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"You guys really take yourself way too seriously! I mean I'm a Professor of Linguistics, not some sort of mad scientist in the making!" Davey stumbled slightly as Alex guided her through the DEO hallways. Lucy followed closely behind them, fascinated by the interaction.
Davey had refused Alex's offer to lean on her instead of the cane, as she blindly stumbled through unseen corridors. Instead she just hooked her free arm in Alex's, much to Alex's surprise, told her to go ahead, and that she would manage. Of course the resulted in a couple of close calls with her tripping over her own feet.
As they approached the main room Alex breathed an audible sigh of relief as she removed the blindfold off of Davey's eyes, and handed her glasses back. Davey promptly put her glasses back on, adjusted to the light, and nodded at Alex in an unspoken thank you.
"Well Agent Danvers, this is defiantly not where I imagined you would be working while you were in Stanford." Davey looked around, and then turned to Alex smiling mischievously. "Too many guns; I just remember a time when you thought science would change the world."
"Let me assure you, Dr. Davis, Agent Danvers is one of most highly skilled science officers." J'onn began descending down the steps leading from the monitors to meet the three women at the bottom. "She is also very efficient with a firearm when needed."
"Well that is good to know, Agent…" Davey squinted at J'onn, his face seeming a little familiar to her.
"Director Henshaw. It's pleasure Dr. Davis, Agent Danvers told us you are the best in your field." J'onn face didn't convey any emotion, as he extended a hand for Davey to shake. She took his hand and shook it firmly, fumbling with her words a bit.
"Ah well… Thank you, Director. I hope I won't disappoint." A crooked smile followed in hopes to break some ice between her and the seemingly indifferent man. His face didn't shift, as he began to walk away.
"Don't worry about him, Dr. Davis. He's a little rough around the edges, but he's actually not half bad." Lucy was now standing next to her, and Davey couldn't help but feel a pang of jealousy of her. She seemed at ease around Alex, which meant they were close. Not that should bother her, or be any of her concern anyway.
"Thanks, Assistant Director."
"Just call me Lucy, Dr. Davis. Any friend of Alex's, is a friend of mine." Lucy smiled warmly and genuinely at her, and it made Davey feel terrible. How could she be even the slightest bit annoyed of someone who has been so warm to her. Even warmer than Alex.
"Davey… It's Davey." She actually smiled back and meant it. "So are we going to this? Show me this fabled alien text, that has even Supergirl stumped?"
"Sure, I'll take you to the craft, and we can look at the manuscript there. Maybe you can see something relevant on vehicle as well." Alex had reverted to super-agent mode, as soon as her boss had showed up. She just wanted to keep this as uncomplicated as possible.
As the three began to walk towards the docking area, Davey was relieved that the blindfold had not made a reappearance. She tried her best to hobble quickly behind the agents. The walls were so grey and dreary, with naturally occurring stone formation peeking out occasionally. The air was cold and damp. From her fair share of trips to examine text on the field, Davey was almost certain that they were either underground, or in a naturally occurring cave formation.
Alex and Lucy began to slow down as they approached a rather large set of doors. Alex went to open the door, but Lucy's hand settled quickly on her arm and stopped her.
"Davey, I'm sorry but I am about to go all business now. Everything you see here is classified, and since this is a government facility the consequences of you disclosing anything you see or learn of here could spell out some serious jail time."
The change of pace caught Davey a bit off guard, but she quickly adjusted. Her brow that had formed into a frown, dropped back into a relaxed state.
"You think I'd want to deal with jail, in this particular condition?" She lifted her cane, and pointed it up. "Not in particular Assistant Director." Davey smiled, to indicate her humorous intention.
Lucy gave a little chuckle, but Alex tensed up and turned back to the door, and promptly opened it. She walked swiftly in, as Lucy kept the door open for Davey to walk in. The room was spacious and, like the rest of Davey has seen of the facility, was quite military in appearance.
Alex had reached the table at the side of the room, and stood there with her arms crossed. Lucy soon joined her, and they both watched Davey slowly walk over to the spacecraft, awed. She let her hand hover above it slightly, seemingly too overwhelmed to actually touch it.
Lucy noticed that Alex's previously tensed up stature began to slowly melt away into a more relaxed stance, as she seemed to marvel at her ex-girlfriend's awe. The Assistance Director felt a sad smile creep onto her lip.
"You need to sort this out Alex. There is obviously some unfinished business there." Lucy said softly, for Davey not to hear. Alex stammered a bit, and looked at Lucy a little defeated.
"Hey! There is something unfinished for her too, believe me. The way you guys look at each other, it would break even J'onn's heart."
"It's complicated." Alex farrowed her brow and turned her back to Davey directly looking at the wall.
"I didn't say it isn't. I said work it out, for your sake. You should probably tell Kara too."
Lucy wanted to say more, but she knew this probably wasn't the proper time.
"Guys, the space ship is way beyond cool, but if you could point me in the direction of the manuscript it would be great!" Davey had finished her little fascinated self-guided tour of the craft, and was now ready for the task at hand. She leaned heavily on her cane, tired, but she couldn't hide her excitement as she made her way to Alex and Lucy.
"Well, I'm going to head back out and help the Director with some held up issues. I trust Alex would be more than capable to keep you company." Lucy took her leave and walked towards the door, disappearing to some unknown corner of the facility.
"Let's get to it then" Alex pulled out the manuscript, and as predicted instantly lost Davey's attention as she sat down and started to keenly examine the document.
The agent turned her attention to the computer terminal and started to look through the doctors' notes about the child, and examined a live feed of the flurry of attention at the Medical Bay.
What seems like hours passed, with both the woman engulfed in their task. Davey seemed to drown herself in a pile of notes that she had begun to compile. Alex looked up at her occasionally, just to make sure she was still there. Davey was awfully quiet as she worked, and Alex was more than happy to leave that silence fall between them.
Eventually, an inevitable itch for coffee crept up on Alex. Just as she got up from her chair, to ask Davey if she would like some as well, the doors creaked open and in came Kara, in all her Supergirl glory. Kara's cape fluttered behind her as she brusquely walked towards Alex and Davey, a serious look on her face.
Davey, of course, was completely oblivious to the new arrival and just kept on working. Alex apprehensively turned towards Kara, waiting for the inevitable show down.
"Agent Danvers." Kara spoke sternly, fully in Supergirl mode.
"Supergirl." Alex just nodded simply.
The mention of the Hero's name, seemed to bring Davey back to the land of the living. She looked up at Alex, just to see the agent's back turned to her facing Supergirl, as if to shield her from the caped woman.
"Director Henshaw told me you have brought some reinforcements to help us with the alien text." Supergirl's voice boomed, and Davey felt weirdly intimidated by her.
"Yes, that would be me!" She slowly raised her hand, but made no effort to stand, as Alex was still blocking her.
Supergirl peeked around Alex, and took a full look over the professor. Looking apprehensive as ever. It seemed to Davey that the Hero might not have been as friendly as she had been told.