Hal wasn't sure who was the one to grab his shoulders and start to shake him under the incredulous gaze of the other customers in Sweet Justice, though for the bruises that he saw later he was almost sure that it had been Diana.
"So you waited almost... "Jessica started to say and made a pause to think, then finished the sentence " Eighteen hours to tell us that two of our friends were hurt last night?"
"Hey! I thought that Karen would have told you by now" Hal defended himself and added "Also Barry and Oliver were there too"
"As if Oliver would talk to me" Zee scoffed.
They all rolled their eyes at that after a collective sigh, except for Diana who looked as if she was thinking about something.
The magician seemed to notice that and nudged her arm, then the Amazon said "We should check on both of them, they are our sisters!"
"Oh" Hal said awkwardly "S... Clark called me... he says that Kara is okay and back in her home..."
"Superman called you?" Jessica asked in disbelief while squinting her eyes, of course she knew about Hal trying to be friends with Superman but she didn't think that they would actually have each other's number.
"Clark " The magician said while looking at her latina friend" Helped you all last night?"
"Yes..."
"Oh" Jessica said still a bit shaken by all.
"We should check on Babs" Hal said kind of changing the topic "We already know that Kara is okay, but Barbara is MIA"
"Don't you two have your tutoring session on Sundays?" The female Green Lantern asked with a strange tone.
"She sent a text to cancel the tutoring for today" He explained"She had something to do"
"She isn't home" Barry said while pushing Hal to sit with them "I went to her house during my break and told me that she had gone to Gotham with Harleen"
"Do you believe it?" The male Green lantern asked.
"I don't" The speedster responded"Harleen hasn't been around in a while, last time I saw her was at least two weeks ago"
"But they vould have texted each other" Zee said.
"Still Babs complained that Harleen wasn't responding her texts" Hal said and when the girls looked at him strangely he added "She tells me many things during tutoring, it's hard not to remember some things she says"
"Maybe she told you about the kryptonite and you forgot" Jessica said.
"Did she mention that?" Diana asked to the brown haired boy and he shrugged.
Zee sighed and put a hand on her cheek, she seemed to be pondering onto something and then she said "Let's focus on finding Babs"
"Where could she be?" Jessica asked clamping her hands together.
"I may have an idea" Zee said looking down at the table.
"The headquarters?" Diana asked putting a hand on her chin and then said happily "That's brilliant!"
Then the Amazon moved the napkin holder and they all got into the headquarters, when the group got there they landed outside the mattress they put to soften the fall if they didn't fall in their feet after going down the slide.
Zee had half-expected to see Babs crying her eyes out and eating ice cream but instead she saw Karen and Babs having a passive-aggressive discussion with Oliver and Garth under the gaze of Carter.
A very surprising sight.
"Guys?" Hal said but he was ignored.
"Barbara Gordon I see that you are well" Diana said in a "commander voice".
Babs looked at her and hugged the Amazon while crying, then the redhead said "I'm the worst friend ever!"
"Yes you are" Oliver said almost hissing.
"Shut up Ollie" Hal said creating a boxing glove and then punching his blonde friend in the face.
"Ouch" The archer said rubbing his cheek"Why?"
"You are being a prick" Barry said getting a bit angry "It wasn't her fault!"
"She had kryptonite near her kryptonian friend!" The archer said "Gordon didn't even kept it somewhere safe!"
"He has a point" Zee said and then she noticed that everyone was looking at her in disbelief so she added "I...For the record I never said that"
"Kara shouldn't have looked into the trunk" Karen muttered "But..."
"She went to search for the First Aid Kit...it could have happened to anyone" The speedster said quietly "Babs experiments with many things..."
Then the blonde boy realized that he maybe shouldn't have said that as Babs had winced and Zee squinted her eyes at their redheaded friend.
"Babs didn't meant to hurt her!" Diana said trying to calm them down.
Carter grunted in agreement while Garth just looked down and said "I mean...yes, but why did you keep the thing here?"
"This is no moment to talk about that" Diana said with authority and looked down to Babs "Was your wound tended properly?"
"Hmmm..." Babs hummed.
"I cleaned it"Karen said "Then she said that she could take care of it"
The redhead groaned and said" I did"
"Why didn't you go to a hospital?" Garth asked.
"She needed an ID" Hal started to explain.
