Authors Note: Hey again everyone! I hope you all had a good week and I'm excited to bring you this next chapter! Sadly I won't be able to publish two chapters this week like I said I would, I just don't have the time this weekend. I would like to remind everyone that I don't know exactly where all the cities are in the DC Universe, so please be understanding if I get a location completely wrong. Anyway I hope you enjoy this next installment, and I'll see you on the other side!
Chapter 6
"Please, please, please?"
"No."
"Please only for a little bit!"
"For the last time Kara, we are not stopping just to spend time at the beach!" the brunette groaned.
"Come on Alex! When was the last time we went? You and I both know we could use it!" the blonde said motioning to Alex's pale yet beautiful skin.
"We can't just stop Kara. We have to keep moving to Coast City." she said irritated since Kara had been begging her to stop for the last 25 minutes.
"I promise we'll only stay for half an hour, okay? I'm sick of sitting in this car all day, I need to stretch my legs out." the alien whined.
Alex closed her eyes for a moment, contemplating if she should listen to the younger woman or just keep driving. It would be nice to stop and walk around she thought. Yet the nagging feeling that anything could happen to the both of them, even if they stopped for only a minute during the day, kept pounding in the brunettes head.
Alex turned her head slightly to look at Kara who in return gave Alex her best puppy dog eyes.
'Oh crap' the brunette thought. Whenever Kara gave Alex that look, the brunette was powerless to deny her anything.
"Oh… fine we'll stop at some sort of beach." she groaned. Kara dropped the puppy eyes and smiled happily.
"I already looked on the GPS, there's one about 11 miles down the next turn."
Alex rubbed her eyes and turned her blinker on, cursing herself that she couldn't stand up to Kara's looks.
"Which color do you want?" the blonde said holding four different colors of swimsuits in her hands.
Alex eyed the swim wear with a cocked eyebrow.
"Do I really have to wear one?" she asked. Kara's face fell and Alex could tell she was going to give her puppy eyes again so she sighed, "Fine I'll take the black one." Kara chuckled and handed the two piece to her and ducked into a changing room.
Alex frown as she tried on her two piece swimsuit. She wasn't thrilled to go to a beach, and was even less happy when Kara saw a clothing store, and insisted on stopping.
After changing into her normal clothes she stepped out of the changing room, then she had to fight the urge to drop her jaw.
Standing in front of her was Kara in a light blue bikini, to which made Alex's stomach flutter.
"Is it not a good color on me?" she asked casually. Alex looked at the ceiling for a brief moment, trying not to stare at the beauty in front of her and quickly said, "No it's good, Kara I think it suits you."
Kara smiled and went back into her room to change in point five seconds.
The girls went to the register and Alex couldn't get that feeling in her stomach to go away.
But then again, does she even want it to go away?
Alex quietly got her swimwear on and tried her best not to look at Kara who got ready in a fraction of the time it took Alex to get her shoes off. Even there were no cameras anywhere near the place they parked, Alex threw on her scarlet wig and tucked her gun in her purse.
"Come on slow poke!" Kara said shutting the driver's door and gently pushing Alex towards the path.
The area they chose wasn't too far away from Coast City and wasn't as busy as it could have been on the summer day.
The girls walked side by side breathing in the ocean air, and Alex relaxed as the sun's warmth rained down on her body. The brunette looked around beach, scouting for a spot for the two of them.
As Alex observed the area, she noticed two guys looking at Kara like two toddlers at a piece of candy. The brunette noticed that one of them looked as if he were about to walk over to them and start talking to the blonde, and that was not acceptable in Alex's book.
Alex intertwined her fingers with Kara's and pulled her close, frowning at the man who took a step back and blushed.
Luckily for Alex, Kara was oblivious to her actions and welcomed her hand warmly.
"What about right here?" the alien asked, pointing to a secluded spot further away from everyone else. Alex nodded and laid out towels she picked up from the store and motioned for Kara to sit first.
"Remember we're only staying for a little bit okay?" Alex warned with a chuckle. Kara rolled her eyes and sat down, stretching her arms and legs out. Before Alex could follow her lead, the brunette gazed at Kara and she felt her cheeks grow red and her heart start to beat faster in her chest.
Alex did her best to ignore everything and she sat next to the blonde, before closing her eyes and stretching out.
They sat there in silence, relishing in the warmth of the sun mixed with the cool ocean breeze.
It was finally Kara who broke the silence, "This isn't so bad right?" she asked sitting up.
Alex opened her eyes and leaned her upper body on her arms.
"It's not, but that wasn't really the problem Kara." she remarked.
"I know, I know. You have to admit though, this is better than sitting in a car." the alien chuckled.
Alex smirked and nodded her head. It was better, and momentously, happiness swept over Alex and her smile grew.
She looked at Kara's face which glowed in the sunlight and her heart began thumping harder the more she stared.
'I wish things could have been different.' she thought. Alex leaned back down along with Kara and they closed their eyes to bask in the sun for just a little while longer.
The brunette planned to look at her phone to check the time but decided against it.
