What We Found In The Ashes

by Argyle.S

Kara runs into Maggie at a crime scene, and over the course of the next few months, they become tentative friends. When Alex's mind wipe starts to take an emotional toll on Kara, she'd turns to Maggie for comfort, and finds herself falling for the last person she ever expected.

17. The Quest For Peace

Notes: Two chapters today. Don't forget to read the second one once your done with this one.

This chapter contains canon dialog from the episode "The Quest For Peace"

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March 30, 2019

Kara turned off the TV and dropped the remote on the coffee table.

"I have to stop him," Kara said.

"Kara, you barely escaped with your life. And he has a weapon that killed Red Daughter," Alex said.

"He did experiments on her in Kaznia. He knew how to take her down, but he still needed Red Daughter to kill me."

"You basically died."

"But I survived. And Lex doesn't know that. That's to my advantage."

Lex and the President have succeeded in convincing the people that all aliens are dangerous. That Supergirl is the enemy," Eliza said.

"And Lex is the hero," Alex added.

"It doesn't matter," Maggie said. "Lex knows that Kara is Supergirl, so the moment Kara Danvers turns up, we all become targets."

"Wait, Lex knows?" Alex asked. "How?"

"Lillian would be my guess," Maggie said.

"Maggie's right. It doesn't matter. I have everything I need to expose Lex and Baker. I just need to get back to National City and write the article, and I can put an end to all of this."

"What if they don't listen? What if they don't believe you?" Eliza asked.

"They will," Kara said. "I have the truth, and I have Alex and Maggie, and that's all I need to change the world."

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Maggie sat across the kitchen table from Alex, nursing a glass of Eliza's best scotch. Kara had gone about three rounds with Alex and Eliza over whether or not she should go back to National City that night. She'd only agreed to spend the night in Midvale when Maggie had asked her. Not argued, not insisted, just asked. She'd told Kara that she hadn't slept the night before, and that she wasn't up for another fight, and didn't want to be left behind when Kara went back to National City.

Once Kara had agreed to spend the night in Midvale, Maggie has excused herself and headed to the bathroom. She was pretty proud of the fact that she'd only thrown up twice. Kara had knocked on the door after the first time, but she hadn't forced her way in. When Maggie had asked Kara to give her a few minutes, Kara had respected that, even if Maggie had been able to hear the reluctance in her voice.

Once she was sure that her stomach had settled, she'd rinsed her mouth, and headed out. She'd been surprised to find herself alone in the house with Alex. Alex had told her Eliza had taken Kara down to Home Depot to pick up replacements for the doors Kara had destroyed getting Red Daughter out of the house. Then she'd led Maggie to the kitchen and poured them both a drink. After that, they'd spent nearly half an hour sitting across from each other, not saying a word. Maggie wasn't sure how much longer that was going to last, because the tension in the room was slowly becoming unbearable.

"You can ask," she said, when she couldn't take it anymore.

"How long have you and Kara been together?" Alex asked.

"We're not," Maggie said. "Not technically."

"But you have feelings for her," Alex said.

"I'm in love with her," Maggie said. "I don't think I've ever loved anyone the way I love her."

"Not even me?" Alex asked.

"No. Not even you." Maggie sighed. "You know, if you'd asked me a few weeks ago, I would have said that you were the love of my life. But I didn't love you enough to change for you. I didn't love you enough to compromise. If I had, maybe we'd still be together. But four days ago, my boss gave me an ultimatum. Promise I would help bring in Supergirl, or hand in my badge. I handed in my badge. I gave up being a cop. I did it for her, and I don't regret it one bit. She made me realize who I am, and who I want to be, and I am the best version of myself when I'm with her."

"How did it happen?" Alex asked.

"You know part of it. I got caught in an ambush just after Thanksgiving. It was supposed to be a simple raid on a warehouse. Seize some of the IR masks from the Children of Liberty. It went south before we even made it into the building. Kara showed up and saved our asses. I was kind of a bitch to her, but you know Kara. She was nice, and she was kind. When the shit at Shelley Island went down, I called to check on her. She needed to someone to vent to about what happened, so we went out for donuts. We got to be friends. Then the mindwipe happened, and I found Kara shit faced in the back of Al's bar. She wouldn't let me take her back to her apartment, so I took her to mine and let her sleep it off. After that, she would come to me with all the stuff she couldn't go to you about. You threatening to arrest her. Lockwood being made the Director of Alien Affairs. It wasn't one sided either. She came to me after Valentine's day to make sure I was okay. She helped me talk through a lot of stuff. But I liked being there for her. I liked being the person she came to, or the person she called when she didn't want to be alone.

"Then, I watched her die. Or at least, I thought I did. Lex slammed that globe down on her, and it was like my whole world ended. I couldn't breathe, and it felt like someone had reached down my throat and was crushing my heart in their hand. When I found out she was alive, it was like the world started turning again. That's the day I realized I'm in love with her.

"I tried not to be. I didn't mean for it to happen. I didn't want it to happen. I didn't go looking for it. It just happened. I just looked at her and realized that I didn't want to live my life without her in it. But I didn't want to hurt you. I tried to tell myself it couldn't happen, that I couldn't be with her because it would hurt you. Because it would drive a wedge between the two of you, and losing each other would destroy you both, and I knew I couldn't do that. But then, you were standing there, telling me that she and I should be together."

"That's why you got so angry about it," Alex said.

"Yeah," Maggie said. "Because you were standing there, telling me I could have exactly what I wanted, but…"

"But you thought if I knew who Supergirl was, I wouldn't want the two of you to be together."

"Yeah. It was like the universe was playing some cruel joke on me. But the longer it went on, the more time Kara and I spent together, the more I started to hope."

"She has that effect on people."

Maggie laughed and nodded. "Yeah. Yeah, she does. I tried not to get my hopes up, you know, but I thought maybe when you got your memories back, I could just talk to you. Tell you how I felt and ask you if it would be okay."

"Does she know how you feel?" Alex asked.

"Seriously? Alex, I have not been subtle. I'm pretty sure Cat Grant has figured it out, and she'd four thousand miles away."

"She feels the same way?" Alex asked.

"It's not my place to say, but you need to have that conversation with Kara that she wanted to have when she got back from Kaznia."

"I can do that," Alex said. "In fact, I'll do that as soon as she and mom get home. Can I ask another question?"

"Of course."

"That night I went over to Kara's apartment and you were there…"

"We haven't slept together," Maggie said. "Or, well, that's all we… Fuck. We haven't had sex, if that's what you're asking."

"Yeah, I probably shouldn't have asked that."

"I suppose it's a fair question," Maggie said. "But some of this is hard to talk about because it's treading close to things that you really should hear from Kara."

"Right," Alex said. "Why didn't you say something before now?"

"I didn't have a chance. I realized how I felt about Kara the day Lex escaped. The next day, we were in Lena's apartment and you were telling me I should be with Supergirl. After that I couldn't exactly show up on your door and ask if it was okay if I took your sister on a date when you thought I was in love with someone else."

"Good point," Alex said. "I probably would not have reacted well to that."

"I'm a little surprised at how well you're reacting to this," Maggie said.

"Honestly, I am too," Alex said. "I think a lot of that is that I got to see the two of you together without knowing it was Kara. The way you are around her… You love her. You really, really love her."

"I do," Maggie said.

"I don't know if I could have seen that if I saw you and Kara together first. I think I might have just assumed it was you trying to get back at me for what happened."

"I wouldn't do that," Maggie said. "Alex…"

"I know," Alex said. "The thing is, something happened while you and Kara were in Kaznia."

"What?"

"I got a call from the adoption agency," Alex said.

"That's… That's great," Maggie said.

"No, not really," Alex said. "For about ten hours, I thought I was going to be a mom. But the birth mother… She changed her mind at the last second. I was sitting in a hotel room, picking out cribs and strollers and baby clothes, and the phone rang, and it just all got snatched away."

"God, Alex… I'm sorry."

Alex shook her head. "When it happened, it took me back to that night you left. It felt like all the progress I made was just stripped away. Everything I ever hoped for, everything I dreamed of was just gone, and all of that pain that came with losing you, all of the work I did to try and move on, it was all for nothing.

"When I got my memories back today, when I sat up there on that couch, holding Kara's hand, and watching the two of you, I remembered what that felt like, and I remember what you said the other night when you came over to borrow my gun. That Supergirl has someone who meant the world to her, and you weren't sure if they would be okay with you and her being together, and that you hoped they would understand how much she means to you."

"She means everything to me, Alex."

Alex reached out and took Maggie's hand in hers and gave it a small squeeze. "And she feels the same way. I know you can't say it, but I also know that if she didn't, we'd be having a very different conversation. I can't put the two of you through the kind of pain I went through when I realized I couldn't be with you. I love both of you two much for that. So, if this is what you want, and what she wants, then I'm okay with it."

"You are?" Maggie asked.

"I meant what I said that night, at Lena's apartment. I don't want you to hurt anymore. I want you to be happy. I want you to fall in love, and have someone who's there for you, and who loves you, and who makes you happy. I'm sorry I couldn't be that person for you, but if that person is Kara, I can't think of anyone I would trust more with your heart, and I can't think of anyone I would trust more with hers."

"You know, Danvers, you never cease to amaze me," Maggie said.

"Well, I am pretty great."

"Yes, you are," Maggie said.

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"There," Kara said as she slipped the last hinge pin into place. "Good as new."

