(Getting to Know) Your Inner Child

XavAcid

Chapter 2 : and she found a new toy!

The work day ended without any more incident, and Kara only had to leave for her side job once. And there was no update from the D.E.O regarding Alex's situation. She couldn't really decide if that was a good thing or a bad thing.

Ms. Grant had been no less demanding than usual, although the Kryptonian noticed that she seemed to be coming up to her more often instead of yelling for her from her desk. And she seemed very interested in interacting with little Alex.

And while little Alex wasn't exactly friendly with her - she seemed to warm up to people very slowly - she was polite, but she didn't say much. Kara decided that it was a good thing that Alex remembered her, otherwise they would be in a world of trouble. Because little Alex, just like her older-self, had no trouble saying no and stood by it. She also didn't want to go to Eliza and told her what happened to her biological daughter, and she would hate it even more if she had to leave Alex in Midvale.

Kara gently closed the door behind her with a well placed kicked with her heel, while dropping key and hanging up her bag at the same time. She was careful not to disturbed her precious cargo in her arm.

Alex was all tucked out, she felt asleep on the way back from CatCo.

Normally she would've flown out, and she knew little Alex would've gotten a kick out of it, like she did when they left the desert base earlier. But with Ms. Grant's curious eyes, and shopping bags, she was going to call Uber, but Winn offered them a ride instead.

Kara supposed that she'd have to drive Alex's SUV tomorrow, she really didn't want to deal with the morning traffic. Maneuvering that monstrosity of a vehicle in the National City morning traffic was going to be a nightmare. Looked on the bright side, maybe she could talk Alex into getting that NBox Slash after this. She'd have a reason for it, now. In case she needed to get somewhere in the city and could not fly. Yeah, that was definitely a great reason to buy that cute little car.

Flying to work in the morning with Alex in her arms wasn't an option.

Besides, J'onn would definitely give her an ear bleeding lecture for it.

She caught Winn glancing at little Alex all throughout the afternoon. He looked a little amazed at almost everything she was reading on the tablets. She had commandeered two now, one that she gave her, and another one from Winn.

According to her hacker friend, he installed a bunch of games for her, which she got through and was bored of in no time at all. He was trying to be age appropriate, and she appreciated that, but she didn't think games for children was going to hold Alex's attention for long. Not with how smart she was.

Kara made her way into the loft, deciding that she was going to let little Alex nap for a little while, and she probably should pick up her mail.

With utmost care, the Kryptonian placed her precious little human down on the couch, and adjusted her so that she was in comfortable and covered her up with a soft throw. Hopefully, she would be back before little brunette woke up.

So, instead of taking the elevator, Kara opted to go down the stairs with her super speed. She knew a package was supposed to get here in a day or two, so she expected it. And she was not disappointed, when Mrs. Needleberg, her elderly super of the building greeted her with a big smile. She had always liked Alex and later Kara. She also gave Kara a break on her rent - a big help when most of her pay went to food - in exchange of Kara helping with things around the building. And the Kryptonian was more than happy to help.

She directed Kara to a sizable package sitting in her office. The box was wrapped in black plastic and somewhat smaller than she thought it would be. Kara thanked Mrs. Needleberg and picked the box up. It had a heft to it, which was kind of reassuring.

While she was researching and looking around, there were so many choices, and prices that it confused her. She knew she should've asked her friend for help in researching and picking one out instead, but she really wanted to get this for Alex. And it was quite a wait.

Kara hoped that her Alex would like the gift.

In her musing she forgot to listen to the one little occupant in the loft before she opened the door with the box in one hand.

"What's in the box?"

Alex woke up and found herself alone in a familiar loft. She sat up slowly, looking around and found no one in sight. "Kara?"

Silence.

With a small frown little Alex pushed soft thrown away from herself, deciding that she was going to have to investigate when sounds of key being turned stopped her. She tensed up for a moment, trying to decide if hiding, or attacking would be a good idea; and what could be used as weapon.

Maybe she could hide underneath the throw, for a second Alex lifted the soft blanket up. It was big enough to cover her entire body. Then the door opened. Kara was shuffling inside holding a large box in front of her.

A box.

Wrapped in black plastic.

