Authors Note: Hey everyone! I'm sorry I haven't updated in the last few weeks, my work schedule changed unexpectedly and my boss needed me to work on the weekends. I already have the next chapter nearly completed, so it's ready for next Saturday. On another note, I want to thank all of you that have put up with my inconsistent updates, it mean a lot to me. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this next chapter, and I'll see you on the other side!

Chapter 9

12 hours ago..

Winn stared at the screen in front of him, his eyes drooping with exhaustion. The IT guy had spent the last staring at a screen, waiting for the deleted security footage to reconfigure. There was no real point for him to be there, but he wanted to see first-hand who was in the parking lot that night.

Winn looked down to the mug next to him and frowned when he remembered he ran out of coffee about two hours ago. The sound of the door opening made Winn glance up to see J'onn walking in the office with a few papers in hand and a curious look.

"What are you doing here?" Winn mumbled.

"Well, this is my office," J'onn remarked, "and what are you still doing here? I thought I told you to go home last night." The human only looked back to the screen and shook his head. This wasn't the first time he's had to spend an entire night working. When Winn first started off at CatCo, he would get the occasional threat of being fired if he didn't finish his work by a certain deadline.

"How's the progress been?" the martian asked as he placed papers in a filing cabinet near his desk.

"Slow. Slow. Slow. The friggin download is at 23%. It's ridiculous, I mean I can't make it go any faster, so it's gonna probably take another day to finish." Winn groaned as he rubbed his eyes.

"Why is it taking so long? I thought you've done this before?"

Winn flashed a glare at the director and snapped, "I have, but this is different. Who ever deleted the footage wanted it to stay gone 'till Hell freezes over. I mean there's firewall after firewall and it's nothing but a pain in the ass!"

J'onn took a step back before the human could bite his head off.

"This had better have something to help Kara, because if not I don't think there is anything else we can do." Winn sighed.

J'onn patted his shoulder and look out the window of his office, noticing something a little odd.

"Where is Lane and his men?" the alien asked. Winn looked up and out of the window, only to see about two soldiers standing around, looking bored out of their skulls.

"I don't know, a lot of them left sometime last night. I didn't think anything of it." the human responded.

J'onn peered out the window and continued to look on.

'Lane doesn't do anything without a reason.'

Now..

Kara's eyes opened into darkness. Confusion swept over her until she realized why. Her face had been buried in the crook of Alex's neck. The Kryptonian slowly lifted her head up and turned to look at the room surrounding her.

A small shimmer of sunlight peeked its way into the room through the curtain, allowing her to get a better view. The blonde's arm was hooked around the brunette's waist yet again and half of her lower body was on top of the humans and the sheets were hanging halfway off the bed. Kara smirked as she saw clothes scattered throughout the whole room, and even her own glasses were carelessly lying on the floor.

Kara gently rolled off of Alex and sat on her side to observe the beauty in laying beside her. The blonde was terrified that all of this was a dream and that she would wake up, drooling in her own bed in a run down motel. Kara still was surprised about how she reacted to the older woman's confession. Kara would be lying to herself if she said she hadn't thought of those certain events a hundred times over in her mind.

The Kryptonian watched the human sleep for a short time, occasionally brushing her brown hair, just to make sure it was all still real.

It wasn't until Alex shifted in her sleep that Kara began to retract her hand. The brunette opened her eyes slowly and stared at the ceiling for a moment.

"Good morning." Kara whispered. The small greeting startled Alex, but when she looked to see Kara gazing at her, she began to relax.

"Good morning." Alex replied with a shy smile. The brunette sat up and looked around the room as Kara did and she raised her eyebrows in wonderment. She positioned herself on her side as Kara was and faced the blonde saying, "So last night really did happen."

Kara blushed and nodded her head, unsure of what to say.

This wasn't exactly a normal situation, I mean, who can say they slept with their adopted sibling after being on the run from the government for a murder they didn't commit?

"Was it… well, you know…" Kara ventured.

Alex could only guess what she was going to ask and chuckled, "Yes Kara, it was very good."

The blonde sighed in relief and smiled stating, "I was scared it was all a dream."

"Me too." Alex admitted.

Kara another sense of closure, knowing that Alex felt the same way, but a question popped up in her mind.

"Alex, what does this make us?" she questioned.

"What do you mean?"

Kara struggled for words, hoping she wouldn't say the wrong thing, "Well I'm just thinking that after last night," she started, "we can't really go back to calling each other sisters, and to be honest I don't want to do that again."

Alex eyed the Kryptonian thoughtfully, "I don't want to do that either."

"Okay then, so how do we label this?" she said motioning to Alex and then herself, "Are we girlfriends, lovers, friends with benefits, I honestly don't know."

Alex rolled her eyes and replied, "Well I don't think 'friends with benefits' is a good label."

Kara giggled and nodded, "Okay maybe not that, but you get what I mean."

The brunette looked at the blonde for a moment and replied,"Kara I don't care what we call ourselves as long as we're together." And with that, the older woman leaned in and gave a small, yet loving kiss to the alien.

Kara's heart soared and leaned her head against her hand and asked, "Okay Miss Danvers, what shall we do know?"

Alex smirked and drew her head towards the aliens neck and mumbled against her skin, "I think… it's time… you and I… get ready to head out on the road." and she pulled away playfully.

Kara gasped and smacked Alex's shoulder lightly retorting, "Oh, you suck Danvers!"

Alex laughed and rolled out of the bed, checking her phone for the time and when she turned back to Kara, she noticed that the blonde was staring at her figure intensely.

"I'm being serious Kara, you know we have to head out soon." Alex chuckled.

Kara gave the brunette a pouty face and nodded her head reluctantly. Alex headed into the bathroom, and closed the door, leaving Kara to herself.

