Chapter 3
J'onn couldn't help but worry. He had sent a team into do a quick extraction that had gone excellent but Agent Danvers still hadn't come out. The boy that they needed to save was right next to him yet his agent nowhere to be seen.
Agent Danvers wasn't big on admitting she needed help but at this moment she would gladly accept any help she could take. Alex had successfully gotten the boy out, somehow along the way she managed to get distracted when she heard someone crying for help. Being just her luck it was a trap. The alien was a shape shifter and she had fallen directly into his trapped. The agent couldn't just run because she had managed to twist her ankle and maybe even fractured it. The alien had injure her a bit but killing her wasn't on their agenda yet.
"What do you want?" Agent Danvers said, not showing an inch of fear in her voice. Kara this might be a great time to show up. The agent silently pleaded that her sister would come crashing through the roof.
"I want to know where she is?" The shape shifter said. "Tell me where you're hiding her so I could kill her. We can't afford to have her change the past." Alex had no idea what this alien was talking about. She didn't know anyone from the future, she didn't even know that time travel was possible. If she wasn't being chocked at this very second she would be geeking out about the information she just herd.
"I don't know." The agent managed to say. Her vision was beginning to get blurry. Then she no longer felt the alien's hand wrapped around her throat. Slowly the black spots that had invaded her vision were gone. Her sister had showed up. When she got a better look she realized it wasn't her sister this girl wasn't wearing a supergirl outfit but a suit that looked very similar to the black suit Kara wore when she was under the influence of Red Kryptonite. The girl took the alien and threw her to the wall. She got closer to Alex but Alex began to slide back. She wasn't sure this alien would be any kinder than the last.
"I'm not going to hurt you Agent Danvers." The alien told her. The brunette girl lifted the agent up and flew off to the sky. Alex wrapped her arms around the girl's neck and saw that the building had just blown up into flames.
"How did you know my name?" Alex questioned the girl.
"That does not matter, but you shouldn't have been so stupid." The girl told her. She still hadn't landed them, they were just hovering in the sky. "I thought after the possibility of you being... you know. You wouldn't endanger your life until you were completely sure."
"I am aren't I?" Alex asked the girl. She did not answer just softly landed and placed Alex down.
"You should find out for yourself Agent Danvers, just know if you need me I'll be there." The girl was about to fly off but Alex asked a question.
"What do I call you?"
"The Night Warrior." she answered and left. Alex was stunned by the girl who had saved her. The Night Warrior was beautiful in Alex's opinion. The girl had the brightest blue eyes, brunette hair dark enough to pass as black, and if Alex was correct the girl couldn't be any older than 20.
"Are you okay?" J'onn asked her.
"I'm fine." Alex said getting up. J'onn helped her get keep her balance.
"You're getting checked out first then you can go." It was a direct order and Alex knew it. Giving up she agreed and let J'onn take her back to the DEO. Alex waited as she got checked out by the medical staff.
"Alright Agent Danvers you have a fractured ankle you will have to be on crutches for the next six week." the young man told her.
"Ha yeah no way I'm going to be out of the field for six weeks." The agent told him as she got up and tried to walk. Which she failed to do and fell, not completely to the floor because someone had caught her.
"Danvers have they ever taught you to be nice." Said none other than Maggie Sawyer. Maggie and Alex weren't on good terms at the moment. Considering Maggie had made Alex realize she was gay and rejected her when she kissed her.
"Sawyer what the hell are you doing on my base?!" There was the attitude that Maggie loved.
"When I saw that you were injured I refused to leave until they let me see you." Maggie explained. "Also I wanted to know who your new girlfriend was considering the girl that saved you was hot." Alex ignore Maggie's comment and decided to listen to what the doctor had told him. She grabbed the crutches and began to walk away from Maggie who was still going on and on about The Night Warrior.
"Maggie can you please just leave me alone." Alex told the police officer. Maggie left not wanting to annoy Alex more than she already did. When Maggie left Alex called a Uber and left to the hospital. She had gotten a call earlier but didn't have time to go earlier. The woman hadn't given her all the details just told her if she could get down to the hospital today. Alex made her way up to the third floor like she was informed and walked over to the receptionist.
"Can I help you?" The woman with the name tag Carly asked.
"Yes I'm Alexandra Danvers. I got a call saying if I could come down here." The woman started pulling out a file and Alex observed quietly. The woman flipped through a few papers and finally stopped.
"This has to do with Xolani Danvers." Alex had not herd that name in a long time. The name was strong enough to bring tears out of Alex's eyes. That name Alex had erased from her memory she never let herself remember it, it was buried in the deepest part of her soul.
"Why was I called?" Alex managed to get the words out.
