Bursting with Secrets

-Kara -

"Alex, Alex, Alex, Alex, Alex, Alex, Alex," Kara yelled rapidly banging on her sister's door trying to be careful not to warp the frame again.

"Jesus Christ! What Kara!? Alex yelled yanking the door open revealing a woman who would probably be fiercely intimidating to anyone else, sweating in white wifebeater and black tactical pants.

Kara took a deep breath and let out in a rush, "AlexIthinkImightbegaynowbutImintroublebecauseitsonlyasSupergirlandIdontknowhowtotakekissesbackorhowImgoingtoactallkaradanversyaroundhersoIhavetotellhernow."

"Kara, I swear to God, if this is a Kryptonian brainteaser," Alex said massaging her forehead. Seeing Kara shake her head violently, she gestured her in. "No, well then your tongue needs to move slower with spaces between all the sounds."

Alex, probably worried that a Kryptonian panic attack would break all of her furniture, took Kara into the gym. Tapping the foam mat beside her for Kara to sit, Alex then glanced in the direction of her medical bag with uncertainty, which held enough tranquilizer to take down a small town.

Kara, feeling exasperated that her own sister couldn't just tell what was obviously going on refused to sit down pacing back and forth across the foam matted floor and wondering if Alex would let her replace the punching bag with her cement bricks. Punching stuff sounded like an awesome idea right now.

Alex continued to stare at her as she paced. The older Danvers sister had used that same expression to get the Kryptonian to spill for years.

And she did. Kara told Alex about all the feelings she had when she met Lena and how she kind of…well stalked Lena's heartbeat in that way Alex hated.

She told her about the eye looks and feeling embarrassed and tingly all the time and then grudgingly got to the kissing and the other things that made her blush.

Alex stood and opened her arms out in front of her, "Come here Little Sis," she said wrapping around Kara and kissing her forehead.

Pulling back, Alex held the Kryptonian at arms length by her biceps, and asked irritability, "Well then why were you such a weirdo about me coming out then?"

"I don't know Alex," Kara whined dropping her arms and starting to pace again. "Kryptonians aren't really anything. We get the one perfect, computer generated match and then that's kind of it. I think my Kryptonian brain got mixed up with Earth rules, because everything about sex and um," she hesitated gesturing below Alex's waist, "parts... is a big deal here. Because you have to use them or whatever to make new humans."

Pausing again in her pacing, she looked Alex in the eyes admitting, "You know how the birthing matrix worked on Krypton, and the matches were always perfect. No one ever got divorced, ever. To be honest, without the matching system, I feel like I've just been guessing which guys I should like."

Alex, heart breaking over her weird little alien sister, admitting to herself that she knew exactly where Kara was coming from and relented in her irritation. "Fine, but does it have to be with Lena Luthor? The owner of the largest pile of kryptonite on the planet, the daughter to the woman who used to enjoy alien torture on her off days, and sister to the man who would happily strut around wearing your cousin's skin like a mink coat."

"Alllleeeexx! First gross, -and second what does Lena have to do!?" The Kryptonian whined poking Alex with her foot and started rattling off, "She saved that kid, got rid of the all that kryptonite, put her own brother in jail AND she gave a Kryptonian," she said gesturing up and down at herself, "a bunch of kisses. Like really good kisses. Like I didn't know kisses worked that way." She said with a far-off look. Alex slapped her on the arm.

"Do. Not. Think about the way Lena worked on you in my presence," Alex said with mock seriousness.

"Does she know, about…" Kara shook her head and Alex barked out a condescending laugh "Ha! Maggie figured it out in like two minutes and Lena Luthor got under the suit and doesn't know. Priceless," Alex finished plopping back down on the mats and slapping her own thigh with amusement.

"Shiznit Alex, I can't not tell her." Kara said worried.

"First," Alex started to which Kara stuck out her tongue, "learn how to swear like a grown up. Second, I mean the woman did get shot at because someone thinks that Lena might know Supergirl," Alex countered reasonably.

Kara threw her hands up in exasperation and groaned, "Explain to me about how someone knowing information makes the bad guys know that they know the information?" Alex gave her a flat look and Kara continued "I always kind of thought it was stupid but you and Kal have always been nuts about the idea and I honestly didn't care all the much before now."

Muscles tight with pent up energy, Kara felt like flying to Lena straight through the wall of Alex's apartment to make this feeling stop right now. Doors be damned.

"I'm going to go tell her now," she said, physically preparing herself.

Alex responded lightning fast before Kara had all the way decided, "Wait Kara, don't. You know as well as I do how it works. You are personally friends with two mind-readers. I bet you a million dollars Lena Luthor could whip something up with Promethium or whatever that does the same thing."

Kara unclenched but retorted with a pout, "Alex stop saying her name like that."

"What? Alex asked disingenuously, "I gave her a compliment, that woman is a firecracker. I can only imagine how creative she might get in bed."

Alex backed away hands held in front of her in surrender and laughing wildly when Kara caught her in a flying tackle and tickled her into submission.

