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She found Kara this time, as Lena.
She decided to thank her with a coffee, but didn't know how she took her coffee so decided to get her a hot chocolate instead.
Eyes were on her the instant she stepped out of the elevator, her heels clicking on the floor.
Everyone bar Kara looked up at her at first, but the closer she got to Kara the more the noise of her heels seemed to register and Kara glanced up, probably expecting to see Cat, but done a double take when her eyes found Lena.
She sat up a little straighter, smiling softly at Lena, but she still seemed surprised when Lena made her way to her desk, placing the cup down on the surface.
"What's this?"
"Hot chocolate, I hope you're not allergic to cinnamon."
"No. No, I'm not. But why?" Kara tentatively picked up the cup. "For what?"
"For the article, for coming to me with the Lex thing and giving me enough time to do damage control."
"Oh," Kara smiled, her brow furrowing a little. "Thank you."
"You're welcome, Miss Danvers."
"If you're bringing me hot chocolate to work I think it's about time you call me Kara, Doctor Luthor."
"Then you should call me Lena."
"Lena," Kara nodded, rolling back on her chair as Lena took a seat on her desk, staring up at her with wide, blue eyes. "Can you do lunch? Or do you have to get back?"
"Uh," Lena glanced down at her watch, she really should get back, after everything blew up with Lex had had the FBI probing into her affairs, even though their businesses weren't associated with one and other.
She should be getting back.
"Sure, that sounds good."
"Okay, awesome." Kara smiled, quickly logging off her computer before grabbing her bag. "I know a place."
Lena ended up sitting across from Kara at a small cafe just along from the CatCo building.
"I know it's small, but I figured you would rather this than somewhere fancy, with everything that's happening right now." Kara admitted a little sheepishly, and Lena wasn't sure if she was sheepish because of where she had taken her or because of the whole mess with Lex.
"I'm not going to throw a bitch fit, Kara. I'm more than happy here," Lena assured, eyes scanning the menu. "I'm not a diva like the media says."
A little grin appeared on Kara's lips. "And who would believe those pesky journalist?"
"Not me, I'm telling you." Lena scoffed in faux-offence. "Fairytale writers, the lot of them."
Kara let out a little laugh, lifting her eyes from the menu to look at Lena. "How are you, Lena?"
Lena hated that the question threw her so much, it was kind of pathetic. "Yeah, yeah, I'm okay."
"Are you sure?" Kara set down her menu, giving Lena her undivided attention. "I've seen some of the articles."
"I'm used to it," Lena shrugged.
"You shouldn't be,"
"You know as much as I do how much stick women get,"
"I do," Kara hummed. "If you need to get away, or just talk, you can stop by. Or call me."
"I don't have your number,"
"Well, give me your phone, then."
Lena smiles as Kara held her hand out, wiggling her fingers at Lena, and Lena couldn't help but be a little baffled at the fact this was the woman who blew open Myriad, and took down countless, this was the woman she was working alongside the other night.
Lena handed over her phone and Kara quickly typed in her number before handing it back.
"Same goes for you, you know? If you need to talk to anything."
Kara smiled softly at her. "So, tell me about something you've been working on?"
Kara, surprisingly, didn't ask her about Spider-Woman. Kara knows she is connected to her, most everyone did, and they always asked her about the spider, because a hero was more interesting then what Lena does.
Lena was never mad about it, she knew it was true, she would probably ask as well, but Kara seemed more interested in Lena.
What Lena done for a living, what her business entailed, what she wanted to in the future.
"You're gonna change the world, doctor Luthor." Kara commented, resting her chin on her clasped hands as she smiled over at Lena.
"No, I mean- I'm not Flash, or Spider-woman."
"Sure, they are saving the world, but they have powers." Kara said, smiling softly at Lena. "But you don't. You're trying to change the world while it fights against you."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, for starters, you're a woman." Kara said, leaning back in her chair and motioning to her. "An immigrant, Irish, there are ignorant people out there who would hate that. And with your family, it's like you're puppy going up against a bear. You shouldn't be winning but, god, Lena, you've got that bear by the throat."
Lena didn't know that to say to that, so she said nothing, her heart swelling in her chest and butterflies swarming in her stomach.
"These heroes, meta humans, they are helping the world, and that's amazing, but to try and take on the world with no powers, I think that's incredible." Kara said, glancing up at the waiter as he sat her food down in front of her. "Thank you."
Lunch went fast, because Lena should have been back an hour ago, but when she got back to the office she had a text from Kara telling her she had a good time.
She chose to ignore the butterflies that bubbled in her chest.
She did get a call from Kara late that night, but not on her normal phone.
"Hey,"
"Spidy, I need your help." Kara said, and Lena's ears immediately distinguished the gunshots in the background.
