Kara woke up in the morning to the first strings of sunlight caressing her face. She felt some energy return to her, felt like she could actually move again after that third round had left her almost completely paralyzed. Sara was beside her, back pressed to Kara's, still sound asleep. Kara turned over gently and smiled at the sight of sex and sleep rumpled Sara. Rao, the last twenty-four hours had been amazing. She really didn't want this date to end.
And it wasn't going to just yet. She still had to make them breakfast.
Kara slipped out of bed, grabbed the empty takeout containers that were scattered around the room just before they'd gone for a second round, and went to the kitchen. Breakfast was the one meal she had a full handle on and didn't actually burn anything. She could get by with other meals, but breakfast she actually make pretty well.
She grabbed out the ingredients for pancakes, scrambled eggs, and bacon and set to work. She hummed absently, a mix of pop songs from Earth and tunes from Krypton. She was happy. So very, very happy. Alex would probably make a joke about her getting laid being the only reason she was so happy, but that was only part of it. It was Sara herself too. Kara could be herself with her, she could talk about the heavy things and joke a minute later and while they were such different people they had enough in common to make it work out easily between them. Kara could see herself falling in love with Sara. Maybe she already was.
"I smell bacon and I have never been happier about a wake up call," Sara said, coming down the hall. She kissed Kara, snatched a piece of cooling bacon, and ate it quickly. "But god I need a shower first or all I'm gonna think about is how sticky and gross I am while eating your food. Will it still be warm?"
Kara raised an eyebrow.
"Right, laser eyes. Then be right back." She grabbed Kara's ass once and walked away towards the bathroom.
Kara hummed at the view of Sara walking away naked. She could get used to this.
She had just finished up with everything when she heard a key in the door. Kara froze. Two people had a key to her apartment, and it was Alex and Eliza. And the only one who actually ever used the key was Alex. Oh god, this was going to be awkward.
She flew back to her room and got dressed before Alex opened the door. As awkward as this was about to be the last thing she needed was her sister finding her naked in the kitchen.
Alex called out from the front room. "I know you had your date last night so you're gonna spill every dirty detail to me. Well not every one, but you know what I mean. I brought donuts to ease the pain."
Kara walked back out into the kitchen. "Um, hi Alex." She hugged her sister while resisting the urge to shove her right back out the door.
"I smell bacon, did you already make breakfast?" Alex's eyes lit up.
"I did, but, um."
The shower shut off in the other room and it was noticeable enough that Alex turned towards the lack of sound.
"Oh my god you slept with her last night and were making her breakfast, weren't you?"
Kara knew she was caught and that any attempt to lie would only turn her into a stuttering mess. She just nodded instead.
Alex went over to one of Kara's bar stools and plopped herself down. Kara had sometimes wanted to strangle Alex, that's just how sisters were sometimes, but now she was contemplating throwing Alex into space.
"Alex, please."
"Nope, I'm gonna stay right here."
Kara prayed to Rao that Sara didn't come out of the bathroom completely naked. Please let her have heard Alex come in, or hear them talking now because she didn't want this to get even more awkward. She was already dying of embarrassment as it was and nothing had really happened yet.
Thankfully, when Sara did walk out a minute later, she had a towel wrapped around her as she walked to the kitchen. She stopped upon seeing Alex and cocked an eyebrow.
"Well, can't say that this was what I expected on the morning after. Though I did already meet the family before the first official date. Things are already a bit out of order." She shrugged and walked over to Kara and kissed her. "I'll be right back." She walked back towards Kara's room.
"Please, Alex, you've already basically given her the shovel talk. We don't need to go through this again. I don't come over right after the first time you've slept with someone and just camp out, do I?"
"Older sibling privilege." Alex got up to pour herself a cup of coffee from the pot Kara had brewed. "Besides, I don't think she really got the shovel talk last time. I'm here to make sure she does this time."
"You're literally the worst." Kara tossed a dish towel at her.
"And yet you still love me."
Kara huffed, but didn't deny that. Alex was her rock in this world. An annoying talking rock that wouldn't move when she wanted it to, but a rock nonetheless.
Instead of trying to pry Alex out of her seat anymore, she went to fixing plates of food. She handed Alex one with all her favorites on it, eggs, pancakes, fruit, no bacon, and a glass of orange juice. She fixed Sara a plate with a good portion of everything on it, with both coffee and orange juice with it, then added a godawful amount of food from her own plate. Since she only had two stools at her kitchen island, she just folded her legs up and floated on the other side of the counter.
"Kara!" Alex hissed, motioning to the fact that she was floating.
Kara blinked for a second, not getting it. Sara already knew she was Supergirl, what was the big deal? Until she realized that she hadn't told Alex that, nor did Alex need to know that Sara already knew so early on in their relationship. It wasn't really her fault that Sara had figured it out. She was a superhero too. Well, vigilante, but that was almost the same thing. But who knew how Alex was going to take that news because the DEO didn't like having its toes stepped on. She still was bitter about being shot out of the air right at the beginning of her Supergirl career.