Eliza made a non-committal noise that let Kara know she'd probably spend the weekend repainting the whole room, despite the fact that the doors were an exact match, color wise, for the old ones. It wasn't anything new. Half the house had been repainted five or six times by the end of the first year Kara had lived there. It was something Eliza needed to do to feel like the damage had really been erased, and Kara had stopped trying to understand it a long time ago.

"You sure you've gotten all the glass up?" Eliza asked.

"Yes," Kara said, knowing it wouldn't stop Eliza from vacuuming at least three more times.

"Okay," Eliza said. "Thank you, sweetie."

"I'm sorry I didn't warn you about her," Kara said. "It never even occurred to me that she might go after you."

"It's okay, sweetie," Eliza said. "You got here in time."

"But she could have hurt you. She could have killed you."

Eliza sighed. "Sweetheart, there's a conversation I used to have with Clark back when we spent a lot of time together. He used to blame himself for not anticipating the things his enemies would do, like you're doing now. I'll tell you what I told him. It's easy for an evil man to anticipate what a good man will do, because an evil man will feel no horror at the possible choices a good man will make. It's hard for a good man to anticipate what an evil man will do because the mind of someone who feels compassion, empathy, and love will recoil in horror at the possible choices an evil man will make. You couldn't anticipate Lex sending her after me, because you would never go after someone through their family."

"But I knew he would go after Alex and Maggie," Kara said.

"That's different," Eliza said. "They're right there with you in National City. They're in the middle of the fight. They're a threat to him."

Kara sat down on the sofa and scrubbed her face with her hands. "I still feel like I'm not doing enough."

Eliza sat down next to her and hugged her tightly. "I know sweetie. You always feel that way. Because you have a good heart, and you can't stand to see people suffering."

"I just don't understand how people can be filled with so much hate."

"I wish I had an answer for you, but I don't. I'm just glad you and Alex are okay."

"I'm glad you're okay too."

"I was surprised to see Maggie," Eliza said. "I didn't know you and Alex still talked to her."

"It's mostly just me," Kara said. "We… We're close."

"Oh," Eliza said, in a tone that made it clear she understood what Kara was saying. "How did that happen?"

"I ran into her at a crime scene right after Thanksgiving. We started talking after that, and it was nice. Having someone I could talk to about things that I couldn't go to Alex or J'onn with. After J'onn wiped Alex's memories, she was the only one I could really go to about things. I don't think I would have made it through all of this without her."

"Does Alex know?"

"She knew Maggie had feelings for Supergirl, which means she knows Maggie has feelings for me. I don't know if she realizes that I feel the same way," Kara said.

"Then I think maybe you should go have a talk with your sister," Eliza said.

Kara closed her eyes as a lump of dread settled into her stomach, because there was a very real chance that when she had that conversation, she would lose Alex, or Maggie, or both, and she didn't think she would survive any of those.

"It will be okay, sweetheart," Eliza said.

"Promise?" Kara asked.

"I promise," Eliza said. "Your sister loves you. It might take her a little time to adjust, but she will."

"Last time she needed a little time to adjust, it took four years," Kara said.

"I think it was closer to five months," Eliza said. "She met Maggie in October, and she came out to everyone by Valentine's day."

"Given that I'm about to go ask if she minds if I date the girl she came out for, that's not really comforting."

"Yeah. Now that I think about it, bringing that up probably wasn't my finest moment as a mother," Eliza said.

Kara laughed and shook her head. "It wasn't as bad as that time you forgot to tell us you were going out of town for a conference and then didn't answer your phone for three days."

"It's been more than a decade, Kara. You and Alex need to let it go."

"We thought you'd been kidnapped."

"Kara…"

"Alex was going to call the FBI."

"Go talk to your sister, before I forget the recipe for Chocolate Pecan Pie."

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Kara peeked over the staircase railing and looked into the kitchen. She saw Maggie and Alex both sitting at the table with a drink in front of them.

"You can come down now, Kara," Alex said.

Kara sighed and walked down to the bottom of the stairs, then headed into the kitchen.

"How do you always do that?" Kara asked as she walked over to the fridge to get herself a bottle of sparkling water.

"I'm just that good," Alex said.

"She could see your reflection in the kitchen window," Maggie said.

Alex glared at Maggie. "You sold me out!"

Maggie shrugged. "My allegiance has changed."

Kara sat down next to Maggie, who reached over and took her hand, threading their fingers together.

"Alex and I had a long talk while you and Eliza were out," Maggie said.

"Really?" Kara asked.

"Yeah," Maggie said. "I figured there were some things she needed to hear from you, but she knows most of it, and she's okay. We're okay."

Kara closed her eyes and let out a sigh of relief as the knot of dread in her stomach slowly untangled itself. Maggie gave her hand a small squeeze.

"Do you want me to leave while you and Alex talk?"

Kara looked over at Alex. "Is it okay if she stays?" Kara asked.

Alex smiled at her. "Of course."

Kara took a deep breath. "So, um… Krypton. Yeah. I should start with Krypton, because that's where all of this started, really. I mean, that's where I started, and you know, social and cultural norms were different there. Like, parents would start looking for a future mate for their children around eleven or twelve to give them time to make sure the betrothal could happen by the time we were fourteen."

"I remember you mentioning something about that," Alex said. "But you told me you weren't betrothed."

"I wasn't," Kara said. "But I had this friend. Thara Ak-Var. I adored her. We spent all of our free time together. She was from one of the minor houses, but I asked my father if he could arrange for us to be betrothed."

"You wanted to marry a girl?" Alex asked.

"Thara was my best friend," Kara said. "We knew each other so well we could finish each other's sentences. I couldn't imagine ever being that close to someone else. It wasn't a common practice for a child to express such a desire. Most Kryptonians never met their spouse before the betrothal ceremony. But the House of El was always a bit odd about such things. There was never a formal commitment, but there would have been, if Krypton hadn't exploded."

"Why didn't you ever tell me?" Alex asked.

"Because it hurt too much," Kara said. "In a way, losing Thara hurt more than losing my parents. I got to say goodbye to my mom and my dad. The last thing I said to Thara was that I'd see her at our next lesson."

Kara tried to swallow the lump that was forming in her throat. She felt Maggie slip an arm around her and leaned into it. The feel of Maggie pressed against her side made the ache forming in her chest lesson a bit.

"By the time I could even think about talking about Thara, I'd picked up enough Earth culture to know that humans were weird about sexuality, and you, Jeremiah and Eliza all kept telling me to act normal, to blend in, so I just pushed it down, kept it to myself. I ruled out the idea that I might want to be with a woman, because it would stand out and attract attention."

"Why didn't you tell me when I came out?" Alex asked.

"Because it felt like it would be something else I was taking from you," Kara said. "You found this piece of yourself, and I just wanted you to have that. I wanted for once in our lives, for you to have something that was just yours. Something you didn't have to share with me."

"Oh, Kara," Alex said. "I wish you had told me. It would have made it easier, knowing you understood."

"I'm sorry," Kara said.

"No," Alex said. "I'm the one who should apologize. Mom and I always told you to be normal, to blend in. I don't think either of us realized how much of yourself you cut off to do that. Kara, I am so sorry you had to carry all of that alone."

"I almost told you. After the Daxamite invasion, I almost told you. But then Cat took the job as Press Secretary, and there didn't seem to be any point."

"Where you and Cat…?"

"No," Kara said. "I cared for her, and when she came back, I thought maybe we could be, but she left again, and I just didn't see the point."

"But then you developed feelings for Maggie," Alex said.

"She does seem to have that effect on us Danvers women," Kara said.

"Maybe we should keep her away from mom."

"Hey, it's not my fault Danvers women have no chill," Maggie said.

"It kind of is, actually," Kara said.

"I've got to agree with Kara on this one."

Maggie laughed and shook her head but didn't hide the faint blush creeping up her neck. Kara had to force herself to look away, before she leaned on and kissed her.

"So, um… How do you identify?" Alex asked.

"Pansexual," Kara said.

"And you want to be with Maggie?"

"Yeah," Kara said. "When I saw her back in November, I told her she was still family, and when she reached out a few days later, I wanted to make good on that. We started talking, and I really needed someone to talk to. There was so much going on, and I knew that you and J'onn were blaming yourselves for things, and I didn't want to add to that. Maggie was someone who would listen and help me sort through my own feelings. She made me feel like it was okay to have those feelings, like I didn't have to be perfect. And she made me feel like I could be me, and she would still love me.

"I'm not human, Alex. I think most people forget that, because I look so much like you, because I've spent so long trying to blend in and pretend. But I grew up in a culture that had a very different view on what a relationship should be. On Krypton, relationships were partnerships. They weren't about lust and passion. They were about people coming together, sharing burdens, caring for each other in times of need. Your partner is meant to be a source of strength and comfort.

"That's what Maggie has been to me. A safe space. Someone who cares for me. Someone who lets me be Kara Zor-el. That's why I fell in love with her. The romance, the passion, the desire, all of those things are there, and they're amazing, but she makes me feel at home."

"Why didn't you tell me the two of you were spending time together?" Alex asked.

"I didn't want to hurt you," Kara said. "I know how hard you struggled to get over Maggie, and you were doing so good. You were dating, and you were working on your adoption portfolio, and you weren't hurting. Not like you had been. I was afraid if I brought up Maggie, it would send you into a spiral. And I'd only seen her a few times before the mind wipe happened, and when it did, I didn't know how to tell you, because I didn't know any way to explain it that didn't involve Supergirl, so I started hiding it. Do you remember that day you came over with breakfast, and I wasn't home?"

"Vaguely. You said you spent the night at Nia's."

