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Beep.

Beep.

Beep.

It wasn't the song.

It was the first thing her brain realized. The beeping that kept continuing at a steady pace was harsh and unrelenting. There was no beauty or melody to it. It was as if it were poking her...prodding her...and eventually...she gave her. Her eyes opened, slowly at first. She was groggy and confused. It took a few moments for her to fully open her eyes and take in her surroundings.

DEO.

Med bay.

Then it hit her, why she had been there in the first place- Her hand reached down and she realized that it wasn't a dream, she'd had her child...when she saw no bassinet or person holding her baby in the room in sight panic set in. Alex didn't care how her body felt, all she knew was that she needed to find her little girl.

J'onn.

It wasn't the same.

She didn't have the link.

Not like before.

That made her worry all the more as she pushed herself up into a sitting position, which forced her brain to spin and nausea to hit her. Pushing off the blankets and pulling at everything connecting herself, she was worked into a frenzy-

"Alex! Stop! No!"

Her head shot up and Kara was standing there in the doorway. Her sister was immediately at her side pushing Alex's hands away from IVs and other things.

Kara huffed. "I leave your side for five minutes to get a coffee-"

"What happened?" Alex shot off quickly. "Where's my daughter? Where's J'onn? Whe-"

"Shhh…" Kara tried to comfort as she started to cover Alex up using one hand to manage the blankets. "They're safe. I promise, they're safe."

"I want to see them," Alex whispered, tears falling down her face. "How long was I asleep?"

Kara was just staring at her now and it was making her anxious. It was a look she knew well, like Kara was trying to figure out the correct way to say something to Alex. "You were out for nearly a week, Alex," Kara said gently. "I seriously stepped away for just a couple of minutes. One of us has been with you the entire time." She sat down in the chair next to the bed. Kara let out a sigh. "Alex, J'onn and the baby aren't here…"

"What?" she breathed out in a broken whisper.

All of the worst case scenarios hit her all at once, Cadmus at the top of that list.

"Lucy had to let the army in. There was no other way, so J'onn took the baby and Eliza. Doctor Hamilton is also there now," Kara explained. "I promise you, they're all safe. She's healthy and she's being looked after."

"A week?" Alex huffed. She stared up at the ceiling. She knew that she had to have missed so much of her daughter in that space of time. She remembered reading how especially in the first three months how some people said that they took pictures of their child every day because they changed so much in that short period of time. "She's not going to know me…"

"Of course she is," Kara assured sweetly. "You're her mom… It's a bond that can never be taken away."

"I haven't even held her yet, Kara," Alex cried.

Her sister moved to hug her. "I can take you to them as soon as Hernandez clears you. It's going to be okay. I promise. You'll see." Her sister, Kara Danvers, always the optimist...the hoper of far flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams. Of course, someone needed to have that light, that hope, and that certainty that the future would prove beautiful and safe and perfect. This was never how she pictured her life, especially with a child…

Her heart broke a little.

The panic was still there.

She just hoped that Kara was right.

"Are you certain you have everything you're going to need?" Benanti questioned for about the fiftieth time since Doctor Hernandez had cleared her to leave Med Bay and the DEO. Apparently Benanti had been a lot of help while she'd been unconscious and she'd been quite busy with the shopping. Alex supposed that it made sense since Benanti was the only woman at the DEO with a child of her own.

"Yes," Kara responded this time. "And if not, I can fly back and get it."

Alex just looked between the two of them. "I just want to see her," she whispered. She was exhausted, which didn't make sense to her since she'd been out for almost a week. How did that work? Or was it more of a too much sleep tired kind of thing? All Alex knew was that she needed to see her daughter...she needed to see for herself that her little one was okay. She also just needed to hold her.

Kara didn't argue or make her wait.

They were off and away, Alex and Kara...and baggage. Alex didn't even ask what it all was, just assumed it was necessary. She had worried that they'd be tracked, but Kara assured that if Cadmus could track them, then they'd have already faced that battle.

Even though Kara possessed both super speed and flight, it still took them some time to travel to the place she'd been promised would be safe. Alex had somehow passed out along the way, fatigue tugging hold. When they landed, it was beginning to grow dark and Alex blinked her eyes as she took in their surroundings. Nothing looked familiar. "Where are we?" she questioned.