Sitting up breathless Alex told Kara "I cautiously respect your decisions Little Sis and I am not going to be the one in your way with any of this. I've been waiting your entire earthlife for you to be vaguely convincing about being romantically interested in anyone." Standing she dusted off her hands and grabbed Kara's forearm to pull her up, "J'onn is not going to be happy though. And when he gets not happy enough, he could probably explode the world with his magical Martian might."

"Alex, you are a doctor," Kara said in a disapproving tone, "Not everything that is sciency is magic."

"Yes I'm a doctor and a scientist so I know how science is supposed to work." Alex said with emphasis and continued flippantly, "And whenever I have to work with alien tech, someone just explains the abracadabra rules to me and I jerry-rig it onto something practical. Half the nonsense we talk about every day is just technobabble wrapped magic. Magic lightning speed, magic dream eating plants, magic Jesus babies sent to Earth to save humanity.

Kara rolled her eyes and pushed her.

Alex countered, "Alright Kryptonian physics prodigy, explain to me how a living being could psychically erase the memories of another living being."

Kara responded with a wide grin. "Well, Alex there are a few basic premises that must be accepted prior to one being able to adequately comprehend the scientific basis of the particular phenomena required for success in Martian thought disruption or memory extraction…."

-1 hour later-

"….and the disabling of glutamate at that point, the primary excitatory neurotransmitter in the human species, interacts with the wave forms at a subatomic level with the previously divested eletr-"

"Stop, for the love of God -or Rao. If I pray to Rao will it stop?" Alex yelled rolling around on the ground grabbing her ears.

Sitting up, she gripped, "It doesn't even count if you have to slip into Kryptonian to explain it. Different sun different rules."

Kara retorted in a sing-song voice, "Well if your Kryptonian didn't suck so bad then it would have made sense." Then laughed. "You're worse than Kal, not that he ever let me give him any lessons."

"It's hard Kara," Alex continued in a lofty tone, "The useless alien garbage is not similar to any language on Earth."

"You make fun of my English all the time!" Kara exclaimed indignantly then mocking her sister reminded her, "That's why Eliza made everyone learn Kryptonian. If you weren't such a jerk face, then you wouldn't have had so much of my useless alien garbage crowding all the smart things out of your head."

Not having a good retort, Alex stuck her tongue out at this.

Kara smiled remembering having this same conversation with Alex when they were teenagers.

Mind drifting as they sat in a comfortable silence, Kara remembered their conversation from the other night. "Alex, did you remember to ask Maggie about Batwoman's deal? I'd personally rather not have to deal with another Supergirl- Dark Lady Knight crossover, if I'm going to have to search her for kryptonite every time." She noticed her sister's expression. "I know you don't want to either, Can't we make J'onn work with her or something."

"Oh yeah I forgot to yell at you. Doesn't your girlfriend like Batwoman," Alex said hitting Kara on the arm. "Thanks for that sis." Kara shrugged apologetically and Alex continued, "Maggie said she will work with local PD, but not black suits. Ironic." She added smirking. "But if she knows something, it might be worth the pain to find out what."

"Also, Maggie won't tell me her alter-ego. How am I supposed to compete with Batwoman?" Alex complained.

Kara frowned and said reassuringly, "Alex you're having babies with the woman."

"Yeah we're having kids. Which I've always wanted, but she didn't. What if I talked her into it? What if it's just too much. I can't -I can't lose her," Alex ended looking worried.

"She loves you Alex. I mean obviously, you are the best person. And I'm pretty sure she's not going to leave you for some woman just because she has a cooler supersuit than you."

Kara added teasing, "I mean, to be on the safe side, you could ask Winn, he'd make one for you. Or, I bet Lena could do it. She has all kinds of nifty tech -well, I mean, if Supergirl asked her for you, it would probably be -eh weird for -Kara."

The blonde woman frowned deeply considering, "Alex, what if Lena only likes Supergirl, because of all the, you know?" she asked nervously holding her Supergirl pose. "What if she doesn't want to have kisses, and -stuff, with Kara Danvers and her stupid cardigans?"

"That was a disguise we worked out when you were sixteen Kara. You don't have to wear them all the time," Alex retorted.

Kara shot her a you're-missing-the-point-stupid look. Her sister paused and reflected seriously, "You were talking about feelings time between you and Lena for an hour and didn't tell me the Supergirl stuff until right at the end. Lena likes you, idiot. I don't make googly eyes at my friends."

"Yes you do. What about Sarah? You were always staring at her when we went to the pool and…." Kara paused seeing the look on Alex's face, "Oh." Her eyes widened, "Oh, her too. Golly Alex how many women do you have sex thoughts about?"

Rubbing at her temples, Alex shushed Kara as she answered the phone. Alex was obviously talking to Maggie, but Kara noticed when her normal Maggie-look turned serious and then pale.

Kara took off her glasses and heard everything Maggie was saying. It was about Lena. Her arrest. Her breakout. The video footage of her getting shot with a syringe in the neck.

Kara felt herself in the air before she even registered taking off. She was annoyed hearing Alex, still in her apartment, yell at her for a lift and circled back to grab her before beelining toward the DEO.

Notes: That was fun. Leave me a review if you appreciate the Danvers sisters together. I'll write in some more.