"That was the day after the mind wipe," Kara said. "I got drunk that night. Maggie found me at Al's bar, and she took me back to her apartment, because I couldn't stand the thought of going home. She spent the night with me after you threatened to arrest me on Parthas."

"I'm sorry," Alex said.

"Thank you," Kara said.

"When did you realize you had feelings for Maggie?" Alex asked.

"After the protest," Kara said. "We were talking, and I realized I wanted to kiss her and I kind of freaked out and panicked and ran away. I spent an hour just freaking out, trying to convince myself that nothing could happen, that I could stuff my feelings in a box and just ignore them the way I did for Cat. But then James got shot that night and Lex escaped and I just… I didn't really have time to get used to my feelings, to figure out how to bottle them up, and Maggie asked to see me after the fight with Lex, and she was upset because she thought Lex had killed me and I kissed her-"

"I kissed you," Maggie said.

"No, I kissed you," Kara said.

"You kissed. I've got it," Alex said. "Moving on."

"Right. So, yeah. We kind of did this whole 'we can't do this because of Alex' back and forth for a while, but with everything going on, we were together all the time, and it just got harder and harder and finally, we decided to talk to you about it when you got your memories back, and now, here we are."

"So, you just kissed the one time?" Alex asked.

"Um… No?"

Alex laughed and shook her head.

"You're not mad?" Kara asked.

"No," Alex said. "Kara, I love you, but I also know that you have the self-control of a kid in a candy store with her parent's credit card."

"That was one time!" Kara said.

Alex looked at Maggie. "It was one time, and five hundred dollars in chocolate."

"Eliza said food was okay. Chocolate is food," Kara whined.

Alex reached across the table and grabbed Kara's free hand. "Kara, I've already said this to Maggie, but I need to say it to you. I could never put the two of you through the kind of pain I went through when I realized I couldn't be with Maggie. I love both of you too much for that. So, if this is what you want, and what she wants, then I'm okay with it."

"Really?" Kara asked.

"Really," Alex said. "I'm not saying that it's not going to take some getting used to, but I really want both of you to be happy. So, just promise you'll be patient with me?"

"Of course," Kara said.

"And on that note, I'm going to head to bed," Maggie said. "Do you guys have a guest room, or something?"

"No," Alex said. "If you don't mind sharing with Kara, our bedroom is down the hall from the den on the left. Kara's bed is the one on the left as you go in."

"You're sure you're good with that?" Maggie asked.

"Cuddling only," Alex said.

Kara felt her cheeks heat up, but Maggie just laughed. She leaned in and pressed a kiss to Kara's cheek. "I love you."

"I love you too," Kara said.

Maggie stood up. "Don't stay up too late. We have a government to topple tomorrow."

"I won't," Kara said.

Maggie smiled as she walked around the table. She leaned down and pressed a kiss to Alex's temple. "I love you, too."

"I love you," Alex said. "We'll be up in a few minutes."

Kara watched as Maggie disappeared up the stairs, then turned back to Alex.

"Thank you," Kara said.

Alex nodded. "Just promise me you'll take better care of her than I did, okay? I don't think I could stand to see her get her heart broken again."

"I promise," Kara said.

"Good," Alex said. "I'm giving you ten minutes to kiss her goodnight before I come upstairs. Starting…"

Kara was upstairs before Alex got the 'now' out.

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March 31, 2019

Kara woke up slowly, which was unusual for her on a morning when she had to work. The first thing she was aware of what the scent. It was familiar. It smelled a bit like suntan oil, heavy on the coconut, but it wasn't. Shampoo. She smelled a whiff of a coconut scented shampoo. It was faint, faded, a couple of days old, but still there. Warmth came next, and with it, softness. She was pressed against someone's side, and there was an arm wrapped around her, and her arm around someone. She snuggled closer, smiling at the contact that soothed away the worry at the edge of her awareness. Sound was next. Two heartbeats, one close by, another further way. Air in and out of lungs two sets of lungs. The soft rhythm of sleep. The heartbeats were familiar, comforting. They made her feel safe.

She lingered there, on the edge of wakefulness, reluctant to let the morning claim her and take her away from warmth and comfort. She knew she shouldn't, she should be up and around, but she listened, and there were no sirens calling her, nothing demanded Supergirl's attention. She could be Kara for a few moments longer. Not Kara Danvers, not the mask she wore every day, but Kara Zor-El. Her truest self. A few moments without any of the masks she wore was a temptation hard to resist.

Minutes passed, stretching out as she drifted in and out of sleep, happier and more content then she could remember being in a long, long time. Like all the happy moments in her life, it came to an end before she was ready for it to. The heartbeat so close to her ear changed, and with it the tempo of the breathing of the person she was cuddled up to. Sleep became wakefulness, and Kara sighed as she was dragged up into the waking world against her will.

Kara looked up to see Maggie smiling at her.

"Morning, sleepy head," Maggie said.

"Morning," Kara said before she leaned up and kissed Maggie.

"NO KISSING!" Alex called from the other bed, which made Kara and Maggie both break down laughing.

"Sure," Alex said. "Mock my pain."

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"Are you sure you're ready to go back?" Eliza asked.

"We don't have any choice, Mom," Alex said. "We need to take Lex down before he gets more than a foothold at the White House, or we may never be able to remove him.

"Alex is right," Kara said. "The sooner this is over, the better."

"So, do we have a plan?" Maggie asked as she sat down at the table next to Kara.

"Finish breakfast, then meet Lena and Brainy at Lena's office," Kara said. "They're expecting us in about an hour."

"And from there?" Maggie asked.

"We publish my article," Kara said. "Lena owns CatCo, which means we can access the CatCo servers from her office. With her access key, I can bypass editorial, and push the article straight out to the live servers and send out notifications to everyone who's subscribed."

"Good plan," Maggie said. "That still-"

Kara's phone rang, cutting Maggie off. She pulled it out of her boot, and checked the caller idea, surprised to see Cat's name. She hit the accept button.

"Hey, Cat," Kara said.

"Lucy, Susan and I are touching down in National City in five minutes. Where are you?" Cat asked.

"We're in Midvale," Kara said.

"What the hell are you doing in Midvale?" Cat asked.

"Right now, hiding," Kara said. "Lex knows my secret identity. We stayed here last night so he would think I'm dead."

"Meet me at CatCo as soon as possible," Cat said. "We need to end this."

"NO!" Kara said. "Lex is watching CatCo. If he sees you there, he might react."

"Then what do you suggest?" Cat asked.

"We're headed for Lena's office at LCorp. We should be there within the hour."

"Okay," Cat said. "Do you have a plan?"

"I do," Kara said.

"Be careful," Cat said.

"You too," Kara said. She ended the call. "Cat, Susan and Lucy are going to meet us at Lena's."

"Then we should get going," Alex said.

"Yeah, before we do, there's actually a couple of things you should know," Kara said.

"What things?"

"Lena and Nia both know I'm Supergirl and Nia is Dreamer."

"Oh," Alex said. She frowned for a moment. "Okay, the Dreamer thing explains a lot."

"You're not mad that I told Lena?" Kara asked.

"No," Alex said. "Kara, it's your secret. You're the one who gets to choose who to tell and who not to tell. No one else. Now, come on. We have a world to save."

"Can I finish breakfast first?" Kara asked.

---

Maggie leaned back against the back wall of the elevator as they rode up to the top floor of the LCorp building. She was holding Kara's hand, their fingers laced together, and Maggie couldn't quite believe how calming the simple contact was. Or how good the smiled on Alex's face as she watched them felt. There was still so much to do, so many obstacles in their way. Exposing Lex, clearing Kara's name, bringing down Lockwood, getting the alien amnesty act reinstated. Undoing the damage that Lockwood's propaganda had done. It would be years before the world really recovered from what had happened, even if Kara was able to bring down the entire corrupt administration. But somehow, that fight didn't seem like it was going to be so bad. Not when she knew that she and Kara would be together. Not when she knew that she was going to get to have a future with the woman she loved.

The elevator stopped, and Maggie glanced over at Kara.

"You ready?" Maggie asked.

"Yeah," Kara said. "Let's do this."

The door slid open, and the three of them headed for Lena's office. Lena's new assistant looked up at them and waved them through. They found a small crowd waiting for them inside Lena's office. Lena, Brainy, Cat, Lucy and Susan.

"Cat!" Kara said as she rushed forward. Cat opened her arms, and Kara stepped into them, hugging her tightly, and Maggie could see the relief on Cat's face.

"It's good to see you," Kara said.

"It's good to see you too," Cat said before she let go of Kara and stepped back. "If you ever scare me like that again, you're fired."

Kara laughed. "You can't fire me, Cat."

"You want to bet?" Cat asked.

Lucy and Alex both choked down a laugh, and Maggie couldn't stop herself from smiling. Even Susan had a grin on her face.

Kara just pulled Cat into another hug. "I really missed you."

"I missed you too," Cat said.

Kara let go of Cat and half turned. "You remember my sister Alex."

"Of course," Cat said.

"It's good to see you again, Ms. Grant," Alex said.

"And this is my girlfriend, Maggie," Kara said. She held out her hand, and Maggie stepped forward and took it.

"Ms. Grant," Maggie said.

Cat took her time looking Maggie over, and it was all Maggie could do to fight the urge to squirm.

"Weren't you dating Alex the last time we met?" Cat asked.

"Yes," Maggie said.

Cat looked back to Kara. "I'm going to want to hear that story as soon as we have a free moment."

Kara nodded. Cat turned back to Alex for a moment, and Maggie looked over to see Alex give Cat a small nod. Cat turned to Maggie.

