A/N - I didn't do Evan's birth yet, but I'll get back to that!
Jamie was always the bold one.
She had Alex's personality though looked like a mini Maggie. Bold, temperamental, always training to become better than what she already was, it was one of the many reasons she decided to become a DEO agent. Alex and Maggie had a longstanding bet of what she would do, whether she would become a police officer or a DEO agent. They knew she would become one or the other due to her loyal personality and often hot-headed temper.
On the other hand, they had no idea that Evan was heading down that path either until the night of the fire.
Lena was staying in her penthouse while Kara and the kids were in Argo City. They were visiting Alura on their winter break, and Clark and Lois took their sons as well. She often let Alex and Maggie borrow it, or if the gang wanted to play video games on a big flatscreen TV. She felt odd staying at her house without her family with her. While she was invited, she was too tied up with work.
Some of Lex's goons were still around while he was in prison, and they knew where Lena was. Lex had wanted her dead for killing their mother, though he always knew Kara and their Kryptonian kids were around to protect her. This was one of the rare opportunities he had to strike, with failed attempts of assassination and bombs failing.
"Aunt Lena!" A fifteen year old Evan had walked into the penthouse with food. Alex and Maggie had sent him to Lena for a couple of hours, knowing she forgets to eat when she was caught up with work. She'd also need the company, as Kara, Cal and Alex would be away for two more weeks. Jamie, now eighteen had been in college studying criminal justice.
"Evan, how's my favorite nephew?"
"I'm your only nephew."
"And that's why you're my favorite." Every time they saw each other, they would always start off the conversation that same way. "Anyway, what brought you over here?"
"Moms sent you some food."
"Them cooking? That's new."
"Of course not, they still can't cook for their life. I ordered Italian and picked it up."
Lena looked into a paper bag and saw the pasta inside. She opened it up and invited Evan to sit with her.
"School going well?"
"Yeah." Evan pulled out a folder from another bag and handed it over to Lena. "I could use your help with chemistry though."
"Your mom couldn't help?"
"She's more biology than chem. She can't do stoichiometry for the life of her though."
Lena chuckled. "Let's eat first then you can ask me all the questions you'd like."
Evan and Lena were three bites into the food when they started to smell smoke. They walked to the window, looking at thick smoke and flames rising up to the window. Lena didn't realize someone had remotely hacked into her fire alarms, making them useless.
"Let's go, leave your homework here." Lena grabbed Evan by the hand and started dragging him down.
As they headed towards the stairwell, they saw it blocked off with flames. Evan was curious as to why only a small strip of the stairs were lit instead of it going all the way from the bottom. He knew of Lex Luthor's assassination attempts on Lena, and thought if this was one of them.
"Aunt Lena, we need to go." Evan tugged on her arm, opting to go through the fire escape instead.
"My son's in there! And my sister-in-law!"
"Captain Sawyer, we can't do anything right now. We have to wait for the fire department to get everything clear. They'll be fine." A younger officer was back holding Maggie behind the yellow tape.
A motorcycle drove up to Maggie, and Alex stood taking her helmet off. "What the hell happened?"
"Fire. Evan's still in there with Lena."
Alex looked up at the smoke.
"Maggie."
The two women looked up at the sight of two figures climbing down the fire escape. "Over there."
Alex took Maggie by the hand and pulled her under the yellow tape.
"Ma'am you can't-."
Alex flashed her badge. "FBI. Let us through, Officer."
The officer stepped back and let Maggie and Alex cross the line. They quickly ran towards the building, watching Evan and Lena climb down the twenty floor fire escape.
Maggie's phone buzzed and she picked it up, seeing that it was Jamie. "J, I can't talk right now."
"I saw on the news that there's a fire in Aunt Lena's building. She's not there is she? Is everything alright?"
"She was. So was your brother, we're watching them climb down now."
"Oh my god. Should I come down? I can take the next train."
"No it's alright, everyone's fine. They're okay. Let me go. Mom and I love you, we'll update you later."
"Love you too. Tell Evan to call me later."
Maggie hung up the phone and watched Evan and Lena. They were halfway down the stairs, and Alex got more anxious as the building had accumulated more smoke. It hadn't caught up to them yet, but Maggie was keeping her calm.
"They'll be fine. Come on, that's our kid and Lena. They're smart, they'll make their way down quickly." Maggie held Alex's arm reassuringly.
"Evan, you okay?"
"I think our legs will feel like jello when we get down there, but otherwise I'm good. You?"
