hey do y’all think that if alex had seen astra in the black mercy, she wouldn’t have killed her? do you think that if alex realised that in kara’s perfectly happy world, astra was there, that she would’ve done whatever she could to keep astra alive, so that kara didn’t have to lose her aunt? do you think that astra would’ve listened to alex, at once, immediately, the moment she realised that she belonged in kara’s perfect world? that her niece loved her that much? do you think that if alex had seen astra in the black mercy, and told astra, we might’ve got a scene where astra and kara actually got to hug? where kara told astra that she was in the black mercy, not as her enemy, but as her family, and astra might have laughed through her tears, from joy, from happiness, from love, rather than as she lay dying?
because i do
do you also think about how Astra probably had the same fantasy as Kara if she were under the Black Mercy?
The office of Alex Danvers is brightly lit, spacious and a little chaotic. It’s still half in boxes because, she explains, she is still moving in from the smaller temporary space she’d been occupying until this one was ready. She gestures around, chuckling. “I’m not sure how I crammed all this stuff into an office half the size of this.”
She’s quick on her feet, offering me coffee (the coffee machine, she tells me, was the first thing that got plugged in when she moved in) and texting while she gives me the rundown on her big plans since she accepted Lena Luthor’s offer to head up biosciences R&D at L-Corp: gene therapy, exo-immunity, genetic encryption, and, on the side, to amuse herself, a better nutrition bar to help combat hunger in third world countries.
For those who have been living under a rock and don’t know Alex Danvers’s name, she shot to public notoriety after she helped then-President Olivia Marsdin with a daring public-vaccine program involving a time-decaying DNA injection to combat an alien pathogen that had been unleashed as a bioweapon. This was some five years ago, now, and her reticence at speaking to the public has become a thing of the past.
“Yeah,” she says, her dark eyes focusing on me for a moment and looking suddenly earnest, “medals, speeches, interviews … that stuff was so not my thing. The attention was really weird.”
I smile. This, from a woman whose TED talk on epigenetics has been viewed on youtube over seven million times.
Is it because of her days as a secret agent, I joke, that she eschewed the spotlight for so long?
Danvers laughs. It’s a longstanding rumor that simply won’t die, she says. No, she is not and never was a secret agent. She just did a little medical research for the CIA. “I don’t even know how that rumor started.”
Your being sick isn’t a burden to anyone. Lena might be your boss, but she’s also your friend. So, maybe you should try letting her in. Alex, I’ve handled everything on my own since I was 16. Ruby, college, work, everything. Been white-knuckling my whole life. It’s bad enough I included you in all these problems. So, I’m… It’s bad enough I included you in all these problems. So, I’m… I’ll be fine.
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