"I suppose your acceptable," Cat said. "Just don't disappoint us."

"I'll do my best," Maggie said.

"See that you do," Cat said.

"Cat, be nice," Kara said.

"How long have you known me?" Cat asked.

"It's okay, Kara," Maggie said. "I have a feeling Cat and I are going to get along just fine."

Kara looked at Cat again and narrowed her eyes. "Be nice," she said in a tone that was much more Supergirl that Kara Danvers. Then she turned to Lena.

"Girlfriend?" Lena asked.

Kara nodded. "Alex got her memories back, and we talked."

Lena walked over to Kara and pulled her into a hug. "I'm happy for you," Lena said.

"Are we okay?" Kara asked.

"We're okay," Lena said. "What about you? I heard that you had a run in with Red Daughter."

"I'm fine," Kara said. "The Secret Service scrubbed my evidence from the CatCo servers, but Maggie still has a backup."

"What kind of evidence do you have?" Lucy asked.

"Proof that Lex has been working with Kaznia, that he has a clone of Supergirl called Red Daughter and that she was the one who attacked the White House, and that the government gave Lex alien prisoners from the DEO desert facility," Kara said.

"Not just the aliens from the DEO facility. J'onn J'onzz, Dreamer, and I have discovered that Lex has been transferring aliens rounded up by Ben Lockwood and bringing them to a private facility, where he's been siphoning their powers," Brainy said.

"My God! Where is this facility?," Kara asked.

"That information is forthcoming," Brainy said.

"Is that where J'onn and Dreamer are?" Alex asked.

"Hopefully. They have been abducted," Brainys said.

"What?" Lena asked.

"Dreamer's in danger?" Cat asked, a note of panic in her voice. Maggie turned to look at her, and Cat's face was completely ashen. "Why didn't you feel the need to share that information with us before now?"

"That is a rather strong emotional reaction for such an insignificant detail. Our plan is to save the aliens. Those aliens will simply include J'onn and Dreamer," Brainy said.

Cat turned to Kara. "I liked Winslow better than Barmy here. Can we trade back?"

Before Kara could answer, Lena's assistant walked into the office. "Excuse me, Ms. Luthor, this came for you," she said, holding out a large envelope.

Lena took the envelope. "Thank you," Lena said as she opened it.

"What is it?" Alex asked.

"It's an invitation to the White House from Lex," Lena said.

"Lena, you can't possibly be thinking of going," Kara said.

"If I don't go, Lex will come after the people I care about, and I can't have that happen," Lena said.

"Lena, we can take care of ourselves," Kara said.

"I know," Lena said, "but I need to buy you time to write the article, time for you to get it out there, and time for you to find Dreamer and J'onn."

Kara looked over at Maggie, and Maggie could see the desperation on her face.

"Lena, you don't have to go. This is all going to be over in a few minutes," Maggie said.

"I do," Lena said. "You know I do." She turned to Kara. "There's an upgrade for your suit in the top drawer of my desk. Write the article. Make it a good one."

"I will," Kara said.

Maggie watched as Lena walked out of the office, closing the door behind her.

"Kara, get started on the article," Maggie said as she handed Kara the thumb drive with all of the evidence on it. "Brainy, we need a location on the alien detention facility."

"We also need a way to extract the Harul-El from Lockwood," Alex said.

"I will have the location of the alien detention facility shortly. As for extracting the Harul-El from Lockwood, Lillian Luthor has developed a device to do so. I will use the time we have to make it portable."

"How many can you make?"

"As many as needed."

Maggie did some quick math in her head. "Do fourteen units. That way, everyone can carry at least two." She turned to Lucy. "If we send your dad the evidence, can he pass it on to people we can trust?"

"Yeah," Lucy said. "He knows a few people in the DOJ and the Cabinet we can trust."

"Good," Maggie said. "Alex, we're going to need weapons. Can you get to the armory at the DEO?"

"I'm on it," Alex said. "Susan, come with me."

"Yes, ma'am," Susan said.

"Ms. Grant, can we have a word in private?" Maggie asked.

"It doesn't seem like I have anything else to do," Cat said.

"Then let's see if Lena's assistant can find us an empty conference room."

---

"Well?" Kara asked.

Cat looked up from the article, and Maggie had to bite back a smile at the look of pure adulation on Cat's face as she looked at Kara.

"This is brilliant, Kara," Cat said. "This is the kind of journalism that I dreamed of when I founded CatCo."

"You really think so?" Kara asked.

"I do," Cat said.

"She's right, Kara," Alex said. "This is historic. Okay, people are going to be talking about this article like they did with Woodward and Bernstein."

"But will they listen to it?" Kara asked.

Maggie reached out and rested a hand on Kara's shoulder, and Kara looked up at her.

"They will," Maggie said. "Cat and Alex are right. This is going to change the world. Now, hit send, and let's take these bastards down."

Kara smiled and reached for the mouse. Maggie watched as she pressed the publish button on CatCo's content management system. The confirmation screen came up, and Maggie's phone chimed. She pulled it out and saw the alert she'd set for any time Kara published an article and tapped on it. It pulled up the front page of CatCo's site, and there, is black and white, was Kara's headline. 'How Lex Luthor Divided and Betrayed America.'

Maggie felt a swell of pride in her chest as she looked at Kara, who was smiling up at her. She couldn't stop herself from leaning down and kissing her.

"Oh, come on! I'm standing right here," Alex said, but when Maggie looked at her, she has an amused grin on her face.

"Get used to it, Danvers," Maggie said.

"You really should," Lucy said. "They're worse than a couple of teenagers."

Maggie glared at Lucy.

"Please don't give me any details," Alex said.

"Task executed," Brainy said. "Lillian Luthor's extraction device is now mobilized. We can use it to extract the Harun-El from Ben Lockwood's system whenever and wherever we encounter him."

"Great," Alex said. "We can use it to extract the Harun-El from James."

"True, but first, the time is exactly now," Brainy said.

"Time for what?" Cat asked.

"If my calculations are correct, Dreamer has just astral projected into this office," Brainy said. "If she is here. She is wondering in this exact moment how she can contact us. Because an astral projectee can place themselves in any environment, but they cannot interact with that environment."

"So how is this a good plan?" Alex asked.

"Dreamer's astral projection is pure dream energy, and as such, while she cannot interact with us, she can interact and ionize other energy. Electrons to be exact." Brainy walked over to the window, and exhaled, fogging up the glass. "Dreamer, concentrate your energy on the molecules in this water vapor, and ionize it."

"I think he means to write on it," Kara said.

Maggie watched as letters appeared on the window. 'Shelly islan'

"Shelley Island. Of course," Brainy said.

"She didn't finish the message," Maggie said. "She's in trouble."

"We need to go," Kara said.

"Brainy, take Cat with you to CatCo. Get James, have him bring his shield, and meet us at J'onn's," Maggie said. "Kara, I still have the extrapolator. We need to go to J'onn's and pick up some gear. Then we'll all breach to Shelley Island."

---

Maggie, Alex, Susan and Lucy were the first ones through the breach. Kara had argued, but Maggie had pointed out that with the inhibitor pylons in play, Kara, James and Brainy would be at a disadvantage, but they were used to fighting without powers. Plus, they were all wearing one of Winn's personal shields, and packing serious firepower raided from the DEO armory. Kara, Brainy and James were only a step behind them.

"The inhibitor pylons are offline," Kara said. "I still have my powers."

"Keep the yellow sunlight grenades handy incase they come back on," Maggie said.

Kara nodded.

Brainy walked over and opened one of the access panels on the pylon and hacked into the system with a wave of his hand.

"Where are J'onn and Dreamer?" Kara asked.

"It appears they're in the middle of a riot. What's worse, the alien power being collected in this factory, Lex has it set up to be discharged into a Claymore satellite," Brainy said.

"Claymore? I... I destroyed that," Kara said.

"This appears to be a newer, bigger, better Claymore," Brainy said.

"Can you tell where it's targeting?" Kara asked.

"The target is in deep space. Argo City," Brainy said.

"He's going to wipe out my family," Kara said.

"Like hell," Maggie said. "Brainy, can you tell where the satellite is?"

"I have its exact coordinates, but if it is your intention to send Supergirl to destroy the Satellite, it will not work. This satellite has a shield surrounding it which Supergirl will not be able to penetrate before the Satellite fires."

"When what do we do?" Kara asked.

"I may be able to hack into the power core and stop it."

"Okay," Kara said. "You do that. The rest of us will help J'onn and Dreamer."

Brainy nodded, then shot into the sky.

"Let's go find J'onn and Dreamer," Alex said.

The six of them started towards the building but stopped almost immediately when they heard a voice should, "Supergirl!"

Maggie turned around and saw Lockwood coming out of the trees with eight children of Liberty following him. Maggie turned to Alex.

"Me and my friends came here to deal with Luthor and the dangerous aliens that he brought here. But I'm so glad you came here too," Lockwood yelled.

Maggie looked over at Alex, who gave her a small nod. Both of them turned back to the children of liberty, drew their weapons, and fired. Lucy and Susan apparently had the same idea, because four of the Children of Liberty dropped like stones. One from the blast of the alien gun Maggie was using, one from the electric rounds in Alex's pistol, and two under the stun rounds from the DEO rifles. A second later, four more dropped as they fired again, and then off four of them hit Lockwood at once. He didn't go down though. He just staged back.

