Photographs of Time- A Supergirl fanfic

author: jaymack33
Category: F/M
Fandom: Supergirl (TV 2015)
Relationships: Kara Danvers / Mon-el, Kara Danvers & Mon-el
Characters: Kara Danvers, Mon-el, Alex Danvers

Summary: Kara takes Mon-el to his first trip to the mall which lead to a certain memory with ties to season 3.

One shot that could lead to a series for my version of season 3

Chapter 1 of ?

In front of the National City Mall:

A young couple arms entwined, a blond with glasses in a pink striped shirt and jeans leaning into her boyfriend all dressed in black, black shirt, black jacket, dark hair walked carefully through the parking lot as their Uber drove away in the distance.

Kara giggled as she embraced Mon-el's powerful arm leaning in so close. She had long given up in forcing him to wear his glasses too. Besides the warmth against his body and the comfort of not being alone and having someone she could lean on and spend time with felt so good hmmmmmm.

"Uhhh, Kara, so what is this mall thing again?"

Kara straightened up still holding his hand looking into Mon-el's eyes..."Mon...I mean Mike, I know on-line shopping is a thing, and all but when I was growing up in this new world I used to hang with my big sis and this was our thing whenever we had a chance to visit the big city, we would look at all the pretty clothes, eat burgers and shakes and even if we didn't have any money we could still dream and talk without our parents looking over our shoulder all the time for us this was a place where we first started trying to become the women we would later become and I just wanted to share this with you."

Kara looked deeply into Mon-el's eyes and Mon-el felt like he was floating through her beautiful eyes, he swore to Rao this woman could ask just about anything from him and even his no would turn to a yes with too much exposure to her hopeful piercing blue eyes and that smile of hers was so blindingly beautiful..Oh wait.. I think Kara was talking to me about malls or something...

"Mon-el have you even been listening to me?" Kara was tapping her feet with just a hint of anger and annoyance and maybe a little bit of something else but it was way too early for that and definitely too public...Kara gritted her teeth...

And Mon-el snapped out of it. As great as Kara's smile was and those beautiful piercing blue orbs of light the opposite was true when Kara gave him her annoyed death stare. Think Mon-el think. "Umm you were talking about malls and...ummm...and"...think Mon-el think..."and how much it means to you"...Mon-el flashed her his own puppy smile back at Kara.

Kara...grr...she knew Mon-el was completely full of shit and had zoned out on her again...He always does that! What in Rao's name does he think about when I'm talking to him? I swear if it's about another girl I may not be able to stop myself from heat-visioning his ass...and...and...gulp...oh no! Mon-el was giving her the wounded puppy look with that...that smile and now he's pouting...no Kara do not let him do that to you...don't give in to those grey...blue eyes that keep changing colors depending on the light and that smile...oh Rao...will he just stop. I'm Supergirl I'm not supposed to lo...like-like a bad boy...a very bad boy! It's just he's so damned cute...still Kara stared him down again..."Why don't you listen to me when I pour my heart out about things that I want to show you?" "This means something to me!" "I wouldn't be sharing these things with you if it didn't matter to me and I would hope to you too."

"Look, Kara, I'll admit I was gathering wool, or something..."

"Wool gathering, you mean."

"Right I gathered the wool, but it's really your fault!"

"Oh, this is rich how in the hell is this my fault?" Kara yelled back at Mon-el! Kara started doing that funny thing with her cheeks like she was chewing gum even though she ran out of gum and needed to buy more.

"Well, it's just"...and than Mon-el took a breath, scratching at his chin nervously when he was about to tell Kara something important as the woman he loved continued to death stare him...well here goes..."ummm..it's your fault because sometimes even though everything you say is very important to me, I sometimes accidentally look too deeply into your beautiful blue eyes and I get lost, OK." Mon-el air quoted for emphasis. "I'm sorry. I wasn't kidding when I said your my Kryptonite." "I know we've been living together for a few months now." "But your beauty still takes my breath away." "I'm trying to not be overwhelmed by how beautiful you are." "Most of the time I don't look too directly at you & than I can pay more attention to what your saying, but...mmmmmph..."

