Author's note: So this is day four and chapter four... It looks like you're enjoying it all so far! Thank you for the reviews, this chapter is a little bit longer than usual, let me know what you think of it!


Maggie had been waiting and hoping for Alex to let her back in to her life, and as the weeks went on and they continued texting she had hoped for even just a chance to speak with the agent and see her. When Alex's text had arrived that morning she had immediately jumped to her feet and told her boss she would be taking her cases home to work on for the rest of the day. After stopping to pick up takeout she headed over to Kara's apartment. She had waited a good couple of minutes at the door, took a few deep breaths then knocked. A voice had yelled out to wait and so she waited, steps sounded louder as someone came to the door, and then it opened. Maggie's breath caught in the back of her throat, Alex stood in the doorway in shorts and a tank top, hair still slightly damp and obviously fresh out of a bath. She was beautiful, her damp curls framed her face and as Maggie's eyes roamed over her body she realised Alex wore no bra under the grey material. Her cheeks flushed slightly and her eyes shot straight back up to meet Alex's.

"Hi, you said you were bored… and I bought Chinese!"

Alex was a little shocked to see Maggie at her front door, but she melted a little as she saw the slight worry in the detective's eyes, a fear of being rejected and turned away. She thought she had seen the detective's eyes briefly check her out but it had happened so quickly she wasn't sure if she had imagined it. She opened the door wider and gestured for Maggie to enter.

"Well if you brought Chinese…" She grinned and saw Maggie let out the breath she had been holding and walk in, her eyes on Alex's as she smiled."

"Thanks." She walked over to the kitchen aisle and dropped the bag on the unit. "Where do you keep your plates?"

"Hmm…" Alex missed what the detective had said, taking a moment herself to gaze at detective Sawyer as she made her way into the apartment.

"Plates agent?" Maggie asked again with a smile.

"Oh yea… sorry… top shelf, the cupboard over there" Alex blushed, what was wrong with her!

"Did you want to get us some drinks?" Maggie busied herself making up plates of noodles, beef and chicken whilst Alex grabbed a couple of beers from the shelf. They sat on the sofa with their plates.

"So…"

"So…"

Neither of the women made a start on their food, both just playing with their chopsticks.

"So when I said I was bored… you thought… Chinese food?" Alex asked with a small smile.

"Well… I know you love it… and it's not just food, you asked about my cases so I brought some files I'm currently working on." Maggie set her food down to pick up the stack of files she had brought with her and placed them on her lap.

"Anything… on the ice alien?" Alex asked quietly.

"I'm afraid not, he's gone completely under the radar…" Maggie answered.

Alex took a deep breath and took the detective's hand.

"Thank you." She said seriously

"It's just Chinese food…" Maggie joked, looking down at her plate.

"No I mean thank you for saving my life… before."

"It was nothing, anyone else would have done the same… Supergirl did most of the hard work anyway."

"It wasn't nothing! Supergirl told me what happened, you risked your life for mine, and you could've died! Don't make less of what you did, I'm truly grateful." Alex lifted Maggie's chin so she could look in her eyes as she spoke.

"I couldn't let you die." Maggie replied softly, looking back.

"Thank you." Alex smiled. She let go of Maggie's chin suddenly and Maggie found herself immediately missing her soft touch.

Alex handed her one of the beers and clinked her own bottle against it

"To surviving Mr. Freeze!"

"To surviving…" Maggie replied. She still had nightmares about that night, vividly remembering how terrified she had felt, not for herself but for Alex. Her defenceless body lying behind Maggie as Maggie stood over her, makeshift weapons in hand...

They both made a start on their food, munching away in companiable silence for a few minutes. After a while Alex pointed to one of the files.

"May I?"

"Sure, I could use an expert alien hunter's perspective"

They spent the next few hours eating whilst poring over Maggie's case files. They soon got into a rhythm, making notes and discussing theories behind one particular alien incident or another.