"Were those gun shots?" Lena asked, grabbing her mask from her desk and began stripping.
Kara scoffed. "No,"
Two more gunshots.
"Those are gunshots,"
"Okay, yes. I got into a little bit of trouble." Kara said, and Lena put her on her built in coms when she had her mask on.
Lena ran to her balcony and jumped over the edge, plummeting head first toward the ground.
"Where are you?"
"The Chapel, turns out-"
"Later," Lena interrupted. "Stay put, I will be there as soon as I can."
Lena slipped through one of the open windows not a minute later, landed soundlessly in between the pews.
There was three men, two holding AK's and one larger man without any weapons.
"She is in here somewhere! Find her and kill her." The head thug ordered.
"What a waste, she's a pretty one."
"Hey, fellas." Lena announced, straightening as the men whipped around, two out of the three at least had the decency to look a little afraid. "How about we leave the pretty girl alone and just leave, hm?"
"Its the spider."
"I can see that, Travis!"
"What do we do?"
Lena sighed, clasping her hands in front of her while the group bickered, rocking back and forth on her feet.
"How should I know?"
"I heard she is bullet proof."
Lena nodded at that, at least this one was a rumour that was beneficial to her.
"Listen, guys. Usually you shoot at me, I beat you up a little then web you up for the police to come." Lena explained. "How about we just do that?"
The men glanced at each other then open fired, which Lena easily dodged before webbing one of the guns and yanking it away, spinning it around once before thumping it against the thugs head with a loud crack, knocking him out.
"You guys are by far the worst thugs I've come across in a long time." Lena sighed, webbing the knocked out man's feet and hands to the floor before turning her attention to the larger man. "And I dealt with a guy in translucent tights the other night."
The larger man didn't go down as easy but she took both men down eventually.
"Miss Danvers?" Lena called, and Kara's head peeked over the alter, a sheepish smile on her lips. "What did I say? Call me when stuff like this comes up."
"I didn't expect anything to be here." Kara defended, getting up and making her way toward the table filled with small statues.
"Why are you even here?"
"It is the Costa family, there has been rumour they have been storing drugs here."
"The mafia?" Lena huffed, throwing up her hands. "Come on, what are you thinking? Taking on one of the most violent families in National City?"
"I didn't think this was worth your time." Kara shrugged, picking up one of the dozen statues.
"What are you doing?" Lena questioned unsurely.
"Checking for drugs."
Lena watched as Kara raised the statue above her head. "Don't-" Before Lena could sat anything Kara smashed the statue.
"Breaking a Virgin Mary statue in a chapel," Lena murmured. "I'm pretty sure that is blasphemy."
"Not religious are you, Spidey?" Kara asked, glancing back at Lena as she reached in and pulled out the drugs.
"No, but there has to be some kind of karma shift there." lena commented.
"I'm okay now, you don't have to stick around if you're busy."
"You are in the drug den of the Costa family, I think will stay." Lena said. "I will call in a friend, she works for NCPD."
Lena turned from Kara and called Sam.
"Hey," Sam greeted. "Everything okay."
"There is a Costa family drug den at the chapel on 10th."
"Oh," Sam sounded confused. "How did you find that?"
"I didn't," Lena laughed softly. "Kara Danvers did."
"The reporter from the other night?"
"Yeah, almost got herself killed scouting it out."
"And you just so happened to be in the area?" Sam questioned unsurely.
"Well, no." Lena could hear Sam sigh. "She called me."
"That phone was for you and I, you know that, right?"
"She will get herself killed eventually, today if I hadn't been here."
"She's pretty, huh?" Sam asked knowingly.
"That's not- there is- what?"
Sam laughed. "I will be there soon."
"The NCPD are on their way," Lena said, turning back to Kara. "How did you figure this out?"
"I've been watching the Costa family for a while now, I'm sure they are in cahoots with the DeMaggio family but I can't prove that yet."
"And you really think it is a good idea so go digging around that scene?" Lena asked, perching herself on one of the pews. "I've seen what they do to people, I've heard the screams of people like you who stuck their nose in."
"It is a good job I have a guardian angel, then." Kara said, taking a seat beside Lena.
"I might not always be here. What if I didn't make it on time?" Lena asked. "I would have gotten here and you would have been bleeding out or dead."
Kara sighed. "You don't understand."
"Understand what?"
"You have your powers, you swing across the city saving people and getting cats from trees, I can't do that." Kara said. "This is the only way I know to make a difference, breaking stories like these. And it is not just you, my sister is an FBI agent, my mother has bioengineered a transport system for chemo therapy, even Lena, she is working toward low cost water purifying systems. Everyone in my life is making a difference somehow, this is all I have."
