Prompt: boring, fluffy, mundane Sanvers
It was a Wednesday afternoon, and as Maggie Sawyer looked over the tall stack of case files on her desk, she had a sinking feeling that her paperwork wouldn't let her get home until well after midnight. So she stood up and raised her arms above her head to stretch her back before heading to the coffee machine for another cup of shit coffee before starting in. As she poured the sludge into her mug, her phone vibrated against her hip.
Seeing her girlfriend's cute face on the screen, she felt some stress melt away as she answered, "Sawyer."
"Hey baby." came Alex's smiling voice
"Hi." Maggie responded rather sullenly
"Oh, what's got you down?"
"The fact that I'm going to have to turn down whatever plans you're calling to ask me about."
"Oh…rough day?"
"Yeah. I've got a stack of paperwork on top of my desk that's as tall as me."
Alex waited a beat before, "So…not that tall?"
Maggie smirked, "Ha. Ha." she said with a deadpanned voice, "You're so funny."
"But really." Alex started, "There's no way you can come over tonight?"
"No. I don't think so, Alex."
"Not even for dinner?" The woman was to the point of pleading
Maggie sighed and felt a blush start to rise to her cheeks. Looking around, she saw no one was closer than thirty feet, but she turned away and whispered anyways, "Ally…you know what'll happen if I come over for dinner."
"But-"
"No. I'll come over for dinner, we'll eat, you'll convince me to stay (because you know it's not that hard to convince me to stay) for just one movie, or just one drink, which will actually turn into three movies and a load of drinks, it'll be late and you'll convince me to sleep over and then when I'm least expecting it, you'll pounce on me and we'll never get any sleep."
Maggie heard her girlfriend hum slightly over the phone, "Hmmmm…good times." And her voice turned serious, "No. I promise. No funny business. I actually have some work to do too. We can both bring it home and work together."
"I don't know…"
"Come on. Would you rather sit in a cold bullpen with boring, half-asleep cops, or at home, with your wonderful girlfriend who will use her new espresso machine to make you really good coffee?"
Maggie looked at the mug of sludge in her hand.
"Come on woman!" she started, "Do I really have to bribe you with coffee just to get you to spend time with me?"
The detective laughed at the whine in her girlfriend's voice. "No. I'll be over in a couple hours."
"Yaasss!" Came Alex's squeal over the line.
Maggie knocked on the door with her foot and it whipped open a moment later to a smiling Alex Danvers.
"Hi!" Alex said, wriggling her whole body at the sight of her girlfriend.
Maggie chuckled at her lady's enthusiasm. It was a welcome change in her life. She knew that no matter what happened, no matter where she was, there was someone (Alex) who was always excited to see her.
"Hi." Maggie smiled softly, her heart already warm with affection
"Come in, silly." Alex took Maggie's stack of paperwork from her hands and led her girlfriend inside.
Maggie followed the other woman inside, carrying her heavy computer bag.
"I've got takeout on the way, and I've cleared the whole table for us to work."
As Alex dropped the stack, Maggie dropped her bag next to it and pulled a slightly surprised Alex into her arms for a deep kiss. Alex instantly responded to it and wrapped her arms around her girlfriend's neck.
After a moment, she pulled back just enough to look into Maggie's face, "I thought we were supposed to be working."
Maggie shrugged, "We will. But, I just want you to know." She paused as she momentarily got lost in Alex's eyes, "you never have to bribe me with anything to spend time with you."
Alex sighed and put up a slightly facetious smile as she went to wave off the slight hurt she had felt earlier.
"No." The detective interrupted, "no. Don't just let it go." She captured Alex's delicious lips in a quick kiss before continuing, "I love you Alex. And I literally can't stop thinking about you, all day long. I always want to hang out with you. When I leave you in the morning before work, all I can think about all day are excuses to give my boss for leaving and popping in to see you. I can't wait to leave work and be with you."
Alex blushed softly, looking down to avoid the intense eye contact from her girlfriend.
"I just know that when I come over, I'm going to drop everything for you and snuggle or talk to you, or…other things."
Alex blushed, but returned her gaze to her lady's, smirking slightly with a playful quirk in one eyebrow."
"And tonight, unfortunately, I have a shit ton of work to do. So that's the only reason I was hesitant to come over." The detective placed an affectionate kiss to Alex's nose.
The agent shrugged, "well maybe," she thought out loud, "maybe we need to practice being around each other doing mundane things like this. I mean, couples do this stuff right? Just kinda sit together and work on stuff?"
Maggie smiled, "yeah. We can do that."
Alex leaned forward for another kiss, "plus. I kinda like the idea of just being near you. Is that weird? That I'd rather sit at a table with you doing paperwork than with J'onn or Winn?"
"Not weird at all, baby."
The doorbell rang, ending the nice moment.
"That's the food." Alex muttered as she captured one last kiss from her girlfriend before skipping to the door. Paying for the food quickly, Alex shut the door and brought back two boxes of pizza.
"What'd you get?" Maggie asked, grabbing a beer from Alex's fridge
The agent made a disgusted face, "ugh…don't worry. I got a vegan pizza for you, extra onions, like you like."
Maggie's smile grew wider as Alex dropped the boxes on the counter and slid one towards her.
"But…if we eventually get to the other things tonight, ya need to brush them teeth."
Maggie let out a loud laugh as she ripped open her box.
Twenty minutes later, after a few slices and a beer each, the two were done with catching up on their days and were nose deep in their paperwork. Maggie typed away at a report while Alex was filling out requisition forms for repairs on buildings her sister and the latest bad alien had damaged.
It was quiet in the Danvers apartment, and the only thing that could be heard was the typing of keys and the scratch of pen on paper, with an occasional exasperated sigh thrown in.
Maggie looked over the top of her laptop and smiled softly at her girlfriend who was so engrossed in her work.
Alex had really done a number on Maggie over the last few months, for the better. She was a source of light in Maggie's perpetually dark world of murders and serial killers.
The detective reached out a foot underneath the table and ran her toes down Alex's bare leg.
The agent looked up with an expectant look, that turned into a smile when she saw her girlfriends's matching smile. After a moment of gazing into each others' eyes longingly with wide smiles full of dimples, they returned to their work.
Three hours later, they finished their last cases, Maggie brushed her teeth, and they were on to other things.