Eventually all the food was gone, and there were a number of empty beer bottles on the coffee table. Alex picked up their discarded plates and takeout boxes and moved to take them into the kitchen. She got halfway up from the couch before wincing and freezing in place.

"Ow!"

"What is it? What's wrong?" Maggie jumped up, taking the piles from Alex and setting them down again.

"It's my back. The burns have largely healed but the skin is still sore, if I stretch the wrong way…" Alex slowly straightened herself to standing, pain still etched across her face.

"Can I do anything?"

"Actually… I have some cream from the hospital, could you rub a little into my back? It helps with the pain."

"Of course! Sit down; I'll go get it…" Maggie helped Alex to sit back down. "Where is it?"

"Bathroom cabinet, the blue tube" Alex said through gritted teeth.

Maggie dashed off and came back swiftly with the medication. "OK what do I do?"

"Just rub it into the skin." Alex turned on the couch and crossed her legs so that her back was towards Maggie. She slowly pulled her tank top up and over her head and let it pool in her lap. Maggie drew in a sharp breath, thick scars crossed the agents back, some old, but many new, left from the icy burns of the alien attack. She squeezed some of the cream into her hand and used her fingers to gently start to rub it into the red and sore skin. She tried hard not to think about the fact that Alex hadn't been wearing a bra and was now sitting in front of her half naked. She could feel the heat rising in her face as she carefully covered every inch of the red skin in the cooling cream, enjoying the feeling of Alex relaxing under her ministrations, after about a minute she removed her hands reluctantly from Alex's back.

"Please don't stop…" Alex turned her head slightly towards Maggie, her eyes closed, "It feels nice…"

Maggie grinned and placed her hands gently on Alex's shoulders, and started to rub in small gentle circles. Her hands slowly drifted across Alex's back, rubbing gently as she went.

"Is this OK?"

"Mhmm" Alex replied in the affirmative, eyes still closed as she relaxed.

Maggie took a deep breath and placed a small kiss on Alex's shoulder. She felt the woman tense slightly before relaxing again.

"How about that?"

Alex didn't reply

"Do you want me to stop?" Maggie asked, she paused her movements, worried that she had taken things too far.

"…No… "

Maggie kissed the agent again, gently brushing her lips against the damaged skin. Alex reached around and gently took one of Maggie's hands.

"I don't want you to stop… But I need to know what this is… I couldn't take it if you pushed me away again…" Maggie's heart broke a little as she heard the sadness in Alex's voice. She threaded her fingers around Alex's hand and held on tight. She inched closer and stared into the agent's naked back, letting the warmth from the other woman calm her a little.

"I do want this Alex… I'm so sorry I pushed you away, I just… I wasn't ready, I know that sounds stupid. You mean a lot to me and I don't think I could've survived if you had suddenly decided you had made a mistake… That you didn't actually feel that way and that I was just your chance to 'figure that out'… but it turns out that I lost you anyway…"

Alex pulled her tank top back on and spun around on the sofa to face Maggie until their knees were touching. She saw the deject sadness on the detective's face, her hand reached up to caress Maggie's cheek.

"Oh Maggie…" she sighed, "Maggie you helped me realise and admit to something that has been inside of me my entire life. All these years I felt like an outsider, never really connecting with anyone… I was just 'going through the motions' with anyone I dated, I just thought that was what it was like for me. Maybe I just couldn't feel the same things everyone else did, and after a while I just gave up trying and just buried myself in work. When I met you, when I got to know you… that started to unlock something I had pushed down for so so long, had refused to admit even to myself. I was always excited to see you, I missed you when you weren't around, tried to think of excuses to spend time with you (you know I don't even like pool that much…?!) When you mentioned the possibility of me… liking girls… I didn't want to admit it, but the more I thought about it the more I knew you were right. The more that this felt like who I actually was, my true self, and that I didn't have to hide it anymore. This is more than just an experiment, this isn't a phase… this is who I am… This is my new normal... And I care very much about you… you're so beautiful, intelligent, exciting… and sexy…" Alex bit her lip slightly as she said that, looking up to see how Maggie was taking her sudden splurge of feelings.

