Adventures of Supergirl 7x03
Alex biked through the streets of Metropolis during a major traffic jam. Construction workers were being lazy as fuck as they took their sweet-ass time getting the roads fixed in the middle of the day. To add insult to injury, they smoked, drank coffee, and fooled around in clear eyesight of the stuck drivers. Alex expertly navigated through the traffic until she came to Metropolis General.
She parked her bike in the basement, went through the kitchen area, passed by the receptionist, and went to the locker room. Opening her locker, there were pictures of a smiling Kelly. Putting her bike clothes inside the locker, Alex quickly got into some scrubs and had a mostly uneventful day. Her first patient of the day was a middle-aged man with some heart disease issues. As soon as he was under, Alex went to work on him.
"Sucker," Alex ordered her colleague. "Music," she ordered another.
As the music played, Alex continued to work inside the man's chest cavity. "The kid started walking...three unassisted steps," a fellow doctor said conversationally.
"You got it on video?" Alex asked skeptically.
"I wasn't even there," the doctor admitted.
"Failure as a father, already. How does that feel?" Alex teased.
"At least I have a kid," he shot back.
The other doctors chuckled in amusement at the usual shit-talking during surgery. "Alright, let's close him up," Alex ordered. They all stared at the monitor to see if the patient's heart would start pumping on its own. After a few seconds it did and the music started playing again. "Oh, shit. I'm missing a sponge," another doctor said.
"Really?" Alex glared at him.
All the doctors in the room looked around for the sponge until it was eventually found on the floor. "I got it," the same doctor said, finding it.
"Good work everyone," Alex said as she exited the room and went past an angel observing the entire surgery.
"She's really good. Too bad she's got an attitude," one doctor said to another as Alex left the room.
"She just needs to get laid by a real man," another doctor said earing a few high-fives from the other male doctors in the room.
The angel eyed their obnoxious banter and then followed Alex around the hospital.
That night, a little girl was rushed into the emergency room. Alex was called to the scene as the child was going into cardiac arrest from a severe fever. Alex rushed into the room and eyed the unconscious girl. Her colleagues were already shocking the girl with paddles to no avail.
"No pressure," a doctor informed Alex.
"Paddles at 300," Alex ordered.
"Clear...still nothing," her colleague informed her.
"Kill the fucking alarm. Begin compressions," Alex ordered urgently. "Not working. Got to open her up." Alex skillfully sliced open the girl's chest and used clamps to keep the wound open. An electrode was then placed directly on the heart. "Hit it."
The girl's heart was shocked directly with no result. "No response."
"Come on. Don't do this," Alex said becoming stressed out as she massaged the girl's heart. All the while, the angel stared at Alex as she struggled.
"She's going," a doctor said pessimistically.
"She's not going anywhere," Alex said passionately right to the angel's face as if she knew he was there. The angel gave her an intrigued expression. Alex seemed to stare at the angel for a moment and then went back to the girl's heart. "Damn it, come on," Alex said as she was losing her.
"Susan! Come on! Susan!" Alex shouted at the girl as she passed away.
City of Angels
A depressed and dumbfounded Alex got out of her scrubs, back into her doctor's coat, and went to see the girl's mother. "Is my Susie alright?" the mom asked tearfully.
Alex had submitted death letters in the past from her time at the DEO but this was the hardest face-to-face she had ever dealt with. "She...didn't survive," Alex told her.
The mother gave Alex a look of shock and then began to cry. "I don't understand," she sobbed. "She was just fine this morning. It was just a cold."
"I'm so sorry," Alex said sympathetically.
The mother then sobbed on Alex's shoulder completely broken. Alex cried with her feeling like a total failure. Soon thereafter, Alex made a break for the exit stairwell and sat down on the steps crying. "On my table, on my table, I'm so sorry," Alex said to herself. "What the fuck happened?"
The angel appeared before Alex as if to comfort her. "I lost her, I lost her just like Esme," Alex sobbed. The angel touched her hands and gave her a reassuring smile.
At a convenience store, two angels were chilling as if they knew what was about to happen. The angel that had been visiting Alex was named Seth while the other angel, appearing as a black man, was Cassiel. "Have you ever been seen by someone that isn't delirious and or dying?" Seth asked curiously.