And now that she saw it was Kara coming in, all her attention directed toward the big black box in the blonde's hand. Was it for her? The hiding plan forgotten, and she tossed the blanket aside.

"What's in the box?"

The Kryptonian did not expect her small charge to be awake yet, and was too occupied with the package in her hand that she was surprised. And only because she had a very tight control of her power that she didn't jump through the ceiling. Explaining that would be very difficult.

"Alex!" She exclaimed, "you're awake!" She quickly closed the door.

Large hazel eyes stared up at her, expecting an answer. "What's in the box?"

"Oh, it's um…"

Kara really was bad at coming up with things on the fly. Especially with Alex, regardless of the fact that her Alex was now a small five year old; she still could not lie to her. At least not without a lot of hemming and hawing, and it would not work with how smart little Alex was.

So, honesty was the only option opened to her.

"It's something I ordered for you." She stopped herself, "I mean, for the big you."

"Can I open it?" Little Alex immediately hopped down from the couch.

"Baby-" Kara kneeled down so they were eye level.

"You said it's for me."

"It's-"

"I want to see."

Man, she's not gonna let this go. Kara had seen Eliza and various other people at the end of Alex's stubbornness before, and she knew how it would end.

With everyone's eventual surrender.

And then a puppy eye turned on her, and she just melted, like popsicle on the sidewalk.

"Ok," internally she gave herself a facepalm. Embarrassing, Kara, you weak, weak, Kryptonian.

And she got a sweet smile as reward for her weakness.

"I wanna put it together."

Kara let little Alex open the package, which amount to a lot of tearing off the black plastic wrap, but little Alex did not do anymore than opened the box up, and peered inside. She took nothing out. Yet.

The Kryptonian was just finished placing an order for two large pizzas and french fries, with a side of garlic bread. While little brunette was looking at the pictures on the box, she reached in and took out a handbook to flip through. She would have to start cooking, or get something healthy to eat from now on. If Eliza knew that she fed little Alex all the junk food that she had big Alex usually got, she was going to be in for the longest lecture, the kind that would melt paint off of Kryptonian pod.

No, she would not want those.

"Baby, maybe we should keep this for some other day?"

"I wanna put it together." She repeated.

Kara took and deep breath, she never, ever once thought she would have to deal with stubborn Alex, and she didn't know how well logic and reason was going to work with her being this young.

"Ok…" she took a deep deep breath, "how about I call Winn up to see if he can come over and help?" It was a compromise, and she knew that they probably would not get to it tonight, it was late, and she was getting pretty hungry.

Little Alex looked to be contemplating the decision.

"I ordered us some pizzas." Kara offered up more incentive. "They should be here in a few minutes." Hopefully her little brunette could be distracted for the moment.

"Then you will call Winn and ask?" Little face looking intently at her, she wasn't distracted. She also seemed to instinctively known that Kara would not be any help with this, so she didn't ask.

"Yes, then I will call Winn and ask."

Reassured, little Alex went back to reading the handbooks. So intended on the machine that she didn't even ask about the pizza.

The Kryptonian could see the traits that was so very Alex shone through with almost everything little Alex did, just less tempered by maturity and patience. She knew Alex was very smart, she was just not very consciously aware of it like she was right now, since she'd always been mostly around Alex and not other teenagers when she first came to this planet. And when she finally got to be around others she remembered thinking that they were rather uninspiring, but she didn't consciously compare anyone. Mostly she just prefered Alex over everyone else. Everything Alex did was just better.

But to see her now, as a five year old, it was glaringly obvious of how very smart she was.

Then sounds of crinkling plastic bag pulled her out of her musing.

"Look Kara, there's candy in the box!"

Little Alex held a bag of Haribo gummy aloft so the Kryptonian could see, then she moved to tear the bag open.

"Oh no!" Kara sped from the kitchen island and in a blink she was right in front of the little brunette. "You gonna have to wait until after dinner." She gently took the bag of treat from little hand.

Little Alex pouted.

That was almost enough for the Kryptonian to give the candy back. Almost.

"I just want one," she said with a bigger pout. Of course she knew not to ruin her dinner with snack, mom taught her that, but just one wouldn't hurt, like dad said.

"I'll let you have one after dinner."

The pout didn't go away.

"Just one?"

