205. Chapter 205
“Oh come on, Kara,” Winn is teasing as Alex eases the pool cue out of his hands before he accidentally puts an eye out or gives another patron an accidental concussion. “You’re a – ” he leans in dramatically, and James and Maggie lean forward too, humoring him, while Alex shakes her head with a smile and sips at her root beer. “superhero.”
He raises his voice back to regular volume. “All you have to do is put your hands on your hips and throw your voice all deep and sexy the way you do when you’re in your suit – ”
Winn throws up his hands at Alex and James, who both look affronted, while Maggie nudges Kara with a wicked grin on her face. “Not that I’ve noticed, you know, no, not at all, but I’m saying. You can have anyone you want, Kara, just like that. Guy or girl. Glasses or no.”
“The glasses, Winn – on Kara or on her person of interest?” James teases, and Winn points a threatening index finger at him until he realizes it’s only actually threatening when Alex does it.
Kara laughs before grumbling something between a moan and a sigh. “But it’s harder, being a superhero. How am I supposed to have a regular dating life, I mean come on? Barry says Oliver and Felicity couldn’t make it work – ”
“But Barry’s with Iris, isn’t he?”
“Well, yeah, but I feel like they’re the exception, not the rule.”
“Hey, Little Danvers, don’t lose hope, okay?” They all turn to Maggie with looks of mild surprise: she’s always warm with everyone, and she’s always kind, and she’s always open to a good joke, a good laugh. But she doesn’t talk all that much, not in front of everyone, so when she does, everyone listens, and Alex beams.
“Dating a superhero, it’s not all that bad.”
“Oh really, Detective Sawyer?” Winn teases, pointing at her with his beer bottle. “And you would know this from personal experience?”
Maggie glances at a suddenly stiff, suddenly intense Alex, and she looks away before she chugs down some solidarity root beer and nods.
“I’ve spent some time in Gotham,” she finally says off-handedly, and James, Kara, and Winn all lean in at the same time while Alex crosses her arms and perches back on the pool table, staring hard.
“You’re not saying – ”
“Of course that’s what she’s saying – ”
“Batwoman? No. Come on – ”
“Well hey, if Maggie’s good enough for my sister, she’s more than good enough for Batwoman!”
“Aw, thanks, Little Danvers.”
“No but seriously! You and Batwoman?”
Maggie glances again at Alex, who’s chewing on the inside of her cheek, now, staring even harder, now.
“Yeah, it was a good time. She’s got great uh… gadgets.” Maggie grins faintly at her own pun and slinks around James to get to Alex, who stiffens slightly at her touch.
“Batwoman, huh,” Alex says. “Funny you never mentioned her.”
“There’s a lot we’re still learning about each other, Danvers. And you already live with the shadow of one superhero. You don’t need another. No offense, Kara.”
“None taken. About time someone sees my sister for how amazing she is.”
James and Winn toast Kara to that, and Maggie grins off to the side at them, but Alex is still frowning, still stiff.
“Apparently not as amazing as Batwoman,” Alex says, and she can’t believe she’s being this childish, this jealous, this wildly insecure, but there it is.
“Babe,” Maggie shakes her head. “You know who I was actually talking about? When I said dating a superhero’s not all that bad?”
“Yeah, your ex from Gotham.”
Maggie shakes her head again, and Kara squeals and buries her face in James’s shoulder, and Winn awwws and puts his hand over his mouth, because they get it, they understand, but Alex doesn’t.
“Al, I was talking about you. Yeah, okay, I dated Batwoman, sure. But when I think of superheroes I’ve been with? The first one that comes to my mind will always be you, Alex Danvers. You. You’re my superhero, babe. My only superhero. No offense, again, Kara.”
“You know what I’ll be offended by, Maggie? You not proposing to my sister right this minute.”
And suddenly Maggie is laughing happily, and Alex is leaning down to bury her smiling, blushing, teary-eyed face in Maggie’s neck, and Kara absolutely can’t wait to plan their wedding.