31. Chapter 31

It doesn’t take them very long for Alex to list them as being on a relationship on facebook. Maggie gulps and Maggie flushes and Maggie almost cries and Maggie laughs and Maggie smiles.

It doesn’t take very long, either, for Alex’s little sister to start commenting on and liking pictures of Maggie that are three, four, seven, nine years old, and her stomach constricts at the same time as she chuckles: the kid is facebook stalking her, checking her out, making sure she’s good enough for Alex. Alex’s boss and that IT kid Winn and James all start doing it, too.

Maggie appreciates the protectiveness – Alex deserves nothing less than a thorough screening – though she finds it mildly amusing that her bespectacled, couldn’t-hurt-a-fly looking sister is leading the charge.

But it helps, ultimately, because when Kara discovers through her facebook stalking session that Maggie loves to cook; when Winn discovers that she won an Intel prize in high school for a computerized model of crime scene analysis; when James discovers how sensitively she takes photos; when J’onn discovers that she was shot in the line twice from diving in front of her colleagues – they begin approving.

They begin going on family outings and they begin posting their own pictures on facebook.

They all snap them – hilariously angled selfies over the pool table and secret snaps of Alex and Maggie stealing kisses at work – but James and Maggie become the annointed group photographers.

So when Maggie is uploading a slew of the gang from Lena Luthor’s latest outing – one with Supergirl in the background, as she tended to be at L Corp functions, which always made Maggie’s stomach roil with mild jealousy at the ease, the intimacy, with which she and Alex interacted – and facebook suggests tagging Supergirl’s face as Kara Danvers, Maggie nearly spits up her coffee.

And Maggie realizes.

And Maggie laughs.

And Maggie gulps, hard, because suddenly Kara Danvers’ threats come with superpowers.

And she keeps laughing anyway, because Alex has never made so much sense, and she has never loved her quite this much.