Rao, she's deadly. Kara had a strong urge to bang her head on the counter, but afraid that she might break the island counter instead. "You can have it after dinner." The blonde repeated, she was sure that by the time they were done with dinner, little Alex wouldn't be able to eat anything else. But she had to stand her ground, she had to be the mature one right now, now that Alex couldn't.

Alex looked longingly at the candy. "Ok," she said finally.

Alex went back to the couch to look through the box for more goodies. There were tubes and boxes inside the big box, and she didn't know if she should pull them all out. In the handbook was all the instructions, what if she pulled a box out and some things got mixed up? But she couldn't wait to get into it.

Dad used to let her help with things all the time. He was pretty bad about putting things together without Alex there to direct him. When he had the time to do it.

She hoped that Winn could come over tonight.

Dropping the handbooks, Alex hopped onto the couch and grabbed the tablet, deciding that she was going to look up some video for 3D printing, like Kara showed her how to find funny animal video earlier, she was sure she could find what she wanted. She knew how to spell.

Small fingers swiped through the menu for that familiar red play button icon that Kara showed her this afternoon. She carefully pressed on it once, and waited a few seconds for the app to load and quickly typed in the name of the machine. The little brunette was entirely unaware of a relief sigh the Kryptonian was breathing.

Kara came to join little Alex on the couch a minute later, asking if she wanted to watch something on tv, and got the answer in the negative. So, to kill some time, she flipped through the menu, considered a few new shows and making mental list of what she would like to watch with Alex- when she got back to her normal self.

"Kara," childish voice pulled her out of her surfing. "There's a lot of video of this machine."

The blonde Kryptonian threw an arm over small shoulders and leaned down to look. She was amazed at how quickly little Alex seemed to be picking up things, she'd only shown her how to search Youtube for things she could watch once, and only for children's stuff. But for her to search for instructional video on an unfamiliar website? To say that she was impressed was a major understatement.

"Wow, you're right." Kara exclaimed. "Do you wanna pick one to see?"

Little finger tapped on the top link, and Kara directed her to cast it onto the tv screen. "So we can see it nice and big."

Dark head nodded, and the now older girl couldn't help but kissed her on the crown of her head.

"Can we call Winn now?"

Little Alex put down the cup of apple juice Kara gave her to drink. She was full, and ready to get to the printer.

The Kryptonian had been hoping that her young brunette would forget about it after dessert, apparently her reversal in age did nothing to her eidetic memory. Kara really should know better, but she could hope.

They ran through a little of the live build of the printer, and turned it off once the pizzas arrived. They had their dinner, Alex devoured two slices of pizza very quickly. Kara had to slow her down, and reminded her to chew. She was done very quickly. And Kara missed big Alex, her Alex. They would mocked fight for the last piece of pizza and snuck french fries off of each other's plate.

And then desert.

They would at least linger over deserts. Alex rarely could eat more than a bite or two of whatever they were having, and Kara would finish the rest. But little Alex only wanted small scoop of ice cream, and Kara couldn't even pretend to take a bite from her bowl, a five year old Alex would not understand. But it seemed to work in distracting her from the printer for a moment. And also the candy that came with it.

There was no way they could build the whole thing tonight, and that was if Winn decided to come over tonight, which she hoped he wouldn't. It was getting late and she needed to get little Alex into a bath and bed. She was sure bedtime applied when the older Danvers was now the younger.

She had to remind herself to be the responsible one.

"Ok, I will call Winn, but if he said no, you are going to take a bath so we can get ready for bed." She waited till the little brunette agreed.

So, Kara made the call to her tech geek friend.

'Hey Kara, what's up?'

"Hey Winn, you remembered I show you the 3D printer I thought about ordering for Alex?"

'Oh yeah.'

"Well, it's here now."

'Shut up! You ordered it without telling me?'

"Yeah, I was reading their lead time and I was afraid that it might take too long and she might just order it herself and I really wanna get her something big because you know, she's been really awesome about everything in the last decade or so and…" Kara knew she was babbling, and apparently little Alex knew, too, because she started tugging at her shirt.

"Ask him."

"Ok, ok…"

"So, yeah, and Alex saw it cause it got here today and she wanna put it together tonight."

'You got a kit?'

