586. Chapter 586

“Maggie, I’m serious!” she pouts when Maggie tries and fails to hold back a snort.

“Apparently you are,” she teases, because Alex has just relayed Winn and J’onn’s comments – word for word, of course – that Kara has gone from little miss sunshine to… Alex.

“I go out! I do things! I go out! I’m fun. A lot of fun. I’m so much fun! And I don’t… pout all the time! I’m not…” Alex tosses up her hands and casts about for an analogy. “I’m not Oliver Queen!”

Maggie tilts her head and buckles her knees and leans into Alex, close, close, close.

“Oooh, no, but you’d look great in a suit like his – “

“Maggie!” Alex practically stomps her foot, and Maggie decides that the more petulant her fiancee is, the better.

Because this really is priceless.

“I mean, babe…” she starts, because she knows Alex can go from petulant and adorable to dangerous and lethal in 0.35 seconds. She weaves her fingers through Alex’s and pulls her close, making sure their hips are touching.

Making sure Alex is turned on by their proximity, by the drop in Maggie’s voice. By the way Maggie is moving her body.

“You can be a little… dangerous.”

“I – “

“Threatening Winn with bodily harm like… daily?”

“It’s not daily – “

“Making sure all the new DEO recruits are terrified of you?”

“It’s just part of their training – “

“Making Brian piss his pants with fear just from a look you give him at the bar – “

“It was that one time!”

“Babe,” Maggie kisses her neck, and Alex hisses.

Maggie moans softly.

She doesn’t bring up the other… dangerous parts of Alex.

The parts that can’t be made a joke.

The parts that torture other people, that torture her.

The parts there is almost no coming back from.

She keeps it light.

She keeps it amusing.

She keeps it sexy.

Because Alex needs laughter, not a guilt trip that will make Kara’s angst look like sunshine itself.

“Don’t stop,” Alex whispers, and Maggie bites down gently in that spot between her throat and her collarbone that always makes Alex yelp, partly turned on and partly ticklish.

“Babe!” she squirms with laughter, and Maggie bounces on the balls of her feet, immensely pleased with herself.

“Well, I guess you’re not broody all the time,” Maggie bites her lip and grins, and Alex rolls her eyes and pffts and blushes in the most adorable way possible.

“I guess I’ve gotten pretty soft on you, huh, Sawyer?” she bites her own lip, and Maggie’s breath hitches.

“Yeah, Danvers, I guess you have.”