48. Chapter 48

“Hey,” Alex is saying, hitting Maggie’s cop partner on the shoulder lightly, “I didn’t know you applied to train at Quantico, Maggie didn’t tell me. Congratulations!”

He grins, hands deep in his pockets, and nods. “Yeah, I applied around the time you and Sawyer started dating, back in July.”

Alex stops walking and squints. “But we didn’t start dating until September.”

Maggie’s partner grins and arches an eyebrow. “Really? But she started talking about you in July –” He throws his voice slightly in a hilarious imitation of Maggie. “Danvers this, Danvers that, and god Alex is so gorgeous and she thinks I don’t want her but anyone with eyes would want her, I mean don’t you want her, I mean no, you can’t want her, she’s gay and I want her and you can’t have her, but Alex Alex Alex and by the way did you know she can walk on water?”

Alex cuffs him in the shoulder again, harder this time, and he laughs, and switches back to his regular, deep voice.

“No but seriously. It was July when she started talking about you. And she never stopped, to be honest.”

Alex doesn’t explain why she kisses Maggie so fervently that night, and Maggie doesn’t need an explanation: she just needs Alex, Alex, Alex.