It had been a long week, very quiet on the Alien/DEO front, so Kara had spent most of her time at CatCo, her new boss was far from understanding and every suggestion she made was thrown back at her. He had given her a horrible project that she did her best with, but her heart wasn't in it, so she had it returned covered in red pen and harsh comments.

James had been distant, whispering in corners with Winn, and she couldn't work out why Winn was there, he worked at the DEO these days, but those 2 were up to something, and it was clear they didn't want her knowing about it. When she tried to invite him out for a coffee he wasn't interested, smiled and make a polite excuse about having a meeting to attend.

So she spent her days with the Assistants, she had been very close to them, today was day they went out at lunch shopping for an new outfit for Eve Teschmacher, she was giggly and girly and very excited about her hot date, it was date number 3, everyone knew, what that meant! Kara didn't want to admit she wasn't sure, but when they went to an underwear shop she got the idea. "So what's his name?" Kara asked, feeling a bit out of the Loop. Then wished she never asked when it became clear Eve was talking about Mike, and that was most of the lunch time and every other break discussion, how jealous the other girls were of Eve and how hot Mike was.

So Kara left work, wound up and needing to vent. Alex was away with work, and she wasn't sure what to say to her mum, so went home, and dressed in dark jog bottoms, and a dark vest top and hoddie, tied her hair into a bun and put a hat on. If she couldn't vent she would work out a bit at the DEO but didn't want to deal with being Supergirl for a bit, wanted to just be Kara. It was unlikely anyone would notice or pay much attention to her, the exercise rooms were available out of hours for all staff, different rooms for each type of exercise, and a special room for those with powers, extra high and all the equipment was extra strong.

She swiped her card on the door and it opened, she shut it behind her, and threw her bag hat and hoodie to a corner, putting her earphones in her ears she moved to the punch bags, bending to pick up the wraps and gloves to protect her hands. Suddenly she noticed someone near, and span to hit them. Mon-El ducked meaning she never made contact with anything, she nearly fell with shock.

"Mon-El!" she exclaimed, "What are you doing here?"

"Training" he replied proudly, his grey eyes gleaming, his dark hair slightly damp with sweat, he took a step back "You want me to go?"

Kara wasn't sure what to say, she did come to exercise alone, but would it be wise to tell the Daxamite to go away if he was putting effort into training?

"We could train together" he suggested, "You look a bit wound up, take it out on me and tell me what's wrong" his smile made it hard to say no, then she remembered Eve

"Don't you have a big hot date? 3rd date wink wink" she mocked. He looked baffled by her use of Earth slang, "are you not seeing Eve tonight, I hear you are a couple now" he carried on looking confused

"Eve? From your office? No I haven't seen her in a few weeks, why would you think that?"

"She said she was seeing you today" Kara wasn't sure if he was being truthful or not

"I haven't seen her since we danced at that party, and you made me realise I was not being fair to her" he looked at her earnestly, "I decided I should get settled here before dating your friends"

"Ok" she nodded "lets train"

"And you can tell me what has upset you!" as he ducked a punch, and returned one. Although he struck her, she looked delighted

"You've been training"

"Only a little" He winked, she smiled at him, as he slammed her into a wall. Plaster showered down in the pair like confetti, and they both smiled at each other like toddlers caught sneaking chocolate "Maybe we try hand-to-hand stuff as I'm not sure this room can take many more hits like that"

Kara nodded, punching him would help with her stress she was sure, they both put their wraps and boxing gloves on, Mon-El watching her as she put her Ipod away, looking puzzled at it. "It plays music"

"Can we listen to it while we train?"

"Sure, there's a dock somewhere around" she smiled and pressed play on a generic mix album, knowing he wouldn't really have picked a musical taste yet

"SOOOO!" He quizzed, "what upset you today?" He took a stance in the middle of the room, raising his arms to a guard position. She started to deny that anything bothered her and thought why not.

"I was given a terrible story to try to tell, and just couldn't find an angle that worked, and it came back to me too many times" she grunted swinging at him, smiling he ducked and her punch missed him

"So, we all have bad days, or projects we struggle with, pull yourself together and do better, you know you can, Kara Zor-El you can do anything, you do every day, tackle it the same way Supergirl would", while listening she forgot about fighting and his right fist made contact with her jaw. She glared at him, and decided to fight fire with fire, and catch him off guard

"Im also fed up with being told constantly how handsome you are, every girl in the office is jealous of Eve" he grinned at this news, so she decided to change tact, "But you are not all that, average at best, those poor girls don't get out much" she teased smiling

"Eve says we are involved?" he asked looking confused, Kara took this moment to plant a right hook on his jaw, "OWW, Not fair" he chucked

"Fairs, fair" she replied and went in for a second punch, he bobbed and returned a punch to her as she moved back

They carried on fighting and teasing each other. Kara felt pleased that she had decided to work her stress out. Finally both starting to show they were feeling a bit tired started making mistakes and Kara lost her footing and landed on her back.

Quickly Mon-El was there pulling off his gloves and offering her a hand up, she smirked at him and kicked out at his back foot, causing him to fall, nearly landing on her, he landed in a heap next to her.

"You need to fix your foot work!" She instructed before both started to laugh. He looked at the clock on the wall, he stood up swiftly

"Oh, Im sorry I have to go"

"Hot date?" She asked but the jokey tone was gone , which shocked her. He looked slightly taken aback

"If I tell you, don't laugh" there was a seriousness in his voice she rarely heard, so she nodded. "Evening classes, Im learning something called Psychology, I thought I should get some new knowledge, so I can see where I fit in"

Kara grinned and bolted up, flinging her arms around him, and pulling him in to a close hug, "Im not going to laugh, I'm proud" she nearly whispered into his ear. She pulled back slightly so she was still hugging him, but looking into his eyes, pretty grey eyes.

He was shocked when she hugged him, and now they were looking at each other not sure what to do, he knew making any move could ruin their fragile friendship, so he smiled slightly, and suddenly she moved in to kiss him, softly to start with, she tasted of coffee, which he assumed she drank a lot during the day, then it got more frantic, she was running her fingers though his hair, he was undoing the tight bun her hair was tied into. Her hands were everywhere feeling how toned he was, not that it was a shock to her.

Suddenly he pulled away, and looked at her smiling sadly, she looked at him, "What's wrong Mon-El?"

He sighed, "Oh Kara I like you, really I do, but you are full of anger and tension and adrenaline, you will regret this later today, when you remember what I am, a Daxamite, and I can't lose our friendship, you are the only person on this planet who knows what Im going though"

He walked out of the room leaving Kara standing around watching him leave, feeling confused.