When they walked into the DEO more than a few heads turned. Most of them agents that Lucy had worked with before the Army called her back. The rest were new agents mostly men. Probably wondering if the petite brunette woman with their Director was here to stay. She caught a few with their mouths open. One of them happened to be sitting next to Vasquez and they caught the man staring at their friend. Which resulted in a smack to the back of the head.

"Quit staring at the Major. You think Director Danvers is scary? Well Major Lane is 10x scarier because you don't see her coming until it's too late. Plus, she is a lawyer and has the best poker face in the business." Vasquez pushed off the console they had been leaning against and walked up to Lucy. Normally they wouldn't show and kind of displays of affection at work, but this was Lucy Lane. A good friend who was finally back in town. They opened their arms and let Lucy come the rest of the way.

Lucy hugged Vasquez as tight as she could manage. Alex and this person were the two people she would put in best friend category and she was glad to see that Vasquez had missed her just as much. "We need to catch up when we both have the time."

"Indeed we do Major. So much has happened in your absence and I'm not just talking about Alex and Maggie. Speaking of absence, when did you get back into town?"

"Yesterday afternoon. I had something that required my immediate attention. So far you, Alex, Pam and any of the agents in this room I worked with previously are the only people that know I'm back in town. I would like to keep it that way for a few days. I don't think I'm ready to deal with everyone just yet."

"Understandable. You mentioned Pam knows your back. Does that mean you're coming back to the DEO?"

Lucy couldn't help the wincing noise she made which got an eyebrow raise from her friend. She ran a hand through her hair and suddenly remembered she needed to get it cut ASAP but that wasn't what she needed to worry about right now. "That was the plan, but things may have gotten complicated in that area this morning. I'm going to talk to Pam now and see what my options are and go from there. I know it's a vague answer but until I talk to Pam and look into some things from the Army side of this mess I can't go into much detail."

"I understand but if you need it I'll put in a good word for you. Alex has been doing a great job as Director but, she could use someone like you as her second in command. You both lead similarly and don't take bullshit from anyone. It also helps that your just as intimidating when you need to be."

"Thanks Vas that means a lot." Lucy put a hand on their shoulder and rubbed her thumb across it and smiled before turning to walk toward Pam's office. Just as she was about to round the corner of the hallway that lead to the HR department she heard the world's most unpleasant voice yelling her name. She put her head in her hands and took a couple of deep steadying breaths. She took one final deep inhale, steeled her features and turned to face her father.

"What can I do for you General?" She was still active duty Army in her uniform no less as was her father. She should have saluted him but given his suspected recent antics she didn't care. If all her suspicions about her father were true, her refusal to salute a superior officer paled in comparison to his actions.

"I've come to take you back to Washington. You disobeyed direct orders to return to the pentagon for a debrief and Colonel Preston isn't happy."

Lucy shook her head and merely smirked at her father. Strike one for the General. "That's funny because I called him as soon as I landed back in the states that I needed 72 hours to decompress before giving them my debrief. Preston understood told me to take a week. Provided I wrote up the proper reports and emailed them through the appropriate channels within 72 hours."

She could see the General struggle to keep his face neutral. There was a slight twitch in his lips and his left eyebrow. Those were the first tells Lucy had picked up about her father. "I also happened to talk to him after you attempted to contact me around 0900. He told me that I was still good to stay away from Washington for a week, but he had some bad news. I was supposed to be done with the Army after that mission. But someone had put in a request to keep me active for another three year, promote me to Lieutenant Colonel and possibly send me away again. He didn't know who had put in the request, but I would bet my life it was you.

"I have suspected for years that you had been pulling strings for me. Getting me put on assignments that I was no way in hell qualified or ready for. I would ask how you knew to come looking for me here but we both know that you hate how much I loved working for the DEO so you knew I would try to come back here. Speaking of how the hell did you get past security? Just because you are a General for the Army does not give you permission to enter this building."

"Actually, it does, Lucy. Especially if an officer of the United States Army is openly defying orders from her superiors."

Alex saw Sam Lane before Lucy and couldn't intercept him before her yelled out his daughters name. Alex watched them exchange words. When Lucy mentioned getting permission to skip the briefing she breathed a sigh of relief. If Lucy had been defying orders she was going to catch hell for it and that was the last thing Alex wanted for Lucy. Then she saw John the head of their security team walk toward her with an apologetic look on his face.

"I tried to stop him, but he yelled about being a General in the Army and that was enough to gain him access to this government sight. I know that isn't true Director Danvers, but he looked like he was going to go on a murderous rampage if I didn't."

"It's okay John while he doesn't have access to the DEO you did the right thing because something tells me you were right. About the murderous rampage part. Head back down stairs I'll take care of the General."

