Disclaimer: I do not own Supergirl, Superman, or Valor

Story Title: The Traveler

Chapter 15

At the alien bar

"What about Fire, you know the girl with the green flames?" Mike smiled at his brother suggestively.

Clark rolled his eyes. "She's like eighteen years old."

Mike or Mon-El rubbed his chin. "Yeah, wouldn't go with the boy scout persona."

"Hey, I do not have a boy scout persona," Clark denied, his blue eyes narrowed at his brother.

Mike smiled. "So, what about Isis; she's certainly old enough?"

Clark rubbed the back of his neck. "No, she's thousands of years old." Clark took a drink of the amber colored liquid that M'Gann had given them; it burned his throat on the way down. "Besides, she speaks with this weird accent and… just no."

Mike tried to stifle his laughter, but he failed. "Sorry, it's just kind of fun sitting across from you talking about women, trying to find you a girlfriend."

Clark sighed. He put his elbow on the table, placing his chin in his open palm. "I don't need a girlfriend."

Mike shook his head. A playfully stern look on his face. "You don't have to have a girlfriend, but I've known you long enough to see that you're happier when you have one." Clark just took another drink. "What about that girl Starfire?"

Clark shook his head. "She has a thing for Nightwing."

"Oh yeah, sorry, a… what about Wonder Woman?" Mike looked at his brother hopefully.

Clark choked on his drink. "Diana?" He coughed a few more times before he finally took a few deep breaths.

"Yeah, you're both friends, right?" Mike asked with a hopeful look in his eyes.

"Well, yeah, but she's an Amazon, a race of warrior women that hate men."

"She doesn't act like she hates you," Mike replied, trying his best to reason with his brother.

Clark rubbed his chin. "I don't know."

"You don't know what?" Alex said as she stood beside their table; Maggie was at her side and Kara was next to her.

"What's going on?" Mike asked, surprised to see the three women.

"Maggie and I were going on a date," Alex replied.

"I thought we could do a double date," Kara added, narrowing her eyes at Mike.

Mike looked over at Clark. "Are you going to be okay?"

Clark smiled. "I'll be fine, go have fun."

Mike put his hand on his brother's shoulder. "Call Diana."

Clark blushed when the three women present looked at him oddly. "No promises."

Mike smiled before he stood up and put his arm around Kara. "Come on, let's leave him here, maybe he'll grow a pair and call her." The group left; Clark looked at his glass before he pulled out his phone, setting it on the table. He shook his head, an amused smirk on his face as he thought of his brother. He picked up the phone and dialed the number of a certain Embassy in the Capitol.

At the restaurant…

Mon-El or Mike sat beside Kara; they sat across from Alex and Maggie. Kara looked over at Mike curiously. "So, Mike, what's going on with Clark?" She couldn't hold in her curiosity anymore.

Mike smiled. "So, this is an interrogation?" The three women at the table all narrowed their eyes at him, making Mike flinch.

Kara frowned, but Alex and Maggie both smiled knowingly. "Not quite, but Kara was a little worried about her cousin."

Mike sighed. "Lois and Clark broke up."

"What?" Kara asked her voice a little louder than she meant, earning a few looks from the people around them.

Alex gave her sister a glare. "Why don't you let everyone in on the conversation?"

Kara blushed. "Sorry, I just never expected that to happen." Her cheeks were pink now.

"Kara, Clark wanted a family or to at least try for one. Lois didn't; she was more concerned about her career," Mike replied, trying his best to tell them without being too loud.

"So, you took him to the bar to drown his sorrows?" Maggie asked.

Mike smiled. "It seemed like a good idea at the time. I also grilled him on other girls he might ask out."

Kara looked at her boyfriend curiously. "So, that's why he mentioned something about calling someone."

"Yeah, I think he likes Diana," Mike replied.

Kara leaned forward so only; those at the table could hear her. "Wonder Woman!"

Alex and Maggie both looked shocked. Alex leaned forward as well. "Superman and Wonder Woman together?"

Mike laughed, looking as the three women at the table leaned forward to hear more gossip. "My God, you three are terrible. They're not together and they won't be if my little brother doesn't muster the courage to even call her."

Kara chuckled. "Says the man that never went on a date before."

Mike's ears turned red with embarrassment. "Says the girl who moans when I…"

Mike was cut-off as Kara put her hand over his mouth. Kara's entire face was red.

Alex and Maggie both laughed at them. "Oh… tomato face," Alex said.

Kara took her hand away from Mike's mouth, crossing her arms in front of her chest. Her lips were set in an endearing pout that made Mike involuntarily smile.

"Wow, you two really have it bad for each other," Maggie observed, elbowing Alex slightly.

Mike looked at Maggie, a mischievous smirk on his face. "You know I was training with Alex today and she kept rubbing her backside and I know that I didn't knock her to the mat that much." He looked over at Kara, wiggling his eyebrows suggestively.

Kara's blue eyes widened. "Someone like a good spanking?"

All of the amusement left Maggie and Alex. All the color drained from Alex's face and Maggie dark complexion became even darker as her face burned in embarrassment. Mike chuckled at the sight before he took a deep breath to calm himself.

"Now, if we're done trying to out-embarrass each other, can we continue with Clark," Mike suggested.