Kara hated when Mon-el did that to her. Every damned time. It was like his secret untested superpower. Mon-el could make her angry from 0-1000 inside of 5 seconds and than he gives me this ridiculous knee buckling wounded puppy look at me and says the sweetest thing I've ever heard in my life and the Hallmark network is in my freaking queue! He literally is telling me he doesn't listen to me because I just freaking hypnotized him by my beauty. Now, I could let my bad boy just stay there looking at me sad and unforgiven... as he makes my tummy do somersaults with that smile of his or I could and it was like a damned magnet as my eyes drifted away from his hypnotizingly gorgeous gray blue eyes and than crap his lips...I...don't remember how I ended up with my lips inches from his...I think he said hi...and I said bye...or something unintelligible as we started kissing..."get a room"...huh?

"Uh, oh looks like I just got my goody two shoes girlfriend in trouble with Grand-mom"...Mon-el chuckled...hahaha..

"Do you want to get cut off?"

Mon-el went still...his smile faded..."No!" His lips went to a neutral flat line, definitely not that!

"Good!" Kara thought to herself like if I was actually going to punish him I would do something that punished me too..."Come on you she grabbed his arm, time to get our mall on!"

"So, Kara this is just a bunch of stores attached together inside an enclosed building?" "What is the big deal!"

Kara smiled, "It's just life and it's choices and if you want new clothes or even if you just want to try them on it's here." "If you want to go to the movies it's here." "If you want to buy music, or books, or get a corn-dog and a lemonade it's just all in one place, it's just something to do, it's a walk and when I was growing up in Midvale and directions were like after you pass the gas station (Yup, the one and only one), you than pass 30 steers, make a left on the 30 chickens and after passing the 12th cornfield your there"...Kara smiled as she seemed to be using her hand like it was a car heading to her family home.

Mon-el smiled, this gorgeous wonderful woman could literally sell him snowballs in a snowstorm. On Daxam, he kind of got whatever he asked for. He didn't have to shop, or try to find things, people would just bring whatever he demanded. Here on Earth things were harder, but somehow it made it more special. He got a satisfaction when he prepared a drink or cooked a meal. It just tasted better, or at least after a few...maybe more than few failed attempts, it tasted better. In his world they gave you everything you asked for, but they didn't always give you everything you needed. In a world of slaves and monarchy there was no incentive for creativity or making new things as my parents would take away any extra gains from the people, but here on Earth, there were more types of movies, more music, more types of food, weird stores and unique people and speaking of unique people there she was staring back at him...

"You better not be gathering more wool, Mon-el!"

"No, I actually was listening this time, it's just while you were talking about the good things of this mall I started thinking about Daxam and that there really wasn't anything comparable to this." "Maybe the bazaar but that was out in the open and no monarch would ever dare walk in the open there for fear of an assassination attempt."

"Sounds like good times, Mon...Mike."

"Why are you so bad at keeping my secret identity?" "What's going to happen when you actually let me in the field?"

Kara, blushed, she got caught again. "It's just hard M...Mike." "We don't really go out that much as Mike and Kara, so I'm always calling you Mon-el and technically even at your job your still Mon-el and it's not like it's your superhero name...and..."

"And it's not like you gave me the name in the first place, Kara?" Mon-el jabbed at her while he gave her one of his half smiles with that mirthy look of joy slightly leaking from his eyes.

"Yes, I did name you..."

"And you didn't even ask my opinion on it either..."

"So, what do you want to change it to something else?"

"No, it's not that, it's I mean I like the name it's just you seem to keep forgetting and it's just sometimes I would like to have a say in important things like that too, you know."