"I get that," Lena said softly. "I understand but your mother and Lena aren't putting themselves in harms way, your sister will have a partner. And now you do, too. Me, if you actually call me."
"I will in future," Kara assured, grinning crookedly at Lena when she nodded. "If I didn't know any better, Wall-Crawler, I would say you cared."
"Of course I do," Lena rolled her eyes. "I don't want you getting hurt."
"Well, with you around I don't seem to be getting hurt."
"That has been luck thus far,"
"I will call you in future," Kara promised. "if you don't mind me asking, but how did this happen?"
"The spider thing?" Lena clarified and Kara nodded. "Lab accident, I was bitten by a radioactive spider."
"You were someone before this, what is that like? Is your life totally focused on being Spider-woman?"
"Is this an interview, Veronica Mars?"
"No," Kara laughed. "Nothing you ever say will be published, unless we agree otherwise."
Lena nodded once. "No, I have other things going on, but this is my main priority."
"I would ask what but I wouldn't imagine you would tell me."
"No, I wouldn't." Lena side eyed Kara, the sound of sirens catching her attention.
"What?"
"There is something happening." She whispered, focusing her hearing, counting three different sirens. "Three police cars."
"Go, no one is going to come, and the NCPD will be here soon."
"I don't-"
"Go," Kara insisted, smiling fondly at her. "Save the city."
Lena stood, still unsure. "Call me if anything happens, okay? And text me once you leave."
"Yes, mom." Kara teased.
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Lena took a beating this time around.
They were meta humans, one that could scream like a banshee and one who could control electricity.
The FBI showed up just Lena crumbled to her knees, having incapacitated the last of the meta humans.
"Hey, I wanna talk to you."
Lena groaned as the agent made her way toward her. "Not tonight, agent. I get you don't like me helping, but-"
"You have been helping out my sister," The agents said, what should be a nice statement said like an accusation.
"Your sister?"
"Kara Danvers," The girl clarified. "You have been encouraging her."
"What? No I haven't. I just spent ten minutes actively trying to talk her out of being… well, her." Lena defended. "There is no changing her mind, from what I have gathered, so she has my number, and I will help her out with dangerous situations if need be."
"Ideally she doesn't get into any dangerous situations."
"I'm on your side here," Lena held up her hands in defence. "But there is not changing her mind, she wants to help and this is the only way she knows how."
Alex eyed her for a second, taking in the state she was in, standing lopsided and clutching her side. "Do you need a ride home?" Even the offered sounded standoffish.
"No, I'm good."
"Then take off, rest up."
Lena nodded, zipping away before anything else could be said.
She slept for a good twelve hours that night.
She woke up with a text from Kara on her normal phone.
Kara [9:02]: breakfast?
Lena [10:34]: Sorry, I just woke up
[10:34]: If you still want to get breakfast?
Kara [10:36]: I thought CEOs were supposed to be early risers?
[10:36]: Same place as lunch? Half an hour?
Lena [10:37]: see you there
Lena quickly got ready, a clean spider-suit under her jeans and her MIT sweatshirt.
Kara was already waiting for her, her eyes flickering up when the door chummed, doing a double take when she realised it Lena.
She smiled as a reflex, but it slackened when her eyes run down what Lena was wearing.
"Hey, sorry. I slept in late today." Lena said as she sat down.
"That's okay," Kara spoke softly. "You look good."
"Oh," Lena glanced down at herself, like she didn't know what she was wearing. "Thank you."
"I don't think I've ever seen you in civilian clothes before," Kara commented, and Lena felt a little panic rise in her chest.
"What do you mean?" She asked, her voice an octave or two higher.
"You are always in those dapper suits or beautiful dresses." Kara explained. "Every photo is see of you, you always look so done up, and you look great, but you- I dunno, doesn't matter."
Lena could feel her cheeks heat up at the rambled compliment. "Well, thank you, Kara."
Kara nodded, still a little embarrassed.
Lena can't remember the last time she laughed as much as she did at this breakfast.
Lena hadn't felt this light in a long time.
She and Kara hung out often, Kara showing up at her office a few times with food and coffee because even after only knowing each other for a month she knew 'what she was like, and how she forgot to eat'. Lena would stop by CatCo. less often because Kara didn't actually spend a lot of time there.
It was less than a week before Kara invited her to games night, and Lena declined every time under the ruse of work, but she did accept Kara's invitation for a movie night at her place.
They settled on the sofa and played a few trash comedy movies while they talked.
It was mostly Kara talking, about her previous articles, and the places she had been, and the things she had seen.
Lena gave her undivided attention, her elbow resting on the back of the sofa and her cheek on her first.
Kara apologised for talking too much, tucking her hair nervously behind her ear, and Lena felt her chest swell at the sight. Lena waved her off, assuring her she was more than willing to just listen.