"So, do you think he'll call Diana?" Kara asked. Mike could sense the hope in her voice.

Alex smiled. "I've seen the two on the television; they seem like good friends."

Maggie rubbed her chin. "I thought Diana Prince was dating Bruce Wayne?"

Kara shook her head. "Didn't work out; the guys a big playboy."

Mike smiled knowingly. "Clark said that Bruce Wayne was too closed off from his emotions." Mike wasn't lying, but he knew who Bruce Wayne truly was, even Kara didn't know that the billionaire was the Dark Knight.

Alex smiled. "Well, Clark has that going for him. He's one of the most open people that I know."

Mike nodded. "I think they'd be good together."

Kara chuckled. "That's if he survives meeting her mother."

Mike smiled mischievously. "Yeah, that's one mother-in-law that I wouldn't want to have."

"Yeah, Eliza would be a much easier mother-in-law," she agreed as she put her arm around Maggie, making said woman blush at the insinuation. Even Mike blushed as he thought of marrying Kara.

"Ahem," the waiter said as he stood beside their table with his pen and pad in hand. The group looked at him curiously. "Can I take your order?" The group sighed in relief before they gave their orders.

After the waiter left, Kara sighed. "All this relationship talk has worn me out."

Mike wrapped his arm around her. "Plus all of the repeated extra blood flow to your cheeks hasn't helped."

"Ha Ha," Kara replied, but her voice was filled with mock sarcasm. "I'll let you know that I had a lot of work to do at the magazine."

Mike nodded. "Well, I will have you know that I spent a great deal of time with your sister training."

Alex glared. "Just say it. You made a fool out of me."

Maggie sent a glare toward Mike, but he shook it off. "Actually, you did better than Clark when we train."

Alex's eyebrows raised. "I did?" Maggie smiled at the shocked expression on her girlfriend's face.

"Yes, Clark is a quick learner, not as quick as you Alex. I must commend you on that," Mike replied sincerely. No one at the table thought he was lying or exaggerating.

Alex smiled. "Thanks, Mike."

Mike returned her smile. "Well, I don't like to lie, only if the situation calls for it. Besides, I trained for six years with some of the greatest martial artists in the universe and of the thirty-first century." He said that last part in a whisper.

Maggie forgot that Mike wasn't just an alien; he was an alien from a thousand years in the future. "How are you doing? Acclimating to this time period I mean."

Mike smiled at the concern in Maggie's voice. "Well, it helped that I was already here when my memories were gone, it's helped now that I do remember."

Kara smiled at the way Mike got along with Alex and Maggie. "So Maggie, did you think about that offer J'onn gave you?"

Alex and Mike looked at Kara curiously before they shifted their gazes to Maggie. "What offer?" Alex asked.

Kara's eyes widened. "You didn't know?"

Alex shook her head. "What offer Maggie?"

Maggie sent a glare toward Kara, but her look softened when it was clear that Kara had no idea that Alex didn't know. "He offered me a job at the DEO. He said that he had an investigative group that he put together and that they needed a team leader."

Alex remembered when J'onn decided to put that group together. It would be different from the alien threat group that Alex headed up, which included Mike, Kara, Winn, and a few other agents that had more experience fighting alien threats. This new group, Maggie's group, would investigate threats here on world, threats that needed a more police detective approach and not special forces, threat elimination mode that Alex's team routinely found itself in. "Maggie, that's great, I wonder why J'onn didn't tell me."

Maggie frowned. "I asked him not to."

"Why?" Alex replied, hurt bleeding into her voice.

Maggie looked into her girlfriend's eyes, seeing the sadness and the sense of betrayal. "I didn't want to get your hopes up Alex. I wasn't sure I wanted to leave the police force."

Alex nodded; relieved that was the reason and not something more personal. "Okay, so have you decided?"

Maggie sighed. "See, I knew you'd get overly excited. I'm not sure what to do."

Mike nodded from across the table. "I had to make a decision to stay in school to be an astronaut or to join the DEO. I came to the decision that I wanted to protect people and the DEO gives me the chance to protect more people. It could give you that same chance."

Maggie thought about what Mike just said. She joined the police force to help people, but she was drawn to the alien culture in National City and joined the alien task force because of that. Now, she could join the DEO; work with people that wanted to help protect the whole country, the entire world. "Mike, thank you, I needed another perspective, and I know you're not just saying that to make Alex feel good."

Mike smiled mischievously. "You're welcome, besides, that means I get to train you as well."

Maggie's eyes widened as Alex put her arm around her shoulders. "Yeah, you get to hit the mat like me," Alex said sarcastically.

Three hours later…

Kara and Mike walked to her apartment door. Kara unlocked the door, opened it and stepped inside. Mike stood in the hallway. "I guess I need to go home," he said, rubbing the back of his neck awkwardly.

Kara looked up into her boyfriend's blue-gray eyes. "Or you could come in for a bit."

Mike smiled. "Well, Kara Danvers are you asking me in for a nightcap?"

Kara put her hands on her hips. "What if I am?"

Mike's smile widened. "Then I would accept wholeheartedly." Mike stepped into the apartment. Kara turned to close the door behind him a broad smile on her face.

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