"Alright, can you run that by me one more time? Y'know, at a normal pace?"
Babs only laughed and shook her head. "Okay." She looked up at Kara. "Basically, Big Borger has this new thing where you can sign up for some kinda double date thing! It's supposed to help other people 'connect with each other' or something, but more importantly…" She threw her hands into the air. "We only need to pay half the bill!"
Kara just stared at Babs. While the excitement on her face did make her happy, this idea didn't sound the best, she had to admit.
"Babs, are you sure about this?" She asked. "I mean, I'm never one to say no to Big Borger, but…"
"But what?" Babs only tilted her head and smiled. "Come on, Kara! Think about it: we get good food, don't have to pay as much and, let's face it, it's entirely possible the other couple will just let us be. Y'know, assuming you don't wanna talk to them."
Kara folded her arms. "Yeah, yeah. It's just…" She groaned. "It just seems really unnecessary. I mean, what if they're assholes?"
Babs just smirked. "I can deal with them. If you know what I'm talking about…" She quickly jumped up and kicked the air before posing. "By that I mean getting them kicked out."
Kara just laughed. "Well, in that case, I'll go along with this dumb idea." She pulled Babs close to her. "And besides, I'm starving." She felt her mouth begin to water just thinking about the menu. She was definitely getting the Super-Mega Burger. Oh, and maybe the Bottomless Chip Bag!
Soon, they had reached the restaurant, with Kara kicking open the door dramatically. She didn't need to, but she knew that Babs found it funny. They quickly made their way to the counter, where the middle-aged cashier was sleeping. Babs, rolling her eyes, rang the bell, making him jolt up.
"Who the… Whuzzat?" The cashier murmured, looking around for the source of the noise. Soon, his eyes fell upon the two. "Oh, uh, hey." He grabbed a clipboard. "What'll it be?"
Kara smirked. "One Super-Mega Burger and… gimme a Huge Chug too."
The man wrote it down. "Right? And you, kid?"
Babs looked up at the menu. "Hmm… I'm gonna say… some chili fries, a soda, and… throw in some chips, just in case I'm still hungry." She placed an arm on the counter. "Also, we're in the 'Double Date' thing."
The cashier blinked, smiling. "Are you now?" When Babs nodded, his smile grew wider. "Lucky you." He finished writing down the orders before pointing to a table further back in the restaurant, one decorated with love hearts, smiley faces, and some other cheesy stuff. "There's your table. We'll get your order ASAP."
Babs smiled. "Thanks." She linked arms with Kara. "Let's go." She quickly walked to the table, dragging Kara along with her. Letting go, she quickly took her seat, before pulling out a comic and starting to read it. Kara looked at the table itself. Jeez, she was actually kind of sort of getting second-hand embarrassment from it. She didn't want to mention it to Babs though, they had already gotten this far so might as well grin and bear it, but otherwise, she wouldn't be caught dead at a table like this.
She took her seat next to Babs. "Soooo…" She tapped her fingers against the table. "Do we actually have any idea of what people are also sitting here?"
Babs lifted her head up. "Uh… The cashier didn't say anything about that." She went back to reading her comic. "Again, we probably won't even have to talk to them that much. For now though…" She lifted her head again, now bearing a sly smirk. "Wanna kiss?"
Kara's eyes widened. Babs really knew how to switch on the flirty side like the flip of a… well, switch. Nevertheless, she smirked back. "Well, since there's no one looking…" She leaned in to press her lips on Babs's, who just puckered up and closed her eyes.
"Hey!"
Kara's eyes burst open. She knew that voice. And, judging by how Babs's facial expression changed, so did she. Turning around, Kara hoped she had heard wrong.
Unfortunately, when she finished turning, she saw she was right. There, standing by the table, were Leslie and Doris, both of whom looked incredibly unamused.
Kara just glared at them. "'Hey' to you, too. What are you doing here?" She folded her arms.
"What does it look like, Danvers?" Leslie rolled her eyes. "Here to eat. And by the looks of it, you're at our table."
"Uh, no, actually." Babs stood up. "We're part of the double date programme, so we're just waiting on…" She trailed off.
Oh, shit.
"You're the other half of our double date?" Kara couldn't quite believe it. "You gotta be kidding me." She slumped in her seat.
Doris frowned. "Since when are you two dating?"
"Since…" Babs frowned. "Since ages! How did you not notice? I literally flung myself into Kara's arms during gym yesterday!"
"I just thought that's the way you are," said Doris.
Kara groaned. "Shut up. And since when were you and Leslie dating?"
Leslie looked at her. "Since…" She clicked her tongue. "I wanna say two months now."
Kara blinked. "How did I not notice that?"
"Whatever." Leslie turned around. "This is lame, I'm asking for a different table."
"You can't," said Babs.