And with all those thoughts in her head, Kara hadn't lowered herself to standing again and it had given Sara enough time to come back into the room. She flopped down on the stool next to Alex.
"You forgot the syrup, sweet cheeks, float on over and get it please?" Sara didn't even blink at the fact that Kara was floating.
Kara took a deep breath waiting for Alex to put the pieces together.
"You already told her!" Alex exclaimed, glaring at Kara. "Kara, what the hell?"
"To be fair, I figured it out about the time she walked into Noonan's for the first time," Sara said, picking up her coffee and taking a sip. "Glasses aren't a good disguise."
Alex rubbed her temples. "God, do I know, but someone insisted that wearing a mask as a hero would make people trust her less and then refused to change her everyday look more than it already was, so here we are."
"Hey! People are fooled by the glasses." Kara crossed her arms and pouted a bit. Why was everyone always ragging on the glasses. It had worked for Clark. People weren't that observant. Most of the time.
"Yeah, only sometimes and usually those people are face blind anyway," Alex snarked back. She turned to Sara. "I don't need to say just how dead you'll be if you spill her secret, do I?"
"Oh, you could try to kill me, but I doubt it would work. But no, I won't tell anyone Kara's secret. I have a few of my own." She popped a bite of pancakes in her mouth.
"I know six ways to kill a person with my thumb. Try me." Alex had on her 'I'm a very special agent of the United States Government' face on and Kara knew that this was going to end badly most likely.
"Only six? I could give you some pointers. You could have ten different ways, make yourself even scarier."
"Oh, please, like you know how to kill anyone with your thumb at all."
Practically faster than even Kara could track, Sara was out of her seat and behind Alex, her arm around Alex's neck in a loose sleeperhold. "Wanna bet?"
Alex got out of the hold in a second easily and turned to face Sara. "Who the hell are you?"
Sara extended her hand. "Sara Lance, also known as the White Canary, crime fighting vigilante and former assassin for the League of Assassins."
Kara almost face palmed. That whole assassin thing wasn't going to endear her to Alex.
Alex looked Sara up and down. "Hmm, you're from the League? Not many people leave their ranks. Why did you?"
"I had a sister who I needed to make things right with, among other things. The League was good for me in that it taught me discipline, but it wasn't a home."
Alex extended her hand and shook Sara's. "I can still kick your ass if you hurt my sister."
"I'm sure you could try." Sara smirked and sat down again.
"You me and a sparring room, any time, any place and we'll see who wins."
Sara looked practically gleeful at the offer. "Sounds good. There's a good gym down the street from my place that doesn't particularly care about no holds barred sparring. Hit me up on a weekend and you can see just how many times you land on your ass."
"All I hear is you running your mouth, but that doesn't matter if you can't back it up."
Kara looked at Alex carefully. If she didn't know any better she would say that Alex was actually starting to enjoy this back and forth. She already knew Sara was enjoying it, but then again it seemed like Sara's favorite thing to do was get into trouble. But Alex always did like a challenge. It was why she liked Maggie so much, because she challenged Alex to be better in a lot of ways. But this, with Sara, she hadn't figured that Alex would move beyond the threats so soon. Well, their still were threats really, but no one was going to die in all actuality.
"I back up all of my skills with actions. Just ask your sister." Sara wiggled her eyebrows.
Kara wanted to die right then and there.
Alex just threw her fork at Sara, which Sara caught in mid-air. "Alright, none of that. I don't need to know what you guys get up to in the bedroom, ok?" She shivered.
Sara handed Alex's fork back. "I think I can handle not going into details, but a little teasing, oh come on, little sisters have to tease the big sisters somehow."
Alex looked at Sara and nodded. "You know that explains so much." She ate a bite of her breakfast. "Wait, how can you kill a person three more ways with your thumb. You have to teach me that."
"Will do, after I finish knocking your ass to the ground for the day."
Alex just mimed a talking mouth with her hand and went back to her breakfast.
Kara was left with the distinct impression that she'd somehow dodged a huge train wreck by only a fraction of an inch. She heaved a sigh of relief. Well, better slightly dodged then a head on collision or something equally terrible.
Their breakfast finished up rather quietly after that. It definitely wasn't the one that Kara would have envisioned after a night like the one she'd had with Sara, but it wasn't terrible either. At least her sister and her girlfriend weren't at each other's throats now. Much. And despite the fact that Kara still didn't want the date to end, it did give a nice demarcation point for Sara to grab her stuff and head out but long after Alex had thanked Kara for the food, sent one last glare at Sara, and went on her merry way.
And if Kara watched Sara walk away through the door, and then the walls of building, and then the walls of several buildings just because she couldn't stand the thought of losing sight of Sara just yet, well, no one had to know.