"Any word from your father as to what exactly the military has done with the remains of The Detonator?" Alex asks Lucy.
Lucy looks up from her desk to the agent standing in the doorway to her office. "Alex, you know that I would tell you if I knew something," the brunette replies setting her pen down.
Closing the door, Alex steps in closer. "I'm sorry. I just really wanted to examine that body. I have so many questions and I doubt that the military will give me any answers," she says clearly frustrated.
"I know that it's been a few weeks," Lucy says standing up and coming around the desk to face Alex. "The General is playing this very close to his vest, not even his chief of staff knows anything," she adds. "And I even asked Lois to talk to him and she got nothing from him either."
"Well that probably means they took it to Project Cadamus," Alex replies. "Damn it, I really wanted to get this one. The biometrics of how the chemical entered his system and enhanced him instead of killing him is something that I really wanted to study. Each of these meta-humans are affected differently and I just need to understand how it happens," she exclaims pacing the room.
"I'm still running tests," Maxwell Lord snaps. He's not used to being questioned like this, no one in his organization would dare to question him in this manner.
"We need answers Mr Lord. This isn't one of your pet projects that I'm asking about, this is a government operation and you agreed to provide daily status reports in return for the opportunity to examine those remains," General Lane barks into the phone.
"You'll have a full report once my analysis is complete. I don't see the point of a daily check in, but trust me General, I want answers as much as you do," Lord replies reassuring the other man that they are on the same side, even if they don't exactly agree on how to proceed.
"You'll provide a status report by the end of the day or I'll have a team over there to recover the body and move it to another facility!" the general demands before ending the call.
Cat is scooping M&M's into the glass when she hears the tell tale footsteps behind her, she looks up into the mirror, a smile twitching at the corners of her mouth, she fights it off, feigning annoyance instead.
"Ms Grant, I have those reports that you asked for," Kara says approaching hesitantly.
Turning to look at the girl, Cat sighs and fishes a few candies out of the glass. "I missed you at lunch today," she replies popping the candy into her mouth.
"I had something to take care of," Kara replies vaguely. "Dinner tonight?" she asks hopefully as she steps in closer to Cat.
"Carter will want to play Settlers of Catan after dinner," Cat reminds her, reaching out to straighten her collar. Reminding herself to order a mirror for Kara's office, she never seems to put herself back together after her afternoon flights to see her sister.
"I don't mind, I just want to spend time with both of you," Kara confesses beaming a smile at her.
Even though they aren't even touching each other, Cat feels awash in Kara's love and affection, she allows herself a small smile in return.
Sensing Cat's reserve melting a bit, Kara decides to push a little, "Cat don't you think he's ready for us to tell him what's going on?" she asks softly.
Her mask returns and she glances up at the door to make sure they are still alone. "Kara, I've never spoken to him about sexuality, let alone my sexuality," Cat admits uneasily.
"He loves you, it won't be a big deal," Kara says reassuring her.
"Now you're an expert on my son?" Cat asks narrowing her eyes at the girl before her.
"He's your son and you've raised him to be loving and accepting of difference. Besides, I think he may love Kara Danvers more than he does Supergirl, now" Kara points out.
"When he finds out that you're Supergirl, I'll be lucky if he remembers who I am," Cat replies sarcastically.
"Well, he doesn't need to know that I'm Supergirl," Kara reminds her. "That will be our secret," she says with a wink.
"Dinner at 7," Cat says taking the reports from her and letting her fingers linger a moment on Kara's wrist. "I'll wait to tell him that you're joining us, just in case something else comes up," she adds.
"Thank you," Kara replies sincerely. This is new between them, but so far they've been negotiating their personal life around their professional one without many issues. And no one in the office seems to have caught on that they are involved yet. Although, Kara's certain that Winn suspects it.
"Do you ever wonder what your life would be like if your parents had never agreed to raise Kara as their own?" Lucy asks idly as they sit in traffic on their way home from the DEO. "I mean, she could have been raised by the Amazons. I can't even imagine that. Do you think that she'd still be Supergirl?"
"Of course, she would still be Supergirl," Alex replies. "But I doubt that I'd be at the DEO. I'd probably be working in a research lab, who knows I might even have worked for Maxwell Lord," Alex points out.
"Don't even joke about that," Lucy says pushing her shoulder playfully.
"I'm not. He's got one of the best labs in the country. He's on the cutting edge of research and technology in biochemistry," she counters her voice trailing off abruptly. "Damn, Max Lord has The Detonator, I just know it. It's not like he hasn't had other military contracts. I should have known that he would have negotiated for this one," Alex blurts out.
"Hold up, you really think that my dad would trust Max Lord?" Lucy asks.
"Your dad trusted Dr Morrow and look how that turned out," Alex replies, shuddering at the memory of the crazed man that she killed in the struggle for control over Red Tornado.
Lucy turns to her and puts the SUV in park, since the traffic has not moved an inch in the last ten minutes, "Alex," she says reaching out for her. "I'm sorry that I brought this up."
