106. Chapter 106

Maggie’s the one who finds his room.

It’s more of a cell, really, truth be told, and Maggie flinches internally at the state of his face; they must have discovered he rescued Kara and Mon-el all those months ago. And Cadmus doesn’t seem to be the forgiving type, if the amount of rounds she’d had to shoot through to get here was any indication.

“Dr. Danvers? Maggie Sawyer, NCPD. I’m here with your daughter – well, both of them – and we’ve really gotta go. Now.”

Jeremiah only stares for a moment before nodding, before grabbing a bag, before taking the spare gun Maggie’s holding out for him, and following her into the near pitch-black corridor.

“Blew out the electricity, the generators, everything,” Maggie mutters to him as she guides him down by the flashlight strapped to her wrist. “We’ve got a rendezvous point just up ahead, gonna take you back to the DEO. You’ll never have to see this place again, sir.”

Jeremiah stumbles into her as Maggie comes to a standstill, hand up to halt him, to keep him quiet, and he’s surprised despite himself by her sturdiness, by the way his body, so much bigger than hers, doesn’t bowl her over.

“You said you’re here with my daughters, but you mentioned one first. Which one were you talking about, primarily?” he whispers as footsteps in a nearby corridor grow and then fade again, and Maggie starts moving again.

Maggie glances back at him with a slightly parted lips and fire in her eyes.

“Alex. I was talking about Alex.”

Jeremiah smiles and cocks his head slightly. “I thought so.”

“Sir?” Maggie asks over her shoulder as she clears the next corridor and waves him to follow her.

“You’re in love with my eldest, Detective Sawyer, I hardly think you have to call me sir.”

Maggie nearly stumbles to a halt.

“How did you – “

“You radiate it. The way you say her name, the way you’re risking your life to rescue me, the way that Alex is trusting you to come get me. The way you think of Alex as my daughter before you think of the one who can fly. No one’s ever done that, Alex’s whole life. I think I’m gonna like you, Detective Sawyer.”

“And suddenly I see where Alex gets her disturbingly quick thinking from.”

Jeremiah smiles and Maggie reflects it and his smile deepens because lord how his daughter must swoon over this girl’s dimples.

His daughter. His daughter.

Maggie is leading him to the place where he is going to see his daughter soon. Both of them.

He's going home.