Something Just Like This
Game Night Fail
Chapter 4
I own nothing.
So…apparently three chapters wasn't enough.
Home Again – Blackmore's Night
Happy Girl – Martina McBride
One Week - Barenaked Ladies
They ended up taking the L-Corp jet back to National City. Kara tried to convince Lena to simply ship everything back while she flew them home, but been denied. Not even the pout had worked this time.
"How did we collect so much stuff in a week?" Kara stared at the pile of bags and suitcases that they had gathered together the night before. She wasn't certain if she even recalled buying most of it.
Lena chuckled at her comment. "That's what happens when you go on vacation, you return home with more things than you left with." Considering they hadn't really left with anything, this would have been true no matter what. "Come along Darling," and Lena very much enjoyed being able to call Kara that with all the affection she meant it with. "You can fly us home from the landing strip."
"You're betting that my sister doesn't have both places staked out." Kara had little doubt that Alex would, just so she could ambush them as soon as possible.
There had been a few phone calls, made to both herself and Lena. Every single one of them had been ignored. Jess had called with varied updates. Lucy had called once to assure Kara that everything was under control, the general public being under the impression that their hero had needed time away for 'mental health reasons'. Kara had winched at the idea at first, but Lucy and Lena both had been quick to assure her that it was a perfectly valid (and very true) reason to take a break. Lucy had passed on several commendations from the Fire Chief, several doctors Kara had assisted in various instances, and even the Police Commissioner acknowledging her need for such a thing and glowing praise for doing so.
J'onn had sent her exactly one text message: The next time you need such a thing, all you have to do is ask. Do not let your girlfriend get too carried away. I still require my agents to be able to function.
Kara had blushed at that comment, both because she was touched that J'onn appeared to approve of her choice in partners and that he cared enough to back her up. She wondered what had prompted his comment concerning Lena getting carried away, but filed it away to ask about later.
"Lexa has already had her people clear both our homes, and she has surveillance set up in order for them to remain that way," Lena assured her. She was certain that things between Kara and her friends would be repaired given time. Lena was going to insure that it was on Kara's terms and no one else's.
They spent the six and a half hour flight cuddled together and sorting through the pictures they had taken on both phones. Lena had never taken so many photographs in her entire life.
"I'm sending this one to Eliza," Kara announced, attaching it to a text message to send to her foster mother. She had taken it from the top curve of the Ferris wheel on Coney Island, Lena curled under her arm and the both of them in brightly colored NYC t-shirts. Nearly the whole of the amusement park and part of the bay was spread out behind them.
"I think I'll have that one printed out and framed." Lena leaned against Kara, snuggling in when the blonde wrapped an arm around her shoulders.
"I think most of these are going to end up printed out," Kara flicked thru several more. Her new phone was amazing.
"We'll get an album for them," Lena murmured, almost relaxed enough to fall asleep. She still hated flying, but with Kara it was better.
"What's this?" Kara cocked her head to the side, curious at the e-mail notification from Jess. "Zhao, why would Jess send me an e-mail?"
Blinking, Lena sat up just enough to get a better view at what Kara was looking at. "I have no idea." She took out her phone to check it, but there was nothing new. They had delayed their return by a day, but had managed things remotely. "Open it."
Kara did. "Consider this a welcome home gift. We've saved it just for this. No one was permanently harmed in the making of the video." The two exchanged looks.
"That sounds more like Sam than Jess," Lena said. "Click play."
Kara did, wondering just what…"Oh Rao…that had to hurt."
The video was from cleaned up security feed. Kara recognized the surroundings as being outside the EIC office. Having had to watch the feed before, she knew there wasn't much to be done in terms of clean up. Cat Grant took the safety of her building very seriously. Lena even more so, considering the upgrades that had been done since Lena took over the company.
James was speaking to two women, looking more and more flustered the longer the conversation went on. The darker of the two looked unimpressed, even bored. James reached out and grabbed onto the other woman's shoulder when she turned away from him. The darker woman tensed, looking like a cat prepared to pounce, but there was no need for her to act. Her partner twisted and threw James.
The video replayed the last part several times before slowing down so they could exactly how the smaller woman threw the larger man. She said something to her partner, the darker woman took her hand and said something in reply. The two walked out of range, leaving the stunned James behind them.
"Play that again," Kara requested, "I don't…" Lena reached over and pressed the replay icon.
