The next day Kara wakes up in the early afternoon. Lena is still asleep beside her. Kara flies to the DEO to thank J'onn and Alex for their help the previous night. When she comes back to the apartment an hour later, Lena is still asleep. Kara gets an alert that there's a shoot-out between the NCPD and three armed robbers downtown. She rushes over to make sure no one gets hurt. When, after her successful intervention, the police officers are putting the robbers into handcuffs, Kara hears about an airplane with engine failure flying over Henderson, Nevada. With some difficulty she manages to get the plane safely on the ground at a nearby airport. By the time she returns to her apartment, it's 6 p.m.

As Kara flies in through the window, she notices at once that the bed, where for so many hours Lena had been sleeping peacefully, is empty. Kara quickly glances around the apartment. There's no one. Deflated, Kara sits down on the couch, still in her Supergirl costume. She contemplates whether she should fly over to Lena's to make sure she's alright, when suddenly the bathroom door opens. Lena emerges, her hair wet and dressed once again in the sweat pants the DEO gave her. Kara recognizes the sweater she has on as one of her own. Even in sweats, she looks beautiful. Kara feels her heart skip a beat.

As Kara gets up, she gives Lena a big smile.

"Hi," Lena says as she smiles back.

As Kara gets closer she sees how the color has returned to Lena's cheeks. There's a spark in her eyes again too. While Lena had seemed so far away the previous night, at times unreachable, she now seems fully there.

"How are you feeling?", Kara asks.

"Good. Hungry."

"Me too!"

When she sees Lena walking over to the couch to put on her black sneakers, Kara asks, "Why don't you stay for some food?"

When Kara sees Lena hesitate, she quickly adds, "What do you feel like?"

Lena stares at her shoes for a moment, furrows her brow, and then says, "Do you remember that Moroccan place we went to a few months ago?"

Kara smiles. "Marrakesh?"

"Yes!"

"I'm on it." Not giving Lena a chance to change her mind, Kara quickly flies out the window.

When Kara returns with the food, Lena has set the table and has poured them both a glass of red wine. Kara quickly changes out of her Supergirl costume and puts on some sweats of her own.

As they dig into a meal of two delicious tagines and lots of hummus, pita, roasted vegetables, and couscous, Lena asks Kara about her day. Kara tells her about the robbery and the Boeing 747-8.

"How many airplanes have you saved by now?", Lena asks at the end of Kara's story.

"Oh, I don't know," Kara says as she shrugs self-deprecatingly and bites into a piece of roasted eggplant.

Thinking that will be the end of that topic, Kara is surprised to hear Lena say, "Well, there was that plane when you first came out as Supergirl."

Kara frowns. "You know about that?"

"Of course!"

"But you didn't live in National City then."

"Come on. That was news everywhere," Lena says with a coy smile.

Kara suddenly realizes she's beaming. Why has this simple exchange made her so happy? Kara doesn't quite understand; she takes a sip of wine.

"Alex was on that plane," Kara tells her.

"Really? Was that why?"

Kara nods.

"What was it like?"

"It was heavy! And hard. It wasn't exactly smooth."

"But you did it."

Kara smiles. "I did."

Lena thinks for a moment and then says, "Well, you saved two planes I was on. And a helicopter."

"Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that."

"That's how we got to know each other. When my brother was trying to kill me."

Suddenly the expression on Lena's face changes completely. Kara can almost see the memories from the previous days come flooding back into her mind. How Lex tricked and captured her. How they waited for Kara to walk into his trap. How he almost killed Kara. How Lena killed him. Lena's eyes glaze over and she swallows hard. For a moment she seems to retreat within herself. Kara sees her pushing her fingernails into the palms of her hands until her knuckles are white. Lena seems to force the memories from her mind. A forced smile appears on her face as she says, "More wine?"

"Lena," Kara says.

Lena raises her eyebrows as if to say, 'What?'

"Are you okay?"

Lena looks at her uncomfortably. She nods. "Yeah, of course."

Lena pours more wine into their glasses. She drinks from her own glass and as she puts it back down, the expression on her face turns hard and cold. She takes a deep breath in. "Kara, I'm sorry I was such a pathetic mess last night," she says. "After everything you went through …."

"Lena, please don't apologize."

"The last thing you …."

"Lena, you can be vulnerable with me."

Kara can tell Lena wasn't expecting this. She looks caught off guard and ill at ease. "I know, but …."

Kara makes sure Lena is looking straight into her eyes when she says, once more, "You can be vulnerable. You can fall apart. It doesn't matter." Kara looks at her lovingly and adds, "I just feel honored that you would come to me and that you would let me be there for you."

