Lena sprinted to the edge of the building, and Cat sprinted to the super holding the gauntlet.
"Little Luthor, a little help! I'm not Sciency! Switch!" Cat ordered as she and Lena switched places. Cat Grant lay on her stomach and looked over the edge of her building. She gulped as flashbacks of being thrown over flooded her thoughts, but she shook her head and focused. She followed the cable and there was James Olson, unconscious dangling by the cable slightly banging into the wall below them. She let out a small cry, barely a whimper. Alex, where was Alex? Nothing, not even a body on the pavement. She looked around, the woman could not have gone in many places. But the more she looked despair filled her chest. Her hand went to her lips. This was her fault, she invited the woman who saved them and now she was… She closed her eyes fighting the sting of tears that threatened to build.
"Cat, pull us up fast please," she heard a high-pitched voice trying to stay calm coming from below her. Cat's eyes shot open. James Olson banged into the building once more but then Cat saw why, and it wasn't the wind. Alex Danvers wrapped her whole body, legs, and arms around James Olson's legs holding on for dear life.
"You damnable Agent. Your name should be Cat," Cat called down and sprinted back to the super and the Luthor.
"She is there, hanging by a thread, or shall we say a leg. She is completely wrapped around Olson's legs. SO up, chop chop," Cat ordered but then she saw the state of Kara and then Lena. Kara was doing just enough to hold the gauntlet, and Lena was trying to find a good anchor point as she held on to the cable as well. Cat blinked and then let out a small growl. She took off her jacket. Both women balked then breathed.
"I would never go without an under garment of some type dears," Cat smiled as she tucked in her low-cut undershirt and used her jacket as a grip, "Come Little Luthor, lets save your girl," Cat said, then chanced a look at Kara. Kara clenched her jaw, stood and the three of them made work to get the pair over the ledge. Lena with the length of cable they acquired from the gauntlet sprinted to a pipe and tied them off. Kara and Cat went to the ledge and tried to pull the man and woman over. Alex tried to help but every time she did she screamed out in pain. Finally, it was over, finally Alex was in their arms, away from a ledge, and out of harm's way.
Kara would not let go. Not again, it was too much and too soon from when Alex went missing. Alex let her forehead rest against Kara's neck, safe and sound too tired to do anything more. Then Cat tore the small woman from the super had her in a vice like hug not caring about Alex's ribs and the hiss of pain that came from the Agent. Alex let her arms lift slightly to pat Cat's back. Cat let her go, straightening her clothes, and wiping under eyes gathering back her composure and then nodded over Alex's shoulder beyond the two-people doting on her. Kara held out a hand as Alex faced Lena. Blue met Brown and Kara nodded and kissed Alex's temple in one more embrace.
Alex looked back at Lena and the woman stood firm. Lena finally made one small step toward Alex then she paused. Her eyes darted to the super, standing there in her blue and reds, hair blowing gorgeously in the wind, then they flitted back to Alex. They never left her. As she tried to step towards Alex her dam broke. She stumbled to Alex, her eyes flooded with liquid emotion. Rivers of salty tears flowed down Lena Luthor's cheeks. She wasn't even in Alex's arms, but she knew for a fact that she almost lost her, again, and it was the only place she wanted to be and never leave.
She tried to mumble something, but her mouth and throat would not let her.
"I'm ok," Alex said as she stood from the brunette, but Lena kept coming. She slammed into Alex. Not Kara, but Alex. Alex jumped and gritted and held back a cry from her ribs, but Lena adjusted as she held Alex to her. Her face was in Alex's neck, and Alex lifted her hands up at the elbows because if she lifted her arms any further she might pass out from the pain. She held her one reason for getting the shit kicked out of her… again. Alex didn't care who saw, she didn't care if Kara was standing there wishing her dead, all she cared was that Lena Luthor was in her arms. She closed her eyes and held her, graphed the moment on to a mental canvas so she could possibly write it later when she would rip out her heart, again, by choosing Kara.
"Damn you Alex Danvers," whispered a voice next to her ear, "Never do that do me again," Gritted the same voice and Alex nodded slightly against the woman's lips on her ear.
"I will try not to. My job…" Alex stopped as she felt the tears slide down Alex's neck, and the woman in her arms shake. If this woman would be with her, she chose her right then and there, she would finally take Jonn's offer. She would be Director. She would limit herself to the backseat driving of a coordinator, instead of operative.
"Screw your Job. Can't you just tell me you love me, and you would do your best?" Lena asked and then Alex pushed them apart to look into Lena's eyes. Alex's mouth worked to speak, but then she clasped Lena's shoulders, then her biceps as she bored into her eyes. Her hands slid up from Lena's biceps to cup her neck, thumbs caressing her jaw and stepped closer to the woman. She looked at Lena. She had hair disheveled, dirt smudged on her cheek, and the tears in her eyes. She had never looked more beautiful. Alex looked in those green orbs that have haunted her, invaded her dreams, and set fire to her thoughts.
