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When Alex was twelve, her life was relatively normal. She was just a girl, going to school in a small town, coming home each evening to her two parents, doing her homework, playing soccer, living a completely normal life. But then Kara, an actual alien, became her sister, she started to work at the DEO, actively seeking out actual aliens, she fell in love with a woman who used to date an actual alien-
It’s safe to say it’s become somewhat expected at this stage.
It’s late in the fall three years after her marriage to Maggie (she still gets all giggly when she catches sight of the ring on her left hand, when she sees Maggie sprawled out in the home that’s just theirs, when she hears the word wife) when there’s a knock on the door.
“Hey babe, can you get that?” Maggie’s voice is sleepy and it warms Alex just to hear it.
The figure on the other side of the door, while a surprise, is not unwelcome.
“J’onn!” Alex exclaims, as she hears Maggie approaching behind her, a hand landing steading on her hip, “What are you doing here?”
It hasn’t been long since Alex stopped working for J’onn, but she definitely didn’t expect to see him again so soon.
“Alex, I’m here to ask a favour of you. I know it’s a lot, but there’s nobody I trust more with it.”
Alex is about to question further when she hears a sniffle, and realises J’onn isn’t alone.
Behind him is a girl, no older than Kara was when she first stood on Alex’s doorstep, and she’s shaking and there’s a remnant of tear tracks down her cheeks and her eyes sparkle in a way Alex has never seen in any human and she knows.
She knows exactly what she’s about to be asked.
Maggie does too, if the look in her eyes is anything to go by, and when she glances towards Alex, her lips turned up in a smirk, Alex knows exactly what their answer is.
How could they not?