Merry Christmas everybody. I was up pretty early and started to work on this chapter. Hope you all enjoy it.
Cold Shouldered by a Mayor
Kara was trying her best to pay attention to the meeting, scribbling little notes on her note pad, catching every fifth word Carr was spitting out. He was assigning different stories for everybody, giving people the chance to volunteer for which they wanted however, instead of giving full attention to Carr she was thinking about Barry. She was still full of joy that he had invited her to have thanksgiving dinner with his family and friends and excited to introduce him to her family. She began worrying about things only her brain could come up with just to cause stress. 'What if I make a fool of myself?' She thought, 'what if Eliza and Clark don't like him'.
"DANVERS," Carr's bellowing voice brought her back to reality. She had realized that she was tapping her pen on her note pad loudly, causing a disturbance. She was about to apologize to everyone, until she looked around and noticed the conference room was empty, leaving just a embarrassed Kara and a pissed off looking Carr.
"I am so sorry sir," Kara fixed her glasses," I was just..."
"Save it," Carr cut her off," listen Danvers, I am giving you every ounce of patience I have today and that isn't a lot. You either start paying attention or you can happily go back to being Grant's assistant," he remarked. He grabbed his glasses, shoved them on his face then proceeded to the bulletin board, pinning up and rearranging post-it notes.
"Yes sir," Kara replied, she was ready to walk out until she realized she did not get a story for the week. "Uh, sir, what is my story for this week?"
"Well if you were listening, you would know that you are covering sports. Don't like it then pay attention next time," Carr retorted, not looking away from what he was doing," now leave before I assign you nothing and dock your pay." Kara was about to open her mouth before he cut her off again," and don't say 'Yes sir',". Kara nodded and turned to walk out of the room. She headed for the elevator, planning to go to the roof and get some fresh air until she saw a familiar tall, brown haired nerd looking around completely lost. She smiled to herself, approaching the man from behind. She felt her hair stand on end as if lightning had just struck.
"Looking for someone," she tapped him on the shoulder.
Barry jumped in surprise, not expecting her to be behind him. "Hey, Kara, sorry if I came a bad time," he greeted her with a smile.
"No, it's fine. I was just leaving in fact. I was about to journey into the wonderful world of sports," sarcasm escaping her voice.
"Oh, I actually came to see if you were free for a little trip. Wanted to introduce you to another friend of mine. Doesn't work in Central City much seeing as he has his own city to worry about, but if you need to work I don't want to distract you."
Kara gave a small laugh, she found it cute how he never wanted to bother her. If only he knew how much him 'bothering' her made her day so much better maybe he would do it more often. "I would love to, but I do have to get started on this story," she thought to herself," you can come with me, keep me company while I get a few notes and then we can go meet your friend. Shouldn't take long."
Barry grew a smile that seemed to emit a sense of warmth that washed over Kara," Yeah, sounds fun." He gestured toward the elevators and they began to walk toward them. They had not made it half a foot from where they were standing before Cat Grant came stepping off the elevator.
"Ah, Keira," Cat annouced as she made her way toward the two," I wanted to thank you for getting me the interview I asked for. I know, it's rare of me to thank people so take this as an honor," she spoke without looking up from her phone, passing them to get to her office. "Mr. Allen, distracting Keira's job again after being on hiatus, tell me, do you fine it more fun than running around in that leather suit of yours."
"Mrs. Grant!" Kara remarked, looking around for any possible eavesdroppers and then followed Cat into her office with Barry right behind her.
"Um, what do you mean by that," Barry asked, passing Kara as she closed the doors," I mean I don't run. I hate running. In fact I was on my middle schools track team and always came in last. I'm also allergic to leather," Barry began rambling, nearly stumbling over his own words."
"Barry," Kara put a hand on his arm," she knows."
Barry looked puzzled, giving her the same look he gave her when he first found out she was an alien," wait, you do?"
"I do," Cat responded, not looking up from her desk.
"And she promises to keep it a secret," Kara added in," right Ms. Grant."
"Yes Keira, I keep my word."
"But," Barry began, feeling relieved that she was willing to keep his secret but still curious as to how she found out," How did you know?"