"Well, you said it'd be good to know the working of it!"

'Yeah, but isn't this a little late? Shouldn't she be in bed soon?'

"Yes," Kara emphasized the word, so he would know to say no. And Winn did not disappoint, just in case little ears could hear more than one side.

So when she turned to the little brunette she was glad she didn't have to lie. "He promised we could do it tomorrow, though, he'd come straight here with us after work."

A frown appeared on little face and Kara had the urge to kiss it away and gave her everything she wanted. She really had to stop herself and reminded herself that she was the older one right now, and had to be strong. Already, in the face of that adorable pout, she found herself melting.

You're Supergirl, Kara, she repeated to herself.

Little Alex knew from the one sided conversation that she was listening to that she wasn't going to get to put the printer together tonight, and pouted, she really wanted to get started. The video they were watching earlier showed hours of live build. But they could do better, she was sure.

But at least Kara said that they could do it tomorrow. She didn't know why they didn't start now, Kara could speed through it, couldn't she? She was Supergirl and she could move really fast. That should make it faster. They could even take the video so they could show it to mom and dad later!

Now little Alex imagined what she could do with a 3D printer.

Then she dove for the tablet again, wanting to see what she could do on the machine that had yet to be built. Little fingers flew over the on screen keyboard to find what she could. Kara was still on the phone with Winn, so she was surprised when she was picked up from the couch she nearly drop the tablet.

"Kara!" Alex squeaked.

"Bath time."

The blonde Kryptonian looked down fondly at the small body curled up next to her. Bathtime went a little less smoothly than she anticipated, because little Alex wasn't pleased at the way she plugged her from the couch and interrupted her search for more information on the printer.

It was such an Alex's thing that she didn't even mind the water puddles in the bathroom from Alex being a little brat and splashed some water at her. The little brunette enjoyed playing in the bath though, even when she insisted that she wasn't a baby, and she didn't need bath toys. Kara disagreed, everyone needed bath toys.

So Kara let her splashed around for a while.

After bath, they settled in for some movie, Kara let her pick what she wanted to watch. At first she just wanted to search for more video and the Kryptonian let her, for a little while.

Everything seemed to interest her little brunette, it was too bad that Kara couldn't explain some of the things she wanted to know. And she had to cut it short since every new informations seemed to excite her more, and it was less likely that she would go to bed at a decent time. They really didn't need a cranky five year old.

They settled in and built a fort out of pillows and blanket on the floor in front of the couch and moved the coffee table out of the way. A few episodes of Dragons later, the currently youngest Danvers was now deeply asleep.

With a soft smile, the Kryptonian adjust her position carefully and went to sleep.

"I'm so jealous."

Winn quickly matched the speed of his friend as she came through the door right after he did.

"Good morning to you, too, Winn."

"You didn't tell me you ordered a Prusa," Winn stage-whispered. "You know I wanna get one."

Kara was a little later than her usual time this morning, because she had to get little Alex up and dressed, made her breakfast, packed up stuffs to entertain her for the day. She had never been more thankful of her super speed than this morning. She also had to brave the traffic on Alex's shiny black SUV as well. That was not something she wanted to do, but carrying little Alex and her backpack and a tote and fly at the same time was not a good time made.

So she braved the traffic.

"Well, you were saying you're gonna look into some other ones, and the leading time was starting to get too long the longer I waited, so I just ordered it one night." The normally sunshine and rainbow of a Kryptonian replied while shifting little Alex onto her hip.

She was actually looking through the website and the forum that one night she was too keyed up to sleep after a car chase, and Alex was supervising the cleanup of the containment cells overnight. It was one of the rare nights they spent apart, so she thought it was a good time as any to get the order in. Besides, it was going to take a while for the package to ship.

She really was going to tell her friend in the morning, but something else came up and she forgot all about it. Until she got the shipping notification, but by then it was too late anyway.

Once she got to CatCo Plaza and found a parking spot she was a little late, and little legs couldn't keep up with her, so Kara carried her, which of course the little brunette protested, at first. But she promised a chocolate chip cookies when she pick up latte for Ms. Grant, and that seemed to do the trick. For now. She was more interested in the conversation around her more, anyway.

