It's Supposed to be a Date
Xavacid
Chapter 5 : I think you have to roll me out of here
"We should get some lunch, I'm sure Carter is hungry, I know Kara is." Alex looked at her little alien, who immediately perked up at the suggestion. With her metabolism rate much much higher than human, Kara often had to go without in order to not stand out. She never had to do that with Alex. There was always plenty to eat with Alex around. She even made sure that they pack plenty of snacks for Kara, and she'd been munching on that.
Cat Grant looked at her incredulously. "I don't see how, what with all the snacks you've been giving her all morning."
Which was the truth, at first Cat gave no thought to the backpack that the two switched back and forth between them, until she watched snacks after candy, after chocolate bar appeared and disappeared. To say that it was astounding was a bit of an understatement. Not that all of them were consumed by Sunny Danvers, she saw a few were handed to her son as well, discretely, of course, and she pretended not to see.
She wanted him to have a good time, and so far he seemed to be having a good time.
Then Alex pointedly handed her bottomless pit of an alien another kitkat.
Cat Grant was sure that the brunette was poking fun at her with that particular candy. She narrowed her eyes at her. Alexandra, of course, didn't even pause, the corner of her lips turned up in a smirk. Then she fished out another kitkat, this one in package covered in pink flowers and offered it to her.
She accepted the small package, mostly out of curiosity. When she took a closer look, on the package there were Japanese writing, and a picture of a blue bottle?
Sounds of snickering brought her eyes from the older Danvers to Sunny Danvers and Carter, the two were thick as thieves today.
"That one's really good ." Kara gestured at the candy with an empty hand, her own sweet gone.
"Yes, thank you Keira-"
"Kara." At this point, Alex knew that Cat Grant did it to annoy her more than anything, and the look in those eyes told Alex as much, she expected the correction, so she did it.
"-I'll save it for after lunch."
And as they talked, Alex started to guide them towards the outdoor cafe. Carter practically skipping in front of the group toward one of the few empty tables. He wasn't hungry, exactly, but it was about time for lunch and Kara seemed hungry. He saw all the things she ate, and it was amazing, now he just wanted to see if she could eat more. He had never seen anyone eat as much as Kara before.
As they settled on a round table, a harried waitress appeared by their table a few minutes later, she quickly offered them standard greetings and menus. Kara eagerly accept the menu with a bright smile. She was so looking forward to lunch, and knew, already, what she was going to order. And she also knew what Alex was going to order.
Alex watched the bright smile on her alien's face, and let a smaller one touched her own lips. Nothing perked Kara up like food. So, when the blonde leaned over to share to menu she was all too happy to comply, and nodded accordingly when the acceptable items were being picked out.
Cat rolled her eyes when she noted the forgotten menu in the older Danvers hand, and the couple shared the menu while they decided what to order. Though from the conversation she was hearing, it was more Sunny Danvers deciding what they both should order.
"Mom, what are you getting?" Carter nudged her lightly, his eyes were on his own menu, which was open to Kid's section. "I want some fries."
"Sure, honey." Cat didn't even look at what he was looking at, the couple in front of her had almost all of her attention right this moment. She watched Kara point to several things on the page, and Alex tried, not very successfully, to steer her toward something else on one of her choices.
Pushover, was all Cat thought when she saw Alexandra finally agreed to all the younger blonde's choices.
Alex leaned back into her chair after a bit of a negotiation, like how all their meals started. Kara pointed out choices that she wanted, and Alex would veto a few, and they agreed upon whatever the choices they both deemed acceptable. It was pretty easy for the both of them, and they've done this always, and they knew what the other liked and disliked. So, really it was mostly for banter, and now for show.
Afterall, Cat Grant was watching, Alex couldn't really have her think that she was a big pushover.
Well, with Kara she was, not with anyone else.
When the waitress came to take their orders, Kara and Alex ordered their supposed choices of food, and a platter of something to split. Kara almost order for her boss, but she stopped herself, she's not on the clock, after all, and was more than capable of ordering for herself. And when her boss was ordering her usual, she had to stop herself from smiling.
