The elevator into Watchtower was barely opened when Alex squeezed her way passed the slowly opening doors. Her prized 'S' shielded squeaky toy was soon abandoned in favor of running that much faster toward her new target. "Maggie. Maggie, I missed you." She barked not caring none save J'onn would be able to understand her as she weaved her way eagerly passed the maze of legs between her and the pair of boot clade feet she was hunting for.
Not that J'onn nor M'gann stayed long both called away on another case of 'hero work' now Kara was occupied with cooing over the pint-sized dogs running around the place. One of them is her elder sister.
"Sawyer." Alex hummed nuzzling her face against the pant leg as she rears up onto her back legs to wrap her front paws as much as she was able around the jean clade leg as she could reach. "Lin gave me yummy peanut better after you left." She goes on her tail thumping happily as she recounted the earlier offering. "It was really yummy, but I ate it all, sorry. So, you'll need to restock on it later." She warns aware none of the lingering occupants would be able to understand her chattered barks and whimpers for her true attempt at communication with the other humans around her.
"Uhhh…." A distinctly not Maggie voice above her draws Alex's gaze skywards to look up into the face of the one she was clinging to.
"That hurts, Gracie girl." Maggie sighed the real Gracie somehow still asleep in her arms as Alex guiltily looked between Kelly and her ex at Maggie's overly wounded comment. "But then again I guess I deserve it considering…" Maggie goes on teasing as she gently lifts her true dog as if in an explanative offering.
"My twin." Alex cheered her tail wagging, if possible, even faster at the limited sight of the napping pup in her ex's arms. "Le'me see her, is she okay? I only saw her that one time, before I knew she was yours. Le, me see." She whined scrambling over to a chuckling Maggie and nearly tripping Kelly in the process.
"And just when I thought she couldn't get cuter." Kara cooed her city-powering smile growing even more cheerful at the exchange.
"Not now Kara." Alex sighed now attempting to shimmy her way up Maggie's pant leg much to the giggling woman's amusement "Maggie le' me see her." Alex whimpered dropping into a more pouting sit as she stared in longing up at the snuggled bundle that was Gracie Sawyer.
All of this happened in the space of only a few quick beats as Linda tripped her way out of the elevator behind the now sulking puppy that was the real Alex Danvers.
"You have the guilty face," Linda says almost as soon as she regained her uneven balance. "Why with the guilty face?" she probed her eyes narrowing suspiciously as she appraises what she could see of her husband's hunched spot behind a desk of differently screened computers.
"What, no I don't." Winn waves off now making a point of keeping his eyes on the computer screen nearest him as he rolled his chair from one data-filled screen toward another. "This is my normal face thank you, babe." He adds earning mirrored amused laughs from Linda and Maggie.
"Sawyer, why does he have a guilty face?" Linda sighed turning an expectant look toward Maggie as she asks.
"No ide…. seriously Lin? You know full well peanut butter…." Maggie starts to sigh noticing the not completely licked away remains of the treat smears at the corner of her happily squirming puppy's lips if not the small smears of it clinging to the toy Gracie was so proudly dragging along in her clumsy adorable dash from the elevator.
"Yeah, well you didn't tell me that your girl is a regular puppy ninja." Linda defends earning a very pleased sigh from Gracie as the pup's tail thumped happily against the floor before she tried yet again to paw at her human's leg wanting some attention. Or more importantly to get a closer look at her fur twin snuggling along the crook of Maggie's arm.
"Gracie?" Maggie scoffed still attempting to keep a now more awake Alex balanced the same time her ex seemed just as determined to jump down to Gracie's level once she'd decided she was finished napping for the time being.
"Yes, Gracie, seriously with the way she pretzeled herself behind the toilet I thought she'd break something if she'd stop shaking long enough to twist the wrong way." Linda says guilt layering her tone as she admits this. "and since when has Gracie girl had a twin?"
"Not her twin." Maggie says finally relenting in setting her ex down but before she could get her hands on Gracie the two pups start chasing one another around in what Maggie was already guessing to be a serious case of zoomies "That one." Maggie attempts to point towards the fur tornado that was the uncollared Alex as she and Gracie continued their mock wrestling match "That's actually my ex. Alex." The Latina introduces only for Gracie to look over with a happy bark at the name.
"Didn't you say Alex was human?" Linda asked "So what is this like an adorable werewolf deal or…..?" the question trails off at the whined cry of pain sounding from under a desk the two roughhousing pups disappeared under.
"You hurt my dog Danvers and I'll…" Maggie starts to warn as she like Kelly immediately drops to her knees to get a better look at the two puppies crowded under it.
"She's the one coming after me, Mags you know I wouldn't hurt a puppy especially yours." Alex defends still attempting Maggie's true puppy.
Kelly's hands wrap around her squirming form whilst on the other side Maggie was wrangling Gracie with a sigh nuzzling her face against the pup's warmed furred back. Kelly tries to hide her twinges of jealousy when the move earns a happy sigh from puppy Alex as she gently cradles Gracie as she straightens.
Alex stretches to nuzzle along her girlfriend's jaw in reassurance though her own jealousy wasn't as easy to hide in her current state.
"Okay grumpy girl, take it easy." Maggie sighed with a low chuckle at the soft growls coming from the puppy in Kelly's arms.
The stiff clearing of a through has four heads turning as Linda strides over to them. "This might help things for a while." She says holding up what at first seemed to be a normal puppy-sized collar aside from the small watch battery-looking device affixed to it. "What'cha say, Alex? Wanna trade?" Kara's twin questions giving Alex's head a light scratch.
"Erm, Lin? This is Alex." Maggie points out watching in confusion as after what seemed to be a gratefully agreeing bark from Gracie, Linda unbuckles her puppy's collar switching it for the one she was carrying.
"Sorry to say, Sawyer." Winn rather than Linda answers hitting a few final keys on the computer keyboard before finally standing up from his computer as Linda finished refastening the collar around the true Gracie's neck. "Care to explain?" Winn questioned his eyes on the now guilty-looking young dog held in Kelly's arms.
"Gracie?" Maggie asked
"Guess again, Sawyer" Alex answers more than a little pleased it was her real voice this time in place of her normal puppy barks.
"Danvers?"
"Alex?"
Alex's head dips even lower in guilt at the shocked echoes from Maggie and Kelly. "Hi, everyone." she greets looking around the room.
