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Maggie spent the later half of that morning agonizing over paperwork going over details again and again until all of it was committed to memory. But nothing stood out as useful. She had perhaps a dozen images of the Girl of Steel spread out all across her desk. A spreadsheet full of the facts, approx. height, weight, age and all of the other generic information that any random nerd on the street could read in a newspaper. On her own she had tracked all of the known sightings of Supergirl for the last two months. There were a couple hot spots for sure, CatCo. being one of them but on an overall Supergirl was everywhere, all over the city. Nothing seemed to lead to the next step. Maggie was never one to be afraid of doing some hard digging for her job, but dam, she needed a place to start she thought.
Maggie began absent mindedly doodling on her paperwork, lost in thoughts, frustrated over not being able to figure out how she was supposed to find a flying woman. Eventually groaning in defeat Maggie got up from her desk and went to refill her coffee from the communal coffee pot making sure to drop her quarter into the donation cup that the secretary managed in order to keep to coffee flowing. As she drank her coffee she felt some relief, perhaps some energy come back into her body, oh how she loved coffee Maggie thought.
Maggie made her way back to her desk, definitely feeling a little more life in her step. Maybe that's what she needed, just a breather, to step back and get a clearer picture. When Maggie got back to her desk she was just positioning herself to sit down when she noticed one of the pictures on her desk. She stayed standing not wanting to break her train of thought. Maggie had doodled in the margins of many of the sheets of papers in front of her, but on a picture of Supergirl she had drawn a mask over Supergirl's eyes. It was crude and by no means a complicated drawing. She supposed she was frustrated with her current Supergirl mystery, perhaps that's why she drew a mask.
Maggie thought to herself, what if she's been thinking about this all wrong? She's been trying to find the Girl of Steel. Maggie shot down into her seat making the legs creek of the wooden chair grabbing a clean photograph of the superhero and a pen. Maggie thought 'she doesn't hide her face behind a mask, she's completely exposed to the world. Her face is everywhere and yet nobody sees her'. Maggie draws on a very clear face shot of Supergirl then leans back and looks at her work. In a very quiet almost inaudible whisper to herself "It's not Supergirl that hides, it's the real you that hides" she states as she stares down at a photograph of Supergirl with glasses.
The rest of the day Kara was on edge at work. She wasn't focused and couldn't keep her mind on the tasks in front of her. She forgot about the weekly departments meeting and showed up 5 minutes late, you wouldn't think that would be that bad since she is by no means is important in any specific department but she was supposed to be the transcriber for the meeting minutes. Then to top it off she forgot to notify Ms. Grant's driver about a pick-up time from her eyebrow waxing appointment. Kara got an earful when Cat got off the elevator since she had to take a cab. She even threatened to take the cab fare out of her check. But what was she to do? Ever since Cat used the words "manhunt for Supergirl" in a sentence directed at an NCPD detective she was scared, nervous, and not sure what to do? This was nerve wracking and somehow eyebrow waxing appointments didn't top the list of her concerns.
Kara wanted nothing more that to speak with her sister Alex about this but she couldn't really until after her shift. She debated texting her and giving her a heads up but knew Alex would fly off the handle with worry and that wouldn't help anything until they could actually manage a sit-down conversation to go over this. Not to mention Alex is at the DEO cleaning up a different mess caused by Kara's Red Kryptonite poisoning. Hank Henshaw, the Director of the DEO had to reveal himself as J'onn Jones, a Martian alien in order to stop Kara's destruction on the city.
J'onn right now is in a holding cell at the DEO under observation. Tomorrow, A General Lane is apparently coming to the DEO in order to investigate if anyone within the ranks of the DEO had information on the fact that Hank was really an alien, so this could spell big trouble for Alex. And as for J'onn he apparently is being investigated for treason. I guess your not allowed to be an alien and hunt for aliens as a profession, conflict of interest. Kara thought that seemed unfair considering as Supergirl she was an alien who hunted aliens, but she guessed the difference was she was out in the open about it, and technically didn't work for the DEO. She rubbed her temples as she thought of the mess she's put everyone in.
When Kara left straight from work that day and headed for the DEO to see her sister, fully clad in her Supergirl attire. "Alex, I need to talk to you" Kara told her when she sped up behind her making her jump.
"Kara, we're kind of busy here" Alex says as she continues her no-nonsense pace down the hall.
"I know, I'm sorry, Rao, I'm really, really sorry but this is important" Kara pleads with her eyes matching her sister's pace.