"Also she would have to explain how she got it" Barry continued.
"And they would have called " Karen finished.
"Oh"
Then they all decided to sit down in the sofas and Diana said "We should go and talk to Kara"
"Right now?" Babs asked wincing, she didn't want to deal with an angry kryptonian. She was sure that Kara would be angry when she finally realized what happened, of course she had a good heart but it had almost killed her.
"Yes, Barbara" the Amazon said "I'm sure she will like to talk with you"
Hal snorted ungracefully, they all frowned at him and Jessica punched him in the arm while saying "Hal!"
"What? We have to admit that Babs screwed up and that Kara is not the most understanding person when she is hurt, even I know that and we are not friends" He said shrugging, then he looked at Babs who was sat between him and Barry "We know that you didn't want to hurt her...but..."
"But nothing Hal Jordan"Diana said "We all agree that she didn't mean to hurt Kara and that she will go and talk to our friend to explain that she was just..." She made a pause and looked at Babs "What were you trying to do?"
"I was trying to make some kryptonite grenades in case Zod returned, or any other kryptonian treat" She explained.
"Why would you do that?" Jessica said mildly-horrified "We put them back in the phantom zone, they aren't coming back"
"Where did you get the kryptonite, we took the only piece of it from the museum" Karen said while Carter nodded "And it got destroyed"
"I may have returned to that square after we ate the donuts to search for some of the pieces that were left" The bat muttered.
Oliver made a face, looked at the side and crossed his arms. He looked up and sighed "It wasn't destroyed...I took part of it too" He made a pause"To make a kryptonite arrow"
"Oliver!" Zee yelled at him "That's..."
"Felonious" Babs interrupted him but then she blushed a little.
She started wondering if kryptonite arrow beat kryptonite grenades. Then by the look on everyone's faces she supposed that they were on a tie.
"Guys" Zee started to say "We should go to visit Kara"
"Now?" Garth asked "Are you sure?"
The magician nodded and stood up while pushing Oliver to the side "Now, the sooner we talk to her, the sooner she will forgive Babs"
Barry raised an eyebrow but didn't say anything, he hadn't thought about how Kara would react after waking up he had just worried about her dying. He then went upstairs in a flas and grabbed some treats that he knew Kara liked, he paid for them and then went to the girl's headquarters. Then he said "Shall we go now?"
His friends looked a bit uncomfortable, except Diana and so the Amazon said "We shall go to Kara's house"
"We are going to die" Babs says dramatically while grabbing Oliver's arm.
Oliver didn't remove Babs' hands from his arm and instead he put a hand on her head while saying "Correction, you are going to die" then he made a pause before adding"I didn't do anything"
The rest just sighed.
*****In the Danvers House*****
Kara was trying to get used to the lack of powers, when she had woken up at the Fortress of Solitude she hadn't realized how much different the world was without them as she was just focused on getting back home.
She was having a real headache and her limbs hurt a little.
Even after losing her powers, temporarily of course, she still had very good hearing and so she could hear a very familiar engine outside and her mother opening the door.
Her friends were here.
And she wanted to tell them to leave, but on the other hand she wanted to talk to them.
Especially to a certain redhead, she needed a good explanation about the kryptonite in the headquarters.
Her mom knocked on her door and then opened it, Kara rolled her eyes and said interrupting whatever the older woman was going to say "Just let them in"
"Are you sure?"
She nodded while saying "I suppose it would be good to spend time with my friends after...last night"
Eliza just nodded and closed the door. After a few minutes all her friends were there, all ten of them.
Babs seemed to be trying to hide behind Diana and the Amazon seemed to noticed that and grabbed her arm to put the redhead just in front of Kara's bed. The kryptonian noticed that the dumb jock and the speedster flinched a little.
"Hi guys" She simply said and then added "How are you all?"
They seemed to relax and Oliver said "We are fine...how are you?"
"I'm alive" The blonde responded shrugging "Never thought that I would have another near death experience before my 18th birthday though"
That made everyone in there uncomfortable. especially Babs.
Still Karen went and gave Kara a hug as did Jess and Garth while Zee settled for sitting on Kara's bed, the latina said "We were so worried for you"
"As I said I'm alive and...fine"
"We would wanted to come earlier but Hal hadn't told us about it" Jessica explained looking at Hal who in turn shrugged and sent a apologetic look towards the kryptonian who just bit her lip while shrugging back.
