A/N Sorry for the long wait but I didn't really have much time to watch Supergirl while I was at uni. I re-watched the whole first season last week, so I should hopefully have more chapters quicker :)

Chapter two

Cat stared blankly at her laptop screen and tried to remember what she had been doing. She knew it was important but the notification on the screen reminding her to take her Lexapro had thrown her off slightly.

It wasn't that she wasn't used to the pesky little message, it was just that it reminded her of the person who managed to distract her more than anyone else. When she had first seen the message on her screen, she had screamed 'Kiera' and lectured her about becoming too involved in her personal life, but the younger blonde had brazenly reminded her that she would be having dinner with her mother that night. Cat's retort had died on her tongue and Kara stared at her timidly, clearly thinking that she would be fired. Instead, the Queen of All Media had reached into her desk drawer and covertly pulled out one of the pills. Once she had taken it, she then sent the nervous millennial to go and do some meaningless task so that she wouldn't have to acknowledge that she had finally found an assistant who knew what she wanted before she even knew.

Since that day, she had allowed the notification to remain on her computer, which usually wasn't an issue. However, since she had noticed some strange feelings towards her assistant, it only served to remind her of things that she already spent far too much of her time thinking about.

You would have to be completely blind to not notice just how attractive the young woman was and it hadn't escaped Cat's attention the very first time she had seen her. Then Kara had opened her mouth and started rambling about being average and she had instantly started to find her slightly annoying. In that moment she had thought that there was no way that she would be able deal with that on a daily basis, but then she had proved herself within seconds and Cat decided that she could endure the girl on a trial basis. Before she knew it, years had passed and she found that rambling oh so adorable. She couldn't imagine having anyone else be her assistant, because she had found the perfect one for her.

It was for this reason that she was rather distraught when the possibility hit her that perhaps she felt more for Kara that could be deemed appropriate. She knew that there was no way that she would ever be able to act on her feeling, since she didn't want to be responsible for nuking the career of such a promising young woman. If Kara Danvers had a tryst with Cat Grant, there was no way that she could ever promote her and other employers wouldn't be able to take her seriously.

Cat had resigned herself to never acting on her crush, assuming that it would go away eventually. Some days, she thought that maybe it had, but then she would catch Kara staring at her and she would feel an eruption of hope in her stomach. She had known for quite some time that there was a big chance that Kara liked her back, they did spend a lot of time together so it was only natural that something would develop between them. But there were so many reasons that they couldn't be together that she had decided to feign ignorance and just wait for the younger woman to move on to someone more appropriate for her.

The sound of footsteps brought the blonde woman out of her thoughts of her assistant and she covertly gripped the edge of her desk. Seeing Kara when she was thinking like this was never helpful since it made it difficult to remember why she couldn't just walk over to her and kiss her.

Despite this, when she looked up, she was still disappointed to find the IT hobbit standing nervously at the threshold of her office.

"Yes, Witt?" she drawled.

Winn just about stopped himself from rolling his eyes and he briefly wondered if her dating Kara would mean that she would actually have to call him by his actual name.

"Sorry to disturb you, Miss Grant, but I'm just bringing you your hourly update. We haven't really found anything incriminating other than more colourful insults for Lois…"

Cat nodded slowly, pretending to be disinterested as she reached forward to close the reminder on her laptop.

"And why isn't my assistant giving me the update that I asked her for?" she asked, finally giving him eye contact through narrowed eyes.

Winn swallowed hard and he shoved his hands in his pocket nervously, "er…Kara had to step out of the office for about an hour…she had a…family emergency…something about her sister…"

Cat narrowed her eyes further, knowing instantly that he was lying. If something had happened to Alex Danvers, then Kara would have been in her office within a second freaking out and telling her that she had to go and see her. However, she had her suspicions as to why she had to endure such ridiculous lies.

It would take a moron to not at least suspect that Kara and Supergirl were one in the same, but she hadn't said anything about it. Like any good reporter, she knew that she couldn't just decide that it was the truth without verifying facts, so she had just tried not to spend too much time thinking about it. But the first time she had seen Supergirl, her attraction towards her assistant had been put into overdrive. The Kryptonian had an air of confidence that Kara Danvers didn't and the outfit that she wore when she was out saving people was never something that she would complain about. She knew that if she wasn't so attracted to the woman, then she probably would have told her that there were more practical options out there for a crime fighting alien.

Rolling her eyes dramatically, Cat waved her hand dismissively and said, "whatever, don't you have more messages to go through? I do have a meeting with the stockholders soon…"

Winn nodded as she looked back down at her computer and he frowned while he tried to figure out just what her expression meant. He had gathered a long time ago that she never believed any of the excuses that he and James spewed, so that begged the question why Kara still had a job.

