Chapter 60

Despite Alex's impressive work ethic, Maggie has managed to get her girlfriend to bed at pretty good times. Even earlier if she seduces her. Those are the nights that Maggie really enjoys. Spending time with her girlfriend who somehow, miraculously, loves her too. The fact they're spend time together in bed certainly doesn't hurt, especially since Alex is such a fast learner.

Maggie has really been enjoying these past couple of days, working together with her hot nerdy girlfriend, Vasquez, and Winn. They've made a lot of progress, and she enjoys spending time with people she's starting to consider family. But Maggie's favorite time is whenever she's alone with Alex. Whether they're in bed, cuddling, eating, or whatever. Maggie's never been so happy to just exist with someone.

Tonight, it's just a week before Kara and Lena are supposed to come back. Alex has been stressed all day, feeling like they haven't done enough, haven't accomplished enough with the crossbow. So instead of letting Alex work herself to the bone, Maggie pulled her away from their work early so that they can cuddle and talk it out.

So here they lie, in the room that was once just Alex's and is now theirs. Cuddling on the bed, where Alex is snuggled up against Maggie, lying on her side with half of her body draped over Maggie.

"I just feel like we should have been able to get farther. We still have to figure out the upgrades and test them, and produce more crossbows with the upgrades..." Alex trails off with a sigh.

"Alex, sweetie." Maggie murmurs, gently placing a finger under Alex's chin so she can move her face so that Alex is facing her. "We have a team of four people, three of which are certified geniuses." Alex opens her mouth, probably to tell her that Maggie's really smart too, but Maggie shushes her. "Shh. I'm smart, I'm not a genius like you, babe."

Alex grumbles a disagreement, which Maggie ignores in favor of continuing.

"Four people have gotten as far as we have. Sweetie, when it was just us, we managed to categorize and make a blueprint of the entire crossbow. That's impressive. It would take a normal team of twenty people a week to do what we did in a couple of days." Maggie says passionately. Alex mumbles something that she doesn't catch. "What was that, babe?"

"I said that I liked working with you. I like working with you," she corrects herself.

Maggie's answering smile makes Alex grin dopily at her from where her head's resting on Maggie's shoulder. "Like I said, Danvers. We make a good team."

"We really do." Alex agrees, earning a quick peck on the lips from Maggie.

"We have done a lot with the crossbow, babe. More than I expected, and we still have like a week to figure the rest out. Unless they're early," Maggie amends.

"Do you think they'll be early?" Alex asks.

"Your sister is super fast." Maggie deadpans, bursting into laughter when Alex gives her an unimpressed look.

"That was terrible, Sawyer." Alex says, unable to stop her lips from twitching up into a small smile at Maggie's proud look.

"But you're smiling and not worrying." Maggie points out.

Alex chuckles and leans in to kiss her girlfriend deeper.

***

It's the next day and they're all debating upgrades when Alex's sixth sense starts tingling (Kara calls it their sister-sense). Alex's head whips up and she looks through the windows of the lab and nearly chokes on nothing. Maggie automatically looks up when she hears the noise, looking at Alex's usual spot worriedly, only to see that she's already halfway out the door of the lab.

Maggie swiftly follows her, gesturing for a concerned Vasquez and Winn to follow. She nearly stops in her tracks when she sees what caused Alex to drop what she was doing so suddenly.

Alex is hugging Kara, who's standing in the middle of the DEO next to a tired looking Lena. It's barely noticeable, how tired Lena is. She's a Queen, she has to hide it. That along with her naturally straight expression (Maggie nearly snorts at the thought of Lena being straight) makes it nearly impossible to tell, except Maggie has exceptionally good detection skills and has been around Lena enough to tell.

"What's wrong? You're not supposed to be here for another week!" Alex exclaims. "Are you okay? Is Lena okay? Did you find anything out?"

Alex is about to spout off more questions without giving any time to answer, working herself up even more, making herself even more worried, when Maggie places a calming hand on Alex's shoulder. Alex takes a deep breath a purses her lips, the concern on her expression not going away as she waits for Lena and Kara to answer.

