Maggie stood inside the apartment that she once lived in with Alex. She had asked Kara if she could have the key to make sure they hadn't missed anything that pointed to where Alex might be. After her little raid at the DEO, Alex had also emptied several DEO drop sites around the city. As J'onn explained it, these were caches that had some cash, clothes, burner cells, weapons as an emergency backup if an agent ever needed it.

Alex of course knew where all of them were located.

Based on the inventory from those sites, Alex now had a small arsenal in her possession.

No one doubted what her next move was going to be – going after Cadmus and Lillian Luther once and for all.

At the last site, Alex had left behind her cellphone. Not that they had been able to track her with it, but Alex wasn't going to take any chances. Winn had unlocked the phone to see if there were any clues that might help them determine where she was or what she might have planned. Maggie noticed that Alex hadn't deleted the pictures from it – pictures of the two of them together.

Maggie wasn't sure if she was happy that Alex had kept them or sad because she knew how happy they had been together.

Again, Maggie had tried to get Kara to tell her exactly what happened to her and Alex at the hands of Cadmus but whatever it was Kara was unwilling to break the promise she had made to Alex about never speaking of it.

Eliza had come in from Midvale and was staying with Kara at least for a few days in hopes that they could find Alex. Kara had been flying around the city every chance she got looking for Alex but had found no trace of her. It was possible she wasn't even in the city any longer. She could have decided to lay low somewhere else until she planned out her next move.

"Come on Alex, where are you?" Maggie said out loud as she looked around the room.

Alex always kept her place neat but even that had deteriorated a bit. Maggie knew she would most likely find no clues here, but she had wanted to come if nothing else to feel closer to Alex. She ended up in the bedroom sitting on the edge of the bed on what would have been Alex's side.

How many mornings had she woken so happy just to be there in bed with Alex? How many times had they kissed each other good morning or even delayed getting up to have a little fun?

She had missed Alex, missed her since the moment she had walked out of here with the engagement ring no longer on her finger.

Guilt was eating at her now. If she hadn't left then maybe Alex wouldn't be in the position she was in now. Yet, she had already seen Alex going down a dark path while they were together.

That was why she had given Alex the ultimatum.

She knew that Alex wouldn't stop unless she was forced to and Maggie thought she could force her to, but she was wrong.

She went through the rest of the apartment doing what she said she came there to do, but there was no indication of where Alex might now be. Maggie didn't figure there would be but she needed to be here – needed to feel close to Alex once more.

She had to believe it wasn't too late for Alex.

…

Alex kept her head down and her hood up until she entered the electronics store where she finally put the hood down and looked around. While she would prefer to keep the hood up on the sweatshirt she was wearing she figured it would draw more attention to herself when right now she was trying to stay off the DEO radar. She would put the hood back up when she exited the store.

She didn't even want to be wearing the damn thing as she felt like it was way too hot.

Alex knew what she was after and she had the cash to pay for it thanks to the DEO drop sites, but she forced herself not to go too quickly. She didn't need the clerk remembering some anxious woman who had walked with a noticeable limp.

She shouldn't be walking on the leg and was probably doing more damage to it by walking but using the crutches wasn't an option right now.

Pretty soon it wouldn't matter.

Getting what she needed, she put her hood up as she exited the store. She needed to get back so she could rest her leg and get to work.

She had to dump the DEO SUV she had used, so she was relegated for now at least to using cabs which were not ideal but she couldn't walk that much. As she got into the cab, she almost gave the driver her home address and for a moment she thought how easy it would be to go back there and lie down in her bed, but she shook off the thought and gave another address instead.

The longer the drive took the more antsy she became. She felt like any second the cab would be surrounded by DEO agents, even though she had taken what precautions she could to not be caught. She couldn't let them stop her.

Not being able to take it any longer she told the cab to pull over and she paid him the fare, got out, looking all around her before putting the hood up and walking away. She only made it a block before she had to flag down another cab. Her leg felt like it was on fire.

She thought about how this all started and she got angry.

After leaving the first site where she had been instructed to get rid of any tracking devices on her, she was given a clue as to where to meet Lillian Luther but only if she left behind anyone who might be following her. She knew J'onn would be pissed at her, but she needed to get to Kara.

With all her DEO training, it wasn't hard to leave the others behind and she made her way a few blocks north and there was a car waiting for her at the corner. She checked all around her before approaching it and bent over to see who the driver was. As soon as she saw it was Lillian – something she was not expecting – she got in the car.

"Thank you for coming alone," Lillian said.

"How do you know I did?"

"Because Alexandra, this means more to you than rules." With that Lillian put the car in drive and neither woman said anything for several streets.

"You better be taking me to Supergirl," Alex said.

Lillian glanced over at her before returning her attention to the path in front of her. "In due time," she said. "First, I thought you and I should have a little talk. I do hope you don't mind me hijacking you for a bit, but I feel like I can help you …"

"Help me?" Alex interrupted. "The only thing I need from you is Supergirl's location."

