Chapter 2:
"So where's Mon-El…er…Mike," Alex corrected making sure to use his human given name instead.
It had been less than two hours since her fight with Maggie and she'd come to Kara's after a much needed release.
"At the DEO," Kara replied, "James wanted to get in a workout before going to CatCo and he thought Mike would be a better training buddy."
"Better than who, Winn?"
"You saw what happened to Winn the last time he offered to help James."
Alex whinced. When James had wanted Winn's help in training Winn thought he'd meant with simulations he could design in the DEO training facility. He hadn't thought it would be a real UFC cage match. According to James he had taken it easy on Winn. Winn didn't think so after Kara had discovered two busted ribs.
"Yeah that wasn't pretty," said Alex, "Well maybe he'll have better luck with Mike.
"Yeah if James doesn't end up being the one with the broken bones this time.
"So are the guys still coming for dinner?"
"They are."
"Good, that's good."
"Hey what's going on with you? You've been acting weird since you got here."
"That obvious, hu?"
"Only because I know you too well, that and you keep eating the marshmallows. What's going on?"
"Maggie and I had a fight."
Kara took a seat across from her sister at the island table.
"Bad?"
"I don't know. It didn't seem that way to her."
"But to you it did?"
"Well yeah. It's my first time celebrating the holidays with someone I care about, really care about and she has to work tonight."
"Yikes."
"And I was really looking forward to having her here with us, with me. Finally I could be grateful for the one good thing in my life that has made me truly happy. And the thing is Kara, Maggie wasn't assigned the shift tonight, she asked for it. I mean can you believe that!"
Kara hated seeing her sister in this kind of pain. Never had Kara seen Alex as happy as she had been when she'd come out, as difficult as that had been or when she first began dating Maggie four months ago.
Now she wanted more than anything to make it better somehow.
"Want me to talk to her?"
"No."
"Want Supergirl to have a talk?"
"Especially not! It's hard enough that Maggie doesn't know Supergirl and my sister are one in the same."
Kara shook her head, "I've given you permission to tell her. I've got James and Winn. I don't see why you can't have Maggie."
"No it's safer if she doesn't know."
Then isn't her shift tonight exactly that: keeping people safe, keeping you safe? I know you can handle yourself but maybe this is also her way of putting you before the job. Maggie probably feels better knowing you're safe with your family."
Alex meet Kara's gaze, "I hate it when you're right."
"I know you do which makes it more fun for me."
Alex reached for a marshmallow and threw it at Kara but her sister used her super speed and caught the glob of sugar in her mouth.
"Cheater," said Alex. "I don't know maybe there's an upside to Maggie not coming tonight, I mean at least I won't have to tell mom."
"Why wouldn't you want to tell Eliza?"
"Have you met our mother? Kara, this isn't like you coming out as Supergirl."
"it kind of is actually," Kara said thinking back to last Thanksgiving and how the situation went south, "but there was a silver lining. Eliza came to accept not just me as Supergirl but she accepted you as a DEO agent and she accepts now more so since we know who Jon really is. I'm sure she can accept you being gay."
"Not everyone is as optimistic as you, Kara."