Leslie looked back at her. "I don't remember asking you."
"Yeah, but that's part of the rules." Babs leaned back in her chair. "You can't ask for a new table. It messes with the organisation of things."
Kara stood up. "Well, you don't know that. I mean, I'm sure I could work something out and-"
"Forget it," Doris said, quickly taking a seat. "We might as well sit here." Something Kara thought was surprisingly reasonable for Doris.
"Yeah! That's the spirit." Babs smiled, but it didn't reach her eyes. "We can just sit down, put aside our differences for like an hour, eat our food -"
"Zip it, Babbly-Bitch." Leslie sat down next to Doris. "I'm only not leaving because I haven't eaten since breakfast and I think I'm going to pass out."
Kara glared at her. "Wouldn't mind that, asshat."
Leslie glared back, but didn't say anything. She leaned against the wall and took out her phone, smirking at something. She beckoned Doris over to look at it. Doris leaned over, then laughed.
Kara narrowed her eyes. "What's so funny?" She didn't know why she cared about what Leslie 'I-Think-Misery-Is-Hilarious' Willis thought was so funny, but for whatever reason, her curiosity was piqued.
Leslie didn't answer. Instead she stretched out her arm and put her arm around Doris for a picture, flashing a peace sign. Kara rolled her eyes, then took out her own phone. "Babs. Picture."
Babs leaped over to sit closer to Kara, pressing her face against Kara's. They smiled and took a picture, with Kara giving the Sign of the Horns and Babs giving a peace sign. Kara went to upload it to her Supersta, deliberating over the caption for a second. Deciding against on a double date with Satan and Beelzebub against our will, she wrote Big Borger dates are the best dates. Post.
"Nice photo," Leslie sneered. "Think you remembered not to include carrot-head's massive forehead?"
Kara slammed a fist on the table. "At least she has a full head of hair!"
Leslie rolled her eyes. "If my hair looked like that, being fully bald would be preferable."
Kara gritted her teeth. "Listen here, you -"
"Dinner is served!" They turned around to see the waitress impressively balancing the four girls' meals. Kara and Babs thanked her as she put the food down on the table and left.
"Finally," Babs said, quickly shoving a mouthful of chili fries into her mouth. Kara looked over at Doris and Leslie. Doris was helping herself to a Mega Bacon Burger (dammit, why didn't she think of ordering that?) and Leslie was holding a bucket of chicken. She took a picture of it before shoving some into her mouth with Diana levels of speed. Kara just shrugged before taking a bite out of her burger.
It wasn't long until she heard Babs speak up. "Say…" She swallowed. "How did you guys hit it off?" She took a sip from her soda.
Kara looked at her. "Huh?"
Babs leaned over to whisper into her ear. "I'm trying to defuse the situation before it gets too tense and eventually results in possible broken bones."
Doris looked up from her burger, with sauce covering her mouth. "Why do you want to know? You guys are losers. I wouldn't just tell you that it was during movie night at her house when we were watching-" She stopped as soon as she realised what she was doing.
Babs smirked. "Not gonna tell us, huh?"
Doris's face turned red as she looked down at her lap. "Shut up." Babs just chuckled at this.
Kara looked at Leslie again. She was still shovelling the chicken into her mouth, and she was looking at her phone again. Kara leaned over to spy on it, sipping from her Huge Chug as she did so. That's when she saw it clearly. It was a photo of her. Well, as Supergirl. She was lying down on the ground, legs sticking out in the air and her tongue hanging out. She remembered that night. Harley was surprisingly tough some nights. Under the photo was the caption LOL! Should've stayed at home, Super-Wimp!
Kara spat out what was currently in her mouth. "What the hell?!" She was about to go on a rant until she noticed Leslie's drenched face. Hell, it was more than her face. Her leather jacket was stained and some of the drink was even dripping onto her pants.
Kara couldn't help it. She threw her head back and laughed. She laughed so hard she slammed her head into the back of her seat. She also heard Babs snicker.
Leslie clenched her fists as she wiped her face, groaning. "Jesus…"
Doris's eyes widened. "Les!" She grabbed some napkins and started drying her. "You okay?" She sounded more concerned than Kara had ever heard her.
Leslie sighed. "Doris, I'm fine."
"You sure?" Doris slung an arm around her. "Crap, your eye-shadow's coming off."
Leslie blinked in shock before grabbing one of the napkins and quickly drying her face. "Ugh, thanks a lot, Danvers."
Kara awkwardly leaned back. "It was an accident," she mumbled, trying to sound like she was actually sorry.
Then a thought crossed her mind. "How is Leslie as a girlfriend?" The question was out of her mouth before she could really think about it.
Doris stared at her. "Why do you want to know?"