Winn was pouting, which little Alex thought was ridiculous, he could come over and use hers, Kara said it was hers, if he wanted. Then he could get his own later. But he would have to come over and help her build it first.

Seriously, Alex knew she could do it herself, now that she watched a few of the videos, and she read through the handbook on their way this morning. She already had her notebook, and pencils, she was going to take lots of notes and made diagrams for later. The older girl gave her plenty of snacks, too. Alex didn't bring that bag of gummy bear, though, she was going to save it for the build. She might have to share it with Winn, though, but she decided that it was ok to give him one.

"Yeah, but I thought you were gonna wait for me." He pouted harder.

Kara rolled her eyes as they arrived at their respective work station and she put little Alex down. Ms. Grant wasn't in yet, so she had some time to run out. Good.

"You can use mine." Childish voice chimed up.

The two adults looked down at the little brunette. Large hazel eyes moved between them "You can help me build it and then you can use it, too."

"Oh…" Winn looked really surprise at the offer, then he looked like he might cry.

"It is mine, right Kara?" Little face looked up at her Kryptonian, to confirm. Kara swooped down and swept her up for a cuddle, and spun her around amidst the squealing and protesting.

"You're such a good girl Alex."

Alex had always been so kind, even when she didn't like that she suddenly had to take care of a stranger from a different planet, when she was barely older than the said stranger, herself. But she did it anyway. She was always the one taking care of others, and especially Kara. Recently she also seemed to adopt Winn as well. Like a little brother she didn't really want, she once said.

The offer was unexpected, and Winn was more emotional about it than this warranted. Alex didn't really know him right now, actually she probably didn't really know anyone right now, but she was willing to trust them, willing to share with him her brand new thing. He wondered, not for the first time, what it would be like to grow up in the Danvers household.

He wanted to hug her now, but that probably wasn't going to be received well.

"I said you could bring her, doesn't mean you can just cuddle her all day, Keira."

The duo jumped at the voice rang out from mere feet away from them. Cat Grant had arrived while they weren't looking.

"Ms. Grant!" Kara squeaked out, while Winn just high tailed to his desk. Traitor, Kara thought sourly. "Good morning."

"Where's my latte?"

"I'll get it for you now." She quickly moved to settle her little charge down.

"Good morning, Alex." Her boss said with a smile.

"Morning." Little Alex replied.

"And how are you today?"

Now, the Kryptonian frowned, Ms. Grant liked to chat with Alex, big Alex, too. She wondered maybe it was the name.

"Fine." Alex was short with her answers, which was probably a good thing. Cat felt her eyebrows lifted toward her hairline. My, are all the Danvers this reticent, she wondered. She had met quite a few - not that many- children, she even had two of her own, none of them this quiet and serious, especially at five years old.

"And my latte, Keira?"

"Yes, um… right away Ms. Grant!"

Cat noticed that her Sunny of an assistant looked torn, she had one foot in front, ready to go, but leaning back, like she could not decide if she should. So Cat decided for her.

"I'm sure Wit can watch her for a few minutes."

"Yes, um… ok… Be right back." She told little Alex quickly and practically run out. At slightly over human speed.

Winn watched his boss stood there for a few minutes, unlike her usual routine where she would head right into her office and observed everything from there. He braved her attention by directing little Alex over to Kara's desk and settled her in, he produced a tablet from his bag for her. He installed a bunch of things for her last night, hopefully some would be enough to entertain her.

He knew how boring things could get, it was never good to let a kid be bored, they could cause so much trouble that way, he knew, so it was better to occupy her. He noticed the way she eyed his action figures and all the threats Alex made about taking them for some weird sculpture came back to him in a nightmare.

So, nope, he was going to do his best to keep her entertain. No way was he going to let her dismantled his collectible.

His boss didn't go into her office during all this time.

"I saw this video," her childish voice still threw him a little. "And I brought the handbook." She picked up the backpack she had, he didn't even notice it. Little hands produced an A5 size handbook to show him.

Winn was impressed, cause the handbook looked like it'd been open and read from cover to cover. Must be the Danvers' gene, she was so damn smart, he was a little envious. Of course it could be Kara reading it, but he doubted it. Kara was not one for technical things, even though she came from a very advanced civilization.

"You're helping me build this tonight, right?"