"And, yes your right Mon..damn it, I did it again." "Your really right, it's just"...and she whispered really low knowing Mon-el would pick it up with his super-hearing..."it's just you'll always be my Mon-el to me!" She gave him a little gentle smile her eyes projecting out the happiness she felt every time she looked at her beautiful boyfriend she gave his hand a little extra super-powered squeeze knowing he could handle it made her smile more as she felt him squeeze her hand right back with matching strength.

Mon-el's smile just brightened at he stared at his beautiful wonderful girlfriend. It should be a crime for one person to make another person this happy. Like I can't even begin to pay her back. I'm too happy for words. I'm her Mon-el. Always hers. "I am yours, always Kara," he whispered..and stared deeply into her eyes...

Kara stared into his eyes both lost in each other's eyes both ending up closer almost like their second kiss everything fading away in the background...almost kiss and than screaming babies...and running kids, people grazing against them annoyed at the two lovers making googly eyes in the middle of the mall ramp to the second section. And than they both started bursting out laughing, "Come on lover-boy, I didn't bring you here just to make out all day." "I actually want to show you around."

"Darn I was hoping this was going to lead to making out!"

"No, sweetie that's what home is for."

Home, Mon-el thought. It didn't quite feel like his home yet completely, but maybe one day. When I earn the right to be by her side, to be her perfect partner. Maybe one day her home will really be my home but, I know there is no home for me without her being a part of my life. And than he felt Kara yank at his hand pulling him into the first clothes store she could find.

Through the first couple stores it was torture as Kara seemed to forget about him and he stared disinterestedly as possible at the clothes all around him, but than Kara stared at Mon-el detecting that her alien boyfriend was completely zoning out, losing interest and wasn't having any fun, "Come on follow me," and than Kara started going into the dressing room and out with a shiny blue dress matching her eyes, firmly accentuating her beautiful body in all the right places, as beautiful as the dress was and the shade of blue her shining blazing blue eyes still put the dress to shame...

...Kara smiled as she saw Mon-el literally gawking at her, "Hey up here with the dirty thoughts!"

"Hey babe, stop looking all sexy from far away and I'll stop ogling you, well maybe not completely but maybe I'll be able to manage it a little bit better."

Kara smiled as she sashayed out in a red dress and than a canary yellow and she tried on a cowgirl outfit that one really made Mon-el smile especially when she kept having to explain what a Daisy Duke was.

And than she made Mon-el try on some things. Mon-el came out 3 or 4 times and even though her boyfriend was hot as hell, "You know Mon-el it isn't a law that everything you wear has to be in black."

"But isn't that what all the cool kids wear? "

"Ohh, you...fine!" "You look hot in everything no matter what color it is," she mumbled as she carried clothes over for purchase.

"What?" Mon-el smiled happily no reason just something his girlfriend didn't realize she actually said.

Kara blushed, I hope he didn't just hear me saying he was hot

Mon-el smiled he wasn't going to tell her that actually his hearing since he's been on earth for a while probably is almost as good as hers, just not saying! My babe thinks I'm hot he strutted for a second but as Kara turned around she saw Mon-el quickly adjust to a normal walk with a funny knowing smile on his face.

"What?" Kara asked hoping against hope he didn't hear what she thought she didn't say. I mean I know he has good hearing, but I actually don't know how good it is and umm I mean he must know that part of me liking him means I'm attracted to him, but it doesn't mean I want to spell it out like that, I think! I'm so confused!

Nothing babe! Just clothes-gathering he said!

Kara just decided to let it go charged the clothes to her credit card, and handed the clothes to Mon-el to carry, and as they walked she felt Mon-el's hand pulling away..

"What is it Mon-el everything, OK?"

She saw Mon-el eyeing the electronic store, figures boys and their toys she rolled her eyes sighing. "So, you want to go in Mon...Mike yes I know I almost did it again and..."

Mike was already gone into the store.

Kara softly whisper screamed, It's OK to go in the store, but you still don't ditch your girlfriend too!"

Mon-el heard the whisper-shout getting the message loud and clear, pausing thinking and...