Carter put a hand on Kara's shoulder while giving her a flier of the next concerts at
Barry started to whistle and Oliver poked his arm, then the speedster shook his head as if going out of a trance and said while handing her the box he was carrying "Oh! I...we...brought this for you"
The blonde girl muttered a thanks and opened the box carefully, she saw some of her favorite sweets and is delighted to know that Barry does remember what she asks for in Sweet Justice, still she can't help but tease him and so she commented "You have a good memory Barry, though you may need to remember that my favorites are the Eclairs"
Barry winced and started to say "Sorry...I forg-"
Kara laughed and grabbed one of the treats "Don't worry, thank you...guys"
She gave it a bite while Diana said "Now that we know that you are well, you can talk with Barbara and fix things up"
The others just looked at her as if she was crazy, Kara almost spat the sweet. Oliver raised his hands "I...think that Kara needs more time to process...this"
"I agree...I don't think that it would a a good idea..." Jessica started to say.
Kara started to feel conflicted, she wanted to talk to Babs and ask her why would she keep something so dangerous for her in the headquarters, why she hadn't asked if she was good with her that she had kryptonite...
"I think we are a little bit...cramped here" Garth commented looking at the side feeling uncomfortable with the situation.
The Kryptonian looked at her friends for a moment before saying "I don't have powers anymore"
Then she waited for their reactions, all of them seemed confused. And was Oliver looking at her with...pity?
Babs seemed about to cry and Kara couldn't bring herself to tell her that it wasn't her fault, even though she knew that it wasn't...or was it? Maybe it was her own fault for being curious.
The curiosity killed the cat after all.
"So...you are not Supergirl anymore?" Garth asked quietly earning a glare from Zee.
"For now not" She said "My cousin is sure that I'll regain my powers...but he isn't sure about how long will it take" Then added "I'll be back at being Supergirl soon enough"
"I hope so...saving the city without you will not be the same" Karen said hugging the kryptonian.
"And we as your sisters..." Diana started to say and then looked at the boys " And brothers we will be at your side"
"Figuratively mainly, because we have things to do and..."Hal started to say and Jessica poked his arm.
"Ow" He complained and smiled weakly at Kara "You know what I mean"
"Of course" She said grinning at him and added "May I talk to Babs? Alone I mean"
The others exchanged looks and Diana said "Sure! Take your time...we'll be at my new residence if you were to need us"
"We?" Barry asked "I have to pick my friend at the airport..."
"I have to rehearse for another show with my Dad" Zee said and looked at Diana "
"And my sister arrives today...I have to clear my room" Jess muttered.
"Do you share a room with your sister?" Zee asked.
"Yeah, I was glad to have the room for myself while she was in college but now she is back"
"This is why I'm thankful for not having siblings" Kara commented in a bored tone "So, guys...you may go now" She looked at Barry "Thank you"
"You are welcome" He said softly and debated between giving her a hug, patting her shoulder or shaking hand. In the end he decided to bump fists which gained a snort from Oliver.
Zee, Jessica,Karen and Garth gave Kara a hug, Diana and Hal opted for a handshake,Carter gave her a bump fist and Oliver just patted her head while saying "See you later".
And so her friends left the room, leaving her with Babs.
The redhead was totally uncomfortable and started to say "I...just let me explain..."
Kara raised an eyebrow and interrupted her "Yeah, it would be interesting since you almost killed me"
"I would have never tried to use it on you and you know it" Babs said sincerely "It was...just in case"
"Just in case of what?"
"In case a kryptonian treat appeared...we fared well enough against Zod, Ursula and the other one..." She took a breath and continued"But I couldn't help but trying to have another..."
"Another what?"
"Another plan against them, if they came back we can't use the same strategies that we used...then"
"If they return you have me, Wonder Woman, the Lanterns and...Superman" Kara scoffed "You don't need anything else"
"Yeah, but what if you get defeated by a kryptonian menace? We can't totally rely on ourselves to defeat it!" Babs started to raise her voice a little and added"What about Doomsday?Superman has faced him a few times and has never totally defeated it"
Kara snorted and responded "I can take him out any day..."
