“Alex no!” “Alex yes!”
The teams of agents were leaving the building, and Lena could finally take a moment to breathe.
They had asked her a lot of questions, and she had answered to the best of her ability.
Yes, someone had tried to kill her. No, she wasn’t injured. No, she didn’t know who had ordered it. Yes, she knew a lot of people who had the motive and the means to do it. No, she hadn’t jumped. The largest guy had pushed her off the balcony when she disarmed him. Yes, Supergirl had made it on time and brought her back to her office before dealing with the thugs. No, she was absolutely sure she did not need to go to the hospital.
Just as the annoying agent who had been questioning her finally turned around to leave, they both heard two gunshots go off on one of the floors below, shortly followed by the sound of breaking glass, and the familiar swoosh of Supergirl’s flying. The agent still with her tensed up, but a moment later they both saw Supergirl come up to the balcony holding Agent Danvers by the back of her tactical vest. The agent was grinning like a cat that had just caught a particularly fat bird, and Supergirl looked very, very annoyed.
“You!” she pointed at the agent in her office, who suddenly looked like a deer caught in headlights. "Go down three floors and help the others arrest the two jerks that just showed up. I’ll be there in a second to fly them back to the DEO.”
The guy left almost at a sprint. Supergirl dropped Agent Danvers none too gently on the balcony and then, surprisingly, turned to Lena with an incredibly frustrated look in her eye.
“You, go sit on your desk. And you” she turned to Agent Danvers, somehow looking even more frustrated, “go sit next to her. Both of you wait here, I’ll be right back”
With that, the girl of steel took off, and Lena turned what was probably an extremely bewildered look on Agent Danvers. She was even more confused to see the agent didn’t look surprised or worried at all. No, Agent Danvers was still looking completely smug.
“Shall we then?”
With that, she walked in and took a seat at Lena’s desk. The way she was walking, Lena wouldn’t have been surprised to see her lean back and put her feet up on the desk. Before Lena could ask anything, she heard the telltale sound of Supergirl landing back on her balcony. She let herself in and raised an eyebrow at Lena, who realized she was still standing and still had no idea what was going on. When she saw that Agent Danvers also staring at her, she decided to just go with it, whatever ‘it’ was, and finally went back to her chair.
“Both of you have to stop before you give me a heart attack. I cannot be everywhere all the time, so stop jumping off buildings”
Supergirl had crossed her arms and was glaring at both of them in turns. Danvers exchanged a look with Lena, who was now more surprised than confused, and then turned back at Supergirl with a chuckle.
“Technically, Luthor here didn’t jump. Those boneheads pushed her.”
“Same difference! Stop jumping, falling, or getting thrown off of buildings, planes or helicopters. And Alex, you DID just jump!”
“Yeah, but I caught the bad guys didn’t I? Plus, I knew you were right there”
“That’s the point! What if I hadn’t been?”
Having decided it was time she stepped in, Lena interrupted whatever it was that Agent Danvers had been about to say.
“But you were, Supergirl. Both times apparently.”
Both women turned to look at her, seeming to remember just now that there was someone else in the room, but Lena only had eyes for Supergirl,
“You have been there every time I have fallen. When I have been pushed, and when my helicopter went down, and even when I was supposed to have been on the Venture, you would have caught me.”
Supergirl was suddenly looking a bit sheepish, and a bit more calm, so Lena kept talking.
“I am very sorry to have worried you. I will be more careful in the future.”
Supergirl opened her mouth to answer, but before she could, they both heard a scoff coming from the window.
“Oh relax Luthor. Supergirl is just overreacting a little bit”
Somehow, the moment they’d had their attention focused on each other, Agent Danvers had managed to sneak past both of them, and was now standing at the very edge of the balcony. Again.
“Alex no!”
Throwing a cocky wink at Lena, Danvers took a step back and off of the building. Muttering what was probably an alien curse, Supergirl jumped right after her.
Lena leaned back on her chair, chuckled to herself, and muttered,
“Alex yes”