They watched the short video several times. Eventually, Kara had to set the phone down and unwrap herself from Lena so she wouldn't damage anything as she gave in to her laughter. Once she started, Lena wasn't far behind.
"I knew I hired the correct people for the job," Lena said once both of them had managed to get their laughter under control.
"His face!" Kara burst out. "I wonder if she could teach me that move?"
"She's been trained in Krav Maga since she was five according to her file," Lena informed her, "I'm certain she would if you asked."
Kara nodded. It sounded interesting. "How did you manage to get Laura Hollis-Karnstein to accept the job offer? She always turned Ms. Grant down."
Lena smiled. "It all depends on what you offer Kara, and when you offer it. In this case, they received my offer at the right time for them to accept it." She leaned back in her seat. "Admittedly, the original offer was to hire Ms. Hollis as part of my PR team since she excels in researching anything other than normal. When I presented both her and her wife with the opportunity to be my representatives at CatCo with the ability to pick and choose any story she might want to work on," Lena shrugged. "Ms. Karnstein is very much a trust-fund kid, so she informed me directly. She's there to be amused and look pretty."
Considering the look on the other woman's face, Kara didn't think she would be lacking in amusement.
"That is going to make work interesting." Kara hummed to herself for a moment. "Do you think she's delt with Snapper yet?"
"Not that I've been informed." Lena moved to cuddle with her girlfriend again. Kara lifted her arm and nestled the smaller woman into her side.
"There's more videos," Kara had picked up her phone again. "What the…Lena, what did you do?"
"I only hired them, what they came up with is entirely their own." She watched, wide eyed, as DEO agents and members of her security traversed what looked like an obstacle course from some kind of post-apocalyptic hell scape. "Is that…"
"Jess drinking something beneath an umbrella while she watches this?" Kara summed up what they were seeing. "Yes, and that's Lucy and Dr. Griffin beside her." She winched when she witnessed first her sister and then her sister's girlfriend fall into the mud beneath one of the obstacles.
The rest of the videos were more of the same. Sam occasionally joined the trio, as did Nia and Brainy. Nia (probably because she could) would on occasion join in on the different courses set up for training. According to what little written text Jess had sent along with the videos, Brainy had joined Winn and the other techs in their training.
Kara read the email from Nia quietly. She was happy the two were dating and any angry at them for forgetting that night faded. She understood the nervousness of a first date, especially one that happened spontaneously at the last moment. By the time they would have gotten to her apartment (she really needed to remember to lock her door), she would have been lost in the storm. Checking the call logs for her phone and retrieving the messages, she made sure to include an apology for them about worrying them.
"Isn't that Mike of the Interns?" Lena paused one video to take in the man who had tried to date her girlfriend.
"Mon-El," Kara correct absently, "and yes, but what…is that a panther?"
"Ouch," Lena snickered as the large cat used Mon-El like a stuffed mouse.
"Lena," Kara got the CEO's attention, "what do panthers like to eat?" That one needed a treat.
"I'm not entirely certain, yep, those weren't rumors after all." They watched as the panther shifted from giant cat to pleased looking woman perched atop one of the climbing obstacles.
"So…ice cream then?" Kara suggested.
"We'll have to ask," Lena agreed. She checked something. "They apparently have another week of this." Her eyebrow went up. "I am afraid to ask what they did to upset my team."
She had only wanted a little revenge. Just enough to get some sense shaken loose from those nearest and dearest to Kara. This seemed a little extreme even to her.
Kara paused to think before she said anything. Part of her urged her to get to National City and play peacemaker, to try and get things to a better equilibrium. The other part of her still stung from eight months of neglect and said to let them suffer.
It was a little unsettling that both little voices sounded very much like her sister.
"Would you want to go to Midvale with me before officially returning to the city?" Eliza probably wanted to see her and she had been asking to meet Lena before the holidays.
Lena thought about it. It wasn't as if her CFO and PA didn't have L-Corp under control. Ms. Hollis was proving to be excellent at running the day to day at CatCo.
About the only thing they were really tempting was fate. So far, neither member of her family had tried anything. Even so…
"That will have to be a different trip Darling," she said, tucking her phone away. She smiled when Kara's stomach alerted them that it was tired of being ignored. "Shall we eat lunch while we finish the videos?"
