PART 10
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Kara paced back and forth in her apartment while her sister watched with a slightly tired expression.
She had been pacing for ages now, babbling about choices and consequences and things to consider.
"I mean...is it the right thing to do?" Kara asked as she walked past Alex for the thousandth time.
Alex couldn't take anymore and she jumped up, taking Kara by the shoulders and looking into her blue eyes.
"Kara. Stop. Think. Lena just wants to make it official."
Kara nodded her head slowly, her eyes leaving Alex's as she thought about it, pictured it even.
"She does...she wants to tell everyone at like... a press conference or something."
Alex listened and kept her tone calm and slow.
"Ok. Do you want her to do it this way? Are you comfortable with it?"
Kara brought her head back up, her bottom lip thrusting forward, giving her sister a child-like pout.
"Not really..."
"Then you have to tell her, Kara."
"But she'll think it's because I'm not sure about her and that's not it at all! I mean, I love her and I want people to know we're together, just not-"
Alex put a finger to Kara's lips to silence her.
She gave her sister a warm smile.
"You're babbling again."
"Sorry." Kara said around Alex's finger.
"If Lena loves you, she will understand. All you have to do is explain to her, just not with so many words. Keep it light and simple. She'll understand."
Kara nodded and Alex lowered her hand, letting Kara talk.
Kara let out a breath.
"Ok. Light and simple...I can do that."
Alex smiled.
"Of course you can."
"Could you talk to her for me?" Kara asked.
Alex rolled her eyes.
"No. Kara, I know you're scared but this something you have to do yourself."
Kara frowned a little at having to do something that she was scared could hurt Lena but then maybe she would be even more hurt at the fact that Kara couldn't do it herself.
"Look, I have to go but go and see Lena tonight. Talk to her."
Kara nodded but she looked unsure.
Alex smiled at her sister.
"Everything will be fine. Trust me."
Kara forced a smile she didn't feel and then nodded.
Alex then headed out and once the door closed behind her, she shook her head in dismay and made her way to L Corp.
Lena's assistant looked up and smiled at Alex.
"Can I help you?"
"I'm here to see Miss Luthor." Alex said with a smile she didn't feel, but everyone else was all smiley around here so it might help.
"Do you have an appointment?"
"No. Could you just tell her it's Alex Danvers?"
Jess, the assistant, frowned slightly as she looked the other woman up and down.
She was very different to Kara.
She nodded and gestured to the couch just outside of Lena's office.
"Have a seat. I'll call her."
Alex nodded, said thank you, and waited while Jess buzzed Miss Luthor.
"Miss Luthor? There is an Alex Danvers here to see you?"
Alex looked over to see Jess nodding to whatever Lena was saying.
She then clicked off and looked at Alex with a bright smile.
Alex bet she practiced that at home in the mirror, it was exactly the same each time.
"You can go right on in."
Alex smiled back (not as bright though) and stood, going into Lena's office.
The Luthor woman was sat at her desk, typing away on her laptop, she glanced up as Alex came in.
"Alex, to what do I owe the pleasure or have you come here to threaten me in regards to your sister?" She added with a knowing grin.
"Well I am here to talk about Kara, actually."
Lena shut her laptop and looked up at Alex.
"Is she alright?"
"She's fine but she has some...concerns."
Lena smirked and nodded.
"She's worried about me making things official with us to the press."
Alex gave her an amused frown.
"You knew?"
"Of course I knew. Kara is hardly known for her outgoing behavior now, is she?" Lena said but she wasn't being cruel, everyone knew that Kara wasn't really outgoing, only when she portrayed Supergirl and that was for the people's benefit as much as her own.
Alex nodded in agreement.
"Shes loves you, Lena, but she just-"
"-Doesn't want to be hounded by the press and she would rather do things normally and let people think what they want." Lena finished, that knowing grin still on her lips.
Alex nodded.
"That's about the short of it, yeah."
Lena smiled and nodded.
"If that's what Kara wants, then that's what we'll do." She told Alex.
Alex smiled.
"She is coming to see you tonight but I thought I'd make it easier for her and maybe help you to understand by coming here first."
Lena nodded.
"That was thoughtful of you."
Alex shrugged.
"Yeah, well just looking out for my sis."
Alex turned around, believing that their chat was over, when Lena stood and circled her desk, leaning back against it and folding her arms.
"Does she know about you yet?"
Alex stopped and turned around slowly.
"What-what about me?"
Lena's expression was unreadable and Alex wondered what she had managed to find out about the other Danvers sister.
"About how you are of the same...persuasion shall we say." Lena offered.
Alex frowned at her choice of words.
"I don't know what you're talking about..."
"I think you do but you're clearly not ready yet. That's fine, but all I'm saying Alex is this, don't live a lie." Lena told her gently.
Alex shook her head slowly. She was either not following or still in denial.
Lena had spent quite a bit of time there so she knew the signs.
"I opened up and met Kara. Now I'm happy and I don't regret a single moment of it."
Alex only nodded her head slowly, forced an uneasy smile and left the Luthor woman's office...
A little after Lena was about to go home, her phone rang.
She knew who it was without looking at the caller ID.
"Hello, Kara."
"Lena, hi, um...I need to see you...I have to talk to you...about something."
Lena chuckled.
"It's alright, Kara. Alex told me your concerns. She's a good sister to you. Also, you have nothing to worry about. We'll go about our lives as normal and let people think what they want to think until you're ready for the press' questions, sound good?"
Kara breathed a sigh of relief down the phone.