Supergirl walked purposefully through the DEO base in search of her sister. It didn't take long for her to find Alex Danvers staring intently at a computer screen and she felt a tinge of hope that maybe there could be something going on to distract her from the revelation.

"Is everything alright?" she asked, slipping into the chair next to her. Instantly, Kara's small smile faded when she saw what was on the screen, "why are you playing solitaire?"

Alex looked over her shoulder in surprise and quickly turned off the computer monitor, "it's a slow day," she replied defensively.

"Since when does the DEO have slow days?" the blonde sighed despondently.

Her sister furrowed her brow at her expression and said, "you haven't seen what a slow day is like because we don't call in the badass alien when there's nothing happening."

Kara's head fell into her hand and she sighed again which caused Alex to turn to fully face her.

"Did someone call you?"

The superhero just shook her head and offered no further explanation and Alex raised her eyebrows at the very familiar look. She knew that her little sister was thinking about her boss but she had never shown up in the middle of the work day to pout about her crush.

"Isn't CatCo in crisis?" she tried which caused Kara's shoulders to heave as she sighed again.

"Cat just wanted me to go through her messages to find something that could implicate her…"

"So…shouldn't you be doing that?" Alex asked with a small smirk on her face at the thought of just how anxious going through her boss's messages.

"I did it for three hours…I just had…like a feeling that you might need my help with something…"

"You do know that you're a terrible liar, right?" the brunette asked, "you never come here unless someone calls you, especially when you have so much to do at your other job."

"I…was really stressed so I thought that coming to talk to my sister would help…if I knew that you would be so judgemental…" the younger of the two said dramatically, pretending as though she was turning around in the chair to leave.

Alex rolled her eyes and put her hand out to rest of Kara's arm, "there really isn't anything going on right now. Astra hasn't shown up in a couple weeks and there's been no other alien activity."

"How can there be literally nothing happening?" the blonde sighed, placing her head in her hands.

"There can't be a crisis every day," the brunette replied.

"It feels like there's a crisis today…"

Alex furrowed her brow and was about to ask exactly what she had found in those messages, but she was interrupted by the sound of footsteps behind her.

"Supergirl?" Hank asked, with a hint of worry in his voice.

The older of the Danvers sisters looked over her shoulder and shot the man a reassuring smile, "she's here on a personal matter, there's nothing going on right now."

The director seemed to relax at the news, obviously having thought that there was something going on that he didn't know about.

"Why couldn't you just say that I'm here to spar?" Kara asked exasperatedly.

Hank smirked at the girl and looked over to Alex. They had talked about just how much Kara liked her boss. He had been worried about just how a potential relationship could compromise the Kryptonian, but Alex had told him that there was nothing they could do about it. Cat was already very public with just how much she admired Supergirl and that they personally knew each other. So even if they did get into a relationship, villains would be just as likely to go after Cat if they weren't together. Plus, Kara have proven that she was more than capable of protecting those she cared about, so any relationship between them would just mean that the Queen of All Media would actually be safer since she would get to spend more time with Kara than she already did.

"Because I am a trained agent who would be able to tell he is being lied to," the man replied with a smirk as he crossed his arms over his chest.

Kara sighed deeply. She could tell by the look on his face that he knew exactly why she was here and she really couldn't stand how everyone except Cat seemed to know. Sometimes she would think that she would catch her boss staring at her, but then she would just tell herself that she was being ridiculous. There was absolutely no way that the woman could like her back and she couldn't help but feel as though she was completely wasting her time.

"And we probably won't have time to spar," Alex added after she heard her sister's phone ding.

The superhero swallowed hard and brought out the device, seeing that it was a text from Winn.

I told Cat that you had a family emergency, but there's no way that she believed me…unless someone is about to die, you need to get back here like now. There are so many messages to go through!

Alex looked over to the DEO director, silently asking him whether she could have a moment alone. He quickly inclined his head to both of them, before he walked over to begin talking to an agent across the room.

"I can tell by your expression that you have to go, so just tell me what happened."

Supergirl bit her lip and considered just speeding away, but it wasn't as if she would be able to avoid this conversation forever.

"I found e-mails between Cat and an ex…girlfriend…" she admitted, "Winn and James told me that everyone knows that she's bi-sexual…but I didn't…"

Alex furrowed her brow for a moment, before a smile spread across her face.

"How did you not know?" she laughed.

Kara blew out a blush of frustration and said, "apparently I don't know her as well as I thought I do…"

"You know her better than probably anyone…well except Carter…but you're also too stubborn to recognise what's right in front of you. If you had noticed the truth, then it would make it harder to think that your crush will never happen…"

"Just because she likes men and women, that doesn't mean that she's obligated to like me…there's still so many reasons why we could never work…" the alien said.

"Well at least now there's one less reason," Alex replied with a smirk, "now go back to work, Supergirl, the love of your life needs saving."

A/N I would love to hear what you thought :)