Lena threw her keys on the counter and haphazardly slung her shoes in the vicinity of the shoe rack by the front door. She'll take care of them tomorrow. Right now it's 2am, the offending heels have been the bane of her existence and the only thing she's looking forward to is the soft, soft bed with the even softer linens down the end of the obscenely long hallway just beckoning her to soul soothing slumber.

She practically dives into the bed shimmying out of her skirt and pulling off her bra without removing her shirt, then thrusts her head back into her pillow and sighs heavily. After several minutes, she grumbled and tossed over to her side when sleep didn't take her immediately, her mind still rebelliously active. "Go to sleep, Lena!" She groaned, chastising herself through her pillow.

She spent a few more moments with her eyes clenched shut and her body stiff, unable to fully relax. It had been two weeks of non stop work, everything that could go wrong seemed to have found a way to in just a matter of ten days and she was left dealing with the aftermath. Her head scientist within her R&D department was petrified of her the moment she entered the lab now. Good. She thought to herself. If having the fear of God put in him at her mere presence scared him into actually doing his job, then maybe he'd be allowed to keep it after this. Meanwhile, she was having to work extra hours, going down to the lab daily to work on fixing the near six million dollar proto type therapy machine, because a few idiots couldn't find the time to fully read the newest reports she had sent them. The tension coil was fixed at least. However the problem with overheating seemed to persist and then this morning the minor albeit devastating explosion that completely fried the motherboard and now they were basically back to square one, with a shell of a machine but no brain to work it.

Her head popped up off the pillow. "Fuck! I can't believe I didn't think of this sooner." Lena leapt off the bed and rushed to her purse, digging for her phone. It was 2am, she tried to remind herself. Most people would be considerate of another person's normal sleep schedule. However most people weren't in charge of a multi-billion dollar company or had a 6 million dollar piece of garbage sitting in their basement. She was beyond the point of being considerate and on the verge of being desperate.

She scrolled through her contacts and hastily jabbed her finger on the name that would hopefully save her from this ever growing nightmare. She heard it ring three times and felt her mind scream, she just needed him to pick up and agree so she could have some reassurance and hopefully be rewarded with some sleep. She pressed her fingers to her eyes trying not to be annoyed that Brainy wasn't answering the phone.

"Hello?" A gruff and sleepy voice answered. "Lena?" The heavy sound of sleep lifting only slightly more and Lena stiffened and pulled her phone away from her face and stared at the screen in disbelief.

"Lena? Are you ok?" Kara's voice was now much more alert and the alarm in it, jolted Lena out of her stupor.

"Kara, I'm so sorry. I actually didn't mean to call you, I must've accidentally hit Danvers instead of Dox on my phone." Lena said quickly. "I'm sorry, go back to sleep."

"Wait. I'm up now, what on earth were you calling Brainy for at...2AM? It's two in the morning?"

Lena bit her lip and migrated to the end of her bed and sat down. "I'm sorry, Kara. Truly, I didn't mean to wake you up. I shouldn't have even tried to call Brainy…"

"What did you need Brainy for?"

"I was going to offer him a job he hopefully couldn't refuse and then by extension relieve me of some stress." Lena sighed, very tired and now feeling suddenly defeated. She was overwhelmed with work and hearing Kara's voice at the other end of the line both lifted and crushed her spirit at once in the most absurd way. She missed her, but they hadn't spoken since after she found out she had gone on a date with Diana. For that matter it's been slightly over two weeks since that meeting with Diana and they could've potentially gone out more than that one time since then. She didn't want to dwell on that thought for too long.

"You want to talk about it?" Kara asked softly.

"Kara, I woke you up. It's 2am. I really, really appreciate that you would ask, but even I don't want to talk about the disaster that is my life right now." Lena leaned back in her bed and through her arm over her eyes.

"Well then tell me something else." Kara said happily. Too happily, she was much too awake for Lena's liking now.

"Are you serious right now?" Lena asked, receiving a soft chuckle from Kara on the other end.

"Yes, it'll help, I promise. Plus once I'm up it's hard for me to go back to sleep easily so you'll be helping me too. I also haven't heard or spoken to you in forever now and I need a Lena fix."

"What should I talk about?" Lena asked genuinely needing inspiration, because work has consumed all of her thoughts lately and she has no clue what to say.

"Anything, something funny, or something interesting. I don't care, whatever you have to say I'm sure will be great." Kara offered. Lena could hear her shifting in bed and she suddenly could picture her sitting up against her head board, getting more comfortable for whatever bedtime story Lena could come up with and the thought amused Lena so much that she laughed lightly and then inspiration hit.

"Ok, I got something." Lena announced proudly.

"Wait. wait. Facetime me." Kara said quickly.

Lena shuffled to the top of her bed and quickly turned on the lamp, she ran her fingers through her hair before hitting the Facetime icon. Kara's face came into view and they both smiled widely.
"Well hello and good morning to you Ms. Luthor." Kara said happily.

"Good Morning Kara." Lena said as she rolled her eyes.

"Ok so tell me. Whatcha got?" Kara asked. She put her fist under her chin to show feigned interest, her dopey grin shining brightly through the screen.

"I got Sam to cuss the other day."

"Huh?" Lena smiled to herself at having blindsided Kara. "I'm confused."

Lena laughed. "She said 'ass' and I nearly felt my jaw unhinge from the shock of it."

