Author's notes:
I've made an executive decision...Maggie, Lena, and Lena's mom will be in the series. And yes, I might activate BOTH GeneralSanvers AND (this is a doozy) LiveSuperCatCorp Because I can. Also, this should be the last of the Period Of Adjustment arc. Things should be moving quite quickly after that.
Remember the rules of poly are in play, plus other relationship things that are probably part of the Kryptonization process. After all, polyamory does give you options. And there will be a Major reveal in terms of Bizarro.
The usual disclaimers. This could be a long one, sorry for the delay in advance...
The usual disclaimers...
Training Days
It had been a hectic two weeks. The home in the hills was bursting at the seams with people. There was Cat, Kara, and Leslie of course, Alex and Astra, Kiera (Bizarro) and Indi(go), Winn and Siobhan (aka the Banshee), not to mention newcomers Eliza (Kara and Alex's mom) J'onn (aka Hank Henshaw when he was not his Martian self), and Cat's 14-year old son Carter. The home has become a fishbowl, and was really the second choice for all this: when Kiera was brought there, it was the closest home that Catherine Jane Grant owned that was closer to the National City CBD. She really wished she could be at her own beach home. She, Kara, Les, and Carter had spent many weekends there, and even before this, the quartet knew this as home for a what they believed was family. But now with this rather extended family (many with new found Kryptonian abilities) they probably needed the space of both homes.
Cat had ordered renovations already at the beach home, including new guest space, office space for herself, Kara and Les, and a radio studio where Leslie could do her show along with Kara. With differences put aside long ago, Kara also was training Siobhan to be an assistant for Les on days when Supergirl duties would keep her away from the show. In addition, Cat was considering Kara for a reporter's job at the Catco-owned Trib. The three discussed discussed the possibility and they all were excited about the prospect. Kara could come in as a reporter to talk about breaking stuff, so there would still be that on-air connection, and Les and Von had a chemistry going back to their more villainous activities.
The next two weeks were busy ones as people were adjusting to their new abilities. Alex, Astra, and J'onn did most of the training, mostly with Eliza, Carter, and Winn, with Kara taking care of Cat and Leslie. Kiera and Indigo already had Kryptonian-esque abilities, so all that was needed was tweaking. After some slippery footing, everyone seemed to ease into their new powers, except for Carter. It wasn't the ability to fly that the kid had problems with...he thought it was the coolest thing ever. So super-sight and super-strength. It was the super-hearing. Especially at night. One night, while chomping on Homerun Crunch, Carter complained to his mom about all the...well, all the noise coming from everyone else bedrooms...the words "traumatized for life" were being tossed around. Cat made a mental note to have lead-based soundproofing in all bedrooms...stat.
TeamSupergirl
Or at least it was the working title. The bottom line was that Supergirl now had help...a literal army of people to help if she needed it: LiveWire with her electrical abilities, Indigo on the cyber side, the Silver Banshee with the ability to project sound, Gemini (basically Alex and Astra), and J'onn J'onnz, the Martian Manhunter. And then, there was Bizarro.
For two days Winn and Kiera were working in secret. Von was worried that Winn would leave her for the Supergirl clone. But after two days, Winn unveiled the secret.
A new costume for Bizarro.
Actually, it was Kara's costume only in reverse. The cape, skirt, boots, and leggings were blue instead of Supergirl red. The new blue shirt formed the background for a red "S" in reverse. The only thing unchanged was the gold around the waist.
Supergirl took one look and mouthed "wow" silently. Everyone else gave Winn and his model a standing ovation...except for Von, who kissed the nerd hard.
Now there were some exceptions: Eliza was sort of on the team, but she would rather continue as a scientist than have a costume...let J'onn be the hero in the household. Besides, it you now had micro-sight, it could with things like, say, examining Bizarro's blood and DNA.
And then, there was Cat. She had her babies: a grown son, Carter of course, Kara, Les...Not to mention a plethora of radio and TV stations, newspapers, magazines, and online projects that Catco owned. And the one person who wanted all of that: Lena Luthor.
She had not told anyone except her now-wives about this, but L Corp has been after the assets of Catco for a year. Cat knew about Lena's brother and his connection to Kara's cousin. And the thought of some corporation controlling Catco content was abhorrent to her. Plus, even though her mom owned 10% of Catco, Cat built it by herself and she'd be damned if some psychopath's sister would take it over.
And then there was the matter of one Jimmy Norcross. Or at least Cat Grant call him Jimmy when they were involved in a mad, sex-soaked affair three years ago. It was before she ever met Cat a just before she got Les to work at the radio division. Handsome, debonair, more than occasionally ribald, a great kisser with a sizable endowment to back it up. But there was more:in many ways, Jimmy Norcross was one of the most progressive men she had ever known. His political beliefs were in some ways more liberal than a Michael Moore or a Bernie Sanders. And truth be told, if there was not the usual things that would break up a relationship, Cat would freely admit her last name would be Norcross right now.
