629. Chapter 629

She revs her engine.

Not because she has to. Not because it’ll make her faster. If anything, it’ll make the engine whine later, make her up to her elbows in oil later, making it up to her precious Ducati later.

But Maggie will like that, later.

Just like Alex knows she likes it now.

Because Maggie revs the engine of her Triumph back, and Alex grins inside her helmet as they set off together for the stadium.

“There’s some kind of game going on tonight, and it’s a full house,” Winn is telling them urgently in their headsets, and Alex furrows her brow.

“I didn’t even know National City has popular enough sports team to fill a stadium to begin with,” she grunts as she hugs a tight curve, Maggie right behind her.

“Oh come on, Danvers, you guys have a pretty respectable hockey team,” Maggie’s voice chimes in her ear, and Alex almost crashes with her impulse to turn and look at her fiancee.

“How are we getting married and I still am uncovering further depths of your nerdery?”

“I’ll have you know I played hockey in – “

“Small talk later, ladies,” J’onn reminds them, and they both grimace and blush.

“My favorite couple,” Winn whispers into the comms, and they can’t see J’onn’s mock glare, but they can imagine it well enough.

“Okay J’onn, approaching the stadium now.” Alex’s entire body is tense with adrenaline, suddenly, as she tugs off her helmet and unzips her jacket for better mobility. Next to her, Maggie does the same.

They stride into the building and flash their badges as one.

Later, they’ll reminisce and flirt about what a great team they make. What a sexy team they make.

Now, they focus on the fact that everyone in this stadium is about to die.

“Supergirl,” Alex calls, keeping the terror barely out of her voice at seeing Kara on the ground, at seeing her face veined with green, with pain, with fear. She knows without needing to look that Maggie has her back – their backs – that Maggie has her gun trained on yet another ego-maniacal white man trying to ruin their lives and convinced it’s because the universe owes him something.

“Kryptonite. In the core,” Kara chokes, and Alex drags her away from the device as Maggie keeps their mark from doing anything rash.

“It’s okay, I got you. I got you,” Alex comforts her, switching places seamlessly with Maggie, who kneels by Kara, one hand training her gun on the cultist, one hand rubbing soothing circles on Kara’s back.

“We’ve got you, Supergirl,” she murmurs. “Take one step toward her and it’ll be the last you take,” she reminds him as he tries to move near Alex, and Kara, even in her pained state, marvels at the difference in tone two breaths apart, realizing exactly why her sister is so in love with this woman.

Alex chucks the Kryptonite core, and one look exchanged between she and Maggie tells her that Supergirl isn’t going to be able to fly that thing out of here.

She starts spinning her mind for ideas, for then Kara is leaning on Maggie to help her stand.

“Hey, hey, I’ve got you,” Maggie tells her.

“Stand back. Both of you. Back!” Kara barks, pained and determined, and Maggie and Alex wordlessly obey her.

Her heat vision burns a massive, deep well into the ground, but Alex and Maggie only have eyes for their sister, Alex’s eyes welling with tears as she watches Kara nearly burn out her powers. Again. As she watches her sister in pain and pushing through it to save everyone. Again.

“You have to push it in. You have to push it in,” Kara collapses into both Maggie and Alex’s arms. They set her down as gently as they can and move as one to push it. Maggie does the pushing with her shoulder, because she keeps one of her arms straight out, loaded gun facing the man responsible for… all this.

They don’t count out loud for when to push, because they don’t need to. They just need to glance at each other.

They just need to glance at each other and they know when to push, and how hard.

Maggie will comment later about how they make a pretty good team, and Alex will bat her eyelashes teasingly and bite her lip seductively.

Later.

But now?

Now, they save the world, shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart, breath to breath, yet again.

Now, Maggie rushes to make the arrest and Alex rushes to her superhero sister.

Now, Maggie passes him off to one of her colleagues and helps Alex help Kara to stand. Helps Alex help Kara to heal.

Together.