Alex and Maggie head out to track down the mysterious power signature. Sam checks in with her injured friend, Maggie gets a visit from the green-eyed monster, and Kara can't figure out why no one is answering her calls!


While Alex and Maggie were on their way to possibly encounter another World Killer, their current foe sat in her office at L-Corp, cycling through endless piles of paperwork. Lena had taken a few days off to care for Kara and that left Sam running two companies, L-Corp and the recently acquired CatCo. Apparently, the Danvers had been involved in some sort of accident, leaving Kara temporarily hospitalized and Alex with a broken leg. Lena hadn't given any specifics and Sam hadn't asked. She and the sisters were quickly becoming close but Sam would never pry. If Alex, or Kara for that matter, wanted her to know the whole story they would tell her. Otherwise, it was none of her business.

Ruby had wanted to take the sibling's some goodies but Sam wasn't sure if either woman would want them just dropping by. Granted, Alex was always happy to see Ruby but she wasn't sure about Maggie and didn't want to step on any toes. The detective was friendly yet not overly so and Sam always felt as if Maggie were watching her, especially when Alex was around. Despite that, Sam truly considered the agent one of her closest friends. Coming to a decision, she quickly picked up her phone and sent a series of texts.

"Ruby is dying to bring you cupcakes and wants to be the first to sign your cast! Let us know when would be a good time. No pressure, just wanting to check in." Alex replied before she could even set her phone down.

"Awww! Thanks!" The response read. "You guys are so sweet. She texted me earlier demanding cuddles so... Maggie and I are out right now for my follow up appointment, but as soon as we get back in, I'll let you know."

"That's fine. No need to thanks us; we owe you for all the free babysitting! How's Kara doing?"

This time the response took a little longer as if Alex was debating what to tell her. "She's doing okay. Lena is with her. But I'm sure she'll perk up at the prospect of cupcakes!"

"I'll bet! That girl and her sweet tooth. Lol!"

"Lol!" Alex responded. "Bring enough so that I can get at least one! And tell Ruby I didn't get a cast this time but I do have an ugly cane that could use some bedazzling. I gotta go but I'll text you later!"

"K." Sam set her phone down with a small smile. Even if Alex didn't want them to come by later, she was glad she could cover things at the office so Lena could help out.

Sam couldn't remember a time recently when she had felt this good. Her blackouts had been non-existent for over a week and she finally felt like she had gotten a good nights rest. Alex had promised her that she would look into the cause of the blackouts as soon as she was able knowing how Sam hated the prospect of doctor's and hospitals. She trusted the agent to look out for her well being and the woman had done wonders with helping Ruby adjust to National City. Sam smiled fondly as she thought of the 'found family' she had been accepted into. With a glance at the clock, she quickly got back to work knowing as soon as she picked Ruby up from school that afternoon the girl would demand to go check on her favorite people.


Maggie watched Alex smiling at her phone as she carried on a text conversation. They were a few minutes out from the location of the signal, in a rundown part of National City, near the old docks.

"Is Little Danvers feeling better?" the detective asked, assuming that Kara had finally awoken inquiring about her sister's whereabouts.

"Huh?" Alex looked up from her phone stunned. "Oh, that wasn't Kara. It was Ruby and then Sam. They were just checking up on us." Alex replied with a smile.

"How nice of them." Maggie knew her tone was cold but she hadn't figured out the relationship between Alex and Sam. It seemed to be just a close friendship but it brought up doubts in Maggie's mind.

"Babe." Alex turned towards her, keeping her voice low, as they were not the only occupants of the van. "You're not jealous are you?"

"What? Pffft! No!" Maggie sputtered, realizing how childish she must seem at the moment but unable to stop herself. "Why would I be jealous of some brilliant, gorgeous CFO, with a kid you adore, who thinks the world of you?"

"Maggie..."

"It's like she's literally everything you want; everything you deserve." Maggie finished quietly.

"No she's not." Alex stated simply. "Because she isn't you."

Before Alex could go on, a voice from the front of the van announced they'd arrived at their destination.

"We'll talk about this later, yeah?" Alex waited for Maggie's affirmation before opening her door.

"Yeah."


"Kara is this really necessary?" Lena sighed as the blonde drug her down the hallway toward her sister's apartment. The CEO was glad she had opted for jeans, Kara's old National City University sweatshirt and worn in Sperry's. If Kara intended to drag her all over town, at least she would be comfortable.

The blonde had awoken not long after Alex and Maggie left, sad that she'd missed her sibling. She had immediately called both Alex's and Maggie's phone only to receive no answer. Her super hearing had yet to reemerge, preventing her from locating the pair her usual way. With a huff she had demanded that Lena get dressed and they headed across town to check on the duo.

