"Maggie?!" Alex slowly caressed her girlfriend's face with her thumb. "Maggie, baby… Are-… Can you hear me?!"
"Ugh…" The weak moan underneath her made her eyes water again. Alex was heaving breaths, laughing through her tears because Maggie was alive…
"A-Alex…?" She asked weakly, opening her eyes to slits, wincing at the light. The agent shifted so that she wouldn't lean on anything that was pressing Maggie down, and snapped her head to face her sister. "Kara, move this concrete! We need to get her out of there!"
"I can't…" Kara's voice cracked as she shook her head. Alex frowned incredulously, overrun by emotions. "What do you mean you can't?!"
The blonde stared at her sister intensely. "I mean she's still full of kryptonite, Alex… She's making me sick."
Alex took a deep breath, realizing the direness of the situation. Kara took a step forward, but winced and held a hand to her chest. "Alex, I'm sorry.. .I… I'll fly back and get help!"
Kara stumbled backwards in her haste to get away from the scene, and Alex watched her launch into the sky, before trying to lift some of the rubble herself.
"S-stop… You're hurting yourself…"
Alex laughed weakly, and held back a sob as she turned back to her girlfriend. "You're worried about me hurting myself… That's so you."
Maggie grimaced, and clenched her eyes shut. "I think… My leg is stuck."
Alex's heart dropped at the words, but she willed herself to stay calm, for her girlfriend's sake. "Can you still feel it?"
"I don't know…" Maggie answered truthfully. "I don't know if I feel anything… All of it just hurts."
"Do you… Remember what they did?" Alex didn't want to ask the question, but she knew that she had to keep Maggie awake and talking.
"They uh…" Maggie scrunched her brow in thought. "They knocked me out… and I woke up on a table and they were…I…" Maggie took an uneven, shaky breath, and trailed off. Alex frowned, and shifted closer to her. "Hey, no… Mags, then what happened? You need to talk to me… Maggie!"
"T-They…Alex, it hurts…" Maggie whimpered, her eyes filling up with tears. Alex swallowed thickly and gave a weak smile. "It's going to be okay. Kara is going to come back with people that can help you… You're going to be fine, baby."
"I… My…" Maggie tried to form a sentence, and Alex desperately dug through the rubble to finally find Maggie's bloody hand, gently holding it in hers, afraid that anything other than a light touch could aggravate her injuries.
Finally, Maggie let out another whimper of pain. "The k-kryptonite… Did I… Hurt you?"
"No… You didn't, you didn't hurt either of us. But it saved you from the explosion, it shielded you somehow, I don't…" Alex shook her head. She didn't know what happened to her, or how the kryptonite had somehow saved Maggie's life, but it wasn't something she wanted to think about right now. The only thing that mattered was her girlfriend.
"Alex, my blood sugar… Is dropping… I've been here for a while." She chuckled weakly, following it immediately by another wince. Alex nodded quickly and stroked the detective's hair. "I'm going to get you to a hospital. I'm going to make sure we get all that kryptonite out of you, and I'm going to make you better."
"You already… Made me better, Alex." Maggie smiled. "I heard you… What you were saying to me… About spending the last months with me… I feel the same way."
Alex was full-on bawling now. Why did Maggie's words sound like a goodbye?
"Maggie, you can't do this to me. I thought you were dead, I can't lose you again now. You need to hold on, help is coming, please."
"It's okay, Alex… I'm… Just… Going to sleep… It won't hurt anymore."
"No, I won't let you." Alex cried, the adrenalin through her veins now causing her to pull some more at the rubble on Maggie's body. Some of the debris gave away, and she kept on yanking, tears streaming down her face, until she couldn't breathe anymore. "I love you, Maggie. I can't lose you."
Maggie was panting now, her breaths shallow and uneven. "Just… Please… H-hold my hand. Kiss me, I'm scared… I'm scared to go without you."
Alex wiped angrily at the tears coming from her eyes, and leaned back down to comply with Maggie's whispered wish. She kissed her forehead, ignoring the copper taste in her mouth, and leaned lower to kiss the detective's lips. "I love you so much, Maggie Sawyer."
Before she could hear Maggie's reply, a woosh of air behind her made her look up. It was Kara, landing on the concrete with J'onn behind her. "I got this, Alex. Step back."
"Hurry." Alex sniffed, before jumping back as J'onn went to work, throwing the concrete away from her, and freeing the detective within a few seconds.
"We need to get her to the DEO. I'll fly her. Supergirl, you take Alex."
Kara nodded, and went to her sister, whose eyes seemed fixed on Maggie, who J'onn was now pulling into his arms.
The blonde knew it felt eerie, pulling her sister away from Maggie for the second time that night at the exact same place. Only this time, Kara knew, they had hope. And if luck would be on their side at all tonight… Maggie would be okay.
She reached the DEO buildings in under a minute, setting Alex down on the landing pad. The agent immediately raced inside, to the medical ward, and Kara could see that her sister had gone into full 'Doctor Danvers' mode, though her hands were still shaking.
She just hoped that they weren't too late.