9. Maggie's Decision

Maggie paced the floor of her living room for the third night in a row, probably driving her downstairs neighbors crazy, but she couldn’t help it.  Alex and Kara had asked her to be in a relationship with them.  It was quite the shock.  Honestly, her first reaction had been sheer elation, but then reality set in, and she started to wonder just exactly how it all would work.  She’d never even known anyone who was polyamorous before, so she didn’t really know how the dynamic was supposed to look.  She’d met some swingers before, but that just didn’t seem to be the same thing.  She’d also met some people with ‘open’ relationships, but that always seemed to be a recipe for disaster because jealousy always appeared to get in the way.  She paced and paced.  Finally, she sat down and wrote out her questions and concerns.  Let it not be said that Maggie Sawyer wasn’t a problem solver.

She thought back to the night she had kissed Alex and Kara.  Alex’s kisses were as electric as she had anticipated, and Kara, well, she couldn’t help but melt into that adorable sweetness.  Kara was very different than anyone Maggie had ever dated before.  The Latina was certain that she had sworn more in the last five minutes than the blonde had in her whole life.  But kissing her had been surprisingly comforting, and she knew she wanted to do it again.

How had her life come to this that she was actually seriously considering dating two women at once?  She continued to write her list, praying to God that she didn’t overlook anything big.  She finished, or so she thought, until she remembered the twins, and that sparked a whole new list of questions and concerns.  She groaned.  She’d never had to put this much effort into deciding whether or not to get into a relationship.  Was this really worth all the trouble?  Apparently, it was, because she was already going through with the work.

When she felt confident that she’d thought of everything, she sent Alex a text message that she was ready to talk.  The DEO agent replied that they could meet this weekend, barring any Supergirl emergencies.  Now that that was over, she breathed a sigh of relief.  She just had to wait a few more days until they could actually have this conversation.  One thing was for sure - she was going to avoid any big surprises.

When Saturday came, Maggie was nervous as fuck.  She paced her apartment for the umpteenth time until it was time to leave to meet Alex and Kara at their place.  For the thousandth time, she read through her list to make sure she had everything memorized.  She didn’t want to feel like a douche by pulling out the list in front of them. She tried to let the wind and the rumble from her bike wash away her worries, but it barely even registered.  Now, she was bombarded with 'What If’s.  All the most negative scenarios she could think of were now plaguing her mind, and she worried that she was making a mistake.  However, she wouldn’t let that deter her from at least asking questions because in her heart of hearts lived a burning curiosity that was never quenched, and this situation piqued that curiosity into a roaring flame.

She tried to take deep calming breaths on the way up in the elevator, but her heartbeat wouldn’t slow.  She knocked on the door and was greeted with enthusiastic hugs from both women.  Their touch soothed her in a way that she hadn’t been able to soothe herself.  She filed that away for further examination later.  

“Are you hungry?” Kara asked.  “We can eat while we talk.”

Maggie internally chuckled as she remembered Alex’s description of Kara’s love affair with food.  “Sure,” she answered just to appease her.  “I could eat.”  She was way too nervous to eat.

“You like Chinese?”

“Sure.”

Kara handed her a menu, while she and Alex bickered about how many orders of potstickers they needed.  

“No potstickers for me, thank you,” Maggie supplied, turning up her nose.

Kara looked at her aghast.  “You don’t like potstickers?!”

The detective shook her head.  “Not even a little bit.”

Kara’s look of dismay turned to something resembling smug.  “More for me, then.  That’s one less person I have to fend off from eating them.  Ha!”

The Latina chuckled.  

Alex rolled her eyes.  

Kara picked up her phone and started dialing.  “Do you know what you want?”

“Yeah,” the detective answered.  “Vegetable lo mein and a couple of spring rolls.”

“That’s it?” the blonde looked a little disappointed.

“Yep.”

Kara shrugged and put in their orders.

“So, Alex” Maggie began when Kara hung up the phone.  “How was it fighting that last alien?”  She didn’t want to start talking about the serious stuff just yet.

“Oh, we called him Parasite,” Alex piped up.

“Yeah,” Kara added.  “That guy was pretty hard to kill…  I mean…  That’s what Supergirl said.”

“Right,” Maggie said, playing along.  She’d suspected Kara was Supergirl for a while now.  “How’d she do it?” she wanted to know.

“Well, she went and grabbed some plutonium out of the nuclear power plant and it overloaded his powers.”

“Plutonium...” the detective said disbelievingly.

Kara nodded enthusiastically.

