When Super Met Marvel

by: Sam Lincoln

Disclaimer: All the characters contained in this story are the propery of DC Comics and Warner Brothers. No infringement is intended.

Summary: Kara makes friends with a new hire at CatCo named Mary Bromfield. She's just a normal girl from Fawcett City, right?

Spoilers: This story takes place in between season three and four of Supergirl.


Back at CatCo Kara walked off the executive elevator and found Mary still sitting in the office. "Oh, you're still here," Kara said.

"You say that like it's a bad thing," Mary said as she stood up from her chair.

"Not bad, just unexpected," Kara said as she walked back around the desk.

Mary shrugged her shoulders. "I don't really have any other place to go."

Kara rested her hands on the desk then closed the folder. "I don't have the authority to make this official, but you've got the job."

Mary clapped her hands together. "I do? That's amazing, thank-you so much!" She rushed around the desk and hugged Kara.

"Trust me, you deserve this, I can tell you'll do a fantastic job. Whenever CatCo has a CEO again." Kara forced the frown that had formed off of her face. "Say, do you have any plans this evening?"

"Not really, go home to my apartment and continue to unpack my stuff I guess."

"That can wait, you should come out for drinks with me and my sister Alex. You know, to celebrate your new job."

"I, er, wouldn't want to intrude."

"Nonsense, you're new in town and you need someone to show you around," Kara said. "Come on, it'll be fun." Kara threw her arm over Mary's shoulder. "I won't take no for an answer."

"When you put it like that how can I refuse?"

"I'm glad you agree with me," Kara said.

Later that night Kara led Mary up to a table in her usual bar where Alex sat nursing a whisky. Alex looked up from her drink when she felt Kara and Mary approach.

"Hi Alex, this is Mary Bromfield, she's new in town and I decided to take her under my wing." Kara held out her hands to present Mary to Alex.

Alex finished her whiskey then stood up from the table. "If you'll excuse us I need to talk to my sister in private for a moment," Alex said as she shoved Kara towards the bar.

"Alex, what's wrong?" Kara asked.

"I thought I was very clear to you Kara, I do not want you trying to set me up on dates." Alex jabbed Kara in the chest with her index finger. "I mean she is cute and all, but how old is she, twelve?"

Kara rolled her eyes. "That's not why I brought her here, I don't even know if she's straight or gay."

Alex folded her arms across her chest. "So why did you?"

"I told you, she's a new hire at CatCo who just moved to town. I'm doing the neighborly thing by keeping her company. You know what it's like those first few weeks in a new city hone you don't know anyone, or have anyplace to hang out."

Alex shook her head. "There's more to it than just that."

"I'm trying to make new friends okay. If you haven't noticed our supply in this dimension has rapidly dwindled. Lena spends all day locked away in L-Corp. J'onn is off walking the land. Jimmy's back in Metropolis while the whole Guardian mess is still fresh in everyone's mind." Kara stopped and let out a long sigh.

"Plus Mon-El and Winn are in the 31st Century," Alex said.

"And Brainy is hardly a fair replacement," Kara said. "Don't get me wrong he knows his stuff…"

"But he's not Winn." Alex threw up her hands. "Okay, you've made your point. We need new friends." Alex looked back at the table where Mary had taken a seat. "So do you think she's into girls at all?"

Kara laughed. "I thought you said she was too young for you."

"I said she looked young, I didn't…she's cute all right."

"I have no idea, but there's one way for you to find out." Kara turned Alex around and marched her back to the table.

"Is everything okay?" Mary asked Kara.

"Everything is fine, we just had to talk about some, er, sister stuff is all."

"That was rude of me to drag Kara off like that," Alex said. "Let's try this again. Hi Mary, I'm Kara's sister, Alex. It's nice to meet you." She held out her hand to Mary.

Mary reached across the table to shake Alex's hand. "Mary Bromfield, it's nice to meet you Alex."

"Kara says you just started at CatCo?" Alex signaled to the waitress that she was ready for another round.

"Well not officially, but I've been assured the job is mine," Mary glanced over at Kara who nodded her head.

"She's going to be Eve Tessmacher's replacement at CatCo," Kara said. "Lena had me do the interview."

"Because you were so good at the job for Cat Grant," Alex said. "That makes sense." The waitress appeared and the conversation halted as the trio placed their drink orders. "where are you from Mary?" Alex asked.