Alex gives in and says "Okay" while turning into an empty conference room off the hallway.
Kara follows her and shuts the door behind them after they are inside. She begins to bite at one of her knuckles trying to figure out how to tell her sister that she may be, as Supergirl, wanted by the police. "Uhm..." she looks to Alex, "So, at work today a Detective came to see Ms. Grant about Supergirl." Alex's attention perked up and she silently motioned for Kara to continue when Kara's pause seemed a bit too long and unsure. "The word, 'Manhunt' may have been used" worry now completely evident across her face as she starts to pace.
Alex's hand shoots to cover her mouth in disbelief as she thinks. "What else was said" she asks?
Kara answers "I only caught the tail end of it when the Detective was leaving, I wasn't eavesdropping on their meeting." Kara looks to be beating herself up over it and quietly states "I should've been."
Alex begins to big sister Kara, "No, no it's okay. But what EXACTLY did you hear?" she asks putting emphasis on the specifics.
"Okay, uhm…" Kara paces as she lists off the events methodically knowing her sister would not want to miss any of the details, "The Detective introduced herself to me, we shook hands, asked to see Ms. Grant" Kara states but is interrupted by her sister.
"Wait, you shook hands? Please tell me you came across weak and girlish" Alex exclaims!
Kara makes a worried sound and cringes, her eyebrows completely giving away the answer to Alex's question without answering. Kara continues "They talk in Ms. Grant's office, Ms. Grant seemed mad when the Detective was leaving. On her way out," Kara's face again giving away her worry "she may have stopped at my desk and mentioned I looked familiar." Kara pushes the last part out so fast Alex had to take a second to string together what she had just heard.
Alex leaned up against the conference table with a little bit of shock and worry showing through her normally calm and collected composure. Alex was thinking and Kara was beginning to get impatient waiting for a response. "What do I do, Alex?" she asked.
"You need to stay away from this Detective, Kara!" Alex said a little forceful like the answer should be obvious but not yelling at all.
"She knows where I work Alex. It's not like and can avoid her if she shows up there." Kara exclaims.
"You said she came to see Cat, right?" Kara nods in response. "She's not going there to see you and if she does come back it's still probably to see Cat. All you have to do is avoid her Kara? Don't make any more strength slip ups, avoid giving her a good look at you," and Alex stresses the next part "without being obvious your avoiding her. Just try to be your normal bubbly Kara self even though you're scared, okay?"
Kara nods in nervous agreement. They both know Kara has a tell when she lies which makes it very hard for her to be convincing at it. Especially when you add nerves to the equation.
Kara spent a small part of her evening flying around as Supergirl. She stopped a mugging, a suicide, and a car from going over a bridge. The man in the car seemed relieved at first but when Supergirl began approaching his car to check to see if he was injured he quickly threw it in drive and sped away. The woman who was attempting suicide Supergirl stopped by taking the gun away from her temple just in time to have the bullet hit the wall behind her. The woman paused in disbelief for a moment and then ran in terror. "Come on" Supergirl said to herself "you can't possibly be scared of me hurting you, you were just trying to kill yourself." The real kicker for the night though was when she stopped the mugging and the assailant just stood there wetting himself in terror of the sight of her.
That was when Supergirl had to draw the line and just head home for the night. Kara had never been happier than when she was helping people as Supergirl. But now people are more scared of her than they are of what she's saving them from. It's a frustrating situation to be in Kara thinks as she lays down on her couch in her comfy pants and classic N'sync shirt. Kara pulls her couch pillow tight to her chest wishing her life wasn't so complicated, wishing she could call a press conference explain to the people what the Red Kryptonite did to her and most of all explain that she's now safe to be around. That it was all a mistake and there is nothing to be worried about.
But Kara can't do that, there are details involved in the story that obviously involve other people in her life and if details about her relation to those people got out then it's another step closer to her identity being exposed. Also, most of the public doesn't know about Kryptonite and that should be kept as much on the down low as possible because if any of her enemies knew about it they would be scouring the globe looking for it to harm her or her cousin. Kara gave a pouty groan thinking about the complications she had to deal with in her life.
Knock Knock, Kara craned her head to the door at the sound of someone knocking. She sat up and lowered her glasses to use her X-Ray vision to see who was on the other side of the door. "Crap" Kara exclaimed quietly, when she saw that it was none other than one of her largest complications of the moment, Detective Maggie Sawyer.