It's Supposed to be a Date
XavAcid
Chapter 2 : It's Thursday, can it be Sunday already?
"Are you mad at me?"
Kara turned to look at Alex, whom so far hadn't said much as they headed for the elevator. The bullpen area was completely deserted as they were leaving, it was after five, and no one wanted to stay late if they didn't have to. Even Winn, who hung around a little longer when Alex arrived, left.
The Kryptonian counted as a good sign that at least her sister- now girlfriend- didn't pull away when she reached for her hand.
Alex sighed quietly as she tugged her little alien closer and pressed a kiss to the corner of her mouth.
"I'm not mad, Kara."
A smile broke out like the sun.
"But, we gonna have to talk about this."
"I know." Kara looked properly chastised, but Alex knew better. If something like this came up again, Kara would still reacted the same way. She would still agree to take Carter with them, and she knew why.
Because Kara was so kind.
"It's just that his dad cancelled on him, again and he was a good kid and he was so excited that when he asked if he could come I couldn't say no, and I know I should talk to you and Ms Grant first…" Kara trailed off when she noticed the amused look in hazel eyes.
"He seems like a nice kid."
"He really is! You'll like him."
Kara was so relieved, she didn't want Alex to be mad at her. She wrapped an arm around the brunette's waist and squeezed lightly, smiling when Alex kissed her cheek in respond.
"Love you," she murmured quietly.
"Love you, too."
Just then the elevator arrived and they stepped in, Kara took the opportunity to press herself against Alex, leaning against her. Though she was the indestructible one to everyone else in the world, Alex was her safe place. She never wanted to be far away from her most important person in the whole universe.
And this turned out so much better than what she thought it would. She couldn't even begin to think about all the scenario she had imagined while she was waiting for five o'clock to arrived. Now they were on their way home, no blood lost, no threats issued, no one was crying. And Alex wasn't mad…
"No potstickers for you for a month."
Kara pulled back immediately, looking scandalized.
"Alex!"
Cat Grant sat back as she watched the couple walked out of the bullpen area, despite the fact that there was plenty of space to walk, the two were almost shoulder to shoulder. Cat's keen eyes picked up the way that even though Sunny Danvers was a little taller, the other girl's presence seemed to fill up the difference in their sizes.
She decided that she liked this Alex.
Then she realized that she got almost next to no personal information from the brunette after that chat, and she had a moment of disbelief flow through her. Never had that happened to her before. And she had interviewed some of the toughest interviewees in her time as journalist.
How did this happen?
"Alex is awesome." Carter sounded in awe from beside her.
Cat turned to her son, this was not exactly what she thought his reaction would be. Carter was not a very outgoing kid, he had always been slow to warm up to anyone, it was one of the reason why she needed to vet his babysitter very carefully. So, it came as a big surprise that he liked Kara Danvers from their very first meeting. He even asked to have her babysit him again.
In fact he kept asking her if he could come to her office, just so he could see sunny Danvers.
She had never seen him taken with anyone this quickly.
"Thank you, mom." Carter turned to her, full of smile.
Cat smiled back, her son was so happy that he was practically vibrating in his seat. It made her happy to see him willingly socialize with someone new, and to find someone that has the patience to let him move at his own pace.
And this Alex did just that, the way that she introduced herself and offered her hand, and she waited patiently for Carter to accept, she didn't seem to take offense that her son gave a barely there shake of his hand before letting go.
The entire meeting was completely unlike what she had expected. Though she, herself, didn't really know what she was expecting when she heard that her assistant was dating a girl, and a scientist at that.
For a moment there she envisioned someone more teacher like, someone older, she even expected the woman to show up in some white lab coat or something. Then she found the reality to be someone completely different. Instead of an older woman -well, older than Kara Danvers- there walked into her office was a young, gorgeous brunette, in casual jeans and plaids shirt.
Really, where did Sunny Danvers find this girl.
Cat Grant couldn't even fathom where her assistant would be meeting someone like Alexandra- damn, she didn't even get her last name, again how did that happen- they didn't seem like they would have any mutual friends.
But to be honest, she didn't think about the young blonde's personal life outside of work at all until Adam. But that was short live. And she knew nothing of her life outside while her assistant knew almost all the aspect of her life, at work or otherwise.
