In Your Sleep
Some time in the future... Cat and Kara. SuperCat.
So Wow… I have no single clue where this came from!
Cat leaned on the wall of her private balcony, idly watching traffic in the street below as she sipped from a glass of scotch. It was dark and she was deciding whether to go home or not when a fluttering of cape and gentle touch-down of boots caught her attention.
She smiled as a pair of arms appeared on the wall next to her, connected to the body of her closest friend. "Hi," she said softly.
Supergirl bumped her shoulder gently and grinned. "Hi. You should have left hours ago."
"I needed to think about some things first," Cat replied.
"Can I help?" The hero turned around, leaning back against the wall on her elbows and watching her friend's face. Cat turned her head, once again astonished at how, in the sixteen years she'd known her, Supergirl had barely aged at all.
"I filed for divorce today." A single tear tracked down the older woman's face and she wiped it away. "He's seeing her again." She chuckled mirthlessly. "He must actually love her."
"I'm sorry," Supergirl replied, stepping forward to take her friend into her arms and hug her. She was warm and solid and always dependable, and Cat had fallen deeply in love with that, and her, over the years. Being in Supergirl's arms was a balm to her tired soul but it was also a terrible torture. She could never tell her how she truly felt about her.
"It's my fault. I can't keep lying to him and myself. I don't love him, Kara, and I'm not sure I ever did. I've been such an awful wife and I couldn't be what he needed. I'm not enough."
"No," the hero replied softly, cupping Cat's cheeks between her hands. "You're more than enough, Cat. You're beautiful and amazing."
"Don't," Cat whispered as she pulled away, moving toward the door to her office with tears spilling down her cheeks. "I'm sixty-six years old, Kara. I'm not that woman anymore."
But the hero stood her ground, following her friend. "You'll always be that beautiful, astonishing woman to me, Cat."
Their eyes met and held and then Cat pushed Kara back hard against the wall by the shoulders, slamming the crest on her chest angrily with the heel of her hand. "You can't do that! You can't just say that to me, Kara!" she exclaimed. "Not when I…" She stopped abruptly and shook her head.
Kara spun them around then, and pressed Cat against the wall, using her whole body. "Not when you what?" she whispered, holding her wrists as the older woman struggled against her. "Not when you want me? Is that what you were going to say? Not when you love me?"
Cat froze. "What?" she said in shock. Her hands came to rest on blue clad shoulders and she sagged against the wall, no longer struggling as Kara slowly leaned in and grazed her lips against the older woman's neck.
Then the hero kissed slowly along Cat's jaw line, little flicks of her tongue making the older blonde shiver. "Do you want me?" she asked.
"Yes," Cat rasped out, her eyes filling with tears again.
"Do you really love me?" Kara's eyes were filling with tears too. "Because I need to know if you do… that you really feel the same way I do."
"Yes… desperately and forever." Kara kissed her then, deeply and passionately and Cat fell apart, as everything she'd been holding in for so long erupted inside her. "But… how… how did you know?" she asked as they paused to gasp in some air.
Kara smiled, leaning her forehead against her friend's as they held each other. "I hear everything," she said. "And you talk in your sleep."