Kara knocked soundly on Alex's front door with a frown. Lena knew she was trying to look intimidating but the blonde's current ensemble was nothing short of adorable. Her big sister's old Stanford hoodie tossed over a pair of ripped jeans wasn't exactly scary. Not to mention, Kara was nervously toeing at the floor in front of her with her white Converse.

"Maybe you should...take a look?" Lena suggested after there was no answer.

Kara grimaced at the suggestion. On more than one occasion she had seen far more than she wanted to x-raying Alex's apartment. But, she really had no other way of confirming the pair weren't home, so she pulled her glasses down and peeked through the walls. Nothing. They weren't home and it seemed both had their phones, as she couldn't locate them in the apartment.

"Empty." She told Lena with a sigh.

"Alex did say they needed to stop by the DEO for her medical checkup." Lena explained quietly in case the hallway was not as deserted as it seemed.

Kara was visibly skeptical of the explanation. Alex hated medical checkups and there was no way J'onn would allow the agent to linger at the DEO injured... unless there was emergency!

"Winn!" Kara yelled into the phone, much like her sister earlier that day. "Where's Alex?"

"Alex?" The voice on the other end squeaked. "Like, Alex Danvers?"

"Yes, Winn." Kara growled. "Alex Danvers. My sister, resident badass secret agent."

"Oh! That Alex." Winn laughed nervously. "She's, um, she's not here."

"Then where is she? She's not answering her phone and neither is Maggie."

"They, um, stepped out for a bit..." Winn lied poorly causing Kara to sigh and squeeze her eyes shut. Apparently, her frustration was fueling the return of her heat vision.

"I'm coming in." Kara stated, ending the call and stalking towards the elevator. Alex's apartment was far from the DEO but Kara already felt too drained to attempt the walk.

"I'll call my car." Lena offered and Kara found herself once again grateful for the other woman's forethought.


Maggie barely had time to dwell on the awkward silence between she and Alex before Vasquez was exiting the building and heading straight for them.

"Ma'am's." She nodded towards them both, rifle hanging loosely in her hands. "Both the building and the perimeter are clear of hostiles. It seems that no ones been here for sometime. We located the energy source in question but we need your eyes on it before we proceed with extraction, ma'am."

The last part was directed only to Alex, which meant that they were most likely about to encounter some alien technology that Maggie couldn't make heads or tails of. They followed Vasquez back inside, keeping Alex in the middle as Maggie flanked their six. Each abandoned room they passed made Maggie's skin crawl and she could tell Alex was equally uncomfortable, especially since she wasn't in any condition to protect herself. The agent knew Maggie and Vasquez would do everything in their power to keep her safe but Alex didn't like the idea of placing others at risk on her behalf. Up ahead, they saw the rest of Alpha Team flanking a contraption straight out of a SciFi movie. The soldiers parted to allow Alex to come closer.

"The pod itself appears to be several decades old ma'am but the components attaching it to its power source are much newer, barely a year old, maybe less." Vasquez informed Alex as she limped around the pod inspecting it.

"What power source?" Alex asked, face screwed up in concentration as her gaze fell upon a mass of wires towards the back of the device.

"Backup generator, ma'am." Vasquez swung her rifle to the right, the light on it's barrel illuminating a large metal box a few feet away. "Far as we can tell, ma'am, it's losing power fast. If we don't extract it and get it on a new power source on base, the pod will lose power in the next four hours."

Throughout her explanation, Alex nodded as she followed along but kept her gaze trained on the conglomeration of wires. She knew that configuration, had seen multiple times over her life, had used it herself when she'd had to convert an alien power source to a human one. It's how she powered Kara's pod to remove the Alura hologram and there were only two other people who knew about it.

"Shit!" She exclaimed, stumbling back from the pod, wrenching her leg badly in the process! "This is my dad's work, his configuration! Cadmus did this..."

Maggie had scrambled forward to catch Alex when it looked like her leg had given out. She grabbed the agent beneath the arms and righted her only for Alex to nearly collapse again when she tried to put weight on her leg.

"Hey! Hey, Ally, it's okay." Maggie tried to soothe her as she looped Alex's arm over her shoulders. "They're gone now."

Alex was trembling heightening Maggie's worry. She licked her lips and finally seemed to calm enough to give orders. "Pack it all up. Get it back to base and on a stable power source...we need to know what the hell my dad and Lillian were up to here."

"Yes, ma'am." Vasquez nodded to her team to begin the extraction but eyed Alex with worry. "Maybe you should wait outside, ma'am? Get off that leg for a bit."

"That's a good idea." Maggie agreed, steering Alex toward the door, noting how badly her fiancée was limping.