The blonde sat up on the edge of the bed and looked around, wondering if she should either A) Join Alex, B) Pack up their things, or C) Go get breakfast.

'Hmmm. I think I'll go get breakfast.' she thought.

Kara then quickly got dressed in civilian clothes and moved to the window. Throwing it open, she jumped out and took off at lightning speeds. The hero soared around the city, taking in the sights when she found a little cafe with hardly any customers.

The blonde landed in an alleyway and began to walk into the tiny establishment. Seriously, compared to all of the other buildings and skyscrapers, the cafe was very small.

The perky alien ordered a very large amount of food, including bagels, croissants, and coffee.

Kara had a little trouble flying it all the the hotel, but managed to get there without spilling anything.

When the Kryptonian slew through the window, Alex was busy putting on her shoes when she looked up and smiled.

"I was wondering where you went. Gotta say, I'm not totally surprised you went for food."

Kara surprised herself when she respond to Alex's joke, instead she just rolled her eyes and tossed the brunette a bagel.

"You know, you never told me where we were gonna go after Coast City." Kara said before taking a sip of her coffee.

"I was thinking maybe we could go to Star City, maybe hang out there for a few days then head to Midway." Alex suggested.

"Sounds like a plan. Do you think we should call J'onn and see how he's doing?"

"No I don't think that would be a good idea, we have no idea what's going on over in the DEO." Alex answered.

Kara nodded silently, and finished her three bagels.

The normal routine then followed; Kara packed up everything in a record time, and Alex stood and watched.

"Show off." she whispered. The blonde winked and took the brunettes hand in her own and lead her out of the room.

As they walked to the elevator, Kara raised an eyebrow and said, "I forgot to ask you but, why did we stay here and not some motel outside the city?"

Alex shrugged and admitted, "Well I just thought if you actually agreed with everything I said last night, then it would have been a little more special if we were in a nice place, instead of a crappy motel."

Kara murmured her agreement and noted that the room did make a better impression. As they stepped into the elevator, Kara felt a sense of peace sweep over her. Despite the conditions they faced now, Kara was with the woman she openly loved. While neither of them had said those three big words yet, it was still implied and that was good enough for Kara.

The two women stayed glued together, their shoulder never separating as they walked towards the parking garage. Kara looked up and down the street, almost regretting not taking Alex up on her offer to explore the city last night.

'We can always come back.' she thought.

As the two walked across the concrete area, filled with cars that were more expensive than a mansion, Kara looked to Alex and asked, "Do you think maybe we could FLY to Star City? It is getting a little annoying driving for hours at a time, instead of taking a few minutes to fly."

"I am not going to explain to you again why we can't fly, you'll just have to deal with it Supergirl." Alex remarked.

"Oh come on Alex, I could take us somewhere better than the Star City! For instance, we could go to Hawaii, or Paris, or - "

*Pff*

"Ah!" Kara cried. She reached to her neck to feel a small tube sticking out.

'Ohh not againnn' she thought, trying to pull out the dart.

Kara could hear Alex shouting right next to her, but it was as if she were miles away. Kara looked to the brunette but felt two more darts enter her back.

"Kara!" Alex shouted as the alien fell to her knees. The agent tried to catch her but suddenly, all she could see were soldiers appearing from behind cars, all aiming their weapons at her.

Her instincts kicked in and she reached for her gun, but before she could pull it out, a voice barked at her, "Stop right there Danvers!" Alex stopped her arm, and turned her head to see a smug looking General Lane standing in between his troops.

"You can't fight your way out of here Danvers. Not without the help of Supergirl."

Alex glanced at the slumped over alien at her feet and frowned as she spat, "Supergirl didn't kill the damn mayor Lane!"

"That is to debated." he started, "We are taking you both back to the DEO. Now you can do this the easy way, or the hard way. You're a smart girl Miss Danvers, all can be forgotten if you just come with us."

Damn it. Lane was right. Alex had no way of getting out of this conundrum. Alex held out her wrists and accepted the motions that followed.

Her hands were cuffed, and she was relatively calm. That is until she saw two soldiers roughly grab Kara by her arms and carelessly drag her away. They tossed the unconscious blonde against a military truck she had never seen before, but she quickly realized what it was.

When they opened the back door, Alex saw green radiate from the walls and she felt her heart sink. It looked like the training room, but the agent knew that with that level of exposure, it would seriously damage Kara.

"You can't put her in there - please! She can't take that much exposure!" Alex shouted. She tried to trash against the men leading her away to her own transportation, but with the cuffs, she couldn't do much.

Ales struggled, but was stopped when she felt the stock of a rifle hit her lower back.

The brunette lost her balance and the men finally led her to the back of another truck. Immediately Alex regretted ever letting them take Kara and she tried to break the grip that one of the soldiers had on her, only to lead to another hit, but this time on her shoulder blade.

They forced her to sit down in the back of the vehicle and Alex nearly hissed when Lane climbed in behind her.

"Get comfy, because we have a ways to go before we get back. Until then, I'm gonna ask you some questions. And you will answer them." he stated.

Alex glared at him, thinking of any possible ways she could get an advantage over him and run away from the troops.

Her idea's, however, were crushed when they slammed the door shut and Alex was locked in. With only Lane to keep her company.

'Please, God, just let Kara be okay.'

Ending Note: And there ends the next installment of IWLY. Again I apologize for my horrible inconsistency with updates, I really had little control over what happened. Like I said, I'm already working on the next chapter so it will be out on time next Saturday. I know this definitely wasn't the greatest chapter, but I was pressed for time and didn't want to go a third week without an update. Anyway fell free to leave a follow, fave, or review, and until next time!