Alex was walking down the street when someone walked into her, she turns to see who it was a saw a small brunette woman walking away. She didn't even stop to say sorry, with a sigh Alex carried on walking away.
The next time Alex saw the woman who had walked into her was in the coffee shop. It was packed almost every seat was taken apart from one. The one next to where Alex was seated, so from across the room Alex watched as the woman walked over and pointed at the seat. With a nod from Alex the small brunette sat down. Alex, was confused why wasn't this woman talking? Maybe she is just shy?
The woman looked nervous and Alex asked if she was okay. The brunette said nothing so Alex shrugged slightly and finished her drink and pulled out her phone to text Kara, telling her she's on her way. With One last glance at the smaller woman, Alex left.
It wasn't until two months later Alex saw the woman again. It was a crime scene and the woman had a police jacket on that looked far to big for her small frame.
Walking over, with J'onn, Alex spoke.
"We're taking it from here thank you" She spoke her false persona taking charge. A man came to stand next to the smaller woman and they nodded to each other. Confused Alex watched as the man started to talk but use his hands, then the smaller woman thought for a moment then brought up her own hands up. That#s when it hit Alex.This woman is deaf.
The D.E.O. and the police worked together for the next week before they finally cracked the case. At the end of the case Alex walked over to the Detective, who she found out was called Sawyer. She was packing up the paperwork and didn't look up until she saw someone sliding a cup of coffee in front of her. With a small smile she looked up.
Alex hesitated for a moment, before bringing her hands up and signing out whilst talking.
"Thank you for your work this week Detective. With out you, we wouldn't of been able to do this. My ASL isn't the best I hope I got that right" She says quietly with a small smile whilst the detective watched with rapid attention on the Agent's hands.
The other woman's face lit up "Where did you learn to sign? And I read lips, thank you" she replied and Alex smiled.
"I have a sister who gets sensory overload and as a child would stop talking. So I took classes at school and college and read as many books as I could and we learn't it together, so if it happened again we'd have a way to communicate to each other."
Sawyer smiles "That's awesome and thank you" she signs out and then takes a sip of the coffee.
"Any time Sawyer"the red head replies with a small smile.
"See you around Danvers" and with that she picks up the paperwork and coffee ad leaves.
"Yeah, see you around Sawyer" Alex says with a small blush littering her face.
The following month Alex was with Kara getting breakfast. She felt someone tap her so turning slightly, she relaxes when she see's the detective who's been playing on her mind standing behind her, hair falling around her face, a small smile and warm eyes.
"Hey Danvers" she signs out and Alex smiles.
"Hey Sawyer. Take a seat, this is Kara, my sister." the detective turns and sits next to Alex then Kara smiles and signs out 'hey' and the brunette mirrors the gesture.
Turning to the taller woman the brunette scrunches her nose slightly, which makes Alex's heart nearly explode "I'm Maggie by the way, I never told you that"
Maggie. Alex liked that name, it somehow fitted the small detective.
"I'm Alex" she tells Maggie who smiles, eyes crinkling
" I like that name" and Alex blushes slightly, "I like it too."
They spent the rest of the breakfast getting to know each other until the D.E.O. called saying they need Supergirl.
Over the next months, they spent time together, be it getting coffee, breakfast or working cases together.
Maggie quickly became a new addition to the Super Friends.
One night Alex and Maggie were in the alien bar, a place Maggie shared with the group of friends, which quickly became their favourite get together spot for the group.
The two women had played a couple games of pool, which lead to Maggie buying their drinking because she lost horribly. Maggie was thankful her new friends had welcomed her and was touched when she saw Kara teaching Winn how to sign. Nobody in the group had asked Maggie about how she came to being deaf, they just accepted that's who she is after she told them she wasn't always deaf.
So Maggie decided tonight she was going to tell Alex the story of how she became deaf.
She tapped Alex gently to get her attention. Turning Alex signs out "Are you okay?" and looks Maggie over with concern washed over her features. Smiling Maggie nods whilst taking a deep breath.
"I wanted to tell you how I became deaf" she tells Alex, and the red haired woman shakes her head slightly.
"You don't have to tell me" and affection runs through Maggie's veins and she smiles "I want to Danvers, I trust you...you're different" Alex blushes and after a second makes a 'go ahead' motion for Maggie to begin her story.
Taking a sip of her beer Maggie begins.
"Three years ago there was a case back in Gotham. We'd been working on this case for over a year and we finally got a break in the case. So me and Peters, the guy I work with here, we transferred together. We geared up and went out to Gotham Bank. Where he was. The Joker. He'd been working with these bank robbers who had been stealing from all across the country. But he was working with them because not only were they robbing banks, they were also dealing drugs and weapons.
We went in their guns blazing, we almost had everyone but then Batman came in to fight the Joker. Then suddenly, I was falling the Joker had set bombs up around the banks and the last things I ever heard was his laugh echoing around the Bank as it started to crumble around us.
I can't remember anything after that apart from waking up eight days later in hospital and that's when they told me i lost my hearing. It's called sensorineural hearing loss. It occurs when damage is done to the inner ear, it can occur after disease or in my case, trauma."
She looks up at Alex who doesn't look at her with pity but with a sense of strength and admiration.
"You did something heroic Mags, that's amazing, your strong...but uh does that mean electrical impulses don't reach the brain?" Alex questions and Maggie nods.
Maggie goes on to tell her about her recovery and how at the beginning of last year she moved to National City to start anew and have a different type of life.
Reaching over Alex squeezes Maggie's hand, and hen she notices how long she's been holding her friend's hand she lets go.
"Thank you for telling me" and Maggie smiles and with a tilt of the head replies "Any time Danvers."
With that they carry on drinking into the night.
Two weeks passes since Maggie told Alex about her injury, and they were both at Maggie's apartment watching a film when Maggie looks over and notices Alex looking like she's going to be sick.
"What's wrong?" Maggie asks hands falling to Alex's knees.
Looking at Maggie's hands on her knee, the redhead blushes with a small laugh "I actually hate this ice cream" and Maggie laughs "Why are you eating it?" and the blush that was spread over Alex's cheeks are now covering her neck and ears.
"You were so excited for me to try it and you were so happy about it, I didn't want to make you upset" she tells Maggie and then Maggie is smiling at Alex full dimples on display.
"Why would that upset me? It's just ice cream" laughing at Alex who is now crimson by this point. So much for scary badass agent.
"Well I-I hate the idea of me upsetting you or anyone really upsetting you, it makes me angry you know, cause I like you" Alex suddenly freezes "Oh my god I just told you that, I'm so sorry to say that, I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable, I'm sorry, God, ignore me, I've made this awkward now have-" she is cut of by Maggie, who takes her hands and places then in her lap and then gently places her hands on red cheeks and kisses soft lips.
Alex swore her heart stopped, the feeling of Maggie's soft lips pressed against hers made Alex's head spin. She felt Maggie's hand stroke her cheek before pulling away biting her lip.
They locked eyes and Maggie brought her hands up and signed four words that changed Alex Danvers life forever.
"I like you too" and Maggie smiles at her eyes sparkling and Alex pulls them into another kiss.
And that's how they spent the rest of the night, cuddled up, stealing kisses and sharing shy looks.
And that's how they planned to spend the rest of their lives together.
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