She burst through my door as I sat sipping from my bottle. I look to the door and I shake my head. I sigh and pull my frame from my couch and eye the brunette intruder. Our eyes clash, our eyes hot and heated waiting for the other to move.
"There better be triple meat on that pizza," I growl to the intruder with a grin.
"Nope…" Alex said popping the P then I sigh and get up to get her a beer, "There is also double cheese on here too." I smile as I come back.
"Oh you are the perfect woman, sister, and friend," I sit and lift the lid and bring the pizza to my lips and moan, "Just what I need."
Alex takes her own pizza and eyes me as I ingest one whole pizza slice before she took two bites. She could never get over just how fast and how much I could east. She was hoping that one pizza with added toppings would have been cheaper than two whole pizzas. Nope, it never was but this was a welcome treat and it would hold me for a few hours. When we, well I mostly , finish off the pizza and we are both sporting slightly protruding bellies as we lean against the couch watching a rerun of American Dad, Just to pass the time even though I do find their back handed humor about EVERY stereotype fascinating and hilarious, I turn my head and look at Alex. I smile at her, really seeing how she has been settling after… well everything. There is always another big bad out there, Sam or Reign, is still there is the forefront of my thoughts. I worry for my sister. The connections should have been made, and by a certain Luther I am sure they have. But I can see at this moment, with the strategically placed smile at the zingers and crude humor of the show Alex is just trudging through the motions. I reach over and clasp her hand and hold it bringing her eyes too mine. They are so dark just around the outside of the iris they become lighter, like dark chocolate meeting caramel. I always find eyes, especially human eyes so expressive, it's a tell of sorts. It's the way I can ferret out a lie other than listening to heartbeats. In the lies it's the type of lie. Malicious verses loving lie. Both hurt but one was of course softened by human emotion and love for the person they wish not to hurt.
"Why are you here, Alex?" I ask as I gently squeeze her fingers. Alex wiggles her fingers and I wince as I let her hand go. Some things I still can't control and it drives me batty, and makes me think I will never belong… never. I let Alex reach out for my hand and let her clasp it and shake it silently telling me its ok, I didn't hurt her.
"Lena," she said the one noun I didn't want to hear. I sat up and put my elbows on my knees and then clasped my hands together rocking but then that was not enough. I got up and paced my apartment and it was when it grew to face was when Alex stood in my way and wrapped her hands around my shoulders and I stopped and looked at the floor between us. I wore grey fuzzy socks, and she wore white tube socks. A thought hit me.
"We need to get you new socks. It will be cold soon," I say to our feet and I hear a chuckle.
"I drop a bomb on you like that and all you remark on are my socks? Oh Kara," Alex chuckled and wrapped me in a lose embrace and then backed away. She was never one for hugs. I sigh and I look out my window and I can everything and I can see one of the largest buildings in National City, and I hone my sight on the top floor. I see her there sitting on her couch, looking at papers, and having a glass of wine. She looks at her phone and then puts it down with a smirk and then back to her papers.
"She is safe Alex," I argue but I was cut off by an irate sister.
"Safe from who? Lillian Luthor? Any and I repeat ANY Anti-Lex Luthor fanatic? How about Any person that holds a personal vendetta against her family?" I still watch the woman that, yes ok Rao Yes, Held my heart. I cross my arms and lean my length against the frame of the large open window. My jeans and sweater, my glasses in place and my hair loose but not down. I wish I could just be me, for the love of Rao I want to let my hair down! I feel Alex's hand on my shoulder and I know one thing, she supports this… possibility and it makes me reach my hand up over my shoulder and clasp fingers with the woman's hand.
"What are you gonna do, Kara?" Alex askes as she looks at the city from a different view as mine. I open my mouth but shut it. Sirens. I sigh and then turn to my sister. I look at her and I really see into her.
"If it wasn't so taboo on this planet to have fallen in love with a step sister I would have found myself honored to have loved you, Alex Danvers," I say before kissing her forehead. Leaving her blushing and out of sorts as I whirl into my outfit and one more look fly from my apartment.
I hear Alex sigh and then say I am a stupid Alien under her breath. Fool crossed her lips and I smirk. Yes, Yes I am a fool on so many fronts.
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I hear the sirens moment after I get a text from my inside man, well woman. I turn on the news and instead of texting Kara I text Alex.
Lena: I didn't get a chance to send the text as I heard sirens. Apologies.
