A few days passed since the theft at L Corp. The two did go to the DEO when, as usual the prints that they got off the theft scene didn't really ring any bells in their own systems, which was something that didn't surprise them at all. Those fingerprints turned out to belong to two of the other people that were supposedly dead, from the mission in Syria. The system that was put in play seemed to be working but for now where were no new threats that were put into the system. Hank suggested that they put the commander and the person that they were followed by and added as a yellow threat. The two agreed to that and sent the data back to CatCo to be put in the next day's paper with Cats help. In that same time the two people that the couple captured J'onn tried to interrogate, but he didn't manage to get anything out of them because by the time they wanted to do that they found the two prisoners dead. They had suicide pills somewhere in their clothes.
There was another problem, the two did not have any sort of identifying marks. Their fingerprints were completely scrambled so they could not get anything out of that. The dental records were not something that they had access to which already meant that the DEO was not privy to that information. The DNA registry database didn't really register them, which was normal because it only held the living. If the person was declared dead then the DNA profile would be purged the next day. So even with those two, they still had nothing. Barry was getting annoyed, Kara could see that but managed to calm him down with a soft kiss. Alex chuckled and the Martian just scoffed. The rest already knew that they were together and their alter egos were together as well so it came as not so much of a surprise.
Two days later the couple and Cat were in the restaurant on the usual lunch date. They had begun meeting on a regular basis to talk and to see how they could make the system that they designed work better. Cat was a pretty practical woman and the two had enough knowledge to make most of her ideas and their work with what they had already implemented. That day the restaurant was empty except for the three. Cat was annoyed from something that happened at CatCo so she just rented the whole place for their meeting.
"Finally some peace and quiet" She grumbled
"What's the matter? Tough day?" Barry asked looking at the woman who looked visibly stressed.
"You could say that. Almost every paper in the country now wants to know how I managed to get the police to cooperate to publish what I do. Their requests for meetings and discussions are getting on my nerves. Yesterday, beside the hour I spent in putting the wanted list together, it was all meetings. The day before, same thing. I told Ms. Tessmacher to cancel everything for today" Cat told them
"That must be … pretty bad. Well you could see the bright side of things I guess. You`re even more famous now then you were before" Barry chuckled. The media mogul looked at him and calmed down slightly
"Publicity is always welcomed. That's what I have learned when it comes to media. So if I would search for the silver lining, then that would be it, you are correct" she replied.
"Everything is going fine, we even got a few sightings of the spooks that we put in the wanted list. Maybe it will help us catch them" Kara told her friend.
"I'm glad. I feel like I'm actually helping, which I don't think I have felt in a long time. It feels good" she suddenly calmed down and smiled. "But, isn't putting those people on the wanted list a bit, risky?"
"Of course it's risky. But without a little risk there would be no reward. Besides, they did try to bug our apartment and kidnap one of us so ... we kind of want to catch them as fast as we can." Kara replied.
"Did they actually break into your apartment? I thought they only tried" Cat looked at the two who nodded.
"They actually did. We were awake at the time and managed to capture them. We didn't bring them to the police however. The DEO wanted to question them in relation to one of their secret cases, so we took them there. The problem was they were spooks. Just like the one that was following us the other day" Barry replied.
"Most of them carry weaponry made from the element that can kill Supergirl and Superman. Of course, those weapons would kill any normal human, but they made sure that the girl of steel wouldn't be in the way either" Kara added
As they ate the silence was suddenly broken by a couple of men who entered the restaurant without being invited. They were dressed in black coats and had weapons with them. The staff tried to keep them out, but couldn't. They fired directly at the spot where the three were hiding causing the staff to run out in a panic. Barry managed to jump in front of Kara just in time to take two bullets, but another two got had already reached their target hitting her twice in the back and a third, which Barry managed to change its direction just in time from not going straight through the head, created a large gash in Cat's left arm. The blonde fell down and the front of her shirt started to go red from the blood. Barry was stunned and not better off, he could feel the blood running down his chest, the world suddenly came to a standstill. It was something that had never happened to him, his speed did allow him to move as the world was slowed down, but nothing like now.