"Ah… yeah, of course." Then he noticed the way his boss was still standing there, observing, he quickly made an excuse. He didn't want to lose his job, after all. "I better get back to my desk."

A small nod was what he received.

"Ms. Grant." He said and quickly hopped over to his desk and sat down.

Cat Grant went back to her office right after. But she kept an eye on the little figure sitting at her assistant's desk and wondered about Alexandra, and how the couple probably liked a glimpse into their future, seeing how little Alex was certainly a splitting image of the big Alex. It was like looking at their future children or something.

Kara quickly changed the moment she was in the stairwell and out of sight. She'd better get that latte quick, and she promised Alex a chocolate shake as well as some muffin. Really, Eliza would not be very happy if she knew that she gave little Alex this much sugar before noon. But she did promise her chocolate shake to get her cooperation this morning, so she would have to get her that.

She shuddered to think what little Alex would do if she break that promise.

Alex, as she had learned growing up with her, in any form, could be devious sometimes. And Alex in little form could definitely get away with anything. She already knew that she had no defense against those big eyes and little pout.

With a quick call ahead of time, Kara was able to be in and out of Noonan's and back to CatCo before her boss had to chance to make someone else's life miserable due to the lack of morning caffeine. Hands ladened with bake goods and drinks Kara stepped out of the stair well, shaking her head to settle her wild hair. Flying didn't mess up her hair as much as running up the stairs did.

She darted to her boss's office to deliver her morning caffeine fix and back at her desk to a grinning little Alex who was eager for her own sugary treats.

"Kara, look." Little hands held up an open notebook with a very detailed plan for their night activity, mainly consisted of a very good drawing - for a five year old- of the printer, and Sunny Danvers spied 'pizza' several times.

"That's very detail Alex." She widened her eyes, and gushed over it for a few minutes. "Wow, you're very good."

Little face beamed up at her in delight. And Kara couldn't be happier. As teen, she had seem so many times that what teenage Alex did and showed to her mother she would get less than lukewarm response from Eliza. Excellence was expected of her, so what great things she did were received with an air of 'of course you did', and that was it. No other praise was given, as if her excellence was a given, and in someway it was, still Kara thought Alex deserved a lot more. A lot, a lot more.

Unlike any mistake she made, however few and far in between there was. The admonishments were so heartbreaking that Kara didn't think she could take it had it been her on the receiving end.

Alex never talked about it.

She seemed to take it as challenge for herself and strove to do better. Kara admired that about her so very much, but at the same time she was afraid that her beloved human would burn herself out like shooting star trying to match the impossible demands.

So, while she had her like this, Kara was going to praise her little Alex for everything she did. It might not make any different in the long run, but she was going to do it anyway. And for that sweet smile she was willing to do anything.

"I'm gonna do research."

The way she eagerly said it made Kara wanted to scoop her up again, but she didn't think that was going to go over very well, especially when she could feel the eyes of the entire floor, and especially that of her boss on her.

"Ok, if you need anything-"

"I'll tell you." Alex replied in her childish voice.

"Ok…" Kara watched her little charge hopped onto the chair carelessly and went right back to her notebook and tablet. Then she noticed a weird jerky motion Winn made with his hand, then head broke her out of her reverie as he pointedly tilted his head toward their boss's office.

"Back to work." She squeaked, "yes, work."

Cat Grant looked up on occasions to see the going ons of her employees. Her Sunny assistant ran in and out, to get her files and arranged meeting and whatever menial tasks involved in running her office. And right now she was out. But whereabout of Sunny Danvers was not of her concern at the moment. It was the little dark head child sitting with her feet swinging back and fort. Little hands scribbling into her ever growing pile of notes.

Cat nibbled on her glasses, her work was getting annoying, even without being in front of her, her employees still managed to be irritating. She wondered how it was that they could get anything done at all with their incompetencies. Sometimes she felt like a preschool teacher.

Putting her glasses back on, Cat Grant tried to get back to her laptop, fingers poised on the keyboard, but she just couldn't concentrate. Minutes later she found herself looking out to where her assistant's desk was.

Sunny Danvers was still nowhere to be found.

But that wasn't who she was concerning herself about, instead her attention was on the five year old, now out of her chair and went over to the sweater hobbit, papers in little hands. She was clearly showing the man something.

