46. Chapter 46

She’s always been a lace girl under her layers of protective leather.

And Alex Danvers? Alex Danvers can lift her up with one arm – and she has – and fuck her senseless on her lab bench, on her kitchen counter, against Kara’s bathroom door – and she has.

So when James slips her a gift card to that new boutique lingerie shop that just opened up and gives her a wink, she goes the first chance she gets.

She bites her lip as she stares at her choices, and she squints and she takes the shop owner’s breath away with the intensity of her stare, the solidness of her stance.

“She’s a doctor, sort of, and a soldier, sort of, and she’s gorgeous and I have no earthly idea why she’s with me, but I just want to look special for her tonight, you know?”

The woman does know, though she can’t imagine why Maggie doesn’t understand what her girlfriend sees in her – she wonders vaguely if she should direct her straight to a mirror – and she smiles and she asks Maggie gentle questions and Maggie answers them and in the end they settle on a black bustier that pushes up her breasts and hugs her hips and shows just enough but not enough at all of the matching thong she buys.

She trembles a bit when she tugs on one of Alex’s flannels over the ensemble at home, but thankfully her voice doesn’t shake when she calls across the apartment.

“Hey Danvers, wanna come here a sec?”

“Yeah babe?” Alex starts into the bedroom. And promptly trips over herself.

Maggie catches her and Alex freezes and Alex gapes and Alex pushes her own flannel off Maggie’s shoulders until it’s pooled around her bent elbows and Alex steps back and Maggie’s arms fall and so does the flannel and Alex gulps and Maggie inhales slowly and Alex pounces and the next morning Maggie doesn’t know whether to thank James or apologize to him because he has to see all the marks Alex left on her neck, the way Maggie limps slightly, the way Kara is horrified and ready to beat up the jerk that hurt her and James has to stammer his way through reassuring Kara that he’s sure Maggie is just fine, the way Kara stammers until she realizes with a big “oh my god, Alex!” and Alex bounces into the room on a complete high and can’t quite figure out why everyone is staring at her with such red faces and goofy grins and big eyes and god does she love Maggie in lingerie.