It was probably time she change that.
"Mom, do you think Alex could take me to see the shark up close?"
"Alex…"
"Yes, Kara?"
The Kryptonian pouted.
Alex started her car and pretended to ignore her little alien by keeping her eye straight ahead. She knew what Kara was doing, she was doing her whole puppy dog eye and bottom lip sticking out, all to get her to soften up.
"Potstickers," the Kryptonian whimpered.
"Nope."
"But…"
"No." The older Danvers pulled out of the parking space, still keeping her eyes away from Kara. "They are all mine for the next month."
The blonde huffed lightly but let it be, she knew she couldn't argue herself out of this one. And she had something else she wanted to talk to Alex about anyway. Potstickers could wait, besides she could always use super-speed to steal some when Alex wasn't looking.
"So, what did you and Ms Grant talk about?"
Alex glanced over to the blonde briefly, noting the nervousness in Kara's voice.
Cat Grant was, surprisingly, not demanding. Well, she was plenty demanding, just not as demanding as she originally thought, or what she'd heard from Kara. Though, it was probably because Alex was not her employee and this meeting was about her son.
And the woman was sharp, through their chat, Alex could see the gear turning, trying to figure her out.
Being the trained agent, Alex knew that she didn't give anything away that she did not mean to. After all, the woman was mostly wanted to see if she was safe to look after her son for the afternoon. She could also see something else.
Cat Grant's need to know about her. To know her in relation to Kara.
She did try to pry details from her, and Alex gave nothing away.
Which probably made her even more curious.
"Oh, you know, who I am, where I work, stuff like that." Alex shrugged. "How did we meet."
"Oh?"
"What do you mean, oh?" Alex reached over and gave her Kryptonian a little smack on her shoulder. Not that she was going to feel it.
"Well, I thought she was gonna put you through one of those interview, like she did with that guy that time?"
"I'm pretty sure I don't know what you're talking about Kara." The brunette laughed at that. "I don't watch her interview as obsessively as you do."
There was a flicker of something in the last part that Kara perked up and took notice. To be honest, she used to watch all Cat Grant's interview, because she was curious, and also it was a part of her job, to have informations on hand, whenever her boss needed it.
She recalled that time that Alex saw the interviews that she saved on her DVR and her sister scoffed audibly with eyeroll, and ribbed her about how she crushed on her boss.
Really she wasn't crushing on her boss, she just wanted to be good at her job.
But Alex was obviously jealous, now that she thought about it. For some reason, this thought made her smile.
"Are you jealous?" Kara nudged her lightly with a grin.
The older girl stuck her tongue out at her, and they both laughed.
By Thursday afternoon, Kara couldn't help but think that maybe she should set up another meeting between her boss and Alex.
"Keira!"
Grabbing her tablet, Kara got up from her seat, was calling her for anything and everything today, it was barely two in the afternoon and she already ran to Noonan's six times, which was already exceeding her usual limit.
She also noticed that didn't really drink the last two that she made Kara ran to get.
"Yes, Ms Grant?"
"Move my three o'clock to three thirty, call Jerome to pick up Carter at four thirty instead of five, bring him here." Her boss dictated from behind her desk, she didn't look up from the screen of her laptop, her glasses perched on her nose reflecting some article she was looking through.
Kara diligently moved the schedule around, but at the last one had her head tilted curiously, as far as she knew, the babysitter - Claire - was back now, so there was no reason why she would have to get the driver to pick him up.
"Is something happened to Claire?" The question went out before she could thought better of it.
"No," Cat didn't elaborate, but she looked up.
Their eyes met, and Kara felt this foreboding at the look in her boss's eyes.
"Carter needs a new science tutor, maybe you can get Alexandra to recommend a few people for him." She took her glasses off and laced her fingers together on the desktop.
From what she could surmise, Alex gave the barest information that was her cover away. The very same one that she was told for over two years before she became Supergirl.
The older Danvers didn't even give her last name.
She didn't even know how Alex managed that.
But she knew that, other than the last name, Alex did it to mostly annoy her boss, probably a payback for every 'Alexandra' and 'Keira'.
Her sister disliked being called Alexandra for as long as she knew her, mostly because Eliza called her that when she was in trouble.