Everything was blocked in its tracks, the bullets were stopped as well, it was like the power he had had literally stopped time itself. He looked at Kara, noticing that the bullets that were flying through the air were Kryptonite. In seeing the person he loved on the ground, something in him snapped. As the world restarted to move, the speedster started to vibrate, his eyes went black and he stood up. Cat saw him turn from Barry Allen to a bad reception TV blur which gave off lightning in a split second, the two bullets that hit him simply fell through him and hit the ground. The waves of orange lightning that were coming off him were enormous, hitting in every direction. The blur started to walk toward the people that by now were trying to reload their guns. Barry's anger was so great that suddenly he didn't feel pain, he didn't feel anguish or fear, he simply wanted to kill all of them. Blink them out of existence. The people began to shoot again, however, the bullets that reached him simply turning in the air in front of him and literally going back toward his attackers. Barry in the extended time scape that his powers gave him all he had to do is wait for the bullets to come to him, simply reversing the path that they were on sending them back at the people attacking them, this was done so fast that from Cat's point of view it looked like he had an invisible shield in front of him, at a certain range the bullets would simply return to where they came, like they were repelled.
The first one that was in his reach, he touched and the person turned into a blur himself and simply vanished after no more than two seconds. Barry was not kidding around, seeing Kara on the floor bleeding had such an effect that for the first time in a long time, Menace was back and with a vengeance. Barry had sworn to himself never to lose Kara again, the promise that he silently made returned in the form of bitter and swift revenge on the puny humans that tried to kill the woman that he loved with all his heart. He didn't even think now to slice and dice them, the fact that he could simply turn them into nothing was more handy, no blood, no mess, no fuss. This was what he wanted. Let them vanish into the unknown that the maggots came from. As the bullets continued to come and be returned they started to hit the other ones that were covering behind the chairs and counters. The second person didn't have much more luck, the moment that Barry touched him and he started to vibrate, his cells lost cohesion and he went up in a puff of smoke. In a fraction of a second the speedster had pinned the third person that had initially shot the woman he loved to the wall, but instead of vibrating his whole body, he killed him with a vibrating hand straight through his head, then disposed of the body the same way as he had done with the other two people. The last two were not injured, Barry expertly playing with the trajectories so that they both could be spared, but also so they could feel helpless. They stopped firing and looked at the figure that was heading toward them, but they could not run. The terror on their faces was obvious when they saw the speedster knelt and put his hands on their bodies. They were awaiting death, but instead they were both rewarded with a punch that knocked them out. He had killed the persons that had initially busted in and saw him start to vibrate, these two however didn't see anything, so they could be taken as prisoners.
Cat was in the background for the whole thing watching as the speedster was taking off the enemies one by one. With a little presence of spirit she was at Kara's side and looked for a pulse. She did find one but weak and faint and fading fast. After a few minutes she could not find a pulse at all. Barry was taking care of the hail of bullets, nothing managed to get to her so she started to give Kara CPR, but nothing that she tried worked. The blouse she was wearing was filling up with blood as she kept trying to wake her up. Her first instinct was to ask Barry about why he had been lying to her about being the Flash, but when she realized that he was who she thought he was then realized who Kara's secret persona is. She had never seen the speedster as mad as he was now, he always was the type of person that had a goofy grin on his face and jokes and smiled, so while he took care of the people that were shooting she tried to keep her friend alive. Both of her friends, Kara Danvers and Supergirl. Cat started to panic, the time that Kara had been without a pulse was too long.
"Barry, need some help over here, she isn't breathing!" she yelled from the other side of the room. The speedster was there in an instant, to her eyes he looked like he was teleporting. The speed with which Barry was at the side of his girlfriend was something that she could not process. Her face however fell in terror when she saw his face with his eyes completely black, like a demon had taken over his body and vibrating.