Lena talked some about her childhood, and they bonded over both being orphans.
Lena kept protecting the city as best she could, but she didn't hear from Kara as Spider-woman all month.
She was on top of the beams on National City bridge when Kara called her.
"Hey,"
"So, I have some intel for you, I'm outside the building now."
"Okay, where?" Lena asked. "You can brief me on my way there."
"National City art museum." Kara supplied, and Lena swan dived from the bridge. "There has been a string of recent break ins but nothing has been taken, the alarm had been tripped and when the police get there everything appeared to be fine."
"You think someone is scouting?"
"I think so, but I can't tell for what, there is nothing great in the gallery." Kara murmured thoughtfully.
"Why are you there now?"
"I wanted to have a look, see if there is any clues as to how they are getting in."
"And you need me to scout the roof, huh?"
"That and I have almost missed working along side you."
Lena didn't know how to feel about that, about the brazen, flirtatious tone to Kara's voice.
Lena landed on the roof just above Kara, a little smile etching on her lips when she got the idea to get Kara back for startling her the first night they met.
Lena repelled down, upside down, from the room, stopping with her head beside Kara. "Hey,"
Kara let out a little squeak of surprise, jumping away from Lena before glaring at her.
Lena laughed, flipping round to land on her feet. "Payback for that first night."
"Mature," Kara grumbled, but the smile on her face told Lena she wasn't really mad.
"I will check the roof, stay on coms?"
"I will check doors and windows."
Lena recognised the claw marks on the edge of the room immediately. "Uh, Kara?"
"Find something?"
"I did, and it isn't great."
"It has been a minute, huh?"
Lena whipped around at the voice. "I'll call you back,"
"Sp-" Lena cut Kara off.
"Felicia," Lena greeted unsurely. "I thought you stopped this?"
"I tried, but nothing gives a thrill like this, you know?" Felicia grinned, sauntering closer to Lena. "How have you been? Missed me?"
Lena swallowed as Felicia touched her masked covered face, that flirtatious twinkle in her eye.
"Missed you doing this? Certainly not." Lena said, but she didn't push Felicia away.
Felicia's smirk only grew. "Do you ever think about it?"
Yes. Yes she did, at least up until recently, now her mind seemed to be more and more consumed with Kara. "No,"
"If you didn't have your mask on I bet I would see that cute little eyebrow twitch you do when you're lying." Felicia licked her lips, toying with the bottom of Lena's mask. "I'll be seeing you soon, sweetie."
Then she was gone, grappling to the building across from them, and Lena just watched her go, embarrassed by how flustered she got.
Kara sounded a little miffed when she called her.
"What was that?"
"I know who has been scouting the museum." Lena said. "Black Cat."
Kara was silent for a few seconds. "She has been off the scene for years now."
"Now she is bored, apparently." Lena grumbled. "She got away but she will be back, and I'll get her when she is."
Lena hopped down from the roof, landing soundlessly on her feet beside Kara, who looked mildly impressed.
"Why did you hang up?" Kara questioned, obviously suspicious, and so she should be, hanging up was definitely shifty on Lena's part.
"We worked together a few times, before she dropped off the grid." Lena explained. "I wanted to try and talk her down."
"It didn't work, I take it?"
"No, she's bored and always kinda had an issue with authority, she has probably been itching to do something like this for years." Lena shrugged. "But I will get her."
"We will," Kara corrected and Lena nodded.
"We will," she hummed. "But she can be very dangerous, Kara. If I tell you to do something you have to listen."
"You're the boss on this one," Kara gave Lena a little salute, and Lena felt herself swoon a little.
"Can I walk you home?" Lena offered.
"No, I'm okay." Kara assured. "Thank you, though."
Lena zipped from building to building above Kara anyway, to ensure she got home okay.
When she got home she had a text from Kara.
Reporter [22:34]: Don't think I didn't know you were following me home
[22:34]: thank you. Goodnight, spidey
Spidey [22:45]: Goodnight, Kara
She checked her other phone, smiling when she saw Kara's name there, too.
Kara [21:13]: I was thinking about you and just wanted to check in, see how your work is going?
[21:13]: that came across more clingy than I thought it would
[22:32]: Just got home, you must be mega focused in the lab
[22:32]: Or dead. I hope not dead
[22:32]: Sorry for the barrage of texts. Goodnight, Lena x
Lena's fingers itched to text back, but something in her told her not to, not just yet. Texting as Spidey and Lena at the same time would probably be suspect.
She waited all of twenty minutes before texting.
Lena [23:10]: Sorry, I was really busy. You aren't clingy, and I don't mind a floor of text messages. It is kind of nice, actually.
[23:11]: Goodnight, Kara x