52. Chapter 52

She’s bio-techno-babbling over a microscope with one a DEO lab tech when she first notices it.

Kara and Maggie in the doorway of the lab, whispering to each other, eyes on Alex, and giggling up a storm.

She frowns questioningly in their direction but shakes it off, because she has a bio signature to analyze and if she hears the word “nerd” slipping from their general direction, it’s a compliment, anyway.

She notices it again later, in the field this time, when Alex starts in with Winn over the comm, something about electromagnetic radiation and some other words that Kara doesn’t quite understand.

“What is she even saying?” Alex hears her ask Maggie, and Maggie smirks, happy to translate.

“Basically, she’s using fancy nerd talk to say that they can find the newest Cadmus hideout by tracking the radiation that their weapons give off.”

“And she couldn’t have just… said that?”

Maggie grins and Kara – well, Supergirl – mirrors it.

“Nerd,” they chorus.

The third time Alex notices it, they’re at home and she’s snuck a microbiology textbook onto her lap while they’re watching a rom com she’d objected to from jump.

Kara leans into Maggie and whispers something and Alex may not have super hearing but Kara doesn’t exactly have the whisperiest whisper and she’s sure she hears a hint of “needs a distraction from all that nerd stuff.”

Alex is about to roll her eyes and Alex is about to call them out and Alex is about to threaten to withhold sex from Maggie and tell Eliza on Kara.

But then Maggie is nodding at Kara and she is crawling across the couch to slip into Alex’s lap and she’s nipping at her neck and suddenly Alex doesn’t mind even one little bit that her girlfriend and her little sister keep teasing her senseless.