When the waitress walked away Kara shifted a little closer to Alex and took her hand like she had done for most of the day.
Kara sometimes fidget, especially when she had to wait for something, she would play with napkins, folding, flattening it out. She even learn origami and at one point she would have strips of paper in her pocket to fold stars with. That was something Alex introduced her to, after one too many napkin being shredded while they were waiting for their dinner years ago. It also helped with her control.
She still did that every so often. But now she had something else she preferred to play with while waiting.
Alex's hand.
She'd run her thumb over Alex's long fingers, feeling the calluses that came from all her training, reminding her of all the things Alex did and continued to do for her. And they reminded her to do better, to become stronger, so she could protect the person she loved most. And the thrumming of her pulse calmed and comforted her.
"Kara, are those sharks on your socks!" Carter leaned toward his mom's assistant, he had only just noticed them.
"Oh yeah, definitely." She quickly crossed her legs, and tugged the leg of her pants up a little to show the shark-print sock, all the while still holding onto Alex's hand. The table was just the size that they were comfortably seat but not really far away from each other.
"Wow!" Carter leaned in to take a closer look, "where did you get those?"
"Oh," she tilted her head toward the brunette. "Alex picked them up for me."
And on they went, chatting about the colorful socks and other accessories, mostly the silly socks Kara collected, and where she got them. And if his mom could get him some of the same socks that Kara had.
"What about you Alex?" He turned to the brunette.
Three pairs of eyes turned right to the brunette, who had been content to just listening to whatever conversation going on around her. "Alex's wardrobe consist of black and gray and occasional white." Kara tugged at her hand.
"Hey, I have some navy blue in there, too!"
"Oh, I'm sorry, yeah, Alex has some navy blue in her wardrobe, too." Kara teased with a big grin. "And I did get you that constellation socks, and the equation ones!"
"Yeah, you did, and all kinds of other woodland creatures,." Alex smiled at her fondly.
"She's wearing the otter ones today." Kara told Carter with a wide smile.
Three pairs of eyes now on her so Alex made a show of rolling her eyes. "Yeah, yeah, " she said. "No I'm not gonna show you."
She was wearing boots in matching color with Kara, probably the only more colorful footwear she owned, with her jeans tucked into them. So, no she wasn't about to take off her boots to show them her socks.
Cat Grant smirked at her. It would be interesting to know who was the one picking out their footwears, between Sunny Danvers and Alexandra, she had a feeling that it was the former and not the later. From the look of it, had the older Danvers been the one, the shoes would've been black. Or it could be that they both compromised, because if leave all to the young blonde they could be wearing hot pink .
"Really, you have to tell me your workout regiment." Cat watched as the waitress unloaded their orders onto the table. Hers was a simple burger with a side salad, same with Carter, but he ordered french fries instead, and she didn't have the heart to insist that he get some green in his plate.
The Danvers' orders… to say that there were a lot of food was a bit of an understatement. Especially when looking at the ones who intended on eating them.
Sunny Danvers was almost salivating over her large order of burger with extra of everything. Really, how could she still be hungry after all the things she's been stuffing herself with and Cat couldn't even begin to calculate the calorie intake of the entirety of their order, not to mention what the younger blonde had been eating without her seeing.
"Working for you is workout enough ." Kara replied cheekily.
Carter laughed, and the older Danvers simply grinned at her. Cat huffed and rolled her eyes at the rest of the table. She could just see it now, her son with the influence of the two Danvers, but she found herself not unhappy about that. Her son was more animated, and outgoing today than she had ever seen him before.
He had been chatting nonstop about things that interested him and what he looked up about whatever species of fish they were looking at to all three of them. She was so proud of him. What made her happier was that neither of the Danvers appeared to be impatient, or annoyed with him like she sometimes saw on even the nanny she carefully vetted to care for him when she couldn't.