"You can call her Kara in front of me," Lillian said. "It's not like I don't know who she is. I know quite a lot about her and you. But as I was saying, I want to help you. I want you to listen to me, not just pretend to. I promise you, I will take you to your sister, and your father."

Alex wanted to grab this woman, force her to stop the car and beat her if she had to in order to find out where Kara and her father were, but she knew she couldn't. For all she knew, there was a cadre of Cadmus agents following them. She didn't have any choice but to play along with whatever game this was that Lillian was playing.

"I'm listening," Alex said.

"No, you're not, at least not yet, but I trust you will because you will see what I have to say has merit," Lillian said. "Now look around you, look outside these windows and what do you see?"

Resisting the urge to roll her eyes, she said, "I don't know, cars, buildings, people."

"Exactly, people. Human people. Because that is who belongs on this planet," Lillian said. "Those others, the aliens like Supergirl should not be here."

"And where would you have them go?" Alex said. "Many of them can't return to their home worlds. Earth is the only home some of them know."

"I don't care where they go as long as it's off our world," Lillian said. "Do you think because aliens like Supergirl and Superman put on silly costumes and fly around saving people that it offsets the danger they pose to all of us? No, don't answer that yet, because I know how you will answer it. My goal here is for you to at least consider the alternative."

Alex laughed, "If that is the purpose of this little chit-chat I can assure you that my answer won't change."

"You know your father thought the same thing."

Alex clenched her right fist, trying to remain calm. She knew Lillian was only bringing up her father to get under her skin and she couldn't let her know it was working.

"What, no snappy comeback?" Lillian smiled. "That's ok. I know this is hard for you. Coming to the realization that what you believe isn't how things should be is difficult, but I wouldn't be here with you if I didn't think you could be shown the light as it were. You see Alexandra, Jeremiah would like his daughter to be at his side as he continues the work he is doing for us. I was resistant to the idea at first. It's not that I don't think you could be a valuable asset, it's just that you have been brainwashed from the moment that alien came into your life and I'm not sure you have the will to break through that. But I respect Jeremiah, I even consider him a friend so if he says he wants you at his side, who am I to stand in the way. But I can't just have you walking in there and learning all our secrets without you truly devoting yourself to our cause."

Alex didn't know how to respond to that. She needed to get her father and Kara out of the clutches of Cadmus. She surely wasn't going to join the team and why would Lillian Luther of all people think that she would – especially after all she had done to bring down this organization. But maybe if she played along she could at least get to her father and Kara and together they could find a way out of this. Lillian was smart though and would surely see through her if she was too agreeable.

"When are you going to take me to Kara?" Alex asked.

"Soon," Lillian responded. "But to get there you are going to need to open the glove box there in front of you."

Alex did so and found only a box in there which she took out.

"Go ahead and open it."

Opening it she saw a vial and a syringe. Picking up the vial she saw it was a fairly common sedative.

"Now, Dr. Danvers, I'm sure you can figure out the correct dosage to give yourself so that you take a little nap. Once you do, I will transport you to that alien you think so highly of."

Alex made no move to do anything as she thought this through. If she did it, then she would be completely at Lillian's mercy. If she didn't do it though it was doubtful that Lillian would be taking her anywhere. Maybe this was a test to see if Alex thought she could trust Lillian and vice versa.

Taking the syringe, she plunged it into the vial and withdrew enough to knock herself unconscious for several hours. She didn't skimp as she was sure that Lillian was taking note of everything she was doing. Pulling up the sleeve on her left arm, she found a vein and injected the sedative. Putting away the syringe and vial and putting the box to the side, she looked at Lillian.

"Your move."

Lillian again gave her that smile.

"Very good," Lillian said. "Now again, I would like you to listen to me in the time you have before that sedative kicks in. I want you to think about your life Alexandra, think about how different your life would be if Kara had never come into it, if no alien had ever come into contact with your family. Think about growing up in that household where your parents' love was not split between you and a make-believe sister, but instead it was all focused on you. Your father would never have gone away and you could still visit him and Eliza on weekends or holidays at the home in Midvale. But who would you be Alexandra? Who would you be in a world without aliens? Perhaps you would have come to bits of realizations about yourself quicker, such as your recent coming out. Imagine knowing that about yourself in your teens and twenties because your focus wasn't on caring for someone who was never supposed to be in this world. Who would you be in that life?"

If Lillian had said anything else, Alex didn't hear it. She had felt the sedative coming on but she had tried to fight it even though she knew it wasn't possible. She could only hope that when she woke she would be there with Kara and her father.

"Miss?"

Alex realized the cab had stopped and the driver was waiting for payment.

"Are you sure this is where you want to stop?" he asked, looking around.

"Yes," she said, giving him more than enough for the fare and getting out of the car quickly. She waited for him to leave, checking all around her to make sure she wasn't followed before she headed toward her destination. It was the only place she could think of that Kara wouldn't find her at – no one knew how to find her here. Well, that wasn't entirely true, but she figured the chance of Maggie remembering her making an off-hand comment about it was slim. Besides, she didn't plan to be here long.