"You left your number just incase anything happened and well this is the third time the child has been brought in with bruises and cuts. Miss Danvers she's being removed from her foster home and it was thought that she would be better off with you than in a new foster home or group home." Carly explained. "If we were wrong let us know and we will call her social worker."
"No that won't be necessary. I will take her with me." Carly let her know Xolani's condition and had her sign a few papers. The papers were just saying that Alex was taking full custody of Xolani and that she would no longer be a child of the state. Alex made her way to the room she was told. Alex looked down at the little body, the bruises were noticeable and the cuts deep. The little blonde girl she had given up five years ago. Before Hank recruited her for the DEO, before Kara came out as supergirl.
Alex was tired. She had dropped out of college so no one could know she was pregnant. How could she have been so stupid. She thought the guy would stay with her and at least help her, but no he told her to get an abortion. Alex refused and went with an alternative route. She would be giving the baby up for adoption that was it. There was no going back on the choice Alex had already chosen the couple that would adopt the baby. The couple had let Alex choose the name and she did. She choose the name Xolani which means forgiveness because she knew very well that one day she would be asking the child for forgiveness. Alex just wasn't ready to be a mother. She herself was a mess, she couldn't even keep a job what made her think that she could keep a baby alive. Alex was on her way home driving. She had one of her final appointments today. Mister Jones had offer to take her home but she refused. Alex insisted she could drive herself home. Every thing was in order until a car ran the red light and crashed directly into her.
Everything went by so quick the next thing Alex knew she was at the hospital. The doctors kept on saying Alex had a better chance to live if they terminated the pregnancy but Alex refused she kept in saying that the baby had to be saved. The doctors did manage to save them both. Alex had been taken to a room and the baby to an emergency surgery. Alex was told that there had been an attack and that Xolani's parents had been killed. Alex couldn't handle everything going on around her and left. She needed to breath, and leave, she had made a choice to not raise a child and there was no going back the baby girl would be better off with out her.
That's what Alex thought, that's what she told herself to find the strength to leave the baby at the hospital. She knew that babies had a greater chance to get adopted. Now Alex knew she was wrong the baby she had walked away from was here laying in front of her in a hospital bed. Alex took a seat next to the bed. The small body began to move. Alex watch carefully as the girl sat up and looked at her. She was met with green eyes.
"Who are you?" The five year old asked.
"Um my name is Alex Danvers." Alex said to the little girl.
"Danvers that's my last name." The girl said. "Are you my mommy?" Alex was stunned at how quick the Xolani was to analyize things.
"Yeah I am." Alex answered the only thing she could. The little girl threw herself at her. Wrapping her arms around her neck. Alex felt her neck getting wet as the child began to mumble.
"I'm sorry for what I did wrong please don't make me go back."
"You don't ever have to go back you're going to come home with me." Alex said pulling the little girl away so she could see her eyes. "Would you like to come live with me." Xolani gave a eager nod. Alex smiled and talked the doctor in charge. She managed to get the guy to let her leave with Xolani. Alex knew she would have a lot of explaining to do about Xolani but she was ready this time and she was going to try her best not to screw up.
The next day Alex was told she could take the girl home. The nurse was kind enough to help get Alex and Xolani a cab. Alex gave the guy her address and he was off. The drive to her pace wasn't long she paid and got of making sure Xolani was near her at all times.
"What happened to you?" The small voice asked.
"I fell at my job." Alex said. For once she was thankful her apartment building had an elevator. She had never stepped foot in the elevator but today she would. She stepped in with Xolani at her side. When the door opened Alex was surprised to hear yelling, her building was usually quite. Alex watched as a girl yelled at her neighbor.
"You can't just do that. At least give me a day to find a place for my son to sleep!" The girl shouted but the door was slammed in the girls face. Alex felt bad for the girl who could be so heartless as to throw out a girl especially when the girl had what seemed to by a three year old boy. Alex went into her apartment and turned on cartoons for Xolani. Alex need to get the question out of her mind. Alex made her way to the restroom and peed on the pregnancy test she bought yesterday. Alex waited for the three minutes that passed by painfully slow. This brought back memories of when she took the test to find out she was pregnant from Xolani. Alex picked up the stick and groaned.
"Shit!" She mumbled softly so Xolani wouldn't hear. She had only had the girl for less than 24 hours she didn't want to screw this up by teaching the girl how to cuss. She looked down at the test, she had read correctly she was pregnant. Maggie had to tell her the stupid line 'I didn't know you were into girls.' Alex panicked and thought she could prove Maggie wrong so she went and got drunk and slept with some guy. Now she was pregnant, gay and pregnant. This was great.