714. Chapter 714

“If you get Kara, I get the boys,” Maggie concludes, and Alex opens her mouth to argue, but decides her lips would be much happier kissing her fiancée instead.

“Mmmmm,” Maggie hums into their kiss, lips curved up into a smile. “Is that a yes?”

“Yes,” Alex whispers, her forehead pressed gently to Maggie’s as they breathe in each other’s breath, still soaking in the whole feeling of getting married, of promising themselves to each other.

Forever.

It feels overwhelming, but mostly, it feels absolutely perfect.

And that’s how they settle it.

Alex goes shopping for Maggie’s engagement ring with Kara.

Maggie goes with James and Winn.

“Okay,” Winn takes out his list with a flourish. “Something simple, but not plain. Elegant, but not overly feminine. Something soldier-y, but not overly masculine.”

“Did Alex actually say ‘soldier-y’? I don’t remember that being part of the conversation,” James tries to peer at the list over Winn’s shoulder, but Winn pulls away.

“Well, that’s what you get for not taking notes, Mr. Photojournalist,” he teases, and James and Maggie exchange an affectionate eye roll.

“And it’s gotta be strong enough to be able to wear into battle.”

“And not interfere with her gun grip.”

“But it’ll be on her left – “

“You know as well as I do that my woman shoots just as well with her left as she does with her right,” Maggie smirks.

“Well, maybe I don’t know quite as well as you do, Sawyer,” Winn teases before hiding behind James to dodge Maggie’s playful swipe.

Maggie frowns as she stares at their list, still outside the boutique jewelry shop she’d selected.

“Nothing commercial is gonna be able to fit all these criteria, huh?” she points to Winn’s scrawl, particularly the last lines about being battle-ready.

Across town, Alex and Kara are having an even more frustrating conundrum.

“No, I’m not shopping for me, I’m shopping for my girlfriend. My fiancée. Future wife. The woman I’m marrying,” Alex explains, yet again, her voice edged with impatience and her fingers twitching like she wants her ray gun.

“Hey, Alex,” Kara drapes her arm around her, “maybe we try somewhere else?”

“I didn’t like any of the stuff in there anyway,” Alex sighs heavily as they walk together, Alex eating the ice cream Kara insisted on buying her as mopey as she possibly can.

But suddenly, her eyes glitter as she looks up at Kara, whose eyes are also shining.

Because – of course – the same idea’s hit them both at the same time.

Which is how Winn finds himself in the middle of two very in love women.

“How about this?” he texts a picture to Alex, making sure he’s sending it to the right woman at least three times.

“Do you think Alex would like this little detail?” he asks J’onn when Alex is down at Thursday morning knife practice.

“James, what type of gun does Maggie usually use at work? I want to make sure the fit is right.”

“Kara, more shine or too shiney?”

It’s only a couple of weeks before their rings are ready.

Custom made for both women, with loving input from the people who cherish them most.

“Winn, they’re beautiful,” Alex whispers as tears flood her eyes, and she wraps him in a tight hug that leaves him breathless; but it’s the best hug he’s ever had.

“Thank you, Schott,” Maggie hugs him too, also choking on tears, but he holds down his own as he waves away her thanks.

“It was an honor,” he tells them, and steps back to stand with J’onn, Kara, and James as Maggie, trembling, takes Alex’s ring into her hands, tears streaming down both their faces.

“You’re still good to do this?” Maggie confirms, and Alex laughs through her tears.

“For Winn’s sake, I hope so.” Maggie kisses a tear from the tip of her nose, and J’onn holds Kara close as Winn leans into James’s chest.

“I love you, Alex Danvers,” Maggie tells her. “May I?” she asks for Alex’s left hand, and Alex gives it, eagerly.

Maggie kisses each fingernail, each knuckle – each crease and each scar – before slipping the engagement ring Winn made just for Alex onto her ring finger.

They kiss each other’s lips for so long that their family starts to wonder if maybe they’ve forgotten that Alex has yet to give Maggie her ring.

But Alex doesn’t forget. “I have to give you yours, too,” she smiles into Maggie’s lips, and Maggie sniffles happily as she steps back slightly from the warmth of Alex’s body, right into the warmth of her smile.

“You really want to marry me?” Alex asks through tears, and Maggie laughs through her own.

“I just put a ring on it, Danvers, didn’t I?”

Alex laughs, even as her hands tremble, reaching to take the engagement ring from the custom-made box in Winn’s hand.

“Well then, I guess we’re going to get married,” Alex beams as she, too, kisses Maggie’s fingers before slipping the ring onto her finger.

“I love you, Maggie Sawyer,” she whispers as the ring slides effortlessly past her knuckle.

“Forever.”