"Boo!"..Kara jumped. "Don't do that, did you use your powers to do that, seriously!"

"Actually no, I guess I'm just kind of good at sneaking up on people ummm kind of like sneaking around and doing shenanigans is my things!"

"Shenanigans?" "No, shenanigans!" She death-stared him while laughing inside, but I will never give him the damned satisfaction.

As Mon-el laughed at her crinkled fake anger. Trust me I know the real thing when I really see it but he played along as Kara grabbed his hand walking him through the store and than something caught his eye...

Kara felt Mon's hand holding her still from walking further and so what is it that your and...she saw Mon-el staring at a watch with numbered buttons on it, a calculator watch, she hadn't seen one of those in wait a second, oh yeah Winn came over with the Back to the Future box set that one time and Mon-el said he wanted one of those and the hover board and the car. Well, looks like 1 out of 3. "So, Mon you going to stare at it all day or can your girlfriend make it happen?"

Mon-el gave Kara a beautiful smile, and with his free hand he grabbed Kara, by her bicep, "Look, you do so much for me, you've let me live in your apartment, you show me new things, teaching me, helping me to be more human and to be a hero and to be a better person and showing me new exciting places like this mall, and I've been working too, and let me buy this on my own."

Kara smiled, he does listen sometimes, even when he doesn't. My Mon-el he's like this cuddly puppy, sometimes he might bark a couple times and than you look underneath and he's this big softy... she smiled that's why I lo...like him so much. Kara hoped that interposing like every time that other thought kept trying to flash in her thoughts that it meant it didn't count, but she knew the more time she spent with this handsome lo...likeable Daxamite that the other word might be popping up more and more frequently. She watched Mon hand the cashier the money and he was like a kid already trying to rip the box open,'Here let me," she opened it quickly putting it on his wrist giving a lingering caress on his powerful arm she hoped he didn't notice as she watched him doing another one of his lady killing smiles, but this time it was all for his new toy, Kara might have been jealous if it was for anything else, but seeing him happy made her happy too.

Mon-el after playing with the calculator a few times in deep concentration stared back at Kara, "Oh, umm sorry I was, umm, was.."

"Watch-gathering?" Kara felt they may as well keep gathering up all their new words calling back to their previous conversations.

"Yeah, something like that." "So anything else you want to show me in this mall, well we have to eat something in the food court, have to," as she pulled Mon-el along by his wrist.

"With pleasure babe," as he squeezed Kara, back the super-powered squeeze that she actually could feel back made Kara squeak slightly. I hope he didn't notice as he heard Mon-el laughing under his breath. Hopefully that was just her wonderful boyfriend just doing his typical laughing at everything else and not laughing because he knows how much he actually means to me.

They ate burgers and a shake and she laughed at Mon-el as he drank his first black and white milkshake and the sheer joy on his face, that funny sound of pure pleasure at the sweet taste of that cold sweet ice cream rich shake and it was like she got to share his first time every time with him. This was so awesome, she wished this day would never end, of course later on it might lead to other things she laughed. Like when did it ever not lead to other things. It always led to other things except when they were unconscious, captured or fighting too many bad guys and were too pooped to do anything but sleep in the bed.

She chuckled as they slowly were getting closer to the exit, kara was thinking if there was just one more thing she could do to capture this one moment in time, this first of what she hoped would be many more firsts and than she saw it with her telescopic vision a photo booth, she didn't know they still had those. Last time she was in one of those she and Alex were making funny pictures together, besides, she needed to start taking more photos with her boyfriend, what did she have against selfies anyway, I guess all this hacking and secret identity stuff, something more low tech like this would be more perfect and I think would help us both remember this day.

Mon-el felt Kara pulling him towards a weird small booth, "what's this, Kara?"

"Oh, I was just thinking what would make this day more special would be if we could take a couple silly pictures to remember your first and our first trip to the National City mall."

