POTUS
8
A/N: NSFW section in this chapter too!
Special Agent Lee was standing near the main entrance to the White House. The president's motorcade was sitting outside, engines running as everyone waited for the woman herself to make an appearance.
"So..." Cullen said with devastating innocence. "Do you and the president hang out a lot, off-hours?"
At first, Kara was a little surprised that the man had raised the subject, but she decided to answer the question at face value. "The president and I bonded over the stuff that happened in Geneva. Near death experiences will do that for you. She's become a friend."
"What was it like? Having to protect her alone, I mean?" The agent seemed genuinely interested. "Must have been scary, right?"
Kara just chuckled softly. "Honestly, Rick, the president was Special Forces and she's totally badass. She took out one of the terrorists in hand-to-hand combat all alone. She and I worked together to keep us BOTH alive."
"Cool," the man replied as he turned his head to see President Danvers approaching. "Speak of the devil." He straightened his jacket and his shoulders.
"Madam President," Kara said. "Ready to go?"
The president nodded. "Special Agent Lee, could you go over the plans for when we get there with me one more time, please?"
"Of course, Ma'am." The lead agent immediately lifted her tablet and turned it to face the determined woman. "We'll arrive at an undisclosed entrance. No one will know which one until we get there, and I tell the driver. Then we'll walk through a series of hallways until we reach the function room. Once inside, I'll be at your side all the time, even on the stage. We'll have agents here..." She indicated a position on the room map. "Here... and here... all within ten feet of you. While you're speaking, I'll be in constant contact with the agents outside the doors and around the stage. We'll have our eyes peeled for anything out of the ordinary." Alex chuckled a little at that. "Then," Kara went on. "After you've finished your speech, I'll be by your side while you're hobnobbing."
"Hobnobbing?" the president repeated, nose wrinkled.
"Charming the other important folk," Kara replied with a teasing smile and some extra Kansas twang.
Alex laughed softly and visibly relaxed. "Thank you, Special Agent Lee. I think I'm ready to go."
Kara nodded but, as she looked at the Beast and then at Cullen, she made a split-second decision. "Yes, Ma'am. Special Agent Cullen will be riding in the back with you today while I ride shotgun."
If the president was surprised by that, she didn't show it and she punched Cullen playfully in the shoulder. "C'mon, Edward, you're with me."
"Um... it's Rick, Ma'am," the man replied seriously.
Alex blinked. "Um... I was joking... You know the Twilight... vampire... never mind. C'mon, Rick."
The president slid into the Beast and Rick got in behind her. Kara closed the door and had to take a moment to get her silent laughter under control before getting into the front passenger seat. She glanced back over her shoulder and smiled at Alex, offering her a ghost of a wink as the president started to engage Cullen in conversation.
Xx
"Tell me again why I agreed to this?" Alex murmured as she straightened her shirt and then twitched her jacket down.
"Because it's near and dear to your heart," Kara murmured in reply.
"No, I mean... why today?" The president's hands were shaking, and she stuffed them into her pockets, almost ashamed of the level of nerves she was feeling.
"Madam President, if you're not feeling confident about going up there, tell me and we'll leave right now." The agent's face was serious. "Just say the word, Ma'am."
"Thank you, Special Agent Lee... but no. I have to show I'm not afraid…" She looked down and took a breath. "Even if I am."
"I'll be right there with you," Kara added gently, taking a step closer to POTUS. "If you get scared, just say my name and I'll get you out of there." She looked around carefully and then leaned in to kiss her lover's forehead. "It's going to be ok."
The president took a deep breath and then squared her shoulders again. "Thanks, Kara."
Just then, the president heard her name being announced and she strode purposefully out onto the stage with Kara right behind her. The agent stepped back and held her position, hands clasped in front of her and eyes moving constantly as Alex waved and worked the platform.