"In a diner once, a blind woman passed me the mustard," Cassiel recalled.
"How?" Seth wondered.
"She was blind but she could still sense me somehow," Cassiel explained.
"The doctor from the operating room looked straight at me," Seth said.
"She didn't see you, Seth. She can't see you. No one can see you unless you want them to," Cassiel said obviously.
"And what if I want her to see me?" Seth asked.
"Why would you want to do a thing like that?" Cassiel asked confused.
"To help her," Seth said simply.
"It's because she's hot, right?" Cassiel assumed.
"Open it! Get down! Do it! Do it!" an armed robber demanded of the clerk.
The two angels could hear the thoughts in everyone's heads as the clerk scrambled to get the money out. The angels came over to the clerk and the robber to calm their spirits, to bring about tranquility and peace. "Got your bitch-ass!" Guardian said as he slammed into the robber. The robber fired on Guardian without effect. Guardian proceeded to disarm him and beat the shit out of him.
"Holy shit," the clerk said amazed.
The two angels watched as Guardian continued to beat on the robber. "They don't need to see us...and we don't need to see this," Cassiel said to Seth as they left.
The next morning, Alex came in and looked over the operating table where the girl had died. Upon some bitter reflection, Alex rushed to the restroom to hurl. Alex exited the restroom feeling like shit and noticed her staff moving equipment around without her knowing about it. Brainiac 5 then approached Alex appearing as a doctor.
"What's going on? I have a mitral valve to do," Alex said to him.
"I canceled it," Brainiac 5 said bluntly.
"Why?" Alex demanded.
"You're sick and you can't operate. It's to be rescheduled to Monday," Brainiac 5 said.
"It's professional. You should have come to me first before talking to my staff," Alex scolded him. "It embarrasses me in front of my staff."
The two took their argument into another room away from others. Seth was present in the room observing the scene. "I saw the chart on the girl, Susan," Brainiac 5 said.
"What?" Alex questioned.
"I know everything that happens in this hospital. It's on review, of course, but it wasn't your fault," Brainiac 5 said.
"I know," Alex said argumentatively.
"Then, what's your problem?" Brainiac 5 asked as he advanced towards her.
"I don't know," Alex said honestly. "Maybe I'm not ready for this. Maybe cramming ten years of medical school into my brain in a quarter of the time wasn't such a good idea."
"You put up a terrific fight," Brainiac 5 told her.
"We fight for people's lives, right? Well, who is it that we are fighting against?" Alex asked philosophically.
"It is in your nature to die," Brainiac 5 said simply.
"So, I'm crazy and chemically imbalanced," Alex said filled with self-pity.
"And tired," Brainiac 5 noted. "Why didn't you call me?"
"Your words don't give me comfort," Alex said honestly.
"Come back Monday," Brainiac 5 ordered and then left the room. Seth gave the distressed Alex a sympathetic look.
At the Metropolis library, angels hung out in droves to listen to people's thoughts as they read. It was a peaceful relatively quiet environment where people put their anxious thoughts away as they focused on their reading. Occasionally, future couples would meet in the library. Nothing needed to be said, the angels could just listen to their thoughts. Some library patrons were on the verge of freaking out requiring angelic intervention to calm themselves down. Then, there was the special case.
"Hello! Yeah! I'm in the library! Yeah, I can't talk in the library! Yeah, it's all rubbish!" Mon shouted obnoxiously into his cell phone as he strolled towards the exit.
The angels all stared at him with a look of disdain and incredulity.
That Monday, Alex met with the patient, Ralph Messenger. Seth was there following Alex around unseen. Ralph was busy eating fried fish sticks when Alex entered the room. "Where did you get those?" Alex asked as it indicated a security breach.
"What am I, a prisoner?" Ralph asked.
"Sort of," Alex winced.
"Well, if you had performed the operation last week when you were supposed to, I wouldn't even be here now. What the hell happened?" Ralph demanded.
"Circumstances were not optimal for the procedure," Alex said vaguely.
"Hey, I ain't the procedure. My name is Raphael Messenger and I'm sitting right here," he told her off.
"Truth be told, I'm not entirely...mentally stable...right now," Alex admitted.
"Well...shit," Ralph realized.