"Mr. Allen, I may not have been fond of mathematics in school but I know how to put one and one together. First a mysterious man in red comes speeding around our city, Next you show up out of the blue. Then soon after the man in red disappears so do you." She looked up at Barry, she seemed to begin to be more involved in the conversation now. "So are you here for good, or will you be speeding off without a good bye again."
Barry looked at Kara, a surprised smile on his face, and she just shrugged," Maybe not for good, but let's just say you may see me more than before. Besides, this city has Supergirl, so I'm sure it's pretty safe without me."
Kara could feel herself blush and had to turn away, as to not let Cat see and lead her to anymore suspicious assumptions about Kara being Supergirl.
"Yes, it is," Cat said without hesitation, causing Kara to snort from laughter she tried to keep down after seeing Barry's face to Cat's comment," But even Supergirl could use some help sometimes, as proven by the last time you visited." She began sifting through the papers on her desk," now if you are in National City more often I will have to request an interview with the 'Flash' himself."
Barry gave a small chuckle," Sure thing."
"Well, as much as Barry would love to stay and chat, he has to be going and so do I," Kara interjected, motioning to Barry.
"Oh, Yeah. It was nice meeting you again Ms. Grant. And Thank you for keeping my secret," he went to shake her hand but she didn't look up. "Not a hand shaker, got it." He turned and walked past Kara out of the office. Just before she shut the door she poked her head in one last time.
"Ms. Grant," the woman finally looked up from her papers, eyes staring over the top of her glasses," Thank you again." Cat just smirked and waved her off to close the door. Kara jogged after Barry who was holding the elevator for her and jumped in with him.
"So how long before I was gone did she find out I was the Flash," Barry asked once the elevator doors closed.
"Almost instantly," Kara admitted," she's a smart woman." They were quiet for a few minutes before a wave of worriment washed over her. "I hope you don't think any of us told her," Kara quickly stated, unsure of what Barry what thinking.
"Oh, no, not at all," he turned to her, giving her a look of reassurance," I trusted you guys after you all three claimed me to be each of yours individual cousin," he gave her a happy smile that washed away her worry. She returned the smile. They stared into each others eyes and she could feel herself being pulled toward him. She heard his heart racing again and it made the tips of her ears heat up. The pulling she felt before got stronger, but just as they seemed to inch closer the elevator doors opened and other workers began to flood into the lift. The two were crushed into each other, looking more embarrassed than ever. Kara could have sworn her ear could have started a forest fire with how hot they were. The moment they were pushed together she not only heard his heartbeat, but she could feel his entire chest vibrating.
"Uh, I think this is our floor," Barry stated, looking down at Kara.
"That it is," she nodded, fixing her glasses and the two pushed pasted the others and exited the lift.
"This is the place," Barry pointed out as the two approached what seemed to be an small office building. They had arrived in Star City moments ago but had decided to walk some of the way, which did not bother Kara because it gave them sometime to talk along the way. Talking while at Mach three wasn't as hard as it may seem but as fun as it sounds, swallowing bugs while trying to hold a conversation wasn't the greatest thing in the world. Barry pulled open one of the front doors and stepped aside to let Kara in.
"Is your friend an accountant or something," Kara asked, looking around room. There were a few desks and boxes laying around. It did not seem that the building was being used for much which had Kara wondering.
"Well, not exactly," Barry laughed. He locked the door behind him and proceeded across the room to a wall in the back. He felt around the edge of a board leading from the ceiling to the floor. Kara was about to question, but then she could her a low click sound that even her super hearing could have missed. Barry stepped back and the wall opened up, revealing what looked like an elevator to Kara.
"Remember when we first met and we were so confused as to how we hadn't heard of each other before and I asked you if you had heard of the Green Arrow," he asked Kara. She nodded, looking back at the elevator and putting together the connection. Barry gave her a smile and gestured her to the elevator. He followed her lead and stepped onto the lift and let the doors shut. They rode the lift down for a few minutes and then the doors opened up again. Barry stepped out and wandered the room as if he were at a second home, leaving Kara to stare around the room, jaw dropped. The room was huge, lit with a bright green lights. This would have worried Kara any other time, seeing as the green instantly reminded her of her one weakness, but aside from feeling perfectly normal, she assumed that Barry's earth had never been introduced to the green rock before their worlds had become one. She also hadn't told Barry about kryptonite and even if she did she trusted him to much to think he would do such a thing.