As if Kara would ever say no to food…
Lexa was there to greet them once they were off the plane. "Ms. Luthor, Ms. Danvers. I trust your trip was successful?"
"Very much so, thank you." Lena turned to Kara. "Do you still want to?" She glanced up at the sky.
Kara shook her head. "Not so much now. Do you need to go to L-Corp?"
"I should, at least to check in. Do you need to check in with the DEO?"
Kara sighed. That was a conversation she was hoping to put off for a bit. "Eventually, the same with CatCo. I should meet the new person in charge." At least this way no one could claim impropriety. Lena would have to get used to someone else writing about L-Corp.
Lexa cleared her throat to get their attention. "If I might offer a suggestion?" The two were being needlessly awkward. It was painful to witness.
Kara was grateful for any reason to put off being yelled at by her sister or cornered by James. She nodded her head and Lena vocally acknowledged the offer.
"There is a welcoming party waiting for you at the penthouse, all of whom have been cleared to be there by Ms. Arias, Major Lane, and myself."
"Penthouse it is," Lena looked to Kara for confirmation.
"Alright," she hesitated and then continued forward. "Is my sister going to be there?"
Lexa smirked. "No, she and her team are still running exercises with two of my captains. Everyone is free tomorrow before we pick back up on Monday."
The pair exchanged looks. Lena decided then and there that she had absolutely no interest in digging any deeper into Trikru Security than she had upon initially hiring them. Kara simply didn't want to know; as long as they kept Lena safe, she didn't care.
"Penthouse is okay with me." She felt herself relax. Maybe it was a bit cowardly, but she wanted this peace to last just a little bit longer.
At the moment, Alex barely registered that she had landed on her couch. She knew she was in good shape; she had to be as an active field agent. The past week had given her cause to doubt that belief.
"Oof," she grunted when the smaller form of her girlfriend landed on top of her.
"Demons," Maggie groaned out, "got to be."
They had been up and at the training area at dawn, just as they had been since Monday and everyday after. Just as they would be all of next week. Maggie hadn't known she could be this sore, and she had originally trained in Gotham.
"I don't think the DEO covers demons," Alex commented, "call someone else."
"Give me an hour and I might be able to think about moving to do so."
The first few days, Maggie had been irritated at both sisters. Kara because if she had just said something, they could have worked something out. Alex because if the woman had actually paid attention to her sister (and given more attention when someone (a.k.a. Maggie) had said something) then this wouldn't be happening.
At the moment, she was just tired. When she hadn't been participating in the training exercises from hell, she had been reviewing procedure and protocols. Alex and Winn had been given similar homework when not on desk duty. The coming week at least meant that she could be on desk duty as well, although for the moment she was still to be operating from the DEO.
"Kara should be back by now," Alex said softly into the silence that had settled after Maggie's last comment.
"Do you want to try calling her?"
"I…yes," a soft sigh, "but I don't think she'll answer."
Since she had hung up, Kara hadn't answered a single phone call from her or anyone else to Alex's knowledge. Maggie had tried. Winn had tried. James had tried, but the one message Alex heard him leaving Kara had not been in any way from a friend.
The punishment for being late to training had been worth it. James hadn't been heard from in days, although Winn said he hadn't really left his apartment since Alex had 'talked with him'.
Mon-El was a lost cause. The frat boy from space had had the audacity to point out that he'd only ever been invited because Winn had brought him along and Kara was tolerant enough to accept his presence. She never directly asked him to anything, not since his last attempt to begin a relationship with her. The pair he was with now had given him a crash course in both exclusivity and what Earth women generally wanted from a partner. The audacity part came from him having the gall to say that Alex would have known that if she'd been paying attention.
To her face.
In a tone that said he felt sorry for her.
Maggie had gotten her away from him before M'gann could kick them both out of the bar.
Once she had cooled down, Alex was willing to admit he did (for all his idiocy) have an accurate read on the situation. If Alex had been paying attention instead of ignoring Kara in favor of other things, taken time out to give Kara the same kind of attention her sister tried to give to her, never said what she had…things would be different.
She had let Kara feel abandoned again. After Kara's birthday, Alex had promised not to do so again. And she had failed.
Nia and Brainy were of little help. Brainy sided with Nia in her being upset at the situation. He also had the annoying habit of having the actual numbers of all the times she had failed her sister. Nia was just angry and a little heartbroken on Kara's behalf.