Lena's eyes painstakingly scan Kara's face. Kara wonders what Lena's trying, or fearing, to discover. A frown appears on her forehead as she puts her fork down. She continues to stare at Kara. Then, ever so slowly, a smile starts to appear on her face. "Well thank you, then, for taking care of me last night," she finally says.

Kara feels so in love with her. She gives her a warm smile. "You're very welcome."

Lena's face breaks into a mischievous smile as she says, "You were very bossy."

Kara laughs. "I was, wasn't I?"

Lena looks at her glass for a moment and when their eyes meet again, there's such love and desire in Lena's eyes that Kara almost forgets how to breathe.

When they've eaten all the food and emptied the bottle of wine, Kara gets up and clears their plates off the table. When she gets back, Lena is walking around the table with the empty wine glasses in her hands. When she sees Kara approaching her, however, she stops and puts the glasses back down on the table. Slowly she moves in front of Kara. Lena glances down at Kara's mouth and bites her own bottom lip. When she looks into Kara's eyes again, Kara feels her heart pounding in her chest. Lena cups Kara's face with her hand and plants a soft kiss on Kara's lips.

Kara closes her eyes. She grabs hold of either side of Lena's waist to steady herself. How good she smells, Kara thinks. Lena leaves her lips on Kara's for a long while and then slowly moves her head back to look at Kara. Seeing the desire in Kara's eyes, her lips curl up into a tiny smile.

Kara moves her body closer to Lena's, tilts her head, and kisses Lena's neck. As she does so, she feels Lena's hands moving around her ribcage and pressing into her back between her shoulder blades. Kara opens her mouth slightly and gently touches Lena's neck with her tongue as she kisses her again. Lena lets out a soft moan as her fingers press even harder into Kara's back.

Kara moves her head back slowly. For a moment, Lena's eyes remain closed. She looks enraptured. When she opens them again, Lena moves her hands from Kara's back to either side of Kara's face. Then she tilts her own head slightly and kisses Kara deeply. As soon as Kara opens her mouth and feels Lena's tongue slide against her own, Kara's whole body seems to be on fire.

As they continue to kiss, slowly and deeply, Kara feels Lena's hands sliding underneath her sweater. Feeling Lena's bare hands on her belly takes Kara's breath away. She moves away from Lena's lips to catch her breath. As she does so, Lena softly kisses Kara's neck. Feeling Lena's tongue caress her skin sends shivers down Kara's spine. Kara grabs hold of Lena's back as Lena continues to kiss her neck. Kara notices how heavy her own breathing has become. She slowly moves a hand all the way down Lena's back and underneath the elastic waistband of her sweatpants. At once Kara realizes Lena's not wearing any underwear. She presses the front of her body against Lena's as her hand slides down. When she feels Lena's tongue on her neck again, her fingers press into the flesh of Lena's buttock.

At once Lena stops kissing her. She moves her head back to look at Kara. She opens her mouth in pretend-shock. Then she smiles and, as she looks down at Kara's lips again, moves her groin against Kara's and kisses her hard. As Lena's tongue crashes against her own, Kara moves her hand out of Lena's pants and slides both her hands underneath Lena's sweater. She moves her hands up Lena's back and, as she gets more and more turned on, she presses Lena against her own body harder and harder. She has her tongue inside Lena's mouth, when suddenly Lena's pulls away.

"Hold on, hold on," Lena says, out of breath.

Kara immediately lets go. Lena exhales deeply. She puts both her hands on her lower back as she contorts her face. It's clear she's in pain.

Kara feels like she's been punched in the gut.

"I'm so sorry, Lena," she whispers.

"Don't worry about it," Lena says as she tries to steady herself.

"Let me see," Kara says as she slowly moves around Lena.

"Don't," Lena says. "It's nothing."

Kara lifts the back of Lena's sweater. There they are: the marks of ten Kryptonian fingers still visible on Lena's pale skin. Kara lets go of the sweater. Avoiding Lena's gaze, she picks the glasses off the table and walks to the kitchen.

She hears Lena's footsteps behind her.

"Hey," she hears her say softly.

Kara can't even bear to look at her. She puts the glasses into the sink and stares at the wall behind it.

"Kara, can you please stop being silly. I don't break that easily."

She feels Lena's hands on her hips. Slowly Kara turns around. Lena is standing there, smiling, like she's finding it all rather entertaining.

"Lena," Kara starts, trying to find the right words for an apology.

"No, no, no," Lena interrupts her as she moves closer to Kara. "Don't you dare apologize."

She moves her face only inches from Kara's and whispers seductively, "I love that you were so into it that you forgot yourself."

"But …".

Lena puts her index finger on Kara's lips and shakes her head slowly. Then she moves her finger away and kisses Kara's lips.