"Hmm," Barry make a small grunt of confusion," they're usually always down here." Kara had began walking around the room. Their were racks of different weapons, an area that looked like a training mat, tables with different medical supplies, a huge raised circular platform in the middle of the room that held different computer screens and four display cases that held four separate outfits. The first two had similar looking outfits, two suits with hoodies and different gadgets lining the chest. The only thing that made them different were that one was green and the other red and smaller in size. Beside the red suit was just a heavily plated black jacket and a helmet to match. The last display case held a full body black suit that looked almost similar to the first two but without the hood and less gadgets. This one seemed to have collected more dust than the others which had Kara wondering why.
"Wow," was the only words that she could think of as she turned from the displays and joined Barry up on the center platform. He gave a quirky smile and nodded. They both jumped in surprise after they heard a crashing sound come from behind a tall rack of gadgets on the opposite side of the room.
"Damn," they heard an audible voice come from behind the rack, "that is the fifth time this week," a blonde hair lady in glasses came from behind the rack holding what appeared to be pieces to a vase. She looked up to see the two friends staring back at her. "Barry," she said in shock and the focused on the stranger," and girl I've never met before." She pointed at Kara with these words, dropping the fragments she was holding and let them hit the floor, forgetting all about them in that moment.
"Heeey, Felicity," Barry held of a hand, a guilty look on his face.
"Barry, you do know what the word 'secret' means in the term 'secret base' right," she demanded, more flutter in her voice than anger.
"Yeah, but look, it's fine. Kara this is my friend Felicity Smoak. Felicity this is my friend Kara Danvers." the two women shook hands, Kara sending a friendly smile which was accepted by Felicity but only for a second.
"Nice to meet you, but Barry that still doesn't explain why you are showing her," she looked around," well this," she gestured to the whole room. "No, offense," she quickly assured Kara," it's just that, you know who isn't very fond of letting strangers into the Arrow cave," she turned to Barry.
"Well see, there is a excellent reason for that," Barry began to explain how he had met Kara and their earths being merged into one. Felicity stood there in silence after he was done.
"And just when I thought my life couldn't get any weirder," she finally said," you seem to find a way to change it." Barry smiled. "So you're a superhero too," she turned to Kara.
"Oh, yeah," Kara responded and then to just show she was the real deal, she floated into the air just a few feet off the ground.
"Cool," Felicity said as her jaw dropped, causing Kara to smile. "So, wait, if our worlds are now one what does..." Before she could finish Barry cut her off.
"No, as far as we now neither earths had doppelgangers, many people who do not deal with strange things like we do will more than likely experience déjà vu," he turned to Kara," I miss anything."
"Oh, any important landmarks will eventually become as normal to both earths as if they had always been there," she pointed out.
"Well ok," Felicity stated," never mind then." The three laughed.
"Hey, Felicity it was great seeing you, it really was. You guys need to come to Central City more, but I was actually hoping to meet up with Oliver. Any idea where he is."
"City Hall," Felicity said almost immediately, which earned her a strange look from Barry. "That's right," she realized after a second," totally forgot to tell you, Oliver won the election and is Mayor of Star City."
"What," Barry said amazed," that's great. You think he's busy?"
"Not sure, I just keep up with Arrow stuff, Thea is the one who schedules his appointment and mayor stuff, but I'm sure he could make time for you guys."
"Cool, well it was great seeing you," he gave her a hug," remember if you guys need help, I can be here in a flash, pun intended. I'm sure Kara would be willing to help to."
"Absolutely," Kara agreed.
"Thanks guys, but you know Oliver," she addressed Barry," he's stubborn." Barry tilted his head and nodded in agreement. "Well it was nice to meet you Kara," shaking her hand again," any friend of Barry's is a friend of ours.
"You too," Kara returned. Barry led them back up the elevator and they proceeded to City Hall."
"Mayor Queen," a well dressed man stuck his head into Oliver's office," you have two vistors. One claims to be a close friend." Oliver looked up from his desk and raised his knitted eyebrows.