Kara folded her arms. "I… uh…"
Babs leaned across the table. "Yeah, I was kinda curious about that too," she said, a few bits of chips falling out of her mouth.
Doris looked at the two of them, blinking rapidly. Eventually, she rolled her eyes.
"Well, if you gotta know, I'll tell ya." She seemed to calm down as she smiled. "She's really funny and sweet to me."
Babs raised an eyebrow. "We are talking about Leslie, right?"
"No, I mean it!" Doris moved closer to Leslie, placing a hand on her shoulder. "She's super sweet. She's even helped me with some of my dumb tests. And she's pretty cute."
Leslie, who had just been drying herself off with the wipes, suddenly turned red. "N-no I'm not."
Doris grinned. "Yeah you are." She booped her nose. "You're adorable, you know that?"
Leslie quickly pulled the collar of her jacket up to her nose as her blush deepened. "Doris!" Doris just laughed. Babs laughed too, visibly starting to relax a little. Kara sat back, watching the two of them. It was weird, seeing such shitty people be dorky and cute together. It was kinda nice, she had to admit. Key word being 'kinda'.
Doris frowned at Babs. "Are you laughing at us?"
Babs's eyes widened. "No! No, of course not."
Leslie pulled her jacket down, some of the colour starting to leave her face. "Anyway…" Her voice was back to its normal, sneery tone. "I'm going to the bathroom. No one do anything fun without me." With that, she stood up and left.
With Leslie gone, the three continued eating. That is, until Doris muttered something under her breath. Something that Kara likely wouldn't have picked up on were it not for super-ears.
"She's right about Supergirl, gotta say."
Kara instantly turned to look at her. "What'd you say?"
Doris looked back. "I said Leslie is right about Supergirl being totally lame."
Kara tightened the grip on her drink. "What?!" The handle of the drink started to crumble, but she didn't care.
Doris folded her arms. "Look, you're super lame-"
Kara rolled her eyes. "Gee, thanks."
"Shut up. But Supergirl is super super lame. Her hair's dumb, her battle talk's dumb, she's just kinda dumb in general… Hell, she doesn't even have an original costume. She sucks."
Kara felt heat build up behind her eyes as she looked down at the ground. Could she please anyone in this city? Before she could really start feeling sorry for herself, though, she heard the sound of a plate sliding across the table. Looking up, she saw that Babs had leaned forward far enough to be about two inches away from Doris's face. Her eyes were narrowed and her teeth were gritted.
"Supergirl is not lame!" Babs said. "She's a really cool, super awesome superhero!"
Doris just snorted, leaning back. "Why do you care? Isn't she your girlfriend? Or are you hoping to get with Supergirl?"
Babs didn't let up, leaning closer with every word. "Hey, disrespect is disrespect! And she's done more than enough to earn respect. Besides, she saves people like you! Shouldn't you be more grateful?!"
At this point, she was so close to Doris, their noses were pressed up against each other. In fact, she was so close she had knocked over Doris's drink, spilling it onto her pants. Doris's eyes widened, only to narrow to slits.
"You idiot! Those were advertised as making me twice as fast and strong!" She grabbed Babs by the back of the hoodie, standing up and moving her close to her. "You're gonna pay for this!"
Kara stood up. "Let her go!"
Babs looked back at Kara, holding up a hand. "Don't worry, I got this!" She turned back to Doris, smirking. "Look, how about you put me down and we just go back to eating in peace."
Doris just narrowed her eyes. "What are you going to do about it?" Suddenly, she looked past Kara. Then her eyes seemed to widen. Kara blinked. Was something behind her?
Babs didn't seem to notice. "This." With that, she brought her head back and slammed it into Doris's…
Only for her head to loll back, with her now being unconscious.
Kara quickly grabbed her out of Doris's grip. "Sweetie!" She shook her, but Babs didn't respond. She glared at Doris. "Alright, that's it! No more Ms. Nice Girl!" She rolled up her sleeves and placed Babs back on the seat.
Doris held her hands up. "Look, I was gonna let her go. I don't wanna fight."
Kara groaned. "Why should I believe you?"
"Excuse me?"
Kara turned around to spot the same waitress who delivered their food, who was glaring at the two of them.
"That's why."
"You okay, Babs?"
Kara sat with Babs on the bench just outside Big Borger. They had all been kicked out for what had happened. Something that must have been very confusing for Leslie, who had exited the bathroom to see Kara, Doris, and Babs's unconscious body being dragged out.
Babs nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine. It sucks that we got kicked out, but at least it was for a good reason."
Kara couldn't help but smile at that. "And that reason was…?"
"Defending Supergirl and fighting Doris."
"Well, I appreciate that." Kara put an arm around her. "But you don't have to do that, you know."
"What?" Babs looked up at her.