Kara knew her boss probably already did try to Google Alex, but without last name she probably got too many results. Not that she was going to get much more even with the last name, D.E.O. did a thorough job of controlling that kind of information after all.
This was new, the Kryptonian knew that the younger Grant found his normal science class boring, he was a very smart boy, so while his classmate still figure whatever assignment out, he was usually done. Cat did talk to his teacher about it a couple of times, but other than giving him more advance material to work with at school, Kara wasn't aware that Cat had a tutor for him.
"Or you can give me her number-"
"Carter needs a science tutor?"
Or did she.
Cat gave her a look.
It wasn't really intentional of her to cut off her boss, but Cat Grant had been dropping question like this throughout the day today, everytime she called her in to fetch her a layout, or made an appointment, or anything at all actually, she would tag in some sort of question pertaining Alex.
Ohhh… maybe Alex did charm the Queen of All Media… Wow.
"And Carter would like to know if she can get him to see Shark up close."
"I'll ask." Kara replied quickly fidgeting with her glasses, giving Alex's number would not be a good thing. Maybe they should've told her that Alex was an FBI Agent. "Um… Anything I can get you, Ms Grant ?"
"That number."
"Um.. nope.." Kara fled the room as quickly as her restraint would allow.
"Danvers."
"Alex!" Kara tried to keep her voice low, she really did, but when Winn looked back at her from his desk, she knew she didn't really succeed. Also from inside the glass encased office, was watching her. She had no doubt that her boss knew who she was calling.
"What's wrong, Kara? Did something happen? Do you need back up?"
"Ms Grant wanted your number." She whinned. "She kept calling me into her office and pressured me for info about you."
"And you want me to talk to her?"
"No," she whinned. "Yes, I don't know."
"And why did she want my number?"
"She said Carter needs a tutor, but I don't think that's the reason."
"Of course not, I'm a scientist, not a teacher." Alex sounded amuse now.
"Alex," Kara whinned.
"How about I'll pick you up later and we can get some pizza."
"Fine."
"Don't pout, I have to go. I love you." It was like she could see, if Kara didn't know for a fact that the older Danvers was entirely human, she would've thought that maybe the brunette had a sort of telepathic ability, but Alex just knew her that well.
Kara couldn't really do anything other than returning the sentiment and hung up. From the corner of her eye she could see Winn looking at her curiously. She told him about the aquarium trip, and Winn being Winn, he freaked out a little, which did not help at all.
The next few minutes went by with her making phone calls and adjusting the schedule according to her boss. She had a feeling that was watching her, but refused to look up, knowing that she'd been watched since she made the call, it was rather unnerving. Now she understood why Cat Grant was a great journalist. She just wished that all that focus was on something else other than Alex.
"Keira!"
With a deep sigh, the Kryptonian grabber her tablet and headed into the office again.
"Hi, Alex."
The brunette came to stop in front of a desk that should be occupied by one Sunny Kryptonian, but instead she was met with a young boy, bright blue eyes looked up at her with a large smile on his face. The young seemed happy to see her.
"Hello Carter." Alex smiled.
"Kara's running to get the layout for my mom, she'll be back in a few minutes." Carter supplied the information before she asked. "You came to see Kara, right?"
"Yes." Alex gestured at the white couch the other side of the room, "I'll go wait for her there."
"Oh, no, you can sit here. I'll get another chair." He jumped up from Kara's chair and ran to one of the empty cubicle to get himself a chair. This was great, he wanted to ask Alex a few things before Saturday, and he planned on asking Kara to ask for him, but now she was here.
"Kara said you can get us behind the scene, can we play with the penguins?" He asked as he pulled one of the unoccupied chairs over to sit.
Alex was a little taken aback but she answered him gamely. She couldn't really give definite answer, but she promised to ask the director of the aquarium if they could. She knew that Kara would probably get a kick out of seeing the penguins up close as well.
"I thought you wanna see them feed the sharks."
Two dark heads turned to see Cat Grant standing by her office door with this little grin on her face. The kind that would've made a lot of her employees nervous.
"Hello Alexandra, Keira-"
"Kara," Alex corrected with a tiny lift of her brow.
"- should be back shortly with my layout. Unless the art department suddenly lost their collective talents between lunch and now."