"We're both fine," Lena says, recovering from the onslaught first. "And yes, we do have information. If you don't mind, I think it would be best to talk about it when everyone is gathered in a conference room. I don't really want to repeat it multiple times if I don't have to."

Kara nods along with her girlfriend's words. "Yeah, and we haven't had a ton of time to rest on the way back. I'm really looking forward to sleeping in my bed."

Lena hums in confirmation. "Why don't you go get the others, darling? I'll head to the conference room with them."

"Alright." Kara nods and kisses Lena softly before rushing off using her super speed.

"I don't think I'll ever get used to that," Lena muses.

"Okay," Winn says, getting everyone's attention. "So I have to go grab the blueprints and the stuff we've all been working on with the crossbow since I'm assuming J'onn will want a progress update. I will go grab that, I'll meet you guys in the conference room. And Vasquez? Ask about the cloak!"

"I'm not giving them the feedback sheet you made!" They shout at him as he dashes away. Vasquez shakes their head, looking both amused and exasperated. "It's 147 questions long."

"That's quite a lot. I guess he wants thorough feedback." Lena remarks. "Though to be fair, I have made a 233 question long feedback sheet for one of my inventions."

"Gods. What for?" Alex asks as they all begin heading to the conference rooms area, following Vasquez.

"My armor." Lena answers. "I did get very thorough feedback, but I think it's because it came from me."

Alex snorts out a laugh. "That's great. Mine for my armor was only 164 questions long."

"I'm surrounded by nerds." Maggie groans out, but everyone can hear the fondness in her voice.

Vasquez holds open the door for them and nods at their thanks.

They wait for the others to join them. J'onn comes in, then Winn juggling a bunch of papers, then Kara, followed by Eliza and Jeremiah.

"As lovely as it is to see you both again, I would like to get this started so I can understand why you came back a week early. Did something happen?" Eliza asks worriedly.

Kara sits down next to Lena and they entwine hands automatically.

"Yes, something did." Lena says.

She and Kara take turns explaining what went on. When they reveal which castle Cadmus is staying in, Winn digs through his stack of papers and pulls out the one with the blueprints for Lion Castle. And they, of course, end up having to explain things Kara really wishes they didn't have to.

"Why shouldn't we be worried?" Alex argues. "Kara! You got caught! By a Cadmus guard! Why in the name of Rao wouldn't we be worried?"

Kara's lips twitch up slightly at the sound of her god's name falling from her sister's lips.

"Because Lena thought fast and pushed me down and kissed me. He didn't even see our faces!" Kara says, her cheeks flushing.

"How can you be sure? You said they sent a patrol after you! How do you know they didn't recognize you?" Alex prompts.

"We were wearing our cloaks, hoods up. And..." Kara mumbles the rest so that they can't hear it.

"What?" Alex asks.

"I said, um. I heard them talking. They thought we were just some crazy couple, over there to..." Kara clears her throat and whispers. "Have intercourse."

The table is silent for a moment while Alex blanches, looking horrified at the thought of her little sister going out there and... Doing that. The silence is broken by Maggie's loud laughter.

"Sorry," she wheezes out between fits of laughter. "It's just too perfect. Sweet Kara, who looks like the most innocent schoolgirl, is nearly caught with her girlfriend near the enemy's base, spying. So Lena just... shoves her to the ground and kisses her so the guard thinks they're just some adventurous couple hellbent on having sex near a castle." She cackles and high fives a blushing Kara, who hesitantly high fives her back. "Get it, Little Danvers!"

It takes a bit for her and a very amused Vasquez (and secretly amused Lena) to calm down enough for them to continue with the meeting.

It was too funny for me not to add, and to be honest, I would be laughing just as hard as Maggie. Alright! Next chapter, more of the meeting! And yeah, Supercorp will be having their first time soon ;) After the meeting, of course. Thank you all for reading and for your amazing comments! Stay awesome!