"I would love to," She tucked a hair behind Lena's ear, "Oh I would love to with all my heart, but I can't say that yet," Alex said and let her hands fall to her sides, but she didn't move. Her sore feet planted to the roof as if cemented to the structure.
"Yet?" Lena asked softly, then again, "Yet? Then there is a possibility…" Lena asked excited, but Lena was cut off by a soft fingertip on her lips. Gentle and firm eyes looked at her, with pain and hope.
"I will not be second best to Kara. I am sorry," Alex then leaned forward and kissed Lena on her cheek too close to her mouth. Then Lena was left there wondering what the hell just happened. She looked over to Kara. The look on her face she saw and heard everything. But the odd part was she was not angry. Lena slowly walked to Kara and then stood from the reporter and the other CEO.
"You liiike her," Kara teased. It was that tone, that teasing tone that made Lena burst in to tears on Kara's shoulder and then throw an arm over Car Grant's shoulder and bring her into a reluctant huddle of women. Lena sniffed and let her head clear.
"When did you have time to change?" Lena asked.
"Oh, you know, super speed and what not," then looked down to Cat, "And a balcony, and the ability to leap really high because I can't fly yet," Kara smirked. Lena looked between the two and let the resentment go. She saw the love, the trust, and the understanding.
"here are your jewels, Cat. I am assuming they are yours," Lena said as she gave Cat back the jewelry she quickly attached to herself for lack of pockets. She looked from on to the other then tries to follow the path that Alex took. She was quick, and it was then that the woman exhaled but never took her eyes from the door Alex must have escaped to. Then a hand on her arm. She thought it would be Kara, but it was Cat.
"She is not like every person. Gifts don't work. Hell, I put the woman in a 70,000$ wardrobe and she wanted to send it back to me!" Cat smiled at that. Then squeezed, "If this one was not truly free, and I knew I didn't stand a chance at convincing her to love me, I would want Alex, keep that in mind Little Luthor," then Cat walked off leaving the two women that came together as a pair, and a date.
"So… Alex," Kara tried but couldn't, "Lena, first I thought Alex wanted to be with Cat, then I see her with you," Kara looked down to Lena and held her hands, "I am so confused."
Lena took those hands in her own, and then smiled softly and walked along the roof, along the crime scene.
"Alex never wanted Cat, Kara. You never gave them or Alex a chance to say that to you," Lena sighed, "You shut us out. Me and Alex. If you would have talked to us, you might have known that," Lena then chanced a glance, "Once upon a time I wanted us to be together Kara," Lena held a hand and stayed Kara's response, "but We will always be better friends, best of friends, than lovers," Lena said softly hoping it would soften the blow. When she saw the look in Kara's eyes, it was not rage, nor disappointment, it was confusion, a bit of hurt, mixed in with… acceptance.
"I wanted you too, so much," Kara smiled and bumped Lena's shoulder.
"Why in the hell didn't you say something?" Lena shrieked.
"Every time I tried someone attacked us, or me, or you, or the city. It was always bad timing," Kara said as she looked out over the city, "But Alex, she will become director soon. I have a feeling. And when that happens, she will be there for you, unless she has to be called away. Can you handle that?"
"Kara, I own my own company, I think you should be asking Alex the same," Lena scoffed. But Kara turned her toward her.
"She was heartbroken Lena. Maggie…. She loved her like I have never seen, and yet the woman ripped her heart out of her chest. You need to know that, because she will retreat, but don't let her. Don't let her live her life alone. I wish in a part of my heart you where mine, but I see Alex might have beaten me to that punch," Kara smiled warmly. Lena smiled back and grasped one of Kara's hands. It was a clench of understanding, and of letting go. Kara stood back and smiled.
"Now go prove it to her, go earn her, and love her," Kara said to the woman slowly retreating.
Lena took the elevator and walked to the main entrance lobby the building hoping to find Alex. And she did. Standing a little too close to a detective, smiling warmly to a detective, touching the detectives arm. She walked toward them with fire in her eyes and then stopped.
"Hello, I am Lena Luthor and you are," Lena on the inside wondered what the fuck she was doing. Alex looked at her like she was crazy and the other woman, possibly Hispanic, smiled.
"Yes, I would like your statement Miss Luthor," then she looked to Alex, then down Alex's frame.
"When you find my gun and belongings please get them to me as soon as you can. It was good seeing you Maggie," Alex tiredly bid her farewell and Lena watched the other woman drink in Alex. She practically devoured Alex.
"I will call you later Danvers," the detective focused on her. Lena gave her statement, but she would not get over the ache in the pit of her stomach as the detective watched 'Her' Agent. Wait… WHAT?! What was she thinking? She looked to the glass doors, nope, she needed freedom, she needed away from that place and her adrenaline prompted actions. She needed sleep.