Alex exited the room and eyed a nursery with small children and felt a pain in her heart upon seeing them. She placed her hand on the glass as she was going through a mental breakdown but eventually recovered in Seth's presence. Alex passed by several rooms with sick but otherwise cheerful children and then entered a nursery. At first, it was peaceful with two dozen sleeping babies. Within minutes, however, it became a noisy cry-fest.
"Hey, Alex. What are you doing here?" Kara asked as she entered.
"I'm hiding," Alex said honestly.
"From what?" Kara wondered.
"I should have gone into pediatrics," Alex shook her head.
"And deal with this nonsense?" Kara asked annoyed as the babies continued to cry. She held one baby up to her shoulder gently earning Alex's envy. "Barney found this one in a dumpster."
"That's fucked up," Alex remarked. "Can I hear his heartbeat?"
"Knock yourself out," Kara said letting her put on a stethoscope.
"There's a heart murmur," Alex detected.
"Well, how about that? You just saved a life potentially," Kara smiled.
"You placed a baby with a heart murmur in the nursery for me to diagnose to make me feel better?" Alex accused.
"What? No...," Kara denied.
"Sounds like bullshit," Alex said not buying it.
"So...who are you hiding from?" Kara asked, changing the subject.
"I had a confidence crisis last week and it delayed this man's life-saving surgery so now I feel like shit," Alex admitted. "I just get the impression that none of this is in my hands, nothing."
"Well, you're kind of right. Barney can do open heart surgery just as well if not better than you can and he decided to delay the surgery for you, so it must not be too urgent," Kara reasoned.
"Either that or Barney doesn't give a shit," Alex pointed out.
Kara nodded to that. "So, Barney controls everything. What the fuck am I even doing here?" Alex asked.
"Barney is here at this hospital because I am here. And I am here because you are here. So, in the end, everything depends on you being here and doing your job. So, you matter," Kara said.
"My life is leveraging asshole superheroes to do their job and save people?" Alex asked dismayed.
"Pretty much," Kara agreed.
Late at night, Alex exited the hospital library and finally made her way over to Ralph's room. On the way, she ran into a tall slender white man in black clothes. "Excuse me. Are you a visitor?" Alex confronted him.
"Yes," he said softly.
"Well, visiting hours have been over since eight," Alex told him off.
"Why do they have that?" Seth asked curiously. "Doesn't it help the patient to be visited?"
"Yeah, well, patients need their sleep and there is less security at night," Alex explained.
"I'm here to visit you," Seth clarified.
"I don't need a visitor," Alex said confused.
"You're not ill?" Seth asked.
"No," Alex denied. "I'm one of the doctors here."
"Are you in despair?" Seth asked knowingly.
"I lost a patient," Alex admitted.
"You did everything you could," Seth assured her.
"I was holding that little girl's heart in my hands when she died," Alex recalled.
"People die," Seth said nonchalantly.
"Not on my table. It's my job to keep people alive or what am I doing here?" Alex asked rhetorically.
"It wasn't your fault, Alex," Seth told her.
"I wanted her to live...just like all the others I failed to save," Alex said bitterly.
"She is living. Just not the way you think," Seth said.
"I'm not sure...I believe in that," Alex admitted.
"Some things are true no matter if you believe it," Seth said boldly.
"Alright, asshole, what's your name?" Alex demanded.
"Seth," he replied smiling.
"You better get out of here, Seth, or security will come up here and kick your ass," Alex warned. Alex then turned away greatly troubled and then looked back. Seth was already gone.
Alex looked down at her nametag and realized it only said Dr. Danvers without showing her first name. "The fuck?" she wondered.
The next morning, Alex and Brainiac 5 performed surgery together on Ralph without issue. Alex seemed to be back to her old confident self again. With Kelly gone for some random conference, Seth acted like a total creeper as he watched Alex take a bath and get dressed for the following morning. When Alex woke up, she found a book from the Metropolis library on her nightstand.
Slightly alarmed, Alex went to Brainiac 5 with this information. "A man named Seth talk to you after visiting hours in the hospital and you have an unexplained library book in your apartment," he summarized.
"Don't you find that weird?" Alex asked.