"Fawcett City," Mary replied. "So coming to National City has been quite the transition."

"We aren't Gotham or Metropolis, but we are pretty bustling," Alex said.

"I'm looking forward to it to be honest," Mary said. "A chance to make a fresh start of things is pretty appealing."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Kara asked.

"Nothing bad, nothing bad," Mary said. "I mean more back home I had certain, er, expectations, and here I can just be Mary, a face in the crowd."

"I get that," Kara said. "We grew up in a tiny little town where everyone knew your business, and yeah it's nice to just vanish from time to time." Their conversation halted again when the waitress delivered their drinks.

Alex considered Mary over the top of her glass of whiskey. "So Mary, do you have anyone special back home?"

"I, er, that's complicated," Mary said as she ducked her head down. "I mean no, no I'm not dating anyone right now, but with everything else going on in my life at the moment it hasn't felt like the right time to date, you know?"

"Believe me, I know all about that," Alex said into her glass.

"Why do you want to know?" Mary asked.

"Oh, well, Kara and I both have been through some bad breakups in the past year and I wondered if you qualified to join our little pity club."

"Alex called off her engagement late last year," Kara said.

"And Kara had her ex swan back into her life with his new wife in tow," Alex said.

Mary's eyes grew wide. "That's, wow."

Kara waved her hands. "We talked it out, and anyway he left town again not too long ago, so it's fine."

"Are you sure, because that doesn't sound fine to me," Mary said.

"We're not here to talk about old relation ships," Kara said. "Tonight is about making new friends, and not dwelling on the past."

"I'll drink to that," Alex said.

"Here, here," Mary said. She looked over at the TV that hung over the bar and saw that it was showing a news broadcast of Supergirl's exploits from earlier in the day. "Oh look, Supergirl."

Alex glanced over her shoulder at the TV. "Yep, sure is."

Mary blushed. "I must sound like some easily impressed country rube. You see Supergirl on the news everyday probably."

"I take it you're a fan then?" Alex asked.

Mary nodded her head. "Of course I am, who wouldn't be?" She tightened her grip on her beer glass. "I think she's very inspirational. The way she's stepped out of Superman's shadow and made a name for herself in National City."

"Sounds like you have some experience in that department," Kara said as she fought to keep her expression neutral in the face of Mary's praise.

"My brother Billy has a tendency to take up all of the oxygen in a room. I love him, don't get me wrong, and I'm glad he's back in my life after everything after everything that's happened to us, but I need room to be me you know."

"Trust me, all too well," Kara said.

"Fawcett City, why does that sound familiar, wait, didn't there used to be a superhero who operated in Fawcett City?" Alex asked.

Kara snapped her fingers together. "That's right there was, only wasn't there more than one?"

Mary drew in a deep breath. "Yes, you've both got a really good memory, we used to have three superheroes patrolling Fawcett. Captain Marvel, Captain Marvel Jr, and, uh, Ms. Marvel."

"Right, right, I remember thinking Captain Marvel was kind of hot," Kara said.

Mary coughed up some of the beer she had been drinking. "Sorry, went down the wrong pipe."

"I don't know Kara, don't you think he bore a passing resemblance to Superman?" Alex asked. She grinned at the horrified expression that crossed Kara's face.

"No, no I do not, besides I was like sixteen at the time."

"Personally, I was more a fan of Ms. Marvel anyway. I wonder whatever happened to them?" Alex said. "They were around and then they vanished."

Mary ran her index finger around the rim of her glass. "Nobody really knows for sure. They got into a fight with their arch-nemesis, Doctor Sivana, there was an explosion, and nobody's seen them since."

"What do you think happened?" Kara asked.

"Some people think they all died. I think they defeated Dr. Sivana, but the cost of victory was so high that they gave up being superheroes."

"That must have been some cost," Kara said.

"It was a very destructive battle." Mary looked down into her drink. "A lot of good people died that day."

"In that case a toast," Kara said. "To the Marvels, protectors of Fawcett City, wherever they are may they know that people still honor their sacrifice." She raised her glass.

"Hear hear," Alex said as she clinked her whisky glass against Kara's wineglass.

Mary hesitated a moment, then touched her glass to the Danvers sisters'. "To the Marvels," she said in a quiet voice.

-To Be Continued-