Conversations on a Balcony

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Cat was standing on her office balcony, fingers grasped down on the wall as she listened silently to the commotion going on in her ear.

"Jesus Christ, Dude!" Kara yelled as she grabbed a tentacle and held on for dear life. The tentacle suddenly swung, taking the hero with it and she sighed as she slammed right through a lamp post. She had just enough time to shove her feet out and apply enough thrust to stop the tentacle dead with her boot-soles an inch from the brick wall of a twenty-story apartment building. "Take it easy! God!"

The tentacle swung again in the opposite direction and then jiggled her hard as the alien tried to shake her off. Kara swallowed hard and resettled her grip, suddenly feeling very motion sick. "Oh Liv, please don't do this to me now, Baby Girl!"

Cat stifled a laugh behind her hand. "Supergirl! Stop messing around!"

"I'm not!" the hero protested. She swallowed again and then groaned. "Alex, help me!"

"Supergirl," Alex's calm voice came through. "Just lift him off the ground. You know he hates heights."

"Ugh," Kara sighed. "Why is he doing this?" She raised her voice then. "GEORGE! We've talked about this. I know you're upset but you can't do this in the city! People will get hurt!"

George just tried to shake her off again and the Kryptonian winced as he blasted his upset telepathically into her head. She finally understood what the issue was then, and she closed her eyes. "Sweetie, I'm so sorry. Hey, listen, why don't we try to calm down. I'll buy you a coffee and we can talk."

After a moment, the alien seemed to agree and to Cat's relief, Kara chuckled softly. "Yes, I'll get you a chocolate muffin too, Georgie."

The CEO looked to the TVs in her office, watching as the ginormous, shimmering black, tentacled alien slowly shrunk to his regular, human-looking teenager size. She watched as Supergirl landed next to him and wrapped him up in a big hug. "Honey," she said. "I get it. I know what it's like to be bullied. When I landed on Earth first, I had…"

Cat saw Kara touch her ear and the comm feed went dead. She smiled gently and shook her head. "Poor George."

"Yeah," Alex agreed. "He's had a hard time since he arrived on Earth… but who better than Kara to help him through it? She's been there and she's a great listener."

"True," the older woman agreed. Then she focused on the TVs again. "Oh shit," she said, hand moving to her mouth.

"What?" the director asked.

Cat swallowed. "One of the news channels has a breaking news banner scrolling."

"What does it say?" Alex asked worriedly.

"It says… Breaking News: Supergirl pregnant… with a question mark."

Alex swallowed. "Oh shit."