"Well send them in," he stood up and fixed his jacket. The security guard stepped aside and opened the door for Barry and Kara to enter. The door closed behind them and it was just the three in the room.
"Barry," Oliver greeted his friend with a smile, stepping out from behind his desk and accepting Barry's offering of a hug," to what do I owe the surprise visit." Barry could tell he was putting on a fake persona for Kara and found it funny.
"Well first I just want to say congrats on becoming mayor. Got to be pretty tiring."
"Yeah well someone's got to do it. Seeing as this is my city after all, I've made it my job to fix it," he changed his attention from Barry to Kara," and who is your very beautiful friend," he asked going to shake Kara's hand.
"Kara Danvers," she introduced herself," and you must be the Green Arrow." Oliver pursed his lips and his small friendly smile changed to a look of anger and annoyance as he shot a look at Barry, giving him a look that read 'I'm gonna kick your ass'. "And I've said to much already, havn't I," Kara commented. Oliver gave her the same glare, which made Kara step closer to Barry, even though the man couldn't really hurt her, his stare intimidated even her.
"Yeah maybe," Barry said as he gave Oliver a apologetic look," look man..."
"Barry, you better have a really good explanation as to why you let a random person in on my secret," he cut Barry off," of else I will break your leg in three different places that, even with your speed healing, will take a while to get back to normal." He crossed his arms and Kara could tell that he was being serious, but Barry gave a nervous laugh as if he wasn't sure.
"Come on Ollie," Barry pat Oliver on the shoulder
"I'm waiting," he replied, expression still the same. Barry quickly explained everything to Oliver from the worlds merging to answering possible questions Oliver was about to answer.
"Kara can be trusted," Barry finished with.
"I'll be the judge of that, is that the only reason you visited" Oliver questioned after Barry was done, completely unfazed from the story."
"Wait, that's it," Barry asked
"Barry once I met you, saw what you could do and having strange in counters with you like last year with Carter and Kendra, this seems like another Wednesday."
"Well, I just wanted you two to meet each other," he gestured to his friends," Kara, Oliver was the first person to ever train me when I first started out as the Flash."
"Oh, well you did, a very good job," Kara couldn't think of anything else to say, afraid she'd let something else slip and get Barry killed.
"It's because I didn't hold back, I shot him with arrows in the back," he responded emotionless.
"Ouch," Kara looked at Barry who just shrugged.
"Look, it was good to see you again Barry but I've got a very important meeting to get to," he grabbed a stack of papers from his desk," so if you'll excuse me. It was nice meet you Kara, maybe next time we can talk when I'm not working." He gave a fake smile and shook her hand. He left the two in his office left for his meeting.
"I guess I didn't make the best first impression," Kara admitted.
"Don't worry about him, he's like that with everybody, he'll warm up to you." He lead them out of the office, out of the building and into a nearby ally.
"Sorry I almost got you killed in there," Kara apologized," not the best when it comes to being 'sneaky' if you wanna call it that."
"Nah, it's fine. He's a really cool guy once you get to know him. Well I don't want to keep you any longer than I have today, I know you have your article and Supergirl things back in National City to get to."
"Yeah, well hey, thank you for introducing me to your other hero friends. Today was more interesting than I thought it would be."
"No problem," he gave her a hug, she could fell the electricity in the air.
"I guess I'll see you at thanksgiving," Kara reminded him.
"Absolutely," he nodded. They smiled back at each other. After a few minutes Kara looked around and then lifted into the air. She waved Barry goodbye and then soared higher into the air and then sped off back to National City. Barry smiled to himself, wishing they could have spent more time together, and then ran back to Central City.
Hope you guys liked this chapter. I figured id have Kara and Oliver meet since I'm not sure if ill do a version of the Heroes vs Aliens crossover and if so when ill do it. Thank you to those who have left reviews. PLEASE leave reviews,Give me a suggestion of what you would like to see, my comic knowledge isn't the best but my show knowledge is, plus if i need to ill re-watch an episode which is fine by me, tell me what you like, what you dont like (maybe i can explain why i did that thing or maybe i could try and fix it) reviews are highly appreciated. . I hope everyone has a safe and happy holidays. Next Chapter will hopefully be coming soon. Thank you all again who find this story good, it really does make my day.