The girls fell silent and the tension between them was deep, then the Kryptonian asked "Why did you keep the kryptonite there?"
"I have my lab there, I can't have it home since my p...dad could find it" The bat explained after a sigh "I didn't think that you would find it"
"But I did"
"You shouldn't have looked into my things..." Babs muttered and immediately regretted it as Kara gave her a half-angered half-hurt look.
"So...you are not even sorry?"
"I am sorry, but..."
"But, what?"
"You know that I would never use those kryptonite grenades against you"
Kara seemed to consider it for a moment, she was sure that Babs wouldn't use it against her...but she was too pissed off and she had temporarily lost her powers, so she said "No friend of mine would have kryptonite"
Then she instantly regretted it, that had been too hurtful and she knew that it had been like a dagger to the heart
"Oliver had a kryptonite arrow, you are still friends with him" Babs said again feeling the tears forming in her eyes.
The blonde resisted the urge to roll her eyes, she knew that Oliver had a kryptonite arrow somewhere, but at least he didn't keep it near her and well, she knew that he wouldn't use it against her, he was more likely to use it against Clark any day of the week, mainly for being a jerk.
Also they weren't as close as she and the girls, she didn't expect too much from her archer friend like she did with her teammates.
"Look, I..." She started to say.
"Do you hate me now?"
"I don't hate you..." Kara said almost rolling her eyes and scoffing "I hate that you had kryptonite, failed to tell me that and your kryptonite grenades left me without the only thing that mattered to me!"
"You said that it was temporarily"
"I don't know how long this will take!" She almost screamed but then motioned Babs to get closer, then added in a whisper "Mom says that the D.E.O. can restore my powers in exchange of ...kryptonian knowledge"
"What's the D.E.O.?"
Kara cursed under her breath and said "The simple answer is that it is an organization that monitor alien activity on Earth"
"Oh"
"Yeah" The blonde tilted her head "So...I may take up their offering though the notion of sharing my knowledge with the is not something I really want"
"Why not?"
"I don't really trust them, I mean my cousin has worked with them in the past...but he doesn't anymore..."
Babs then asked with a thoughtful expression and asked "Why are you telling me this?"
"I just needed to let this out" She responded simply while shrugging "Also you caused the problem so you should help me solve this"
The redhead frowned a bit, she had expected more...rage from Kara. She would have accepted yelling,accusations and insults but having Kara being so understanding? was worse than rage. Oh, she knew that she had a long way to go to regain the kryptonian's trust completely, even if she hadn't mentioned it,but at least she hadn't been shut out.
This was so confusing for her, so she said "I...don't know what to tell you"
"Great"
***The next day at Metropolis High***
Kara had talked to Babs for a while trying not to make it too uncomfortable for both of them, she had tried not to bash her friend too much, it had been her fault too for being far too curious.
Still, she missed her powers.
She missed Supergirl.
The previous day she had tried to get accustomed to her new levels of strength, senses and other stuff. That had been far too hard for her since she had grown accustomed over the past three years to keep certain refrain from using all her strength and she had to control every time she touched something.
Her parents had been really understanding and well, they took the changes with a smile as they did with everything and they didn't even say anything against Babs.
Hell, they had even invited her to stay for dinner. Luckily, she had declined the invitation and practically had run away from her home.
She snorted while climbing up the stairs towards the school, then she saw Oliver half-flirting with a girl and a very bored Hal and a mortified Barry, for a moment she considered talking to them but she wasn't in the mood to meet new people so she kept walking towards the gates. After considering it for a few seconds she decided that she wasn't in the mood to talk to any of her friends.
At least for the duration of their classes.
Maybe the whole day.
After all they didn't have much in common besides being superheroes and she was now on forced leave.
She was walking towards her locker when a guy tripped while carrying a lot of books and fell down on his face, for a moment she almost laughed but then she decided that she could be a "hero" even without her powers and walked to pick up the books.
"Here you have them" She said handing the books back to the guy and noticed that he had pretty blue eyes.
Suddenly she felt a strange sensation in her stomach and her face started to feel a bit hot.
Maybe it was a side effect from the kryptonite she breathed.
"Thank you" He said smiling at her and offered his hand to shake "I'm Richard Malverne"
"Kara Danvers" She said while shaking his hand "Are you new?"
