Just Talk

The girls slept in the next morning, well, Lena did. Kara laid there staring at her girlfriend, wondering how she had been so lucky to find Lena Luthor.

Lena started to stir, opening her eyes and seeing to seas of blue staring at her. She smiled, "Hello darling, have you been up long?"

"No really, just a couple of hours. Enough time to scan the city, check the news and come back to bed to watch you. Sorry, that sounds creepy."

"No, more like hopelessly romantic."

"Lee darling, I wanted to ask you something?"

"Same here sweetheart."

"You first Lee."

"Kara, how do you pay your rent on this place?"

"I don't", she cringed as she answered. "The DEO actually owns my apartment building, Alex is my landlord. I miss so much work due to my duties as Supergirl, they decided to take over the building so I wouldn't have to move. Then they secured the two floors below for my labs, and everything under that is housing for the DEO."

"Wow, so you live and work here, plus your job at CatCo. You really are a Supergirl."

"It is tiring and lonely sometimes. Since I defeated Non and my Aunt Astra died, Kal and I are really the only two Kryptonians on Earth, and he doesn't really remember anything but what the history crystals have taught him. He can't even speak Kryptonian."

"Could I learn it? Is it hard?"

"You can do pretty much anything you set your mind too Lena, I have a program in the lab that could help you learn to speak my language."

"Really?"

"Yeah I wrote it a long time ago for Alex, but she got so busy with medical school, and then the DEO, that she hasn't really had time to stop and learn it."

"Would you teach me about Krypton?"

"You really want to learn about my planet?"

"Anything that is important to you is important to me Kara. I don't want to sound strange, but what's your Kryptonian name?"

"Kara, Kara Zor-El"

"So you really are Kara."

"Yep that's me, dorky, nerdy Kara."

Lena leaned in and kissed her on the tip of her nose, "You are my dorky little nerd. Back to what I wanted to ask you though.", she paused and bit her lip, a little nervous.

"Anything Lena, if I can do it or answer a question, just ask."

"Can I stay here?"

"Lena, you already are?", Kara questioned.

"No, I mean, can I stay here after I heal."

Kara squealed, smiling and floating over the bed.

"Is that a yes?"

"Yes, yes, yes, oh Zhao, you are welcome into my home for as long as you wish to be here."

"Zz hhaoo?"

"Oh, sorry, Zhao, means love, well it means romantic love, love for a person."

"So I am your Zhao?"

"If you want to be?"

"I do. I really do.", Lena answered, "But Kara, I come with baggage."

"Lena, everyone does, I'm an Alien orphan with the ability to tear this planet apart, I have separation anxiety if I don't hear from my friends at least twice a week, Eliza, my foster mother, text me at least everyday and Alex text me at least 20 times a day. I'm kinda needy, I guess, watching my whole planet explode was kinda a traumatic experience and I can't seem to stop worrying about losing the people I love."

"You've never told me that before, I always wondered why you seemed so panicky if you didn't hear from me. I assumed you were worried about me, I never realized you needed to know you weren't being abandoned."

"Lena, I will always worry about you, you are my Zhao, my best friend, a super heroine, the CEO of a multinational corporation, and I'm sorry Lee, but your family is a bit, interesting.", Kara said matter of factly.

"Kara my family is certifiably insane.", Lena laughed. "They are the reason I work so hard and why I find it so difficult to believe that you accept me for just being Lena. Not a Luthor, not Tempest, not being a CEO, just me, a lonely little girl who grew up to be a lonely woman. One who was lucky enough to have her best friend walk into the office to interview them, and then fall in love with me. We make a good team as a super and a Luthor, but most of all, we are really good together as Lena and Kara."

Kara picked Lena up and held brought her down so that she could kiss her on the forehead, then hugged her, as tightly as she could without breaking her. Then she did something she only did when she was truly happy, she floated holding Lena like a china doll, not wanting anything to end this moment. "Zhao, could you take me flying sometime?"

"Anytime Lee, anytime."

Then the super and the Luthor kissed as Kara settled them back on the bed.

As they broke apart, Kara's stomach growled. Lena smiled, then started giggling, then finally they were both laughing so hard that they had tears in their eyes. "Guess that's a sign we need to eat."

"I'm afraid so, I normally consume about 20,000 calories a day."

"Wow, how do you afford all that food?"

"It is a majority of my budget every month.", Kara laughed. "And Eliza is a great cook."

"Well let's go make some pancakes and coffee. And then I can get some work done, while you do what you do."

"Okay, Lee. I have a few ideas to bounce off of Harley today."

The morning would pass peacefully for the two of them, Lena worked most of the morning, letting the nanites work, she knew she was at the end of the treatment, because the itching was starting to go away. Kara had warned her that tomorrow would be rough, she would be tired all day while the nanites cleared her system. Kara was downstairs, working with Harley, she had some really great ideas, including a few medical uses for her nanites. "Kara honey, I'm going to take a nap.", she whispered.

"Are you okay Lee."

"Oh my god, Kara, you need a bell sometimes darling."

"Sorry Lee."

"I'm fine, except for my heart attack, I just feel tired, guess the nanites are working extra hard today."

"Couch or bed?"

"Bed please.", she answered as Kara picked her up and carried her into the bedroom to tuck her in. She didn't even try to pretend that it bothered her that Kara was babying her. She enjoyed it just a bit, no one had ever really spoiled her like this, and now, her Zhao, Kara was, and it felt amazing.

Kara kissed her, then whispered, "I am going to do a quick patrol, be back in about an hour."

"Be careful, love you Kara"

"Love you too Lee, I will be"

After making sure Lena was settled, Kara changed and took off for her patrol. She was back an hour later after stopping several crimes and stopping an Alien who was busting up the sewers on the south side of town. Lena was still asleep, so Kara took another quick loop around town. Twenty minutes into her patrol, Kara was attacked by an Alien whose fingers had been dipped in a liquid form of Kryptonite. She won the fight, but the damage was already done.