Disclaimer: I do not own Supergirl or Captain Marvel. I am just someone who had watched Capt. Marvel movie and thought, Kara should learn a thing or two from Carol about how to handle their Best Friend who are actually more than just their best friends.
Besides… she's a CAROL!
I am pretending dc and marvel are in the same universe and that infinity war hasn't happened, but Carol still took like 25 years in space before she was able to comeback. I am a SUPERCORP trash, please remember that.
Since I ignored infinity, I am ignoring season 3 and 4. Maggie and Alex relationship would be shaky already and Sam is going to be in National City, and I am the new owner of Catco…joke! Rated T. No need to get naked… lol.
NOT JUST YOUR REGULAR BFF
Chapter 1: Home sweet home… I have my eyes on you.
She has no idea how long she had been gone. All she know was that she was busy finding a home to the last of the Skrulls and fighting off heavy hitting aliens that are trying to take over worlds. Not that she's flying from one planet to another to look for someone to fight, she isn't that kind of hero. It just so happens that chaos usually followed her.
It took meeting a green lantern from Earth that got her into motion and fly back home. She's gonna stay and she's gonna be with Maria, and if it means she has to make do helping her out getting old planes to work so be it. She's not wasting anymore time, she's gonna tell Maria what she realized before she found herself without memory and fighting for Kree. She loves her best friend… and no, not that platonic kind of love… they've shared a lot already to be just that and all she had to do was show Maria.
That was all she had to do.
Louisiana though wasn't what she expected when she returned. There was no garage, the old house had been unlived and Monica had grown to be a beautiful woman. She told her, her mama had waited for her return. She said her mama was going to make her stay and that they were going to be a family. They were suppose to build their dreams together, all three of them. But Maria's health deteriorated and now all was left of her Maria was her memory.
A daughter that was not hers by blood but by heart… a daughter who had grown up strong without her, a daughter who doesn't need her anymore.
But she's not flying away again… she's staying and maybe someone will need her again.
Well let's hope it's not Fury… that's a different matter all together.
-0-
Whelp! It wasn't Fury, but she had had met a group of haters who had been wreaking havoc, and she found out she isn't the only flying person on Earth. Well… the green lantern was human though she is not in this sector of the universe, and from asking around, this flying man is called Superman. She almost laughed… what the heck… couldn't they find any better name than that? Anyway, met with him and helped him save some aliens from being killed. Now, she had to go separate ways with Superman or suffer the killer glare of his jealous girlfriend (as if she is interested in the man at all!) and keeping an eye on this hater group headed by one Lillian Luthor.
Superman said… if it's Luthor then it's bad.
In her experience though? Not everything said by someone calling themselves hero are correct. Look at what happened with Yon rogg?
So cautious but not overly so…
-0-
New life, new home… eyes open.
She entered the nice, affluent bar, looking for a place to sit. She craved human bar, she had been alcohol free when she was in space, not sure which of those alien drinks was safe to take, then again, she'd absorbed alien energy and gets stronger from it, plus her blood is now blue… but she was still human so she didn't take that risk. Now in a human bar… she's gonna let it go.
"Well, you seemed like you're lost," sultry voice sounds beside her, and she'd just gotten a seat. She looked beside her to find a very dashing, raven haired woman with a sexy lilt in her voice… no… can't be Scottish, she can still understand her… accent aside, the woman has alabaster skin, strong jaw and has the greenest of eyes she'd ever seen.
"Well, I am where I want to be." Carol said smiling genuinely. There was a frown on the other woman's face, "something I said?"
The black haired beauty shook her head, "You… you just remind me of someone I know…"
"Ah…" another smile, "This place looks cozy… I feel so left out," she looked at her white shirt, cut off jeans, well worn boots and her trusty leather jacket.
"That's why I asked if you're lost, but this establishment does not discriminate."
"I got that, so what's good to drink here? Haven't had human alcohol for like… ever."
There was this indistinguishable expression in her pretty face, "Are you… an alien?"
Carol laughed, "Truth is… I don't know anymore," when she stopped laughing she eyed the woman, "Are aliens banned here?"
The other woman this time laughed, "Not at all, I had a policy that anyone can come here, it's just aliens tend to go in this alien bar near here."
One light brow raised, "There's an alien bar here?" there was this beautiful smile that graced the other woman's face.
"Yes and oh god… you do look like her."
"You're girlfriend?"
It just so happened that the woman had just drunk a shot, and her reply got the woman to spit her drink on a ready napkin. "Where did that come from?"
"So not girlfriend? I mean you said I remind you of someone and from where I come from, or when I come from that sentence usually is a tell of a bad break up."
Another laugh out of scrumptious, red lips. "No not girlfriend… best friend… well ex-best friend probably."
Another raised brow, "I never knew there is such a things as ex best friend." She smiled. There is a very good story behind it but she doesn't even know the woman, so she let the subject drop at the woman's silence. "I'm Carol anyway,"
The woman's smile widened, "Lena,"
"Hello Lena," the blonde looked at the woman's empty glass, "If I buy you a drink, I won't end up broke am I?"
Len laughed, "Oh my god… it's been so long since I had a laugh,"
Carol nods, "I'm glad to help. So…"
"You don't have to buy me drinks, I own the place we could drink what we want and how much we want and we won't end up broke." She then signals for the mixer to get them her poison, and with a nod, the guy started mixing their drinks.
"Wow… and here I thought I misheard you." Carol start tapping on the bar, "So you're rich?"
A sad expression descend on the raven haired woman's face, "Materially," a sad smile. "So from the look of it, you aren't from National City, so where are you from?"
