Authors Note: Hey again everyone! I hope you all enjoyed the last chapter and that your excited for this one! I want to thank you again for reading this story and for the follows and favs! This chapter isn't as Kara/Alex heavy as the others have been, it more so focuses on what's happening with J'onn and Winn figuring out who murdered the mayor. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter and I'll see you on the other side!

Chapter 4

Not so long after Alex kidnapped Kara, and the DEO restrained the escapee, Supergirl's time to get her bearings in order ran out.

Winn and J'onn were in the director's office, quietly discussing the events that just unfolded a few minutes ago when General Lane busted through the door.

"J'onzz! Where the hell is Supergirl!?" he barked. Despite his threatening stance, J'onn kept a straight face and acted as Alex instructed him.

"She's in the base Lane. Last I saw her she was in down by the holding cells." J'onn had no problem with lying to the old man before him, especially if it meant keeping Alex and Kara safe.

"My men have looked all over the base and she is nowhere to be found!" Lane stopped and took a breath, "She escaped."

J'onn tried to act surprised at this news and Winn only sat there, praying that the General wouldn't start asking him questions.

"That's ridiculous, Supergirl wouldn't just run off wh-"

"Well she did! She must have left when that damn prisoner broke free. Where are your security monitors?" he demanded.

"Why?" Winn spoke up. Lane in response frowned at the IT guy and snapped, "Why do you think? I need to see where she ran off to and your cameras will help me!"

"What if she ran out at super speeds? You most likely won't be able to see her leaving then." Winn countered.

"I don't care if she ran, skipped, or walked out of here, I want to look at your cameras!" he barked.

'Did you erase the footage?' a voice asked inside Winn's head, almost making him jump in his chair.

'What the!? Who-'

'Relax Winn its just me, J'onn. Don't look at me and do not give away this conversation. I need to know, did you erase the security footage?' The martians voice rang rather quickly in Winn's head.

'Uhh… yeah, yeah I put it on a loop so it just looks like Alex and Kara never left her lab.'

'Good now show that to Lane' and with that Winn could almost feel J'onn leaving his mind and his eyes snapped back to a confused Lane, staring at him saying, "Well?"

"Well what?" he asked dazed.

"Are you gonna show me the footage or not?" he snapped. Winn reacted and jumped off his chair and walked over to J'onn's computer and asked if he could show the footage, to which the martian replied with a brisk nod.

Winn was met with a picture of Alex, Kara, and J'onn in what looks like the aftermath of the Fort Rozz show down. He quickly pulled up the camera monitors, showing multiple views of inside and outside of the base.

"Which one do you want to see?" he asked politely. Lane stood uncomfortably close to Winn and replied, "My men say they followed Supergirl to Agent Danvers' office, show me that one."

Winn hesitated, but he pulled up the camera showing Alex's door. They watched the group enter and Alex turning to yell at the soldiers. After a few minutes of seeing no one enter or leave, Lane gave a huff of annoyance and then he frowned as he saw J'onn leave the room, looking very focused. Lane leaned in to get a closer look at the door, not wanting to miss anything.

At this point in the video, the inmate "escaped" and Alex would have been carrying out Supergirl, but instead of seeing that, the camera gave a quick flicker and the door remained closed, and no one even turned the handle.

"What was that?" Lane spoke up.

"What was what?" Winn asked. He genuinely didn't know what Lane was talking about, he didn't see anything wrong with the tape.

"Why did the camera fritz?" the old man snapped.

"I don't know, maybe when the alarms went off the camera was affected." Winn lied.

"But no one comes out! We saw Supergirl go in and she hasn't come out! Only… J'onzz." He said looking at the martian.

"What now General?" he said, running his hand through his hair.

"What were you all talking about in that lab? And why did you leave?" he asked coldly. J'onn sighed and fight the urge to roll his eyes.

"We talked about mayor Caine's death. I tried to help boost Supergirl's memory and when I couldn't, I figured I wasn't much help so I left to go to my office." Winn eyed J'onn in surprise. He was quite the liar, he even almost had Winn convinced.

"What about you?" the General asked Winn, "you were in the room too, did you see Supergirl leave?"

'Tell him you left not too soon after I did and when you heard the alarms you ducked into my office.' J'onns voice whispered in his mind.

"I left a little after J'onn did and then I heard all of the alarms so I went to the nearest room, which was this office." Winn replied rather smoothly.

'Good job.' J'onn went silent again in Winn's mind and Lane folded his arms and looked at the martian suspiciously.

"J'onzz, where is Agent Danvers?" he murmured just loud enough for him to hear. J'onn clenched his jaw but quickly came up with a response.

"Agent Danvers is following a lead on a possible alien encounter in National City. She won't be back for a while." J'onn gave a mental smirk but was quickly deterred as Lane gave a grin of his own and asked, "Where did she leave?"

"Excuse me?" J'onn answered.

"What exit did she take?"