Now, what could a five year old be writing about.

Kara was zooming down the stairwell, an emergency of the non alien kind had her running out and all over the city. This was the day she was hoping that things could be quiet. Apparently the bank robbers thought it was best to try to rob a bank in the middle of the day in National City and had the audacity to be surprised when she showed up.

At least she could wrap them up quickly and left them on the steps for the NCPD to take care of them. She felt bad when some children wanted to interact with her, but she didn't have time for that today.

She quickly stopped by at the art department to get the layout for Ms. Grant. That was what she was getting when she heard the distress call. She saw that James wanted to talk, except she didn't have the time right now. Not when she'd already been gone for twenty minutes, and not for the first time today. Even if Ms. Grant did not ask, she always had a sort of excuse to offer. Though, Kara noticed that lately her boss didn't even bother asking her whereabout as long as she had something to show for it.

When she arrived at her floor, folder in hand she found Ms. Grant standing by her desk, looking at something little Alex did. She saw Alex flipping holding up her notes for Cat Grant to look at. Apparently the twenty or so minutes that she was away was long enough for CatCo CEO's curiosity to get the better of her.

"Ms. Grant?" Kara rushed over to them.

"Oh Keira." Cat Grant had her hand over little shoulder. "I was starting to wonder if you got lost on the way to art department."

"Oh, um… James was getting some last minute editing done," the Kryptonian had to bite her tongue, she didn't want to throw anyone under the bus, but well, she didn't know what else to tell her. "Here!" She practically thrust the folder in her boss's hand.

Cat barely glance at it. "So, I've heard you bought a printer for Alexandra."

Little Alex looked up at the both of them at the name, but said nothing. She knew not to interrupt adults when they were having conversation. And on some level that she couldn't really explain to herself, she knew not to say anything when they talked about Alex, even though she knew that it was her they were talking about, it was all so confusing.

"Oh yeah… um… yes. Yes, I did."

"And little Alex here has plan for it."

"Yes, she does." Kara looked down and smiled fondly at her. "She's completely fascinated by it."

"I can tell." Cat Grant looked down and smile at the little brunette. She liked that little Alex was so very smart, and did not filled the air with incessant chatter like most children. She'd also read some of the notes that Alex made, they were intelligent beyond her five years. Though her notes were complex and very very details they were still from a child. Written with a child's imagination. The few pages that she had glimpsed of had 'gummy' and 'dragon' in them.

Cat wanted to point out her unrealistic plan of putting together a semi complex machine in one evening. But she decided that it was best to not upset the little girl. Besides, she liked how ambitious she was. Little Alexandra was definitely going to grow up to be someone worth knowing.

She'd keep an eye on her. Maybe two.

"You know, my son Carter would probably like to hear about this printer you are putting together as well." Cat started conversationally with the little girl, a hand on her little shoulder to guide her into her office.

Alex turned to look at Kara, as if to ask if she should go. Kara felt her jaws go slack, but she composed herself quickly. She didn't want little Alex to feel like she had done something wrong by engaging with Cat Grant.

So she gave her a reassuring smile.

Still as she let Cat Grant led her away, little Alex was still looking back.

"I can't believe Ms. Grant did that." Winn kicked the leg of his desk and rolled over to hers on his chair, once the pair went into the fishbowl of an office.

"I know." Kara moaned and sank down in her own chair. She should've known that her boss was going to be fascinated with Alex in whatever form.

a/n : So, I got the bulk of this written before I went out of town, but when I came back I was just exhausted... But I am back in the swing of things now. The chapter is getting a little big, so I decided to break it up and post this first. I don't want it to be a long wait. I hope you guys like. And yes, Fluff, fluff everywhere.

And for any curious reader.. Prusa I3 Mk3 is a cartesian style 3d printer, from Czech by Prusa Research. And Kara ordered a kit for Alex so she could put it together. Now little Alex will, but she's gonna be pretty disappointed to know that it takes a while for an object to be printed. A LONG while. I wish someone would get me the MK3 LOL. I'll be more than happy with MP Select Mini.

edit : for some reason deleted my break lines, so edited to put them all in.

Thanks for reading guys, comments and favs are happily received.