"Huh, has she never cussed before? Interesting, guess I never noticed that about her."

"Not never, just not since Ruby, and of course you wouldn't. You are without a doubt the best person I know and I have never once heard you utter a harsher word than crap or shut up."

Kara straightened and wrinkled her eyebrows, "That can't be true, I've said worse things than that."

"Like what? Kara, when we were at our worst with each other, you never once cussed."

"I called you a villain. That counts."

"Not when it was the truth." Lena raised her eyebrow at her reprovingly.

"It wasn't though. Not then and certainly not now." Kara's eyes were beseeching and she was offering what little she could in that moment, because this wasn't something they talked about. Lena shook her head in dismissal.

"Villain is not a curse word, Kara. But let's not get into an argument over that, cause it will be one. So I'm going to skate on past that comment and reiterate that Kara Danvers has never said a bad word."

"I have to!" Kara looked affronted by this and Lena couldn't help but laugh at how adorable it was.

"Alright, prove it. Say fuck."

"No! I'm not going to prove it. I'm no show pony. Besides you can't make me say that word as the default bad word… can't we start with something less abrasive maybe?"

This made Lena smile so wide her cheeks hurt. "You are literally proving my point as we speak. I just want to make that clear. Ok, fine. You can't say 'fuck,' then say 'bitch'."

Kara looked scandalized. "No! That's, that's worse!"

Lena threw her hands up in both exasperation and deep amusement. "How? How is that worse?"

"Because it just is. Bi— The B-... ugh that word…" Kara glared through the phone daring Lena to comment on her inability to say it out loud before she continued. "— is a word that is directed at a person expressly to demean them. The F-word…"

"Kara." Lena interrupts, chuckling to herself as she puts her hand on her face. "'F-word?' Really? Just fucking say fuck!" She blasts through her laughter.

"The F-word," Kara repeats, her eyes full and bright as her own amusement at the conversation grows. "Isn't typically used to be derogatory, it's used to express a strong emotion."

"Ok, thank you for the lesson, and for the reminder of how tooth rottingly good you are. Now say it."

"I can't."

"Why not?" Lena tittered.

"Because it's… it's peer pressure-" Kara said sitting up straighter, proud of finding some excuse other than 'I don't want to,' "-and I'm a role model for the youth and I won't give into this petty argument for the sake of proving a point." She gave a swift and firm nod as an end to her argument.

"Ok. Ok. I give up. Honestly I'm not sure what I would have done just now if you had said it. I think I would have felt massively guilty for corrupting your innocence." Lena scrunched her lips down tightly as she tried so very hard not to smile at that.

"I'm not that innocent." Kara muttered as her lip turned outward slightly in that pretty little pout of hers.

"You are, Kara." Lena said so softly and filled with adoration that the moment lost its playfulness. "Maybe not innocent in the sense that; you understand loss like no one ever could and because of that carry the weight of the world on your shoulders, but in the way that you don't let that affect how you see the world, or treat those around you. In that way you absolutely are and it's why so many are attracted to the light that shines from within you." There was a long pause as the weight of Lena's words sat heavily in the air.

Kara watched her with such deep affection and what looked like longing that it made Lena shift, averting her eyes and clearing her throat. "Sorry that was— I didn't mean to make this into a serious thing… seems I couldn't help myself."

"No." Kara whispered her voice cracked slightly as her eyes glistened. "No." She repeated slightly stronger. "That was— um, thank you. Thank you for that."

Lena smiled tightly, uncomfortable now in her own skin and nodded curtly as she tried to guard her heart from the soft, gentle look Kara was sending her way. She cleared her throat and ran her fingers through her hair pulling it to the side and over her shoulder all at once. She heard Kara sigh deeply, "Um, so anyways, I guess that's my 'something else' to share." Lena shrugged.

"Best 2AM conversation buddy bar none." Kara said proudly. That hit heavier than Lena would care to admit. Buddy, right. Just friends.

Lena smiled and chose to accept it for what it was and nodded. "It is nice I guess to have someone to share a bunch of useless nothingness back and forth with."

"Nothing you say is ever useless." Kara said in a half joking way, her lips curling upward.

Lena scoffed. "Tell that to my board." She countered. "And my R&D team…" She sighed at the reminder of what her last couple of weeks had been like.

"I just might." Kara offered. "How about I swing by and we do lunch together? If I play my cards right with Andrea I might be able to turn it into a work meeting and I can do a quick Q&A with you, extending our lunch a bit longer." Kara perked up at this.

"That sounds wonderful Kara." Lena said. "But I don't have the time." She sighed frustrated at this. "I really wish I did."

Kara looked at her sympathetically. "I understand."

"Sometime soon though. Ok? I promise. I just have to put out a lot of fires right now and it's consuming all of my time and energy. Even if I could make lunch plans I wouldn't be good company."

"Lena, you're telling me this at, what is it now? 2:30 in the morning, after being great company, I beg to differ."

"Well my brain is fried right now and I'm borderline delirious."

"That just adds to your charm." Kara said. Lena made a noise in disagreement and put her hand to mouth to cover her yawn. "Get some sleep, Lena."

"Mmm. Thanks to you, I might enjoy a few hours of actual rest." Lena said her, eyelids drifting closed despite her attempts at keeping them open. Exhaustion was finally taking over her overworked body.

"Then sweet dreams, Lena."

"Good night, Kara."