Alex: Send it any ways.
Lena: Fine… would you like to come over and enjoy the bottle of red I have opened. I… please.
Alex: As long as it isn't an alien threat I'll be there in about 30 because I don't know about traffic and I drove a car. Pizza plies the woman known as Kara better than any alcohol.
Lena: Good to know. Ill store that aw for the future. Ill expect you but text me if you can't make it.
Alex: Sure
I place the phone on the white couch and then I go to sit in one of the chairs and stare at a screen. I watch gunfire, and hostages taken. I watch as police cars surround the building. It's the usual. Bullets fly off the Girl of Steel as she walks forward. I watch as a camera is able to zoom in on her face and it isn't the sunny disposition of Supergirl. It is a hollow shell of the Kara she knows. She takes in every detail and doesn't watch a clock. She watched the woman on the screen as she zips and takes on body after another. She didn't realize the time until Alex stepped through her door. Honestly it was only 18 measly minutes. Alex pulled a chair up and explained the situation the Lena.
"It looks like a heist gone wrong and the police where in pursuit and then Supergirl showed up. You can see they don't have the tech to take her down so she keeps them on their toes by taking one, then another. Good and bad guys. Eventually she will get the hostages."
Having Alex there to tell her the goings on, made Lena feel minutely better. There was a curling in her gut at the sight of Kara in her Supergear and not able to help her. Then they seemed to hunker down, as if in wait. Alex leaned forward and spoke to the air… report.
Lena looked over to Alex and then saw her Eyes grow wide. "Are you sure you see that signature? Why the actual fuck should he come here unless… Oh shit round two," Alex turned to Lena and looked her over and sighed, "I hate to ask this but I am not asking as an agent of the DEO I am asking for Kara. Do you have anything to stun a kryptonian?"
Lena cocked her head sideways and thought. Not really but…. Maybe it was a longshot.
"How about a portable barrier like the one I have Reign in?"
"Holy shit that perfect! Like a tent they can't move?" Alex asked getting up. I nodded and then trotted to my desk and hit some numbers. I never kept anything in the walls. They are usually the first thing to go. It was the floor right beneath my desk. A fall away compartment revealed disks, four to be precise and I gave them freely to the DEO Agent. She put them in a back pack and then I looked at her and she walked from my office but instead of going down or to the elevators she went up. She checked her weapons, and put green bullets in the magazine. I swallow, what id Kara takes one of those.
"Are those fatal?" I ask eyes the gun and then Alex reluctantly nodes. I sigh.
"Come with me," We head back to my office and I reach for a compartment at my desk and I pull out the small gun and handed it to Alex and pointed out key features.
"Dart gun, Alex. I refined the amount of Kryptonite to take down a Super, not kill them by accident. Like an Elephant in the wild," I hand her a belt, "The darts are tipped in kryptonite to pierce the flesh them inject a water down version of the element." I held up a hand, "Yes take it I have 4 more in production and the darts are … well plentiful."
We rush up to the roof as Alex begins unzipping pockets, and her jacket expands in the back as she finishes she is one of those flyer suits. She will get to Supergirl in, I look at the distance, less than 90 seconds. Alex looks as me and I hug her.
"Don't shoot her or I will kill you!" I say with my best Luthor voice. She laughs and Salutes then she jumps. I see her go down for a moment then stretch her arms and then glide. I run back to my office and watch. There is about to be a showdown between a Super and A Super. Oh Shit. I better start a list of people who are willing to donate funds for reconstruction. This will be epic.
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Only it wasn't epic. It was far from it. Supergirl handled the hostage situation but ran into a snag. Superman was not the intended problem. Somehow the crooks became tied in a partnership with an alien the same class as a Kryptonian, and Kara knew this alien type all too well. Daximite with a suit.
Kara looked from the suited Daximite, to Superman and then nodded. Superman flew in and uppercut, then Kara came in and ground his head into the cement. Crushing ever slowly the helmet of the Daximite. He screamed his submission just as Alex landed and then a DEO van pulled up. It was the weirdest timing. She lands and a van rolls up. She threw the daximite in the back with the proper restraints, and a look back to Superman.
"How did you know?" She asked.
"I have been tracking this one from Metropolis. I gave your friend Winn the signature and he put it into the computer and if her showed his power or any influx at all, I would know and come to get him," Clark looked around the area then to the van, "but for once I believe that DEO will suffice," he turned to fly off but shot over his shoulder, "It was good to see you cousin." Then he flew back from whence he came.