Vasquez and her team had the whole operation packed up in less than fifteen minutes. Alex was silent the entire time. She and Maggie sat in the back of the van, her leg stretched across Maggie's lap with an ice pack from the first aid kit on her incision. The whole area looked angry and inflamed to the detective and she couldn't wait to get Alex back to the DEO so Hamilton could check her out. Maggie kept stealing glances at Alex but the agent looked through her, clearly lost in worry over what horrors her father and Lillian Luthor had managed to cook up. Alex shifted closer to Maggie when the van began to move laying her head on the other woman's shoulder. Usually, the agent was strictly against PDA in the field but Maggie could tell that she was still shaking slightly and she was more than happy to offer whatever comfort she could, more convinced than ever that they should have just slept in that morning.


As soon as they arrived back on base, Alex informed J'onn of her preliminary findings and then ordered Hamilton to check the life support system on the pod before checking her over.

"I'm breathing just fine Hamilton but whatever's in that pod may not be." She'd told the doctor with false bravado. Maggie could tell the redhead was still shaken and her limp had gotten no better. She followed her fiancée to her lab and forced the woman to sit immediately. Unfortunately, before she could ask Alex what the hell all of this meant, the pair was rudely interrupted.

"Alexandra Danvers!" A voice boomed from the doorway. "You are in so much trouble, Missy!"

Alex spun in her lab chair to find her sister standing just inside the lab, arms crossed, a stern look on her face. Behind the blonde, the agent could see Lena wearing a similar expression of irritation.

"Kara," Alex sighed. "Before you and your girlfriend go postal, let me explain."

"Lena is not my...she's not...we," Kara sputtered, fiddling with her glasses as she tried to regain her composure. "That's not important. What is important is you lied to me."

"I did not!" Alex refuted. "I just didn't tell you. There's a difference."

"A lie of omission is still a lie." Kara pouted, giving Alex her best 'puppy dog eyes'.

"I was trying to protect you." Alex pleaded, willing her sister to understand.

"Yeah, Little Danvers." Maggie interjected. "Ally didn't want to get you involved until we knew what we were dealing with."

"Is that why you stopped answering your phone, too?" Lena piped up. "You're not innocent here either, Margaret."

Maggie spun to face Lena, face tight with irritation. "Okay, first of all that's not my name. And second," Maggie held up two fingers. "We were just trying to keep your girlfriend out of harm's way."

Lena paled at the implication, eyes dropping to her feet. "I'm not...I mean Kara and I aren't..."

The raven-haired woman's protest drew an amused snort from Alex across the room. "Methinks the lady doth protest too much." She muttered with a smirk causing Kara to blush violently.

"Alex!" She whined, stomping her foot in frustration. "Leave my-my Lena alone."

Maggie snickered at that, taking in the fact that Lena was currently wearing her 'not girlfriend's' shirt. "Come on 'Kara's Lena'. Let's give these two a minute to talk while we grab some coffee. Alex don't think I've forgotten about getting that leg checked." Maggie warned as she turned to leave.

Lena looked skeptical as Maggie tugged her towards the door. "I suppose we could pop down to Noonan's..."

"Yep!" Maggie agreed. "Doughnuts for everyone... on you, of course. You're the millionaire!"

"Billionaire, actually." Lena corrected absentmindedly, missing the way Maggie stared at her, mouth agape.


Once the pair had gone, the sibling's sat staring at one another; Kara with a look of betrayal, Alex with an exasperated expression.

"I'm sorry I hurt your feelings," Alex began. "But, I am not sorry for what I did."

"Really?!" Kara exclaimed. "That is the worst apology...like ever."

"What do you want me to say?" Alex countered. "We had no idea what was in that pod, still don't, and I didn't want you rushing in and getting hurt again!"

"Alex..."

"I get it now...watching someone you love, trapped behind that glass. Knowing you can't help them. It's so much worse than being on the inside..."

Hearing Alex's admission and seeing the tears build in her eyes had Kara rushing to embrace her sister. She held the agent tight to her chest, pressing soft kisses to her hair.

"I can't go through it again." Alex whispered into the soft fabric of Kara's hoodie. "I can't watch you bleed...can't watch you fall...I'm not strong enough."

"Oh, Lexie." Kara cooed, rocking the other girl gently. "You're so much stronger than you realize; stronger than me. I'm sorry. I should've trusted you."

"S'okay..." Alex mumbled, leaning back and wiping her face furiously. "I just don't want you facing down any rogue Kryptonians until I can go fight with you."

"Deal." Kara agreed with a bright smile. She was looking more like herself than she had that morning.

"How are you feeling, anyway? Your powers?" Alex asked with concern.

"Back to normal, I think. My hearing for sure. That's the reason Lena and I rushed in here! Your heart was beating like crazy!"

"Sorry I worried you." Alex replied sheepishly.

"Oh, please..." Kara scoffed. "I'm a Danvers, I'm always gonna worry."

"Touché." Alex laughed quietly.

"So, shall we go find out what's in that pod?" Kara asked.

"We already know." A voice from the doorway announced. Both women turned to find Hamilton, tablet in hand, staring at them in shock. "It's a child," she choked out. "It's a Kryptonian child!"