Once Kara returned to her flat with enough food for an entire regiment, Alex and Maggie were both sitting on the couch with a drink in their hands facing Winn who was desperately trying to guess the character that was written on his forehead. The group of friends had always loved their game nights. Tonight some newcomers joined the group, such as Maggie, Clark and Lois.

While everyone was around the coffee table in the living room, playing Time's Up and devouring the different dishes, someone knocked on the door. Kara turned to the others with a raised eyebrow wondering who could come knocking at her door when the only people she knew were in the room. As she and Clark simultaneously lowered their glasses to see through the door, Clark recognized the man behind the door, while Kara still had no idea who he was.

"I forgot to tell you that I invited a friend of mine, Kara, I'm sorry".

Maggie turned to Alex with an inquiring look on her face, wondering how Clark knew it was his friend behind the door. Alex answered her with a shrug of his shoulders, just to cut off the suspicions of the pretty Hispanic girl. When Clark opened the door, a tall, bald, matt and tall young man walked into the flat. In his arms was a large box. Clark let him in and he put the box down in the kitchen. Everyone was watching for the young man to arrive.

"So this is Jimmy, or James. He's worked with me for years and we became best friends afterwards," Clark said. "So here's Alex and Maggie, Winn and Kara. Alex and Kara are sisters, I already told you about Kara. Maggie is dating Alex. And Winn is Kara's best friend who works with Alex. And, well you know Lois."

James introduced himself to everyone in the room. Starting with Maggie and Alex. Alex had heard about the young man before, he had often been kidnapped by Lex Luthor, the DEO had had to intervene on some of his kidnappings.

"Jimmy? Jimmy Olsen? The Jimmy , who knows Superman?" Maggie asked.

"Er... yes, that's me. But call me James" replied James.

"It's incredible, I'll have lots of questions for you..." Maggie commented.

While Maggie kept the attention of the new guest, the other friends continued their game. Several times James turned around to face Clark as if to cry out for help. Eventually Kara did.

"James, what did you bring? I saw the box when you came in."

"Uh, it's got doughnuts, éclairs, and other sweet stuff. Clark told me you were greedy and to make sure you're accepted there's nothing better than food."

Kara took a hard look at Clark, who was laughing. Alex also laughed after confirming what James had said. They spent the evening playing. Time's up, pictionary, monopoly, ... Most of the time the Danvers sisters won but Maggie wanted to play with Alex. So Kara got James and Winn who seemed to get along very well. James seemed to be interested in Kara. He had spent a good part of the evening glaring at her, nothing out of place.

"So Kara, you're from National City, aren't you?" James asked.

"Yes, I worked there after uni. Then Alex came here, and when Luthor-Corp offered me a great job here I couldn't refuse."

"Luthor-corp? You were hired by Lena Luthor? Lex's sister?" James gave Clark an inquiring look.

"Yeah, I run the IT department. I still might actually have had time to meet her. I ran into her this morning actually, end ... I literaly... ran into her," she said with a wince of embarrassment. "Accidentally eh! I never meant to hurt her or anything."

"Oh well, I wouldn't be the first to discourage you."

"James!" said Clark. "Can you come here for two minutes?"

The two men met in the kitchen. James looked confused and Clark looked annoyed.

"What's the big deal? Lena Luthor is Lex's younger sister, it could be dangerous for Kara. If anyone found out what she was, Lena would kill her right now," James said first.

"I know it's dangerous," Clark looked down. "I've already told her a thousand times that it was a bad idea, and that it's very dangerous for a super to hang around a Luthor. But if you knew Kara, you'd know that you can't change her mind. Plus she really deserved the job, you know it was a lot harder for her than it was for me. I was a baby when I arrived, she was already 13 years old and had a lot of memories. She's adapted well, and I don't want to put barriers in her way.

"Yeah, well, you better keep an eye on this."

"I've already planned everything with Alex, she's worried too. She's afraid that Lena hasn't completely stopped her brother's 'various' activities."

After their little chat, the two friends went back to the table. The rest of the evening went very well. Winn and James had left first. Followed by Clark and Lois. Alex and Maggie stayed behind to help Kara clean up the rest of the flat.

"You're both Danvers, so when I call Danvers, well, it doesn't work. So, you, you'll be Little Danvers. And you, darling, you'll be... well... it depends on the context... you could be Agent, alex, darling, sweetheart or..."

"I think we got it Maggie" said Alex, kissing Maggie to stop her.