"She was shot with Kryptonite bullets. Damn them all to hell. I am going to kill ever last one of them and whoever damn general and politician they answer to" Barry shouted showing Cat one of the bullets that he had caught out of the air.
"Can you do anything for her?" Cat asked didn't really caring about what she had just witnessed, she was worried sick about Kara
"Yes. Step aside. I'll have to get the bullet out of her body, it's poisoning her and not allowing her to heal" Barry answered and Cat stood by amazed as his hand phased through Kara's chest and removed the thing that was hurting her. The second bullet had the same fate. Barry phased all the bullets out of existence in front of Cat's face. He then stood up and both his hands started vibrating gathering enormous amounts of energy, to the media mogul he looked like Thor with both hands filled with lightning bolts. Not only in holding them but how they flowed to the ground, to her it looked like liquid lightning was coming out of his palms. He touched Kara and the energy in them shocked her back to a steady heart rhythm. The power he had put in the bolts was way more than he had ever tried, but he hoped that it would recharge her cells and she would start to heal. Barry fell to his knees, the wounds he had received were taking their toll on his body, the front of his shirt was already red and there was a dark streak that went down on one of the pant legs, sign that the blood had gone farther down.
"She has a pulse, but by the trajectory of those bullets that I pulled out of her, I'm afraid her heart might have been hit" Barry looked at Cat. He took a split second decision. Vibrating to the best of his powers he put his hands on her body and started the same thing he did with Alex. It was way more difficult to do with her physiology, but Barry didn't want to lose her. He was right, one bullet had grazed the heart and one went straight through her lung. As he worked the amount of lightning that was coming off the two of them started to diminish. Barry stopped, he wasn't able to do more if he didn't want to crash.
"What did you do?" Cat asked with wide eyes, seeing him panting like he had ran two marathons and a 100 mile hike.
"It's one of the skills I have acquired over many years. I rearranged her cells to close the wound in her heart and regenerated the other place that was bleeding. Her body structure is very dense which means only doing that without anything else took almost all the energy I had" Barry explained. "I barely have enough to run her to the DEO, I will probably crash soon after. I can feel how exhausted I am and the holes that I have in my gut aren't doing me any favors. I used all the power I had to heal her, I disregarded my own wounds. She is much more important, her life, her light, they must be saved" He told Cat, his eyes returning to normal. She felt a little better when that happened, the image of him from before was something out of a nightmare book "Are you all right?" he pointed to the large superficial gash on her arm where the bullet grazed her. Cat was flabbergasted at the care the person in front of her exhibited. He was shot, barely standing and bleeding profusely. His girlfriend was on the ground with her clothes full of blood and he still found the time to ask her about her health.
"I'm fine. Compared to her and you this is chump change. You look like you`re about to collapse yourself" Cat told Barry. The speedster picked up the phone
"Alex, this is Barry. Send a team to the restaurant in front of CatCo Asap. There are two people that need to be detained. Check them for cyanide capsules and explosives, the works. I do not want them to kill themselves before I have a word with them" He told her in an authoritative tone
"What happened?" Alex's heart skipped a beat when hearing him
"They tried to kill us. Kara has been shot but I managed to stabilize her. I took two bullets myself, Cat Grant took one too. I'm bringing them both to the DEO. Put Kara in a sunbed the moment I arrive" He told her
"Why Cat Grant?" She sked with a surprised voice
"Alex, enough with the questions, we have no time for that. She helped me save Kara's life and she knows who we are. I have two holes in my gut and Kara is unconscious. We're coming and that's final" Barry replied, the tone in his voice told Alex that it was something very urgent as well as conveying the worry he felt about the blonde's life. He closed the phone and grabbed Kara as best he could and Cat and flashed them to the DEO. He barely managed to stop short of the med bay and leave both of the two injured women, his legs left him, his powers died and not being unable to stop completely he skidded into a wall looking like a ragdoll with blood pouring out of his suit. The Martian picked up Kara and put her in her sunbed, Alex going over to the ragdoll that was Barry Allen.