"Scotland," Kara replied.

"Scotland?"

Before her sister responded, she was leading her away from where they'd landed near the water and up towards a cottage. "Summer Isles. The cottage is rented under a name that shouldn't arouse any suspicious and it's all paid for in cash and in advance."

"What about Supergirl flying here-"

Kara just beamed at her. "Stop worrying...and just get excited."

When they entered the cottage, it was warm and smelled of food. Alex realized at that moment that she was hungry, but she was also still quite exhausted. More than any of that, though, she wanted to see her daughter. Her sister dropped the items that she'd been lugging with them on their trip near a couch. Alex didn't question any of it, she just looked around. No one came to greet them and Kara was insistently leading her in an obvious specific direction. As they moved through the cottage, she took in the baby things here and there (most of it, she swore was off of the gift registry that Benanti made her set up when they'd gone on that quite interesting trip to Babies R' Us). She was about to open her mouth to say something, but Kara pulled her into a bedroom.

Looking around, Alex immediately recognized key items from home (her pillow and her blanket). There was a bassinet set up near the bed along with other baby items that she remembered Benanti telling her were necessities. They'd never even gotten to the point where they purchased a crib, Alex had kept putting it off...she hadn't wanted to until she was back home in National City (she didn't want to set things up in Midvale even though her mother really wanted her to).

"Oh good, you're here."

Turning, she found herself now being guided to the bed. "Doctor Hamilton-"

"I'm staying in the next cottage over," she explained. "Unless I'm needed back at the DEO, then Supergirl takes me-"

She supposed that that was good to know that there was someone so close by that was a doctor in case anything was wrong. Alex found herself being immediately looked over and she sighed because she knew that it was useless to argue about it. Hernandez had looked her over before they'd left, but the two doctors were likely not in constant communication. "My baby, Kara-"

The doctor apparently had a sudden need to examine her throat. Alex was not pleased, but was trying to be the best patient she could be given everything that had gone on. Kara disappeared and she found herself being ordered into bed by Hamilton. The doctor had even assisted her with removing her shoes and tucking her into bed.

"I'll get you a water bottle, you really need to stay hydrated," Hamilton said before closing the door and leaving Alex alone.

Closing her eyes, she tried to stay calm and ward off the fatigue that was threatening to drag her back to sleep. She was counting, telling herself they had a minute before she was getting out of bed-

Alex.

"J'onn," she whispered out loud even though she'd heard his voice in her head.

The bed shifting on one side brought her eyes open once again and she expected to see Hamilton, but instead, J'onn was sitting there with a bright smile on his face and a wrapped newborn in his arms. He had their daughter held out so that she could take her. "Someone's been waiting to see you again," he whispered as he set the baby in her arms before leaning forward and pressing a kiss to her forehead.

Tears nearly immediately welled up and she was hit by a sudden wave of emotions. She was so happy, but so torn about having missed this time with her child. "She's so perfect," Alex whispered. She hadn't missed the change in her daughter's appearance when J'onn had passed her to her. "She's really okay?" she questioned as she looked up to him for the answers.

"Yes," he responded immediately. "She hasn't quite figured out her form-"

"So, she'll be able to shape shift-"

"Maybe-"

"J'onn-"

"Shh…" he cooed and moved so that he was sitting next to her on the bed, his arm wrapping around her. "Enjoy this moment, Alex. Don't worry about the rest of the world right now."

It wouldn't come again, she told herself. This was her moment with her daughter, for the first time in nearly a week. "She doesn't have a name yet...unless you named-"

"Not without you."

"I thought that I'd see her and I'd just know her name, but it's not that easy," Alex whispered as her finger traced along her daughter's cheek.

"Your mother has suggestions."

She beamed at that. Alex leaned in and kissed her little one's face. No amount of reading, she realized, would ever have prepared her to truly be a mother. The feelings she felt, she hadn't expected them...or the connection she felt with her daughter...and even though it had only been moments, she swore that her daughter knew that she was her mother.

"A name can wait," he whispered. "All that matters is that you're both healthy...we're together and safe…"

And he was right.

TBC…