49. Chapter 49

Kara narrows her eyes and Kara slows her approach.

“Maggie… what is that?”

Maggie looks up with wide eyes, with oh shit she caught me eyes, and cradles the ball of blueish fluff in her hands closer to her chest.

“What’s what, Little Danvers?”

“That… that. In your hands?”

Maggie looks down like she’s noticing the fluff ball for the first time. “Oh, this. This little… critter. Um… a guinea pig… I think?”

Kara walks closer to Maggie slowly, cautiously. “You think.”

Maggie shrugs and opens her hands a little to give Kara a better glimpse of the creature, all wide eyes and twitching nose and translucent whiskers and soft, soft fur.

“I found him in a cage in one of the Cadmus labs we broke into and I couldn’t just leave him there and I just thought – “

“You want to adopt him, don’t you.”

“His name is Fred.”

“Fred.”

“Fred. And um… do you think Alex will say yes?” Maggie’s eyes are wide and her hands are gentle and her voice is soft and Fred is cooing, now, a low trilling that makes Kara reach out a finger and stroke his little head.

“If you look at her like that, I think Alex will say yes to anything.”