Maggie tried to concentrate on her computer as she typed up a report from a case she had just finished but she was having a rough go of it. All she could think of was Alex.

Again, she wished that she could just not care, but that wasn't going to happen.

She had met with Kara last night, surprised when the younger Danvers asked if she could come over. She half expected Supergirl to come flying into her apartment but instead, Kara merely knocked on her door. After offering Kara a drink, which Kara declined, they took seats.

"Have you found anything in your investigation?" Kara asked.

Maggie shook her head no, "Nothing that is showing me any sort of connection. All the victims were completely different."

The expression on Kara's face told her that she had been hoping for a different answer. Maggie had interviewed at least one person connected to each of the victims over the past week and a half and had found she was stumped as to what made these people and Alex stick out to Evo.

"There is nothing?" Kara asked as if the answer would change.

"They are all different – different genders, different lifestyles, different socio-economic standings, different family situations," Maggie sighed. "I'm sorry."

Kara shrugged. "It's ok. It was probably a long shot anyway."

"You could have called if you just wanted the answer to that question," Maggie said. "Why are you here?" She didn't want it to come out as hostile as it sounded, but she didn't know why Alex's sister would be here.

"It still looks like her."

"You've gone to see Evo?"

"No, J'onn won't let anyone in there," Kara said. "It's the one thing Alex has said about Evo – don't let anyone near it."

"Does that mean she remembers what happened?"

"She says she doesn't."

"You don't believe her?"

"I don't know, that's just it, I don't know what's going on with her. She hasn't come back to the DEO since she left. She hasn't even left the apartment as far as I can tell," Kara said, getting up and beginning to pace. "She says that she isn't ready to go back, that her body is still recovering, but Eliza says that physically she could, and you know Alex, she wouldn't let something not being physically cleared for duty stop her. And that isn't the only thing, Alex, she's … different."

"How so?"

"It's like she is on auto pilot. If you ask her a question, she answers, but she doesn't offer anything up for the most part. It's like she's a robot or something, just reacting instead of participating in life. Eliza is worried and so am I. Eliza had to go back to Midvale but before she did, she had been staying with Alex and she said Alex barely sleeps and when she does, it's not peaceful, but Alex won't talk about whatever it is."

Kara had stopped pacing and was looking at Maggie as if she would have an answer to all of this, but she didn't. It made Maggie worry too though. Kara was right, Alex would have been itching to get back to work. She remembered that after Alex had been trapped in that water tank that she had wanted Alex to take more time off than she had but Alex had insisted on going back quickly.

"We don't know what he did to her," Maggie started to say, but then paused. "But Evo knows."

"Yes, but it's not like we can go in there and ask."

"Maybe someone should."

"But Alex said that no one should go in there and I don't think J'onn is going to lift that edict."

"I'll go talk to him."

"I was sort of hoping you would go talk to Alex."

Maggie realized that was the real reason Kara had come here.

"I don't think that's a good idea."

"Are you angry with her because of how things ended?"

"No," Maggie replied. "That's not it. She and I haven't spoken, you know this. I mean I didn't even know she was dying until it was almost done, and I'm not saying that because I blame you or anyone else for not telling me. It's just the reality of the situation, of who I am to her, which is her ex. If she isn't going to open up to you Kara, she certainly isn't going to open up to me. If she wanted to, then she would be the one approaching me, not you."

She could tell Kara was disappointed – whether it was with her or the answer she had given, she didn't know.

"I just want my sister back."

Maggie had felt bad ever since Kara had left her place, but Maggie didn't see any way to help with this situation. The last thing she had said to Kara was that Alex may need more time but there was no way she would stay away from the DEO for much longer. It was like Kara said, she would be itching to go back at some point.

Then Kara had sent her a text this morning. Alex had called J'onn and put in an official request for an extended leave of absence.

It was a shock, to say the least, but it made Maggie wonder if Alex didn't want to go back because Evo was there. Was Alex afraid?

…

Alex sat cross-legged on her floor, her eyes closed, attempting and mostly failing at meditation. As much as she wanted she couldn't clear her mind, but she needed to so she kept at it.

Meditation had never been her thing. She would rather spend hours in the gym rather than attempt what she was doing now. Hell, she hadn't even known how to do it so she had spent some time reading up on various processes. She didn't even know if it would help but she was in uncharted territory with this.

Opening her eyes with a huff of breath, she pulled herself up off the floor. Pacing back and forth, she felt her anxiety rachet up, something she couldn't let happen.

"Hello Alexandra," the voice suddenly popped into her head and she knew it was too late.

"Get out," she said through clinched teeth. Even though she knew there was no way he would go until she calmed down and forced him out.

"Now, now Alexandra, there is no reason for hostilities," Evo said in her mind. "Not after we spent all that time together in that beautiful mind of yours."

That is what the others didn't know, that while she had been unconscious, she had been trapped in her mind, but she had no control over what she was seeing and feeling. No Evo was controlling all of it.

That is why she had gone after him as soon as she had woken.

Alex resumed her position on the floor, closing her eyes and again trying to clear her mind.

"Do you think that will work?" Evo said after a minute.

She ignored him, knowing he wanted her to engage with him.

"Come on Alexandra, that's no way to be. I thought we had become close."

"If we were close, you would know I don't really like being called Alexandra," she replied even though she knew it was a mistake. After she had finally been able to stay awake in the DEO, she had felt out of sorts, but nothing like this had happened immediately. Then she was alone in the medbay, lying in bed when he contacted her like this for the first time.

"I know you don't, but Alexandra is much more refined than Alex so I think I will stick with it," Evo said. "You know I thought you might have come to visit me by now."

"That's not going to happen."

"If you don't, we will just have to keep talking like this."

Alex began to ignore him again. Usually, this is how it happened. He would pop into her mind for a bit, she would ignore him and after a while, he would leave. She needed to figure out a way to keep him out of her mind completely but she had no idea where to even begin.

Evo had told her that J'onn couldn't detect their communication and it would appear he was telling the truth.

Her best bet she was thinking was to get her hands on one of the DEO's neural inhibitors but that would mean going there. She could ask Kara to bring her one, but her sister would surely want to know why. And she didn't have the equipment here to work on one anyway as she was sure it would need reconfiguring for the purposes of blocking Evo's intrusions into her mind.

For now, she was just going to have to continue with what she was doing which meant staying as calm as possible. He was preying on her emotions, her feelings so she needed to keep everything at bay as much as possible.

The problem was, she saw no way out of this short of killing him.