Alex was about to do something that would give her so much pleasure but knew could potentially get her in so much trouble but given the way Sam Lane was looking she hoped the security footage would be enough to back up her choice. Alex walked up to Lucy and her father and Lucy only wore a stone-cold poker face. The only sign that Lucy was frustrated was in her eyes.

Alex used her most terrifying Director voice to yell out. "General Lane enough!" Both Lucy and her father turned toward her. Sam was the only one who looked terrified. "You are not authorized to be here I'm not going to ask you more than once to leave so I suggest you do that now or there will be consequences."

Lucy kept her face neutral, but she was enjoying this. Alex was sexy as hell when she was putting someone in their place. This time it happened to be her father. "I would listen to her General. Director Danvers isn't someone you want to mess with."

Sam Lane swallowed and turned to face Alex, "As a matter of fact I do have authorization to be here. Lucy may be your friend Director, but she is an officer for the United States Army first and she has openly defied orders and I am taking her back to Washington to have it dealt with properly."

"Where is your warrant?"

"What do you mean?"

Lucy saw the fear in her father's eyes. Alex had called him on his bluff. Strike two for the General she knew what Alex was going to do next and she wasn't going to stop her. She might even go as far as giving Alex a show in their bedroom later that night.

"Well if Major Lane is defying orders as you claim she is the only way you would have authorization to enter this building would be with a warrant for her arrest. Even then you wouldn't have been allowed to enter this far. You do understand about classification levels General and I know for a fact you are not at the correct level of classification to be on this floor."

"The DEO doesn't dictate what a General of the Army can and cannot do. I'm here for the Major and whether you like it or not she is coming with me." Sam grabbed his daughter by the wrist and started pulling her toward the stairs.

If Lucy hadn't been so startled by her father's actions she would have reacted faster. Alex watched as it took Lucy a few seconds to process what had happened. Once she had fully registered what was happening she twisted out of her father's grip and walked back toward Alex. But the General wasn't having it. He lunged at Lucy and managed to grab her upper arm. Lucy tried to twist out of the grip, but it was tight. Lucy punched her father in the face and that was enough to shock him, and he let go of her arm.

But Lucy couldn't have anticipated the rage it would cause. She could only compare her father to an enraged bull. But she had a secret weapon. Alex Danvers. Sam was about to swing at Lucy when Alex stepped in-between them just in time. Alex caught his fist and used his own momentum to twist his body in the other direction. Lucy heard a few bones break and possibly his shoulder dislocate. Alex had him pinned down on the ground and had put him in cuffs.

"I told you I was only asking, you to leave once and you didn't listen. I'm arresting you for trespassing on government property and attempted assault. Agent Spencer, Agent Shannon will you please escort the General to a holding cell."

Alex turned to Lucy who looked more pissed off than anything but her eyes held a terror Alex had never seen before. She wanted nothing more than to take Lucy in her arms and hold her. But that wasn't something she could do right now. But she would be damned if she didn't show Lucy some kind of affection after that whole ordeal.

She walked back toward her girlfriend and took her face in her hands and kissed her on the forehead. "I have to go schedule a conference call between your direct superior, your dad's direct superior and the president. If you think you need it go to the med bay and have Dr. Hamilton look at your arm. If not go to Pam's office. Don't worry about filling out paperwork of asking if your allowed to work here with me. I know how much Pam likes you and it should be a good place for you to decompress if you need to."

Lucy just nodded, "We need to talk tonight. Not just about what happened now but what happened while I was gone. I want Vas there for it too." She knew this wasn't the time or the place, but she honestly didn't care. Her emotions were all over the place. She needed a comforting touch. She leaned toward Alex. Resting her head on the other woman's shoulder. She felt Alex's hand rest on the back of her head and her lips kissing the side of her head.

"Whatever you need Lucy." She heard Alex whisper. She stepped away from Alex felling slightly more calm but she was still trembling when she made her way to Pam's office. She didn't bother knocking. She opened the door to the head of HR's office and walked toward the wall that had a very cheesy generic landscape painting and pulled said painting away from the wall. She smiled when she was her favorite cheap whiskey was still there. As was a rather expensive bottle Pam had bought for her when she had lost a bet to Lucy about Alex and Maggie getting together. But right now, she wanted the burn of cheap whiskey. She left the expensive bottle in its home and grabbed the cheap bottle and a shot glass.

Pushing the painting back against the wall she made her way to one of the chairs in front of Pam's desk. She poured herself a shot, downed it relishing the burning sensation that came along with it. She poured another and downed it just as quickly. She set the glass down next to the bottle on Pam's desk.

"I would ask why your drinking at such an early hour. Especially after you returning home and you and Alex coming to an agreement about your feelings for each other, but I got a phone call from security about your father. With that bruise developing on your wrist and the fact that your sitting here, I would say things did not end well for your father."

Lucy looked at her wrist. He had gripped her upper arm so hard she knew that one would leave a bruise she hadn't realized he had almost the same vice like grip on her wrist. "No, it didn't. Alex managed to get him away from me and had him arrested and put in a holding cell."