"Hank, need some help over there, he stopped breathing!" Alex yelled. The large man went over running and got him up on the surgical bed. Alex cut his clothes and was livid at the damage, the Flash had two large wounds, one in his gut and one in the chest, very close to his heart, the amount of blood that came out of that wound was massive, she was asking herself how did he even have the strength to carry the two all the way to the DEO with the damage that he had taken from the bullets.
"Damn. Call the doctor, we need to get him to surgery ASAP" The DEO agent yelled
"Isn't he supposed to heal?" Hank asked.
"I don't know why, but he isn't healing" Alex yelled and Winn ran to get the Doctor. She managed to stop the bleeding from one of the wounds temporarily, but the one close to his heart was continuing to bleed out. She was getting really worried about the speedster.
"The bullets that hit Kara grazed her heart. He used something on her to fix her wounds. Something about regeneration. He made a conscious decision to not use it on himself and save her" Cat told Alex "If he hadn't done that, Kara would have been dead right now" while her voice was calm and collected she realized that her eyes started to water, she had no idea why, but seeing her friends, that were also the heroes that protected this city, on those tables made her feel like she should be crying her heart out.
"Shit. He must have employed the technique he used on me. That's why he isn't healing. He consumed all his energy on making sure that Kara didn't die. Of all the irresponsible …" Alex was moving around him and Winn came back with the doctor that was already fully suited. She went and scrubbed herself, she did have some field medic expertise and she wanted to make sure Barry would get out of this alive.
"Is there a first aid kit somewhere around here?" Cat asked.
"Here" Winn gave her one "Why?" the media mogul tore the sleeve of her blouse and the techie could see the wound that she had on her arm. "Oh, you were shot too, Ms. Grant?" Winn defaulted to how he was used to call her. She nodded and proceeded to wrap her wound with some gauze as hard as she could. Winn helped, the only people with medical experience were trying to save Barry's life.
"Thank you for the help Winn. But I'm going to be fine. It's them I'm worried about" she pointed at the medical bay "They are far worse than I am"
After about 30 minutes the men that were captured were brought in and Kara had woken up. Her injuries almost completely healed due to the fact that Barry used a lot of power to recharge her. The sun bed was just there to keep her power level stable at this point. Nothing had prepared her for what she saw next. In the medical bay, the doctor from the DEO and Alex were working tirelessly. On the table, there was Barry Allen with his chest opened and blood coming out. Kara was frozen. She tried to get into the operating room, but Alex waved her off. She sat near Cat almost crying.
"What did he do?" she asked the media mogul
"Your heart was grazed. You two vibrated for a minute and he said you were fixed. Something about regenerating your cells and patching up your wounds. That's all I know" Cat responded. Kara looked up and saw the large trail of blood and the splash on the wall where Barry had fallen after he blacked out.
"Rao damn him. He healed me and he didn't have enough power to do it for himself. I swear the guys that did this to him are going to beg me to kill them after I get my hands on them" Kara uttered. Cat was scared, she had seen that look in her eyes once before. During the red K incident, when Supergirl threw her off the balcony. The anger was there and it was real. Cute sunny bubbly shy Kara Danvers had suddenly disappeared, leaving place for something that chilled Cat to the bone, her dark look and the way she talked left no place for maybes. She wanted to kill them, slowly and painfully.
"He said you were more important than his own life. I had no idea that is how he regarded you. I knew he was in love, but I apparently had no idea just how much" Cat managed to say to the blonde that even with her anger was at the verge of tears.
"I know. That's how I regard him as well. I would give my life for him in a heartbeat. You must have a lot of questions huh?" Kara asked the media mogul
"Not that many, I used to think you were Supergirl and he was the Flash. Then I both seen you talk to each other and that thought disappeared, but only for a while. After you told me that you were together and the heroes were together as well, it kind of clicked. But I didn't say anything, if you would have wanted to trust me with your secret then you would have on your own time. Besides, I have always had your back since then when the media was concerned" Cat smiled.