"There were no recordings of any visitor on your floor by the surveillance cameras. In fact, the surveillance footage doesn't even exist," Brainiac 5 said.
"And the book?" Alex asked.
Brainiac 5 gave her an uncomfortable look. "No one entered or exited your apartment last night or the night before," he told her. "You have the book?"
Alex handed the book over to him. He immediately scanned the book for fingerprints with his eyes, prioritized the most recent prints, and then looked for a match in the database. "The last person to check this book out doesn't meet your description," he told her.
"So, he used gloves," Alex assumed.
"Possibly," Brainiac 5 allowed.
Alex went back to the library to investigate the matter. She went to the section where the book had been checked out to see if there were any additional clues. Upon arriving at the spot, she ran into Seth. "Hello, Alex," he said warmly. "It's nice to see you again."
"Kind of weird seeing you again...here," Alex said suspiciously.
"Weird is nice. Do you like Hemmingway?" he asked conversationally.
"Sure," Alex lied.
Seth quoted a passage from the book, the one Alex had in her hands. As he did, he advanced on her in a very creepy stalker way. "You come here a lot?" Alex questioned.
"I live here," Seth said literally.
"What do you do?" Alex asked.
"I'm a messenger," Seth said vaguely.
"Like...the US Post Office?" Alex asked confused.
"No, a messenger of God," Seth clarified.
"You got a message for me?" Alex asked playing along.
"I already gave it to you," Seth reminded her.
"Well, you'll have to text me it. I tend to forget these things," Alex said.
"You won't forget this one," Seth said confidently.
"I guess not since I didn't kill anyone today," Alex said bitterly.
"You're an excellent doctor," Seth complimented.
"Oh, yeah? How do you know?" Alex scoffed.
"I have a feeling," Seth replied.
"Sounds like bullshit," Alex doubted.
"May I touch your hand?" he asked her.
"I guess," Alex allowed.
"And close your eyes," Seth added.
Alex was fairly close to the railing of a significant drop. She gave Seth a skeptical look but then finally closed her eyes. Seth then touched her hand giving her a feeling of love, warmth, and compassion she had never felt before. "Can you feel that?" he asked her.
"Yes," Alex said stunned.
"You should trust it more often," Seth advised.
As this was happening, a hundred angels eyed the two of them with WTF expressions. "You want to go somewhere?" Alex asked, hoping to lure him out of the library so Brainiac 5 could do surveillance on him.
"Where?" Seth asked curiously.
"Anywhere," Alex invited.
The two ended up in the farmer's market with a roof over their heads. Alex stalled as she waited patiently for DEO agents to come by and tackle Seth. When nothing happened, she simply tolerated his presence, his curious demeanor, and the perpetually blank expression on his face. After bullshitting on what fruit to buy, Alex sat down with Seth at a table.
"What's that like?" Seth asked as Alex ate a pear. "What does it take like? Describe it."
"You don't know what a pear tastes like?" Alex asked incredulously.
"I don't know what it tastes like to you," Seth replied.
"Sweet, juicy, soft on the tongue going in, sugar dissolving in your mouth," Alex listed off and then gave a look of embarrassment as she realized she had just sexualized a pear.
"Sounds perfect," Seth smiled.
Alex went back to the hospital with Seth still uncertain why Brainiac 5 drones or one of her superhero friends wasn't immediately with her. Alex went into a lab and showed Seth a microscope. "First time I looked into a microscope, I knew I wanted to be a doctor. But then high school journalism, homicide investigations, flunking out of Stanford due to alcoholism, and joining the DEO really sidetracked what I really wanted to do in life."
"Yes," Seth nodded.
"Alright, give me your hand. I'm going to take some of your blood," Alex said.
"What for?" Seth asked slightly alarmed.
"To take a look at your blood," Alex said obviously.
"Not a possibility," he shut her down.
Alex simply stared at him. "Too scared of the pain?"
"No," Seth shook his head.
Alex went back to her microscope only to find Seth getting really close to her and sniffing her hair. Alex took a step back and let him look through the microscope. "That's me, my cells," Alex said to him as he looked.
"That's all you are?" he asked.
"And all the space in between," Alex added.
"If this is all you are, these cells, then, when you die, that's the end," Seth pointed out.
