A sleeping Alex Danvers wasn't what she had expected to find next to her that morning. She didn't mind though. She knew Alex wasn't a morning person by any means but new the woman got up early, so she could run a few miles before heading into the DEO. Lucy grabbed her phone to check the time, 8AM she had slept for 19 hours. She had forgotten how comfy this bed was. She hadn't slept this good in over a year.

She thought back to the first time she had spent the night with Alex. She had insisted on taking the couch but Alex wouldn't let her. Alex had a comfortable couch but not comfortable enough for sleeping on for more than a few hours apparently. She stopped fighting and climbed into Alex's massive bed and was blown away with how perfect it was. Not too firm and not too soft. But definitely more on the softer side she had slept like a rock that night too.

Since she was awake and couldn't just stay in bed until Alex woke up she would at least get up and make coffee. She made her way to the kitchen and was surprised to see a note addressed to her on the counter. She picked it up and ran her fingers over the beautiful curves of the elegant cursive writing that Alex saved for people she cared about. No one would believe her if she told them this was Alex's real handwriting. Her handwriting at the DEO was atrocious and it took Lucy weeks to be able to decipher exactly what was written on those reports. Then she made the mistake of telling a few agents she could read it with no problem.

You'll probably be awake before me and knowing you, you won't be able to stay in bed. I ordered more take out for dinner last night but also postmated some breakfast stuff. Not saying that you have to cook breakfast just giving you that option. As for why I'm still here? Well you just came back, and I think the DEO can handle things without me until this afternoon. Spending the morning with you is more important.

Alex knew her so well. She started the pot of coffee and went to the fridge to see what Alex had gotten as far as actual food went. Lucy shook her head at what she found. Alex had said she didn't need to make breakfast, but Alex had also conveniently gotten her favorite breakfast items. There was no way Lucy wasn't going to make her girlfriends favorite breakfast with all the ingredients conveniently in her apartment.

Lucy began the task of fixing Alex's favorite pancakes, scrambled eggs and bacon. She had finished platting the food and Alex still wasn't up. She decided a wakeup call was in order. She walked back over to her sleeping girlfriend and crawled back beneath the covers. She laid her head on Alex's chest and gently ran her hand up and down Alex's arm. She felt the woman stir beneath her.

"Five more minutes."

Lucy couldn't help the smile that came across her lips. She kissed Alex's cheek before whispering in her ear, "You can have all the minutes you want but then you miss out on the amazing breakfast your amazing girlfriend fixed for you." She saw Alex's eyes snap open at that declaration.

"You made breakfast? You really didn't have to do that."

"Oh yes I did Danvers. You conveniently got the ingredients for your favorite pancakes, so breakfast is ready and waiting sunshine."

"You made my favorite pancakes?"

"Yes, I did and if you don't' get your butt out of bed they'll get cold. So up and at 'em Danvers."

Lucy made her way back to the kitchen putting a little more sway in her hips. Knowing Alex couldn't stay away from her ass if her life depended on it.

She heard a thud come from the bedroom. She didn't even bother to turn around knowing full well that Alex had gotten caught up in the sheets and landed on the floor. Glad to see Alex was still a bumbling gay mess. Well at least when it came to her backside. She got Alex's coffee ready while she pulled herself together.

Alex wasn't a morning person but at the prospect of her favorite pancakes she would get herself up and into the kitchen. She watched Lucy walk away. She thought about yesterday and everything that had happened. Lucy had come back home and back into her heart. She had gotten so caught up in thoughts of Lucy and what their new life together would be like that she fell out of bed with the sheets still tangled up in her legs. Why did she have to be an ass girl? And why did Lucy have to have an exceptionally fine one?

She walked up behind Lucy and smacked her backside before kissing her cheek. She leaned against the counter next to Lucy, "Why do you have to taunt me with that?"

"Because you have never been able to hide how much you love it? I used to catch you staring at Anderson's ass all the time. That was before I had figured out you were so deep in the closet that I would need to send search and rescue for you to find your way out."