"Yes...yes, that's great. Lena thank you."
"Not at all. I just want you to be happy, Kara." Lena told her gently.
She could practically hear Kara smiling on the other end.
Lena smiled too.
"Now get some rest and I'll see you tomorrow night if you're not doing anything."
"I'm not." Kara answered.
"I was thinking maybe we could go see a movie, then grab a few drinks?"
"Sure. Sounds great."
Lena smiled brightly.
"Good. I'll see you tomorrow."
"See you tomorrow."
Lena let Kara hang up and then she grabbed her coat and left the office.
The next night, Lena picked Kara up and they went to the movie theater.
Once they were out of the car, Kara turned to Lena and smiled.
"I could always fly us here you know."
Lena chuckled.
"I don't much like flying."
"With me, it's different."
Lena nodded.
"I'm sure it is. Maybe when I'm feeling braver. I've heard how accident prone you are."
Kara gave her a slight nudge but she knew that Lena was only teasing.
"So what did you wanna see?" Lena asked.
Kara thought about it.
"Maybe a drama?"
Lena arched an eyebrow.
"Are you saying that because you think it's what I want to see or...?"
"Well, I'm ok with it."
Lena chuckled again.
"Kara, what would you like to see?"
Kara shrugged.
"I dunno."
"Well there must be something you like."
"Um...It's kinda embarrassing."
Lena shrugged.
"Tell me."
Kara bit her bottom lip.
"I uh...I like musicals."
Lena stopped for a moment. She was so sure Kara was the rom-com/chick flick type.
"Ok. We can do that."
"I mean, do you like musicals?"
"Uh...sure. Why not."
Kara eyed Lena suspiciously.
Lena scratched the back of her neck nervously, she was hiding something.
"They're ok but...all that singing and dancing? It tires me out just watching them."
Kara folded her arms and raised an eyebrow at the Luthor woman.
"Uh huh, now the truth."
Lena sighed. Busted.
"I may have a collection of them at home that I'm too embarrassed to tell anyone about." She mumbled.
Kara smiled.
"So you don't want to see a musical because you like them?"
"No, it's because I've already seen this one and it has a sad ending." Lena revealed, pointing at the poster of it.
Kara nodded then saw the look in Lena's eyes and gave up. She didn't really need to see a sad ending now anyway and she was pretty sure that Lena didn't want to cry in front of her. She was still a little guarded but Kara would work on that, little by little.
She'd told her she liked musicals, that was something that Lena would never have admitted so Kara was clearly getting somewhere.
"Do you wanna just go and get some drinks? Maybe just talk?"
Lena nodded gratefully.
"That'd be good but if you want to see the musical, we can."
Kara took Lena's hand after checking that no one was around and gave her a warm smile.
"I'd rather spend the night talking to you in some nice, quiet little bar."
Lena nodded.
"Ok then."
They found a bar with a few people in it but it had a beautiful view of a small pond and there were tables that sat on a small balcony.
The night was warm and it felt so relaxing that Kara eased into it just fine.
They ordered a few drinks and started chatting about mundane stuff; the weather, the news, people and then as time went on, the talking got deeper, more serious and open-minded.
"So when did you know?" Kara asked.
Lena stared at her. She didn't quite know what she meant. A minute ago, they'd been talking about why meerkats freaked Lena out.
""Know what?"
"That you liked women." Kara answered, taking a sip of her drink.
Lena smiled and played with the straw in her own drink as she thought back.
"When you came into my office."
Kara rolled her eyes.
"That's very romantic, Lena but you can tell me the truth."
Lena's sea foam eyes rose to meet Kara's in all seriousness.
"That is the truth. I've never felt like that about another woman before.
Before you came in that day, I would have sworn black and blue that I was straight."
Kara stared at her.
"Really?"
Lena nodded and took a sip through her straw, being careful not to smudge her dark lipstick.
Kara smiled and went all gooey-eyed, making Lena smile and roll her eyes good-naturedly.
"Ok, my turn to ask you a question-" Lena began.
Kara sat up a little.
"Sure."
"Did you ever want to walk away from being Supergirl?"
Kara's smile fell and Lena caught the saddened expression.
"Kara, I'm sorry, If you don't want to answer-"
"Yeah...I did."
Lena stopped as she watched Kara looking into her drink.
"What happened?" Lena pushed gently.
"I wanted to walk away from it all. The people I saved, some of them...they wasn't nice people but that didn't mean that I got to play God. It wasn't my choice who lived and who died. I had to save them because it's just what I do. But yes...there has been a few times I've wanted to walk away."
Lena frowned but felt sympathetic towards Kara and hated the fact that she was so conflicted or had been.
"What made you stay?- As Supergirl-I mean."
Kara smiled.
"I want to help people and it doesn't matter if they're good or bad, I can save them all and most times, I save the right ones."
Lena gave her a comforting smile and rested her hand on top of Kara's.
"I think what you do is amazing, Kara. The people have so much to thank you for and since the whole Red Kryptonite deal, it's been hard winning back their trust but look at you, you've done it."
Kara nodded, smiling once again.
"Ok, lighter topic, that got a bit too dark." Lena said with an uneasy chuckle.
Kara nodded in agreement but laughed along anyway.
They enjoyed the rest of their night, laughing, talking, telling jokes and just enjoying each other's company.
Lena was now sitting next to Kara and rested her hand on Kara's leg as she whispered something seductive in her ear, making the blonde blush.
That also happened to be at the exact same time that a photographer saw them and caught it all on his little camera.
This would certainly make the headlines tomorrow.