It was a large crowd, but the rambunctious cheers and whistles made the president smile as she stepped up to the podium and folded her hands on it. "Friends," she began. "I'm here today in support of a community... a wonderful vibrant community… of which I'm a member. As I'm sure you all know, I've been out for many years and I'm heartened that, by the American people electing me as president, change is on the horizon and right there for us all to embrace. We know that there are citizens who will never want us to be heard, but we must stand up anyway and say that we have rights too. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning... plus everyone in between... are people too. We're people just trying to live our lives and love our partners... to have families and to be a part of our greater communities. To..."
But just then a loud bang sounded out and Kara was on the move with her hand on the president's shoulder before she'd barely even registered the noise.
"Firecracker, firecracker, firecracker," she heard in her ear, and she looked around calmly as Alex turned and squeezed her forearms gently.
"It's ok, Special Agent Lee," she said with a smile, realizing suddenly just how nervous her stalwart lover was too. "Stand down."
"Sorry, Madam President." Kara nodded and backed up, her heart thundering in her chest as she resumed her position mid-stage.
Alex stepped back to the microphone. "Aren't I lucky to have such an amazing team of agents protecting me?" she asked. "This agent saved my life in Geneva a few weeks ago."
"DYKE BITCH!"
Alex's eyebrows lifted as the voice sounded out, but she couldn't pinpoint where it had come from. "Are you referring to me or my agent, Sir?" she asked calmly. She watched as the people in the audience looked around in puzzlement.
Kara's face darkened as she scanned the crowd, and her feet carried her closer to Alex again. "Does anyone have eyes on who said that?" she asked into her hand mic.
"BOTH OF YOU. I BET YOU'RE MUNCHING EACH OTHER'S RUGS! DISGUSTING PERVERTS!"
Then the agent was next to the president. "Time to go, Ma'am."
"Kara... wait..."
Kara shook her head as she noted a fight breaking out in the crowd, assumably because of the bigot's words. "It's getting too heated, Madam President. Please... I'm asking you to move."
Alex hesitated one more moment but then nodded and turned to follow her lover. Kara was in the lead when she suddenly heard the most terrifying of words echoing through her earpiece.
"GUN! GUN! GUN!"
Kara swung around and pulled Alex to her chest, turning her back to the crowd as three shots were fired. The president clung to the agent until she felt the blonde collapse onto her knees, looking around her dazedly as the other agents leapt up onto the stage and surrounded the president to grab her and hustle her away. "NO!" Alex screamed. "KARA!" But they were too strong, and she had no choice but to go with them. "KARA!" she screamed again over her shoulder as she saw her girlfriend fall onto her back, hand clasped over her arm and blood visible. "I LOVE YOU!"
Kara lay there, trying to catch her breath. Two of the bullets had impacted her vest, knocking the wind out of her, and the third had just grazed her bicep. She was bleeding on the floor, but Alex was safe and that was all that mattered.
Xx
BREAKING NEWS: PRESIDENT DANVERS ADMITS LOVE FOR SECRET SERVICE AGENT DURING ASSASSINATION ATEMPT AT LGBTQ+ RALLY IN RICHMOND, VA.
"Fuck," Alex said softly as Winn sighed and took a seat on the hard plastic chair outside Kara's hospital room. "I screwed up."
A soft chuckle sounded, and the president smiled as the agent exited the room, rolling her sleeves down and then wincing as she slipped into her jacket. "Could have been worse," she said. "They could've said something about an illicit affair… or worse."
"You're both single. It couldn't really have been an affair," the chief of staff pointed out sagely. His hair was sticking up in all directions… a testament to how many times he'd run his hand through it with worry.
"How are you feeling?" Alex asked as she caressed her girlfriend's cheek.
"Sore," Kara admitted. "And I have some stellar bruising, but the vest took the worst of it."
"And your arm?" Winn added.
"Just a few stitches. It'll be fine."
Alex nodded and then looked down. "Kara… I'm so sorry… I…"
"Hey…" The blonde smiled and pulled the president into her arms for a hug. "Don't be sorry." She squeezed the brunette and kissed her temple. "Don't you know that I'd give up everything for you? I love you, Alex, and hearing you say the words in that moment meant so much to me."
Alex's breath hitched as she looked into Kara's eyes. Winn smiled and looked down. "But you could lose your job," she whispered.