"Turns out all that I needed was a petite, dimpled detective to yank me out." Alex took the mug that Lucy was offering her she took a sip and made her way to the plates Lucy had made. She took a bite of the pancakes Lucy had made and they were better than she remembered. She was deflecting, and she knew it. The fact that Lucy hadn't followed her to the other side of the bar meant Lucy knew it too.

But that was the thing with Lucy. She never pushed you to talk about your feelings if she didn't think you needed to be pushed. One of the reason she had stayed in the closet longer than she should have. Because she really had been oblivious to all of the signs. Especially Lucy's flirting.

But she wasn't ready to talk about why she ended things with Maggie. They would have to talk about it eventually but not this morning, not when they were still so new. "In all those drunken voicemails did I ever tell you why I ended things with Maggie?"

Lucy pushed off the counter and walked over to sit beside Alex. "No, you never did."

"We'll need to talk about that at some point but not today. You seriously didn't have to make breakfast."

They would have to talk about why Alex had let her favorite dimpled detective go. She really had liked Maggie and it was a shame that things hadn't worked out for them. Lucy had always thought they had moved to fast but they had also fit together so well that everyone thought they would be together forever. But unless you're the one in the relationship you never can truly tell what is going on beneath the surface.

"Your right we do but definitely not today. As for breakfast it's just like old times except that today isn't Saturday but that doesn't matter. What time are you going in today?"

"Probably around 12. I sent Pam an email about you last night and almost forgot to mention the part about us dating."

"I would pay good money to see Pam's face when she reads that part of the email. I'm not looking forward to the mountain of paperwork though."

"Don't remind me. I'll probably have a bigger stack than you only because Pam isn't my biggest fan."

Lucy laughed at that statement, "Pam still hate you?"

"Not as much. I think she still does a little just on principle. When I met with her for the first time as the Director we had a heart to heart. She just didn't appreciate my reckless behavior when I was an agent. That reckless behavior was part of why I was trying to quit."

"Alex Danvers trying to quit the DEO because of her reckless behavior is not a sentence I thought I would ever hear. Well I'm glad you seem to have learned that the reckless behavior isn't appreciated by everyone."

"I'm not even going to acknowledge that with a response. Got any plans for today?"

"Not really. I need to call my superiors in DC. I blew them off yesterday because I had more important matters to attend to than a very important debrief yesterday. I know I'm going to catch hell from them and my Dad about it, but I honestly don't care. I'm hoping that mission was the last thing I'll ever have to do for the Army."

Lucy's phone started vibrating on the counter. She picked it up and rolled her eyes. It was almost like there was someone listening in on her conversation with Alex. A conversation with her dad wasn't what she wanted right now. Right now she just wanted to enjoy her breakfast with Alex. Despite their status change Lucy would still call Alex her best friend and having a normal conversation with her was all Lucy wanted right now. She didn't pick it up though. Her dad was the least of her worries right now. She looked apologetically at Alex, "That was my dad and he has called several times over the last 24 hours. Something happened between us while I was gone, and I'll tell you about that later but I really should call Colonel Preston back just give me a minute."

Alex watched her walk out on the balcony. It wasn't like Lucy to skip out on debriefings or ignore orders. Lucy had a rebellious streak a mile wide but not when she was on government time. Something bad had to have happened on the mission that had her defying orders. Hopefully the thing with her dad wasn't as intense as Alex was thinking it was.

Ever since Myriad Lucy and Sam Lane hadn't been as close. Especially after he found out Lucy broke Alex and J'onn out of custody. Thankfully he never reported it. She finished off her breakfast and watched Lucy pacing on the balcony. She looked frustrated as hell and Alex couldn't be too sure from this distance, but it looked like Lucy was holding back tears. If that was the case she had gotten bad news and would probably be leaving again.