"Yes, Carter told me." Alex tilted her head toward the boy, who looked like he might vibrate out of his seat at any minute now.
"Would you like a drink?" It was not really a question. "Carter, honey, finish your homework."
"Ok, mom."
Alex watched Cat Grant turned on her heels and went back into her office, she turned to look at Carter, but he just shrugged at her.
"I think mom wants to talk to you more," he leaned forward, and whispered conspiratorially with a hand covered the side of his mouth.
"Right, of course." She rolled her eyes and Carter giggled.
Alex grinned back at him, and followed the older woman into her glass encased office.
Cat headed for the bar, she didn't look back to see if the young brunette following her inside. She poured herself a glass of M&Ms, a glass of scotch would be nice, but she thought that at this moment it would be inappropriate. Besides she had a feeling that she should be fully in control of her faculties.
"What would you like?" She asked without looking back.
"Water's fine."
Kara hurried out of the elevator, hands clutching the layout as tight as she dared without ripping it to pieces. She felt the moment Alex set foot into CatCo building, that had been ten minutes ago. Who knew what had happened during then and now.
At least Carter was there, no bloodshed should occur while he was there, she was sure of it.
"Hey Kara," Carter called out to her. His voice a little higher, and he looked a little preoccupied.
"Carter," she met his eyes but didn't stop. He wasn't really looking at her anyway, his attention was switching between the homework in front of him and the people inside the office. "I'm taking this to your mom." A folder held aloft so he could see, he still wasn't looking.
The scene that she met was of her boss, leaning forward in her seat, a glass of candy right in front of her. Oh boy.
Alex sat opposite her, in her usual skinny dark jeans, and dark grey short sleeved top, her leather jacket folded beside her. If she didn't know any better she would say they looked like two friends just chatting. Except had a glass of candy, and there was a little tightness around her eyes.
"Here's your layout Ms Grant." Kara said, quickly stepped forward and handed her boss the folder. "Hi Alex, I didn't know you were stopping by." Actually, the brunette did say that she was going to pick her up, she just didn't think she would come up.
At the sight of the Kryptonian, Alex uncrossed her legs and stood up. Automatically, Kara went to her.
"Hey," the brunette said with a smile. She was very calm, and Kara didn't know if that was a good thing or a bad thing.
"That took you long enough." Cat Grant took a quick glance at the layout, everything seemed to be in order. "Send it to print," she handed back the layout.
The Kryptonian gave her girlfriend a brief one arm hug and took the layout from outstretch hand of her boss and quickly took care of her boss order from her tablet. She didn't want to leave them both alone. "Done."
"So, Alexandra here was telling me that you've known each other a long time."
"Um.. yeah, we grew up together." Kara eyed the older Danvers curiously, she didn't think Alex would volunteer that information easily. They didn't talk about what to tell what they were to each other, though the both of them knew that they were going to have to at some point.
The Queen of All Media watched carefully for the reaction, other than the surprise on her Sunny assistant, she couldn't see much of a reaction from the brunette, except a tiny, fond smile offered to the young blonde.
It was like trying to get water from stone, but Cat Grant was nothing if not persistent. She'd asked questions, careful about making them all sound casual. Oh she got answers, alright, just not what she was probing for. It was amazing how all her questions were replied with what seemed like answers, but they weren't.
She didn't get any details at all still, now that she had a moment to think about it.
And asking Sunny Danvers got her some stammering and half answer. But her assistant was not known for being deceitful, it was probably some need to separate her personal life. Cat really did regret telling her to keep their relationship professional after Adam left town. Especially now that she knew Sunny Danvers had a girlfriend. It made her wonder, did she accept Adam's invitation to humor her?
She thought, for a moment, if something was wrong that the girl in front of her refused to give her answers. And if Sunny Danvers was safe with her. Until she detected a glint of amusement in hazel eyes. Now she was sure that the lack of answers had more to do with the brunette finding some sort of entertainment from her effort.
This was certainly new and different, for someone so young to be so unaffected by her, completely unintimidated, and even kept up with her.
Last night her son was gushing about how cool the brunette was, he was so taken with her. She gathered, from all his babbling, that to him, someone who was dating Sunny Danvers had to be just as nice as she was. Then she was a scientist, that just pushed her right on top of the coolest person in his mind.