"I see. Thank you for that. As for this, now you know" Before she finished her sentence the monitors in the medical bay started to beep again. She was up in an instant going to see what was happening. Cat was surprised at first and then reminded herself who it was that she actually was talking to.
"The men that were caught at the scene have been searched for any suicide methods. They will be waking up soon. They're clean" Winn told them
"How many of them?" Kara asked with a dark glance.
"Two. That's how many there were in the restaurant" the reply came.
"How many attacked us, Cat? Did any of them escape?" Kara asked turning at the media mogul.
"There were 5 in total. Two of them that are here and the other three … Barry made them disappear. None of them escaped, to be honest I was surprised he left those two … alive" Cat replied.
"What do you mean, disappear?" Kara asked surprised.
"When he saw you down, his eyes turned black and turned into a blur. Something resembling bad reception. The moment he touched the men, they started to become like him and then they simply vanished. It looked like they went out in poofs of smoke. It was like a demon had been awaken, Black eyes, cold voice and a deadly smile on his face. After he was finished with them, these two didn't manage to fire, so he knocked them out. I am seriously going to see that face in my dreams for a few weeks. I had no idea Barry could become something as horrific as that. Ever since I've met him he was always the goofy man with a smile on his face, not what I saw in that restaurant" Cat told her truthfully.
"He phased them out of existence. He was kind, even in his biggest moment of anger, and offered them a quick death, I would have burned their arms and legs off and played a little soccer with the rest of them until they told me who sent them" Kara replied to Cat in a tone that was frightening to her. She had never heard the blonde talk like that, with such a dark dreary tone, with so much anger in her voice and pain. She touched her necklace and suddenly Supergirl was standing in front of her. Kara left her clothes and weapons in a locker.
"Winn, which cells are those two kept and have they woken up?" Kara asked.
"Yes, they have" He responded. Kara looked at herself and muttered
"No, this is not what I need to wear" She sped back to one of her lockers that were already in the DEO. It held the red K outfit that she had worn back when she had gone crazy. Alex wanted to throw it away, but she told her to leave it there so that she could remember what she never wanted to be. She put her Supergirl outfit back in the necklace and put on the other one. "This is better" Cat almost had a stroke when she came back. She did not like seeing Kara wear that outfit. "Time to go play "how many body parts to I have to cut before you tell me what I want to know". Let's hope the guys know the game as well, I am not in the mood to explain the rules to them at this time" Cat looked at her hoping she would be joking, but she was deadly serious, her eyes said the whole story and more. She sped down to the cells. Winn and Hank were watching through the monitors. They knew that there was nothing they could do to stop Kara and they didn't want to either. Barry was a friend to both of them, even if the Martian didn't want to admit it, he had grown fond of the speedster. Cat came to watch, even if something in the deepest recesses of her mind told her not to. Kara entered the first cell, the man freezing when he saw her.
"I am going to be polite and ask you once, nicely, who do you work for? Do answer if you know what's good for you" Kara told him with a dark gleam in her eyes. The man didn't even budge, but you could see the way he was shivering. Kara's demeanor and attitude had him scared shitless. "Have it your way then" She sped across the cell and with one hand grabbed him by the neck holding him against the wall. "Do you know what happens when you use a laser beam to cut a limb?" she asked with a dark grin on her face "The wound cauterizes, the host body loses no blood and it can be done indefinitely and on all limbs until the person has nothing left to have cut off. I wonder how many slices I have to cut off until you tell me what I want to know" Her eyes went completely red and beams of light started to creep up on the man's left leg.
"We were right. You aliens are nothing but dangers to our society" the man said with a blank face "Kill me, you will only prove everyone that we're right" Kara stopped and punched the wall so hard next to his head that a crater formed from the impact.
