AN: Hello, did you like the last chapter because I was going back and forth between not liking it and liking it so.
Couch: Oliver Kara Sara
Loveseat: Roy Thea
Couch: William Samantha Ruby felicity
Couch: Alex Lena sam
Couch: Slade Dark archer black siren
Loveseat: Laurel Malcolm
Couch: Rene Curtis Dinah
Armchairs: John and Quentin (are in separate ones)
Couch: Cisco Caitlyn wally
Couch: Harry Joe Cecile
Loveseat: Barry Iris
Couch: J'onn Winn James
Couch: Clark Nyssa
Shipping sister so far (and yes that means I might add more):
Samantha
Thea
Alex
Sara
Felicity
Black Siren
Nyssa
Iris
Lena
As the next video turned on Laurel sighed and closed her eyes in weariness.
For having a Kryptonite wound, Kara recovered rather quickly. She was up and moving again within two days, though Oliver and Alex were both watching her like hawks. Oliver, she didn't mind at all. Alex, on the other hand, started getting slightly annoying . . . especially since she was smirking most of the time. "If you say 'I told you so,'" Kara began with a growl as she left the medbay, finally released.
"What, you're not going to make me maid of honor?" Alex teased.
"Oh my god," Kara groaned.
"Well you know it's going to happen now super puppy embrace it," Sara said.
"Shut up!" Kara said blushing.
Thea: now that they're together do you think we should bring more people in chat
Alex: yeah good idea
Felicity: who though?
Thea: Kara ;)
Alex: no! Thea why!
Thea: she has a right to tell us what she thinks
Alex: ugh fine
Kara has been added to the group chat by Alex
User Sara has changed Kara's name to Super Puppy
Super Puppy: what is this
Thea: a group chat dedicated to getting you and Oliver together
Super Puppy: I knew you had something like this!
Alex: back to who else we're going to bring in
Thea: what about Dinah
Sara: still don't like her
Thea: why?
Sara: something's off about her
"Shut up!" Kara punched her in the arm, blushing furiously.
"We should have some sort of rule for when someone says something that is the same as whoever is on screen," Thea said.
A bunch of people started to agree and Oliver said "Fine, Thea, think up the specifics and tell us later, and this is only because you all want to do it."
"Hey, we get every right to say we told you so," Thea grinned smugly. "Just let us have this."
Kara sighed, adjusting her glasses. "Fine."
"Hey, c'mere," Thea held out her arms, and Kara smiled, shuffling forward and giving Thea a hug. "I'm happy for you both, really."
"Aww thank you," Kara said smiling.
"Thanks, Thea," Kara smiled.
"So, do any of us need to be grownups and give you two the 'you hurt the other, we'll hurt you' spiel?" Malcolm asked with a smirk on his face.
"Oh my god, why!" Kara said.
"Really, Malcolm?" Kara looked at him in exasperation. "Seriously?"
"Well, it would be J'onn's job to give it to Oliver," Winn said thoughtfully.
"Yes, it is," J'onn said.
"Why do I feel like I should be scared of him," Oliver whispered to Kara.
"It's probably a good instinct, he is the most powerful person I've ever met," Kara whispered.
"Wow, that's coming from her," Sara said.
"Oh, Rao," Kara buried her face in her hands. "Stop it!"
"Never super puppy, you're just too cute to not embarrass," Sara said
"On a more serious note," a voice from behind them said, and they turned as Lena walked up, a serious look on her face. "I tried to get in touch with my mother. Every single piece of contact information I had is now worthless."
"I don't have anything now, typical of her," Lena said fuming.
"Lena, I am so sorry about this," Kara swallowed hard.
"You don't get to do that to yourself," Lena gave her a stern look. "This fundraiser is for you, and it's to help the D.E.O. as well. Cadmus or no Cadmus, I'm holding it anyway."
"Thank you for that," Kara said smiling
Kara swallowed again. "Thank you."
"You're welcome," Lena smiled, giving her a hug. "What are best friends for?"
"Aww Lena," Kara said as she sped over to her and gave her a hug.
"Help I'm being crushed," Lena said.
"I don't think I can help you there you just got to wait it out," Alex said.
"Oh thank god, I can't believe I'm actually complaining about how thoughtful my best friend is," Lena said.