"There are other jobs," Kara smiled. "I have many skills, Madam President."
"Yes, you do, Xena," Alex grinned with a waggle of her brows, and the blonde blushed a little at the blatant innuendo. But then, the president's face fell, and she stepped back out of Kara's arms with a clearing of her throat. "Shit, we have company."
The agent half-turned to find SAC Miller marching down the hallway toward them. "Of course we do," she sighed. Then she straightened her shoulders and turned fully to face her boss.
"Madam President, Chief of Staff Schott…" His eyes moved to Kara to regard her coolly. "Special Agent Lee, how are you feeling?"
"Fine, Sir." Kara just waited for what was coming next, but Alex wasn't willing to hear her girlfriend being yelled at.
"SAC Miller," she said. "I owe Special Agent Lee my life… AGAIN… and she has my eternal gratitude."
"Yes, Ma'am," Miller replied.
"And before you say anything else… I want you to know that… the friendship that she and I have is mutual. I want her… no… I NEED her to stay exactly where she is as the lead agent on my protection detail."
The man looked down and pursed his lips. "I've watched the footage," he said mildly. "And honestly, even though I know the way you meant them, your words can be played off as friendship. While even friendship crosses a line into the realm of impropriety, Special Agent Lee will remain at her post."
Kara's surprise was palpable to Alex, but her face remained impassive as always. "Thank you, Sir."
Miller nodded curtly. "Get some rest, Special Agent Lee." His face gentled a little. "And good job today." He turned on his heel then and marched away.
"What the fuck was that?" Kara said slowly. "I expected to get full out fired. He should have at least reassigned me to another asset."
Chief of Staff Schott squeezed the shoulder of her good arm. "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, Kara."
The agent nodded thoughtfully. "Yeah, I know… but I just can't shake the feeling something else is going on."
"Let's get back to the White House," the president said after a prolonged period of quiet. "I need a fucking drink."
"Yeah," Kara breathed. "Me too."
Xx
"Should we be doing this?" Kara hazily asked between wet, heady kisses. They were on the couch in the residence and had been making out for longer than either of them could figure out. Alex's hands were under her shirt, touching her in places that were setting her aflame.
The president paused and eased back, running her fingers through her lover's long blonde hair. "I'm sorry… is your back too sore to…"
"Hell no," the agent interrupted, letting her hands squeeze Alex's ass as she pulled her closer. The brunette was straddling her lap facing her. "I just meant after the news revelation today…"
"Mmmm." The president moaned softly into Kara's ear. "But I really need your fingers inside me or..." She trailed off and bit down gently on the agent's earlobe.
Kara whimpered and, despite the tenderness of her back, she managed to divest Alex of her clothes on their way to the bedroom. She gently eased the naked brunette onto the bed and then paused to quickly pull her shirt and bra off over her head, wincing slightly as her stitches pulled. "Oww."
"Here, let me help," Alex said with a smile as she scooted closer and opened the agent's pants, slowly easing them down and kissing her way down tightly defined muscles. Then, heightening Kara's arousal, pulled her panties down with her teeth and then nuzzled softly into her blonde down.
"Shiiitt," Kara groaned, the throbbing between her thighs giving way to a flood of moisture and she freed her feet of her clothes as she pushed the president back onto the bed with a little playful growl and crawled on top of her. "I do believe I promised you a finger fucking, Madam President," she said, her voice raspy with need.
Alex's thighs slowly fell apart and her fingers ran slowly through her wetness to gather it on their tips and then paint her nipples with it. Kara's eyes widened, and she immediately leaned down to suck one nipple into her mouth as her hand moved to Alex's, encouraging her to continue touching herself.
The president let out a deep sigh and nodded, gently rubbing her own clit, even as Kara's fingers were pushing slowly inside her and starting a slow, delicious rhythm. "Kara…" Her voice was a breathless whisper. "Oh my God."
"I'm here… I love you," the agent murmured as she kissed her neck and nipped at her shoulder before moving to Alex's other breast to pay it some much needed attention. "You're so beautiful… especially when you're like this."