"Yes, I know it's a bit late in the semester but my parents got transferred to Metropolis suddenly"
"Oh"
He smiled at her while showing his schedule to her "Do you know where is this home room?"
"We are in the same home room" She said and smiled at him"I can show you the way, if you want of course"
"Lead the way" He said brightly.
For some reason she had the feeling that his presence at the school would be really interesting.
***Later***
They shared three classes during the morning and she found herself enjoying his company while avoiding her friends.
Especially Zee and Jessica as they shared the same classes.
She had been successful so far, Jessica had just said "hi" in the morning when she appeared with Richard on their homeroom.
When she arrived at the cafeteria, she considered to sit with her other friends but Zee motioned her to sit with her while the others arrived.
They all ate together on Mondays and Fridays, for some reason Diana thought that it would help them strengthen their bonds and things like that. So far they all were friends with each other but everyone was closer to their own team and someone in the other.
She,paradoxically, was slightly closer to both Zee and Oliver than to the others. Still she knew that Karen was Zee's best friend and Hal was Oliver's though Hal was close to Barry.
"How are you?" The magician asked as the kryptonian sat in front of her.
"Fine" She shrugged "And you?"
"Great"
Then the awkward silence started until the other seated were taken by their friends and their chatter started, mainly Jessica's incessant talk about the next ecologist rally that her Mum was organizing and Zee and Oliver's complaints about the musical. Of course Kara tried to block their voices out and realized that even without her enhanced sense she found them annoying, but she couldn't help but half-listen to their conversation.
"I don't know why you can't go to the rally with me, it's on Friday!" Jessica said almost outraged at their lack of...whatever she found them lacking "Well maybe Barry and Babs have to work, but the rest of you have time!"
Also everyone had excuses to not go, they were the same as always.
"You know that my parents won't let me go if Zee doesn't" Karen excused herself "And Garth needs me to go if he wants to get permission from his mom"
"I don't need it" Garth said crossing his arms "I'm independent"
"You know I'm a very occupied person" The magician said with a smile and then shot daggers at Oliver "I would be free to go if this...actor started learning his line for the musical!"
"Hey! I tried to but the script is far too modified for my taste and if I don't like it, I can't learn it faster" The archer said quite offended.
Carter just grunted as he always did, Barry interpreted it as that he had to go to feed the birds at the park and that took him quite a bit of his time.
"I would gladly go to your rally" Diana said bowing her head "But Steve and I are working on something, I may inform the rest of you later"
"Look Jess...I have a lot of homework and this girl" Hal pointed at Babs who smirked a little" Has to make up for my missed tutoring"
"I was dying Hal" Kara intervened rolling her eyes and getting into the conversation.
"Yeah, but if I fail science it will be her fault"
"Talking about tutoring"Kara said while putting arm arm around Barry who was sat by her side "I think that we should keep that up since I'm...you know what for a while"
"Of course" He said "Will you teach me kryptonian physics now?"
That surprised everyone but Karen was the one to speak "Aren't you her tutor? Shouldn't you be the one to teach her science"
"Girl, in Krypton we did Calculus by age four" The blonde rolled her eyes "Before Krypton exploded I was about to get into the Science Guild..."
"I find hard to believe that" The younger girl said surprising her friends "You are always failing classes and you didn't understand what I was saying when that chemical monster appeared"
"We had different names for those, I spent almost a year trying to learn basic English so I didn't want to spent another one learning technical English" She shrugged.
"Interesting" Babs said putting her hand on her chin "Can I join you and Barry to learn kryptonian science?"
Kara squinted her eyes for a moment, the fact that she talked to Babs didn't mean that she was truly "forgiven" and that she fully trusted her, but after considering it for a moment she managed to say "Sure, but if you get to be with us Karen does too...if she had time to do it as she is Zee's personal assistant" Then added "Also you have to make sure Hal get into AP Science"
"If God helps me" The redhead muttered while looking up.
Karen squealed and said "Maybe I can finally get my suit to make me bigger!"
"Maybe" Kara muttered.
Then Zee said clamping her hands together "Now that we are done talking about science and other stuff" She made a pause and looked at Kara's eyes "We can talk about the important stuff, who was that boy?"
"Which boy?" Kara asked making a face.
"The one with you this morning" Karen explained.