So far, he seemed so impressed with the walkway and the octopus tank, she already half expected him to ask her for a pet octopus or something, but only after he did his own research into it, of course. They were already comparing photos and there were numerous, most were of Carter and Kara, some with Alexandra. She had to admit that Sunny Danvers wasn't a half bad photographer. She would probably do great writing about human interests. Something she filed away for future reference.
But she had to stop that train of thought when her son decided to start an eating contest with the younger Danvers. And the brunette was no help at all, Alexandra was not inhaling her own lunch like the other two, but she wasn't exactly being dainty with her own cheeseburger either. Cat noticed that she did cut her own burger in half and pretty much separated almost everything in her plate in two portions.
Cat wondered about it for a moment, but her attention soon directed at her son and the manners that he seemed to throw out the window as he tried to stuff his face with his own food.
"Carter, honey, slow down." She nudged him lightly when she saw his cheeks puffed out with food. "While I'd wholly support you in anything you want to do, I don't think eating contest is going to be one of them." She eyed the amount of food, and how much it did not phase Alexandra. "Especially against Keira."
"Kara," Alex corrected, then turned to the younger Grant. "And your mom is right, you shouldn't try to out eat Kara, it's impossible."
Her little Kryptonian grinned at everyone at the table, but said nothing else. She didn't even try to be discreet as she took some fries from Alex's plate. Right then Cat's half formed question from earlier was answered, when she saw the brunette pushed a pile of fries that she had separated toward the younger woman without being asked.
"I'm going to assume that you have an extremely fast metabolism." Cat muttered with a touch of envious, other possibilities came to her mind, a lot of them were impossible, but entertaining. There were a few of them, however, that were very much possible. "That or, Alexandra?" She turned to the older Danvers. "By any chance your lab is researching some fat burning pill? If that is that case, I'd like to know who I have to call to get some investment in."
Alex rolled her eyes, Kara told her a while ago that Cat suspected that she was Supergirl, and she was pretty aggressive about it. Which resulted in Kara getting panic, though Alex knew that it was mostly because she did not want to lose her job. The job that was a part of her normal life. And her boss had been like a mentor to her.
Kara explained her to as best she could of her own reasoning. She didn't do a good job of it, but growing up with the Kryptonian, Alex had an insight into her inner working, and even when she couldn't explain, or even understood it herself, Alex did.
She still thought that Cat could definitely treat her better.
"Nope," Alex shook her head then took another bite of her burger. "Just regular research." Which really didn't answer anything.
Even now, the Queen of all Media was still trying to needle some sort of information out of her. She was being more subtle this time around though. Just a few questions here and there, nothing so obvious. Alex had to give it to her, she certainly was very tenacious. No wonder she was such a good journalist.
Cat rolled her eyes, there was more to Alexandra Danvers than just a scientist, she was sure of it. At first she just needed to know this person, who she was, where she came from because of Sunny Danvers, and the fact that she would be spending time with Carter.
But now, she just wanted to know who Alexandra was. And if she was right about Sunny Danvers being Supergirl, then Alexandra was definitely not just a researcher. And she knew it would be interesting to know the family that took in an alien orphan who went through such great tragedies at a young age and raise her to be this well adjusted, bright and happy person she was. How patient and generous they were.
She had no intention of exposing anyone, but she supposed that it would take some time before she could let them know that. And probably even longer before they would even begin to believe her.
"We gonna have to roll you out of here Kara!" The youngest Grant exclaimed with wide eye.
Carter himself had stopped eating his own lunch about three quarters of the way when he looked up and realized that Kara's plate was pretty much empty, and she was picking fries from Alex's plate.
"You have no idea." Alex pinched a hand creeping across her plate to a small pile of fries still remained on her plate. Kara winced, but the older Danvers knew better, it was all a show since the Kryptonian wouldn't feel the pain from the pinching.
"We can let Alexandra do that, honey." Cat smiled at her son, wiping the ketchup off his cheek. "I'm sure she is an expert."
"Mom…" Carter rolled his eyes, that amused Kara, they could not be mistaken as anything other than mother and son, with their matching expression. "We can't let Alex do it by herself!"