"I feel the same way. I guess-"
Lena was going to explain stoichiometry to Evan when they heard a scream.
"What was that?" Evan tried to peer through the window, only to see smoke.
"I don't know."
"Help me, someone! Please, that's my baby in there!"
Evan looked over at Lena. He was above her on the fire escape, and he felt something tug in his gut. When Lena wasn't looking, he jumped into the broken window.
"Evan!"
"I'll be fine!" He peered his head out the window. "You keep going, I have to do this."
Lena lingered there for a bit, refusing to move until her nephew walked back out unharmed.
Inside, Evan was looking around the apartment, smoke filling up all the empty spaces. He grabbed a towel from the kitchen and wet it before putting it over his mouth.
He ran towards the direction of the scream, seeing a woman in the corner with a baby in her arms.
"Hi, uh, my name is Evan Sawyer. I'm going to help you and your baby get out."
"I can't go down the fire escape with my baby! He'll die. It's too dangerous, they haven't fixed it in all of the years I've been here."
"Look, the smoke is here, but I'm going to protect her, okay?" Evan pointed towards the door of the apartment. "What's your name? And what's this little guy's name?"
"Darla. His name is Samuel."
"Miss Darla, I know you don't know me, but my mom is a cop and my other mom is an FBI agent. They've taught me everything about safety, and I promise you I will get down that staircase, this towel around your baby's head, and will protect him at all costs. Please, trust me."
Evan didn't know what lit the spark inside the woman, but she decided to trust him. He didn't know that she was Maggie's ex. While she didn't make the connection before, something had clicked inside of her hearing that he had two moms, a cop and an FBI agent. Slowly, she handed him her son, and Evan guided her out towards the fire escape.
"Alright Miss Darla. You go down there and meet my moms, I think they're outside. A short haired redhead and someone wearing an NCPD jacket." He smiled. "I'm going to run down these stairs, and I promise you he'll be safe." Evan made sure Darla had started to head down the staircase before making his way out the door.
Lena had gone down a few flights to get away from the smoke, but she was still waiting. She saw Darla coming out of the stairs.
"Darla, you live here?"
"I should say the same thing about yourself, Lena. Where's Kara and the kids?"
"They're away on a business trip. What about your son?"
"A kid just took him, he told me he'd meet me downstairs. I was scared to come down here with him, they've been making noises since people have been coming down."
"Wait." Lena stared at her. "What kid?"
"His name was Evan."
"Evan? That's my nephew. Maggie and Alex's son."
"Sawyer! That's why he looked so familiar."
An explosion from the penthouse had interrupted them. "We better start heading down. Trust me, Samuel's safe with Evan."
"Maggie, I don't see Evan. Where the hell is he?"
Maggie looked up, thinking Alex was being overanxious. She looked up and saw Lena and another woman heading down the fire escape, but not her son. She pulled out her phone and tried to call him, but no answer.
Meanwhile, Evan was talking to Samuel as he ran down the stairs.
"You're a real fighter, you know that?" He had four flights to go, but could feel the heat of the flames slowly spreading down the stairwell. "Your mom trusts me to get you back to her safely, and that's what I'm going to do."
Lena had finally gotten down and Maggie and Alex ran towards her. "Where's Evan?"
Lena turned and looked at Darla. "He was saving my son."
Maggie darted her eyes back and forth from Lena to Darla. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw the building started to collapse.
"Evan!" Alex ran towards the building, only for Maggie and Lena to hold her back.
"Maggie, that's our son. That's Darla's son with him, you have to let me go!"
"We're not any good if we're dead, Alex."
Suddenly, they saw a figure walking out slowly. Alex had her back facing the building as she was arguing with Maggie.
"Maggie, you have to let me go. I know how to handle myself, I've survived being shot, guns, everything."
"Alex."
"Let me go get our son."
"Alex. Look."
Alex turned around to see her son walking out with a baby in hand. He was covered in ashes, and had a cut on his forehead, but overall he was okay.
"Evan." Alex, Maggie, Lena and Darla all ran towards him, the paramedics close behind. He saw a flashing light, which he thought were reporters. Soon after handing Darla Samuel, he fell over.
Evan woke up at the DEO. He sat up, trying to figure out how long it had been since he passed out.
"You idiot."
He looked over and saw Jamie sitting next to him. "Jamie, what are you doing here?"
"Grandpa flew me over."
"I thought he was trying to stop an alien across the country."
"Yeah, but then they got it. I guess moms called him and he came back, picking me up on the way there. I love flying."
"Oh." Evan laughed.
