"Hey Kara." Winn said as she approached his desk at the DEO. "What's wrong? You've got your whole 'world is about to end' expression going on."
"I need your help."
"Name it." Winn said.
"I need you to track Cat's phone."
"Cat as in Cat Grant?" Winn asked.
"Yes."
"You know tracking her phone is not exactly legal."
"Never stopped you before."
"Never risked Cat killing me before." Winn pointed out.
"Please." Kara pouted.
"Fine, but at least tell me why?"
"I think she may be in trouble."
"Okay." Winn said as he started typing away at his computer. "Um, what kind of trouble?"
"Not sure yet. But I am sure something is wrong." Kara explained.
"Bora Bora." Winn said.
"What?" Kara asked confused.
"She, or at least her phone, is in Bora Bora."
"Where exactly?" Kara asked.
"Right here." Winn said pulling a map up on the screen.
"Thanks Winn." Kara smiled gratefully before disappearing from the DEO.
"Where did Supergirl go in such a hurry?" J'onn asked approaching Winn.
"Bora Bora." Winn said ignoring J'onn's confused look.
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"I was right. She's in trouble." Kara said returning to the DEO an hour later.
"Who?" Alex asked confused.
"Cat."
"You've been looking?" Maggie asked. "I didn't know you were involved in this."
"Detective Sawyer." Kara said suddenly noticing Maggie and awkwardly added. "Kara told me about Carter's visit so I asked Winn to track her cell."
"And she wasn't there?" Alex guessed.
"No. But her phone was. And it was being used to send fake messages to Carter."
"By who?" Maggie asked.
"A thug with a ponytail who is ready for questioning." Supergirl said.
"You can't just kidnap people and bring them to the USA." Maggie said worrying about the amount of paperwork she was going to have.
"I didn't. He's tied up in his hotel room in Bora Bora. I do have his phone though as well as Cat's. So Winn can you work out who else he has been sending messages to?" Supergirl asked.
"You still ask after all this time?" He questioned taking the phones off her. "Thou doth wound me."
"Did the guy give you any information?" Alex asked.
"No, wouldn't say anything."
"Want me to question him?" Alex offered.
"You are worse than she is." Maggie said exacerbated. "You do remember he is in another country and if you get caught your fake credentials probably won't help?" Maggie asked.
"Doesn't matter if they don't know I'm there." Alex said.
"Oooh, this is interesting." Winn said.
"What?" Supergirl asked.
"Your mystery man, one Cameron Jones, has been messaging another number."
"Whose?"
"Don't know, it is a burner cell. Paid for in cash. But I can track it and it is sitting at 6735 Pine Terrace."
"What's there?" Maggie asked.
"Not what. Who." Winn corrected. "The owner of 6735 Pine Terrace is none other than Dirk Armstrong."
"Isn't he in prison?" Supergirl asked.
"No, he got off. Well not off off. But he cut a deal so he paid a huge fine and was placed under house arrest for a while. But he is a free man now."
"That sucks. How did I not know that?" Supergirl questioned.
"Who is Dirk Armstrong?" Maggie asked.
"The walking personification of white male privilege." Supergirl said bitterly.
"He organised a hack of Cat's private emails and leaked them so he could takeover CatCo." Winn said. "He failed, thanks to us. I mean I'm not bragging or anything but we were pretty awesome."
"We?" Maggie asked.
"Kara, Lucy, James and me." Winn explained.
"Lucy?" Maggie asked struggling to keep up.
"Oh, Lucy Lane, James' girlfriend, well now ex-girlfriend, at the time though she was his girlfriend, I think. Or were they on a break then?" Winn said.
"Lane as in Lois?" Maggie asked, not needing or caring about the relationship commentary.
"Yes." Supergirl said.
"Wow, small world. What happened to Dirk?" Maggie asked.
"Cat gave the evidence to the police then had him publicly dragged away by the police." Supergirl explained.
"And now Cat Grant is possibly missing and the man who has her phone is in contact with Dirk Armstrong?" Maggie asked.
"Yeah." Winn confirmed.
"Time to get her back then." Supergirl said.
"You can't just break into someone's home and interrogate them." Maggie warned. "At the moment the city is turning against aliens. You want them to gain momentum? Because that is what will happen if you break into his house."
"I can't just do nothing." Supergirl said beginning to loose her temper.
"I'm not asking you to. Meet me at the precinct in an hour. And don't do anything stupid before then." Maggie said leaving the control room.
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"Dirk Armstrong?" Maggie asked as the door opened.
"Yes."
"I'm Detective Sawyer from NCPD. May I come in?"
"I don't think so. What is this about and why is she here?" He asked looking at Supergirl.
"Supergirl is shadowing me so she can learn about NCPD procedures." Maggie answered. "We are here to discuss Cat Grant."
"Has something happened?"
"She's missing. We believe you are involved."
"I hope you have a good lawyer, because I will sue you for false accusations."
"No lawyer, but I do have a warrant. Please step aside." Maggie said walking past him quickly followed by Supergirl who used her x-ray vision to search for Cat as the other officers conducted an old fashioned search.
"You won't find her here and when you leave I would keep walking out of the city to some place my lawyers can't find you." Dirk warned.
"Well when you speak to your lawyers they will also confirm that you need to hand over all electronic media, such as USB drives, computers, phones. Lets start with your burner cell." Maggie said.
"Burner cell? I am a business man not a member of the mafia or a spy. But what I will do is use my phone to call my lawyers." He said removing a phone from his jacket.