“And that didn’t, like, irradiate the whole city?”

Alex shook her head.  “No, we checked.  He absorbed all the power, and it just disintegrated the guy.”

“Wow, that’s insane,” Maggie commented.

“No kidding!” Kara said cheerfully.  “And I got to write the article about it!  Woohoo!”

“Nice.”  Maggie gave Kara a high five.  “You’re gonna be a world-renowned reporter any day now.”

“Yeah, right,” the blonde blushed.

“No, I’m serious,” Maggie continued.  “I mean, having the Supergirl hook-up probably helps, but you’re a good writer, Kara.”

“You read my stuff?”

“Of course I do.”

Kara melted a bit and leaned over and gave the detective a big kiss.  “Sorry, I know we haven’t talked yet, but…  I just couldn’t resist.”  The kryptonian blushed a little.

“It’s OK.”  Maggie looked at Alex to make absolutely sure that it was really OK.  The redhead just smiled approvingly.

They made small talk about the weather and other random things until their dinner arrived.  They ate in relative silence, only really commenting on the quality of the food.  When everyone was finished, Maggie’s nerves started to kick in again.  She took a deep breath and let it out slowly, trying to remember all of her questions.  Her list was in her pocket, just in case, but she didn’t want to have to pull it out.

“OK,” Alex started.  “Let’s talk.”

Maggie looked around the room.  “Just out of curiosity, where are the kids?  I’m just asking because I’m wondering how much time we have.”

“The girls are with their Uncle Winn,” Kara answered.  “They’ll be over there until we go pick them up.  There’s no rush.  I’m sure they’re just watching Harry Potter for the hundred-thousandth time, or something.  They’re not going to interrupt us.  Those three are like peas in a pod.  They’ll be fine.”

Maggie took another deep breath.  “OK.”  She breathed out quickly.  “My first question is kind of about you guys.”  She waited for the other women to acknowledge her statement.  “You’re not just doing this as some kind of sexual experiment, are you?  I mean, you seem like a happy couple, but…  I just-  I don’t want to be some kind of plaything.  I have needs and feelings, and I need to be respected as a human being.”

Kara and Alex both nodded seriously.

“That’s a perfectly reasonable concern,” Kara insisted.  “And no, this is definitely not just some experiment.  I think, if we just wanted that, we would have looked for someone that we weren’t so attached to.  But, honestly, Maggie, we really, really like you.  You’re so smart and brave and so, so beautiful.  You make Alex so happy.  That means the world to me.  She’s everything to me, and she deserves everything good in this world, and that hopefully includes you.”

“And jealousy isn’t an issue with you two?”

Alex shook her head.  “Not when it comes to you.”

“What makes me so special?”

“Excellent question,” the redhead commented,  “But I’m afraid I don’t really have a good answer for you.  We’ve never met anyone like you that clicked so well with us before.  It just feels right to have you around.”

Kara nodded her head firmly in confirmation.

The Latina breathed for a few moments while she thought about what to ask next, then, “So it’s just me that you want to be with?  You’re not having an open marriage situation where you’re both going to be dating a bunch of other people?”

“It’s just you,” Kara assured.  “Where I grew up, polyamory was a totally normal thing.  People would get married to bear children together, but they always had one or two other special people that they’d choose as lovers.  It wasn’t just some free-for-all.  It was all very intimate and done out of love, not lust.  Up until now, Alex and I have been monogamous all these years because there’s never been anyone that’s come close to making us want them as a potential lover.”

So far, Maggie was fairly satisfied with their answers, but she still had more questions.  “OK, how about dates and kissing and sex…  Like, does it have to be all three of us every time, or can just two of us be together sometimes?”

Alex smiled.  “It seems kind of silly for us to expect all three of us to be involved all the time.  There’s going to have to be times when it’s just two of us.  Like, I would expect us all to be together for something like Valentine’s Day, but I would really like to be alone with Kara on our wedding anniversary.  Plus, there’s bound to be times when we want to be alone with each other for certain special occasions, or whatever may be.”  She waved her hand around in the air for emphasis.

“OK,” Maggie conceded.  “That seems reasonable.”  She thought for another moment.  “What about other people?  Are you going to tell them about me, or am I going to be some dirty little secret?  I’ll be honest, I don’t really like the idea of that.”

Kara put her hand on Maggie’s leg.  “I would never want you to be some ‘dirty little secret.’  We would tell the people that matter.  Everyone else can just stay out of our business.  Is that OK?”

Maggie nodded.  “So would you tell your mom about me?” she asked Alex.