"You know, you saved that baby."
"He's okay?"
"He's half Roltikkon, so that's why he and Darla were okay in the smoke for so long. A couple more minutes though and they wouldn't have been. You're still an idiot though."
"Why?"
"You're fifteen Evan."
"Yeah, and you're eighteen. When you were fifteen you were fighting aliens attacking us."
"Sure, you're so much more mature than I was at fifteen, but still, you're fifteen. Look, even at school they barely have us learning first aid yet. Yeah, we have two moms who have taught us everything we need to be a cop or DEO agent, but even then, there's still so much more we have to do. So much we have to learn. I can't lose my brother."
"I'm okay though. And why did I even pass out?"
"Smoke inhalation. Moms said if we weren't in the DEO even the hospital may not have saved you. That's how bad you were. You had a bunch of crap in your lungs."
"When the fire first started, only the part of the stairwell to Aunt Lena's penthouse was in flames. Did they investigate yet?"
"Yeah. Lex Luthor and more of his goons tried to kill her again. Thankfully most people got out and only a few had minor injuries, but you were by far the worst. I don't even know what kind of chemicals they put in there, but you breathing all of that in down the stairs was bad."
"What time is it?"
"Midnight. You passed out around 9 and we got you back here. I'm going to head home, I'm here for the weekend but I'm exhausted. I'm going to get moms and then you have to stay here. Mom's staying here and Mama's coming home."
"Seriously?"
"Protocol."
Evan rolled his eyes as Jamie left, and Maggie and Alex rushed in.
"Evan, you're alright."
"Yeah, I knew I would be Mom." He smiled.
"What were you thinking, jumping in like that?"
"I just had an instinct to go save that family. What would I have done if I passed them, just let them die?"
Maggie gave Evan a knowing look. "Jamie said she was saying the same thing to you?"
"She was fighting aliens when she was fifteen. This is less."
"That was when they attacked us, she didn't just jump in there." Evan had forgotten about the time they were cornered in the alley when he was eleven. Jamie had made him swear not to tell Maggie and Alex. "Not when your aunt's maniac brother is trying to kill her." Maggie shot a glare at Alex, and she shrugged.
"You could have died tonight."
"But I didn't. It got me thinking too."
"What's that?"
Evan sat up. "Something about tonight made me think about it. Yeah I'm only in high school, but you know how you always called me and Cal the peaceful ones? Cal went through with that, he's studying business now, isn't he? But what if I wanted to go down the same career path as Jamie and you two?"
"DEO or the Science Police?"
"I haven't decided yet. I have a couple of years to pick, but I want one of those two."
"Well, whichever you choose, we're okay with that. We just didn't think that was where you were going. But hey, the Danvers-Sawyer family really have that blood don't they?" Alex smiled at Evan.
Maggie checked her watch. "You should get some sleep bud. We're taking you home tomorrow morning, I'm going home with Jamie and mom's staying here. Plus, we're taking you to the bar, Darla and her friends have a couple, or actually a lot of thank yous to give. J'onn also says to be careful, but he has some paperwork to follow up on that he's doing at home."
"Alright."
"You have one more visitor though. After that, if you don't go to sleep we're keeping you here until I get off my shift." Alex kissed his head, followed by Maggie.
Evan groaned. "Love you two."
"Love you more!" Alex and Maggie yelled it at the same time while walking out. They were preceded by Lena.
"Aunt Lena, hi."
Lena smirked. "I'm not going to give you the same thing that the rest of your family just gave you, but just know I'm thinking the same thing."
"Hey, I saved that kid, and they got the guys who set the apartment on fire."
"They did. Anyway, I'm not staying long, I know you need sleep. I did want to bring you some stuff though." Lena pulled the bag from behind her back.
"What is it?"
"Your phone, replacement homework that you can do over the weekend, and we will learn stoichiometry, and this." She took a white tube out of her bag and handed it to Evan. "Open it."
Evan opened up the packaging tube and took out four photos. The first photo was him standing in front of the burning apartment, Samuel in hand. The next was him hugging Maggie, Alex and Lena, and the third was the look on Alex and Maggie's faces when they saw him coming out of the apartment.
The last photo was what made him smile wide though. It was him handing Samuel over to a crying Darla.
"James took them. I have to run, but I'll visit you tomorrow. Love you." Lena gave him a kiss on the head and walked out.
Evan sat up on the bed staring at the last photo. The look on Darla's face, crying tears of joy was what solidified his decision to go into criminal justice when he was older.
I could get used to that.