"I've got him," Kara said. She was across the distance between them in a blink, moving at super speed, and as she laid into him, Maggie spotted all the signs of Alex's fighting style. Kara had Lockwood down in three moves, and before he could get back up, she jammed one of the Harun-El extractors into his neck.

"We should hit the rest of them," Maggie said. "He said they were supercharged. He may have given them a half dose or something."

"Good call," Alex said. "Zap them and zip tie them. We'll clean up the mess later."

Before they could do either, an explosion knocked all of them but James and Kara from their feet. Maggie turned to see a Lexosuit in the air above them, just as another blast went off.

"It's Lex," Kara said.

"Go!" Alex shouted.

Kara leapt into the sky and shot after Lex.

Maggie climbed to her feet, activated James's shield, and ran after them without a backward glance.

---

Kara and Lex crashed through the window of one of the upper floors of the Shelley Island complex. The impact broke them apart as they rolled across the floor and the ended up on opposite sides of the room. Both of them scrambled to their feet. Lex's suit retracted until he was just wearing the gauntlets, but with the Harun-El in him, that didn't make a lot of difference.

"How are you alive? How did you do it?" Lex screamed.

"How do you think I did it?," Kara asked. "I'm Supergirl."

"Just like your cousin. No matter how many times I stamp you out, you miraculously resurface with your glossy cape and your perfect hair."

"Let me let you in on a little secret, Lex. Truth and justice always prevail."

Lex gave a derisive laugh. "You and your cousin are such saps. Luckily, I came prepared." He touched a button on his gauntlets, and both of them lit up with the sickening green glow of Kryptonite radiation, and Kara felt the familiar burn.

"So did I," she said as she reached up and pressed the emblem on her suit, deploying the anti-Kryptonite armor Lena had built for her. "You can thank your sister for this."

Lex let loose with a blast of Kryptonite, but Kara blocked it, and rushed him. Lex zipped out of the way using his Harun-El given speed and fired again, but the chase was on, Kara rushing, Lex retreating. She chased him around and around the room, dodging blast after blast. The two were locked in a stalemate. Kara could never get close enough to bring him down, but she also couldn't return fire with the face shield in place, and the moment she opened it, the Kryptonite radiation would hit her full force.

Kara rushed him again, and he slipped aside and fired his canon, but Kara was ready, and dodged, right into a blast from the canon on his other arm. The hit sent her staggering, and the suit's alarm sounded, telling her the hit was more than the suit could shield her from. She found feel a hint of the Kryptonite burn seeping in as she staggered back.

"That's better," Lex said. "Now smile and take this like a Kryptonian."

Lex's canon lit up with a bright green glow, and Kara braced herself, ready to take the hit, but two things happened at once. Maggie came out of nowhere and stepped into the line of fire with only James's Guardian Shield between her and Lex, and something slammed into Kara's side hard enough to knock her through the opposite wall.

Kara heard a scream, and she shoved whoever was on top of her aside and rushed back through the opening in the wall. Her heart stopped at the sight that greeted her. Maggie lay unmoving on the floor, sprawled on her side, shield still strapped to her left arm, which bent at an unnatural angle halfway between her elbow and wrist. The alien gun lay next to her right hand.

The room closed in on Kara, the walls pressing down on her, crushing the life out of her, but she felt strangely stretched out across time and space. She retracted the helmet of her armor, desperately gasping for breath. She was on a rooftop three years earlier as Astra bleed out in her arms. She was in a warehouse two years earlier, watching as Alex's lifeless body floated in a tank of water. She was on Fort Rozz a year and half ago as Leslie died in her arms. She was in Reign's fortress a year ago as Julia sacrificed herself to stop Pestilence, and a few weeks later as Reign killed her mother, Mon-El, and Sam, and she was in her pod, decades ago, watching as Krypton exploded.

It was too much. She couldn't lose Maggie. She couldn't.

She felt rage bubble up inside her. The universe did nothing but take and take and it was never enough. It just drank up her suffering and her tears and laughed at her for daring to think she could be happy. For daring to hope that she could have something that brought her peace and joy.

"Well, that was a surprise," Lex said.

Kara felt the rage inside her crystalized with a single focus and a single target, and for one shining moment, she understood that Lex had been the author of all of her suffering since she arrived on Earth. Lex was the reason Clark had abandoned her. He was the reason Jeremiah was taken from her. He was the reason Clark didn't train her, and if she'd been better trained, Astra might be alive. Without Lex there would have been no Cadmus. If she'd started training sooner, maybe she wouldn't have had to seed the atmosphere with lead. If she and Clark were closer, maybe they could have stopped the Worldkillers sooner by working together. If it wasn't for Lex, maybe the Kryptonians on Argo could resettle on Earth. If it wasn't for Lex, Marsdin would never have been outed, Fiona would still be alive, the atmosphere would never have been seeded with Kryptonite, Manchester would never have betrayed her, Ben Lockwood would never have risen to power, Haley would never have come to the DEO, she never would have been fired, Alex would never have had her mind wiped, never threatened to arrest her, never become a stranger. She never would have been framed for murder. Red Daughter never would have been Brainwashed. Maggie would be alive.

She screamed as she turned, unleashing the full power of her heat vision, blasting Lex backwards. He slammed into the far wall, the top of his suit burned away, and angry blisters already welling up on his chest. Kara saw fear in his eyes as he scrambled to hit the activation button for the full Lexosuit. Kara never gave him the chance. She blasted him in the face with her heat vision, slamming him against the wall again, then shot across the room. Before he could move, before he could react, Kara tore the Lexosuit gauntlets from his arms, ignoring his screams and the sound of breaking bones.

"You killed her!" Kara roared as she hit him again and again, screaming each time, until he was nothing but a bloody, gibbering mess on the floor, but she could already see the blisters fading and the wounds closing. She deactivated the anti-Kryptonite armor and pulled one of the Harun-El extractors from her belt and shoved it into his neck. He screamed as the device sucked the Harun-El out of him, suddenly feeling the pain of what Kara had done to him. When the device was finished, Kara threw him aside, slamming him into the wall with a satisfying crunch. He fell to the ground, moaning in pain, but not moving.

Kara turned back to Maggie, and what she saw fanned the flames of her rage. Red Daughter was kneeling over her.

"GET AWAY FROM HER!" Kara yelled as she rushed back to Maggie's side.

Red Daughter jumped back, her hands up in a submissive posture.

"I would not hurt her," Red Daughter said.

Kara glared.

"I would not," Red Daughter insisted.

Kara dropped down next to Maggie and reached out a trembling hand, wanting to touch her face one more time, but a familiar sound stopped her in her tracks. The double thump of Maggie's heartbeat came again, slow but steady, and Kara watched in wonder as her chest moved with each breath.

"She's alive," Kara said.

"Da," Red Daughter said.

Kara looked up at Red Daughter, at the woman who'd tried to kill her the night before, the woman who'd tried to attack Maggie the night before.

"How can I help?" Red Daughter asked.

"Alex is on the beach," Kara said.

Red Daughter nodded and was gone.

---

Warm. She felt warm. So warm, like she was soaking in a bath. For a moment, she worried that she'd dozed off in the bath. A stupid, dangerous thing to do, but no. She was in bed. She could feel stiff, scratchy sheets, and a hand holding hers. She opened her eyes slowly, but the room she was in was thankfully dim.

"Maggie," Kara whispered.

Maggie looked over to her right, and saw Kara there, tears in her eyes, looking at her like she'd just hung the moon. "There's my girl," Maggie said.

Kara laughed as tears spilled down her cheeks. "You scared the life out of me," Kara said.

Maggie tried to reach out with her free hand, but the moment she tried to move it, pain shot up her left arm and she let out a little scream.

"Don't move!" Kara said. "ALEX!" Kara squeezed her hand tightly. "You got really banged up. Just stay still."

Maggie nodded. "Still. Got it." She looked down at her left arm which was locked in a 3D printed ridged nylon cast. She could see would dressings under it.

"What happened?" she asked.

"You broke your arm four places," Kara said. "They had to pin it back together and attach steel plates."

"I guess it's a good thing chicks dig scars," Maggie said. She looked back over at Kara. "I feel all warm and floaty."

"That would be the Dilaudid," Alex said. "Or maybe the concussion. Hard to tell."

Maggie looked over at the door and say Alex standing there with a worried look on her face.

"Hey, Danvers," Maggie said.

"You scared the shit out of us," Alex said.

"Sorry," Maggie said. "But I had to look out for my girl."

"Your girl can look out for herself," Kara said.

Maggie looked over at her, and winced, because the back and forth was making her a little motion sick. "We run towards danger together, /,kahrah,/," Maggie said. "You promised."

"I did," Kara said. "But Alex is right. You scared me."

"Didn't mean too," Maggie said. "I just saw the Kryptonite laser, and I panicked."

"Well, you saved two people's lives. Mine, and Red Daughter's," Kara said.

"She's alive?" Maggie asked.

"Officially, no," Kara said. "Unofficially, it's a long story, but she's alive."

"Did we catch Lex?" Maggie asked.

Kara frowned and looked down, and Maggie felt a sinking feeling.

"We did," Alex said. "He's actually in the next room, where he's probably going to stay for the next six months or so."

"What happened to him?" Maggie asked.

"I lost control," Kara said. "I thought he killed you."

Maggie squeezed Kara's hand. "I'm right here, /,kahrah,/. I'm not going anywhere. Except maybe back to sleep."

"Are you tired?" Alex asked.

"Very," Maggie said.

"That would also be the Dilaudid," Alex said. "Or maybe the concussion. Hard to tell."

