but that won't be happening."

This was progressing faster than he'd thought. Not that there was some handy manual for how to fatally sicken a seemingly indestructible alien being. Rally it had been pure luck that they'd ended up on another Earth that had its own Supergirl as well as everything else he'd figured out he needed in his long thought over plain of revenge and even more lucky that he'd been able to get his hands on it powers or no powers considering the security in place.

Otherwise, he would have needed to come up with a completely new idea and he had neither the time nor the patience for that once he'd managed to fish the tracer out of his own shoulder while he waited for the 'Maggie copy' as he called her to show up.

"Let's just call it payback." He says listening to Alex's labored breathing as she tries once again to stand up only to be brought to her knees from the pain in her stomach. "That wife of yours took something very dear to me it's only fair that I repay her in kind." He reasoned digging his last gift for his enemy out of the gym bag as Alex crumples to the floor.

About the only thing the weakened super was grateful for as the burning agony of the kryptonite infused cuffs were fastened around her wrists was that she couldn't fully appreciate the searing pain of the glowing green rocks cutting into her skin thanks to the painful burn of whatever it was Richard had found to poison her with as he drags her by the chain of the handcuffs toward the door.

For all her bravado in the lobby, she'd cracked once she reached the door, so her little sister finds her the great Alex Danvers cowering in the corner across from the only thing standing between her and her ex. Her back pressed against the wall and her chin resting on her knees as the agent hugs her legs up against her chest.

"Kelly said she was going to stop by the cafeteria for some Jell-O." Kara tells her as she slides down the wall to sit beside her. Alex didn't answer choosing instead to rest her head against Kara's shoulder as her lips brush in that sisterly way that never failed to make Alex smile.

"Is she going to be alright?"

"She was just going down a few floors to the cafeteria Alex, she will be fine." Kara answers knowing full well her sister hadn't been asking about her current girlfriend currently drumming her fingers impatiently against her own arm as she waited in line to pay.

As she'd expected Alex huffed in annoyance throwing a weak elbow into Kara's side doing more 'harm' to herself than to her invulnerable sister with the move. "No loser I meant Mags."

Kara lets out a slow breath letting her glasses slide down her nose as her gaze drifts to the wall across from them. When she slides them back up again without comment Alex seriously considers breaking her hand slapping her until she gets an answer. "Well?" she pushes.

Her little sister seemed to be about to finally give her an answer only to once again stop herself this time to press her hand against her head with a soft mew of pain.

The cuff of her jacket threatens to tare from how hard Alex grips it allowing for her to be tugged up herself when her little sister stands up faster than any human could.

"Alex please…."

The agent opened her mouth to protest but Kara had already pried her fingers off her wrist with a soft touch leaving her older sister holding her glasses and fuming in the hallway as she headed toward the closest stairwell.

"Dammit, Zor-El." She cursed under her breath as she slowly turns back to the door she been more or less guarding for the last ten minutes. Her palm pressed against the polished wood as she steadies herself for what was on the other side.

Or more importantly for who was waiting for her on the other side of that door.

Maggie Sawyer

Her stubbornly brave, wickedly smart, insanity tough, and heartbreakingly beautiful Maggie.

Oh Rao, Maggie.

Her heart still sped up and flipped in her chest just from thinking her name.

"You gonna go in?"

Alex was ashamed to admit just how loudly she squeaked in surprise at the softly asked question as she spun around back pressed against the door and hand flying to the empty holster at her hip.

In her hast to get to her ex, she'd left her sidearm at home. Locked away in the gun safe Maggie had left for her with a sighed laugh of 'you need something to remember me by beside my killer body and my detecting skills. Danvers.' As they dressed that last time before Alex had let her walk out of her life.

Kelly didn't react much beyond a teasing smile as she holds up the little cafeteria bag, she was carrying as a kind of surrendered offering. "They only had lime, but I did get enough for two if she'd be up for eating this close after surgery."

With a bashful smile, Alex takes the bag with only a slight shake in her hand.

"Hey."

She doesn't look up even when Kelly's hand cups her cheek as she invades Alex's personal space pressing her back even more against the door to Maggie's room. "You don't have to go in if you don't want to. I'm sure she'd be happy just knowing you came here in the first place."

Anger pulses in her system before she can fight it back "Of course I want to see her. She may be my ex but before that and most importantly right now she's my friend." Alex snapped back her knuckles white around the top fold on the bag in her grip.

Kelly backed up hands raised in surrender while Alex spun around wrenching the door out of her way but taking care to stop if from slamming too loudly behind her as she slides the lock into place giving them a little more privacy.

She'd have to remember to thank Kate later from the private room upgrade.

"We really need to stop meeting like this huh?" she finds herself asking remembering the times Maggie would have to come visit her in the med bay after a partially rough day in the office. Particularly that little conversation just after she'd gotten through coming out to her mother while she patched the tough cop up after her run-in with Henshaw replays in her mind as she grips the handle of the door for dear life.

Alex keeps her back is to the room too nervous to move very far from the door much less turn around properly once she realized she'd just locked herself in a room with her ex-fiancée.