"Oh" The kryptonian said and pressed her lips together "That was Richard...Malverne"
Oliver who was taking a sip from his juice got surprised and spat it out, unfortunately Garth was in front of him. The archer just mouthed an apology and said "Malverne?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Nothing, just that my parents used to know the Malvernes " He said shrugging and added "I just didn't know they had any children"
"He is cute" Zee pointed out gaining a scoff from Oliver and Hal "Right, Kara?"
Kara choked on her drink, well Oliver's, and started coughing. Diana patted her back gently and after a few seconds she calmed down.
"I don't know what you are talking about" She managed to say and put a hand on her throat "I don't know how people live with pain,it's too...painful"
"If I were you I wouldn't complain" Jessica said "You only on day one of being...human-like"
"Wait till you fell down...on your face" Hal commented and added looking at his juice box as it was something interesting"Not that it happened to me"
"Or get your fingers smashed by a door" Garth added.
"Or cut your finger with paper" Karen said showing her finger as she had cut it with a test that morning.
"I hope this just ends" Kara said and gave a look at Babs "I'm thinking about how to fix it"
"Now, on the guy" Zee said trying to get the conversation back on the topic she wanted.
"I just helped him this morning" Kara said rolling her eyes "It's not like I like him, we just met"
"There's love at first sight" Jessica said teasing her a bit.
"Diana and Steve for example" Barry commented "Though she is Amazonian and she hadn't seen a guy before" Then he put a hand on his chin "Since there is a Superman, I suppose you have met guys before coming to Earth..."
The blonde girl resisted the urge to face-palm and was about to say something but Carter grunted and Barry translated it as "I saw her blushing when she talked to him this morning, during all classes they were sat near and talked a lot"
Kara had forgotten that he was in most of her classes, he was so quiet that she usually forgot about him unless it was too go to concerts or super hero stuff. Also she blushed but she didn't notice until Hal pointed it out.
She wanted to punch him but decided against it and grabbed her sandwich, then she threw it at his face.
He simply grabbed it and gave it a bite, then asked "Chicken?" Then made a pause "With mustard?"
Then Jessica proceeded to talk about how much better it would be if they changed their eating habits, so far she had only convinced Karen to start eating vegetarian meals and Hal now ate salads if it had enough Caesar dressing.
Kara refused to become vegetarian, in Krypton the food was fairly tasteless and since she tried a cheeseburger three years ago...well she wasn't changing meat for anything in the galaxy.
After that their lunch period ended and Kara decided that she wouldn't ditch History just this once time, so she joined Hal, Oliver,Zee and Babs on their walk towards the classroom. She noticed that Babs was a bit sad and she looked as if she couldn't sleep.
"Serves her well" Kara thought uncharitably and cringed at her own thoughts, she was being a bit cruel but wasn't in the mood to talk like the day before.
"Hey Kara!" She heard someone say behind her back, when she turned she saw Richard.
Then again she felt a strange sensation in her stomach and her face started to feel hot again, she felt a nudging on her arm and turned a bit to see an amused Oliver. After a few seconds she turned again to Richard and said "Wassup?" Then coughed and said "Richard"
She could almost feel Zee facepalming.
"So...I was...Can I get you number?" Richard said rubbing his neck and smiling a bit "I..."
Kara felt again a nudging on her arm and said "Sure..."
After the awkward exchange, Zee decided that she had enough of it and extended her hand while saying "My name is Zee Zatara, my other friend is Barbara Gordon and this guy is Hal Jordan" Oliver coughed and she rolled her eyes, then added while pointing at the blonde boy "This doofus is Oliver Queen"
"Queen? As in Queen Industries?" Richard asked surprised.
"Yeah" Oliver said rolling his eyes, he was used to that, especially after moving to Metropolis and going to a public school.
They all went into and awkward silence until Babs said "We have to get to class...like in two minutes"
"Do you have History with ?" Richard asked to everyone in the group but Kara felt as if he was looking straight into her eyes.
She really liked his eyes.
"Yes" Hal said and grabbed Oliver and Babs by their arms "And we have to run, if we don't we may have detention"
"Then you can show me the way" He simply said and his attention was back at Kara.
"Yes, of course" Kara responded and saw Zee cringing a bit.
The strange feeling in her stomach stayed through the class, maybe she should have eaten her sandwich instead of throwing it at Hal.