"Yeah, maybe," Alex said flustered. "When I was younger, I thought I had it figured out."
"But you didn't?" Seth sensed.
"No," Alex shook her head. "Because one day, my parents brought home a space-alien and destroyed my world. A space-alien that had powers beyond imagination and could kill people without consequence. I saw how she used my childhood religion to justify every insane thing she ever did. Does that sound crazy?"
"No," Seth said sympathetically.
"I couldn't fix Kara. No matter what I did, I couldn't fix her. These things aren't supposed to happen like this and I...," Alex trailed off.
"You cried," Seth said knowingly.
"For half my life," Alex said bitterly.
"Why do people cry?" Seth asked curiously.
"The Terminator asked the same thing," Alex recalled.
"I mean, physically," Seth clarified.
"Tear ducts overact due to emotion to lubricate the eyes," Alex replied clinically.
"Why do they overact?" Seth asked.
"You'll have to ask Nicholas Cage on that one," Alex joked.
"Maybe they overact because the body simply can't contain the emotion, your minds, and your feelings become too powerful. Your body weeps," Seth said.
Alex simply stared at him but then got a text message. "Hey, I have to go. Don't go anywhere. Just stay right here," she said and then went out the door.
On the other side of the hospital, Ralph was struggling to breathe despite the ventilator. Alex took the tube out of his throat and Ralph started coughing. Alex then put oxygen tubes in his nose. "How are you feeling?" Alex asked.
"Like shit," Ralph admitted.
"Check his vitals every so often," Alex told the nurse and then walked out. At the same time, Seth was in the room invisible. Once the two of them were alone, Ralph turned to Seth.
"Tell them I'm not done yet here," Ralph ordered Seth.
"Well, okay then," Seth shrugged.
Alex came home late and found Kelly on the couch. "Where have you been?" she asked teasingly.
"Shit, I completely forgot about dinner," Alex realized.
"What do you got there?" Kelly asked referring to Alex's paper bag from the farmer's market.
"I was with some weird guy that's been stalking me," Alex said.
"Is that all?" Kelly asked curiously.
"Well, we talked, and then he disappeared," Alex said flustered.
"I was thinking we could go hiking in the outdoors," Kelly said.
"Yeah, maybe after our friends take this guy down," Alex said concernedly.
"What is his name?" Kelly asked wondering if it might be a former patient of hers.
"Err...Seth," Alex recalled.
"What did you two talk about?" Kelly pressed.
"Dying, God, you know," Alex said nonchalantly.
"Sounds like a Jehovah Witness missionary," Kelly said thoughtfully.
Alex sighed as if the thought hadn't occurred to her. "When we talked, it was like he saw into my soul."
The next day in the park, Alex called up Brainiac 5. "Barney, what the fuck? I had this guy with me all day. Why didn't you know about it? Why didn't you take him down?" Alex demanded.
"There was a surveillance malfunction with every system orientated towards you," Brainiac 5 informed her.
Alex felt a chill go through her. "Maybe he has some ability that neutralizes your cameras."
"Doubtful. Not even the spy satellites were working to get your position. No EMP wave could reach them without knocking out power globally," Brainiac 5 replied. "Whatever is happened, it's beyond my understanding," Brainiac 5 said.
Alex's phone then dropped the call and stopped working as Seth strolled by wearing all black as usual. "There you are again," she said of him.
"I worry that you never sleep and you rarely smile," Seth said.
"Not too many people understand what I'm going through," Alex said defensively.
"What about your friend, your roommate?" Seth asked.
Alex gave him an odd look. "Right, well, she's my shrink. Look, I don't even know you and yet I feel compelled to answer very personal questions about myself."
"What do you want to know?" Seth asked patiently.
"Why do you wear the same clothes every day like you're from the Matrix?" Alex asked. "Why don't you give me your phone number? Are you married?"
"No," Seth shook his head.
"Probably should have waited for an answer to each individual question," Alex kicked herself.
"Yes," Seth agreed.
"Are you homeless?" Alex asked.
"No, I live inside your apartment and in your head when you dream," Seth replied.
"Creepy as fuck, moving on. Are you in...a band?" Alex asked.
"More like an orchestra," Seth nodded. "Can I touch you?"
"Sure...fuck it," Alex allowed.
