723. Chapter 723

Maggie is pacing and Adrian is pacing right along next to her as Winn adjusts James’s bow tie.

“Okay, you’re done,” Winn stands on his tiptoes to give James a quick kiss on the mouth. “My favorite pool shark, I’ve gotta go make sure your woman is getting oxygen into her lungs.”

Maggie shakes her head and laughs shakily as she pulls Winn into a hug.

“You look beautiful,” he tells her as they pull apart, and James laughs.

“Of course she does. You designed her suit,” James brags, and Adrian and Maggie roll their eyes in unison.

“Tell her I love her,” Maggie tells Winn as he gives her one more hug before setting off across the hotel to where Alex is getting ready with Kara, J’onn, and Eliza.

“I’m reasonably sure she knows,” he teases, dodging the pillow Maggie grabs to chuck at him as he scoots out of the room.

“You really do look beautiful,” James tells her, taking the hand Adrian isn’t already holding.

“Yeah, you look a’ight,” Adrian teases, and Maggie jostles him with her elbow before adjusting his bow tie.

“Hey,” Adrian puts his hand on her cheek gently. “You deserve this, understand me?”

Tears flood her eyes, but she’s smiling so bright.

In Alex’s room, Kara, J’onn and Eliza are assuring Alex of the same thing.

“Sweetie, you look radiant,” Eliza promises her daughter. “And you deserve everything about this.”

“She’s right, Alex,” J’onn kisses her cheek as Alex groans happily with her forehead pressed against Kara’s, her fingers laced in her sister’s.

“Alex?” Winn slips into the room. “Maggie’s ready.”

Alex bites her lip and barely suppresses an excited shiver. “You really killed it with this dress, Schott,” she says as she pulls him into a long, hard hug.

“It was my honor, Alex,” he kisses her cheek, and J’onn pulls Kara close to him happily.

“So she’s ready?” Alex confirms, and Winn nods.

They’ve discussed it and planned every detail: of course they did.

They weren’t going to see each other for the first time on their wedding day with Alex walking up to Maggie, or Maggie walking up to Alex, from behind, one of them revealing themself to the other.

Instead, they’ve planned to walk down the hotel hall toward each other, much like they’re going to do in their ceremony later that day.

Both of them swoon when they see each other.

“Wow,” Maggie whispers as both of them walk forward in a trance, their eyes locked in each other’s.

“You clean up nice,” she chokes when they’re within kissing distance, within touching range.

They reach for each other’s hands, each other’s bodies, immediately.

“So do you, with the hair and the shoes and the… all that.”

They laugh until they both have to look up to avoid crying.

“I mean, Winn made supposedly tear-proof mascara, but…” Alex shakes her head, dabbing at her eyes with the top of her index finger.

“I love you, Alex Danvers,” Maggie just shakes her head, staring up at her soon-to-be-wife in disbelief. “I love you more than I’ve ever loved anything.”

“And I love you, Maggie Sawyer,” Alex murmurs, and when they go to kiss, Winn coughs loudly from the end of the hallway where his own fiance is snapping photographs.

“No messing up each other’s makeup yet!” he teases.

“Index finger, Schott!” Alex warns with a smile, never taking her eyes off her fiancee’s face, as Maggie flashes a different finger at him good-naturedly.

They kiss anyway, and it couldn’t make Winn happier.

It couldn’t make them happier, either.

Which they’re going to make each other, together. Always.