The redhead nodded.  “If you’re serious about being with us, then yes.”

Maggie ran her hands through her hair.  “I don’t want to be in the middle, if you guys get in an argument.”

Kara shook her head.  “We don’t really fight much, so hopefully that won’t be an issue.”

“You guys argued for five minutes about how many potstickers to order earlier.”

“Pfft,” Kara waved her hand and rolled her eyes, while Alex giggled.  “That’s not fighting.  That’s just old married couple bickering.”

“Oh-kay,” Maggie chuckled.  “How long have you guys been married?”

“It’ll be twelve years on January 10th,” Alex answered with a goofy grin.

Maggie frowned.  “But gay marriage hasn’t been legal that long.”

Kara shrugged.  “We had sort of a… special ceremony right before the kids were born.”

“So you’re not legally married?”  This was quite the shocking news.

“Not by the state, no,” Alex answered.  “But we take our marriage vows very seriously.”

Maggie pondered this for a moment.  She wasn’t sure how to take it.  Was this a good thing?  A bad thing?  Did it even matter?  Shockingly, it seemed to give her a little bit of hope.  Maybe she wouldn’t be such an outsider to this perfect little pair after all.  “What about the kids?” she suddenly remembered.  “What if they don’t like this arrangement?”

Alex and Kara looked at her with great compassion.  

“Maggie,” Alex started, “If you’re serious about being with us, then we will do whatever we need to do to make sure our girls feel comfortable and safe with the situation.  They really like you, Mags.  I seriously don’t think it will be a problem.”

“You know I love your kids, right?”

“Of course,” Kara answered.

“It’s just that…  I-  I don’t want to just be free child care.  I may be Latina, but I’m not a housekeeper or a nanny.  I never really thought I’d have kids, so I’m kind of nervous about how everything will go.  I want to be involved, but I don’t want to be a full-time parent.  Does that make sense?  Is that wrong?”

“No, I get it,” Alex answered.  “They’re our kids, and we’ll take full responsibility for them, like we always have.  You don’t have to spend any more time with them than you want to.  I know that we would like you to be involved to an extent.  Like, they have dance recitals and school plays and things like that that you should probably come to, but it’s not like you have to come to all the practices or pick them up from school or anything like that.  Birthdays, holidays, special occasions, that kind of thing we would really like you to be around for.  Is that OK with you?”

Maggie nodded.  “Yeah.  That sounds good.”

“Is there anything that you guys want to ask me?”

Kara and Alex shook their heads.

“No, I’m impressed that you had such good questions,” Kara complimented.  “You really thought about this, and I greatly appreciate it.  So, have you made your decision?”

The detective shook her head.  “No, honestly, I still need some time to think about everything we just talked about.  This is a really big deal.”

“Yes it is,” Kara agreed.  “And I’m glad you’re taking it seriously.”

“Me, too,” Alex added.

“Now what?” Maggie wanted to know.

Kara smiled sweetly at her.  “What would you like?”

“I could go for a drink, actually.”

“Excellent idea!” Alex hopped up from the couch to retrieve the half-bottle of scotch that was left over from the last time Maggie visited.  When she came back she poured them both a drink, then clinked their glasses together, downing the shot in one go.

“I’m gonna make some cocoa,” Kara piped up cheerfully.

“OK, Angel,” Alex answered, pouring herself and Maggie another shot.

“It’s seventy-eight degrees out,” Maggie commented incredulously.

Kara shrugged.  “Doesn’t matter to me.  I love cocoa year round.”  She got up and headed for the kitchen.  

After downing their second shots, Alex looked at Maggie with hooded eyes.  “I don’t suppose you want to make out some more tonight?”  She grinned and waggled her eyebrows.

Maggie answered with a smile of her own.  “Oh, are my Danvers powers kicking in?”

Alex nodded, “Big time.”  She leaned in and kissed Maggie gently.

The detective sighed and pressed her lips harder against the redhead’s, placing her hands on each rosy cheek and holding on for dear life.  When their tongues met, Maggie’s heart nearly exploded out of her chest from beating so hard.  Her breathing hitched, and she wondered when was the last time she felt anything so right.  She didn’t even hear Kara come back in the room, but when they eventually pulled away from each other, there she was, sitting in the chair, cocoa in hand, cheeks flushed, eyes dark.  The blonde smiled at her when she caught her looking.  Apparently, Kara liked to watch.  “You like what you see?” Maggie husked.

“Very much,” the reporter answered thickly.  “Do it again.”

