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Red Kryptonite Aftermath Chapter 3

Kara sat completely still on her couch briefly hoping that she could make Detective Sawyer think that she wasn't home. Knock Knock Knock she heard again at the door. Kara looked around, all the lights were on in her place. The detective was surely seeing the glow under the door, "Crap" Kara quietly cringed. She might have even seen Kara in her brightly lit windows before she came up to her apartment. If Kara pretended not to be home when the detective knew that she was in fact home she would create suspicion when possibly right now there might not be any. Kara told herself that she had no other choice but to pull out the courage to go answer the door. Kara opened the door to see Detective Sawyer holding a file and curiously a small black box, "Oh, hello Detective Sawyer" Kara feigns shock pretending not to know that it was the detective behind the door. "What can I do for you?" Kara asks.

"Hi" the detective states shifting her paperwork and the box to under one arm in order to hold out a hand to Kara who this time shakes it as 'girlishly' as she can muster, "I am so sorry for bothering you this late at night" Maggie apologizes with sincerity.

"It's no problem, I wasn't doing anything" Kara tries to play down what an inconvenience it was to have Detective Sawyer show up unannounced.

"I'm glad to hear that" Maggie acts relieved. "I'm here because I was hoping I could ask you some questions, do you mind?" she motions to the inside of Kara's apartment asking to be invited in.

Kara, now showing her nervousness and unease "Uhm.. Ms. Grant really didn't want me speaking with you Detective Sawyer. I mean, and I don't really think I can be of any help anyway. I don't know anything. I don't know if…"

Maggie jumps in "It will be really quick, honest. Just a few questions, you may know more than you think you know?" Maggie pauses waiting for Kara's response but when she sees Kara struggling to answer, "You could possibly be the break I've been looking for, and it could help with what I'm working on." Then adding with a slight pleading voice "Please?" motioning to the inside of Kara's apartment again.

Kara nodded and reluctantly let Maggie into her apartment. "So, what is it that you think I can help you with Detective Sawyer?" Kara asks after she shut the door.

Maggie took a couple of seconds looking around the loft, not in a rude way, but ignoring for the time being, Kara's question. "It's a nice place you have here" she states and Kara kindly thanks her. Maggie notices the table not too far from the door, "Please take a seat" she says as she herself sits down. Kara felt a bit uneasy about the detective making herself at home. She wanted this to be as quick as it could possibly be and avoiding the comforts of chairs would help move this along. But Kara joined the detective at the table. Maggie placed her file on the table in front of her and the black box on top of that.

"I'm sorry by the way if I caused any trouble between you and your boss earlier" Maggie apologizes sincerely. "I really didn't expect that kind of reaction from her" she states referring to Ms. Grant.

Kara waves it off, "Really, I should be apologizing to you. Ms. Grant she can be quite scary at times. But honestly, under all that she's really a smart and caring person."

"I see." Maggie continues, "So, how long have you been Ms. Grant's assistant Kara?" she asks just trying to sound curious.

"Over two years now" Kara responds.

"Over two years at that desk right outside Cat's office" Maggie repeats the fact. "So, with the glass walls you must see all the comings and goings into her office."

Kara feels like she just stepped into a trap, "Well, I mean I do a lot of running around for Ms. Grant. Sometimes it feels like I'm hardly at my desk" she says attempting to back peddle her statement just a bit.

"Kara, I don't mean to put you on the spot here but I'm sure you heard earlier I'm trying to find Supergirl? Have you ever seen Supergirl in Cat's office?" Maggie asked.

"Nope, no I haven't. I'm sorry." Kara shrugs and continues "From what I know when Ms. Grant does speak with Supergirl it's usually on her balcony and I can't see that from my desk."

Maggie nods and acts disappointed. "That's too bad. With how uncooperative your boss was earlier I was really hoping there'd be something you knew that could help me out." Maggie rephrases her question "So, you've never seen Supergirl in person?"

Kara silently answers by shaking her head 'no'. Kara decides that maybe she should be trying to get as much information she can get from the detective as well "Can I ask you something?"

"Sure" Maggie exclaim enthusiastically, "Hit me Danvers."

"Why are the police trying to find Supergirl?" Kara asks. "I mean she helps the city. It always seems like she tries her best."

Maggie nods "I agree, it does always seem like she tries, doesn't she?" Maggie leans forward in her chair hands placed casually on top of her black box making direct eye contact with Kara. "But we all have bad days and the other day Supergirl had a really bad one. That's why I need to find her. To make sure she's alright." Kara nods, not sure about it, but accepting the answer. Maggie continued, "Cat seems to think it was a mind-altering poison that got to Supergirl, do you know anything about that?"