"You can call me whatever you want Maggie, it suits me very well. You know what, you should go, I'm going to be fine, really, in 3 seconds everything will be tidy" said Kara with a wink to her sister who was rolling her eyes.

Maggie and Alex were gone. After Kara had checked that she was alone, she really tidied up the flat in 3 seconds thanks to her super speed. Then she took a hot shower, a good hot shower would do her good. The day had gone well but that didn't mean she hadn't been stressful. Kara still couldn't believe how ridiculous she could make herself. Being so clumsy in front of her boss, and not just any boss, the millairdaire Lena Luthor, the sister of the man who would want her dead if he knew she existed, for her first day she had done well .

Kara went to bed immediately after showerring. It was already 1:23 in the morning... and tomorrow she was working. Maybe it hadn't been a good idea to organise a game night in the middle of the week after all. The blonde fell asleep in a few minutes.

9.30 pm - Lena in a bar in Metropolis.

After having dinner at Noonan's, Lena and Sam went to a bar across the street to have some fun. Always incognito under the deguise of Hayley, Lena hadn't been noticed. Sam had insisted on continuing the evening while Lena had told her that it was not reasonable. That she had to be in the office tomorrow at seven o'clock and that a lot of people were counting on her. But Lena had given in for one drink, just one. While she was at the bar counter, Lena was drinking a whiskey and Sam a cocktail, they were talking about everything and nothing. About work, especially Lena's work, she was creating a device called an image inibitor, so that the aliens could have a more "human" face. They were also discussing Sam's sentimental life, who in 2 months had slept with more people than Lena in 2 years. Sam was trying to explain to Lena that she had to have fun, that she had to let go. Then Sam had an idea, not a good idea, no, no, well it was Sam.

"You see that guy over there? The beautiful one, a little too sure of himself?" Sam asked. "Uh... Yes, why?" Lena replied.

"Well, let's test your skills, Hayley." Lena looked shocked. "So already you're going to take that rubber band out of your beautiful hair," said Sam, pulling Lena's rubber band, her hair was now falling slightly over her shoulders. "Well, keep the glasses on and you're going to hit on him. You dance with him and then do whatever you want afterwards. Try not to think about it. And enjoy the moment. Nobody knows that L.L. is here."

Lena knew this was a bad idea. She wasn't even really interested in this man, he was cute but nothing more. But she agreed with Sam that we should take the plunge. That if we stay on the shore we'll never make it to the other side. And what better way to get back on track than a little flirt in a bar.

"Ok, watch carefully", Lena challenged.

Lena walked towards the man, who noticed that she was coming. He offered her a drink, then they talked for a while. Sam looked at them from the other side of the room, very amused. Then she saw them heading towards the dance floor. Lena had cut off her brain for 15 minutes, it was doing her a lot of good. Well maybe she should cut her brain out when she's not with Sam pushing her to do crazy things but after all she wasn't doing anything wrong. After dancing for a few minutes in a very explicit way, Lena was in her bubble, trying not to think about anything, trying to enjoy the moment. Sam had found someone to fuss over on her side, always keeping an eyes on Lena. After ordering another drink, she turned around to see where Lena was.

She looked for her for a few seconds and then turned around. She was hanging from the lips of the man she was dancing with. Sam was really happy, to see her friend let herself go, and stop being so rigid.

Ten minutes later, Lena joined Sam, leaving the man alone on the dance floor. She had a great time But nothing more would happen. The two friends decided to go home. They went out into the street and called a taxi. When the taxi arrived, they slipped into it. Lena was very clear-headed, she had hardly drunk, and as for Sam, we couldn't say the same thing. She wasn't totally drunk but she had had a bit too much to drink tonight.

"I'm glad you had fun, you know that's all I want for you," said Sam with his head on Lena's shoulder.

"I know, I know, let's go to my place, I won't leave you alone like this."

The taxi dropped them off at Lena's house. Lena put Sam to bed, it wasn't really possible to ask her to take a shower or anything, she was almost already asleep. Lena wasn't really tired. She went to take a shower and then went to her desk and did some work. When Lena took a nosedive, it was already 3 o'clock in the morning. She went to bed to enjoy the three hours of sleep she had left. Three hours didn't seem like much, but it was usually the little time she could spare.

September 5, 2017

The week went rather well for the two young women. Lena had been working like crazy as usual, she hadn't really been Hayley since Sam left on Tuesday. Kara had tried her best for her first week on the job, she was starting to get her bearings and people seemed to have a strange respect for her. The two young women hadn't sawn each other for a week, and hadn't really thought about each other.

