Of All Alien Great and Small

By XavAcid

Chapter 2 : The world's so big, but it's not so bad with you here

Winn dragged a large suitcase with him as he stepped in front of an unfamiliar door. He'd never been here before. He didn't even know that Alex had an apartment. He thought she lived at the D.E.O for all of the time they'd hung out and no one ever mentioned it. Did D.E.O have some sort of housing for their agents?

He had half a mind to ask her, but his better judgement kicked in. He didn't need anything threw at his head, the memory of the last goose egg on their game night still fresh in his mind. Nope, not asking that.

With a deep breath, he knock twice.

And it only took a minute or so for the door to open. They already knew he was here, after all, he had to be buzzed in from downstairs. The building was certainly more secured than Kara's, not by much, but the older Danvers was a highly trained agent, he would fear more for whoever had the audacity to invade her place than Alex Danvers herself.

As far as he knew, Kara in the Kryptonite room - that was awesome all on its own - with the power turned down to just above that of normal human still could not beat the agent.

"Hi," he gave them a small wave, and tried to look in as discreetly as possible. This was completely unlike what he thought the brunette's place would look like. He imagined something more spartan, more militaristic, but only because she was always hanging out at Kara's.

So far from what he could see from his position at the entrance, her apartment was anything but. The place was neat and clean, he expected nothing less from the agent, very modern, with raw concrete countertop and pendant lights. There were large windows, he could just imagine how bright the place could be during the day.

"Hey Winn," Alex took a bag out of his hand and led him inside. "Thanks for this."

"Hi, um… yeah, it's no problem." He was about to say something more when his eyes caught the sight of his friend's head over the brunette's shoulder.

Kara was really doll-size, and she was draping herself over the agent's shoulder, like a small kitten.

Oh yeah, she really was tiny. The picture they sent him certainly didn't prepare him for how small she actually was. Even when he was making the clothes it still didn't hit him fully of the size.

When he first got the text that Kara needed him to make her some clothes from Alex, he thought they were kidding, or that maybe she picked up a new hobby or something. Then they asked if he knew where they could get some miniature size stuff. He called Kara up to ask, and was surprised that the agent was the one answering the phone. It wasn't that it was out of the realm of possibility, it was just that it didn't normally happen.

And they got the explanation, which was so not what he was expecting.

But he was always up for a challenge. He was the one that made her suits, after all.

"Winn!" The tiny Super hero called out to him, but didn't move from where she was.

"Hi Kara." He dragged the rest of his stuff inside and closed the door behind him.

"What are all these?" The tiny alien was still where she was, she simply turned herself around on the brunette's shoulder to face her friend as Alex walked ahead of him, "what did you bring me, Winn?"

"Oh, you'll love these." He promised and open the first bag.

Alex knew that Winn would be curious. She had never invited any of them to her place, only Kara knew where she lived. And all their game nights and movie nights that involved the super squad - Winn claimed trademark - were held at Kara's. It was mostly because those that attended were Kara's friends, and Alex was more comfortable meeting at Kara's anyway.

But because of the fact that they were still looking for the culprit, they'd decided that they would be staying at Alex's for now, until whoever responsible was caught. In case they decided to come back to do worse things than shrinking Supergirl.

What was the point of shrinking the Kryptonian, anyway? She was still as strong, and as fast, the size didn't really matter at all. And now, they would never see her coming, which just made her that much more dangerous.

Or maybe they were intending to do more than shrinking her, maybe they were going to blow her up, or made her disappeared and the weapon, whatever it was, simply didn't work the way they intended for it to work.

Alex could feel a stab of headache coming on. She hoped that the D.E.O find something soon. She was pretty much tuning the conversation between the two friends out and let them carry on without her input.

Kara was content to just drape herself over Alex's shoulder and carried on conversation with her friend, who was unpacking what he brought on the coffee table. There were too many for her to believe that he only just sew this the night before. He even brought his sewing machine.

"Just in case I need to alter anything." He said.

Eventually, the tiny Kryptonian hopped down from her perch, excited by the amount of things her friend brought.

"Aaaannd I made you a mini super suit!" He held up a perfect mini-size super suit for her to see.

Kara squealed and flew over to grab it from his hand.

"Alex! Look, it's perfect!"

"It's a good thing I got some knitted fabric on hand, buying them on such a short notice is a .. b-word." He glanced over to Alex, who was nodding at whatever Kara was showing her.

