Summary:

Brainiac-5 helped Kara out of her mind prison after her battle with Reign. It was only fair she return the favour…

Notes:

This story is based on my own personal speculation that Vril Dox/Brainiac-1 will end up in the present at some point to wreak havoc in National City. Takes place after "A Visit from the Future" and "Sleeping Beauties".

Kara woke up with a start, her hand immediately going to the cerebral interface on her forehead.

She quickly glanced around the Infirmary and saw Brainiac-5 awakening with the same suddenness as she had.

He turned to look at her, an emotion in his eyes she would not have thought him capable of before.

She took a shaky breath and willed her pulse to slow down. Her complicated feelings for him were definitely not something she was ready to deal with at this time – despite what had just transpired.

"Hey, Brainy," Kara began once she had composed herself, "You okay?"

"Yes. I'm fine." He replied, his full attention still on her.

"Hey guys?" Alex began, bringing Kara's attention her, "What happened?"

"Don't remember," Kara and Brainy suddenly said in unison, immediately finding something else to focus on rather than each other.

Alex's suspicious eyes darted between Kara and Brainy. "You two look a little flushed."

"I am fine, Director Danvers," Brainy replied first.

"Yeah, I'm good too," Kara offered second. "Am I clear to go?"

"Sure," Alex answered, "You're both in pretty good shape for two people who have been unconscious for five days. Alien physiology, I guess."

"FIVE DAYS?" Kara sputtered.

"Of course," Brainy nodded with understanding. "Time goes faster in the mind."

Kara's stomach suddenly growled. This was followed by Brainiac-5's stomach doing the same thing.

The two met each other's eyes once again, and Kara burst out laughing. Brainy couldn't help but smile in response.

"Noonan's?" She asked.

"Yes. A most reasonable plan of action," he replied.

Kara jumped off the bed, "Last one there buys the pot stickers!"

"That is hardly fair, considering you have super speed," Brainy pointed out as he slid to his feet.

"I won't use it," she promised.

"I have calculated a 98.3% chance that you will," he responded.

"Yeah okay, I totally will!" In a blur of red and blue, Kara disappeared from sight.

"Brainy?" Alex began as the Coluan was about to follow. "What really happened in there? Between the two of you?" she asked.

"Something neither of us are ready to talk about right now," he answered truthfully as he tapped his forehead and turned on his personal image inducer.

Brainiac-5 was about to step out of the infirmary, but stopped and turned back to Alex, brow furrowed. "Was there someone else in here with you just now?"

"No. Why do you ask?" Alex replied.

"I'm sensing an energy signature similar to mine. And…" he looked unsure for a moment, "While Kara is highly intelligent, I do not think she knows yet how to properly operate a 31st Century cerebral interface – let alone to connect with a Brainiac's mind. If one little setting was off, she would have died in there… and yet, it seemed to have been set perfectly."

"Perhaps you're not giving her enough credit," Alex replied.

Brainy looked ashamed, "Perhaps you are correct and I have underestimated her."

Alex watched him run to the balcony and fly off, the Director of the DEO coming to the conclusion that there were some things Kara and Brainiac-5 were better off not knowing.

END

Note 2: Who was hanging around the DEO infirmary? Check out "Sleeping Beauties" for the answer.