Clark had come to visit Kara at Luthor-Corp within the week, officially to see if she was okay and unofficially to check if Lena Luthor was a threat to her cousin.

As for the rest of the friends, Winn and James seemed to have gotten closer, having hung out a few times during the week. Maggie and Alex were doing very well.

17h45- Lena - Luthor-Corp

Lena was still sitting on her chair in her office. She was putting in place the final adjustments to start the manufacture of the inibitors. She was really looking forward to the launch of this project. While she was trying to send the last documents, she had a problem with her computer. She tried several times, but there was nothing she could do about it. So she called her assistant to send someone from the IT department.

"Yes Miss Luthor, I'll call them right away. They'll be there as soon as possible", Jess replied before leaving the office.

Jess called the IT department, asking for someone to come immediately to Lena's office to solve the problem.

After Lena had been waiting for 5 minutes, she decided to have a glass of whisky and sit on her sofa until someone came to solve the problem. While she was lost in thought, someone knocked on the door.

"Come in," Lena said.

As the door opened, Lena saw that the IT department had sent the new girl. The blonde she had seen earlier in the week. What was her name again? Kara Danvers, that's it!

"Good evening Miss Luthor, your assistance called us to solve a technical problem as soon as possible, that's what I'm here for," said Kara, still at the entrance of the room.

"Well come on in, Miss Danvers, isn't it? "said Lena, reaching out her hand.

"Yes, Kara Danvers," replied Kara, slightly embarrassed, and shaking her hand.

"Well my computer has a problem, I was trying to send my project and it wasn't working. It absolutely must be sent before 6.30 pm."

"Show me and I'll solve your problem, Miss Luthor."

Lena accompanied the young woman to her desk, offered to sit on the big chair and showed her the problem. As Kara sat down on Lena's chair, Lena leaned on the corner of the desk, crossing her legs and placing one hand on the edge of the table. Kara blushed with embarrassment at the proximity with the brunette. She was a little impressed by her boss. Trying not to bring out her emotions, she straightened up and tried to appear neutral. While Kara was dealing with Lena's problem. The CEO was watching the blonde working.

She was watching the blonde working. Without even realising it, she had mechanically slipped her lip between her teeth. She tried to pay attention to her employee's details, her golden hair that seemed perfect, her dark glasses over her ocean blue eyes, her straight nose, her cheekbones full of tiny spots of rust and slightly pinkish, her mouth slightly ajar revealing the tip of her tongue, probably due to her concentration. She noticed something not far from her ear, she couldn't see what it was because the blonde's hair was on top of it. Kara was always working without paying attention to Lena, she wanted to get out of this embarrassing situation as soon as possible. As she was almost finished sending the project to Lena, she felt someone placing a strand of her hair behind her ear. Coming out of what she was doing, she turned her head quickly to see what was happening. Lena had just touched her hair to free her ear. Kara felt the reddening coming on her cheekbones instantly and backed away from the desk.

"I'm really sorry, I don't know why I did this, I saw something on your ear and without thinking I put your hair behind it, I'm really sorry. It's really unprofessional," Lena said quickly, realising the gesture she had just made.

Lena was right, there was really something on her ear. The blonde was wearing a hearing aid. Lena was really embarrassed by the inappropriate gesture she had just made. She had got up automatically when Kara had got out of the way.

"It...it doesn't matter, I mean. I've never...well...wanted to...hide..." Kara said while playing with her glasses.

Kara got up from the chair and went back to the office to finish sending the project. All she had to do was click the button, and say that if she had been five seconds faster, none of this would have happened.

"That's it, the project is sent. If you need anything else you know how to contact me Miss Luthor," said Kara.

"Thank you very much Miss Danvers. Again I'am very sorry for this inappropriate gesture. You may call me Lena if you wish."

"All right, good evening then, Lena." Kara said as she turned to leave the office.

"Good evening to you too."

As Kara was leaving the office, Lena returned to her chair and checked that the project had been sent. It had. Lena looked at the time, 6:15 pm. It was still early to go home, but at the same time she had nothing else to do deotthe rest of the day. She decided that she would go for a walk in the city. But as Hayley. She changed in her office, and this time she put the lenses in. It was the first time she'd ever put them in, she'd had a really hard time putting the brown coloured lens in her left eye, so when she had to put the right one in, she dropped it in the sink. "Pfff" Lena thought that it didn't matter, she would only get one. The point was that her eyes are not the same as when she was her, and they weren't similar.