A small smile twisted the president's lips. "Kiss me," she whined. "Kiss me, Kara… and please… harder."
"Yes, Ma'am," Kara grinned and then captured the president's lips in a searing kiss, swirling her tongue around Alex's in time with her fingers inside her. She increased her pace, adding a little sharpness to the thrusts and dragging the pads of her fingertips along Alex's wall each time she withdrew.
The president's brow furrowed, and her breathing turned to ragged panting as her fingers moved faster on her clit. Then her free hand grasped at Kara's nape, pulling her impossibly closer as she clenched around her fingers and came with a long, deep groan of pleasure.
Kara slowed her thrusts, easing her lover through the aftershocks but she gasped suddenly when Alex's hand moved from her own clit to Kara's to rub slowly. "You're close too, huh Baby?" the brunette whispered, and the agent nodded, her eyes closed as the first strains of her orgasm began to build.
"Does doing this to me push you to the edge too?" Alex growled softly.
Another nod and then Kara whimpered as the president's fingers slipped easily inside her and her thumb rubbed Kara's clit instead. "Oh my God… oh shit…" the agent moaned. "Alex. Don't stop… please don't fucking stop."
"Oh, I have no intention of stopping," the brunette chuckled. "In fact…" She suddenly slid down Kara's body, wrapped her lips around her clit and sucked, putting her tongue to it too as she thrusted harder inside her.
Kara's entire upper body lifted off the bed and she clenched her hands into Alex's hair, pushing herself frantically into her mouth as she came with a strangled cry.
"AlexAlexAlexAlexAlex," she chanted as the waves rolled over her and left her totally spent as she crumpled back onto the mattress.
The president chuckled as she felt the fingers in her hair release, and she was able to look up at her lover. There was a little blood on her bottom lip from the force of her teeth hitting it as Kara's core had pushed into her. "You ok?" she asked, brown eyes bright.
"Am I ok? Are YOU ok? Alex, I'm so sorry." Contrite blue eyes looked back at her. "That was just so intense. I didn't mean to hurt you. I'm sorry, Honey."
"Hey, nothing wrong with a little rough sex," the brunette grinned, but it gave way to a moan as Kara leaned down to kiss her, thoroughly erasing both the blood and her own taste from Alex's lips as she explored them. The president crawled back up her body, still kissing Kara with a passion that hadn't decreased in the slightest.
"Rough?" the blonde whispered. "I can do rough…"
If anything, Alex was even more turned on now and, when Kara's fingers dragged slowly over her still sensitive clit and her teeth closed on the brunette's breast, the president closed her eyes… and surrendered totally.
Xx
Alex jumped and then sighed as Winn burst into the Oval Office, waving a folder of papers and then cursing as he almost spilled them out onto the floor. "Dude, you HAVE to stop scaring the shit out of me like that. I'm serious. You're going to give me a damn heart attack."
"Sorry! Sorry!" the chief of staff replied sheepishly. "But, Madam President, we got Eitan Mizrahi. He's being questioned as we speak."
"Good. That's good," Alex replied. But her face was troubled, and Winn came around the Resolute Desk to crouch next to her.
"What's wrong?" he asked gently. "This is good news! Wait… you and Kara… are you ok? I know yesterday was terrifying…"
That brought a genuine smile to the president's lips. "Kara and I are great," she replied. "I'm just worried about the circumstances of what happened yesterday. The footage suggests that I was the target… but we have no idea if it was linked to Geneva or if it was just some Republican redneck who hates me for being gay. It's just another level of complexity to the investigation. How do we untangle all this?"
"I know it's frustrating," Winn nodded. "But we need to give it some more time. The joint task force is really trying to push for answers, and we'll let you know immediately after we've come up with the information you need."
"I know, Winn," Alex nodded. "I know you're all doing your best. I'm just being impatient."
"Is Kara upset?" the man asked gently.
"Understandably so," the president replied with a deep frown. "She had nightmares last night."
"Ahhh… you two spent the night together."
"It wasn't the first time." Alex got up and went to the window to gaze out over the White House lawn. "But I want to spend every night with her, and I don't just mean because of the sex… which is amazing by the way. I just miss her so much when she's not with me."