But he had vanished from the scene. Cat thought it may have been the usual I-need-my-space thing, and besides there was the Kryptonians to worry about, all the stuff with renegade ex-employees, the Myriad mess. Jimmy was not really on Cat's radar. But more and more Kara and Leslie were. And again, truth be told, the two blondes (and Carter) were really the only reason why she did not take that sabbatical she was planning from Catco. Kara and Les, along with her son, were the reasons that Cat was happier than she ever had been in the 52 years she had been on this planet
Then suddenly, James Norcross had returned. Not only that, he announced he was running for mayor. Cat did toy with the idea herself, but Catco was her child as much as Carter was. Her love as much as Kara and Les are. And besides, there were people better qualified than she for this. People like Jimmy Norcross.
But not this Jimmy Norcross.
For this Norcross was a xenophobe, a kryptoniophobe of the lowest at least he sounded like that. Cat always knew that Norcross was a crafty politician, another one of the things that attracted her to him. But this? The rudeness? The out-and-out hatred? And what was more off-putting was the fact that people seemed to be attracted to this. It was like a larger portion of NatCity had turned into the type of trolls that seemed to have poisoned social media. At every rally there seems to be chaos. Since a lot of this has been focused on aliens, for instance, Alex and Astra have been in close contact with a member of the Science Police, Maggie Sawyer. She seems about as distraught about this as Alex and Astra are.
Then, a knock on the doorsill and a sheepish "hi." Even in times like these Kara Danvers finds a new way to get Cat Grant to love her even more. "Penny for your thoughts, Ms Grant...?"
As Kara walks over and drapes her arms around her no-co-wife, Cat kisses her arm and snarkily responds "if it wasn't for that mirror image of your heartily scarfing my food, I could still call you 'Kiera."
"Well," responded Kara, "the 'mirror image' says thank you...which reminds me, J'onn said that Lucy snuck out some lab tests on Keira today."
"Really..?"
"J'onn and Mom didn't say what the tests were for, maybe DNA...but maybe they could help figure out Keira's memory loss. She had to have had a life before Bizarro..."
"I would think...besides, Keira is much nicer than Bizarro..." Kara smiled at that. Bizarro was a creation anyway. Keira seems to be closer to to Kara's personality than the doppleganger she fought in the skies of NatCity. But as she thought about that, Kara noticed that Cat had that look. The look that meant she was about to ask her a favor that would result in her and/or Leslie walking funny for a week. She didn't even have to ask about what Cat wanted...she just walked over to her, sat on the lap of the Queen of All Media, whispered "Ok, KitKat. What is it../"
Cat didn't blush, but she could have. She put her arms around the waist of her no-co-wife, kissed her temple...then got down to business.
"I'm worried about Norcross. I knew that man and he's changed. He used to be compassionate, logical...a good man. Now, he's this rabble-rousing xenophobe that whipping people into this frenzy..."
"Livewire and I saw that up close and personal..."
"Kara, and it's gotten worse. For the sake of this city, and for my own peace of mind, I need to know exactly what's going on..."
"And where do I come in?" Kara asked with a bit of a smirk.
"Darling...how would you like to be my Clark Kent?" Kara's smirk faded and her eyes widened.
The Plan
Now Kara had written some pieces for the Trib and CatCo mag before. Cat the journalist/media mogul was impressed with the quality of Kara's writing, and Cat the lover of Kara was very proud of her assistant/girlfriend. She was also impressed with Siobhan Smythe's writing as well: before she turned villainous as the Banshee, she was top in her class at NCU's Journalism School. The plan would shift Kara and Von to being part-time at the Trib as reporters on the Norcross beat. Whatever jealousy the two had in the beginning was smoothed over a long time ago, so Cat trusted the two could work together. Von would still be assistant to Cat and Kara would remain on the radio show with Les, this time in her reporter role.
Cat also had found out that the DEO had more than a passing interest in the Norcross campaign, because of the references to aliens. The DEO had enough trouble dealing the various and sundry Fort Rozz escapees still roaming the place, the last thing it needed was a bunch of hopped-up citizens turning vigilante under the thrall of someone running for mayor. Lucy Lane set up a contact at NCPD named Maggie Sawyer. She works at the Science division charged with dealing with crimes committed by metahumans. She came highly recommended by Leslie, since Sawyer read LiveWire her Miranda rights many time back in the day.
With all that, and running the monster known as Catco Media Worldwide, not to mentioned the changes to her body and DNA, the stress was getting to Cat.
That night, Cat was lying in bed, in her nightgown. She wasn't reading or watching TV. She just laid quietly in her bed, eyes open, very still.
Suddenly two angels plopped on either side of Cat. Actually, they weren't, but she would have liked them to be. Kara kissed Cat's mouth and Leslie snuggled against the back of Cat's hair. It was enough to be the Queen of All Media and everything it entails. And now all this. A house of superbeings and she is one of them. She can worry about those things tomorrow. But at that moment, Supergirl was kissing Cat's neck and Livewire was leaving of trail of kisses down her back. Right now, Cat Grant was feeling loved. And it was the only thing that mattered right then.
TBC
Coming up: The truth about Bizarro. Plus: What they all just walked into, plus Kara, Leslie, and Cat meet Lena Luthor and Alex and Astra meet Maggie Sawyer...both in surprisingly different ways.
I really need your support and comments on this. Mere words and kudos are not enough.