"Hey," Kara poked the boy lightly. "I can roll myself out, thank you very much."
"I still can't believe you demolished the entire thing." Cat grumbled when she saw Kara walk, her steps light, she was practically bouncing on the balls of her feet. She certainly didn't look like she had just inhaled all that food only minutes before.
"It wasn't just me, Ms. Grant." Kara whined. "Alex ate some of it." She twirled around to face her boss and then back to the brunette, their hands linked together.
"Only like a third." Alex quipped.
Lunch long finished, with a little fight over the bill afterward, Cat Grant refused to let Alex pay for their meal, citing that she was the one crashing their date. After that Alex reluctantly conceded.
They were moving in a more sedated pace than the morning, mostly because they were all full from their meals, and a little because of the crowd. According to the gameplan, they were heading for dolphin's show. Which meant they had a little bit of leisure time before the show start.
"But we still need to get good seats." Carter tugged at his mother's hand as he walked ahead of the group. "I wanna be in the front."
The thought of being close enough to the show to get wet did not sound appealing to Cat Grant, and she was about to come up with a reason why they should get seats toward the middle when Kara offered her opinion on the seating arrangement.
"Um.. I don't think we should be up front, buddy." She scrunched up her nose a little. "We might get a better view of the show if we sit toward the middle or something, not too close, you know. So, we can have the view of the whole pool."
"Really," Carter turned to her, his face thoughtful. "Will we get better view in the middle Alex?"
"Probably," the brunette replied.
"Ok."
Cat really did appreciate the brunette scientist even if she would never, ever say it out loud.
As they entered the arena, Cat noted the time, they had some ten minutes or so before the next show start, and it seemed they arrived at just the right time. The seats were starting to fill up, especially the front row, which really sort of rendered their earlier talk a moot point. But then she noted the wet area up front and was glad that they weren't sitting there. Obviously the show involved the audience a little. Or at the very least it involved getting them wet.
A few minutes later they seemed to be in the best spot they could be, as they were settling in the seats chosen, the youngest Grant seemed indecision where he was going to sit, he wanted to be next to his mom, and at the same time he wanted to be next to Kara and Alex, it was an impossible choice.
Until the decision was made for him. With Alex sitting down and Kara plopped down next to her, so he sat next to Kara. He grinned up at his mother when he noticed that she was inspecting the seat before sitting down. He did tell her to wear jeans, because that was what Kara told him, but she refused, he wasn't sure why, really.
The four of them settled in as comfortable as the hard aluminum seats allowed. Kara and Carter were chatting about the show they were about to see, and what they would like to see after with only a little interjection from Alex, who was completely fine with letting the two youngest chat about everything under the sun.
Alex looked around them, keeping an eye on their surrounding, like she was trained to do. It was a quiet day, on the alien hunting front. She half expected for something to happen, but trusted that if something did happen, the D.E.O would handle it, and not really call her, or Supergirl for anything. So far there were only families and couples around, which was in no way surprising.
People continued to come in and picking seats all around them as the time ran closer to the start of the next show.
"It's starting," Kara pointed out with Carter wiggling in his excitement beside her when a couple of people, presumably trainers stepped out from behind the stage.
And when the announcement for the show to begin came on they all applauded.
The first trick was on the way.
Alex had graciously packed extra small towel this morning, just in case her warning about the dolphin show didn't take, and she now handed Cat that extra one for Carter as they walked out of the arena. Kara was beside her with a towel already over her damp head and a big smile on her face.
"You smell like fish." Alex commented when Kara leaned against her.
"A dolphin kissed me!" The comment didn't dampen her little Kryptonian's giddiness any. "And how do you stay dry when you were right next to Carter is what I wanna know."
When the announcer asked for audience participation Kara was the first to jump up and volunteered. Alex suspected that she used a tiny burst of super speed for that. That was how she got to feed and pet the dolphins. She was bouncing with joy that even the trainer commented on how happy she looked being there with the animal. Alex made sure that she got it all on her camera, especially when the dolphin 'kiss' her cheek, Kara would want to see that later.
