She hadn't intended to fall asleep like she had it was just she was so honest to Rao drained by the stress of the afternoon hitting her at once that as soon as she'd gotten as comfortable as she could in a bed that was really only intended for one person to use and with the steady beeping rhythm of Maggie's heart rate in her ears as she pillows her head against the sleeping woman's shoulder that she'd closed her eyes and drifted off.
The problem was as soon as she opened her eyes again after waking up from her longer than intended nap that she didn't see the need to move from her snuggled place at Maggie's side. She was too comfortable to want to move. A comfort she'd yet to find with her new girlfriend if she'd have let herself think too much about it.
"Sorry that I already killed your Jell-O." Alex confesses her voice scratchy from lack of use as she tucks a few stray strands of Maggie's soft dark-colored locks back behind her ear. "Roa and I still can't believe I yelled at Kelly." She adds with a guilty sigh "Guess I'm going to be sleeping on the couch for the foreseeable huh?"
Maggie didn't answer. Alex hadn't expected her to, but it still hurt when those warm expressive chocolate-colored eyes remained closed.
"Not that she and I are even living together or anything, so I guess that was a stupid thing to say." The more awake of the two chuckles her eyes on the steady rise and fall of the sleeping woman's chest under her hand.
Only the rhythmic beeping of Maggie's heart monitor answers her.
"You have to wake up okay?" Alex pleads propping herself up on her elbow in the sliver of bed she'd allowed herself to get a better look at the sleeping detective at her side. "Preferably soon cause I….." Alex stops dropping back to snuggle against Maggie's side again. Needing her closer. "I can't take telling Kate or this new 'super Alex' that we lost you to something as minor as this. I mean you're a badass Sawyer…." Her voice cracks as she once again brings Maggie's limp hand up to her lips brushing the lightest of kisses along the sleeping woman's bruised knuckles.
It was sad really, how quickly she'd forced herself to forget just how soft Maggie's skin was against her lips.
"So you're going to wake up soon and you're going to yell at me for being a weird helicopter ex that worries too much when you were just taking a breather before the real fun starts up, then you and me and kind of cool yet still a little weird super powered twin are going to track down whoever or whatever it was that did this to you and I'm going to personally kick its ass five ways to Friday while you complain to that other Alex about missing all the fun and Winn can cut in and say that we're still his favorite couple over the coms."
Her phone buzzed startling her enough that she fell off the bed in surprise. How in the world had Winn been able to hear her say that? Thankfully her fall didn't disturb any of the machines clustered around Maggie's bed. How'd she managed that was a mini wonder in itself as she dragged her body up enough to reach the bedside rolling table where she'd left her phone.
"Alex."
Apparently J'onn wasn't in the mood to wait considering the agent was already seeing the red sparks of energy consistent with her Space Dad's phasing abilities before her hand had fully closed around her still ringing phone.
"The DEO. Go. She doesn't have much time lift."
Alex is already halfway to the door before she remembers something incredibly important making her turn back toward her detecting beauty lying in the bed.
"I'll be back soon okay?" she promises leaning over the bed to press her soft kiss against Maggie's forehead.
If J'onn catches any of the four much softer spoken words Alex whispers into the detective's ear he doesn't let on as she gives Maggie one last brush of a kiss before heading out the door.
The door to the stairs has already clicked closed and she was halfway down to her chosen floor before her fingers leave that lingering warmth against her lips. 'Strawberries. How could I possibly forget that her lips always taste like strawberries?" the dazed agent scolds herself all the way down to the hospital lobby.
'I love you, Maggie.'
Her wife's whispered words replay in a soft loop in her head as the rest of her shuts down. that teasing taste of vanilla chapstick against her lips as she leans away vaguely listening in on the others around them breaking down one by one as her wife's lifeline of a heartbeat gives one last thump before it stops.
She could still hear Belle and Gertrude's mournful howls, hear the more super-powered Kara falling to pieces in Winn's arms while he too was also struggling under the weight of his own tears, she felt hands she didn't care who they belonged to clasping her shaking shoulder as if they were trying to guide her away from the still smiling woman she adores.
Her wife. Her partner. Her Ride or Die.
Die.
Maggie's mind latched onto that word like an anchor.
Die
People were still trying to talk to her. Vaz. Winn. Lena.
Not that she listened to any of them. She only listened to that new call inside her head. The one chanting her new code in her ear to give her the strength she needed to move away from the bedside.
Besides she couldn't have possibly been forced to watch the love of her life on her own or any other Earth pass away before her eyes.
The glazed look in Alex's still open and happy looking eyes didn't mean what everyone else thought and that still humming buzz signaling the patient didn't have a pulse didn't mean what they thought either.
No see because machines were wrong all the time.
Alex had told her that many, many times before while Maggie would play assistant in her workshop happily watching her wife so carefully take something new apart just to put whatever it was back together again with that same calculating yet childlike fascination.
No everyone else including the machines were all wrong.
Her Alex wasn't dead. She was only resting is all.
Well, Maggie will let her sleep. Later she will be alright again, and Maggie will be dragging her grumpy yet sexy in a lab coat ass out of either her lab or her super suit clade self away from the balcony to remind her about dinner. Besides what's the point of vacationing on an earth with two Supergirl's if they didn't let the Kara version have some fun too?
"I love you, Alex." Maggie whispers back this time saying the words aloud as she leaned in pressing her lips to Alex's still warm ones. See she couldn't possibly be dead when she was still so warm.
Maggie's own personal sun in human form.
Die.
She didn't have to look to know everyone had gone deathly still when she finally did decide to move. She fixes Alex's blankets for her also making sure to close the silly goofs' eyes so they wouldn't dry out from napping with them wide open.
"Stay with Mama girls." She instructs turning her attention to the two grief-stricken pups whining on either side of her Gertrude sweetly locking the tear tracks away from her eyes while Belle snuggles as close as possible against her chest. She makes sure to give them both extra loving kisses before she stands.
"Mommy's got some unfinished business to take care of."
Everyone except her 'fur daughters' seem to move with her as Maggie once again straightens up and heads for the door. Again, they pause as one when she decides to say one more thing before hitting the hallway.
"I'll be back later tonight babe." She tells her wife now adorably tucked between two sad but no less intimidating looking shepherd mixs. "Don't wait up okay?"