"Tell me, assassin, what would you do to me if I was to go now and try to kill your wife and child?" Kara asked.
"I would come after you and kill you without question" the man responded with a steel resolve.
"You have hurt someone I love dearly. We might be aliens, but when it's about the people we love, we are only human. Tell me what I want to know, or you will know pain the likes you have never felt before. Do not regard me as an alien, I am a simple girl that is on the brink of losing someone she loves with all her heart and soul. I hope that makes you understand a little better the dire predicament you are in right now. Do not test my patience, or you will live to see yourself with everything cut off and thrown in the street so that the dogs can get a healthy meal off of you. Did I make myself clear? Now, I will ask again. Who sent you to kill my friends?" Kara told him with the face of a demon, her eyes lighting up.
"I cannot tell you. If I do then I'm dead. Which means I'm dead either way. Kill me and get this over with" the man told her closing his eyes. A voice resonated in Kara's mind. Barry's voice. "I do not want Kara to kill anyone. She is the one that helps me keep my darkness away. Killing… changes you. I will kill if she asks it of me, just so that she doesn't have to. She is the light that keeps me out of the dark, if she falls, so do I" She depowered her eyes and clocked the man one in the chin, leaving him motionless on the floor. Everyone watching was baffled, they thought for sure that she would do everything that was needed to get the info out of him. Including and up to killing him.
She went to the second person and repeated the same routine, but that wouldn't budge either, it was like they were conditioned not to speak doesn't matter how badly they were threatened. Killing them would serve no purpose. Kara left and came back to the med bay returning to the Supergirl suit. She spoke with J`onn in the form of Hank
"Can I ask a favor of you?"
"Yes, what can I do?" He asked with a low tone in his voice.
"Steal their memories. Find out what they know. I don't care what you do but try to find out who wants us dead. I want those people either in jail or in the ground" She replied. He knew what she was asking and he agreed. He left telling Winn to close the feeds to the cells.
"I was sure you were going to kill them" Cat told her after she sat down in the chair. She managed to catch a glimpse of her face when she was in that room. It was something that she had never seen and never wanted to see come from Kara as long as she lived.
"I was too. I wanted to make them suffer so bad that they either tell me what they know or they beg me to kill them. Something Barry had said made his voice come back to me. I stopped because of what I remembered" Kara said looking at Cat
"You love him that much that you would kill for him?" the media mogul asked surprised.
"Kill for him and die for him. I love him with all my heart. He is the person that showed me what it means for me to be loved back with the same intensity as you put in" Kara looked at the bracelet she had on her hand and started to cry. Cat had a vague idea of how much Kara loved Barry, but not a complete picture. She had it now, Supergirl would step over everything she believed in for the one she loved. The doctor and Alex came out of the medical bay both plopping outside the door. Nearly two hours had passed since Barry came with them to the DEO.
"How is he? Is he going to make it?" Kara instantly asked.
"We managed to stabilize him. Patched up his blood vessels, stitched him up as best we could. We reset all the bones that we could find broken and gave him a few blood transfusions. I'm surprised that he didn't die. Boy did he have a few bones shattered. Now it's all up to him. We already have him on Glucose drips. Hopefully if he gets his energy back his body will begin speed healing itself" Alex told the blonde which jumped her and the doctor and took them into a big hug
"Thank you for saving him" She said with a large smile even if her eyes were still teary.