"I only know what Ms. Grant's told me and that was all in the article she wrote about the incident. Horrible right, getting poisoned like that?" Kara realizes she's fidgeting while she's talking so she moves her hands under the table.

"Yeah" Detective Sawyer says agreeing with a larger than life expression, "That would be horrible." Now emphasizing "But…" then continues, "I only have Cat's word for it. I kind of need to verify this story myself with Supergirl, find out exactly what happened."

"I know Ms. Grant got that information direct from Supergirl" Kara defends.

"And how do you know Kara? I mean, for sure? You said you've never seen Supergirl in person before?" Maggie responds.

"I haven't, Ms. Grant said." Kara says quickly. Then after a small pause, "Oh, right you're getting again at the 'He said, she said' argument." Kara then concedes, "I guess you're right. I don't know for sure, I wasn't there."

Maggie nods accepting Kara's correction, "You know, I believe the story" Maggie states.

"You do?" Kara asks almost too quickly with a happy lilt in her voice.

"I do." Maggie responds, "Do you want to know why?"

Kara nods, "Sure."

"Don't spread this around, but I know there are things out there that can actually hurt Kryptonian's. Not much of course. They're nearly indestructible on Earth, but not completely. For instance, there is a mineral called Kryptonite, it's radioactive, glows green, completely harmless to humans but next to Superman or Supergirl, well" Maggie shakes her head driving home her point, "it's not pretty."

"Really?" Kara feigns ignorance. "I didn't know that."

"Yes, I found out through a colleague of mine. You see, he worked a case in Metropolis, the same case that actually ended up putting Lex Luther in prison as a matter of fact. Anyway, I called him when I got this case to get as much information as I could, of course it was he who told me about Kryptonite. Not only that, he said he had some, stored away in an evidence box" Maggie then patted the little black box in front of her.

"You have it? Kryptonite? Right there?" Kara asks trying to sound only curious and attempting to hide her rising heartbeat. "You said radioactive, are you sure that's not dangerous to be carrying around?"

Maggie states with total confidence, "Completely sure! Not harmful to humans at all. I'm carrying it around in a lead box really just because that's standard practice for all radioactive materials." Maggie begins to move her hands on the lid as if she were about to open it. "Do you want to see?"

"No" Kara quickly answered bringing her hands up in a slightly defensive motion. She tries to hide her mistake by crossing her arms in front of her chest, "I just… I don't feel that's safe."

"Oh, I assure you it is, for humans" Maggie insists.

"That's okay, I really don't want to see it detective" Kara reiterates.

There's a few seconds of quiet at the table, Kara tries to go back to a relaxed position and Maggie watches and absorbs every twitch. It's clear to Maggie that the Kryptonite has made Kara uncomfortable and that's all the confirmation Maggie needs. With Maggie's hands still on the cover of the box, "Ms. Danvers, will you please remove your glasses?"

"My glasses? But I need my glasses to see. I'd be blind without them" Kara states trying to make it sound like the truth. "Why would you need my glasses off?" Kara asks.

Maggie gets up from her chair and leans against the table right next to Kara looking down on her, still cradling the black box in her hands. "I told you earlier today that you looked familiar. It took a bit for me to figure it out, and why it bothered me the way it did. Then it hit me. Kara, please remove your glasses?"

Kara started to object again but stopped midsentence seeing Detective Sawyer's resolve and her hands on the lid of the lead box of Kryptonite barely a foot from her. Her eyes couldn't help but linger on that box. Her gaze was not missed by the detective either and Kara mentally kicked herself for being such a bad liar.

Kara's hands were fidgeting, she looked at her hands, she looked at the table, she took a deep breath and looked out the window. Kara was nervous now there was no hiding it, she was looking everywhere accept at Maggie Sawyer.

Maggie gave Kara a few more seconds to comply but when Kara didn't she stated emphatically making it an order this time, "Kara, as a detective of the NCPD I am telling you to remove your glasses."

Kara, still not looking at the detective began raising a hand to her glasses, she removed them setting them on the table. Knowing her identity has been made Kara then pulled her hair from the simple pony tail it was in allowing it to fall to her shoulders before she turned to face the detective.

Detective Sawyer took a second to absorb the simple transformation she witnessed before her, then said, "Hello Supergirl."