Prompt #5:Kara brings Al to visit DEO for the first time,J'onn ends up babysitting. A feared question ensues.
DEO was pretty dispersive. To lots of people,even those who worked in there. The palace at the centre of the city was always there when needed,but Kara wanted Lexie to see the one in the desert,the one where everything had started,and she had woken up one night,not so long after having become Supergirl,and she had looked up into the eyes of Alex,whose name she beared,silently apologizing for not revealing herself before. Hence why they were there at the moment. Lex was five. She was growing up fast,and for years now had been hearing stories of her late aunt and met several times with Hank. Winn,James and Lucy had filled in the gaps,with their knowledge which was by now pretty vast. Lexie loved to question them,so the age of whys had never ended. They jocked that the child had probably taken after the both of them,with their thirst for knowledge and news. Maybe she could've landed a job at Catco once she had grown up,and hopefully not gone around risking her life,but Kara had already watched this movie when she was younger. Looking at her story both ways,with her as either the oldest or youngest cousin,she had never been able to hold back and not listen to her instincts. She knew they were hoping for the hopeless. Lexie would've ended up being just like them,more or less,in the air,or from the ground,working a normal job or only for the DEO,and she had literally just ended up being the youngest child ever visiting the place,which was secret and even less for kids. Every hallway was the part of a maze. A maze with poor to nothing light and lots of aliens convicted down there.
"Alright Lexie,this is the main room,all the agents reunite here,to make plans for missions,or right after. There they have the computers where they see aliens or danger,that's where I go,although not always from here."
Lexie looked up at her and held her hand more tightly.
"Now,what's that?Is my baby shy?"
A chubby check nodded against her thigh.
"You don't have to be afraid,all the agents are friends here,like aunt Lucy,and grandpa Hank and Jeremiah,and uncle Winn."
"They are all here?"
"Yes,or a building in the city,which I won't be showing you now"
"Why?"
"Because… I won't. Someday sure"
"Yeah,but why,mama?"
"Because I…it's dangerous."
"Isn't this place more dangerous?"
"Well…oh look who's there,grampa Hank. Hank!"
Nobody was joking when pointing out their kid still hadn't left the why phase,nonetheless she had already turned months before. Maybe it wasn't a phase at all.
She watched Lexie jump into Hank's arms as he threw her up in the air and back down. He would be there often,as he enjoyed this much quieter base than the one in the city.
"Supergirl,there's a robbery going on,what do you say?"
"I'm on it."
"Hank?"
"I'll stay with her"
It took a moment. One moment. He wasn't hearing the end of it. That kid had learned to run fast,almost right after she had learned how to walk. They had just been playing hide and seek,with Lexie hiding and seeking for the both of them,and she had hidden. Where?He had no idea. The DEO was being turned upside down,and it had nothing to do with an alien to catch. More like a blonde half alien,with blue eyes,and lots of questions which rivaled both her mothers. The owner of a paper,and the savior of the city.
Be careful.She said.
She won't be giving you any problem.She said.
Kara was getting a word or two as soon as she had been back.
Alex had to be making fun of him up there,wherever she was.
The oldest was getting it too,from him tonight,death couldn't stop him.
He run into several hallways as agents on service looked through others,for quite the time,before he heard a laughter. One he would've recognized everywhere.
"Where's Lexie?Where is she hiding?"he said more playfully.
The voice laughed again as he spied her behind the corner,with her head peaking around it.
"Where could she be?"
He spun around a couple of times,looking left and right,fakely under the rocks covering the walls of that hallway.
Some alien had to make big noise,because Lexie came out of her hiding place,crying and hugging his legs,all shaking.
J'onn lifted her up,and held her to himself.
"Is he gonna catch me?"
"No way,me and mama will make sure of that"
"I catch them too?"
"When you'll be older"
"Why?"
"Because you're too little now."
"Why?"
"Because you're"he added,as he walked back towards the main room again and had Lexie sitting on his shoulders,while her arms hugged his head,and his hands held her legs in place to not let her fall.
"Why?"enquired once more the child,letting her legs swing a bit.
"They are too big"
"Yeah,but why?"
Who was he trying to fool?Thought Hank growling,as his eyes rolled freely.
Kara and Cat weren't hearing the end of this.