Silence as the two eyed each other, then broken by one word, "Louisiana,"
-0-
Lena Luthor woke up from the loud banging sound, and a very potent headache. She slowly sat on her bed and stood, took one step and stopped as she felt her world tilt. She took a deep breath and then opened her eyes again. Damn it, she hadn't had this kind of headache in years… even after the Daxam Invasion and filling herself with whiskey and then she heard the loud banging again which enabled her to walk out of her room, to be shocked by wayward blonde head, tall… muscular body and trying to burn her kitchen down.
"Fuck!"
Alright it's not Kara
"Good morning sleepy head," the woman turned and yes, so not Kara but she could pass as her if you just look in passing. Who is she again…
"You were so screwed you don't remember taking me home."
One dark brow raised, "Yes I don't… did we have sex?"
A grin from pink lips, "Do you feel like we had sex?" Lena shook her head and winced at the headache.
"Well I'd be offended if we had sex and you didn't feel like we did… I mean I may not have sex for years but I know I'm good at it, never left any woman or species doubting that."
The smaller woman frowned, "Carol, now I remember." She smiled, "How are you not hung over?"
"Blue Blooded…"
"And how does being royalty made you immune to hung over?"
"Oh I'm not…"
"Hung over?"
"That too… I mean Royalty. I'm saying I have blue blood, literally."
"Okay I'm really having the worst headache and I'm in twilight zone."
"Oh I've seen that when I was a kid its nice back then." Carol put down the pan she was holding, she then stepped close to Lena and held the woman's elbow, guiding her to an empty and clean stool. "Sit,"
"Why are you trying to demolish my kitchen?"
"Rude, I'm trying to make you pancakes as thanks for letting me sleep on your very comfortable couch, not ruining your kitchen. But damn I don't even know from what planet you get all of this!"
"From the sound of it, you were going all Rambo in here."
There was suddenly an uncomfortable silence.
Lena bit her lips, she could feel the sudden tension, "Sorry… did I said something wrong?"
Carol sat beside the younger woman, "It's not that, just like how I remind you of your bestfriend now probably ex-bestfriend, Rambo reminds me of mine."
Lena frowned, "You're best friend with John Rambo? Is he for real?"
Carol rolls her eyes, "I don't know a John… my best friend… well I came back to earth hoping we'd start over as more you know?" the younger woman nod her head in understanding, "I just didn't realize I was gone to long and she had passed away. We had a daughter." She bit her lower lip, "In the Airforce she is known as Maria "Photon"Rambeau
Lena wanted to hug the woman but she didn't, she had no idea how to comfort people. It had always been Kara who comforted her. "Sorry…"
"I was hoping to start over and well… I find myself here in National City."
"You said you have a daughter?"
A wistful smile took over the older woman's face, "Monica, she's now all grown up, she has a family and she is very intelligent. She has no need of old, obsolete woman like me."
"Monica… as in Monica Rambeau?"
"You know of her?"
"Indeed, we had met before in a scientific conference on nano technology, she's really brilliant and I was to hire her in the research department of my family's company back then but some underground government department got her instead."
Carol laughed, "You sound bitter,"
"Brilliant women with balls are hard to come by and I like her strong personality." Lena eyed the other woman, "Must be you,"
Carol waved a hand in dismissal, "Nah, that's all Maria."
Another bout of silence.
"I would need coffee stat," Lena said as she stood up, "I'm not making anything and you're not burning my penthouse down. I had assassins to do that for me so just let me get some naproxen in me and let me change then we'll go to Noonan's."
Carol stopped listening at the word assassin. "There's assassin after you?"
Lena waved a hand this time, "It's part of my life, if not assassins commissioned by my mother or brother, it will be aliens with vendetta on Luthor's name, you can pick…"
Blue eyes widened, "You're a Luthor?"
Len turned stiffly, "Yes?"
-0-
Lena walked ahead, not turning her head and minding if the blonde had followed her or not. A little bit away from Noonans and her elbow was yanked, making her stop and facing the culprit. It was Carol who was looking at her with a frown. "What?"
"We were having a nice morning and you just suddenly shut off and left like I did burn your house down. What gives?"
Irritation found its way on the smaller woman, "So what did my family did to you? And now that you know you are with a Luthor are you gonna kill me? Poison my food? What?"
The blonde woman raised her hand in surrender, "Whoa slow down… what are you talking about?"Lena just shook her head and turned but was stopped once again, "Was this about me blurting out you're a Luthor?"
"Well, so what heinous crime did I commit in the name of Luthor this time?"
"Wow…" Lena just eyed the blonde, "When Superman says Luthor means bad, I didn't realize it was this kind of bad!"
"Superman? You've met him?"
She scratched her head, "Yup, helped him saved some aliens being targeted by a group lead by a Lillian Luthor."
"Cadmus,"
"That one, but listen…" she sighed, "I never believed him, I mean not because he is a hero means whatever he says is right. He can think it but not me. I'm so done with men acting like Yon rogg." The younger woman studied her companion. "Look, not because I learned that you're a Luthor negates the fun things we did together… and I saw you talk about aliens and I did learn about your projects that helps both human and alien citizens of Earth, you can't be that bad as Superman says."
After a while of soaking in Carol's words, Lena nodded and turned, "I really needed that coffee like two hours ago." The blonde smiled as she follows the raven haired woman. "And who is this Yon rogg?"
"Oh someone from my past,"
"Girlfriend?"
"Haha you're funny, Yon is a guy and he had an ego the size of the entire Kree and I don't do boyfriend."
Lena looked at the other woman, "You should tell me about that,"
"Yon rogg?"
"Kree."
Then they finally got into Noonan's.
TBC