She went down the fire escapes so that no one would see her leave. Once in the street, she walked around a bit, it was something she didn't get to do often. She had neither the time nor the desire to be chased by journalists.

Kara

Once out of Lena's office, Kara took a deep breath and relaxed. It had been a very awkward moment. Just standing in front of the brunette was unsettling, but the young woman had gone so far as to put a lock of hair behind her ear. The gesture had been very delicate, very gentle, but very surprising. But then the brunette had only been curious about her hearing aid, Kara thought to herself. It was true that when her hair was loose you couldn't always see it. She didn't hide it, on the contrary, she was not embarrassed to show it. She didn't really need it, she could hear very well without it, but that was the problem. She could hear too well. She was already a teenager when she arrived on this planet, her ears were fully formed. So when her super-ear had developed, she couldn't control it. So her adoptive parents had designed two hearing aids that blocked her powers. With them, she had not to try to control her hearing. It was like her glasses, they blocked her x-ray vision. All this equipment was there to help her adjust to life on Earth. Since the aliens were just beginning to be accepted, she had to blend in. But all these powers weren't helping.

So she always had her glasses on her and her aids in her ears. It was already time to leave when she came out of Lena's office. She had finished late because of this last task. She took her things and left to go home. She decided to pick up some food on the way.

6:30pm- Neutral.

Lena was still walking around Metropolis. She realized how unfamiliar she was with the city. She had never had the time to make a real visit when she had almost always lived here. Since she wasn't planning to make dinner tonight, she decided to stop at the next Asian restaurant to find sushi. Three blocks away, she found a restaurant. She walked into the restaurant, it offered take-away food, perfect. She could take her sushi and eat it at the office. While she was quietly standing in line, another woman walked into the restaurant, and stood right behind her. When she turned around to quickly see who it was, she quickly recognised the person behind her. It was her. It was Kara. Lena had a rapid rise of stress, she was afraid of getting caught. Kara, on the other hand, hadn't recognised the brunette at all. When it was Lena's turn to order, she took a dozen sushi/maki, Kara ordered right after her 30 jars of potstickers and 1 salad. Lena smiled at the size of the order.

Kara was hungry, like all the time. She hadn't eaten since lunch and she already felt that she had to eat something quickly. She had ordered a good quantity of Chinese ravioli. As she took her ravioli on her way to the cash register she stumbled, again. She almost knocked over the person in front of her, but the young women's orders were spread out on the floor. Kara was on the floor when she felt a hand slip under her arm. Helping her to get up. When she stood up, she looked at the person in front of her. She was shocked by his beauty. Long black hair, minnow eyes, fair skin, fine features. While she was totally in her thoughts, the woman in front of her tried to make her react.

"HeHo are you all right?" Lena asked.

"What? Oh! Yes, Oh... Oh, my God... I'm so sorry." Kara leaned over to start cleaning. "I'm going to pay you back for your order, go back and get the same thing and I'll give it to you," Kara said, extremely embarrassed. She couldn't believe how much she got carried away.

"Don't worry. It's not necessary."

"Yes, it is. Look what I've done now. I think I have to take a class to learn how to walk, it's not possible," Kara said, getting angry at herself. She got up. The young woman in front of her smiled slightly, probably amused by the situation.

"OK, I'll let you offer me my meal on one condition," Lena said with a smirk on her face.

"Whatever you want, I owe it to you, I almost flattened you like a pancake and ruined your dinner," Kara replied while biting her lip and playing with her glasses.

She's really cute like that Lena thought to herself. She hesitated for two minutes before giving her condition. It was risky. For her. But she thought the young Kara really had something extra.

"You share it with me," said Lena confidently.

Kara became all red, and didn't dare to look the brunette in the eyes. She thought for a few seconds. But anyway, she couldn't refuse after what she had just done.

"Er...yes...if you wish. My name is Kara, Kara Danvers," Kara said, holding out her hand.

"Hayley. Hayley Johns," said Lena as she picked her up.

The two women ordered their meals and sat down at a table inside. Although it was only September, it was slightly cold outside because of the drafts.

Once they were settled, one in front of the other, they started to eat. Lena watched Kara eat her ravioli, wondering how she was going to eat 30 of them. Kara noticed that the young woman was watching her eat while she wasn't eating. She stood up and smiled sweetly at her.

"Are you really going to eat all those ravioli?" Lena asked. Kara blushed instantly. "Uh...well...I might. I have a big appetite."

