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Helena knocked on the door to Kara's apartment. No answer. So, she was going to need to wait. She could feel someone watching her very closely, and she turned around to see Steve Rogers looking at her down the hallway. Instead of knocking again, Helena walked closer to him, wearing a small playful smile for him.
"Why are you here?" He asked her. He sounded to be pretty surprised over seeing her there.
"Needed to talk to a friend," She said to him.
He was silent like he was trying to figure out what he could say to her. There was something about the way she had smiled at him that had affected him so much. So, he could only let out a breath.
"I was wondering," he said to her. Steve had to bite the bullet to speak to her about what he had wanted to know. That was something he needed to get over, and it was something that had always been a problem even before the war. "If we could meet up sometime. . ."
Helena quirked up an eyebrow back at him. "What do you have in mind?"
"I'm going to leave that one up for you," Steve said to her. "Times have changed. I don't what would work or what would be acceptable."
That allowed her to give him a teasing smile. "You're very trusting."
"I'm hoping you would be careful."
She chewed on her bottom lip as she thought about something. His eyes looked directly to her lips as she chewed on the bottom one. That had more of an effect on him than any of her smiles.
"Meet me at the coffee shop below Stark Tower," she told him. "This Friday. At about. . .ten or so. We'll have coffee."
He gave her a small smile before he took a step back to his apartment. "I'll see you there, then."
The smile she returned to him was enough to cause him to practically freeze up as he could only focus on her. It only took someone walking past them to cause him to shake his head to clear it and allow him to look away from her.
It was Kara, and she was soaking wet.
"What did you do?" Helena asked her friend as they walked to her apartment. "Swim in the river?"
Kara only rolled her eyes back at her. "I'll tell you."
There was no denying the way her face had lit up as she went back into her apartment.
Before she followed Kara, Helena looked back at Steve, who was still looking at her. She winked back at him.
"That was who I wanted to talk to," Helena said to him before she walked into Kara's apartment after her. "If you don't mind. . .see you Friday."
"Was that really necessary?" Kara asked her when she came into the apartment.
"Yeah," Helena had said to her. She could not keep herself from smiling at the idea of the two of them meeting up at another day. "It was." She quickly shook her head. "You know why I'm here. Talk."
"You know what I mean," Kara had said to her. "I couldn't keep standing to the side. I needed to do something."
Helena could not really argue with her about that sort of thing. She had been feeling the same thing, and she could not really ignore it anymore.
"So," Helena had said to her. "You acted."
Kara nodded. "It felt really good. Really good."
She was smiling over that sort of thing, and she could make that very much as something infectious to Helena. She could start to feel that same kind of excitement with Kara.
"I'll help you," Helena had said to her. "As you start out, so you can be more careful and not make the same mistakes your cousin had when he first started out."
"Not what I expected you to say to me," Kara had said to her, something to be more crestfallen over it.
"I know. . ." Helena had said to her. "But, give me some time."
Helena almost absentmindedly touched her shoulder. There was a scar on her shoulder, one she had to be careful about hiding. It came from her final encounter as Robin. She tried to be more independent, and she had a run-in with someone who was considered to be more powerful and stronger than anyone she had ever had encountered. She barely made it out of the situation alive.
That was something she would never seem to forget.
Kara pressed her lips together when she realized what Helena had been doing. She could remember what had happened to Helena to make her that hesitant.
"Baby steps," Kara said to her. "I'm willing to have your help, Hel."
Helena gave her a small smile and a small hug. "Good."
They sat together, and they had started to plan something that would allow Kara to be that hero she had so wanted to be. It was a long night for them, but time felt like it was moving so quickly. They did not really notice how the time had passed.
Helena looked at the clock and made a surprised sound in the back of her throat. "It's late. I'm going back."
She was back on her feet and gave her a hug before she left the apartment. As Helena had started to leave the building, she ran into Steve who must have been coming back from somewhere. She must have been gone for a long while.
"You're going this late?" He asked her.
"Yeah," she said, and she tried to push past him. "It's not a problem."
Steve tried to stop her. "I'd feel better if I walked with you."
"I know I'll waste time in saying I can take care of myself," Helena said to him.
"I know you can," Steve said to her. "I saw you train, but like I said, I'd feel better if I walked with you."
"You're big and seemingly intimidating," Helena said to him. "I wouldn't mind walking with you."