Pam let out a heavy sigh. She reached for the bottle and shot glass Lucy had left on her desk. She wasn't a fan of whiskey, but it was available, and she needed a drink because Alex just arrested a General of the Army. She probably had a mountain of paperwork ahead of her. She placed the bottle and the glass back in front of Lucy who was trying to hold back a fit of laughter.

"Please tell me Alex didn't just land herself into a heap of trouble?"

Lucy poured another shot, "No, I don't think she did. My father was trespassing on government property that he didn't have clearance to be on. Alex asked him if he had a warrant for my arrest and he didn't. So, he definitely doesn't have any reason to be here. Alex didn't step in and get physical with my dad until he tried to punch me in the face." Lucy drained the shot she had poured as Pam looked at her shocked that her father had tried to physically assault her.

She knew everyone else would be surprised by the behavior. She wasn't. She was more shocked that her father was capable of such things. She was going to call her sister later and apologize. Lois had suspected that their father had fallen off his rocker soon after their mother had died. What had surprised, and shaken Lucy was the violent behavior. Her father was treating her like the aliens he despised. That kind of rage she hadn't been prepared for.

Lucy couldn't dwell on the actions of her father right now. She decided that talking to Pam about her coming back to the DEO as Alex's second in command was a much safer topic. "So, about Alex's email to you yesterday…"

Pam shook her head and cleared her throat, "You would have to be appointed as Co-Directors like you and J'onn were briefly. Which would mean you would have to report to the desert base and be in charge of your own team. However, I'm sure I can persuade the president to let you be second in command here at the city base because of all the recent hostile alien activity we have been receiving and the fact that Alex can't do everything on her own. Yesterday was the first day off she has had in a month. Things have been very problematic and she has been doing a great job, but she can only do so much as one person. I think if I tell the President that no one else could run the DEO better than you and Alex it won't be a problem."

"While I'm glad you have faith in me, my job at the DEO is in limbo until after Alex talks to the powers that be about my father and his actions today."

"Yes, that could pose a bit of a problem but we'll deal with that when the time comes."

Lucy pushed herself out of the chair and place the bottle and shot glass back in their hiding spot. Before she left the office, Pam said, "Just for the record Lucy…I'm glad you and Alex are together. Maggie was a good start, but you've always held Alex's heart. It just took her longer to realize it."

She could only smile at Pam. She shut the door and made her way back to central command. She was surprised that Alex was still there. She walked up to her and placed a hand on her back. Alex looked at her with and affectionate smile that melted Lucy's heart. "I'm going to get some of my stuff out of storage. I'm also stopping at the grocery store any requests for dinner tonight? Oh, that reminds me, Vas your coming over unless you have other plans?"

"No plans and if I'm allowed to make a suggestion for dinner just don't make anything with eggplant."

Alex and Lucy both laughed, "Don't worry Vas she knows not to fix eggplant around us if she wants to live. Honestly fix whatever you want that doesn't involve that strange food and I won't have to kick you out of the apartment tonight."

"You wouldn't dream of kicking me out. You like me and it too much. Besides I'm the only reason you get regular home cooked meals. Honestly I'm surprised you've survived as long as you have."

Vasquez watched the exchange between her boss and her friend. Not that Alex wasn't her friend they just tried to have a sense of decorum in the work place. They had gotten closer after Alex had ended things with Maggie. Mostly because Alex needed Lucy and Vas just missed Lucy like hell. They weren't on the level of friendship they were with Lucy before she had left but Vas had a whole new appreciation for Alex Danvers.

Lucy hadn't confirmed anything yet but the fact that they were back to their usual banter and shameless flirting had to mean they had both gotten their heads out of their asses and finally gotten together. She would have to pay a visit to Pam later and collect on the bet she made two years ago.

"Director Danvers I hate to interrupt this lovers quarrel but your conference call with the president and several members of the United States Army is going to start in ten minutes. You should get to your office ASAP."

"Right. I'll ty to be out by 7PM. No telling how this conference call is going to go but I'm going to do my best to be home by 7."

"Sounds good. Just call if you get held up." Lucy kissed Alex on the lips not caring anymore that they were at the DEO. "Will do Major." Alex had responded before leaning in and kissing her again. Lucy pulled away before the kiss could deepen anymore.

She left the DEO with two places to go. The first being her storage unit to get her clothes. The second place was her lawyer's office. She may have to fight high level Army brass that may have been payed off by her father. She wasn't about to serve any more time in the Army. If she could prove that her father had bribed higher ranking Army officials and/or bribed anyone he needed to put Lucy right where he wanted her than she was in for a hell of a fight. The fact that she had caught her father in two lies today gave her hope that she would be able to uncover the rest of the evidence she needed to bury her father and strip him of his rank once and for all.