Alex could barely look at Lucy right now. That Kara had felt the need to call in El Mayarah of all the codes they had come up with…
She wondered if Kara had explained just what that code meant to Lena.
"Hey babe," Maggie nudged her, "did you fall asleep on me?"
"No, just thinking." She moved to sit up, Maggie moving to the side. "Do you want the shower first? I'll call in some food?"
"Yea, although I think I'm going to just rinse off and then sit in the tub for a bit." She hoped whoever had designed Trikru Security's training grounds had returned to whatever hell hole they had crawled out of.
At this rate, they would all be able to qualify for Ninja Warrior: Extreme Edition.
Alex had had to keep changing out which teams went when in order to avoid a mutiny.
Watching as Maggie hobbled to their bathroom, Alex felt guilt of a different sort. Her girlfriend wouldn't be in pain right now if she hadn't asked for police back-up.
Lucy had been right, they had all jumped to unfounded conclusions and acted ridiculously. Then continued to do so when the first overtures had been rebuffed.
She still hadn't figured out how Lexa's people had gotten on and off base.
Groaning, Alex dragged herself back to her feet. She needed to get their weapons locked away for the night, plug phones in, and a whole list of other little things before they could eat or she could join Maggie in the bath.
Alex had just finished and was preparing to call for food when there was a knock on the door.
Kara laughed as Nia tried to defeat Ruby in the Wii dance game (she wasn't certain which one it was). The young reported flailed about haphazardly. Ruby was much more focused. Laura and Lucy, who were playing with them, were a mix of the two.
Brainy and Sam were cheering them on. Lexa occasionally called out tactical advice while Clarke gave out dodge warnings. Carmilla gave out sarcastic comments (mostly to rile up Nia). The rest were just enjoying being entertained.
It had been odd to find so many people inside the penthouse apartment. Lena had said something about there being a first time for everything, as previously only Kara or Sam and Ruby had ever visited for longer than a few minutes.
Food had been waiting for them upon arrival. They had barely had time to deposit their things in Lena's bedroom before being dragged into what was turning into a short game night. They had been question about New York and the arcade in exchange for tales of their exploits over the past week.
"Noah's going to be disappointed he missed this," Ruby said, collapsing on the couch beside her mom. "Why didn't they come again?"
"Captain Benson just finished a case and they decided to do a family night," Lucy answered. She took a seat beside Kara. "I think Cabot mentioned something about it being one of their daughter's birthdays as well."
Ruby nodded. "Yeah, I think Noah mentioned something about dreading glitter party hats." She turned so she was flopped across Sam's lap. "It's your turn Mom, bet you can't get Aunt Lena to do it with you."
"I don't dance," Lena said in response to that barb. She set her glass down. "Why don't we move on to something less likely to result in injury?"
"Trivial Pursuit!" Laura suggested, reaching for another cupcake.
"And I think that's enough sugar for the night," Carmilla moved the plate out of her wife's reach. "Cupcake, aren't the wonder twins expecting you to call them tonight?"
"Not until eight," Laura crossed her arms and pouted.
"It's half-past that." Carmilla pointed out.
"Really?" Clarke turned to look at the clock. "When did it get so late?" She covered up a yawn. No wonder she was tired. She had had an early shift at the hospital.
"It's not that late," Sam said, setting aside the controller, "but we should head out anyway. You," she ruffled her daughter's hair to the preteen's protest, "have soccer practice in the morning."
Ruby huffed, but got up and said goodbye to the others anyway.
"Another time then," Laura managed to snatch several cookies before Carmilla could move the plate out of reach. "This was a lot of fun."
"Kara tries to plan one of these at least once a month, so we'll add you to the list." Nia said, "Right?"
"Sure, the more the better." Kara agreed. She was a little overwhelmed, but in a good way. Everyone present had appeared to have fun and that was the point of game night.
"We're going to head out as well," Lexa stood, Clarke's wrap and bag in hand. They only lived two floors below, but her wife had been up longer than she had.
With that, everyone but Lucy cleared out of the apartment. Kara was looking forward to work on Monday. The pair taking Lena's place at CatCo were proving to be interesting.
"Alright," Lucy spoke when everyone else had left, "now we need to talk."
"Very well, shall we move this into the office?" Lena was suddenly all business.
Kara struggled not to swoon. She loved it when Lena got that look on her face, like she was prepared to take on the world and make it her pet.