"I owed him big time. I wouldn't be alive right now if it wasn't for him, you already know that, Kara" Alex replied
"Just doing my job, but you are welcome" the doctor gave her a large smile seeing her happy
"One of you mind taking a look at Cat too? She took a bullet, even if it's a superficial one she might need some stitches" Kara asked them. Alex got up
"You rest, doc. I can stitch just fine. Come with me, Ms. Grant" She motioned to Cat as they both went to another room so that Alex could treat her wound properly and bandage her. Kara went straight to the surgical bay. She got herself a chair and sat near Barry holding his hand. Waiting for him to wake up. They all tried her to get her to rest, but she wouldn't have any of it. In the end they gave up, Winn going out to get lots of food and Cat and Alex sitting with her waiting for the speedster to wake up. With the nutrients that were being put into his body, the wounds that he had started to heal at an accelerated rate. Cat was baffled by the fact that Alex had to pull out the stitches they used barely an hour after they had finished. She could not let him in because of the high rate of healing. After he came back, Winn called Chief Singer to tell him that the two CSI's had been sent on a priority mission out of the city, something about some metahuman terrorist and they should be back in a couple of days. It took almost 7 hours for the speedster to finally wake up. He opened his eyes and wouldn't you know it, he cracked a joke
"Why are you looking at me like that, did Kara put makeup on me while I was out?" He chuckled. The blonde didn't even wait, careful about her strength she hugged him and gave him a long soft kiss. Alex looked the other way and Cat was smirking heavily
"You dummy. Didn't you say we don't play the hero unless absolutely necessary? You almost died" She yelled at him through her tears of joy
"You did die, Kara. Cat can tell you that. You were motionless on the floor with no breath and no pulse. You had a wound on your heart and you were bleeding out. I qualify that as "absolutely necessary", wouldn't you?" He gave her a weak smile. Kara turned at the media mogul who nodded, acknowledging what the speedster had just said.
"Thank you for saving my life" she told him
"And mine" Cat added, making Barry look crooked at her "What? You think I don't know bullets don't change paths in mid-flight? The one that superficially grazed me was probably going to hit me somewhere in the chest or the head" She smiled.
"How would I not save the lives of the woman that I love most on this planet and someone who I regard as a friend. Don't mention it" His stomach started to grumble, making Kara laugh "I seem to be hungry though"
"Yep, he's back" Alex hugged him as well "Welcome back, now don't you do that ever again or I'm going to kill you myself" She told him with a semiserious voice.
"Yes mam. I'm going to try. No promises though, the only promises I make are to this beautiful blonde over here" Barry pointed at Kara who was holding his hand.
"Food is served" Winn commented. Kara helped the speedster out of the bed. It was amazing how he didn't have any trouble walking considering a few hours before he was on the surgical bed with his chest split open. Alex went to seek out Hank. Winn returned to his business. Kara, Cat and Barry went to the mess hall where there were 30 pizzas on a table. The speedster sat down and the blonde began speeding the food in front of him. Cat stood there and gawked at how fast he was eating.
"What? No questions from the person who would want to hear about the lives of the superheroes she's writing about?" Barry chuckled as he ate looking at Cat.
"I told Kara earlier, I had my suspicions and the being in two places at once did quell them, but you two being together and the supers dating, that was a bit too much of a coincidence. I don't understand why you decided to tell me now. You could have just let that bullet hit me and while I was out you could have taken Kara back here. That would have avoided everything and I would still be none the wiser" Cat replied.
"That is true. But, as you`ve seen I wasn't quite myself" the speedster replied "Sorry if that face is going to be a nightmare for a few weeks, but seeing Kara down and bloody like that, let's just say I wasn't thinking right at the time"
"That maybe it but …" she got cut off
"I could have asked someone to alter your memories too. To make you forget. But I looked at how you acted. You realized I was the Flash, but instead of turning on full reporter mode and starting to ask stupid questions that would only waste time and maybe lives, you went and started to give Kara CPR, made sure that she was breathing and when she wasn't called out for me. I do believe that is still her blood on your shirt" Barry pointed at the large blotch of red
"We will need that, I would rather my blood doesn't fall into the wrong hands" Kara replied and Cat agreed.