"Yeah but those hugs will crush your ribs a bit," Alex said. "Wow, now I'm complaining, good job Lena."
"Me! What did I do," Lena said.
"You started this," Alex said.
"And they call me a child," Malcolm said.
"You're all children," Laurel said.
"First our main Kryptonite hub was destroyed, Supergirl was rescued from under our noses, and now two of my best assassins are down," Lillian snapped as she entered a dark control center, a man with cybernetic pieces on his head turning to her as she walked up. "And why is that alien bitch still not dead?"
"Who are you calling a bitch … bitch," Sara said.
Everyone burst out laughing as people started agreeing with Sara.
"It appears the D.E.O. has new vigilantes in their ranks," Henshaw answered, gesturing to a few monitors. "We have counted four from when the Kryptonian was rescued, three more at the jewelry store heist, and a further two from CatCo."
"Why are you there,?" a few people said to J'onn confused.
"That is not really me, I am a shape-shifter, I ran into him a long time ago, he was the director of the DEO and I was an alien whom he was hunting, one of his agents," J'onn looked over to Alex who shook her head. "Found me, and then he found the agent, Henshaw and I fought, I took his identity after he died, but Cadmus brought him back, and now he works for them," J'onn said.
"Not the weirdest story I've ever heard," Sara said.
"Then what is?"Oliver asked.
"Vigilantes," Lillian scoffed in disgust. "And what of her human identity?"
"I believe one connection has been made, at the alien bar," Henshaw answered, pulling up the image of a dark-haired man clad in a suit fighting with knives. "We have yet to discover his identity, but this image was also pulled from CatCo."
Lillian tilted her head when she saw a casually-dressed brunette woman with a boy about twelve just behind Danvers' desk. "Do we have their identities?"
"To quote every Star Wars movie ever I've got a bad feeling about this," Winn said.
"They have Star wars on Earth-38," Cisco said.
"Every earth has Star Wars Ramone," Harry said.
"No," Henshaw shook his head. "We do not. But they are associated with Supergirl." Lillian frowned thoughtfully, and Henshaw considered her. "What do we do now, Miss Luthor?"
Lillian smirked. "We pick a target."
"I was right," Winn said.
"I brought these blueprints for the venue, and these are the records I found of all the guests attending," Lena handed two flash drives to Winn, who handed one to Felicity, both of them turning to their computers to get to work. "I have yet to hear anything about the security I have planned."
"Thank you, Miss Luthor," J'onn said gratefully.
"Anything to help Kara," Lena said.
"Of course," Lena nodded. "I haven't found anything to suggest one of the guests has a connection to Cadmus, but, then again, I have been wrong before. Who can I mark down as attending with Kara, James, and Miss Grant?"
"Me, Malcolm, Laurel, John, and Rene," Oliver answered as he walked up. "And if you say you joined in on any of the bets running about when Kara and I would get together . . . "
"I did no such thing," Lena promised with a smirk, making Oliver roll his eyes. "Can I say it doesn't surprise me?"
"We did make bets, and I think I won actually," Lena said.
"Yeah, you did everyone that made the bets owes you 15 bucks each," Felicity said looking at her phone.
"Lena! I revoke my hug," Kara said pouting.
"You can't it happened, and it almost crushed my ribs," Lena said.
"That's not so bad," Oliver admitted.
"Because it honestly doesn't," Lena said as she and Oliver walked off, letting Winn and Felicity babble and compare their drives. "I've never seen Kara smile like she has since you arrived."
"The rest of the team might have had something to do with that, too," Oliver pointed out.
"You all did," Kara said.
"Yeah, but it was mostly Oliver," Sara said.
"Sara stop it," Kara said.
"That's true," Lena conceded. "But she also looked brighter these last few days. Even when she was with Mon-El, she never looked this happy." She smiled when she saw Kara swat at Rene, who nimbly ducked her swing while Dinah laughed. "I'm happy for both of you."
"Well, it's thanks to you that we knew what we were doing when we first came here," Oliver told her.
"Oh, don't mention it," Lena waved it off. "Anything to help annoy my mother. She's done enough damage to aliens as it is."
"Yeah, she's a menace," Winn said.
"No kidding," Oliver sighed, walking up to Kara. "Alex let you out?"
