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Alex was pacing around the living room, frantically combing her hair with her fingers and talking in flash speed. Maggie was leaning against a wall, watching her girlfriend with a smirk on her lips and dark eyes.
She had just seen the evening news and had been yelling about it since the moment she turned off the TV. And completely missed the look of pure lust that Maggie was sending her way. Let's just say that the tiny detective was not unaffected by her girlfriend at the moment. Her hair was a mess, her glasses were askew (yes, Agent Alex Badass Danvers had secret glasses that she wore at home sometimes and yes Detective Maggie Very Gay Sawyer turned into a hot mess every time she saw them) and her breath was raggedy from talking so fast and walking with no aim at the same time. That and the complete awestruck look in her eyes were really doing it for Maggie.
"NASA discovered SEVEN new planets! And like... three of them are located in the habitable zone! It's like SO amazing! I can't wait to read all about it... Oh and Kara will LOVE this oh my God this is just awesome I need to go online and get all the information I can get on TRAPPIST-1..."
Maggie bit her lip. It sure was adorable to see her nerdy girlfriend geek out about space and she totally didn't mind hearing Alex talk about it for hours and hours but right now she had other things in her mind...
Taking a break to catch her breath, Alex looked at her girlfriend and quickly caught her mood. The Agent raised one eyebrow. "You're not exactly thinking about space right now, are you?"
"Not particularly, no." Answered Maggie, seductively taking one step closer to the other woman.
"Care to tell me what's on your mind?" Asked Alex playfully, mirroring Maggie and stepping forward too.
"Mmm, Maybe I can show you..."
They both took another step towards each other and once they were close enough, Maggie pulled Alex by her shirt and their bodies were flushed together. Alex could feel the heat emanating from the small woman in front of her. All thoughts about space forgotten, she lowered her head and their lips met. The kiss started out slow and evolved to something sloppy, wet and passionate and Alex was about to break it to ask if they should move this someplace else (like the bedroom for example...) when Maggie pulled away, frowning.
"Alex, are you okay?"
Alex looked at her confused. "Of course, why?"
"You're shaking."
The taller woman was about to deny it when she felt it. Something was shaking, but it wasn't her. She heard jingling, looked up and saw the lights swinging slightly on top of their heads, casting dancing shadows around them. Soon it stopped.
"Was this an earthquake?"
"In National City?"
"Yeah, you're right it must be something alien related."
"Anyways it doesn't concern us."
"You do realise that both of us work in alien related jobs?"
"We were not called in. And we have better things to do..." Alex pushed Maggie gently against the closest wall and started kissing and nipping at her neck "Now, where were we?" Alex sucked at Maggie's pulse point and the other woman's breath hitched and she grabbed Alex's hair.
"We were... R-right there."
Alex smirked against her neck and went to resume her activities but was interrupted by the ringing of two phones.
Alex whimpered. "No. Whyyyyyy?"
Maggie smiled softly and pulled away from her girlfriend. "It's not like you didn't see that coming."
Maggie scoffed when she heard Alex murmuring under her breath that she had seen other things coming and that was not one of those things.
She smiled when she saw the taller woman's big pout and placed a gentle kiss on her lips. "Rain check?"
"You bet on it. I'm just gonna go kick this alien's ass and make it regret interrupting us and then we can go back to..." She gestured with her hand wildly, meaning 'what they were doing or about to do'.
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At the DEO Kara spotted her sister and ran toward her.
"Did you hear it?!"
"No, I just got here. What's the emergency?"
"A pod hit the earth! That's what the whole shaking thing was! I thought it was an earthquake but you know... In National City? Natural causes are rare here. Alien causes are more likely." Kara was bouncing with excitement.
"Maggie said the same thing. But a pod? Another one? Seriously?! What are we? Pit stop for pods? Crash lane?"
The blonde stopped in her tracks and stared at Alex, who was huffing and wearing a gigantic pout. "What's got you all moody?"
"I got interrupted." Alex mumbled.
Kara opened her mouth and said a long "oh".
"Shut up." Alex bumped her shoulder into her sister's. Her own shoulder protested when it felt like it hit a wall, but she didn't mind.
Alex walked into the main hall of the DEO and tapped impatiently at the back of Winn's chair.
"Winn, can you hack into security cameras close to where the pod hit the earth?"
Winn looked insulted. "Can I hack... Of course I can!"
He started mumbling about how she shouldn't ask him that because she knew what a computer wizard he was and bla bla bla... She decided to ignore him. She just wanted to get this over with and go home, back to her girlfriend.
After a short minute Winn announced that he had found something and pointed at his computer screen. The image was too dark to discern much. All they could see was a small figure dressed in white getting out of the pod and stumbling away.
"Is that a small alien?
"Can you find another angle, Agent Schott?" Asked J'onn, approaching the team.
"Just a sec..." He typed really fast on the keyboard and then announced he found one from across the street and that he was gonna put it on the big screen.
All of them started at the image of a security camera in a better angle than the other one and better lighting and were all left in shock.
"Is that...?"
"Must be a shapeshifter, there's no way that it could be..."
Kara took a step forward, wide eyed. "It's a child?"
"We don't know that, Kara."
"But it looks like a child." Pressed on Kara.
"I could look like I child if I wanted." Reminded J'onn.
"Yes but like, the person just crash landed into a strange planet. I don't think their first thought would be to change their appearance to a child."
"Kid must be so scared. Look at their face. It's so confused!" Said Kara, pointing at the image and biting her lip.
"Well we don't know from what planet kid's from, so..."
"He looks human. Like a human eight year old." Pointed Winn.
"How do you know it's a he?" Asked Kara, looking closer at the image.
"Well he's got short hair..."
"Lots of girls have short hair." Pointed Alex from behind Winn in a low warning tone.
Winn swallowed hard sensing danger and fidgeted on his chair. "Y-yeah! You are right! Totally right. Should we call the kid a "they" until we know their pronouns?"
"Good idea." Answered Alex, dryly.
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She felt confused. And cold. Very cold. She tried to find a warm place but all the could see was a gigantic church at the end of the street.
She found a box with clothes for donation at the church's door and rumaged through it, finding relatively adequate sized sweats she put them on top of her thin white trousers, rolling the ending up a few times so she wouldn't trip. She didn't find any jackets of her size so she pulled on a gigantic hoodie that covered her down to under her knees. She found pink sneakers with pictures of fairies on them. Luckily they were Velcro, easy for her to put on.
The kid was just about finishing to fix her new outfit when she was startled by a very loud sound of a thunder. She hurried out of the church, scared of the way the sound echoed inside of it, feeling sorry that she'd taken those clothes without asking but being glad about feeling warmer.
Now she only wanted to feel a little safer.
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Alex was sitting besides Winn, watching Kara and J'onn have a discussion.
"I'm telling you Kara, when we find this individual, take backup just for precaution! What looks like a child could be a dangerous alien just pretending to look vulnerable."
"It's just a little kid, J'onn! And besides I'm Supergirl! We don't need more backup."
"That fell out of the sky in a futuristic pod?" Asked J'onn ironically.
"It's a child, J'onn! They must be so scared!" Kara put her hands on her mouth "And they'll be even more scared! There's a storm supposed to happen later today!"
"We'll do everything we can to find them before that, don't worry." Alex got up and put a hand on Kara's shoulder, knowing that her sister was not a fan of storms.