"It's fine, Luc. But I need to find a way into Max Lord's lab. I have to get him to let me help him examine and analyze The Detonator," Alex remarks pulling away from her touch.
Disappointed, Lucy turns back to face forward. Looking straight ahead at the traffic, she gets an idea and puts the SUV back in gear and pulls on to the shoulder, flipping the light bar on, she honks and makes people move out of her way.
"Lucy! What the hell?" Alex yells out.
"You want answers, I know where the General is right now. Let's go get them!" She says defiantly.
"I'm almost there," Kara texts Cat to let her know that she's on time.
Glancing at her phone and seeing the message float by, Cat goes into the living room where Carter is finishing up his homework. "Kara's coming by and I invited her to dinner," she informs her son.
"Cool, can she stay and play Settlers of Catan with us?" he asks without looking up.
Cat smiles at her son's predictability. Maybe Kara's right, maybe he is ready for her to open up to him about her life more. "You don't mind that she's joining us?" Cat questions, hoping to get a reaction from him.
"No, I like it when she's here," Carter replies looking up at her and noticing the relieved look on her face, he adds, "Mom, are you seeing her?"
"Carter, I'm... it's complicated," Cat stammers.
"It's okay if you are. I like her and I like how she takes care of you," he says with a big smile.
"I-I like how she takes care of me too," Cat admits with a smile, before turning back to the kitchen to finish dinner. "Put all of that away and then come in here and help me set the table," she calls out over her shoulder.
Carter asks a few more questions as he carefully sets the plates around the table and Cat does her best to answer them honestly, surprised by how much the thirteen year old knows about human sexuality.
A few minutes later Cat is just setting the salad on the table when the elevator dings indicating Kara's arrival. She walks over to the door to wait for her.
The elevator doors open and Kara smiles when she sees Cat. "Hey, you look beautiful," she says breathlessly approaching her and waving to Carter who's standing behind her.
Wordlessly Cat steps in and kisses her hello. "Dinner's on the table," she says winking at the stunned girl. "Chop, chop."
"Uh, so that was new," Kara says softly following her into the kitchen. "What's going on? Have you been possessed again?" She asks teases nervously.
"Hey Kara!" Carter says bounding into the kitchen and greeting the blonde warmly with a light hug. "Mom told me and I think it's awesome that you two are together. Then turning around he blurts out, "Mom, can Kara join us on Saturday?" Before Cat can reply, he turns back quickly to Kara, "it's Free Comic Book day and we're going to Isotope," he explains.
"Oh," Kara exclaims still trying to process everything that's happening. The kiss from Cat in front of her son, the hug from Carter and his excitement to include her, is all overwhelming at first.
Cat smiles at her. "You should join us, if you're available on Saturday."
"Uh, I'd like that," Kara says suddenly realizing that this is huge. Cat has told Carter, so now they are officially together.
"Good night Mom. Good night Kara," Carter says hugging each of them. "See you in the morning," he adds with a wink at Kara.
Cat raises an eyebrow and shakes her head before turning to the blonde beside her.
"How did this happen? I thought that you weren't ready to tell him?" Kara blurts out.
"I didn't think that I was, but then it just happened. You were right," she says leaning in for a kiss.
"Wait, did you just say that I was right?" Kara says pulling away slightly and beaming a proud smile.
"Yes darling you were right," Cat repeats, before pulling her back in and kissing her soundly. Then breaking the kiss she adds, "Although now he seems to be a fountain of knowledge about sexuality. Apparently, I have some reading to do to catch up." Cat says reaching out to caress Kara's face before slipping a hand behind her neck and pulling back in for another kiss.
"Mmm," Kara murmurs into the kiss, her whole body humming as Cat presses against her.
"Perhaps we should move to the other room?" Cat suggests breathlessly.
"Kara, where are you?" Alex's voice interrupts the moment with Cat.
Cat feels Kara tense up and she pulls back with a frown.
"I'm just a bit busy, what's up?" she asks.
"Uh, I'm sorry, but this is important. Can you meet me at my place in ten minutes?" Alex questions.
"Sure," she replies. Then turning to Cat, the apology on her lips.
"Go, save the world," she says annoyed a little. "But, if it doesn't take all night, you should come back," Cat says reaching up to wipe her lipstick off of Kara's lip.
"Alex, what's so important that it couldn't wait until morning?" Kara asks landing gently on the balcony of her sister's townhouse.
"Max Lord has The Detonator and we need to steal the body and move it to the DEO," Alex blurts out.
"How do you know that?" Kara questions.
"Lucy and I confronted General Lane and he all but confirmed it," Alex explains.
"General Lane gave The Detonator to Maxwell Lord?" Kara asks, suddenly realizing why her sister is so upset. "Have you told Hank yet?"
"No, he's out of pocket right now and I don't know if I can trust Lucy to help with this," Alex replies, knowing that Kara will ask about that next.
"Alex, if we're going to do this, we're going to need her help," Kara points out.
"I can handle Lord, all you need to do is get that body out of there, we won't need her to help with that," Alex counters.
"How exactly are you planning to handle Max Lord?" Kara asks.
"With this," Alex says holding up a little black dress.