"Finally," Kara nodded, tentatively leaning against him. When he put his arm around her shoulder, she smiled and leaned her head on his shoulder. "I hate medbays."
"Yeah, they suck," Barry said.
"Come on Barry!" Caitlyn yelled.
"Sorry, Caitlyn!" Barry said.
"And I hate hospitals, so that's another thing we've got in common," Oliver smirked.
Thea: that's so cute!
Super Puppy: Shut up Thea
Alex: I knew we shouldn't have brought her in here
Super Puppy: Alex!
Sara:stop denying it
"Aww," Thea and Alex teased in unison.
Both of them were bombarded with pillows as everyone laughed.
"Hey I'm the only one who can throw pillows here," Thea said.
"That's not a rule!" Kara said.
"Yes it is, it's in the chat, God, read it," Thea said
"Shut up," Oliver and Kara groaned.
"Hey, Kara," James smiled as he walked in. "Good to see you up and moving."
"Thanks, James," Kara smiled back. "Now can you stop these guys from teasing us?"
"I don't think that's possible," James said.
"Damn," Kara muttered.
"You could always leave," Maggie pointed out.
"Yeah, Miss Grant gave you time off as long as you helped write a report about the L-Corp fundraiser," Lena nodded.
"And since the only parts of National City I feel like I've seen have been L-Corp, CatCo, and your apartment," Oliver tilted his head back and forth. "I'm not counting the bar you were nearly killed in."
"Of course not," Thea agreed.
"Touring the city it is," Kara grinned.
"I want you home by midnight!" Alex called teasingly.
"I am going to kill you!" Kara groaned, even as Oliver laughed and went to grab his jacket, Kara already heading for the door.
"Alex I will melt your face off," Kara said.
"Yeah, sure you will," Alex said.
Kara shot a heat vision beam at her which Alex managed to miss.
"Kara! What are you doing," Oliver yelled.
"It's fine, she does it all the time, she can make her heat vision have the power of a sunburn, still hurts a lot though," Alex said.
"Yeah, I do it when she pisses me off, and when she steals my potstickers, she is the ONLY one who can get away with that, not even you can Oliver, I'm serious," Kara said.
"Same with you, Ollie!" Thea grinned, making everyone laugh.
Thea has built a wall of pillows to hide from Oliver.
"Thea what are doing?" Oliver said.
"Hiding," Thea said.
"Honest to God, Thea, I will!" Oliver pointed at her before heading after Kara.
"Don't test me," Oliver said.
"Hmm," Malcolm watched them go, tilting his head as Winn and Felicity walked up. "They do look good together."
"Oh my god, you too," Oliver said.
"Yep," Dark Archer said.
Thea whoops from behind her pillow wall.
"I don't know who to give the 'you hurt them, I hurt you' speech to," Laurel mused.
"Yeah, that is a problem isn't it," Thea said.
"Thea I swear to god," Oliver said.
"Protective much?" Winn asked.
Malcolm growled in annoyance. "Oh, go back to playing with your fidget spinner!"
Winn sputtered, eyes wide, as everyone else in the room burst out laughing as Malcolm and Laurel left. "I do not play with fidget spinners!"
"Rude!" Winn said.
"You do have a fidget spinner at your desk though don't you?" Alex said.
"He does," James said.
"Not the point here Alex," Winn said.
"Believe me, that is not the weirdest thing a deadly vigilante could say," James snorted.
"Oh?" Dig raised an eyebrow. "What is?"
"I think Slade would actually kill me if I repeated it."
"He's right I would kill him," Slade said.
Quentin's eyebrows shot up. "That entertaining, was it?"
"Oh yeah," Alex said.
James sighed. "You could say that."
"One thing that never ceases to surprise me," Oliver mused as he and Kara walked hand in hand down a busy street in National City.
"What?" Kara looked at him curiously.
"How every city seems to be so much brighter and a much bigger delight than Star City," he shook his head.
"Irony much," Thea said.
Kara burst out laughing. "That's what amazes you the most about National City? We're brighter than Star?"
"Okay, now I see it," Oliver said.
"Well, I might be biased," Oliver shrugged, smirking at her.
"Oh, points to you for that," Kara giggled, making Oliver grin smugly. "Still . . . dark and gorgeous isn't that bad."
"Oh Super Puppy, that is so embarrassing," Sara said.