The youngest Grant was beside himself with excitement even though his mom didn't let him go up with Kara. He was more than happy to be standing by the guard rail up front with Alex to watch the action as close as he possibly could with his mom's assistant on the other side.
When the dolphins started splashing water near the audience, resulting in many screams and laughter Carter Grant was practically screaming with delight when the water splashed him. Alex on the other hand, stepping back at just the right time that the only things got touched by the water were the tips of her boots.
An amazing feat to Carter when he noticed, which she explained away as her being lucky enough to get the timing just right. Kara knew better though, this was Alex who had trained hard to be as fast as humanly possible, she knew that Alex wanted to be the best she could be, to try to achieve the impossible so she could take care of her, to be the protector that Kara needed.
"Next time you're going up there with the dolphin," Kara promised.
The older Danvers made a small, scoffing noise in her throat. "That's never gonna happen."
"Why not? Don't you like dolphins, Alex?" Carter asked innocently, his big blue eyes blinked up at her. He looked almost like the younger Kara, asking about things she didn't quite understand when she first got to Earth.
"I like dolphin just fine, buddy." The brunette smiled at him. "I just don't wanna smell like fish."
"But they aren't fish!"
"I know, they are mammals just like you and me. But they still smell like fish, though."
Cat snickered, but she gave her son a one arm hug when he conceded to the brunette's point. "They do live in the ocean." She gave him another squeeze before letting go, knowing how much or how little he could tolerate the physical contact. She had to contain her smile when he pouted up at her.
"I don't know what's the problem is, you surf." Kara nudged her lightly with an elbow. "You practically live in the ocean yourself."
"That's different, I smell like salt water when I surf, not fish."
"You surf Alexandra?" Cat tried to imagine the brunette lazing around on the beach, with a surfboard, and generally being a beach bum…
"When I get time, yes." The older Danvers nodded.
"Huh, I can sorta see it."
"Can you teach me?" Carter blurted out, Alex just got cooler in his mind. "I've always wanted to try."
Alex made noises that neither agree or disagree with his request, she eyed the older blonde for her reaction at the question. Cat didn't seem bother, just thoughtful, but when she saw that the girls were looking at her she lifted one brow in question.
"So, what's next?" Alex asked the group after a moment as they all started to file out with the crowd.
Alex came back with three ice cream cones and a small size sherbet in both hands. Cat watched her son eagerly accepted one scoop of chocolate in sugar cone with a big smile. Sunny Danvers contained herself long enough to let Carter took his before reaching out for her own, three scoops of vanilla and chocolate.
"Thank you, Alex." Carter said happily.
Cat was slightly startled when a small paper cup of frozen treat was handed to her.
"Figure you wouldn't want to miss out."
"Thank you." Cat accepted the cup, she certainly didn't ask for this, when the brunette went to get ice-cream. And normally she would come up with some barb or other, but her son's eyes were on her and his smile too wide. So she took a small bite, surprised at how refreshing it tasted.
Then the brunette herself sat down at the end of the bench with her own ice-cream. Two scoops, vanilla. Kara immediately moved close. Despite her protest of fishy smell earlier, Alex didn't move away, instead she slung her arm behind her, resting her free hand over her shoulder. For a few moments they all savoring their own treats. Unsurprisingly, Kara was the first to finish hers.
Cat watched the couple sat pressed together, Kara leaned into the older girl, her head leaning back to rest at the crook of her neck, and when she finished her ice-cream, cone and all she turned to Alex with a puppy eye, and the older Danvers handed over her own half finished one, which the young blonde eagerly accepted.
This was familiar to them, Cat Grant could tell. She had noticed how much her bubbly assistant eat during the workday, but what she saw today… it was astounding how much Sunny Danvers could really put away. And to see someone who obviously knew, and understood like Alexandra, who made sure that there was plenty and offered up her own potion to the girl without batting an eyelash.
