Alex rushed to the door wincing seeing (Y/n) moving from the corner of her eye. "Okay, okay I'm coming, keep your hair on!"
She had barely enough time to pull open the door when (F/n) stormed through the door a look of fury on his face. "Where is she, we had a deal you'd call me the moment that she returned."
Alex sighed she'd forgotten all about her promise, she'd been so preoccupied with ( Y/n) that she'd just not remembered. "I'm so sorry I was just waiting until she was...."
" Is she here? "
"Yes."
He closed his eyes taking in a vast deep breath relief flooding his whole body, Alex stood awkwardly uncertain what she should do, the scene took her back to a few months ago when she'd had to tell him everything.
"She's what?" The man shouted his face strained the veins in his neck and forehead bulging out dangerously, he'd been asking the same thing since she had begun this very awkward reveal.
Alex felt a lump in her throat. "(Y/n) is Superwoman and your ex-wife is a Kryptonian and she's tricked her into being stuck in the Phantom Zone, which is like a floating purgatory out in space or whatever, bu..."
(F/n) just glared at her, "Kharys was what?"
The sound of the woman's name enraged her. she'd explained all of this to him how was it so hard to understand she needed to get back to Kara and Lena, she needed to bring (Y/n) back. "A Kryptonian."
"So you're telling me I was married to a woman for fourteen years and she kept this huge thing from me and now she's holding my daughter hostage."
" Yes. "
"How do I get to this Phantom Zone I need to save my baby girl?"
" Wait, you can't you don't understand. " Alex stammered holding him back from walking out of the door, what he expected to do she had no idea, just fly off to the Phantom Zone probably, but she couldn't blame him, his daughter was in trouble and he was distraught.
Suddenly the man leaped to his feet lifting the small table up in his arms and with a fierce rage threw it at the wall, Alex blinked hard she hadn't expected the outburst. He turned his angry eyes on her, fierce and watery a voice in the back of her head told her to get ready for the fight.
"No you don't understand, she was my only child, my little girl I sent her out into the world every day I thought she was prepared, I sent her to self-dense classes, I gave her training at home, I tried everything I could to protect her for when I wouldn't be there." Tears fell from his eyes, the big intimidating man didn't even wipe them away. " And I know she hated me when her mother left, she loathed me, pray you never have to listen to your child saying that to her friend it's heartbreaking, and now you are telling me that the person I should have worried about all along was her mother, and there is nothing I can do? "
"Yes."
" So this is it, this is how I lose my daughter? " His voice cracked and creaked.
Alex felt her heartbreak. "You are not losing her, I swear it I will bring her home."
" When she was a little girl I would watch her playing with her toys, you know in those small moments when suddenly the future seems so close and you go through the list of things that will or could happen they scare you sometimes because you've never been there, I used to think the worst thing was when she grew up, she'd meet some guy and fall head over heels in love and they'd move away. "
Alex nodded struggling to hold back her own tears.
The man took a deep breath. "That was my fear in those moments, and then it happened, my (Y/n) wanted something else than everyone else, she wanted adventure and freedom, so as terrified as I was I watched her plane fly away she was seventeen years old still a baby, and that damn Alessandro asshole came along it continued." He ran his hands through his hair. " When she told me she was moving back oh God you have no idea how happy I was, then she met you. "
"Err yeah," Alex replied cautiously not sure where he was going.
"Something about you made me even more afraid."
" Excuse me. "
(F/n) shrugged, he'd heard the way his daughter had talked about her, even before he'd met Alex he'd witnessed her effect on (Y/n). "A father knows when he's met his true match, the person who will become their child's everything, I knew then that day when we first met what I'd really worried about, being replaced as her number one."
" (Y/n) loves you, your her father the very reason she never told you any of this was to protect you, so you wouldn't worry about her, but the truth is as much as she has these powers from her mother, she uses them to help people because she is just too much like you. " Alex spoke with conviction, feeling a moment between them.
For a short time, he just watched her, his eyes still tearing up only now he seemed a little calmer. "I'm sorry for my outburst, I just..."
"It's okay, I wanted to do that too."
"Do you want me to tell you what happens when the fear goes away?" He asked quietly.
" Okay. "
"When the fear is gone, you are left with something infinitely more reassuring, the fact that my little girl found someone to love her as much as she loved them, and the knowledge of her being happy is everything, one of the reasons I disliked you so much during the whole break up thing, because you threw her love back in her face, it's also the reason I gave you another chance, beyond (Y/n)'s reasoning of course."
Alex nodded sadly. "I swear it to you, I will bring her back, when I imagine a life without her everything seems to die around me, I grew up seemingly hidden behind my sister, she could touch the stars and I just about managed to drag my feet along the sidewalk, but (Y/n) she makes me feel like I'm always floating up away somewhere in the vast night sky, I love her and I know you love her too and you are her father but ...."
