Hey peeps, I know how much you missed this story so I made sure to get you a new chapter out quick.

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Chapter 5: Setting Up Shop

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Downtown NC

All of National City could be considered to be at the height of architectural splendor, it was probably one of the reasons people stayed after all the bullshit that happens in the future. The downtown area had remained the least populated section due to the fact that it was pretty primitive compared to the rest of the modernized city.

The reason behind it's old looks is the fact that it is made up of mostly old factories and warehouses that the city is too lazy to knock down. This made it the perfect spot for under the counter deals to go down and secret projects to be hidden.

For example gang fights,drug dens, mob meetings...

And the base of operations for a vigilante on the come up. This is why Winn found himself in an abandoned warehouse carrying out various pieces of furniture and wreckage to make room for his equipment.

Well, future equipment.

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"One downside of going solo, major grunt work." Winn muttered as he lifted a truck tire over his shoulder with a grunt.

Dusting off his hands he turned to the area of the building he had cleaned out so far, he had really just moved all the big stuff the the edges of the room. If he had one regret about not telling Kara about his activities it was that he couldn't ask her to help him set up his base. On the bright side it helped him learn the limits of his strength a bit.

He was pretty damn strong compared to the average human, not Mirakuru soldier pushing away a car with a single kick strong but he'd get there.

It's been three days since he had kissed Kara-just the thought of it made him smile- however it had also been three days since he'd seen her. It's not like he was avoiding her or anything he was just...

Busy.

A bad excuse but it was true, Winn had quickly gotten himself into a routine in order to get started on his rode to heroism.

Everyday he'd wake up do some stretching and jog ten miles, then he'd go to the park to practice tai chi. Afterwards he would head to the dance studio nearby to watch the break dancing class, this had a twofold purpose, he would finally learn how to breakdance and the groundwork moves could be incorporated into his air bending.

Yes, he was calling it Airbending.

Anyway he'd spend a good amount of time observing and then he would go to find an abandoned lot to practice in, he hadn't gotten the hang of it just yet but he'd get it sooner or later. From then on he had settled into a few normal activities to keep himself from falling into a spiral of constant training and repetitive work.

The usual things that people without superpowers or an alien best friend did, he went shopping for new clothes, lazed on his couch for a while, he caught a movie -another benefit of living in the DC universe is the lack of DC movies-*cough* BMvsSM *cough*- oh, he also beat up a couple muggers on a nightly patrol.

...Ok maybe he wasn't trying that hard at the whole normal thing. It hadn't been anything too dangerous, one of them had a pocket knife but both of them were clumsy and inexperienced enough that he had beaten both their asses and left them in the alleyway he dropped them in.

It's not his fault that his life is now more interesting than anything on tv! He had done plenty normal things before he died, with this new life he decided that he would spend his time doing things that he never could before!

Other than his nightly patrols he had taken to gather a cornucopia of electronics that he had begun to fiddle with. He also bought books that concerned information about Physics, Chemistry, Neuroscience, Engineering and Robotics. Just the basics of each subject, he didn't want to bite off more than he could chew but hopefully within the next few months he could make some use out of it.

He would've gotten books concerning more hands on skills like martial arts but he would either practice that himself or try to find himself a teacher.

Looking back around his new base he had to pat himself on the back, he'd only found it about a day ago but he'd cleaned it out pretty well, though he still has to figure out how to get his equipment there. There were a few pieces of equipment among the wreckage that were still salvageable, a few metal tables, a couple punching bags and a hunting knife.

The stuff that people will throw away.

Taking out his laptop from the satchel resting against the wall he opened it up and got to web surfing. Since he didn't have support or resources of the DEO-nor would he anytime soon with that stunt with Alex-he would have to look at other means to acquire his weapons.

Any disposables he could make himself, if Oliver Queen can make arrowheads how hard should it be to make some throwing knives all he'd need is a how to book on Welding. The problem would be acquiring bigger weapons, for example a katana or two. You know for, reasons. Anyway currently he was setting up some code that would prevent anyone from being able to trace his purchases back to his laptop, this worked by creating several clones of his computer's IP address and mimicking them all across the state.

It was a relatively small range but his processing unit wasn't able to handle much more than that, he felt a large amount of pride as he finished and applied it. Now he was safe from all but the best hackers and the government, though he doubted the latter would try to track home down.

Finishing up he glanced at the tabs that rested on his browser, all of them were from different news sources but their subjects were all the same. 'Supergirl Saves the Day.' As he gazed upon the multitude of pictures of his best friend/kind of girlfriend he felt a pang of regret in his chest. After the fateful kiss three days ago they had spoken about how they would go forward, they would try and go on a few dates to see if they could make the relationship work.