Maggie and Alex smirked at each other and leaned back in for another round of kisses.  They lost track of time, simply melting into one another’s touch, enjoying the closeness, relishing the electricity, basking in the warmth.  They kissed and kissed, and only thing that stopped them was Kara’s meek question of, “Can I have a turn?” a long while later.

“With who?” Maggie asked cheekily.

Kara smirked.  “With you, silly.  I’ve been making out with Alex since I was fifteen.”

Maggie’s eyes went wide.  “Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!”

Kara and Alex giggled at the expression.

“I can’t even fathom having been with someone for that long,” the detective admitted.

“We can’t imagine not being together,” Alex stated, taking Kara’s hand as they shared a look of mutual adoration.

Maggie felt a little pang of jealousy, not that she begrudged the other two for what they had, but because she wished she could have been there from the beginning, too.  She didn’t want to think about what had happened to her.  She waved Kara over.  “Come here, blondie,” she demanded teasingly and patted the seat next to her.

Kara chuckled and got up to sit on the other side of Maggie from Alex.  Once again, when their lips met tenderly and without hurry, she marvelled at how different Kara was.  If this woman was Supergirl, then it was extra incredible that she could be so soft and gentle when everyone knew how powerful she was.  Even if she wasn’t Supergirl, kissing Kara was incredibly soothing, and she relaxed into the blonde’s touch, brushing their tongues together with feather-light caresses.  However comforting the reporter might be, there still eventually came a time where they needed to catch their breaths.  She pulled away panting, and looked back to Alex to check in with her.  Maggie still felt a little paranoid about one of them getting jealous, but the redhead just looked as turned on as she felt.  Maggie swallowed hard.  She wondered briefly if she would make it out of this apartment alive.  She feared she might die from all the heat she was feeling at the moment.  “I need a breather,” she informed, fanning herself.

Kara looked a little smug.  “You want some water?”

The detective nodded.  “Yes, please.”

“Me too?” Alex asked.

“Two waters, coming up.”  The blonde practically skipped to the kitchen and back.

“Thanks.”

“Thank you, Angel.”

“No problem,” Kara stated, taking a drink of her own bottle before sitting back down.

Maggie sipped contentedly from her water bottle.  

“Are you…” the reporter started, then stopped again.  “Are you OK?  With everything so far, I mean?  You don’t feel like we’re taking advantage, do you?”

Maggie laughed.  “Taking advantage?  I assure you, you couldn’t make me do anything that I didn’t want to do.”

Kara looked like she might argue for a moment, but one withering look from Alex, and she kept her mouth shut.  Yet another subtle hint at Kara being Supergirl.  Sweet little reporter Kara could never overpower anyone.

“I’m perfectly OK, Kara.  Thanks for asking.”

“I just-  I need you to be OK with this.”

“I am so OK with it,” Maggie gave her a genuine smile, and the look she received back melted the detective’s heart.  She leaned forward and gave the blonde a brief but heart-felt kiss.

“Is, um…  Is this your answer?  Or is this part of you thinking about it?”

Maggie debated internally for a moment before finally setting her fears aside.  “Yeah, I think…  I think I want to try this.”

Kara gave her a thousand-watt smile.  Alex gave her own ecstatic grin, though, Maggie wondered if anyone could match the brightness of the blonde.  They each kissed again and again in celebration and confirmation of their new relationship.  For the first time in a week, the detective relaxed, and she knew she’d made the right decision.

“Actually,” Alex paused their make-out session.  “I just remembered, there is something kind of important that we need to tell you.”  She gave Kara a Look.

The blonde pressed her lips together pensively.  “Alex, are you sure?”

“She knows about everything else already, she might as well know this, too.  It’s going to need to be addressed at some point, if this relationship is going to go forward, and I would really like for it to come out in the open sooner than later.  Wouldn’t you?”

Kara looked searchingly into Maggie’s eyes.  “Yeah, I guess you’re right,” she answered Alex.  She took a deep breath in before saying, “Maggie, I’m an alien.”

Maggie grinned and clapped her hands together.  “Ha!  I knew it!”  She pointed at Kara.  “You’re Supergirl!  I knew it!”

“What?  How?”  Kara and Alex asked in unison.

“Please!  Those stupid fucking glasses didn’t fool me for a second.  By the way, you might want to try to cover up that scar on your eyebrow, and change your earrings once in awhile.  Dead giveaway.”  The detective snorted gleefully.

Kara touched her earlobes.  “These are from Krypton.  I don’t think earth metals would hold up in my ears.”

Maggie shrugged.  Now she wanted to touch the earrings, too.  “Can I see them?”