" But you will be doing the rescuing. "
"Err, yeah."
" Then bring my baby girl back, I can't walk her down the aisle if she's not here. "
"She told you!" Alex asked stunned, she hadn't known she had told her father.
For the first time since she'd told him he actually smiled. "You think she would wait, she told me that very night, you make her happy Alex, relationships aren't always sunshine and kisses, sometimes you will spend days trying not to kill each other, but that's love, and it's normal."
" She told you about the car fight too didn't she? " Alex sighed her face turning a little red.
"She told me, remember it's normal."
"Daddy." A sleepy voice called breaking Alex from her thoughts and sending ( F/n) flying across the room to sit on the edge of the bed, he noted not to sit on the small dog curled up at her feet.
"Hi, sweety."
Alex cleared her throat. "I'm just gonna take a little walk."
" You don't have to go. "
"You should talk alone." She nodded at her lover, fighting her instincts that told her to stay, she wanted to be with (Y/n), closing the door behind her she left father and daughter behind her.
(Y/n) lowered her head to hide from her father's penetrating glare. "I'm sorry."
" I asked you that day if that was you (Y/n), the day of the earthquake and you said no, you lied to me, you haven't done that since you and Lena snuck out to that concert. "
"Err, yeah sure definitely haven't lied about anything else, it was the concert that was the last time." I just neglected to tell you I dated a Goddess, got abducted by Harmonia, and a few other things.
"Alex to!d me why you did that, and knowing you it all makes sense, I'm not going to lie and tell you I'm not scared, you must know this terrifies the living daylights out of me, but I guess you never had any choice about me being a cop either did you?"
" No. "
"So Superwoman is my little girl, I guess the self-defense classes came in handy anyway." He smiled making her chuckle. "But hey I brought something with me today." He pulled out from his jacket pocket a small box, opening it up ( Y/n) gasped.
"That's Grandma's ring."
" It is before she died she told me to keep it for little (Y/n), maybe she will want it, I don't know if she ever knew it would be used for your what's the word wife? but love is love sweety and maybe she knew something we didn't. " He offered her the ring, taking it in her fingers she studied the delicate elegant touches.
Maybe there had been a reason she hadn't found anything for Alex, because as she looked at this ring it shouted out Alex's name. "Thank you, Dad."
" You just be happy okay, and just..oh I don't know just be happy with the woman you love, because (Y/n) you make me one proud father every day, have done from the moment I first saw your delicate little face and held you in my arms, too afraid I'd break you, and sweety, I couldn't put you down, you were just too perfect. "
"Yeah, Alex says she has that too." ( Y/n) replied sarcastically.
"For very different reasons I'm sure, so your mother is insane?"
(Y/n) rolled her eyes, he really had no idea how much. "I don't know how much Alex told you."
"Well I don't know what everything there is to tell (Y/n) but I know your Superwoman, Kharys is the first cousin to Superman and Supergirl, by the way, I will be killing Superman when I see him next, pretty sure he should have given me a heads up about the situation before I married her, I'm sorry (Y/n) I know she is your mother but I'm trying really hard to control my temper here."
(Y/n) knew exactly how he felt, "It's okay if I hated her before she came back I loathe her now, back when those women disappeared, when Alex was gone too, it was her and her even crazier sister, she could have killed Alex Dad, and I...well I can't ever get over that."
"Jesus Christ on a bike, that was her?" He asked astonished, although after everything that he had learned recently suddenly it wasn't such a crazy thing to imagine.
"Yep, that was her, I swear Dad if Lizzie Borden's Stepmother was as bad as her then I can really see why she took an ax to her."
"Speaking of stepmothers, Cat has missed you." He smiled.
"Really, Cat 'I love to make people my slave' Grant missed me."
Her father laughed. "You say that but just because she doesn't show it doesn't mean it isn't true, she talks about you a lot, why do you think she makes up things for you to do with her?"
"So she can torture me?" (Y/n) said her arms folded across her chest, and eyebrow lifted high up on her forehead.
"Well there is that, but you do the same to her."
"I am a delight to be around, so much so someone proposed to me and accepted my proposal, someone is choosing to spend their life with me Dad, that's how wonderful I am, I do not torture anyone." Maybe Alex a little bit.
Her father smiled with almost a sad relief. "She promised me she would bring you back (Y/n) and she kept that promise, when she came to see me she had the biggest bags under her eyes, you could see she was so tired, but she kept on going, she earned my respect and admiration for what she did, you did good sweety, you picked the right one to spend your life with, now don't mess it up."
"No way Daddy, no way at all, I can't ever imagine loving anyone as much as I love Alex."
"I know, I see it, I see it in her too." He smiled picking up her hand in his and just taking a moment to ground himself, reassure himself that she was home and she was there right in front of him. "And now you have the ring to give her."
"I do."