"Where is she now?" the chief of staff asked.
"It's her day off. She's visiting her parents."
"Hmmm…" Winn laughed softly. "I have a feeling she'll have some questions to answer."
"Actually," Alex chuckled. "Rowena has apparently been trying to set us up since the day of Russell's retirement lunch so… I think it'll be ok."
Xx
Kara let herself into her parent's house and walked to the kitchen where she dropped the mail, she'd carried in from the mailbox, on the marble island. "MAMA?!" she called as she walked through the large house. "YOU HERE?!"
"Kara, Honey, what a surprise!" Rowena replied as she quickly came down the stairs to pull her daughter into her arms. The agent hissed with pain and her mother pulled back a little. "Tender?" she asked gently. "I saw you take a couple in the vest."
"Yeah," the agent replied with a sigh. "It's been a tough few months, between Geneva and yesterday. This old body isn't able for what it used to be."
"Kara, you're not even quite forty and you're fit as a fiddle. Come on now," her mom laughed.
"Sometimes I feel more like I'm eighty," the agent replied with a rueful head shake.
Rowena led her into the kitchen. "Did you eat?"
"No, Ma'am. Not since breakfast," Kara replied. "I'd love one of your special turkey sandwiches."
"Sure. Tea or coffee?"
"Mint tea please," the agent replied as she took a seat at the island and stretched her aching back. The ache wasn't just from the gunshot bruises. Sex with Alex had been insanely epic and there were various parts of her still feeling it.
The older woman began to bustle around the kitchen, preparing lunch. "So, how's that amazing woman of yours? Tell me you've slept with her and aren't waiting out of some misplaced sense of honor. Her announcing her love for you on television yesterday shows me at least one of you has balls. And you know, she wouldn't be the first president to have had a relationship with an agent."
"MOM!" Kara exclaimed, covering her rapidly spreading blush behind her hands. "Stop!"
"HA! I knew there was something between you that day at the retirement lunch."
"I'd only known her a short time, there wasn't anything between us then, Mama," Kara scoffed.
"Oh, so THAT'S why you couldn't keep your eyes off each other," Rowena replied sarcastically. "Come on, Honey. She looked like she was ready to rip your clothes off. I half expected you both to come back from the bathroom looking all rumpled."
Kara's face was flaming, and she shook her head, lifting her hands and then dropping them in exasperation. "Ok, ok. Yes, we've slept together. Jesus, Mama."
"Good." Rowena spread mayonnaise on some bread and then set some lettuce and tomato on it, giving her daughter a moment to recover. She sliced some fresh turkey right off the bone and put the slices on top of the tomato. "I know grieving for Lena has been very hard on you but… do you love Alex, Kara?" she asked then.
The agent nodded slowly. "I was broken, Mama, so badly," she said. "No matter who I met or slept with… the broken was always there." She swallowed and took a breath as tears rolled down her cheeks. "But Alex… God, Mom… no matter how hard I tried to not let her, she somehow found her way through the cracks. I love her so much, it scares me."
"Why does it scare you, Honey?" the older woman asked gently.
"I barely survived losing Lena. I know I wouldn't survive losing Alex."
The words hung in the air for a long moment and Kara rubbed her tears away impatiently. Then her mother's arms were around her, holding her close as she kissed her daughter's head. "She'll be ok, as long as you have her back, Kara. You're an exemplary agent. In my opinion, the not supposed to care for your asset thing is bullshit. Caring about someone makes you defend and protect them more fiercely." She chuckled then. "And just so you know, your father cares deeply for the president and, while he grumbled and groused at the news coverage about her loving you, he was secretly pleased."
Kara was glad to have that weight taken off her shoulders. She hadn't heard from her dad, and she was worried that he was disappointed in her.
"So… you're both ok with Alex and I being together?"
"More than ok, Honey," Rowena nodded. "I just wish we could have a normal family dinner together."
"Maybe we could do something at the White House," the agent mused. "One sec."
Kara pulled her phone out of her jeans pocket and opened her message conversation with Alex.