Screw the plan. Alex wanted to be with Kara for as long as she could in whatever way possible, so 30 minutes ended up turning into 1 hour. Whoops.
"How can you be so sure he's gonna be here? You know his boss is kind of dead." Winn pointed out.
"Just because she's dead doesn't mean he's unemployed Winn." J'onn murmured as they exited the elevator to a long hallway. The martian took long steps to a desk right outside of a door that had a man disassembling the hinges.
"Excuse me sir, do you know where Mayor Caine's secretary is?" he asked politely.
The man turned and pointed inside of the office and went right back to unscrewing the hinges.
J'onn entered the former mayor's office to find a man with glasses, sorting paperwork and tapping his pencil on the desk in front of him.
"Excuse me are you Brandon Fisher?" he asked.
The man turned around surprised and nodded his head, "Who are you?"
J'onn pulled out a badge that normally said DEO but was replaced with FBI.
"I'm special agent Henshaw and this is my assistant," he said motioning at Winn, "we would like to talk to you about the night Mayor Caine was murdered."
Fisher grew a solemn look and shook his head, "Again? I've already talked to like 5 different detectives and I really don't want to make this a 6th." J'onn understood where the man was coming from.
"Please Mr. Fisher, we need to conduct our own investigation and we need your help to prove someone's innocence. It will only take a few minutes." J'onn replied calmly.
The secretary sighed and leaned against the desk, "Okay ask away."
J'onn breathed a sigh of relief and began to question the man.
"Can you walk us through what happened that night?"
"Well I was writing a report for Ms. Caine and all the sudden Supergirl walked in from the elevator. I asked her what she was doing here and she just said to see Caine."
Fisher took a breath, "She seemed different. Supergirl I mean. I don't know it just seemed like she had a lot on her mind so I let her in. This office isn't exactly sound proof so I got a lot of what they talked about."
J'onn and Winn stood a moment waiting for the secretary to continue.
"Ms. Caine offered Supergirl a job, though I'm not entirely sure as to what it was. Then Supergirl said no and started talking off about how she didn't want to be, and I quote, 'The Mayor's personal lap-dog."
J'onn thought about this for a minute then realized something.
"Wait so you weren't in the office at the time of their argument?"
Fisher shook his head confusingly, "No, like I said I was outside the whole time. Any Ms. Caine just exploded on Supergirl, telling her how dangerous she would be without a leash and so on. I don't think Supergirl said anything else, but when Ms. Caine said a word I'm not comfortable repeating, Supergirl left in a hurry. She seemed sad as she left."
J'onn and Winn's eyes widened and Winn asked, "When did Supergirl punch a hole in the door?"
Fisher shook his head questioningly, "She didn't. It was sometime after I found Ms. Caines body and I went up here and there was just a hole in the door."
J'onn frowned with all the knew knowledge he just consumed.
"Did you see anyone else that night? Besides Supergirl and Ms. Caine?"
"No. I mean… not really. I saw a big tan truck leave the parking lot, only it wasn't really a truck, it kind of looked like a SWAT car only more armored."
"Why didn't you tell the other investigators this?" Winn asked.
Fisher shrugged, "I told this army guy everything. He was the first to question me and none of the other cops asked me anything else."
J'onn's eyes widened, "What was his name?"
Fisher took a minute and thought about the name, "I think it was Bane or something."
'Damn it, Lane,' J'onn thought.
The martian wrote some of the details down in a notepad and said his goodbye to Fisher but was stopped by Winn.
"Wait one more thing; where is your security room?" he asked.
"If you're looking for footage of the parking lot, don't bother. The NCPD looked it over and there was nothing left. It was as if it had all been erased."
"Can you still show me it?" Winn persisted. Fisher nodded and led the men to a room with a wall of screens, aimed at different areas of the building. The secretary left them alone and Winn went straight to tapping on the keyboard that connected the monitors
"I don't get it, why did Lane lie about all the stuff Kara said that night?" Winn asked, not taking his eyes off the screen.
"I don't know, he got a lot of details wrong and I'm starting to think he did it deliberately. Probably used the opportunity to find a way to put Kara behind bars." J'onn remarked.
"That wouldn't surprise me at all."
"Can you get the footage back?" the martian asked and Winn only shrugged.
"I think I can but I'll have to do it from the DEO, there's no telling how long it will take."
"Alright take what you need and remember: don't tell anyone about what we're doing." Winn gave him a brisk nod and stopped typing.
"J'onn?"
"Yeah?"
"What kind of alien deletes security footage?"
J'onn froze and he looked at Winn.
"There would be no point... Whoever killed Mayor Caine couldn't have been an alien." J'onn said boldly. Winn didn't share his enthusiasm and looked back to the screen.
"Then what human did?"
Ending Note: And there concludes this chapter of I Won't Lose You. I hope you enjoyed and I'm excited to bring you guys the next chapter! Again I'm sorry I won't be able to double post like I planned, but there isn't much I can do about it. Feel free to leave a fave, follow, or review by the way and until next time!