Alex pushed those thoughts away. No sense in jumping to conclusions. She thought back to the day Lucy told her she had been assigned to a top-secret mission that would possibly keep her away for a long time. Initially Lucy thought it would be at least nine months but it had been a year and a half. Lucy was more upset that she wouldn't get to be there for Alex's wedding and so had Alex but when you work for the military your time isn't your own.

Alex was startled slightly when she felt a pair of arms wrap themselves around her from behind. Lucy laid her head on Alex's back almost between her shoulder blades. "Have I mentioned how much I hate dealing with the bureaucratic asshates of DC? My superior Colonel Preston isn't terrible but the people above him are."

"A few times." Alex could detect the faint catch in her voice, "How long are you going to be in DC?"

"Thankfully I'm not spending any time there unless it is absolutely necessary. But Preston did just tell me I can't get out of my contract early. Not even for honorable service. Apparently, I'm too valuable to the Army. I've also been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. This has my dad written all over it. I have to dig out my Army contract and see if I can fight it. The things I had to deal with over there left a bad taste in my mouth and I want nothing more than to rid myself of the US Army."

Alex stepped off the stool and gathered Lucy in her arms. She suspected that Lucy, finally caught up on her sleep, was starting to process what it truly meant to be stateside again. Alex has no idea what her secret mission was about and what Lucy had to go through, but she could tell it had changed her. Not in a bad way she was still very much the Lucy Lane that had left she was just tired of dealing with the usual shenanigans that her dad did while under the authority of the US Army.

She had gotten a small taste of Sam pulling strings that shouldn't have been pulled for Lucy. Lucy hadn't wanted all of the things her dad had wanted for her. She hadn't hated the Army life. In her early days Lucy had loved it. Once she had been made an officer not so much. That was when General Lane started abusing his power.

"You know I can have some kidnap him in the middle of the night and lock him up in the really awful solitary cells at the desert base? He wouldn't even know what hit him."

Lucy let out a laugh through the tears that she had been holding back but had fallen the moment Alex wrapped her in her arms. "I may take you up on that one day but not today. You asked me about my plans earlier and I never got to finish. Now that I've taken care of the major issue that needed to be dealt with I have a question for you?"

"What question is that?"

"Before the events of yesterday I was gonna ask if I could move in with you at least until I found a place but if you think it's too soon for that kind of thing I would completely understand."

"Oh no your definitely moving in. I wasn't exactly kidding when I said welcome home. Hey, no hitting your girlfriend." Alex rubbed her shoulder where Lucy had hit her. "I'm serious, when I heard the key scraping the lock yesterday I didn't want to hope that it was you. You may not have physically lived here but this was your home before the Army took you away.

"You moving in here was never a question for me. I know your intentions yesterday weren't to come here and make me realize how much of an idiot I was, but it did happen and that doesn't change the fact that I missed my best friend. Because you are still my best friend. This place hasn't felt like home since you left. When Maggie first moved out I thought it was because of her. But it had felt empty even when she was still living here it just intensified when she left. But you always made this place feel like a home for me."

"Always full of surprises Danvers. It's almost noon why don't I put on a fresh uniform and go to the DEO with you. I can deal with Pam and some of the paperwork today and then go get my clothes out of storage."

"Hmm, I don't mind the uniform. Forget the rest of the clothes."

While Lucy like this new, bolder version of Alex Danvers she wasn't about to leave her very extensive wardrobe in storage because her girlfriend thought she looked hot in her uniform. "While I'm all for helping you play out a few fantasies with me in the uniform I don't think you're going to protest when I take you out to dinner in a few days in a black dress that will make you forget the English language and may have you drooling a bit. Not to mention the heels to go with it that will accentuate my beautiful legs and the ass you love so much."

Alex had no comeback for that. The thought of Lucy in any kind of dress and heels was enough to make her mouth water. She tried to form a coherent sentence, but her brain had stopped working. It wasn't until Lucy was dressed and at the door that Alex could move again. "Get dressed Danvers I'll wait for you in the lobby."