"Oh calm down and get the CEO look off your face," Lucy waved a hand at them. "There's just things you both need to be aware of before the work week begins."
Once the pair was reseated, Lucy laid out the changes that had been made since they had left a week ago.
"Alex isn't my handler anymore?" Kara refused to cry.
"And she's not happy about it, but she'll have to deal with not being in charge." Lucy softened. "She's still your main back-up Kara."
"Does she even want to be though?" Kara whispered.
"Hey," Lucy got her friend's attention, "you and Alex are not me and Lois. You'll work this out and be back to being the annoyingly close siblings that should come with a warning label before you know it."
"Lucy's right," Lena traced the back of Kara's hand that she held in hers. "I think, with everything that's happened in the last year and some, that you two just got lost from each other." She was still angry at the older woman, but she would not get between the sisters.
Kara needed Alex. While Lena didn't like to share, she would make an exception for this. Besides, she'd already proven that if Alex messed up then she would be there to pick up the pieces and protect Kara.
She was fully prepared to fight Alex on this.
Kara took a breath. Alex and Lena were the two most important people to her in the universe. She would be lost without them. She took several more, breathing slowly as she came to a decision.
"I need to go and talk with Alex."
An apartment door should not look that intimidating. Especially one she had a key for.
The bag in her hand crinkled.
She had no idea if they'd eaten yet or if Alex would be in any kind of mood to speak to her. She knew Maggie was inside, but Kara had no idea how she might react.
Just breath, I can do this, she thought to herself in a voice that sounded a lot like her girlfriend.
Kara reached out her free hand and knocked.
Alex, disheveled and tired, yanked open the door.
For a moment, they just stared at each other. Then Alex stumbled forward, wrapping her arms around her little sister as hard as she humanly could.
"I'm sorry," she was already crying, "I'm sorry. I fucked up so bad and I'm sorry."
Kara whimpered deep in her chest, arms coming up to wrap around one of her favorite humans. (Alex was going to have to learn to share that spot with Lena.)
"I'm sorry too. Please don't be mad at me anymore?"
Alex snorted. "I'm not mad at you," she shuddered against Kara's warm bulk, "I'm not. You're my sister and I love you. I acted the idiot and broke…so many promises."
"You owe me a lot of potstickers," Kara said once she got her voice under control, "and you can't be mean to my girlfriend. Or make me watch any horror movies ever again." She nuzzled her nose into Alex's hair. "And we have to talk to each other."
"Any other demands?" Alex moved just enough to swipe tears out of her eyes.
"I want at least two sister nights a month, no girlfriends and no world-saving. Just us."
"We can do that," Maggie spoke up from behind them. She smiled at their startled looks. "Please tell me you brought dinner in that bag. The demons your girlfriend employs have been running us into the ground all week."
"Lena doesn't employ demons," Kara quickly defended. "Aliens yes, demons no." She didn't think so anyway.
"Tell that to my aching muscles," Maggie retorted, collapsing in the nearest armchair. "It's good to see you Little Danvers. And for what it's worth, I'm sorry too."
Kara nodded. "You're forgiven, and of course I brought food." She hesitated. Should she leave them alone?
"Get in here," Alex began tugging her into the apartment. "I want to know what I've missed. When did you start dating Lena?"
Always a topic she was happy to speak about, Kara settled down on the couch and began to fill them in on what they had been missing.
Lena flopped over in her bed, arm dropping over Kara's waist. "Everything go alright?"
Kara snuggled down, wrapping Lena in her arms. "Yea, there were a lot of tears and hugging but we actually talked. Maggie agreed that the first and third Friday of every month is Sister's Night, exceptions only for important dates and milestones."
"Sounds wonderful Darling. Did anything else happen?" Kara had been gone for a while.
"They think you hired demons to staff your security, so I agreed to join them for some of the training exercises."
Lena actually giggled at that. Demons was a new one.
"The second Saturday of the month is set aside for game night, same exceptions as sister's nights." Kara settled further into the bed.
"How did they react to us dating?"
"Maggie did this really weird dance in the chair she was sitting in and kept saying she 'called it'." Kara wrinkled her nose. "Alex promised to play nice, and she's happy for us. I think she's still going to try and give you the…'shovel talk'…that's the right phase I think?"
Lena chuckled. "Yes Darling, it is."
"Does that mean I need to give Maggie one? Since she's dating my sister?"
