"Jez, will you hang the hack on a second?" Maggie growled, rolling the cover of her towel tighter around her as she headed over to the door pausing long enough to pick up the collection of bills already waiting to pay for her delivery.
Given she and her girlfriend spent the day unpacking their shared apartment she figured the least she could do was have a nice warm meal waiting when Alex came back from her newest 'hero call'. Although she'd thought she'd have enough time for a shower and a change of clothes before their meal would arrive.
After all, they'd only ordered it five minutes ago from that dynamite vegan place across town. It hiked the delivery price up of course but it was so worth it in Maggie's mind.
Alex had raved about it during their last video call and Maggie had been itching to try it out.
Yet she barely has time to open the door let alone do anything else in reaction to the waiting gun greeting her on the other side of her apartment door.
"Really shouldn't be so trusting, Detective" Was the softly spoken giggling from the one standing on her doorstep. "But lucky me shaking up with that fed has made you soft." He laughs before Maggie's shock-fogged brain has registered enough for her to do more than attempt to back away in a feeble attempt to reach for her gun lying pathetically useless on the corner of the coffee table behind her.
Then all Maggie hears is the sounds of the weapon firing. All she could feel was the ripping, and burn of the triggered blasting of the shot into her stomach. "One, two. Jokers gun'en for you, three four, shouldn't have gotten the door, five, six one less cop to miss." she hears in a sing-song giggle of a voice as her attacker was already turning to skip. Honest to Rao, skips back down the hall.
She'd wished she'd had a better way of springing this on her hero of a girlfriend as Maggie felt the answering warmth radiating from her ring finger. The words already forming on her tongue as the downed cop forced her battered body to crawl back into the relative safety of her apartment. "In brightest day…" she coughs through the pain dimly aware of Alex's panicked voice calling for her "In blackest night…" She coughs "In blackest…" she struggles as the rapid blood loss drags Maggie under before the oath can form completely.
"The hell I'm letting you die today, Sawyer."
The last thing she hears before the shadow of unconsciousness swallows her.