55. Chapter 55

She kept adjusting her glasses and stumbling over her words, and Maggie fought to keep a straight, grave face because the words coming out of Little Danvers’ mouth were so serious, if not loaded with innuendo that she obviously didn’t notice, but her scrunchy face and befuddled body language was just too cute.

“And I like you, Maggie, I do, so far. But if you ever so much as make my sister cry again, I will… I will do things… to you, things that you won’t find pleasant, because Alex is special and she deserves the best and if you can’t be that for her I’ll consider letting you leave quietly right now without doing…. bad things to you.”

Maggie nods and Maggie grimaces. “And if I ever give her anything less than my best, I give you full permission to do…” She almost grins here, because she means it, but the idea of Kara being able to hurt her is just… cute. “All the terrible things to me you can think of. Because if I hurt her, I’d deserve it.” And more, she thinks, but doesn’t add that part out loud.

Kara adjusts her glasses and nods and formally offers Maggie her hand to shake, and it’s not until months later when Supergirl shakes her hand at a formal ceremony celebrating the defeat of Cadmus that Maggie makes the connection.

That the spluttering bad things threats were real, because that handshake is familiar, and damn she’d never intended to hurt Alex anyway but she would never again underestimate a stumbling, awkward threat from glasses-adjusting, hand-wringing Kara Danvers.