If Cat Grant was anyone else, she would admit that it was such a privilege to be able to see the way these two young women interact, this was what love looked like. She might even make some cooing, or aweing noises at them. But she wasn't anyone else, and well, cooing and awing noises weren't something she could do in public.
Alex kissed the top of the blonde head affectionately, handing over her half finished ice-cream to her little Kryptonian. She couldn't remember the last time she finished her own dessert of any kind. But she didn't mind.
"You can go get more, you know." She teased gently as Kara ate the ice-cream.
"It tastes better when it's yours." Kara gave her a cheeky grin and finished the cone off.
"Brat," Alex rolled her eyes and nudged the blonde head with her nose.
"How's the chocolate, buddy?" She turned to Carter, the boy seemed more interested in watching people around him and enjoying his treat than talking, his long legs swung back and forth, his bright blue eyes focused acrossed the room where there were more tanks displayed.
"Good." Carter was almost done with his own, already munching on the cone.
Then hazel eyes turned to Cat Grant, one brow lifted in question.
"It's surprisingly not horrible." Cat Grant answered with a shrug, but her small cup was empty, and Alex could see it.
"Not horrible, huh." Alex smirked at the empty cup.
Cat rolled her eyes. "Well, unlike your Sunny here, I hadn't been snacking all day, and demolished a lunch big enough to feed the entire office."
The brunette chuckled, it was true.
Cat Grant watched the stream of candy, after candy Alex fished out of the backpack and handed over to the younger blonde from the moment they stepped inside the building. So, her stomach was protesting when she saw her assistant gave a nudge to the brunette and gestured at the ice-cream booth. It must be her alien metabolism, there was no other explanation for it. There was no way a regular person could eat this much and stayed in shape unless they spent hours and hours working out.
However she admitted - only to herself, of course- that the errands she had Sunny Danvers take care of on the daily basis could be counted as workout in and of itself.
Also being Supergirl must consumed a lot of calories.
What about Alexandra?
"We're going to see the big tank next." Carter's voice woke her from her musing. The question was directed at all of them. "Right, Kara?" He had been listening to all the adult talking, he enjoyed listening to them. And his mom was bickering with Alex, probably because she was not her boss, and Alex wasn't afraid of her. Not to say that Kara was afraid of his mom, he would say that she was mostly just nervous around her, but he didn't think that she was afraid.
"Yup, the biggest tank in the place, do you wanna start from the top and work our way down?"
"Where will the shark be?" He wondered, he did see some sharks already, but he wanted to see one in the big tank, swimming among other fishes.
"Let's just start from the top." Cat suggested, probably the first one all day.
Kara looked over to her boss and nodded, she was a little surprised that Cat Grant made almost no suggestion today, other than a little nudges, or comments here and there. Most of her comments were mostly to tease them, and to Carter. It was almost like she was enjoying having someone else made the decisions for a change.
So they set out to the top of the tank, stopping every so often to look at the smaller exhibits. Alex was doing a very good job of narrating each of the species they were looking at with just the right amount of anecdote to be interesting.
Perhaps a bit too interesting when Kara looked beyond the two Grants and found several children following them with their parents. Clearly, they were listening to whatever factoids Alex was telling.
It had been like this for most of the day, Alex would entertain them with stories and facts that seemed so boring on paper, but she made them fun to listen to. And it seemed so effortless as she was doing it, one would think that this was what she did day in and day out. Like she was employed by the Aquarium instead of a visitor herself. And she would catch the attention of whomever nearby, mostly children and they would follow to listen to her some more.
This was normal occurrence whenever they visit places like this, and Kara was used to it, so was Alex. Kara remembered being so happy when Alex did this for her on her very first trip to the aquarium her first summer on Earth. Eliza was a guest speaker at one of those conferences, and they were tagging along. They got to see so many museums on that trip and Alex made all of them such amazing trip. She'd learned so much.
She always said that Alex would've made a great teacher.
And the older Danvers would disagreed, saying that she did not have the patience. Kara would beg to differ, Alex had always been so patient with her, and kind, and attentive, and she was the same way with Carter now.
"You have an audience, Alexandra." Cat Grant commented.
