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Established Maggie/Lucy with Alex crushing hardcore

Parkour au?

Grad school au?

Something like that

AO3

Alex slid into the booth, setting the pizza and tray of buffalo wings down as she did so. She had barely settled before a phone was thrust in her face. She stared at the picture of Maggie for a moment before looking up at Lucy with a raised eyebrow.

“That is a great lockscreen, but I do know what Maggie looks like.”

Lucy rolled her eyes as she pulled the phone back. She unlocked it, then thrust it back at Alex.

An unplayed YouTube video.

A familiar unplayed YouTube video.

She looked at Lucy again, schooling her face into confusion.

“Just watch it,” Lucy sighed. “Maggie and I found it last night.”

Alex glanced between the two, ignoring the way her chest always tightened around them, then played the video.

She watched as a person wearing a GoPro followed another as they ran across the roofs, jumping and rolling and vaulting.

Her and Kara.

“I want to do parkour,” Lucy announced through a bite of wing.

Alex glanced over the phone to see Maggie rolling her eyes.

“You are not doing parkour,” Maggie said.

“And who are you to stop me?”

“Your girlfriend.” Maggie took a sip of her beer. “Really though, it’s dangerous.”

Alex looked back at the phone to see the person do a wall pass before moving into a jump and landing on the edge of the skyscraper.

“Not to mention,” Maggie continued. “Trespassing in places.”

Lucy scoffed.

“Really,” Maggie pushed. She pointed at the phone. “Those two? They cross the L-Corp building constantly.”

“Well, Ms. Security Guard, what are you going to do about it?” Lucy asked.

The video ended. Alex passed the phone back.

“Maggie’s right,” she said, pulling a slice of pizza from the pie. “That’s dangerous as fuck.”

Lucy pouted. “That’s rude, you two aren’t supposed to team up against me.”

Maggie pressed a kiss to her cheek. “Get used to it, babe.”

“Oh, is Alex finally joining us for some fun?”

Heat rose up Alex’s cheeks even as it settled low in her stomach.

Maggie shoved Lucy lightly. “Leave her alone.”

Alex ducked her head, hoping to hide any disappointment.

“Anyway,” Lucy said. She pulled the phone towards her and put on another video before shoving it back towards Alex. “This channel is great. They’ve got all of these videos of their runs and a linked Instagram account with pictures.”

“Do you know who they are?” Alex asked.

Lucy shook her head.

“They always have those masks on,” Maggie answered. “Probably because they know it’s illegal.”

“Parkour itself isn’t illegal,” Alex absently replied, watching the new video – a simple run, the traceur not wearing the GoPro was wearing a bi flag t-shirt.

“You big on parkour, Danvers?” Maggie asked, tilting her head to the side.

Alex looked up from the video, eyes wide.

“Not…not really. The gym I go to has a parkour area…thing.”

Lucy grinned. “Really? So, could you help us figure out who these two are?”

“Why would I do that?”

“Cause I want to meet them?”

Alex rolled her eyes. “I don’t really do anything with any of that, sorry.”

Lucy huffed.

Alex glanced at the time in the corner of the phone screen.

“Crap, I gotta get to lab hours,” she said, shoving the textbooks piled at the other end of the table into her bag. “I’ll see you two later?”

“Of course.”

Alex glanced back when she reached the door.

Maggie was holding some of Lucy’s hair back as she kissed the side of her head.

Alex let out a small breath. Longing filled her chest before she pushed out of the restaurant.

–

“Can you hold it for another moment?”

Alex rolled her eyes. “Yes, Kara, I can hold for another moment.”

She stared at the bar a few feet below her. She focused on her breathing, on keeping her body still. She tried to not pay attention to the blood rushing to her head in her upside down position.

“And, done.”

At Kara’s words, Alex untwisted her body, then dropped off of the ledge she had been posing on to the roof a few feet below. She rolled into the landing, but let the momentum go, falling back onto the roof.

She stared up at the sky, at the clouds floating past, at Kara floating down, scrolling through the pictures she had taken. Alex pushed herself up as Kara floating right to a seated position.

“I like this one,” Kara said, passing the GoPro over.

Alex pulled her mask down to hang from her neck.

The picture was good, capturing the strength and control she was using thanks to her sleeveless shirt. Her hair fell in front of her face, leaving just the rainbow mask visible. The city and ocean and dawn sky framed her.

“It’s good,” she said. “Post it.”

She passed the GoPro back, looking towards the city. She scooted closer to the edge of the roof, letting her legs hang down. She stared out, at the ocean meeting the sky.

“Maggie and Lucy found the channel,” she said.

“Really?” Kara asked, scooting up next to her.

Alex nodded. “Lucy wants to figure out who we are.”

“That would be bad, right?”

Alex shrugged. She pulled the mask from her neck, staring down at it in her hands.

“Have you thought any more about telling them?” Kara asked, voice soft.

Alex traced the colors of the rainbow back and forth. Had she thought about it? Of course she had. She thought about it every time she saw them.

But…

“I don’t know. If I come out, I can’t take it back, you know? It’s out there and, and…”

“Real?”

Alex looked to Kara, then nodded.

“It is real, Alex,” Kara said. “This part of you is real.”

“I know, I know. I just…not yet, okay? I’m just not ready yet.”

“Okay. When you are, I’m here for you, alright?”

“I know.”

Alex pressed a kiss to Kara’s temple, then put the mask back on.

“Last one to the ground buys dinner tonight,” she said before rolling backwards to get on her feet and racing across the roof, diving right into a flip across the gap between the next building.