Me: My mom wants to have a family dinner and since you can't exactly show up on her doorstep, I suggested dinner at the WH. What do you think?
Supergirl: Should I expect a shovel talk? Are they mad?
Me: LOL! Not at all. You're more popular than I am!
Supergirl: Then how about this Saturday? We can give your mom a tour of the stuff the tourists don't get to see if she'd like?
"How about this Saturday?" Kara asked her mom, eyebrows raised. "Will Dad be back in town?"
"I think so. Saturday sounds great, Honey."
Me: Saturday is good, if my dad is back in town. They'll let us know
Supergirl: Great! Looking forward to it!
"Alex is excited. She says we can give you the royal tour if you'd like?" the agent added. She picked up her sandwich and took a big bite. "Wow, that's good." She hummed softly. "Thanks, Mama."
Rowena kissed her daughter's head one more time. "I love you, Kara Lee Warren," she said softly.
"I love you too," the agent replied with a big grin.
Xx
Winn was pissed and he paced back and forth in the briefing room, unable to stay in his chair. "You got NOTHING from Eitan Mizrahi?"
Alex watched from her chair, tapping her pen against her cheek and glancing at Kara at the back of the room, whose blue eyes were dark and thunderous.
"Well, Sir," the NSA liaison replied. "It's not that we got nothing. It's that he's refusing to talk to ANYONE except a CIA officer called Natalie Crow."
Alex glanced at Kara again and, although her face displayed calm, she knew her lover well enough to tell that she recognized the name. Then their eyes locked, and Kara's eyebrow quirked. Suddenly, the president understood. She slowly got up and crossed the room to crouch in front of her. "What do you want to do?" she asked softly with her back to the room.
"I... I'm under orders," Kara murmured back.
Alex smiled gently. "I see your CIA orders and raise you commander in chief."
The familiar banter calmed Kara's pounding heart and she nodded briefly. Then she got up and straightened her jacket. She followed the president and took an empty seat at the table, leaning on it and lacing her fingers together. The room grew so silent, you could hear a pin drop, and the agent took a deep breath as all eyes landed on her.
"I'm Natalie Crow," she stated. "Or at least I was when I was working for the company in Israel and Iran."
Every eyebrow in the room shot up except Alex's and Winn's. "You were..." Miller began but Alex held up her hand and he fell silent.
Kara looked at each person at the table. "Eitan Mizrahi, as you all know, was a Mossad operative and, although we never had contact, it seems he knows my former name, just the way I know his. I don't, however, have any idea why he would ask to speak to me now."
"Special Agent Lee," the president said. "I'm afraid I have no choice but to ask you to speak to Mizrahi. Please see what intel you can gather. Keep up the charade. Don't give your real name to him."
"Yes, Madam President." She looked around the room. "Where is he being held?"
The NSA liaison cleared his throat. "Gitmo," he said.
"WHAT?!" Alex said, pushing her chair out and getting to her feet. "I thought I gave an order that no more detainees were to be brought to Guantanamo." Uncomfortable looks rounded the table. "Jesus Christ. Have him brought here. Kara is NOT going to Gitmo." The silence was deafening, and Alex sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose. "She's the head of my protection detail. I need her here."
"Madam President," Kara spoke up. She waited as Alex met her eyes and then took her seat again, blowing out a long breath. "I recommend bringing him to Baltimore Detention Center. The company already has a presence there." She looked at the CIA liaison. "Is that still the case?"
"Yes, Ma'am," the man replied, his tone respectful. Truth be told, he'd heard of Natalie Crow and her reputation as an asset was legendary. He'd just never met her and had no idea that she'd been sitting in these briefings with him for the last couple of months.
"Good. Have him brought here in the next twenty-four hours. I'll talk to him then and be back straight after." Kara paused then, looking at the president, who was smirking slightly. "Um... I mean... if that's what you want me to do, Madam President?"
President Danvers nodded and stood up from the table again, gathering her belongings. "Gentlemen, you heard Special Agent Lee. Make it happen."
"Yes, Ma'am," went around the table as they all got up and followed her out.