Seth leaned in and gave her a kiss. In spite of herself, Alex felt warm and tingly having never felt this way for a man before. "I wish I could make you understand," he said sadly.
"I understand. I'll see you around," Alex said flustered, and then walked off.
Wanting to get to the bottom of things, Alex went to a social party to celebrate Ralph's recovery. She had been invited after all. Upon arriving, Alex realized Seth was already there standing off to the side alone. "Hey, Doc," Ralph said giving Alex a hug. "Thanks for coming. Isn't this heaven?"
"It's great," Alex said looking over the food, drinks, and people present. On the grill was...fish.
Alex sat down awkwardly among people she didn't know. She was always kind of an introvert. "You want a beer?" Ralph asked.
"I really shouldn't," Alex declined.
"Oh, yeah, that's right," Ralph recalled.
Alex gave him a WTF look and then saw a large plate of corn on the cob. She had never seen so much corn in her life. "So, how do you know Seth?" Alex asked.
"An old friend from up...north...Canada," Ralph said unconvincingly.
"How long have you known Seth?" Alex asked.
"Since his creation," Ralph said vaguely. "We worked together."
"As messengers?" Alex asked doubtfully.
"Yeah," Ralph confirmed.
At this point, Alex was thinking Ralph and Seth were part of some cult. She even noticed a punch bowl of kool-aid on the table. With her phone, she tried to take a picture of Seth. It ended up having a white blur where he would be.
That night, Alex invited Seth over to the apartment. Kelly was absent again. "So, what part of Canada were you born?" Alex questioned.
"I wasn't born in Canada," he said.
"What were your parents' names?" Alex continued.
"No parents," Seth replied.
"You have very delicate hands. Shame if someone were to...," Alex said and then intentionally sliced his hand. As she suspected, there was no cut nor blood.
"Why did you do that?" Seth asked alarmed.
"Did you feel that?" Alex asked as she punched him to the face knocking his head to the side.
"You don't have to be frightened," he said calmly as Alex punched him again.
"What the fuck are you?" Alex asked taking out her pistol.
"I was there when you tried to save that girl. I couldn't keep my eyes off of you. How you fought for her. How you looked right at me like I was there," Seth revealed.
"Did you take that little girl?" Alex asked accusingly.
"We're there, we're always there in every room. I was there in the stairwell. You cried for your patient," Seth told her.
"How can you know that?" Alex asked.
"I'm an angel," Seth said finally.
"Bullshit," Alex doubted.
"You don't want to believe me," Seth sensed it.
"An angel? After all the hell I've been through, I can't conceive that angels have ever been watching over me," Alex said angrily.
"Alex...," Seth shook his head.
"Just get out!" Alex ordered.
Seth then suddenly disappeared.
For the next few days, Alex went back to work doing surgeries as usual. At her apartment, she felt Seth's presence at night and when she went to sleep. She couldn't see him but could sense that he was there watching her, comforting her, being around her. Still, Alex felt better about herself, was able to focus on her work, and was generally happier. Still, Alex couldn't let it go and went to visit Ralph, her only lead on Seth.
She went to see him on the pretense of checking up on him. "I'm good," he assured her.
"So, cut the shit. Are you and Seth angels?" Alex asked bluntly.
"We know no fear, no pain, no hunger. We hear music in the sunrise. I'm the patron saint of travelers, the blind, happy meetings, nurses, physicians, medical workers, matchmakers. I'm also the protector of sailors. You, Alex Danvers, have been all these things at one point," Ralph smiled.
"I've never heard of you," Alex admitted.
"I'm not in the Protestant Bible," he rolled his eyes.
Alex merely stared at him. "I operated on you."
"Yeah, well, I can take any form I want," Ralph said nonchalantly.
"There were other people waiting in line after you. That makes you an ass," Alex accused.
"Look, I needed to be your next patient to give you a boost of confidence. Had you fucked up on me, no one would have died," Ralph explained.
"You could have saved that little girl so I wouldn't have had a confidence crisis in the first place," Alex said angrily.
"You only see life from your perspective. I once witnessed a woman have six husbands. One after the other, the husbands all died on her wedding night from a demon. I just stood there watching it happen. The poor woman was freaked the fuck out," Ralph recalled.