"That is why I didn't act. You stopped being a reporter and someone who chases a story and became someone who just wanted to keep a friend alive. You completely disregarded your usual needs and wants to make sure Kara was safe. That showed me that we could trust you with this. Words don't do much for me, actions however speak volumes, Cat" Barry smiled while finishing another pizza
"To be fair, there wasn't just one friend for me on that floor. There were two. Kara and Supergirl. As much as I like to pull her pigtails and not appreciate her throwing me off a balcony, I came to regard her as a friend. Some of the talks we had were enlightening for me as well as for you" The media mogul looked at Kara which was smiling
"Now you know that they are the same. One friend to rule them all" Kara made a joke and Barry scoffed.
"So what am I? Chopped liver?" he made a pouty face that made the blonde chuckle.
"You still have to tell me how you managed to pull that stunt with being in two places at once. Both of you, I didn't know that you had powers that would permit you to clone yourselves" Cat told them rather stupefied.
"The other Kara was actually a friend of mine who can shapeshift. Barry, does however possess the skill to make doubles of himself at will. It has something to do with his powers" Kara replied
"You two live a strange life, don't you?" Cat looked at the couple that was happily munching on pizzas.
"You have no idea. Considering she's an alien and I'm a speedster from another universe" Barry told her making her jaw fall "Oh, I guess you didn't know that. In a short sentence, parallel universes are real, this universe is not my original one. It's a lot to take in, so it's best that you don't try to understand it all at once"
"We should probably mention that we have friends from other universes as well. Speedsters like Barry and other heroes in their own right. That universe has many more of them then we do" Kara added.
"Speedsters, so you mean the two that helped you back then with Leslie and Siobhan?" Cat remembered that there were two that time not just one.
"Yes, those are from the universe that Barry is originally from. That Flash is still Barry, but 8 years younger and the other one is his wife, Frost" Kara tried to explain
"This is way out there. Maybe this is a discussion left for another time. Whatever it is, I'm really glad that you two are all right" Cat smiled at the couple.
"Glad I was in time to change that trajectory for the bullet that grazed you. If I wasn't there might not have been a Cat Grant now" Barry replied.
"It just dawned on me. If you`re Supergirl, does that mean Superman is …" she got cut off.
"People don't know his identity at the DEO and we'd like to keep it that way. While here refer to him as Kal or Superman. But if you were going to say is what I suspect then yes, you would be totally correct" Kara replied "I don't think I need to stress that nobody is to find out that"
"Of course you don't. Great, I drunk texted Superman with explicit language" Cat almost face palmed.
"He actually found it funny that you would do that of all things. The cool, conceited, always in control, media millionaire, drunk texting his alter ego. It was a part of you he didn't know you had" Kara laughed making Cat sigh and roll her eyes, but still crack a grin at the end.
"That's never going to happen again. Anyway can I get a fresh shirt since this one has your blood on it? I do need to get home at one point, while to be fair, I do enjoy your company" she asked. Kara sped and brought her one of the shirts she kept around for emergencies. Cat left to change and came back with the bloody blouse and handed it to Barry which phased it into nothingness. His strength had come back since he finished eating.
"Come on. I'll take you home. It's late and your driver should not be made aware of where the DEO actually is" Barry stood up
"All right. Good bye Kara. I'll be seeing you both around, for our usual lunch meetings about threats" She replied looking at the blonde
"Now if you need an exclusive from Supergirl or Flash you know who to ask and this time, directly" the alien replied with a smirk. Barry took Cat and was gone. He came back a few minutes later
"Getting slow, scarlet speedster?" Kara grinned at him.
"No. Just taking it slow. I didn't want to race at full speed in case I'm not completely healed. I did promise I would take care of myself, remember?" he smiled
"Good, I thought you forgot about that one little thing" the alien smirked getting off the chair.
"I don't forget the promises I've made to you and will always try to keep them as much as humanly possible" Barry took her in his arms and kissed her gently holding her in his arms. He was so happy to have her back, he was almost crying. Kara saw that and held him tight as they kissed feeling his heart quickening. As they separated, the blonde alien smirked.
"I love you, Barry"
"I love you, Kara"