"Excuse me?" Oliver laughed.
"Oh, my God, did I just say that out loud?" Kara blushed beet red, fiddling with her glasses.
"If you think you just said 'dark and gorgeous,' yes, you did," Oliver grinned at her, making Kara blush even redder. "You really are adorable, you know that, right?"
"So everyone seems to tell me when I say something like that," Kara mumbled, biting her lip. "Sorry."
"I feel like we just used each other to describe our cities," Oliver chuckled.
"So the city reflects the hero?" Kara nodded thoughtfully. When she saw Oliver open his mouth to say something, she gave him a look. "That is not up for debate. You will lose that argument before you even start it."
"You are a hero," Kara said.
"Don't make her pout," Alex said.
"She's really good at it," Sara said.
"Kara," Oliver sighed.
"You jumped over three dozen Earths to come here and save me," Kara jabbed a finger in his chest. "And sure, the others followed, but you've had my back the entire time. You are willing to do anything to keep me alive and safe. You're a hero to me." He stared at her for a long time, and Kara fiddled with her glasses again. "Rao, I can't say anything right today, can I?"
"Don't worry Super Puppy, it's really cute," Sara said.
"You said the right things to end an argument before it began," Oliver shook his head, a mixture of bewilderment and awe in his eyes. "How do you do that?"
"I'm a reporter?" Kara phrased it as more of a question.
"No, I stand by what I called you earlier," Oliver shook his head. "Definitely an angel."
Kara blushed and looked down.
"He's right Super Puppy," Sara said.
"Stop it," Kara mumbled, biting her lip bashfully.
"If you dislike it that much, then make me," Oliver challenged. When Kara didn't say anything, he chuckled and kissed the top of her head. "Knew it."
"Not bad, but I perfer Super Puppy," Sara said.
"Oh, give me a break," Kara sighed, even as she leaned her head on his shoulder as they continued to walk, Oliver releasing her hand and putting his arm around her shoulders instead. They went a few steps before she spoke again. "You know what the weirdest part about this is?"
"That's a wide net," Oliver said.
"Oh, no," Oliver mock sighed.
"No, no, it's a good weird," Kara hastened to assure him. When he raised an eyebrow at her, she continued. "This . . . you and me? It doesn't feel weird. This is . . . what, the third time we've had any interactions whatsoever?"
"The Dominators, Lian Yu, this," Oliver nodded.
"And it doesn't feel . . . I don't know, unnatural," Kara nodded. "I don't feel uncomfortable. It's . . . " She seemed to struggle for a word to say before groaning. "You know, 'nice' does not cut it."
Thea was freaking out behind the pillow wall.
"Thea we hear you," Oliver said.
"I know," Thea said.
"Right?" Oliver tilted his head.
"I know!"
"No," Oliver shook his head, chuckling. "It feels right."
"Oh," Kara blinked. "Yeah, that works."
"Oh poor Super Puppy, embarassed again," Sara said.
Oliver pulled her closer to him, smiling. "It does feel a bit odd. But definitely a good odd."
"Definitely," Kara beamed up at him.
"Awesome!" William grinned when Samantha brought their ice creams outside.
"I wonder why we're watching this," Samantha said.
"You can thank Kara later," she smiled at her son, handing him his cone and sitting across from him. "She recommended it. Apparently, this was where the 'girls' day' was."
"When there was the bank robbery and the jewelry heist?" William asked.
"So normal Monday then," Alex said.
"Most crimes in our city happen on Thursday," Thea said.
"Really? Our day is Tuesday," Iris said.
"Mmmhmm," Samantha nodded.
William considered his ice cream cone, licking it before looking at his mother. "Mom?"
"What?" she asked, tilting her head.
William fidgeted slightly. "Nothing's going to happen to Kara . . . right? She's not going to actually die?"
"Of course not," Samantha shook her head. "Oliver won't let that happen. No one is going to let that happen."
William looked down, biting his lip. "But what if Dad gets hurt because of it?" he asked. "I mean, if it wasn't for Kara taking down that bad man . . . "
"William," Samantha reached over to put a hand on his. "There is no way they're going to let the other get hurt. They're going to make it out of this. We all will."
"Famous last words," Thea said.
"Thea!" Oliver yelled.
Laurel and Malcolm looked at each other and Laurel sighed as she knew how right Thea was.