This would've been all well and good if Winn had the balls to call and ask her out. Even superhumans got nervous when asking out girls, when you factor in a superhuman who is the fusion of two awkward men who had been single their whole lives it doesn't boggle the mind on why he'd be a little apprehensive.

Winn Schott is an absolutely great friend with a two year record to show for it, but as a boyfriend he just has some confidence issues that he'll have to overcome.

"The best time is the present." He muttered before grabbing his phone and sending a quick text to Kara.

'Meet me on the Catco building roof, I need to talk to you.'

Blunt and a bit Morbid but it would have to do, gathering up his laptop he left the warehouse and made sure that it was properly locked, wouldn't want anyone to set up camp in there while he was gone. He then decided to make his way to the building straight from downtown ,hopefully he'd get back by the time Kara got off work.

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Catco. Rooftop

Kara Danvers is feeling extremely nervous right about now, three days ago she and her best friend of two years decided to try and start a relationship with one another.

After their kiss and the conversation about how they would go about things she had left and waited for him to call her, when he didn't she hadn't gotten worried, he was going through a difficult time and she would give him as much time as he needed.

Then she got a text from him saying that they needed to talk.

'Is this really happening? Am I going to be dumped by my best friend before the first date?'

She shook her head in denial as she rubbed her misty eyes, she may not show it but ever since she had first come to earth she had low self esteem, she knew that some people would kill to have the abilities that she has but sometimes she just wanted to be seen as normal, have friends as a normal girl and be loved as a normal girl.

And with Winn she felt like she could have all of that, but if she were to lose him she didn't know what she would have left. She had Alex,Eliza and Clark but it was a different situation with Winn they were bonded by something more than blood or circumstance.

Choice.

She would always be grateful of all that had been given to her, but at the same time there were some parts of her life that she had managed to obtain all by herself.

When she thought about how far she's come from that scared little girl who had lost everything she realized that a large part of her happiness as Kara Danvers could be attributed to Winn.

From behind her she heard the door to roof access open, she took a deep breath and prepared herself for a conversation that would decide if she would lose her best friend or not. What she was not prepared for was a slightly sweaty and panting man in a muscle shirt holding an arm behind his back.

She was a little stunned by it to be completely honest. "Uh, I-"

"Wait Kara before you say anything" he interrupted her while walking closer to her. "I just wanted to say how sorry I am about not calling you for the last three days." He sighed before continuing, "Lately I've been trying to find out who I am, I've grown from the guy that you've known for the last two years and I was scared that you wouldn't want to be with me, and the thought of not having you in my life isn't something that I could bear."

Raising his arm he showed her the bouquet of pink Camellias he was holding. Kara took them into her hands and smiled as she lightly sniffed them. "Winn, these are beautiful." She said her voice slightly choking up from his speech.

"Yeah they are." He said his eyes set on Kara's face, he coughed and dropped his gaze to the flowers as she met his eyes and caught him stealing.

"Every flower has a meaning based on its color and type" he spoke in a soft voice as Kara caressed the petals of one of the flowers. "The pink camellia is the flower of longing, I've been beside you almost everyday for the last two years but I haven't really felt like I was with you until three days ago, like all this time I've just been peering into your world while being completely separate from you. I know that that might not make sense, that from now on we'll have to get to know each other all over again and I know that we haven't even been on a date but I have to say this." He paused to step up to her so he could grasp her cheek in his hand.

"I love you Kara Danvers." He said this with an incredible amount of affection in his eyes.

Kara kissed him so fast that he wouldn't be surprised if she had used her super speed to close the distance between their lips. And there they stood atop the building where they had met, the sun setting behind them as they locked lips.

And Kara wouldn't change a thing about it.

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Kara's Apartment

As the young couple made their way into Kara's apartment and moved to the couch there was only one logical way the night could go.

"Ramsey Bolton you fucking asshole!"

With a Game of Thrones marathon and potstickers, they stayed up for hours laughing, talking and simply relaxing in each other's presence.

Winn looked towards the woman resting her head on his shoulder and barked out a laugh at her outburst. "You really like this show don't you?"

She turned her head up to look at him as if he had two heads. "Babe...it has dragons." He had to hold himself back from laughing, an alien with frost breath, laser vision and invulnerability is astounded by dragons.

Actually, nevermind dragons are pretty badass.

'Wait don't dragons exist in the DC universe? I must research this!'

They sat for a few moments before there was a knock at the door, Winn slid out from underneath the covers to answer causing Kara to flop down the couch as she yelled for him. "Winn, wait!"

He waved her off as he grabbed the doorknob,"Don't worry I got it." He opened the door with a smile and went to greet the visitor when he found himself knocked on his back by who ever was on the other side, before he could register what happened a boot was planted in his chest and he found a gun pointed at his face.

"Alex what are you doing!"

'Oh shit.'