"And?" Alex asked impatiently.
"Those six men had to die...so my boy, Tobias, could score. And on his wedding night with this woman, I kicked ass on that demon and sent him back to Egypt," Ralph said, proud of himself.
"So, the girl had to die to send me a message?" Alex asked cynically.
"You're not understanding my point. Every human dies at some point. This life is merely a test. I was created before the creation of the multiverse, before time itself. You're going to look back on all these tribulations as a distant memory. You're going to see yourself in this life like it were in the third person," Ralph said.
"I doubt that," Alex denied.
"You remember how you were before Kara landed on your doorstep? Do you still relate to your younger self? Would you even recognize her as yourself now?" Ralph asked.
"Of course, not. We change," Alex said guardedly.
"And your perceptions of yourself, your memories of yourself also change," Ralph said.
"After everything I've seen and felt, I can't see this life as just being a test," Alex said skeptically.
"In heaven, it's the seventh dimension where all is revealed. You have no idea what awaits you if you pass this test," Ralph told her.
"What am I supposed to do?" Alex asked.
"Be strong, be brave, finish the race and help others finish their race as well," Ralph told her.
"Seth is acting kind of weird towards me," Alex said.
"Yeah, I know," Ralph sighed.
"What can I do about it?" Alex asked.
That night at the Metropolis library, Alex met up with Seth. "So, you're an angel. You'll always look this way, perfect. We're not the same, Seth. That's what I want. The same."
"But you can feel me?" Seth pointed out.
"But you don't feel me. I'm not like Nia who falls in love with a machine," Alex said.
"But I'm not a machine," Seth said offended.
"This is goodbye. I don't want to see you again," Alex said super-seriously. She then left the library knowing full well what Seth would do next.
On an unfinished skyscraper, Seth leaped off towards the ground. In angel rules, if an angel falls from a great height and hits the ground intentionally, it makes them mortal. Alex had hoped to send Seth on this path to make him mortal, so she could deal with him on her level. As it happened, it worked. Seth spent the night a bloody mess on the ground. The next morning, construction workers went about their business totally ignoring him. Seth got up painfully and started to laugh hysterically. Immediately, he made his way towards Alex's hospital on foot acting like a weirdo as he did.
He ended up in Chinatown where he got the cold shoulder from the locals. Not understanding their language as before, Seth continued on foot. He eventually arrived at Metropolis General without proof of insurance. "I'm a friend of Dr. Alexandra Danvers. Can I speak to her, please," Seth asked the receptionist in earshot of Kara who happened to be around.
"I can neither confirm nor deny anyone by that name working here," the receptionist said as she triggered the alarm for security.
"Kara! Where's Alex?" Seth asked her as he saw her.
"I'll take care of him," Kara said to the receptionist and took Seth to her office. "You a friend of Alex?"
"I fell in love with her," Seth admitted.
"Are you sure you're her type?" Kara asked amused.
"Of course. I'm an angel," Seth said confidently. "Do you know where she is?"
"She went hiking. I'll tell you where she's at," Kara said as she scanned his body to confirm he was human. "Here's some cash, a cell phone, and a fake ID," she said handing him an envelope as if prepared for this moment.
"You've been a real help," Seth said gratefully.
"For helping an angel, am I going to get a lot of brownie points?" Kara asked.
"Most definitely," Seth smiled.
Seth took the bus and made his way over to Alex's cabin on the lake. It was a fairly expensive large cabin rental with all amenities of electricity, heater, kitchen, bed, shower, etc., the epitome of "not camping." Alex heard a knock at the door and pulled out her sidearm. She then opened the door to Kelly. "Little jumpy, Danvers. You expecting someone else?" Kelly asked.
"No," Alex shook her head and embraced her.
"Did I get here too late?" Kelly asked worriedly.
"The night is young," Alex smiled.
On the floor of the cabin near the fireplace, Alex and Kelly made out, stripped themselves of their clothes, and then went to a kneeling lotus sex position. The two kissed and caressed each other while rubbing themselves together as the wood crackled in the fireplace. The two panted and moaned as they held each other tightly until both of them climaxed.
The next morning, Alex and Kelly were together on the dock. "The best thing about living...is this. This is it. This is what I like best," Alex said reflectively.