Sara noticed the looks they gave each other and she paled.
William looked up at her. "Promise?"
"Promise," Samantha smiled, taking a bite of her ice cream. William smiled back, licking his cone again.
There was a sharp crack in the air, and William jolted when he felt a sharp gust of wind go by his face. At first he looked around, trying to find the bird that flew past him.
"That's not a bird is it?" Thea said slowly as she paled.
But then he heard people screaming, heard a chair collapse.
It took him less than two seconds to realize the chair that had toppled had been his mother's. "Mom?" he dropped his cone, standing up. When he saw what had happened, his eyes widened. "Mom!"
Samantha's ice cream cup was abandoned on the ground, dripping and melting onto the pavement. Dark chocolate liquid mixed with a much thicker red liquid, which was steadily growing in amount as the seconds passed.
Samantha hugged William keeping him from seeing what was on the screen, he knew what had happened though.
Across the street from the rooftops, Hank Henshaw lifted his gaze from his sniper rifle, a small smirk on his face.
"The original Hank Henshaw," Kara said refusing to call him Cyborg Superman.
"Son of bitch," Thea whispered.
In front of the ice cream shop, William screamed and begged his mother to come back as patrons around him started dialing 911, crouching and trying to feel for a pulse.
On the ground, Samantha Clayton's eyes were unseeing as she stared up into the sky, a clean entrance wound where her heart was, red pooling under her.
Dead silence, everyone was just staring at the screen in shock.
"I think it might do everyone good to take a break now, if you didn't eat breakfast you can try to, if you did eat you can just wait a little bit," Laurel said.
Everyone nodded and left the viewing room.
As Laurel and Malcolm walked to the hallway they found Zari with Nora, Mia, Alura, and Rebecca.
"I found them on Earth-38, with this mic, and an interdimensional extrapolator," Zari said.
"Yeah, and I'm sure Nora told on us," Rebecca said fuming.
"Nope, you kinda told on yourself," Zari said.
"Ha!" Nora yelled.
"Come on," Laurel said walking down the hall.
"Is she taking us somewhere so she can murder us," Rebecca asked.
Malcolm just shrugged and said "How should I know, she hasn't been this mad since… I actually don't know."
They walked up to the girl's secret room and Laurel said "You're all under something that is basically house arrest you are not allowed to leave this room unless we tell you," Laurel said.
"Good thing we have a bathroom then," Rebecca said sarcastically pointing towards the bathroom.
"Don't be sarcastic with me, I taught you how to be sarcastic," Laurel said.
Alura pouted and said "I don't want to be in here."
"Talk to your dad about it, now we're going to leave before her pout wins us over," Laurel said walking out of the room.
After they left Nora said "Shrap! This is all your fault, Becca, I'm going to be in so much trouble, my moms going to kill me, revive me, kill me again, and then ground my lifeless body!"
"You did not have to go along with us, and you already had something to communicate across dimensions, why did you have that hmm?" Rebecca said while looking for something.
Everyone started sitting down and Nora said "I found that in uncle Cisco's workshop in a corner covered in dust, I think it was what he was going to use to communicate across dimensions before he came up with the microchips in their phones, I found the plans and started to modify the device to where it would work with our technology."
"Where is my freaking water bottle!" Rebecca yelled.
Nora threw it at the back of her head.
It hit her and Rebecca said "Nora stop throwing stuff at me!"
"This is crazy," Alura said.
"I know right, pass the popcorn," Mia said, and Alura pulled a bag of popcorn out of somewhere and gave it to her.
Everyone turned to look at her and Nora said "Where did you get?"
"I hide food all over this place," Alura said as she pulled out a bag of cookies and handed them to her.
"Oh yeah I've found some before I think," Nora said. "I'm hungry," Nora whined.
"Don't get whiny, I hid donuts here," Alura said.
"I ate them already," Nora said.
"What? How?" Alura said.
"As soon as you said you hid food I ran around the room to look for donuts, and they're gone and I hate everything!" Nora said as she threw herself on the couch.
AN: thought that was a funny note to end on, but did anyone get the Parks and Rec and the One Day at a Time (2017) quotes, I've been binge watching them with my mom so it's stuck in my head.
Also, Rebecca is my spirit animal, either her or Thea