The blonde leaned over and let her get close up.  The jewelry just looked like ordinary gold.  When she reached up to touch them, Kara grabbed her hand.  “I’m sorry, but I’m not ready for you to touch me there quite yet.”

Maggie frowned in confusion.

“Think erogenous zones, with Super-sensitivity,” Alex supplied helpfully.

“Oh.” Maggie responded silently.  “Sorry.”  She let her hand fall back into her lap.

Kara smiled reassuringly.  “It’s OK.  You didn’t know.”

“Which leads me to the next thing we need to address,” the DEO agent piped up, looking pointedly at the blonde.

The Kryptonian blushed.  “Do we have to go there now?”

“Yes, Kara, come on,” Alex insisted.  “We need to get everything out in the open now, before it’s too late.”

The girl pouted, but relented.  “OK, fine…  Maggie, I-  I have… alien biology,” she stated cryptically.

“Alien biology…” Maggie repeated.

“Yeah.”  They were both silent for a little while.

“Meaning…”

“Meaning…  I have…  And, I’m just going to use the English terms for… things… to make it easier on you to understand.  I mean, it’s not exactly the same thing, but  it’s close, and well, I would use the proper Kryptonese words, but that wouldn’t make any sense to you, so-”

“Kara!” Alex chided.  “You’re rambling.”

“Sorry!  I just get embarrassed talking about it because I’m afraid people will call me a freak or worse.”

The detective pulled her close and caressed her cheek.  “Kara, I would never call you a freak,” she said solemnly.  Then, more playfully, “What is it?  Tenticles?”

Alex guffawed.

Kara turned red as a tomato and hid her face in her hands.  “No!” she shouted to be heard over Alex’s laughter.

“You could call it that,” the redhead shared.

“Alex!”  Kara was clearly mortified.  “You suck.”

“You love me.”

Maggie looked back and forth between them.  “Anyone going to actually tell me what the big secret is?”

The reporter groaned.  “OK, Maggie, I have both a penis and a vagina.”

The detective’s eyes widened.  She was not expecting that from sweet little Kara.  “Where are you hiding a dick inside those tight ass pants?” she wanted to know.

“Um,” Kara squirmed.  “It- um…  It goes inside me when I’m not using it.”

“Like a dog?”

The blonde nodded.  “Exactly.  I, um…  I also-  I also knot like a dog, too.”

“Oh.”  Maggie could feel her eyebrows trying to raise right off her head.  “I don’t want that…  The knot, I mean.  I’m not built like that.  I can’t…”

“It’s OK.  I don’t usually let her do that to me, either,” Alex informed.  “Mostly just on special occasions.  Her dick is big enough as it is, without adding the knot to it.”  She poured them each another shot.

The detective bit her lip before downing her scotch.  How big was it, exactly?  She must have been showing her anxiety on her face because Alex quickly started backtracking.

“You don’t have to take it at all, if you don’t want.  I mean, I know you’re a lesbian, so it might be kinda weird, but trust me, she is amazing at oral.  You won’t regret it.  When we’re all ready to go there, that is…  Plus, we have a strapon, and she loves taking that, if you know how to wear one.”

“Oh, I know how, trust me,” Maggie let them know with a smirk.  

“Oh, really?” Alex asked, intrigued.  “Can’t wait to see that!”

Kara whimpered.

Alex chuckled.  “Kara can’t wait, either.”

Maggie laughed, then something occurred to her.  “Wait a minute, does this mean that those two little Kara mini-me’s are actually Kara’s mini-me’s?”

The other women nodded.

“I always thought it was weird that you never talked about their father.”

Alex laughed, while Kara shook her head with a smile.

“Oh, boy,” Maggie exclaimed.  “I’d better get out of here before it’s too late,” she joked.   She got up and grabbed her jacket and her helmet and kissed the other two before she left.  “I’ll talk to you later.”

“Oh, Thanksgiving!” Kara shouted suddenly.

“What about it?”

“We want you to come here, if you don’t already have plans,” Alex informed her.

“Oh.  Well, I might have to work, but we’ll see.”

“OK.”  The girls hugged and kissed her again before she headed out feeling floaty and giddy, and not from the alcohol.  She was going to do this.   They were going to do this.  It was thrilling, and felt a little bit like breaking the rules, but there was nothing anyone could do to stop them.  Consequences be damned, Maggie was falling hard for those two women upstairs.  She rode home with a grin on her face and went to sleep fantasizing about her two new girlfriends fucking the life out of her.