And so pretty, too, his word.
This was only the second person that she'd known of that Carter warmed up to this quickly. She had never heard of him talking about anyone this much. Throughout the night he kept going over what he could see, and if she could get him in to see how this, or that worked, and what area he wanted to see.
The list of things he wanted to see seemed to grow by the minutes. Until she had to stop him, and got him to calm down. The was sure that he had made a list on his phone under his cover last night after she sent him to bed.
Even now, she could see him looking at them periodically.
Just then a phone rang. The ringtone was unfamiliar to her, so Cat Grant knew that it must be Alexandra's.
And sure enough, the brunette reached to her back pocket to pull out a phone.
'And where did she manage to keep that?'
"I have to take this." Alex took one look at the screen and told them.
"Of course." Cat nodded and watched the brunette stepped away from them, she still can hear, though, and the moment the girl answered the phone her head snapped back to look at Sunny Danvers.
"Danvers?" She mouthed.
Kara sighed, she knew she was going to have to explain, but in her head she constructed a better scenario than this. It really wasn't anyone's business but theirs. As she was opening her mouth to explain, her boss held up a hand.
"It is none of my business, Kara." Cat started, which surprised the Kryptonian greatly. She wasn't sure if it was the correct name or the gentle tone. "But if you could explain, I'd very much appreciate it. Are you two married?"
"Well…" Kara never thought to lie, not even for a second. And for whatever reason, she just knew that her boss wasn't going to judge. "Someday." So she started with that. "Alex is my foster sister." She glanced over where the brunette was still on the phone. Her super hearing could pick up the conversation, so she knew that there wasn't an emergency that require Supergirl.
"Oh?" Cat Grant sat up straighter. She heard about Kara's foster family, of course, and how good they were to her. And what tragedy brought her to them.
"We've always been so close, and she'd done everything for me." And Kara wanted so much to tell someone about Alex, so someone would know how great she was. How kind, how selfless.
"So, how did this…" Cat trailed off, finding herself at a lost of what to ask, or where to begin. She could tell that this was important, she could see the light shine in those blue eyes, brimming with something like love, and admiration as she looked to where the other girl was.
"Alex was a year older than me when I first came to the Danvers, it was awkward at first. And I know she wasn't all that excited to suddenly having to share everything with a stranger. Even so, she'd always been so kind to me." She paused, "she helped me, more than anyone, she protects me. She'd always protected me."
Cat tilted her head slightly and considered the words.
"So, this was a recent thing."
"Yes, I think I've always felt this toward her. I just didn't understand it." The younger blonde nodded, she no longer looked at her boss, but instead all her eyes were for the brunette across the lobby, apparently the phone call was finished and the other girl was heading back their way.
"Kara…" Alex took one look between them and she just knew.
"So, Alexandra Danvers." Cat grinned like she had just ate a canary.
From across the table, Kara wanted to slap her face like they did in the cartoon, although she felt relief, somewhat, her boss didn't seem to be bothered by what she just told her.
"Dr. Alexandra Danvers." Kara quickly corrected.
Alex sighed.
"Because my full name is important?" Alex rolled her eyes, but came to sit at the couch again.
"It is! Then how would we know which Dr. Danvers we're talking about." Kara grinned cheekily, just so the older Danvers knew that everything was fine.
Cat watched their interaction, and wondered how many Dr. Danvers could there be.
"Now, about Saturday-" She started once their attentions turned from each other to her.
"If you're not comfortable with us taking Carter, we won't." Kara spoke up. "I know you want to spend time with him."
"Yes," Cat nodded. "Which is why I am coming along with you." This time her smile was full on, complete with gleaming white teeth.
And the Kryptonian could almost see a feather of that poor canary named Kara stuck to her teeth.
A/N :
1. I hope no weird thing happened to this chapter. I just couldn't seem to get the last file for ch1 to behave no matter how many times I tried to fix it. Ms Grant was missing from the beginning of the sentence and I tried to fix it, and it just won't show up, if anyone could figure out why, could you let me know?
2. Thank you guys for all the comments, I appreciate it. Thank you. So, yeah... Cat is tagging along. Should be fun? Next up, Friday prep, and the trip! Unless of course, Alex has another plan, in which case, I can't say no to her. Thank you again for reading. :D