He only just now noticing the hoodie and jeans that Kara was wearing, there was even tiny pair of socks on her feet, and pouted. He also noticed the dining set on the counter, apparently their shopping trip yielded more stuff that he thought.

Wait, is that… Whoa! A tiny pair of rubber boots?


Alex left the two friends where they were to look through the data Vasquez sent her in her the second bedroom that she made into an office. She left the door ajar so she could still hear what was going on. So far Kara tried on several outfits already, she made it a point of showing it to her. Her tiny Kryptonian was ridiculously adorable in all of them. But she could be bias.

Winn brought more stuff than she thought possible, with half a dozen of outfits, and a super suits, that she was sure he made for his own doll that happened to be of similar size with her tiny alien, and a bedroom set.

A bedroom set complete with hand stitched blanket and proper mattress.

Last night Kara took over a pillow next to her, and used a small soft towel as blanket. Or rather that was how they started out, but then she woke up to find Kara asleep right on her chest, her tiny face pressed into the hollow of her throat. It actually was kind of tickle.

She took a deep breath and brought her attention back to the data scrolling across her screen. There was nothing out of ordinary that they could find, which was frustrating. Were they there too late that whatever they could possibly find were gone? If that was the case, their only hope was Fort Rozz's database. Maybe they should look into Lord Tech as well, but she was pretty sure that if he was responsible he would be gloating by now.

That or he would create some sort of situation that would definitely require an appearance by Supergirl, and when she didn't show up, he would be on TV to announce to the world how Supergirl could not be relied on, and they as human should save themselves.

So, it probably wasn't him. Besides, he had been very quiet lately.

She hated this, she'd rather face half a dozen Hellgrammites with nothing but a rusty spoon than sitting around like this. But she trusted that if there was anything to find, the D.E.O would definitely find it.

So she made one last check, and called Vasquez for any update.

The answer was not much, that they were still going through any possible suspects. They also tried to interrogate the few prisoners that might have some credible leads.

'And how is Supergirl, ma'am?'

"She's still her sunny self."

'That is… somehow very reassuring, ma'am. She's very optimistic.'

"Yeah." Alex trailed off, she was sure that even if Kara was worried, she still would try to keep it to herself. Knowing Kara as well as she did, she knew that her tiny ray of sunshine was trying to occupy her mind with other things so that she didn't worry too much.

And when the headache was getting too intense from all the reading and staring, she decided to shut down for the moment and left the room to join the other two out in the livingroom.

Kara patiently let Winn take a more accurate measurements, although the clothes he brought fitted her well enough. It wasn't as if she was going to remain in this size for long enough to wear all of them, or so she hoped.

But she humored him anyway, since he seemed so excited.

And really, there was no way he could sew all these overnight, no matter how good he was with sewing machine.

"Ok, I just need to take this in a little." Winn pinned a tiny bit of loose fabric around her waist.

"You know you don't need to do that, right. It's only like this much." She held up her hand and made a space between her thumb and index finger. "I can wear it."

"Yeah, but…" He pouted a little, seam ripper poist in hand.

"It's ok, Winn. I have enough here to last me a whole week!" Kara floated around the coffee table, picking up this and that, there was really enough. It was probably a good thing Alex bought the doll, at least there was someone, well, a doll to wear all the clothes after she didn't need them anymore. "I already got the boots and everything." She showed off her red rubber boots.

"Yeah, about that." He eyed the rubber boots that Kara was stomping around the coffee table with. "Where did you get those boots."


Winn didn't stay for dinner, even though they invited him.

"Kara eats like a normal person." Alex told him with a grin.

Which was still not normal considered her current size.

That almost made him change his mind about staying, but eventually he declined, offering up excuses about making adjustments to the tiny super suits that he'd made as extras. No one was fooled, really. He asked where they got the boots that Kara had on, and right after she dragged out a few more pairs of doll-size shoes and other accessories that Alex picked up he asked in details where the store they went was.

When he saw the doll, his eyes lit up at the possibilities. And he quickly left.

Kara had no doubt that he was making his way to the store right after he left. It was a surprise that he didn't know about the store, but he was a DIY kind of guy, and he made all of his props. So he probably never really specifically look for doll-stuffs.

"Well, he knows about it now." Alex just shrugged when she shared her thoughts and hung up the phone. "Pizza's gonna be here in thirty."

"Yay!" Kara threw her hands up, all other thoughts about her friend forgotten.

