16. Chapter 16

Kara does the quasi-strip thing she did for Lucy and Alex is standing at Maggie’s side, wide-eyed and terrified, and Kara looks grim, worried that her secret will cause a massive rift between Maggie and Alex (and she’s come to really like Maggie, the way she dotes on Alex and brings that smile to her face).

To both Danvers sisters’ surprise, Maggie doesn’t even pay attention to Kara at all, and it’s not because she’s rounding on Alex to demand to know how she could have lied to her all this time.

Alex is tensed for it, she’s ready for it, ready to fight (because this is her sister, dammit) and ready to beg (because she’s never felt like this before, ever, and she knows she never will again), but when Maggie turns to her, it’s not with anger and it’s not with betrayal and it’s not with hurt.

Her eyes are full of tears and she takes Alex’s cheeks between her hands, pushing stray hair out of her face, out of her eyes.

“Alex Danvers. I know Kara, and I know Supergirl, and now I know they’re the same woman. But do you want to know who the bravest, most powerful, strongest, most intelligent, toughest, most beautiful, most perfect woman I have ever met is?”

Alex swallows and Alex shakes her head, because she genuinely cannot understand where Maggie is going with this.

“You, Alex Danvers. You are.” She strokes her cheeks with her thumbs and smiles softly at Alex’s cloudy eyes.

“No offense, Kara,” she tosses over her shoulder, but Kara is hugging herself and Kara is beaming.

“None taken,” she says to the woman whose wedding to her sister she’s already planning.