"Didn't you say you threatened to throw her into the sun if she hurt Alex again?"
"I did," Kara's voice was steel.
"Then you already did," Lena assured her, "and if Lex tries, please do throw him into space."
That ended their conversation, both women relaxing into sleep.
"On your six!" Kara sped past the DEO agents, grinning madly as she reached the next obstacle and began to scale it.
Her girlfriend was a genius. Lena had created a red sun armband for training purposes (for now at least). It wasn't powerful enough to take away her powers, just to put her on a more even keel with the humans around her. She could just feel the strain of her muscles as she ran around, but it was nothing like when she flared.
At the top of the brick and rope contraption, she paused long enough to wave to the table where the spectators were sitting. Then she was over the side and on her way again.
This was her fourth time over the course.
"You suck," Alex hissed at her when Kara slowed down enough to pace beside her. Alex was only on her second. "You're as bad as the other crazies!" She glared pointedly at Octavia and Anya, who were grinning down at them from the top.
"You're the one who's been doing this for a week." Kara pointed out. She brightened. "I could carry you thru the rest of the course!"
"Don't tempt me." Alex muttered, hauling herself up and over the top. She was going to make Kara do this the next time she solar flared. Then they would see how much 'fun' the blonde had.
"It'd be fun!" Kara went ahead and then reached back so she could drag Alex up.
"Don't give anyone any ideas." Alex huffed, bracing herself to make the leap to the next obstacle.
"Let me give you a boost?" Kara offered.
"Sure," Alex rolled her eyes. "Just, careful. I do know how many bags of flour you've decimated."
"You're the one who suggested we use flour."
Kara set herself up, fingers intwined and held out. Alex stepped in and went with the motion of Kara's throw. She snagged the overhanging rope and finished the crossing with a perfect landing, hitting and going into a roll to go down the slight slope. Kara joined her, not having needed the rope at all.
"Show off," Alex jumped to her feet.
"Well duh," Kara posed, curling her arms to showcase the muscles there. "I never get to do this kind of stuff!"
"Goof ball," Alex huffed out. She started forward again, trying to ignore the hyperactive puppy that was her little sister.
Kara laughed and raced ahead.
Things were still awkward, but she had her sister back. Winn was coming back around to the man who had been her best friend. She and Maggie had reached an agreement over sharing Alex's time. Given the chance, Lena was fitting well into the group.
She had more friends in her circle now. Alex freaked out a bit over just how many people now knew her sister's secret, but was slowly (very, very slowly) adjusting to it.
James had left National City. Kara was a bit sorry to see him go, but if he were going to choose his ego over everything else then she would rather not have him around. Apparently, finding out his ex-girlfriend was dating another woman was the final blow but none of them really believed that. Lucy argued it was less that and more the fact he wasn't going to get his way about Guardian.
Word had it that he had moved (temporarily at least) to Gotham.
Kara had refused to explain why that made her laugh.
"Darling, can you come here for a moment?" Lena's voice caught her attention and she darted over, skidding to a stop.
"Hi!" She pecked Lena's cheek. "Enjoying the completion of your chaos?"
"Immensely," Lena fully enjoyed the freedom to ogle her girlfriend. "Are you having fun?"
"Yep!" Kara nodded her head.
"And the band?" Lena had almost made the mistake of a bracelet, but Alex caught her (although the teasing she could almost do without) before she presented it to Kara.
"It's amazing! I think Alex is a little annoyed though. I offered to do it with her on my back, but she said not to give people ideas." As Clarke was currently watching the training, she was certain Lexa would be pairing people up before the end of the week.
Lena chuckled. "That would be a sight." She glanced back at the course and winched. "Someone just fell in the water."
Kara spun around just in time to see Maggie stand up. The agent who had knocked her in gulped. Alex came up behind them and shoved, sending the agent tumbling. Octavia crept up behind Alex and did the same to her, only to have her husband play the same trick.
Kara wiggled in place, an idea coming to her. The question was…she glanced at Lena. Her girlfriend smirked and nodded.
"Water fight!" Kara went to join them, the training deteriorating into mud-slinging and shoving.
"I'll go get the hoses," Clarke stood, dusting off her jeans. "Want to help?"
"Oh, I wouldn't miss it."
If she was going to follow the Luthor habit of being an agent of chaos, at least it was going to be entertaining.