"Are you going to do that thing where you wake me up every five minutes?" Maggie grumped.

"No. You need the rest." Alex leaned down and pressed a kiss to Maggie's forehead. "Get some sleep." Alex looked over at Kara. "Five minutes."

Kara nodded, and Alex left them alone. Maggie looked back over at Kara.

"I'm sorry I scared you," Maggie said.

"When I saw you laying there…" Kara shook her head. "I don't know what I would do if I lost you."

"I'm hoping we never find out," Maggie said. "I love you, /,kahrah,/."

"I love you too," Kara said. She stood up, then leaned down and kissed Maggie softly. "I have some things to do. Get some sleep. I'll be back as soon as I can."

---

Stepping into Lena's basement lab at LCorp felt strange. The last time she'd been down here, she hadn't exactly been made to feel welcome, and seeing herself in the cage that Reign had been locked it didn't help. Even if it wasn't really her.

Red Daughter looked up at her, and Kara wasn't sure how to begin. Even with Alex there beside her, she felt uneasy.

"Is Maggie okay?" Red Daughter asked. Kara wasn't ready for how small and scared Red Daughter sounded in that moment.

"She's got a broken arm and a concussion, but she'll be fine," Kara said.

"Good," Red Daughter said. "Tell her I'm sorry. Tell her she was right. He was not… Alex."

"She called you Linda," Kara said.

"He gave me name to use while in America. Linda Lee. When Maggie asked what she should call me. I told her to call me Linda."

"Is that what you want me to call you?"

"Does not matter," Red Daughter said. "Could I… Could I see Maggie before you kill me?"

"We're not going to kill you," Kara said.

"You should. I killed people. Hundreds of people. Your people. I am enemy. Of you. Of America. You should kill me."

"No," Kara said. "Lex lied to you. He tricked you. He convinced you that Americans killed Mikhail. You saw how I reacted when I thought Lex killed Maggie."

"You did not kill," Red Daughter said. "Maggie was right. She said that you are best person she knows. She was wrong about me. There is no good in me. I killed innocent people. I lead Kaznia to slaughter. I deserve to die."

"No, you don't. You made a mistake. You can still make up for it. You can help people. You can be better."

Red Daughter looked at her for a moment, then dropped her eyes to the floor. "Please, I would like to see Maggie when she is able."

"I'll ask her," Kara said.

"Thank you," Red Daughter said.

---

"I hate leaving her down there," Kara said as she and Alex road the elevator up to the ground floor.

"I know," Alex said. "I hate it too, but I can't take her to the DEO. The moment I do, she's in the system, and your secret identity will be blown."

"She thinks we're going to kill her," Kara said. "Worse, she thinks she deserves it."

"That's not going to happen, but I don't know what to do with her, Kara. She's dangerous."

"I know," Kara said. "Maybe we could send her to Argo. She wouldn't have any powers there."

"That's an idea."

"I hate this," Kara said. "Every bad thing she did, she did because of Lex. He ruined her life before it even got started."

"It's not your fault, you know," Alex said.

"I know," Kara said. "I just wish we could give her the kind of life she deserves."

"We'll figure it out. I just know we're not leaving her in a cage in Lena's basement."

"Good," Kara said.

---

Maggie stumbled as she stepped into the elevator, but strong arms closed around her before she could fall.

"Are you okay?" Kara asked. "Do I need to take you back to the DEO?"

"No," Maggie said. "I'm fine. Just tired."

Kara looked over at Alex, and Maggie felt a mixture of annoyance and affection. Annoyance that Kara was double checking with someone else, and affection because it honestly felt great to have someone who cared so much about her wellbeing.

"It's the concussion and the pain killers," Alex said. "She'll be tired all the time for the next week or so. She may fall asleep randomly. She'll have trouble concentrating, and there may be some short-term memory loss."

"Are you sure it's okay for her to come home?" Kara asked as she hit the button for the fourth floor.

"As long as she isn't left alone, it will be fine."

Maggie smiled as she adjusted the sling holding her left arm. "Hear that? You have to spend the whole week with me. Doctor's orders."

Kara bent down and scooped her up, one arm under her back, and one arm under her knees. "I suppose I'll survive," she said.

Maggie looked over at Alex. "Close your eyes, Danvers."

Alex rolled her eyes and looked away. Maggie leaned up and kissed Kara, then rested her head on Kara's shoulder. "I love you," she said.

"I love you too," Kara replied.

Maggie was asleep before they reached the fourth floor.

---

"Are you sure she's okay?" Kara asked as she finished tucking Maggie into bed.

"I promise you, she'll be fine," Alex said. "I never would have let her leave the DEO if she was in any danger."

"I know. It' just… I've gotten so used to her being this little ball of energy and drive and seeing her like this is scary."

"I get it," Alex said. "When I saw her on the floor in that room… Believe me, I get it. But you and me, we're going to take care of our girl, and she's going to be around for a long, long time."

"I love you," Kara said.

"I love you too," Alex said.

"Thank you."

"For what?"

"For being okay with this. For…"

"Kara, I love both of you, and I want both of you to be happy. I'm not going to lie. It still hurts a little to see her with someone else, but it felt that way even when it was just Supergirl. I'm glad that it's you, because I know how fiercely you love, and I know that there's no one in the entire universe who will take better care of her. The fact that it's you makes it hurt less."

Kara pulled Alex into a hug, and Alex hugged her back just as hard as human arms could.

"Okay," Alex said a minute later as she broke the hug. "I'm going to run up to the Pharmacy and get her pain killers and antibiotics. Go ahead and order some dinner. Keep it mild. The pills might upset her stomach."

Kara nodded and reached for her phone.

---

April 1, 2019

Maggie woke up slowly, feeling a lot like she hadn't slept at all. When she was aware enough, she wondered if it was because she'd apparently fallen asleep sitting up. It was comfortable enough. There was an arm around her, and a fluffy blanket over her, and she had her head on a familiar shoulder. She opened her eyes and looked up.

"Um… You're not Kara," Maggie said.

Alex smiled and shook her head. "No, I'm not."

"Um… Where is she?"

"Putting out a fire down in South Bay," Alex said.

"Oh," Maggie said. "Sorry I um…"

"It's okay," Alex said.

"You sure?" Maggie asked. "I don't want to make you uncomfortable."

Alex pressed a kiss to her forehead. "Go back to sleep. Kara will be here when you wake up."

"What about you?" Maggie asked.

"If you want me to," Alex.

Maggie tightened her arms around Alex and snuggled closer. "I've missed you."

"I've missed you too."

Maggie closed her eyes and drifted off.

---

April 3, 2019

Maggie woke up to the sound of sharp, crisp knocking on Kara's door and Kara scrambling out of bed, cursing under her breath in Kryptonian.

"I've got it," Kara said. "Go back to sleep."

Maggie yawned and dropped her head down onto the pillow, which was ice cold because she'd been using a perfectly warm boob to rest her head. She decided, as Kara scrambled towards the door, that it was a good thing she had no idea where her guns were, because she would definitely shoot whoever had woken them up.

"Cat?" Kara asked, and Maggie opened her eyes again.

"Really, Kara. Still in bed? It's almost noon," Cat said.

She sighed, because shooting was out of the question. It if had been Lena, or J'onn, or Brainy, then sure. But shooting Cat would make Kara sad. Maggie reluctantly climbed out of bed and pulled on a robe when really, all she wanted to do was snuggle back up to Kara's boob and go back to sleep.

"I'm taking some time off work," Kara said.

"Yes, I heard. That hasn't stopped you from filing six stories in the last two days," Cat said. "Now, are you going to invite me on, or are you going to leave me standing in the hallway all day?"

"I'm sorry!" Kara said. "Come in."

"Thank you," Cat said.

Maggie finished getting her left arm in the sling, then stepped out of the alcove where Kara's bed was and gave Cat her best glare, which probably wasn't that good considering she was still half asleep and high as a kite on pain killers.

"Ah, just the woman I wanted to see," Cat said.

"Me?" Maggie asked.

"Yes," Cat said. "I wanted to let you know that I followed up on our little chat."

"And?"

"It's done."

"When?" Maggie asked.

"Seven weeks. I had to wait until the school year finishes."

"What are you two talking about?" Kara asked.

"My triumphant return to CatCo," Cat said. "Your girlfriend is quite persuasive when she wants to be. When she pulled me aside the other day, she pointed out that even if we brought down Lex, the damage he did to public opinion where aliens are concerned will take years to repair. She also pointed out that you and Nia couldn't do the work alone, and that I could do more to repair that damage as the head of CatCo than I could as a lobbyist in Washington. She also mentioned that LCorp might need an infusion of cash to help make up the damage Lex's embezzlement did, and she was right. I managed to buy the entire company off of Lena for two-thirds of what it's worth."

"You're coming back?" Kara asked.

"Yes," Cat said.

Kara wrapped Cat in a tight hug and picked her up, twirling her around as both of them laughed. Maggie smiled at the look of pure joy on Cat's face. She was a little surprised when Kara sat Cat down a moment later and rushed over to hug her.

"Thank you!" Kara said.

Maggie laughed and hugged Kara back with her good arm. "First rule of being a successful lesbian. Always give the ladies what they want."

Kara pulled back and stared at her for a moment, then leaned in and kissed her.

The kiss ended a minute later when Cat pointedly cleared her throat.

"If you two are done playing tonsil hockey, I have to head to the airport. I'll be back at the end of May. Kara, I expect you to be back at work by then."

"Of course, Ms. Grant," Kara said.

Cat turned to Maggie. "I heard you quit your job with the NCPD."

