Chapter 1
Maggie was approaching the DEO console - something about a new tip on an alien gone rogue somewhere or something. In her heart, she knew this could have easily waited till the morning but at 1:30 in the night - a trip to the DEO felt like the most obvious thing to do. She instinctively knew Alex was avoiding her - and knew she should have respected that - but she couldn't stop herself from doing this - at least meeting her by chance. Something , anything really.
What Maggie was surprised to see was a completely drunk Kara, drooling and lying with her head backward over the chair.
"Kara - what are you doing here-?" Maggie asked, slightly shaking her awake. This was completely surprising - seeing that Kara worked for CatCo and wasn't supposed to even know the DEO existed. Maybe Alex got her here because she looked drunk out of her wits.
"Maggie!" Kara proclaimed with her goofy grin, waking up with a jerk. All the alcohol had certainly gone to her head. "Oh wait - I don't like you." Kara remembered, frowning.
Maggie narrowed her eyes at that - but she could immediately guess why.
"How could you not like Alex? What - she's not good enough for you?" Kara began, in utter disbelief that Maggie could actually turn down her big sister like that.
Maggie sunk into a nearby chair - not finding in herself to say anything, staring thoughtfully at the console.
"Have you any - anY idea how hard it was for her? She hid from me that she was working for the DEO for years to protect me - and yet - yet - 2 weeks after meeting you she was almost falling over to tell me that maybe she was gay." Kara rambled on, quite forgetting that she was technically not supposed to know that Alex worked for the DEO. Thankfully Maggie was too absorbed in her own thoughts to notice that.
"She was literally crying over how beautiful you are. Alex! Crying! My sister didn't even cry when Jeremiah left and yet there she was sobbing - scared and lonely."
At that Maggie lifted her head, gulping and her face wearing a pained expression. Kara realized that maybe she should not have said anything and bit her lower lip. Maggie gave her a final glance before getting up and walking up out of the DEO.
Kara decided that maybe alcohol wasn't one of her super-strengths.
The next day - Cadmus did manage to reach Supergirl's hearing frequency and Lillian Luthor's voice came booming over her ears.
"I've got Detective Sawyer - and if you want her back in one piece - you better come get her Supergirl." Lillian threatened, before cutting of the signal. Kara was horrified and didn't have to think twice before rushing to the nearest window.
Lillian did make Kara lose all her strength, and then threw her into the cell lined with Kryptonite. It took Kara a few minutes to come back to her senses till she could faintly make out Maggie reaching out to her through the bars. Maggie was perplexed, seeing Supergirl so weak meant very little chance for them to escape now.
"What did they do to you - why are you so weak?" Maggie asked, doing her best to help Supergirl sit up against the bars next to her, which Kara resisted.
"The bars are lined with Kryptonite - they're sapping my energy." still panting after losing all her energy.
"Guess you can't bend those bars and bust us out of here then." Maggie reasoned, slumping against the bars. She had been beaten up pretty bad -but the pain was still manageable.
Kara was losing hope for the first time in a long time - and Maggie wasn't exactly doing much to boost her spirits. The silence went on for a while, as Kara regained her mental composure and Maggie leaning against bars - trying to think off a way to get them both out of there. She was eyeing the guard standing right next to her cell and was playing over in her head over and over what she could do to help them escape. It took Maggie a while to finally feel confident about her plan and when she did - she spoke out to Supergirl.
"When you get out of here, can you promise me something?" Maggie began, and Kara wasn't exactly hopeful of them ever escaping. She turned to Maggie with an inquiring look.
"Could you tell Alex that she's the most beautiful person ever - can you do that?" Maggie solemnly requested, her eyes pleading. Kara sat up at that.
"Maggie - you can tell her that yourself. We'll get out of here and - you can tell her that yourself." Kara assured her, slowly feeling her spirits rising. Maggie softly chuckled at that.
"It wouldn't mean much coming from me - besides you have that quality where everyone believes what you say." Maggie grinned, a painful look in her eye.
"Well then believe me - we'll get out of here and you can tell her everything." Kara reassured here, but Maggie just shook her head at that and looked away.
"Trust me - it's better this way. I'm not used to nice things, and I'm definitely gonna break her heart and - look - can you just tell her that for me?" Maggie finished, looking dead into Kara's eyes with a look of desperation. Kara took a soft breath and softly nodded.
"Good" Maggie whispered, getting up and softly moving towards the guard. "Now - let's get you out of here." The plan was to knock out the half-asleep guard and grab hold of his key-card and get Supergirl out of the cell.
Let's see how that goes.