Authors Note: Hey everyone, I wanted to apologize for not updating this story last week; I had the flu and wasn't really able to do much and I'm still getting over it. I was thinking about half way through this that I might update this story twice next week to catch up on all the weeks I've missed so far, let me know what you think about that. Anyway I hope you enjoy this next installment, and I'll see you on the other side!

Chapter 5

"Hey wake up Kara. It's time to get up." a gentle voice soothed.

Kara opened her eyes to see Alex leaning over her, gently shaking her shoulder to try and wake her. The alien lazily stared up at the human for a moment then grumbled as she tried to blink the sleep out of her eyes, "Whaaat?"

"It's ten o'clock grumpy, we need to get out on the road." Alex remarked. She had dealt with Kara's morning attitude many times and was unfazed by the grouchy alien before her.

"Why did you let me sleep in so late?" Kara mumbled as she sat up.

"I thought you could use an extra hour of shut eye, then I spent about ten minutes trying to wake you up." the brunette chuckled.

"Have you done the shopping yet?" Kara questioned.

"No, I wanted to wait for you because I didn't want you to wake up and worry about where I was. Now speaking of which, get ready because we really do need to get going quick."

Kara dragged her legs to the side of the bed and stretched her arms above her head while Alex started gathering her stuff. The blonde rushed to the bathroom at super speeds to shower and dry off. In a matter of seconds she was standing at the door of the room wearing her clothes from yesterday, grinning at Alex who was still shoving things into her bag.

"Gosh Alex, why are you so slow?" she joked.

Alex rolled her eyes and smirked, "Ha ha very funny."

Alex swung her bag over her shoulder and the two headed out of the room and to their car. As the two got settled into the vehicle, Kara looked to Alex and asked, "What store are we going to?"

"Probably whatever is closest, they're all the same." Alex remarked. "We're gonna have to be more careful now. J'onn called this morning and told me that Lane believes I ran away with you."

This put a pit in Kara's stomach. The risk was greater now that Lane would be looking for Alex and if they found her… Kara didn't want to think about the consequences yet.

It didn't take long for them to get to Central City, the motel was decently close to the outskirts of the city. Kara couldn't help but wonder how Barry Allen was doing, as she remembered he said he was from Central City, at least on his earth. She missed Barry. He helped Kara get her mind off Alex who had disappeared before he arrived on her earth.

Alex stopped the car right outside a Macy's, snapping Kara out of her thoughts.

"Okay let's just get what we need and get out fast, I don't wanna stay here any longer than we have to." Alex stated briskly to which Kara nodded.

"Pass me that wig." the brunette asked. The blonde complied and opened the unusually large glove compartment and grabbed the scarlet wig. She passed it to Alex who throws it on rather efficiently. Once she's done, Kara can't help but notice how attractive Alex looks in scarlet.

"Does it look bad or something?" Alex asks. Kara blinks and raises an eyebrow questioningly. "You were staring" the agent said.

"Oh yeah I was just spacing out sorry." Kara replied awkwardly and left the car in a hurry. Alex is confused but brushes it off with a shrug and follows the blonde inside the store.

Kara chose a few shirts that suited her with blues, reds, and yellows. Alex went more simply, choosing colors of white and black.

The duo went to the changing room, entering the stalls next to each other. It was only seconds before Kara had tried on all of her options while Alex was still taking off her jacket.

"Does everything fit?" the brunette quietly asked as there was a gap from the ceiling that would allow them to talk.

"Yeah, and now I'm just waiting on you." Kara joked. Alex just rolled her eyes and continued to try her clothes on.

Kara began to fold everything up when her eyes looked at the wall separating her from Alex.

'Don't do it Kara, don't do it, you're better than this.' she coached herself, but a nagging feeling came to surface in her mind.

'Eh, what she won't know won't hurt her.' The alien snapped on her x-ray vision to look across the wall at the unknowing brunette.

Kara felt guilty, but that was soon overcome with a mesmerizing feeling that only Alex could bring to the hero. Kara stared and stared as the brunette tried on clothes. It lasted so long Kara had to check to see if she was drooling.

"Kara?" a voice asked, grabbing her attention.

"Huh? What did you say?" she slurred.

"Aren't you done changing?" Alex asked.

"Yeah why?"

"Why are you still in the changing room when you're not changing?"

Kara looked at the stacked pile of clothes and of clothes next to her and blushed.

"I was just…thinking about something and I kinda zoned out." the alien muttered. She grabbed everything and retreated out of the booth and decided to wait a good distance away from Alex; afraid she might start looking again.

It wasn't long before Alex walked out finally and Kara blushed at the sight of her. Kara turned away from her pretending to look at some socks but Alex was no idiot.

"Is something wrong?" she questioned. Kara only shook her head and asked if they could just get out of the store. Alex was surprised, but didn't object to the idea so they paid for everything using one of Alex's credit cards she got from the car and walked out in a hurry.