"I don't know, what does that have to do with this?" J'onn replied. Lane ignored his question and asked a now nervous Winn to pull the footage from all of the exits. The General spent a good 10 minutes looking at each camera and when he got to the garage camera he chuckled.

"I am so blind." He commented, "Danvers took off with Supergirl didn't she?" he asked J'onn.

The martian tensed but kept his cool; for his girls. "I highly doubt it. Danvers wouldn't risk her entire life for someone she barely knows."

"I think you're wrong about that. Danvers was obviously upset about the charges against Supergirl, and I saw your little picture of the three of you on the computer. Those two are closer than you make them out to be and I bet my entire career that they ran off together." Lane chuckled.

Small beads of sweat began to form on Winn's forehead and he did his best to keep himself from hyperventilating at this news. "And you know what? I'm beginning to think you know where she went." he said coldly, getting up in J'onn's face, clearly not remembering that he was a martian who could easily backhand Lane through the wall, to which J'onn tried not to do.

"General Lane, I don't know where my agent is, or Supergirl for that matter. So unless you show me evidence of her escape, we're done here." he sternly said. Lane only continued to smirk and he slowly walked to the door.

"Don't worry Director, I'll bring back your agent, and Supergirl. Huh, I might need two cells after this." He then grinned and left the room.

"What now J'onn? He's going to be looking for Alex now too and that doesn't give them as big a head start as they need." Winn flustered.

"All we can do is warn them and try and figure out who killed the mayor." J'onn replied calmly. All Winn did was bury his head in his hands and groan.

"Which bed do you want?" the blonde asked.

"It doesn't matter to me Kara, they're both the same." the brunette chuckled.

Alex and Kara had just got into a motel right outside of Central City pretty late in the day and both of them were ready to sleep the day off. The room itself wasn't as bad as Kara thought it would be. It had good water pressure in the shower, a decent television, and the beds were only slightly uncomfortable.

Kara took the bed closest to the door, just in case someone tried to break in, she would be the first to act so no one went for Alex. The blonde knew she didn't have to be so concerned with Alex but she just couldn't help it.

"We're gonna need to go on a supply run in the morning." Alex commented as she closed the blinds and locked the door.

"What type of supplies?" the blonde inquired.

"Well clothes for starters, and we should probably get food for you. Maybe we should pick up some books or something to keep busy while we drive." Alex suggested.

"That sounds good, do you want me to go get it all now? It won't take but a second." Kara offered yet Alex shook her head.

"No, we'll go together in the morning. Then after that we should head towards Coast City." the brunette explained.

Kara murmured her agreement and tucked herself into the bed, debating if she should stay up a little longer or just go right to sleep. The blonde was surprised when Alex removed a small amount of clothing. She turned her head to hide her blush at seeing Alex in her undergarments.

After Alex crawled under her covers, she propped her head on her hand and turned to the younger woman.

"Hey do you remember the first time you spent the night in a hotel?" she asked with a grin. Kara turned her head back to Alex and laughed.

"Yeah how could I forget? I pointed out what everyone else in the building was doing. I think I might have given Eliza nightmares that night."

Alex laughed as she remembered how Kara told the family that there were people smoking pot and doing many other nighttime activities that horrified her mother, and the brunette swore that she'd never heard her father laugh that hard before.

"Hey do you wanna take a vacation together?" asked Kara, snapping the brunette out of her thoughts.

"Depends if we get your name cleared, besides we're gonna be doing a lot of traveling as it is in the next few days." Alex pointed out.

"Well I know that, but… I was just wondering if we could go somewhere like we used too, you know, just the two of us." Kara questioned shyly. Alex didn't detect her embarrassment and sighed.

"Where would you wanna go?" she asked.

"How about Hawaii? Or maybe we could go to Paris, or somewhere in Italy?"

'Somewhere that's romantic.' she added in the back of her head.

Alex smiled and nodded her head. "Yeah I think that would be nice. Just as long as you're flying us there."

"Deal." Kara agreed grinning. The two then found themselves looking at one another for quite awhile and eventually Alex spoke up, "Well we better get some sleep, good night Kara." and with that, the agent closed her eyes and let her dreams take over her mind.

"Good night Alex." the alien whispered, reluctantly looking away and turning off the light on the nightstand next to her bed.

Kara rested her gaze on Alex's face who fell asleep rather quickly. Kara could hear the gentle breathing of Alex and found comfort in the sound, knowing that she was alive and well, and close to her.

The blonde could only feel grateful that the woman sleeping a few feet from her, risked her entire future just to keep her safe. Kara knew that she needed to figure out some way to thank the brunette. It was the least she could do.

Kara eventually let her mind clear and she closed her eyes, and let the rhythm of Alex's heartbeat lull her to sleep.

Ending Note: And there ends this chapter! Just a reminder, I don't know where most of the cities are in the DC Universe so in later chapters if you see a fluke about that kind of stuff, just bear with me. Anyway feel free to leave a follow, fav, and review, and until next time!