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Alex reached into her pocket and looked at Maggie's contact and hesitated. Even after dating for a month she still gets butterflies before she calls her girlfriend. Finally pressing it, and hearing two rings she's delighted by Maggie's voice.
"Hey Danvers," she can practically hear her girlfriend smiling on the other end.
"Hey, babe. You wanna grab lunch?"
"I wish I could but they've got me glued to my desk today, I don't think I'll be able to slip away. But I'll make it up to you tonight."
"Oh my god, Maggie you can't just say that stuff at work!" Alex retorted with a hushed tone.
The detective laughs, "I meant I'm cooking tonight. But we could do that too."
They chat for a few more minutes until Alex receives a call from her sister, cutting their conversation short. What they were saying was meaningless but they both just enjoyed the others voice. Alex tried to hide her disappointment when saying goodbye. She answered Kara's call with her standard "Agent Danvers."
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After hearing about how incompetent Mon-el was for an hour, the DEO agent decided she needed some lunch and her girlfriend. So she decided a surprise visit to the NCPD office was in order.
Alex arrived with two burgers and a large fry to split and was a little confused when she saw Maggie's desk empty. When she looked around and didn't see her, she asked one of the other officers.
"Hey, Gonzales. Is Sawyer around?" She asked with slight concern in her voice.
Without looking up from his paperwork he replied, "Nope. She just said she's going out for lunch."
"Oh." Alex said simply. Her mind raced with all of the worst scenarios. But she reminded herself that there was no reason not to trust Maggie. Something just probably came up, or she got a break from her paperwork. Everything was fine. Or so she kept telling herself. She climbed out of her thoughts enough to speak again. "Here Gonzales." She said dropping the bag of food on his desk. Her appetite was suddenly gone.
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When Alex got back in the car, her mind was filled with curiosity. Seemingly on a whim, she decided to call the detective. "Sawyer." Was all she got for a greeting.
"Hey mags, still glued to the desk?"
"Yup, chief's hounding us to get these reports in order before some higher ups paid us a visit."
"Oh okay well... I was just wondering if I needed to bring something tonight. Like, beer?"
"Yeah beer sounds great. Sorry babe I gotta go, Gonzales is giving me dirty looks." Her rushed response and quick hang up was the second red flag from that conversation. Alex knew she should trust her girlfriend but things just feel too shady. She's hiding something big but what?
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She knew it was wrong, that she should just ask Maggie, but Alex did it anyway. She borrowed Winn's computer skills and made it so Alex could track her girlfriends phone. Everywhere she went was documented on her own. God she felt bad but she had to know where Maggie was going that was bad she had to lie about it.
Everything is completely normal for two days, until Alex watches the little green blip move to an unfamiliar neighborhood. A neighborhood that's been deemed "bad" or "poor" by the snobby 1% of national city. The green dot stops at a building and stays there for a considerable amount of time. Alex writes down the address and looks into it. She finds it to be an apartment complex. Kara's words of "Just ask her" bounce around her head and she pushes them down and replaces them with her own thoughts of "she's just doing her job."
Two days later she sees the dot go to the same building. For the same amount of time. Alex tries to keep a level head and think rationally, but she can't completely write off her first thought of "she's cheating." She needed to know.
Two days later, the DEO agent used her lunch break to go down to the apartment building in question and asked her sister to meet her in the small park a block away.
"What's the emergency?" Kara flew down and landed next to her sister, the concern clear on her face.
"I think Maggie's cheating."
"Did you ask her where she's been going?"
"No. But it's suspicious as hell." So Alex relays every detail to her sister and is met back with an unreadable face.
"Alex that's so bad, you did a bad thing!"
"I know but—"
"But nothing. You just have to trust Maggie enough to ask her." Alex can't believe she let herself go this crazy for this girl. But the awareness of the crazy didn't make it go away. She needed one more thing and then she could put it to rest and just talk to her girlfriend.
"I need you to use your super hearing and x-ray to see what Maggie is doing in there and before you say no, just remember you owe at least one favor." She can't believe the words coming out of her own mouth.
"Fine." Kara agreed very hesitantly. "But this is it. I can't be involved in your love life like this anymore." The kryptonians face scrunched up in concentration for only a few seconds before she let out a horrible gasp that made Alex's stomach drop. Kara said in a flabbergasted tone "She's cheating on you!!"
"What?! Really?!" Alex's head was spinning, thinking a mile a minute before Kara's next words brought her back to earth.
"No dummy. But you really should just. ask. her." The last three words were accompanied by small pokes to the shoulder.