"So you do a lot of sports then?" Lena asked, still not having touched her sushi.

"Huh? Sports? No, why?"

"Well, considering how much you eat and how fit you are, the only solution is sport, Kara" said Lena, raising an eyebrow. Lena was openly flirting with her. She couldn't help it. She loved to see her blush and play with her glasses.

"Oh well I guess I'm just lucky I can eat all I want without gaining weight."

"Yes, you are. Do you come here often?"

"Yes, I love the potstickers. I could eat them at every meal. How about you?"

"No, it's my first time actually. I don't eat out much actually. I don't have much time."

"Oh, do you work a lot?"

"Yes, I do."

Lena was already regretting having said too much. She was sure she would ask her questions now.

"What about you? What do you do?" Lena asked, before the blonde asked her.

"Oh, well, I just came into town for work. I work at Luthor-Corp. I'm head of the IT department," Kara said between two ravioli.

"Luthorcorp?Really? What's it like?"

"Well, it's only been a week. It's going pretty well. Except for the fact that I keep making a fool of myself in front of the boss," said Kara, red and up to her cheeks in Lena's memories.

"The boss? Isn't Lena Luthor running Luthor-Corp?"

"Yes, yes, exactly. The first day I arrived, I had pretty much the same scene with her as I did with you. Except I landed on her, not her food. Imagine the embarrassment."

"Oh, I don't think she took it badly. What do you think of her? I mean, there's a lot of press about her and her family, so" asked Lena, really interested in the blonde's opinion.

"Well, I think you shouldn't believe everything you read in the papers. It's often false or misleading. In a conference, she had explained that she wanted to use Luthor-Corp for good, and that she would not follow in her brother's footsteps under any circumstances. I feel I understand her a little bit sometimes. So I tell myself that she is entitled to a chance after all. She's never done anything wrong," Kara explained, staring at Hayley.

"Why should you understand her? Is your family crazy?"

"No, they're not. I lost my parents when I was 13. So I was adopted, just like Lena. But I fell into a great family. But I could have fallen into a family like the Luthors. Who knows what I'd be today." Kara replied, she knows the answer was: dead . If she had fallen into the Luthors's family, she would have been dead.

Kara tried not to show that what she had just said touched her. She rarely talked about her parents. Least of all to strangers.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be indiscreet. But you're probably right, after all she's just fallen into the wrong family, and I understand that too."

"No, it's not a problem, why ?"

"Well, I'm adopted too, half adopted at least. My father was my real father, my stepmother adopted me, I don't really know why. She always hated me. Nothing was healthy in my family. I'm much better off without them," Lena replied, she had been touched to have shared a bit of her story, she had kept her eyes on her sushi.

"I am sorry for you. What are you doing?" Kara said, going back to the original subject.

"Oh, well ... I'm a manager too. A small business," replied Lena, trying to come up with an idea.

"Oh that's great! It must be nice to be the big boss sometimes," Kara replied, looking at the woman as she looked at her. The more they talked, the less she touched her ravioli. She really enjoyed spending this time with Hayley.

"Not really, it's sometimes, but it takes a lot of responsibility and time," Hayley said. "Speaking of time, I have to go," Hayley said standing up. She had hardly eaten anything, she had half of her meal left.

"Oh yeah, no worries. It was a pleasure to meet you Hayley," Kara said as she got up to shake the brunette's hand.

Lena shook her hand, right after, she rummaged through her bag to find a sheet of paper and a pen. She quickly wrote her personal number on the piece of paper and gave it to Kara.

"Here's my number. It was nice to meet you too. Call me if you have a craving for potstickers," said Lena.

Kara grabbed the paper and blushed. When she looked up, Hayley was right in front of her, barely three feet away. Lena reached out her hand and put it on the blonde's cheek. Kara didn't move, she looked at Hayley attentively, not knowing what to do. Lena just slid her thumb gently on Kara's cheek. Then she withdrew her hand and walked towards the door.

Once Hayley was gone, Kara sat down. And tried to figure out what had just happened. Hayley was beautiful, that's for sure. Kara was not insensitive to the brunette's charm. She had felt a certain connection with the brunette. It seemed simple to talk to her. She looked at the phone number in front of her. She decided to send a message now. So Hayley would have her number too.

K- Hi. I'm sending you this message so you can have my number. Have a good night and see you next time. -Kara

She hesitated for a few seconds before sending it, then sent it. Five minutes later she received a reply.

H- Perfect. I'm counting on it. Good evening to you too ;) -Hayley