***That afternoon***
All the girls, Garth, Steve and Hal were in the girls headquarters.
For a reason they all had started hanging out more, which didn't particularly bother Kara but sometimes she felt that they were a bit cramped as they hadn't managed to replace all the seats she had burned with her heat vision when they had decided that they couldn't be friends with Harleen.
Now they knew that the feeling was mutual, Harleen had avoided spending time with them since then.
Kara thanked Rao for that*
She was cleaning her dumbbells and noticed that though she wasn't a strong as before, she was stronger than her friends. Jessica and Zee always tried to maintain the headquarters as clean as possible so they cleaned everything except for her dumbbells and her training stuff as they couldn't lift them.
Babs was doing homework with Hal, Zee was reading a fashion magazine with Karen as the younger girl was trying to redesign a dress for the Fashion Club, Diana was sharing and ice cream with Steve, and Garth was talking to Jessica about something related to LexCorp and environment.
Suddenly Zee screamed surprising everyone.
"What the hell?" Kara said covering her ears as the others did too.
"Gee...could you have screamed a little louder, Zee?"Hal said in a very annoyed tone "I'm trying to do my homework here"
"It's not like that will get you into college Hal"Zeesaid noncantanly
"It's not like you will go to college Zee" He responded shrugging and handed his notebook to Babs "I think I finally did it well, math is not really my thing"
"You both are being mean" Jessica scolded them.
"They may be telling the truth" Diana commented.
"I don't know why the guys have taken into spending tie here though" The magician muttered.
"We like here" Garth said" And you invited us"
"We are friends" Steve added.
That made them feel uncomfortable and Zee returned to read her magazine, Karen then took out her cell phone and started writing something on it.
"You are doing well" The redhead praised Hal's homework and handed him a candy "Now we can start with physics"
The college comment had made Kara become interested in their conversation and started considering if she should invest more time in...her terrestrial education. The physics one made her miss a little bit her old life at Krypton, she had excelled at it by age three and she was this close on joining the Science Guild.
Since she wanted to avoid thinking about her old home, she decided that she would join Hal and Babs in their studying so she pushed the Quarterback a bit to make specce for herself while asking "What are you studying?"
"Forces and motions" Babs said without looking up from her own notebook "Again"
"Oh"
She was silent during the explanation as she was resisting the urge to comment on how basic the exercises were but she had to admit that they were good enough practice and for her to start remembering her previous education.
After a while and after Hal had finally finished his homework, Kara suddenly asked "What are you planning to do after graduation?"
"Me?I suppose something related to computers and...well I was thinking about Librarian Science" Babs shrugged.
"Why?" Kara asked, that seemed far too boring. Then she remembered that her aunt Lara had been one.
"I think that it may be useful to have all access to many types of information"
"That's why Internet exist"
"Yes" The bat conceded "But not everything is on Internet" She looked away as if remembering something.
"I may study Biology" Jessica commented "I plan to be a vet"
"That makes sense" Garth said "You like animals"
"You like fish, what are you planning to do?" The latina asked.
"I don't know..." He shrugged "I'm not graduation for another three years"
"I'm in the same grade as you and I already know" Karen said and smiled "Mechanical engineering"
"You have talent for...that stuff"Garth complimented her and Karen blushed "I mean when you tried to get into the Robotics Club, you were far better that the rest of us"
"Thanks..."
"I will be the greatest magician in the world" Zee said with gleaming eyes "I'll get my own show pretty soon, so I don't need to go to college"
"I'm going to Air Force Academy" Steve said getting into the conversation while Diana put her head on his shoulder "I want to be pilot like my mother"
Kara noticed that Hal tensed a bit at her side and she nudged him, Hal then asked "And you Danvers, what are you doing after graduation?"
"You first Jordan" She asked back.
"I asked first"
"Be a gentleman for once"
"Ladies first"
"I can still punch you in the face, you know?"
"Fine" He seemed to consider what he was going to say "I may take a sabbatical, go on a road trip with Oliver, maybe backpacking...who knows, we have another year to think about" The quarterback said shrugging.
"I thought you wanted to be a pilot" Babs blurted out and then she gulped. If looks could kill, the redhead would already be dead and Hal would have been the one to end her life with his green glare.