"Be my guest." Maggie said before looking to Supergirl and asking. "Anything?"
"Not yet. But he has another cell phone in his other pocket." She said leaving the room.
"This is an invasion of privacy. You can't just scan me."
"Would you prefer me to frisk you?" Maggie asked. "Hand over the phone." Reluctantly Dirk handed the other phone that Maggie started scouring.
"Clever, you wiped it." Maggie said. "Fortunately we have clever guys who can get intel off anything so it will only help in the short term."
"You arrogant little twit." Supergirl said storming back into the room.
"Scathing insult there." Maggie muttered as Supergirl marched up to Dirk and hauled him to his feet. "Easy there." Maggie warned.
"Showing your true colours?" Dirk asked. "Please rip me to shreds I would love to watch CatCo media write an article that destroyed Cat Grant's lapdog."
"What did you find?" Maggie asked trying to diffuse the situation.
"There's an underground panic room. This idiot thought I wouldn't know Cat was there." Supergirl said.
"Let's go have a look then. I've got Armstrong." Maggie said causing Supergirl to release her grip before leading the pair to the basement.
"Where's the door?" Maggie asked.
"I don't know." Dirk said.
"Start knowing or Supergirl destroys this place."
"Behind the bookcase." He said, pressing on a book that caused a click before the bookcase moved away from the wall. Something that was helped by Kara yanking it to one side.
"Open it." Maggie ordered seeing a keypad.
"This is a waste of time." Dirk said typing in some numbers resulting in a large metal door unlocking.
As they stepped inside and Maggie hit the light switch they were met by emptiness.
"I don't understand." Supergirl said confused as she she shut her eyes.
"Then let me explain. This is harassment and I will personally see that you are destroyed." Dirk said.
"Wait." Supergirl said before closing her eyes and coming to a realisation. "This isn't big enough. There's another hidden room."
"So now you are paranoid and delusional?" Dirk asked smugly.
"Here." Supergirl said using her x-ray vision and finding a hidden control panel.
"Open it." Maggie ordered.
"I can't. I can't remember the combination." Dirk shrugged.
"Supergirl." Maggie said causing Kara to step forward.
"Do that and it is criminal damage." Dirk said.
"You sure about this?" Maggie asked Supergirl.
"Yes."
"Then do it." Maggie said causing Supergirl to use her heat vision to cut through the door. With the door down Kara marched into the room and saw Cat bound and gagged in a corner.
"Cat?" She asked as she rushed over and burnt through Cat's cuffs. "Are you okay?"
"Carter?" Cat asked removing her gag. "He was going after him."
"Go, I'll look after her." Maggie said.
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"Winn, I need you to find Carter. Now." Kara said as she took to the skies.
"Um, okay. Just give me a minute. Okay, his phone is just outside the Science museum. I am pulling CCTV footage to see if I can confirm he's with it...oh this isn't good. You need to get over there now."
"What's happening?" Kara asked as she flew faster.
"He is in a dark alley at the back of the museum surrounded by goons. Like really nasty looking goons."
"Is he hurt?" Kara asked flying faster.
"I can't tell." Winn said.
"Leave him alone." Supergirl said as she landed in front of Carter. She landed so hard the ground cracked and shook, knocking one of the thugs to the ground as Carter struggled to remain on his feet.
"She isn't meant to be here." One of the men said. "I'm out." He added running off.
"The pay isn't good enough for this." Another said before following his associate. Before anyone else ran Supergirl picked up a street sign and wrapped it round the other two so they couldn't move. She then turned back to Carter.
"Carter are you okay?" Supergirl asked.
"Supergirl?" He asked shocked and scared.
"Right here and we've found your mom."
"Is she okay?"
"She will be. She's gone to the hospital to make sure she is okay, but she'll be home soon. How about I take you there?"
"Really?" Carter asked looking nervous.
"Really." Supergirl smiled.
"Can we fly there?" He asked.
"Sure thing." She smiled before wrapping her arms round him and asking. "Ready?"
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"You don't have to stay." Carter said as he and Supergirl waited in Cat's lounge.
"You don't want me here? If you want I can get Kara Danvers here." She offered.
"It's not that I don't want you, it's just don't you have more important things to do? Like saving the world?"
"Right now I am doing what is the most important thing." She smiled as they heard the front door open.
The second Carter saw Cat step into the room he ran towards his mother at a speed even Kara was impressed by before throwing his arms round her.
Silently Supergirl slipped past the pair and left Cat's home. As she got out side her phone buzzed and she read a message from Maggie to Kara simply stating.
"We've found her. She's at home, safe." Having read the message she quickly sent back a thank you before putting her phone away when she suddenly noticed Maggie was standing in front of her, just as the detective's phone bleeped.
"Don't the DEO give you more hi-tech communication devices?" Maggie asked pulling out her phone and checking the message.
"Wrong network plan." Supergirl smiled as Maggie typed on her phone.
"Thank you." Supergirl said wanting to gaining Maggie's attention before she sent the message to, she guessed, Kara.
"I just did my job. You hunted down the lead in Bora Bora and you found her in the panic room." Maggie said turning her attention back to her phone.
"Do you think the danger is over?" Supergirl asked, something in her tome causing Maggie to look at her again and stop typing.
"Probably, but if it puts your mind at rest we have a couple of uniforms posted outside, just until we're sure all of Armstrong's men have been detained."
"Thank you." Supergirl smiled.
"Anyway I should go." She said taking to the skies moments before Maggie sent the text and her phone buzzed.
TBC...
A/N: Thanks for reading and reviewing.