765. Chapter 765

Maggie doesn’t have the same responses Alex does to violence.

Sure, she’s very comfortable with flirting via “wanna see a dead body?”, but that’s because Alex Danvers is different.

All her past girlfriends thought her being a cop was sexy as all hell – for all the wrong reasons – until, of course, her actual job crashed into their relationship like the big green guy in the comic books.

Alex, though? Alex knew the adrenaline rush of an investigation, of pursuing something that might vaguely resemble justice in a world that looks nothing like it.

Alex got her job.

But Alex also… Alex liked it a little too much. Beating on prisoners. Even if they were Cadmus.

Maggie had crossed lines, sure.

For Alex. To save her life.

But she hadn’t beaten Alex’s location out of Rick Malverne, even when she’d sorely wanted to.

If the roles were reversed, and Maggie were the one drowning in a tank? She knew Alex would have beaten it out of him.

They’re different, there.

Maggie became a cop because she wanted to change the way things were done.

Alex became a soldier because she owed her life to the job.

So Maggie loves her flash grenades, and Alex loves her new alien weapon.

But Maggie doesn’t relish the pain of inmates like Alex does.

It’s something they’re working on, together.

As a team.

But still.

Still.

The sight of Alex in that new combat uniform?

Nearly brings Maggie to her knees.

She knows Alex didn’t tell her about it on purpose.

She knows Alex made sure she saw it for the first time in the field, during an op, on purpose.

She knows, because when Alex steps out of the back of the DEO van and into action, she’s got a slight smirk on her face.

Because she knows.

She knows.

She’s learned a lot, since they got together.

Including what a heady thrill Alex’s command and confidence gives Maggie. The way Maggie’s mouth goes dry when Alex takes control, both of a situation in the field and in their bedroom.

The way Alex takes care of her, like she’s never been taken care of.

And Alex takes care of her now, because with Maggie going weak in the knees and her jaw dropping to the ground, Alex has to stun three Cadmus lackeys nearby, and Winn has to take a running slide next to Maggie to pull her down with him, avoiding a spray of Cadmus fire.

She makes a dim mental note to ask Winn where he learned that from later.

Right now, Winn just chuckles, his limbs tangled in his sister-in-law’s.

“Roll your jaw back up off the floor there, Sawyer,” he teases as Cadmus soldiers fall, unconscious, around them.

“I… It… Alex… Did you design her new – “

“Yep. I take full credit for everything that happens in your bedroom tonight,” Winn laughs as he runs some calculations on his tablet, calls them to Alex over comms, and squints as she takes uses them to take out the threat.

“Please don’t,” Alex pants slightly as she jogs over to them, neatly holstering her alien stun gun and reaching both hands down to pick Maggie and Winn up off the ground. “I’ll take all the credit for that.”

Maggie gulps and Alex smirks, and Winn blushes and sighs happily.

“My favorite couple.”