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Red Kryptonite Aftermath Chapter 4
"Supergirl, I'm going to need you to place your hands on top of your head lacing your fingers together" said Detective Sawyer as she stood tall reaching for the handcuffs attached to her waist.
"What?" Kara interrupted in surprise.
"You're under arrest for the attempted murder of Cat Grant. You have the right to an attorney" Maggie continues but is interrupted.
"Hold up, I thought you just wanted to talk and clear this up, this has been a huge misunderstanding" Kara interjects.
"If you can't afford one, one will be provided for you"…. Maggie continues not stopping for Kara's interjections.
Kara put up her hands in a defensive position in front of her, "Please wait, I can explain. I'm begging you."
"You have the right to remain silent…" It was at this point Detective Sawyer decided to snap a cuff around one of Kara's outstretched wrists and use the advantage of her perp being seated against her. Maggie got the cuff latched and began to twist Kara's arm pushing down on her shoulder to face plant her to the table. If Maggie had been arresting any other person in this position it wouldn't have been a problem. Unfortunately, Maggie momentarily went on autopilot and forgot who she was arresting.
Kara felt the cuff latch around her wrist and a forceful hand on her shoulder, then instinct took over. With blurry speed she took off in the opposite direction of the threat. In a split-second Kara was across the living room and Detective Sawyer who had been holding onto the metal restraints was pulled over the chair Kara had been sitting in tripping her. The table moved, the chair tipped over and crashed, and Maggie's black box fell to the floor spilling open.
Kara turned and started immediately apologizing for her instinctual behavior, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Kara upon noticing the black box open on the floor, began preparing for the painful onslaught of Kryptonite poisoning. Her features cringed, arms up near her head as if she could block the radiation somehow. Kara waited for the pain. But it didn't come. After a few seconds she dared loosening her posture, still no pain. She looked around the floor for the green rock that is her poison and biggest fear. She didn't see it anywhere. Kara realized she had just been played. "There's no Kryptonite" Kara said out loud but to no one in particular.
Detective Sawyer scrambled up from the floor as fast as she could drawing her 9mm Glock from its holster aiming it at Kara. "Hands up now!" Maggie shouts at her.
"Okay, okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to." Kara implores as she raises her hands showing there is nothing in them.
"Turn around and lace your fingers…"
"Detective Please!" Kara inserts. "Please! just hear me out for one minute, Please?"
"I'm here to arrest you, whatever you got to say you can say to a lawyer. That's none of my business and not my part of this job" Maggie states.
Kara takes a breath and says "Your gun isn't made of lead."
"What?" Maggie says confused.
"Just in case you were going to try to tell me you have Kryptonite bullets" Kara explains as she moves a hand slowly to point to her eyes. Maggie, realizing Kara's statement means that she knows there was never any Kryptonite and that Maggie is no real threat to her, just intensifies her grip on her weapon taking a more forward stance. Kara again raises her hands and takes a small step back. "I'm not going to hurt you, please just a moment so I can explain." Maggie continues to remain silent but her face obviously weighing her options. "Look, best case scenario you shoot me and the bullet bounces off and breaks a lamp. Worst case, you shoot me and the bullet bounces off and you hit one of my neighbors" Kara explains.
Maggie relaxes her stance, lowering her gun but just a bit, keeping it at the ready. After a few more seconds of silence Maggie finally chimes in, "We seem to be at a bit of a stalemate. So, what do you propose?"
"Uhm…" Kara racks her brain as quickly as she can. "I suppose you forgetting that Kara Danvers and Supergirl are the same person is out of the question?" Kara says with a nervous laugh. Kara returns to a more serious face when Maggie doesn't seem to find the humor in it. Kara continues, "You said you believed Ms. Grant and Supergirl, about the poison. Is that still true?" Kara asks.
"It doesn't matter what I believe" Maggie says.
"It does to me" Kara stated quietly but still audible.
Maggie released a breath, all this going on and the girl in front of her was worried about what she thought of her, "Yes, I believe you." Maggie said but quickly went on, "It still doesn't matter what I believe. Supergirl has a warrant, there was damage, destruction, and you threw Cat off a building." Then Maggie continued "Although after meeting her, I can't say that I blame you."
Kara felt some tension relax between them and laughed at Maggie's comment. "You know, you're not the only one who's told me that." There was a few more seconds of silence between them before Kara asked, "Would it be alright with you if I lowered my arms?"
Maggie was obviously uncomfortable with this, no suspect whom she was trying to arrest should be putting their arms down. But then, this was Supergirl, with her Kryptonite ruse being exposed she was without any sort of leverage. Supergirl, if she wanted to could disarm her or worse in a split second with the speed and strength she demonstrated earlier. The fact that Supergirl had her hands raised at all she knew was a white flag and a complete courtesy to begin with. Maggie lowered her gun nodding, "Fine, yes, you can lower your arms."
Feeling even more of the tension subside Kara smiled. "Thank you" Kara said and lowered her arms.
"So, Supergirl, I guess we have a bit of an issue" states Maggie.
"Kara" she corrects. "You can call me Kara. Really." Kara says as she motions to her clothing, "I just go by Supergirl when I'm in the cape. This is just Kara."
"Okay, Kara" Maggie says.
"I just want you to know I didn't lie about what happened to me as Supergirl. Things may have been redacted a little bit to protect my identity, to keep things like kryptonite a secret, but I didn't lie. I really was exposed to a similar element to Kryptonite. It affected me, changed me, I lost control" Kara explained.
"Unfortunately, our laws and justice system require you to defend that. It's not my place, I can't pick and choose which warrants to follow through on" Maggie stated simply.
Kara nodded conveying her understanding of the detective's predicament. "You're right. I want nothing more than for Supergirl to stand for truth… for justice" There was another pause while Kara seemed to be thinking. "What if I were to make you a deal Detective Sawyer" Maggie perked up, intent on hearing Kara out.
"Yeah, and what would that be?" asked Maggie.
"You said Supergirl had the warrant, not Kara" there was a small pause while Kara continued her train of thought. "I will turn myself into you as Supergirl if you keep Kara Danvers out of this." Detective Sawyer was visibly thinking about this so Kara continued, "Kara Danvers is my life detective. She's what keeps me…. normal. Without her I'd just be this alien freak outsider. She keeps me grounded. Not to mention if my identity was exposed Supergirl's enemies would use Kara's relationships against her. My family, the family that adopted me and raised me and my friends would all be in danger. We need each other. Please? You need me to cooperate and I need you to protect Kara."
"While you're in custody though, you don't think Kara's absence would be noticed?" Maggie pointed out a flaw in Kara's plan.
"I can figure out how to cover for a few days, maybe. I just have to hope that I can get this cleared away fast. I mean what other options do I have? If I run, within the hour you have a new warrant with Kara's name on it, my face everywhere. My life would be ruined" Kara said.
Maggie clarifies, "If I agree to this, this happens now, not Friday after 5 so you can hope for just a weekend in jail and back to your life Monday. Do you understand? There is a system at play and I MIGHT go along with your little charade but everything else goes by the book. Got it?"
Kara nods her understanding, "Got it. Tonight. By the book."
Maggie pauses, "It'll take me a half hour to drive to the precinct at 38th and National. I'll be in the parking lot with all the squad cars. A half hour Danvers, if you're not there I start filling out the papers to amend the name on Supergirl's warrant. Do you understand?"
Kara paused taking in what all this meant. In a half hours time, she would be going to jail. Kara released a deep breath and nodded, "Yep, half hour. Got it. I'll be there."
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