A.N. I don't own any of the characters from the show they are all property of DC comics
I'm putting this out early as a birthday present for myself i hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed writing it
The employees of catco have been betting on Kara Danvers love life since she passed the six month mark it started with when she and cat grant would get together it started small Henry, Laura, and Michel from I.T. then Rachel from marketing accidentally overheard them arguing about it she jumped in and joined the bet it soon spread through marketing into a few of the journalist until twenty five percent of the bull pin was in on it. Then one day James Olsen walks into the building and Kara Danvers goes full on heart eyes and drooling. So the bet expands to the argument of cat or James who would win Kara Danvers affections. It started out friendly until one day when cat touched the collar of Kara's shirt and that was it the shippers went crazy taking it as confirmation and wanting to cash in on their bets but were unable to as the other half stated it wasn't enough proof. That how the legendary brawl of floor sixteen started one push and they were fighting, luckily enough it fizzled out before any damage was done to this day cat does not know exactly what happened only hears rumors that one girl sucker punched her friend into a wall they have all made a vow of silence on that topic.
Winn had become the go to source to check the bets each week bets were taken for the week most of them on weather or not the two would be a couple by the end of the week, most of the bets were on simple things like if Cat would bring Kara coffee or if they would have lunch together. The betting pool was pretty big now, it was not a greatly well kept secret but at least Cat and Kara didn't know about the pool.
" okay so we have all of two thousand forty six dollars have been bet for this week" Winn announced to group which was gathered in the work room on the eleventh floor. The room was large enough to fit a good forty people it was used for some storage and for eating lunch. There was a total of about fifteen people in the room from what the young onlooker could tell he was hiding behind boxes next to the printer on the other side of him. He had sneaked into the room as people had stopped filtering in.
" so here is the list of pool winners this week" Winn said he handed out sheets of paper, he appeared to pass them to heads of departments or floors, The spying boy was trying to figure out exactly what was going on and what had been bet on.
" so this week we had one coffee on Tuesday brought in they had lunch and dinner this week lunch yesterday and dinner on Wednesday I marked all of the bets that won and the amount was won I will leave the winning list here and you can find the amount won on your desks" Winn stated looking around the room. Carter could see Winn move to get up from where he was and decided he should make a break for it before anyone noticed.
Carter made his way back to his mother's glass office he had found it to be more like a fish bowl than an office he always felt slightly uneasy being in there without his mother or Kara being their with him. He walked into the bullpen to see a good portion of it had been cleared out only three people were still at their desks working. Carter could see that both Kara and his mother were sitting in her office working on various things together though he knew both of them could just as easily do the work on their own without the others help. Carter tentatively walked into the office.
Kara immediately turned gave him a bright smile as he ran to envelup her in a hug. Ms. Grant stood back watching the two interact with a small smile on her face as the two discussed one of the latest video games that had just come out. She gave them a minute to finish talking before Carter turned his attention to her and went over to his mother's side giving her a hug she moved aside to allow him access to her computer.
" Did you finish your homework?" Cat asked him before he could sit down and get on the computer.
" It's all done mom can I use the computer now mom" He said with an exasperated sigh he glanced over at Kara, who was editing one of her pieces, looking for backup but he found he would get none.
" Okay bring it in here and let me check over it and then you can use the computer." Carter scurried off to go and get it and brought it back to his mom after a few tense minutes of her looking over homework and clicking her tongue she allowed him to go over to her computer. They sat like that for a while Carter on Cat's computer while Cat and Kara worked on whatever article was going out that week. All the while Carter's curiosity was pushing at him to ask about what betting pool was going on around the office. It took a whole fifteen minutes before he gave in and asked.
" Mom I was wondering do you know what the betting pool is about?" Cat's head shot up and turned towards her son seeming shocked.
" How do you know about any betting pools" It would be hard to say who looked more confused with Cat's reply Kara or Carter, Kara had been under the impression that Miss Grant had not know about any of the offices betting pools mostly because most of them were count downs to when she would fire someone.
" i overheard some of your employees in the break room talking about collecting on the bets for this week" He replied although more hesitantly than he had when he brought up the subject.
" hmm I know all of the idiotic betting pools that my workers have I can't think of one that collects weekly though. What were they collecting on?"
" they talked about one coffee being brought this week and having lunch together yesterday and two dinners this week and maybe another lunch it was a lot off meal talk honestly it's making me kind of hungry." Carter said motioning slightly towards his stomach with an almost Kara esq look on his face.
" :What kind of betting pool is that, who makes something that specific?" Kara finally piped into the conversation confusion on her face.
" that is oddly specific for a betting pool it may be one of those long haul things that would have to still be pretty odd for most people, and speaking of food Kara what do you and Carter want for dinner?" It took a moment but suddenly it hit Cat she had brought Kara coffee at the beginning of the week she had taken her to lunch twice and had dinner the night before.
A.N. i apologize for any grammar or spelling mistakes I hope you enjoyed the story thanks for reading i'm going to continue to try updating every other day but I cant promise anything for sure.