Maggie was smiling, a tear had formed in the corner of one eye and she quickly brushed it away before it could fall.

"Well..?" Alex asked, worried about the silence.

A couple more seconds passed, and then Maggie suddenly grabbed Alex's face with both hands and kissed her soundly, Alex froze for only a millisecond before relaxing into the detective's arms, kissing her back. Her lips were so soft, Maggie's tongue teased her lips causing her to gasp as she felt heat flood her senses, kissing Maggie was like being on fire, and all her senses tingled with it.

She raised her arms up and gently pushed Maggie down onto the couch until she could straddle her. Maggie complied, enjoying that Alex was taking charge. She ran her hands down Alex's toned arms, loving the feel of taut muscles under her finger tips. They came to rest on the detective's hips and she used her own strength to pull Alex into her, relishing the feel of her body as it pressed against her own.

"I feel as if I've been waiting for you my whole life…" Alex whispered in Maggie's ear as they came up for air. In response Maggie began kissing Alex's neck, drifting to her shoulder bone and clavicle, smiling as she felt Alex's heartbeat quicken above her and her breathing become slightly erratic.

"I'm here now and I'm not going anywhere… Life is too short not to kiss the girls you want to kiss…" Maggie whispered into Alex's skin. She wasn't sure the brunette had heard so glanced up and saw Alex grinning from ear to ear.

Their make out session continued for a few more minutes, both just enjoying each other. Maggie didn't want to pressure Alex so was letting the agent lead, she was so happy right now, she felt that all was finally completely right with the world.

Alex suddenly sat bolt upright, though still remained on top of Maggie.

"What's wrong?!" Maggie asked, worried and insecure. Though Alex hadn't made any attempt to remove the detective's hands from where they were currently caressing her hips and what they could reach of her backside.

"Kara!"

"What?" Maggie panicked slightly, raising herself up onto her elbows, thinking the girl had arrived home. "She's here?!"

"No not yet but she will be soon…"

"Do you want me to leave?" Maggie asked as she relaxed back down again.

"No!" Alex leaned down slowly, her breasts swaying within the tank top, and kissed Maggie so long and hard it left her breathless and aching to caress those firm mounds.

"I need my phone…" Alex swiftly sat back up again and looked around, leaving Maggie with her mouth slightly open. Alex finally spotted it within reach on the coffee table and stretched to grab it, Maggie took the opportunity to run her hands over Alex's exposed abs, causing the other woman to giggle. "I'll just tell her to be a little late home tonight…" She quickly rattled off a message consisting of the emojis of a sock and a door, Kara would get it, and tossed her phone to one side.

She turned back to look at Maggie, suddenly a little shy of how forward she had been before. But the detective was biting her bottom lip as her eyes roamed Alex's gorgeous toned body, lingering a little at her chest before moving up to those chestnut brown eyes. Maggie's cheeks were flushed with arousal as she gently pulled Alex back down to her previous position and continued to worship her with her tongue. She let her hands drift to Alex's sides to gently brush the sides of her breasts, but going no farther. She smiled through the kisses as she heard Alex gasp at the touch.

Alex felt Maggie's gentle touch through her clothes like electricity, little sparks tingling her skin, she had never felt like this before, it was like she was finally awake after a long dream. She let her own hands drift, exploring the detective's body tentatively. She brushed the underside of a breast, and heard Maggie moan into the kiss and push up further towards Alex, this was all new to her but she knew she wanted more. She let her hand slip under the bottom of Maggie's shirt and grazed her abs, revelling in the feel of the brunette's skin under her fingertips. She was about to stretch a little further up when she heard the window open and close… Oh shit!

"Hey Alex! I'm home!" Kara's voice rang through the apartment.