She floated up to Alex, and parked herself right on her shoulder again. She rested herself against Alex's neck instead of draping herself on her shoulder like she did earlier, happily riding along as the older Danvers went from about cleaning up from what mess Kara made with Winn earlier.

"You can certainly help me clean up, you know." Alex nudged her with her index finger, which Kara batted away playfully.

"But Alex!" Kara whined right next to her ear. "There's nothing to clean up!"

"Ow!" Alex recoiled away from the sudden loud whine, but it didn't help, because Kara was right on her shoulder. "Kara!"

"I'm sorry." Her tiny Kryptonian lower her voice to a more acceptable level, both arms quickly wrapped around the column of her neck. Alex could feel smallest of kisses peppered the side of her neck.

"Yeah, yeah." She sighed, "please, try not to blow out my ear drum?"

"Ok," came the meek reply.

Kara then flew up and quickly try to put everything away the way she knew her beloved human normally kept her things, even though she still could not see what was messy about the livingroom. It was only a few shopping bags and the boxes the doll and the clothes came in. She made a quick work of them with a bust of super speed.

She zoomed back and forth, carrying boxes and bags to the garbage, dropping them in piece by piece.

The brunette watched with a little amusement as she wiped down the counter where the two friends left a few crumbs from their snacks as well as rings of water left from the bottom of the glasses. Kara tiny body flew with large box, or rather box larger than her eight inch height, held over her head to the recycle, dropping it in and dove in to compact it down before she went back to get another bag until there was no more trash from her unpacking things with Winn.

Alex was rinsing out the dishcloth when her tiny Kryptonian was done with tidying and presented herself for a praise. It was something that Kara never seemed to grow out of with her. She was more like a puppy that way.

When Kara first arrived at their house, everything was new to her. Everything was so scary to the skinny thirteen year-old. And she was trying to be brave, Alex could see that, but she was still so very afraid. They had to teach her a lot of things, basically everything that everyone else took for granted as they learned by experiencing things as they came along while growing up. Kara had to learn them all in a very short period of time. And while the entire family put in the effort in teaching her, it was mostly Alex that provided more natural interactions. Things that the adults didn't even think about, things they didn't even know to tell her. So, it was the young Alex Danvers that picked up the slack.

It was Alex that taught her all the little things that made her life on this strange new planet easier.

And with everything new things learned the Kryptonian would present her accomplishment to her new family, but mostly to Alex, with a big smile. Eliza and Jeremiah would praise her, but it was the half smile and ruffling of her hair from Alex that she craved most.

And it was that half smile and ruffling of her hair that she still craved even now.

"Good girl," Alex ruffled her blonde head with the tips of two fingers and laughed when Kara -as always - wiggling with her whole body. Like a puppy.

"Pizza's here." Her little alien exclaimed and flew to the door moments before the knocks came. Her diminutive size did not diminish her super hearing in anyway.

"Kara," Alex rolled her eyes and followed. It wasn't like she could let Kara answer the door by herself.

After she paid for the pie, only one this time, since a slice is pretty much bigger than the Kryptonian entire body. So, two slices were probably enough to fill her up for the rest of the night.

They settled down to eat dinner.

It was comical enough to see Kara nearly dove into the piping hot pizza, but for her to actually try to pick the slice up was just hilariously messy. After a few minutes of her trying to pick up the pizza with melting cheese kept sliding off, Alex had to step in and cut her dinner up to small pieces for her.

"I have no desire to try to wash dried cheese off of your tiny clothes." She said firmly after the third attempt, putting down her own slice and stopped Kara from trying to get underneath her own slice to lift it up.

After cutting up the pizza into smaller pieces the brunette placed a couple of them on the small porcelain plate that was her impulse buy for Kara. The tiny blonde nearly roll her eyes, except that she was more than touch with the care that Alex had given her, and she was rather hungry. Normally, they would just eat off of the box, no need to get plates to clean up, or paper plates to add to the garbage.

"You didn't have to get the plate." She gestured at her own doll-size plate. "You didn't get a plate."

"That's because I can't exactly get buried in cheese and pepperoni," Alex pointed at her with the tip of the pizza slice in her hand.

Kara promptly took a chunk out of it.


Bath time presented another interesting maneuvering, she was a little surprised that Winn didn't come up with a bathtub for her, too.