Kara looked over the chaos of the area and then saw she was no longer needed. She walked toward Alex and looked her over as she slapped the side of the DEO van that held the Daximite. She turned toward me and she looked down.
"Since when do you fly?" I smile.
"Since I got these cool ass clothes that allow me to glide," Alex smiled. I can hear her heartbeat. It lifted at the question.
"How did you get high enough?"
Again the heartbeat lifted but her eyes showed me her love her support. The softening of a lie. I clench and wait for the words to trip out of her mouth.
'I will not lie to you," She paused and walked away from the area out of prying cameras, and ears, "I was really high up." She says as she points to a building I know so well.
"Ah, O see, and you know someone with a high up destination?"
"The… boss... Of the building and I chat."
I look at Alex. I watch as her heart doesn't skip. It's elevated, she is tense, but no skips, she isn't lying. She looks into my eyes. She is telling something I don't understand. Then she grasped me by the arm and then shoves me, but as she shoves me she tells me to see her, she is worried. I float in the air and turn toward Alex, and I see her nod. I see her trust in me, and the woman I am about to see. I turn and circle the city and I drop down and whirl into regular gear I leave in a bag on Lena's roof. I open the door and step down toward her office. I kept my outfit on me and my cape in a small bag just in case I have to run. I will also admit that with every moment, every step my heart pounds.
I come to Lena's office door and my thoughts consume me. I open the door, and there is not lean. I just see the news on the TV, and an open bottle of red wine. The door shuts behind me and I jump and look behind me and then see her. Oh my Rao! I can't control my body. I can't stop it. My motor skills are not my own.
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I rest behind the door. I don't know who is there. Call it a Luthor trait, but I stand there with a gun in my hands behind a door, like an idiot. Then when she walks in I see her and my arms drop. How in the hell did I let this go on for so on? She turns as I close the door and I realize I had it led lined. She never saw me. I look at her and watch every emotion on she skitter around and I can't keep up. When I drop the gun she practically flew to me on her knees. Before I know anything she is there on her knees with her face buried in my stomach. I drop my hands to her shoulders and I caress her hair and I caress her shoulders, and neck, and I stroke her hair. I let her weep for long moments into my belly as I let my own tears leak from my eyes. I never knew completion until I found Kara Danvers. I slipped down in the supers arms and faced her. Eye to eye, chest to chest.
I love you," I confessed. There were no ulterior motives, no contracts, or lawyers. Kara only seemed to careen forward and then press her head to my shoulder. I hugged her. I kissed her temple, I let her know in soft whispers that I adored her, I loved her, I want her, and I will be as much as I can form her. She cried. It made me nervous. Dear god what is she didn't want me?
Then she leaned back. Her blue eyes caught me and I was deep, and trapped. She raised a hand, and I felt it caress my arm and then my shoulder. I felt my breath catch as her hand caught my neck and settled there.
"You have no idea how much I love you Lena. Never a Luthor, just Lena," She said as she pressed her forehead to mine. I caught my breath and felt the universe coming together.
"You unbelievable person," I paused as she looked at me, "Yes person. I adore your light, your heart and I love your soul," I paused as our foreheads are pressed together once more then I ask, no I plead, "Please, Kara."
Then the woman in my arms lent forward and caught my lips. It was sweet, tentative, then she rose to her knees and hovered over me and hands caught both sides of my face and brought me nearer. I consumed as much sweetness from those lips as I could. I sucked and licked as much of the flavor as I could from Kara Danvers and I hummed in every layer of her flavor and gods this was only her mouth. We stop after a long scattering of moments and then we lean into the other.
"I am sorry for leaving you," Kara said and my heart skipped.
"You didn't know how I felt. You didn't know what I wanted and the entire time I wanted you. I love you Kara. Not the cape not the cardigan, but the heart beneath it all," I looked at her and I saw your eyes fill with tears and I kissed them as I moved us to sit on the couch. Nothing more than that epic kiss would happen but I felt a shift, and it was cosmic, as I held you when to sun rose over National City. It was then in those moments before the sun rose than I gave my entirety to you, Kara Danvers. It was in those moments that I knew I wasn't alone, and anything I would have to face, I would no longer face alone. I look to your sweet face and I kiss your lips. You would never have to face life alone either, my love.
The End