"I did," Maggie said.

"If you need something, I'm sure we can find a place for you," Cat said. "I hear you're quite the investigator."

"I'll think about it," Maggie said. "Thank you."

"Thank you for reminding me where I belong," Cat said, before turning and heading towards the door.

---

April 4, 2019

Maggie winced at the weird feeling of the thread sliding through her flesh as Alex pulled out the last stitch in her arm. What's worse is, she wasn't sure if she actually felt it, or if it was just her imagination filling it in. Either way, it was nails on a chalk board levels of disturbing, and she was really glad it was the last one.

Kara squeezed her hand. "I'm right here," she said. "It will be okay."

"There, all finished," Alex said as she dropped the stitch into the biohazard container.

Maggie looked at the long red lines where the incisions had started growing back together and sighed. "They're going to scar, aren't they?"

Alex nodded. "Probably," she said. "I'm sorry the incisions weren't cleaner, but your arm was really messed up."

"It's okay," Maggie said. "Just four more for my collection."

Kara leaned over and kissed her on the cheek. "You know, I have it on good authority that chicks dig scars."

Maggie laughed and turned to give Kara a kiss before she could pull away.

"Okay, let's get the cast back on before the two of you start acting like teenagers on prom night."

---

Maggie was stretched out on the couch with her head in Kara's lap, while Kara petted her hair, and she was pretty sure she never wanted to move again. Alex had downgraded her from the serious painkillers to Vicodin, so, instead of being practically comatosed, she felt floaty, and a bit like the whole world was wrapped in cotton. It was a wonderful feeling, made that much better by the fact that she could stay where she was pretty much as long as she liked. She had her girl, she had a comfy spot, a warm blanket, and absolutely nothing she had to do. It was a foretaste of heaven. Right up until she heard someone knock on the door.

"Ehhh… Why do people keep bothering us," Maggie grumbled as she curled in closer to Kara.

"I don't know," Kara said.

"Well, toss them into orbit, then come back and cuddle."

Kara laughed, which wasn't fair because Maggie was totally serious. She leaned down and kissed Maggie on the forehead.

"Let me up, love," Kara said.

"No," Maggie said, in a tone that would make a two-year-old sound reasonable and undemanding.

The knock came again.

"You know they're just going to keep knocking until we answer, right?" Kara asked.

"GO AWAY!" Maggie yelled.

"I know you're in there, Sawyer," came the response, and Maggie frowned, because she knew that voice. She sat up and glared at the door.

"Who is that?" Kara asked.

"Debbie," Maggie grumbled.

"I'm not leaving," Debbie shouted through the door.

Maggie sighed. "Let her in."

Kara got up and opened the door.

"Hello," she said.

"Hi," Debbie said. "You must be Kara."

"Yes," Kara said. "And you are?"

"Detective Debbie Teigal. NCPD Science Division. I work with Maggie," Debbie said. "I was hoping to talk to her."

Kara turned and looked at Maggie, and Maggie just nodded. Kara stepped aside to let Debbie in.

"Thanks," Debbie said. She walked over to Maggie. "You mind if I sit?"

"I think last time I told you I'd shoot you with your own gun if you didn't," Maggie said.

Debbie sat down, and a moment later, Kara sat down next to Maggie.

Debbie gave Kara a pointed look. "I wanted to talk to Maggie."

"I'm not stopping you," Kara said.

"Yeah, Debbie," Maggie said. "She's not stopping you."

Debbie rolled her eyes. "I want to talk to Maggie alone," she said.

"Anything you have to say to me, you can say in front of my girlfriend," Maggie said.

"She's your girlfriend now?" Debbie asked.

"Yeah," Maggie said. "Alex doesn't have a problem with it, so anyone who does can just fuck right off."

Debbie raised her hands in a placating gesture. "Sorry," she said.

"What are you doing here, Deb?" Maggie asked.

"Things are a little rough in the division right now," Debbie said. "After your girlfriend's article hit, people really started taking a look at the Children of Liberty. Turns out more than a couple of people in Science Division were chin deep in that shit."

"A police department full of racists and bigots? I'm shocked," Maggie said. "This is my shocked face."

"We're short about 8 detectives right now. Well, 9, really, since you quit. Isaacs…" Debbie reached into her pocket and pulled out a badge. "He was going to come himself, but I figured I needed to apologize too. You were right. Your girl was innocent. And we could really, really use your help. Isaacs said if you come back, you can have the Detective Sergeant slot. He'll even get you back pay to cover the time since you quit."

"Just like that, huh?" Maggie asked. "Just take my badge back and go out there and be a cop again."

"Yeah," Debbie said. "Isn't that what you want?"

"No," Maggie said. "Not even a little bit."

"Seriously?"

"Seriously," Maggie said. "You wanted me to hunt down someone I knew was innocent. You wanted me to drag in a woman who had done nothing but good, who has done nothing but help people, knowing she wouldn't get a fair trial, knowing no one would listen to any evidence. You didn't want justice. You wanted a lynching.

"You know, I spent years telling myself that I could make a difference being a cop. That I did more good than harm. That if it wasn't me, then it would be someone else, someone who would care less. That people were better for having me carrying that badge. But it's all bullshit. The whole system is corrupt. No body gives a damn about justice. They just want to close cases."

"That's not true!"

"Bullshit," Maggie said. "Lockwood and the Children of Liberty were out there rounding aliens up, putting them in concentration camps, handing them over to doctors who were experimenting on them. We stripped them of their rights, locked them away without trial, called them roaches and freaks. We treated them like monsters, but the truth is, we're the monsters. So no, I don't want any fucking part of it."

"So, what are you going to do?" Debbie asked. "You've been a cop for ten years. What, are you going to go be a security guard now? A mall cop? Or do you think your girlfriend is going to support you?"

"I could," Kara said.

"Right, kid," Debbie said

"Don't call her that," Maggie said. "She's seen things that would make you piss yourself."

Debbie scoffed. "Right."

Maggie shook her head. "You know, I've already had two job offers, and I've got enough money saved up that I don't need to take the first thing that comes along. I'll be fine." She looked over at Kara. "I have my family. That's all I need."

"You're making a mistake," Debbie said.

Maggie turned back to Debbie. "No. I'm making a better choice. And I think it's time for you to leave." She pointed at her badge. "And take that with you."

Debbie stood up. "Fine. But if you change your mind…"

"I won't," Maggie said.

Debbie huffed, but she didn't say anything else before she left. Kara followed her to the door, and locked it, then sat back down next to Maggie and put an arm around her.

"Are you okay?" Kara asked.

Maggie smiled. "Yeah."

"You know… I haven't said anything, because… well, because you've been stoned out of your mind the last few days, but also because I thought it might be too soon, but if you wanted to move in here, it would save you having to pay rent and utilities."

"I have money," Maggie said.

"I know," Kara said. "But…"

"Ask me again," Maggie said.

"Move in with me?"

"Why?"

"Because I love you, and the thought of not having you here with me is unbearable."

"Okay," Maggie said.

"Really?"

"Yeah," Maggie said. "I don't think I could leave if I wanted too. I can barely sleep without you next to me."

"I don't know. You were sleeping pretty hard the other day when Alex was here."

"A poor substitute for the real thing," Maggie said. Kara laughed, and Maggie leaned it to kiss her. "I love you, /,kahrah,/."

"I love you too."

---

"I'll get it," Maggie said. She closed the fridge, and walked over to the door, wondering how many more people were going to stop by unannounced today.

"Wait, I'll get it," Kara said.

"Kara it's okay," Maggie said, rolling her eyes. She'd had to argue for five minutes to be allowed to get herself a bottle of water. The overprotectiveness was cute, but also a bit ridiculous. She unlocked the door, and swung it open, only to find Lena standing there.

"Hey," Maggie said.

"Hey," Lena said. "Um… Is Kara in?"

"Yeah," Maggie said. "Come on in." She stepped back to let Lena into the apartment, then closed the door behind her.

"Can I get you something?" Maggie asked. "A bottle of water, a glass of wine?"

"No," Lena said. "I'm not really staying long."

Maggie stared at Lena for a moment, unease growing in the pit of her stomach. Something about Lena told her this wasn't going to be a pleasant visit. "Okay. Well, go ahead and have a seat."

"Thank you," Lena said. She walked over and sat down in one of the chairs across from the couch. Maggie went back and grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge, then took a seat next to Kara.

"What's wrong, Lena?" Kara asked.

"Um… I don't really know where to start," Lena said. "I presume Cat has already told you that I sold CatCo back to her."

"Yeah," Kara said. "She came by yesterday."

"Good. I'm glad that's out of the way. Normally I would have told you that I was selling it, but given who the buyer was, I thought you'd be happy, so…"

"Lena, are you okay?" Kara asked.

"No," Lena said. "I'm not. I mean, I tried to be. After you told me that you've been lying to me the entire time we've known each other, I tried to be okay with it. I tried to understand. But the truth is that I'm hurt. You lied to me for years, and you only stopped because you were afraid you were going to get caught."

"Lena, that's-"

"Please, stop. Just… Just let me finish. This is hard enough as it is." Lena closed her eyes and took a deep breath, and when she looked at Kara again, her eyes were distant. Not cold, but just far away. "I know you felt you had your reasons, and looking back, I can see how some of the things I've done might make it seem like I have something against aliens. But I trusted you, and you violated that trust. You lied to me. For years. And I'm not sure how to forgive that. I'm not sure if I can forgive that. But whether I can, or not, I would appreciate it if you don't contact me for a while."