1st picture
Mon-el smiled back, "The honor is all yours," he laughed as she slid in the booth and he did the same. "Did I just say what I meant to say," Mon-el asked as Kara grabbed him by the ear pulling it carefully without hurting him of course. Mon-el smirked under his breath with his head pulled at the funny angle, "I think I meant to say our pleasure," as the snap of the first shot registered.

2nd picture
Mon-el shook off Kara's earlock and started laughing back into Kara's ear, Kara's heart soared as she felt the love and happiness of her boyfriend and her growing feelings when he was happy she was happy too. She started laughing too. Snap registered the second shot.

3rd picture
Mon-el's warm breath as he laughed into Kara's ear followed by his lips starting to press and nibble at Kara's ear, oh no not on camera Kara moved away as Mon-el's sweet smooch connected with the top of her head. snap came the third shot

4th picture
Kara under her breath as she embraced Mon-el with sheer joy felt the joining embrace of her boyfriend as she breathed out "Miss me, miss me you almost kissed me!" They both laughed! Snap of the last shot. "Oh I'll be kissing you soon enough babe!" "Oh, you wish Mon-el." "I always wish Kara." "Always!" Kara felt that tell tale fluttery thing in her stomach, like she might end up spelling out more than the lov soon if he doesn't stop it, but it doesn't count if she doesn't spell it out in her head right as she grabbed the developed pictures laughing at how cute her boyfriend looked, "let me see too," Mon-el tried to reach for the pictures.

"No, their mine, I bought your clothes these are mine all mine, hahaha!"

"Just one peak," Mon-el pouted.

Kara tried not to look she kept the pictures in front of her face but stupid x-ray vision and curiosity she knew it, his stupid pout, made her feel like she was turning to jelly and going to melt into a pile of goo, no I will stay strong and resist and...5 seconds later, wow I lasted one second longer than the last time as she was now sharing the photos with Mon-el as they both laughed along, "But these pictures are still mine," and Mon-el agreed "Their yours and I'm yours too," and he whispered, "Forever..."

...Kara heard as her teardrops nearly fell on some of the few pictures she had left of him. It counted, she sniffed I already knew I was in love with you damn it! I try so hard to help others I ask for one good, really good thing in my life. Just for me. I love you so much partially spelling it still counts and it hurts! All these damned powers but I don't have you! I don't get to have you too. Kara's tears blurred her vision in her dark apartment. She had been there a long time, her apartment used to be so damned happy, now it was like a morgue, his stuff was here, all his earthly possessions, everything except for him. She cried as she heard a knock on her door, she didn't need x-ray vision to know who it was, as she had ignored all texts and phone calls, "It's open," she barely got the words out as Alex came in seeing her sisters sad lonely face filled with tears sliding down her face holding photos of her and Mon-el. Kara's tears caused the stoic Alex Danvers to tear up as well as she lunged into Kara's arms. "It's Ok Kara, I'm here." "I love you."

"It's not OK, Alex, this not OK, this hurts!" They cried together holding each other rocking back and forth.

"I'm here, I'll always be here for you...

and than all Kara could do was whisper, "Your here with me but he doesn't get to be here too"...they cried as Kara kept wondering what she could do to make this pain go away. She had to do something. Either she could keep crying, being in pain as Kara Danvers or she could get up and be...

SUPERGIRL!

The end?

Notes: Sorry, for the sad ending of course, I can always blame the Supergirl writers and canon that inspired me to write this story. I really tried to hang on to the happy as long as I could and I could have just written the story of the pics as is but I felt this way left me an opening to continue the series if I didn't want to keep it as a one shot. Of course this story was inspired by the 4 pictures Kara was staring at in the season 3 trailer along with that mysterious watch Mon-el was wearing at the end of the season. Although this could be a one-shot, if I were to write another story technically this might be canon to my next one, so I might keep adding chapters, I might go forward and than back in time between Mon-el and Kara's perspective as I might do my own version of season 3.