Chapter 4: Mistletoe Magic

Spending time with Maggie was very easy. The boys liked her and she enjoyed Mon-El… Mike's… company. He was very interesting to her; striking her as some of the aliens she'd met at the Tavern.

Maggie kept that thought to herself, she didn't judge and she figured that if he'd wanted her to know he'd tell her.

They talked about the simple things in life- what they each did for a living, their families, what life had been like before National City. They laughed about situations that had happened to them both the bad funny and the good funny. They got to know each other better.

"I'll get it," Alex said as they heard a knock on the door.

"I'll come with you," Kara said knowing all ready who was at the door.

Maggie watched as Alex walked away. They had been dating secretly for four weeks now and still the way Alex moved as she walked away gave her goosbumps. She was not sure how she had landed such an incredible woman. Though Alex was still relatively new to the reality of being gay and Maggie wasn't the type to date those kinds of women, with Alex it was different, a difference she could rarely even come to define. Maggie may have had experience with relationships but with Alex it was fun, she felt like she was experiencing things all over again in a way that felt brand new and exciting. Even after the two week honeymoon phase had gone they still felt like they were in the honeymoon phase.

They'd had problems to be sure especially since Alex wanted to keep it a secret for the time being and Alex had called out Maggie for not knowing as much as she came to say she did but they'd worked out their problems, worked on issues they had and had managed to keep their relationship going and strong.

"Mom," Alex said

"Eliza!" Kara said at the same time.

"My girls," Eliza said as she came into the door, ignoring the mistletoe above and hugged her daughters, "I am so sorry I'm late I thought I would never get here with this weather."

"Oh you should have called me," said Kara, "I could have come and picked you up. It would have been so much faster too."

"I'm sure it would have sweetie but sometimes a nice roof over my head is better than the snow, no offense."

"Um mom," Alex said quickly wanting to change the subject since she didn't want Kara blowing her cover. "There's someone I'd like you to meet." She motioned for Maggie to join the three of them which her [girl]friend gladly obliged. "Mom, this is Maggie Sawyer, detective of the NCPD."

"Well it's nice to finally meet you, Maggie," Eliza said with a smile, "Alex has told me a lot of great things about you."

"She's told me a lot about you too Dr. Danvers."

"Please call me Eliza. I think we can drop the formalities since you're clearly an important part of my daughter's life. The same can be said for Kara's friends too."

"Well she's a big part of my life too," Maggie casually replied, "I can't imagine my life without her. You raised two great girls."

"Oh this is ridiculous," said Kara.

Using her super speed, Kara moved both Alex and Maggie into a position by the window and then hung another bushel of mistletoe above them.

Maggie looked confused for a moment as she looked at her new location, looked at Alex and then at Kara who was still standing in the position she was before.

"How did we…" Maggie said trying to find the words, "Oh my god, you're Supergirl aren't you?" Maggie said to her.

"No she's not," Alex covered.

"Come on Alex," said Kara, "She's a detective. She would've figured it out eventually." She smiled at them, "Consider this little secret my Christmas to the two of you." Kara took off her glasses to prove she was serious.

"So it's true," said Maggie, "You are her."

"There's plenty of time to talk about this later," said Kara, "right now I think you'd better follow tradition," she said pointing up.

Alex shook her head at Kara and bit the inside of her cheek as she smiled.

"You are just so full of secrets aren't you, Danvers," Maggie asked turning her attention to the woman in front of her. "And that's why you two work together. All this time I was jealous whenever you and Supergirl were working a case."

"I wanted to tell you about Kara," Alex said focusing on Maggie, "but what we do is dangerous. Supergirl...Kara... has enemies and I didn't want you to get hurt. I was just…"

"Trying to protect me," Maggie finished, "We both seem to do that a lot with each other."

"Well," said Alex, "what are friends for?"

"Friends hu?" said Maggie.

"Oh please," Winn interrupted, "Would you guys stop talking and just kiss all ready? You know you are ruining a perfectly enjoyable Christmas tradition."

"Wait you knew?" Alex asked.

"You're not exactly good at keeping secrets, Alex," said Kara. "I figured it out weeks ago."

"Yeah," said Winn, "And we just figured it out tonight."

"He's right," James added, "It's not like you two were discreet when it came to keeping your distance tonight the way typical friends are supposed to do."

"I have no idea what's going on," Mon-El confessed. "Kara, what is going on?"

Kara waved her hands at him, "Later."

The couple laughed and Maggie turned to Alex, "What do you say, Danvers?"

"Well I guess it is tradition and my sister has practically given us no choice." Alex turned to Kara, "I am so getting you back for this."

"I'd like to see you try," Kara replied.

"So we doing this, Danvers?"

Alex turned to face Maggie, "Yeah Sawyer, I guess we are."

Alex looked at Maggie for a moment, seeing the pure joy in her eyes, wanting to kiss her as much as she did, having wanted it all night but for Alex's sake she had kept up the façade of being friends and now here was there one chance, to finally be released of the strings that were holding them back, no longer having to hide anything from the people they loved ever again.

"Merry Christmas Maggie," Alex said as she moved back Maggie's hair with both hands the way she did so many times before going in for a kiss.

"Merry Christmas, Alex."

They smiled and then Alex leaned down and Maggie leaned up, both of them meeting halfway, their lips coming together slowly and then falling into a deep and passionate kiss beneath the mistletoe near the window, the lights from outside reflecting the snow that fell into the city, landing in perfect little places along the window.

The people around them cheered and laughed but Alex and Maggie were too lost in their own little world, too lost in each other to pay any attention.

They were finally free and they were happy and all it had taken for them to get to this moment was Kara, breaking the rules, if the rules could be broken since Kara had given Alex permission weeks ago to let Maggie in on the secret, using her powers and adding a touch of mistletoe magic.

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(HAPPY HOLIDAYS OR MERRY CHRISTMAS!)

(depending on which phrase you abide to ;^) )