"Oh," Kara said. "Okay."

"I'll see to it that you still have access to the basement lab, until you've made other arrangements for Red Daughter, but for the time being, I think it's best if we don't speak. If Supergirl needs my help, I'll provide it, of course. But I don't want to speak to Kara Danvers for a while."

Maggie glanced over at Kara, and saw the tears welling up in her eyes.

"I understand," Kara said.

"Can you… Can you pass the message along to your friends? Alex, James, Nia, Brainy and J'onn."

"Of course," Kara said.

Lena turned to Maggie.

"I'm guessing the same goes for me?" Maggie asked.

"Yes," Lena said. "I had the account for your cell phone switched into your name. It's paid for the next five years, but you'll find all of the log in information to manage it in your email later this afternoon."

"Thank you," Maggie said.

"I would appreciate it if you could make arrangements to move Red Daughter as soon as possible," Lena said.

"We will," Kara said.

"Then, I'll show myself out," Lena said.

They watched Lena go, and as soon as the door was closed, Maggie put an arm around Kara and pulled her close as she started to cry.

---

April 5, 2019

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Kara asked.

Maggie looked over at Kara and Alex, both of whom had worried looks on their faces.

"I'll be fine," Maggie said.

"She tried to kill you, Maggie," Alex said.

"Yeah, I do remember that part," Maggie said. "Look, she's in a cell, right?"

"Yeah," Alex said.

"So, no big deal. I go in there. I talk to her. See what she has to say. Then I go home and have dinner with my girlfriend."

Kara and Alex both gave her a dubious look, which was fair enough. Maggie was under no delusion that it would be anything close to that simple, but she just needed to get into the room with Red Daughter. Then she could figure out what to do next.

The elevator door opened, and Maggie stepped out. She followed Kara and Alex down a hallway to a reinforced security door, and Alex punched in a code. The door swung aside, and Alex stepped into the lab.

"Wow," Maggie said. "Really not digging the mad scientist vibe."

"I'm not that crazy about it either," Alex said. "But we couldn't really take her to the DEO. As soon as we did, she'd be in the system, and Kara's identity would be blown."

"I get that," Maggie said. "But this is creepy as fuck."

"No argument."

Alex lead the way over to the cell where Red Daughter was being held. Red Daughter looked up as they came around the corner.

"You came," Red Daughter said.

"Of course I did," Maggie said. "I'm sorry it took so long, but I've been on some pretty heavy pain killers."

"Are you well?" Red Daughter asked.

Maggie reached up with her right hand and tapped the sling holding her left arm. "Broken wing. Twice in six months."

"I'm sorry," Red Daughter said.

"Not your fault I stepped in the path of a death ray," Maggie said.

"I'm glad you are alive," Red Daughter said.

"So am I," Maggie said. "Kara said you asked to see me."

"I did. I wasn't sure if you would want to see me."

"Ah, well, you know me. Any time a pretty girl asks to see me, I'm there. Just don't tell Kara. She might get jealous."

Red Daughter got a confused look on her face. "She's standing right beside you."

Maggie smiled. "It's a joke," she said. She took a step towards the force field. "Why did you want to see me?"

"I wanted to apologize. You were right. Lex lied to me. He used me to destroy everything that mattered to me. I was fool. I… I am sorry I attacked you."

"I forgive you," Maggie said.

"You should not," Red Daughter said. "He told me, when he locked me in my pod, that I was foolish to ever trust him."

Maggie shook her head. "You never trusted him."

"Yes, I did."

"No," Maggie said. "You trusted Alex, and if there is one thing I know about /,kahrah,zor,el,/, it is that she will always trust Alex, on this world, or any other. And I can't say that is a bad choice. You trusted Alex, because every fiber of your being told you to trust Alex, even when you didn't know who Alex was. Lex took advantage of that. He pretended to be Alex. He pretended to be your family. He used you, and that is not your fault. He manipulated you, and that is not your fault. He kept you from people who would love you and take care of you, and that is not your fault. He turned you against them, and that is not your fault."

"But I hurt people for him. I killed for him."

"Yes, you did," Maggie said. "And nothing you or I or anyone else can say will change that."

"Then you should kill me. I should pay for what I've done."

"How does you dying help anyone?" Maggie said.

"Is justice," Red Daughter said.

"No," Maggie said. "You're as much a victim as the people you killed. You're as much a victim as Mikhail."

"You really think Lex had him killed?" Red Daughter asked.

"I'm as sure as I can be," Maggie said. "I imagine he'd even admit it, if you asked him."

Red Daughter squeezed her eyes shut, and tears rolled down her cheeks. "Why would he do this?"

"To make you hate us," Maggie said.

"Then it is my fault Mikhail is dead."

"No," Kara said. "It's no one's fault but Lex's."

Red Daughter looked up at Kara, then at Maggie, then finally on Alex.

"We met once, you know."

"We did?" Alex asked.

"In December. You came to Kara's apartment. You found me there, and thought I was her. You were surprised because she was supposed to be in Smallville. I lied. Said I forgot journal."

"That was you?"

"Yes. Lex brought me there to show me how she lived. I was supposed to leave, but I found journal. I started reading. I started to believe that Kara wanted to do good. That she had compassion, and empathy. I met Lena that day too. I started to doubt. And then… Then Mikhail died."

"I'm sorry," Alex said.

"It was not your doing," Red Daughter said.

Maggie looked around for a control panel, but she didn't see one, so she turned to Alex. "How do we turn this off?"

Alex looked at her for a minute, then turned around and picked up a tablet off a charging stand on the workbench. She touched a button on it, and the force field vanished.

"What are you doing?" Red Daughter asked.

"What someone should have done a long time ago," Maggie said as she walked over to Red Daughter and pulled her into a one-armed hug. Red Daughter hugged her back so hard that Maggie had a little trouble breathing, but she held on.

"I'm sorry," Red Daughter said. "I'm so sorry for everything I did."

"I know," Maggie said as she pulled back, breaking the hug. She took Red Daughter's hand. "Come on."

"But where will I go?"

"I don't know," Maggie said. "You don't belong in a cage."

"Maggie's right," Kara said. "You're family."

"And we take care of family," Alex said.

---

"This is mine?" Red Daughter asked.

"For now," Maggie said. "My lease is good through the end of September. After that, we can figure something else out."

"This is your apartment?" Red Daughter asked.

"Well, technically," Maggie said.

"But where will you live?" Red Daughter asked.

"With me," Kara said. "She was already planning on moving in."

Maggie didn't miss the surprised look on Alex's face, but decided that was a discussion for a later date.

"You're going to need a name," Alex said.

"Do you still want to be called Linda?" Maggie asked.

"No," Red Daughter said. "He gave me that name. I don't want it anymore."

"What do you want to be called?" Alex asked.

"I don't know. I never thought about it."

"How about Astra?" Kara asked.

Red Daughter looked over at her. "Astra?"

"I had an aunt named Astra," Kara said. "She was… she was wonderful. I loved her very much. But she was a lot like you. She made mistakes."

"What happened to her?"

"She died before she could fix things," Kara said. "But I think that she would have loved you. And I think she would be proud to have you carry her name."

"Astra," Red Daughter said, testing the name. She nodded. "I will be Astra."

Kara gave her a huge smile. "Astra Danvers," Kara said. "It has a nice ring to it."

Red Daughter… Astra looked at Kara in disbelief. "You would give me your family name?"

Kara looked over at Alex. Astra followed her gaze, and Alex smiled and nodded.

"You're family," Alex said.

Astra walked over and wrapped her arms around Alex so carefully it was as if she was afraid Alex would break, but the hug that followed was tight enough that Maggie saw Alex's feet leave the ground for a moment.

"Thank you… Alex," Astra said.

---

"That's the last of it," Kara said.

Maggie shook her head and patted the couch next to her. "You know, you could have waited until my arm was healed. I would have helped."

Kara came over and sat down, immediately wrapping an arm around Maggie and pressing a kiss to her temple. "I know, but I wanted it to be official. You're all moved in."

Maggie leaned into Kara and rested her head on Kara's shoulder. "You know you don't have to worry, right? I'm not going anywhere."

"I know," Kara said. "I'm just scared. Shelley island was hard. Seeing you… Thinking…"

"I know," Maggie said. "Believe me, I know."

"Can I ask you something?"

"Anything."

"When Debbie was here, you said you'd had two job offers."

"Honestly, I've had more than two," Maggie said. "I have standing offers from GCPD, HCPD, and CCPD, plus a hand full of offers from private security companies. It's just, I've only had two offers I'd seriously consider, because all of the others would take me away from National City, and I have a really good reason to stay here."

Kara smiled and gave her a small squeeze. "Good. Because if I have to chase you across the country when Cat is coming back, I'm going to be super grumpy."

"Well, we wouldn't want that," Maggie said. "You were here when Cat offered me a job, but J'onn offered me one too."

"He did?"

"Yeah. We spent a lot of time talking that night you went to DC. He's got a lot more work coming in than he can handle alone. He's been considering hiring a partner, and when I mentioned I quit the NCPD, he said the job was mine if I wanted it. Of course, that was before I tried to shove him through a wall, so I'm not sure the offer is still good."

"I wouldn't worry," Kara said. "One time, Alex locked him in the basement of the DEO handcuffed to a steam pipe and he forgave her."

"Really?" Maggie asked.

"Yeah."

"That sounds like a story."

"You want to hear it?"

"Yes."

"Well, it all started during Thanksgiving my first year as Supergirl…"

---

Notes: Just the epilogue left.