"Like…" Kara sighed. "Who cares what Doris Zeul thinks, of all people? I'm pretty sure I saw her try to start a fight with her calculator last week because it wasn't working."
Babs laughed, but then stopped. "Yeah. Yeah, you're right." Her voice was more downbeat than usual.
"Are you sure you're okay?" Kara looked into Babs's eyes, trying to think whether she knew how to check for a concussion.
"Yeah! Yeah, I'm fine. I just…" She paused for a few seconds. "I'm sorry I got us kicked out."
Kara held Babs's hand. "Babs, it's okay, really. I mean, we still got to eat there and we didn't even get banned. I know they're surprisingly strict about banning stuff."
Babs sighed. "Yeah, I guess I just feel bad about making a scene."
Kara shook her head. "Honey, I don't think anyone noticed it. That being said…" She grabbed her by the chin. "You got me worried."
Babs looked away from her, her face heating up. "Uh…"
Kara mock-glared at her. "Don't scare me like that again, okay?"
Babs grinned, "I'll try my best." She leaned in for a kiss, only to abruptly stop, looking past her.
Kara frowned. "What? Come on, we didn't get to kiss before, so-"
"What's going on there?"
Kara turned around. On a bench near them were Doris and Leslie. Doris was looking down at her lap and frowning, while Leslie was talking to her. Kara raised an eyebrow. What was going on?
"Doris, it's fine," Leslie said. "I was just joking about 'missing the action'."
Doris growled, stomping the ground - Kara could have sworn she felt a mild tremor. Probably just a random feeling she got, though. Doris wasn't that strong.
"It's not that!" Doris's angry expression turned to one of sadness. "I wanted this to be really special. I know you love this place, so I wanted to make sure that this was…" She stopped, wrapping her arms around herself. "I just wanted our second month anniversary to be great."
Kara's eyes burst open. "Anniversary?" She whispered.
Leslie just moved onto Doris's lap. "Doris, I-"
"We already missed our first month anniversary because of my dumb parents and their dumb Gotham meeting, so…" She didn't finish, just looking back down at the ground again. She looked sadder than Kara had even seen her. Leslie, meanwhile, looked legitimately sad as well. It was weird.
"Who has a two month anniversary?" Kara muttered, ignoring the fact that she had been planning to throw herself and Babs a surprise six-week anniversary party. Unfortunately that had had to be cancelled. Stupid Harley Quinn with her stupid bank robbery.
"I know, it sucks," said Leslie. She was looking directly at Doris. "But you know what? It's not your fault. I mean, if we'd have known that Gordon and Danvers were going, we wouldn't have shown up at all. Plus it's not your fault that Gordon knocked herself out." She smirked. "Although that was pretty funny. I wish I'd seen it."
Kara gritted her teeth, but she didn't feel like attacking them right now. Something about it didn't feel right.
"Well…" Doris paused. "I don't know. I guess I just wanted to make this special for you."
Leslie nodded. "Yeah, I know. But I still got to spend the day with you, so it was special, really. And hey, we still have the whole night ahead of us!" She put her hands on Doris's shoulders. "My parents aren't home. Want to come back to my place and hang? Maybe make a few stops on the way?"
Doris smiled. "Yeah. Yeah, sure thing."
"Great!" Leslie hugged her, then kissed her on the cheek. "Love ya." She stood up, walking away. "Come on, meathead, we'll miss the bus."
Doris sighed, rolling her eyes. "What did I say about calling me that?"
Leslie laughed, starting to pick up the pace. "You'll have to catch me!"
Doris laughed too, chasing after her. Kara watched them run off, laughing all the way. Soon, they disappeared behind a building.
"They're kinda cute, to be honest."
Kara looked back at Babs. "Who? Doris and Leslie?"
Babs shrugged. "Yeah. Who else would I be talking about?"
Kara raised an eyebrow. "Okay, are you sure you're not concussed?"
Babs just looked up at her. "No, really! I mean, they're still dicks but…" She fidgeted with the drawstrings on her hoodie. "It's nice to see them being happy, and having people they actually like. Wish I could say that others could think like that…"
Kara blinked. "That's a good point, now that I think of it." She smirked. "Say, maybe they'll be less of jerks since they'll be too busy making out to push others around."
Babs giggled. "Unlikely, but I'm sure Karen will be happy with it if it happened."
Kara just looked into the distance, smiling. She was just about to ask Babs what she wanted to do next, she felt something wet hit her cheek. Looking to her left, she saw Babs planting a kiss on her cheek, hugging onto her before pulling away. Kara just looked at her as Babs smiled.
"They're not as cute as us, though," Babs said. Kara just chuckled and stood up.
"Amen to that.." She hoisted Babs onto her shoulders. "Come on, let's go back to my place and play some video games." She then ran off, with Babs whooping and laughing in joy.