Hal just turned his back on her and said "Now, answer the question Danvers"
"Well...I hadn't given it a thought" She admitted "College wasn't an option so..."
"Well you said that you weren't going "Karen said "I don't know why I had the idea that you would join a band and go on a tour with them"
"You play the guitar very well" Zee complimented the kryptonian.
"And you like music" Jessica added.
Kara put a hand on her chin, she had not considered that. Before Krypton exploded she was going to become a scientist, joining the Artist Guild was never an option for her; then she came to Earth and she focused on becoming a heroine as her only task, raise Kal, was already done.
Maybe she should consider turning her hobby into a career, especially since she didn't know how long it would take for her to regain her powers.
Then suddenly the alarm Babs had installed to alert them about villains started to sound. The bat took out her cellphone and said "They are in the mall, Giganta,Catwoman and Livewire"
"What ever happened to Star Sapphire?" Zee asked and then shrugged "At least she hasn't been causing any trouble"
"And Harley Quinn disappears once more" Babs muttered and then punched the air "Let's go"
"And Diana?" Jessica asked pointing at the Amazon and Steve.
"Oh no, not again" Kara muttered.
Her friends were glad that their Amazon friend could finally talk to Steve and be around him without drooling and acting awkward, but her attetion always drifted away
"Steve!" Hal said pointing at him "Get burgers for the celebration"
"I'm on it!" The blonde boy said happily.
They all were going to the battle but then Jessica said "Kara...I think you should stay...this time"
"What? Why?" She asked dumfoundedly.
"Well...you don't have powers anymore" Karen said quietly and hidded behind Zee.
"And you don't have training" Diana added with an apologetic look "You relie...rely on your strength"
Kara was about to argue and realized that they were telling her the truth, so she crossed her arms and said "Good luck"
She sighed and went back to the sofa while her friends went out of the headquarters.
After half an hour, she started to get really bored when a text popped up.
It was Richard.
And he was asking what was the best place for ice cream in Metropolis, of course Sweet Justice was her automatic answer.
After a few minutes he texted again "So, Kara, want to head over to Sweet Justice later?"
The blonde had to admit that she hadn't been asked out many times and Ma's stranger-danger talks had been drilled into her head as soon as she arrived, but there was something that gave her a good feeling about this guy.
She couldn't help but text "Are you asking me on a date?"
"Or two people hanging out" He texted back.
For a moment she considered turning him down but as she had nothing to as being Supergirl had been her part-time job. Then she decided to say yes and texted back.
Then there was that strange feeling in her stomach and felt her cheeks burning.
***With the others***
They defeated the villains after a long battle, somehow Giganta had gotten stronger and unexpectedly Star Sapphire had re-joined them after a long absence.
And she was pretty angry at the Green Lanterns.
Still they had won and were going back to the headquarters when Jessica said "Are we really ignoring the elephant in the room?"
"What elephant?" Diana asked.
"It was just an expression" Zee explained "We aren't ignoring anything"
"We are acting as if nothing happened less than two days ago!"
"Kara is acting normal" Hal pointed out "Though she was kind of ignoring us this morning"
"Well...she said that she wasn't exactly angry at me..." Babs said uncomfortably "But...I think it's better to act...normal for now, she is trying to act normal around us"
"Let's not make things too awkward, so far it's working" The magician said "I...don't know what to say to Kara or what to do"
"We can only make her feel comfortable, until she is back at being Supergirl" Garth said. He kind of understood, his powers were part of his persona and he didn't know what would he do if he were to lost them; his friends only became his friends because he was a superhero.
"Steve must be back with the burgers at your place" Hal added and his stomach grumbled.
"Let's go" Babs said grabbing his arm and added "Sometimes I wish I had superspeed"
They met with Steve at the park and Zee texted Kara so she could come to eat with them but the blonde just texted that she had a date.
Zee just smiled a bit.
I may write a short chapter about Kara's date, idk.
You can leave your suggestions in the comments or send a PM :D
And I really appreciate all your reviews, they encourage me to continue with the stories.
See you in a few weeks,maybe a month, I am returning to university on June 8th apparently so I will be occupied for a while and I will be taking my TOEFL preparation classes (I think that it is fairly obvious that English is my second language :'D) so I won't have much time to write though I assure you that I won't put this story on hold.
*Main kryptonian deity.