Why did Alex have to answer the call? Why hadn't she just let it go to voicemail like Kelly had wanted her to?
She could have been contently basking in the tender touches of the fear-inspiring Alex Danvers right now if it wasn't for that dam call stealing her girlfriend away.
Curse Maggie Sawyer.
Curse her to the depths of hell itself. This was all her fault. Because of her Alex now hated her. Because of her Kelly was currently heartbroken and fuming as she drummed her fingers on the steering wheel of her car waiting impatiently for the damned light to change so she could go back to her apartment alone and lick her wounds while Maggie Sawyer got to have the company of her girlfriend sitting at her bedside.
If only Alex where with her now….if only Kelly could have done batter in coaxing her away from the woman who Kelly was sure would just end up causing the woman she loved even more heartbreak when this was all over.
They didn't need Maggie coming back and messing up the fresh start Alex had built for herself. Alex's heart belonged to Kelly now and Kelly sure as hell was going to protect it. The seething woman behind the wheel smiles as the idea forms in her mind. She was going to keep Alex safe even if Maggie Sawyer was trying to muscle her way back into her girlfriend's life Kelly would be there to make sure the other woman knew Alex was off-limits.
Those plans stalled as soon as a large black clade something crashed into the front of Kelly's car crushing the windshield under its bulk before rolling down onto the hood with a weak whimper of pain.
Kelly looked around as she got out of the driver's side on unsteady legs. She didn't see much with the empty street and when she looked up all she caught was a shadowy figure against the darkened sky on the roof of the building whatever it was had been tossed from.
Kelly runs a hand in her hair as she takes in the damage with what little of the natural sunlight was left.
Great just great.
Even in National City auto companies didn't exactly like give out discounts for superhero-related damages. Although Kelly had to remind herself that whoever it was that had done the dropping wouldn't have been planning on making Kelly's car into a moving landing pad or how they would have even known that she would be on that road in the first place to be able to catch the other woman's fuming drive back to her apartment from the hospital.
Maybe she could get away with billing Sawyer for the damage?
That idea alone was enough to have Kelly smiling again as she approached the mess of black on top of her still running car.
"Lord in heaven." She breathes once the figure in black had managed to roll herself off the front of Kelly's car sending her crashing to the pavement a move that finally allowed the watching woman a glimpse of the face under the black mess of blood-soaked locks.
"Ally?! Oh, god baby what the hell did they do to you?"
Kelly had seen a lot of things during her time in the army yet none of it could have prepared her for this.
A broken and far too shallow shriek of pain rips from the double of her girlfriend as soon as Kelly moves to help her, but Kelly ignores her cries as she pulls her up under her arms. She needed to get her out of here in case whoever hurt her decided to come back to possibly finish the job.
"Come on…..Hey-don't you pass out on me come on keep your eyes open." She coaxes more dragging that guiding the broken hero toward the passenger side of her car.
"How is a girl supposed to pass out with you yelling?" Alex coughs her teeth stained with her own blood as she speaks.
"I'm trying to get you out of here, but you have to help me." Kelly points out
"DEO." Alex says somehow hulling herself the rest of the way into Kelly's backseat before passing out.
Seems her own love life would have to be put on hold a little longer as Kelly shuts the door and climbs back into the front seat. 'The things I do for love.' She sighs to herself as she guns the engine and turns her car around.
She hadn't intended to doze off, but it seemed that earth crosses lead to some major jet lag. 'jump lag'?
Not that her rest was an easy one. Anything but honestly. Something was wrong. Horribly terrifyingly wrong yet she could do nothing to stop it.
Just like before.
Powerless do to anything but watch and shield everyone else as best she could while her other half took on a threat that once again designed to steal her away.
"I could really use some help here."
It was that call that pulls Maggie back to the world. Perfect. Just the woman she wanted to meet on this trip to another version of her world.
Roa first Alex goes missing now Maggie has to handle some new version of her wife's ex only a few hours after leaving her home?
Could this day get any worse?
"Winn whats….." Maybe it was the fact her question goes unanswered as he tries to steady himself against the doorway opposite her. Maybe it was the left-over fears from the flashes of her mercifully fading dream. Maybe it was because that Gertrude was all but throwing herself at the door now no matter what Maggie said to try and stop her. Belle wasn't much better even with Maggie's tight grip on her collar as their barking grew louder.
Rao help her eardrums until they finally decide to stop.
"Winn?" He doesn't answer but the panic in his eyes when they lift to meet her own chills her to the core. It's not that hard to guess who it was being brought in as he fumbles with typing in the code to unlock the cell.
"No…." she begs while her girls sprint off leaving her alone in the cell, but the younger man remains quiet other than a broken sniff and rubbing his arm over his eyes. It doesn't help as more tears well up in place of the ones he'd just tried to whip away.
That was the same look the Winn from her Earth had that time he'd sat beside her outside the med wing after the Fort Rozz incident.
Kara had barely made it that time.
"Please Winn no."
He holds up his hands tripping his way to her side. "She's alive."
The way he says it doesn't lessen the fear twisting up her insides.
She can't leave her. She promised.
Winn backs away his hands raised as Maggie's body vibrates both from fear and the small embers of determined anger. "I'm not letting this happen again." the DEO director snarls getting to her feet.
"I was hoping you'd say that." Winn hiccupped jogging to keep up with Maggie's long strides.