Kara did her best to ignore the feelings brought to her mind a few short minutes ago and decided it would be best to just talk about something, anything really.

"Can we get some food? I think my stomach may decide to eat itself soon." She wasn't lying. The girls forgot to get breakfast and Kara couldn't go half an hour without food.

Alex chuckled and responded, "Sure, where to?" Kara thought hard about this and smiled, "I've heard of this place that just opened here called Big Bell Burger, wanna try it?"

"Hopefully it'll be enough to fill your big belly." Alex teased, grinning at the alien.

Kara couldn't help herself and she busted out laughing at the horrible pun. Normally when the brunette made a joke about her appetite, Kara would get annoyed but that was funny to her.

"Gee thanks, after we eat, where are we going then?"

"Coast City, I'd get comfy if I were you, it's a long ride there." Alex warned.

Kara settle into her seat and gazed from the window to Alex and smiled. It would be worth the ride.

J'onn was sitting at his desk with his head in his hands, his brain running over all of the possible creatures that could have killed the mayor, but none were suited enough to do so. It was then Winn entered the office looking tired and excited at the same time.

"J'onn you have influence on the NCPD right?" he asked. He may have been up late at night.

J'onn raised an eyebrow, "Technically yes."

"Okay then I need you to get me to see the mayor's body."

Okay maybe all night.

"You want me to what?" the martian asked trying to wrap his head around the first question.

"Get the coroner to let me examine her body, it can't be that hard right?" Winn clarified.

J'onn looked at the IT guy like he was crazy, which was probably so with the huge lack of sleep.

"Winn why do you want to look at her body?"

"So I can examine the wounds on her body J'onn come try to keep up."

"How much caffeine have you had?" the alien asked. Winn replied with a large number that made J'onn's jaw drop, but there was no time to talk about an obvious coffee problem.

"Winn you're not certified to do so, and her body is getting ready to be buried soon, and I don't think her family would like it if we held off her funeral."

Winn frowned and rubbed his eyes, but snapped them open, "Wait can't you just sneak in and take pictures?" J'onn narrowed his eyes, "And how do you suppose I do that?"

Winn rolled his eyes, "You're a martian can't you just faze through the wall or go invisible or something?"

'Oh come on J'onn how could you forget that?' the martian thought.

He groaned and nodded his he nodded his head, "This better help Kara in some way Winn." and with that he began to glow red and his body grow as he transformed into his martian form.

"I'll be back." he said begrudgingly.

The martian took off to the skies in no time and made his way to the building holding the mayor's body. To J'onn's dismay there was every where and he groaned again in annoyance.

He faded through the walls and looked around for anything to distract the doctors and he smirked as a red fire alarm crossed his line of sight.

The alarm blared in everyone's ears and J'onn heard mumbles from people as they questioned if there was an actual fire or if it was just a drill. When the last staff member left, J'onn moved to where they kept the bodies and pulled out multiple stands before he found Mayor Caine's body.

The alien mumbled his apologies to the corpse as he pulled out his phone to take a quick picture of the rather large holes in her abdomen.

Pushing the table back into the wall, J'onn quickly escaped the building and flew to the DEO wanting to punch Winn.

The martian passed multiple agents and soldiers, ignoring any greetings or questions that came his way. He entered his office to find Winn sleeping in a chair lightly snoring.

"Wake up." he ordered tapping the human's head. Winn jumped up startled and opened his eyes wide, "Where did you come from?"

"The coroner's office, now get over here and look at these pictures." he stated briskly. Winn stumbled over to the director's desk and gazed at the pictures closely. The man studied them for a while shaking his head, and J'onn looked at him questioningly.

"Well? Did they help?" he asked.

Winn looked at J'onn concerned, and quietly responded, "There's no way Kara could have killed her." J'onn blinked not responding hoping Winn would clarify on his own.

"If Kara had used her heat vision to kill the mayor, her insides would be liquefied but instead they look fine, or as fine as they could be I guess." J'onn frowned and shook his head, "That's not enough proof Winn. Kryptonian heat vision isn't an exact science."

"Yes it is J'onn. Kara can melt a hunk of metal in less than five seconds, so what do you think she could do to a human body?" Winn countered.

"I know Winn, but Lane doesn't give damn about that. I'm not saying it's useless I'm just saying we need more. At least now we know that Kara didn't kill her." the martian stated.

Winn sighed. He would do everything he could to help his friends, but this was getting stressful.

"Okay so what next?" he asked.

J'onn thought about this for a second and made the decision.

"We're going to go question that assistant, and hopefully we'll be able to get something out of him."

Ending Note: And there ends Chapter 5. I want to apologize again for not updating last week and I hope I can stop missing them! Also like I said at the beginning, let me know if you would like a second update next week to make up for lost time. Anyway feel free to leave a follow, fave, or review, and until next time!