But they made due, of course, first: Alex cleaned her sink really well, and disinfected it, Kara could probably eat off of it if she so desired. Alex was so immaculate she doubt there was any chance of anything unsavory growing on the surfaces of her kitchen.

And Kara was pretty much immune to all the bacterias and whatnot that could possibly be on the surface anyway.

The older Danvers filled the kitchen sink with warm water just deep enough that her tiny alien could submerge herself, the entire time Kara was back hanging out over her shoulder, watching everything.

"You really don't have to, you know." The Kryptonian told her after the water was tested for the temperature carefully. "It's not like I can get burn or anything." She knew that her human was worried, and this was a way for her to occupy herself.

"If you fill it up more,I can probably swim in it." Kara hopped down to where Alex put small hand towel for her to change into. "And I won't need any swimsuit." She smiled at her innocently.

Alex just rolled her eyes, but let the tap run a little longer, filling the sink more. Before she even turn off the faucet, Kara took a swan dive into the sink, water splashed everywhere.

Now she was going to have to wipe down the counter, again.

She let her tiny alien splash around for while she went and get ready for bed herself.

Half an hour later, she had to make the tiny Kara get out of the sink and into her pajama- courtesy of Winn - so they could get some sleep. Kara pouted and pouted.

The brunette held firm and wiped down the counter one more time as Kara, all dressed, draped herself over her shoulder once again. She'd noticed that her tiny alien seemed to take some comfort in being near her, or kept in contact in someway, so she made no comment.

It wasn't like she was all that heavy now that she was eight inches tall.

Alex rolled her eyes affectionately as her tiny Kryptonian rolled around on the doll size mattress and quilt. Kara was rather excited about her new tiny bed when Winn showed it to her. She didn't think it was necessary to get tiny bed, really, she liked sleeping on Alex's pillow. She appreciated her friend's thoughtfulness, and told him just as much.

But now that Alex set it up for her on the bedside table, she was kind of excited to use it.

"Good night Kara." Alex said softly, kissing her head gently and turned off the light.

"Night." Kara kissed her back and settled in her own mattress, wiggling around, she was comfortable and warm.


An hour later, Alex was deeply asleep, and Kara was wide awake, still.

While she was not really worried about not being able to go back to her original size, Alex would never let that happened, it was still a little disoriented to be this size. And now that everything was so still, as still as the city could be, she could feel the uncertainty rising up. The uncertainty that she'd kept down while physically being in contact with Alex, and soothed by her.

She hadn't felt this the day and night before, only because everything was still somewhat a shock. Then she occupied herself with other things, the immediate things, like clothing, and food, and Alex, Alex who was worried enough for the both of them.

Kara rolled over to look at her beloved human, she didn't need the light to be able to see the brunette's face, smooth out with sleep. Alex who looked years younger without the evidence of stress that she carried around on her proud shoulders.

Kara often watched her sleep when she first got to Earth. At first it was mostly because she couldn't sleep, everything was so loud, and so scary. The bed was unfamiliar, it was so different from her own on Krypton.

At night, when things were supposedly quieter, it wasn't so for her, she still could hear. Everything. The ambient noises that everyone else dismissed without a thought was scary to her. Especially when she could not identify any of them.

Then when Alex caught on that she was not sleeping, she offered her own bed, even when she wasn't really happy about Kara being there. She was still so kind.

The soft breathing, slow heartbeats helped. But what helped even more was when Alex identified whatever sounds that bothered her. Once Kara could identify them and could put them out of her mind, it was easier for her to get to sleep at night.

Sometimes she wondered how she got to sleep every night that Alex wasn't with her.

Normally, if the brunette wasn't sleeping over, which was not very often, Kara would unconsciously tuned into her wherever she was in National City. She never, ever wanted to be reminded of what it was like when Alex left for college and she was still in Midvale.

Kara closed her eyes and rolled over to face her sleeping agent, tried to sleep without thinking about their separation too much. Still she couldn't get to sleep, her brain simply would not shut down.

Eventually she tossed her small, hand sewn quilt aside and sat up. She wasn't going to sleep like this, she was sure. So, she picked up the quilt and flew over to Alex. The brunette was on her side, facing her. Kara plopped herself down on the pillow and covered herself with the quilt.

In less than a minute, she was deeply asleep.


a/n : I'm sorry it took me so long to get this one out. I've been rather busy, and I was writing down a few other things. I hope you like this chapter. Thank you for all the comments and favs, I appreciated it.