"We haven't even started yet. We have our whole lives together, you and me, Mrs. and Mrs. Danvers," Kelly said teasingly.
"I've been thinking about this. I'd like to take your name," Alex said seriously.
"It's not necessary. We don't have to change either of our names," Kelly downplayed.
"The Danvers name is associated with Kara...and my father. Eventually, everyone is going to realize that Supergirl and Kara Danvers are the same person and then I'll be fucked. I just want a brand new start with you," Alex said sincerely.
"If that's how you feel," Kelly allowed.
"Let's take a shower together," Alex invited.
"Alright," Kelly smiled eagerly joining her.
Meanwhile, Seth had seen the whole thing from across the lake was totally dismayed. The love of his life was already in a relationship and gay. Despite all the infinite information at his fingertips, it had not even occurred to him. Worse yet, none of his angelic colleagues had told him despite watching him the entire time. For all her kindness, Kara didn't even tell him. Alex didn't disclose it either.
"No! Fuck! Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you," he shouted, pointing to random trees as he imagined his angelic colleagues were all around him mocking him. Suddenly, bees started to attack him. "No, not the bees!" he shouted as he got swarmed.
Seth ran out onto the street in pain and dismayed by his predicament. He had sacrificed the seventh dimension, eternity, powers beyond imagination, for a woman that never had any affection for him. For a lifetime, he would live as a human mortal. So distressed was he that he didn't even notice a logging truck about to hit him. Just before he could be killed, a red-and-blue blur hit the logging truck slicing it in two and preventing Seth from being hit.
"Holy fuck," Seth said stunned.
Kara went over to the driver to see if he was okay and then turned back to Seth. "It's one save per customer...per lifetime," she mocked.
"You should have just let me die," Seth said depressed.
"Look, I wanted her, too, but we're adopted sisters so I'm in the same boat as you," Kara said sympathetically. Seth gave her a WTF look. "Trust me, being with Alex would have gotten old real fast," Kara assured him.
"I don't know what to do with myself," Seth admitted. "I've hit rock bottom."
"I'm going to hook you up with an apartment, some cash, and a job in construction. Don't worry about a thing but you can't stalk women like a creeper like before," Kara told him.
"Can I be with you?" Seth asked obliviously.
"Sorry, man. I'm actually married...to two men, already," Kara told him.
"That's fucked up," Seth said as they walked away from the accident.
"I know...I know," Kara agreed.
In his new apartment, Seth sulked. "I can't see you but I know you're there," he said to the darkness.
"I'm sorry," Cassiel said sincerely.
"Get out," Seth said angrily.
"Bro...," Cassiel shook his head sympathetically.
"Did you know? Did you know this whole fucking time?" Seth asked angrily.
"Yeah," Cassiel smiled.
"Why did God make me fall in love with that kind of woman?" Seth asked upset.
"I don't know," Cassiel admitted.
"Was it predestined?" Seth asked.
"What do you want me to say?" Cassiel asked.
Seth sat down on his couch miserable. "Am I being punished?"
"Yeah," Cassiel said obviously. He sat down on the couch next to him. "What's it like...to be so God damn stupid?"
"It's wonderful," Seth admitted.
"If you knew she was gay, would you have still done it?" Cassiel asked.
"No," Seth shook his head frustrated.
"Very romantic, Seth," Cassiel rolled his eyes. "Look, man, if you go to church, pay your taxes, keep your nose clean, you'll be back in heaven's service before you know it. A human lifespan ain't shit compared to eternity. Besides, even if you were with her, she doesn't have much time on this Earth anyway."
"What if I throw myself into the ocean and drown myself?" Seth asked seriously.
"Then you go to hell. Don't be a dumbass," Cassiel scolded him.
"Well, okay then," Seth said miserably.
Author's Notes: City of Angels, the movie that probably inspired Twilight and Fifty Shades of Grey. Nicholas Cage has got to be the creepiest angel of all time, even worse than demons in horror movies. As per usual, I give Alex the respect she deserves for not immediately falling for the creepy angel. It's not just because she's gay, she's also investigating the situation as one should. It's similar to the Twilight bonus episode in the fic Midvale, a prequel to AOS.