"This is pointless we should be out looking for Maggie." Alex complained following her mother and Kara into one of the DEO's more conference-looking rooms.
"We can't until we have more information on what happened to her." J'onn reminded dropping the file he was carrying on the tabletop as everyone who wasn't Alex takes a seat around the table. The angry teenager chose to stand closer to the door with her arms crossed against her front glaring at everyone who wasn't her sister as the 'unless meeting' as she was already deciding to call it got underway.
"What's to know she got whammed by the same thing you said whoever they were used on Kar and me and now she's out there alone and confused probably being hunted by the same people who did this to us." Alex summarizes "but yeah let's have a dumb meeting and waste more time talking about pointless stuff instead of trying to find her."
"We are trying to find her, Alex." Lena reminded sending a sideways look towards the hunched figure of Winn sitting at the end of the table not listening to a word being said as he swapped through various security camera feeds. "But J'onn's right if we can figure out our Maggie's mental state before she was erm whammed then we might have a better chance of finding her now."
"Not that she's making it easy." Winn huffed "regular teen ninja." He adds hitting a few more keys with more annoyed force than needed to punch them into his newest line of code.
"But since she was hit by the same thing that Kar and I were that means she's just like us, right?" Alex questioned waving her hand between herself and Kara as she asked.
"Essentially." J'onn agrees
"Meaning logically, you'd be watching transportation ports, right? Bus stations that kind of thing?" the teen goes on looking more towards Winn now as she talks.
"Actually, right now I'm keeping an eye on free walk-in clinics. You did say our girl—erm teenager—uh Maggie was bleeding when she ran into you." Winn clarified "If your right she'd be needing to get those stitches looked at asap."
"Even I know she is too smart for that." Lena scoffed "or have you forgotten until she was fourteen, she was raised by a cop before she became one herself?" the raven-haired woman barked in defense
"What about that boy from the lab the girls found? That was Eza wasn't it?" Eliza questioned postponing the oncoming shouting match between an equally anxious Winn and Lena whilst remembering Maggie mentioning the name during an earlier phone call.
After breakfast, Maggie had been trying to find some way of reaching out to the scared alien boy through her friendlier contacts from the alien bar.
J'onn's mood turned somber at the reminder. "Given the delicacy of the case our contacts in the NCPD haven't given us any details, but from what I saw before they took him away the kid put up one hell of a fight…."
"She might go to check on him." Kara offered "if the memory of seeing him hurt like that was strong enough it might have stayed with her when she erm….de-aged?" the Kryptonian teen suggested
"Vaz and Lucy volunteered to watch his room once he'd been cleared in surgery." Winn informed after a quick glance at his phone earning an honest look of surprise from J'onn at the admission. "said they needed a break from the dead end of a weapons puzzle." He shrugged sending back a message of his own before sliding the device face down on the tabletop and picking the tablet back up. "I asked them to keep an eye out for our newest addition to the teen disasters." He attempts to joke only earning a more pitiful laugh from Kara and an eye roll from Alex and Lena in unison.
"The real question was what set her off at the hospital?" Eliza reasoned bringing up one of the key points of this supposed to be meeting J'onn had called. "I mean from what we saw she was… well terrified…" Everyone around the table winces in sympathy at the reminder.
"What's up, Papa Bear?" Winn questioned noting his boss's more furrowed brows as his eyes linger on Alex's now distracted figure as she spins once again in the seat beside Kara's own at the table.
"Mind bringing up the feed of the hallway again?" J'onn questioned and it was obvious to everyone who knew J'onn's 'added talents' that he'd seen something in the unintentional probing of the teenager's mind. "Isolating the medic who'd been chasing her." he clarified
That gets the teenager's attention as the asked for footage was brought up.
"Pause it." J'onn ordered after a few seconds of letting the video run. The image froze at once. "Can you zoom in on the name badge?" Winn nodes in confirmation with a determined "Just a sec." while beside him Eliza gives a puzzled "What's this about J'onn?" considering they'd already dismissed the possibility of someone at the hospital attempting a kidnapping.
As soon as the more enlarged image flashed on the screen Alex's chair made a hard stop that would defiantly bruise later given how hard she'd slammed into the side of the table in her wide-eyed stop as she gazed at the screen. Kara beside her stiffened as well though her eyes were shining more with the warning embers of heat vision than tears like Alex's and Eliza's. Even Lena and Winn seemed at a loss for words as J'onn hung his head in shame at not realizing it sooner.
The same trigger that had set Alex off after she'd first woken in the change from adult to a teenager when she'd made that innocent jump into the swimming pool.
Rick M.
"Makes since. His name had been mentioned a few times in connection with her latest case and now this." Lena sighed noting a few glaring differences between the more kind-faced medical student and the 'Rick M' Maggie would have mistaken him for. "Said he'd been sniffing around the few known Aromian traffickers wanting a quick fix to possibly reverse his father's failing health." She supplied guessing given the hard set of his jaw that J'onn was already reading her mind about the few not-so-distant late nights during what her Kara had teasingly called 'in-laws in waiting bonding' how Maggie had been enraged to find that not-so-little connection between the man who'd attempted to drown the woman she loved and her newest string of alien child abductions.
"Don't do anything stupid Sawyer." Alex sighed the same time J'onn's phone rang shrilly in the now quiet conference room.