"That's normal, Ms. Grant." Kara shot the brunette an amused grin. "Happens all the time." Then she turned to the families that pretended they weren't following them and gave a small wave to the youngest little girl that was clearly fascinated. Her parents smiled sheepishly back at Kara, she could tell that they were about to apologize. The blonde just waved it off, she didn't exactly inviting them to join in on the walk, not verbally anyway.
That would be pushing it with Alex.
That was how they carry on, the four of them walking at moderate pace, with a few children following with their parents. Cat Grant was very amused with the whole thing. She noted that Sunny Danvers seemed to enjoy the attention as she divided her focus between the children and her girlfriend. Which was rather interesting since the attentions were paid to the older Danvers and not herself. Like she was happy with the fact that Alexandra was the center of it.
Carter, though, was trying not to notice the kids that sometimes coming too close for his comfort. But he was trying not to let it bother him, he often looked to his mom, then Alex and Kara for some sort of assurance, or cues. Cat placed a reassuring hand on his slight shoulder, and gave him a smile when a little girl tried to get closer to the brunette and as a result bumping into him a little. He was never very comfortable with large crowd, or in too close proximity with other people.
They finally got to the top, where they could look down the giant tank, a large sea turtle came up to the surface, Carter kneeled down so he could look closer to the surface of the water through the glass wall.
"Alex, look!" He pointed out a school of smaller fishes that he could see. "Mom, Kara."
Kara came to stand next to him, and carefully leaned over the glass wall. She pulled her glasses down a little and with her superior vision, she could see down to the bottom of the tank. She could even see someone feeding the fishes down below. Alex glanced over, noting the smile on her little alien's face, Kara was happy. She knew that the Kryptonian was looking down to the middle or possibly the bottom of the tank, seeing how she had to glasses down.
They only stayed for a few more minutes, since they could hardly see much from the top surface. Well, except for Kara. They made their way down the spiral stairs wrapped around the tank, stopping every so often when Carter and Kara saw something they wanted to look at. The crowd weren't so bad right then, since they all were moving at moderate pace, but there were a few times that the group had to stop, just because it got a little too congested.
In any case, they were taking their time, Kara noticed that the level of energy that the youngest Grant had been displaying for most of the day was starting to drop even before they got to the top. He was still excited with each new fish he spotted and with new fact from Alex he was still interested, it just wasn't like earlier in the day.
It was about time anyway, she didn't think he could keep up all day. Ms. Grant, while not enthusiastic from the beginning like her son, was still slowing down. Alex, on the other hand, still fresh as a daisy. That didn't surprise her at all, her brunette was at her top physical shape, and she was very well trained. They could probably be walking for the next twenty four hours and Alex would still be fine, and still kicking the next alien's ass after.
Maybe they could try that out.
Cat was also starting the feel the effect of being on her feet all day. She knew she was in a very good shape, thank to all her pilates, spinning and various workout program she made herself do daily. And being in flats, helped, even though it made the two Danvers' tower over her. Speaking of the two Danvers, they showed no sign of fatigue at all, and in the case of Sunny Danvers, she could understand that, but Alexandra? She felt the case of small envy when the younger blonde was skipping on the tips of her toes as she pointed out the diver feeding the fish in the tank.
"I wanna do that." Kara exclaimed, tugging at Alex's hand to pull her close. "Can we do that?"
"If you are certified, but you're not. So, nope."
The brunette grinned at her little alien pouting, she knew that Kara could just dive in and stayed down for a while without the need for oxygen. But that fact was irrelevant, especially here, where all appearances needed to be kept. Although, for Kara to get certified shouldn't be too hard.
"Maybe we can get you certified. I'm pretty sure Thomas would let you." Alex placated, but instead of a happy smile like she expected -her little alien did like to learn new things- she saw a frown marring her normally sunny countenance.
"No, I don't think I want to, now." Kara huffed and started walking.
Cat almost laughed as she watched their exchange, and the bewildered expression on Alexandra's face. Sunny Danvers was jealous. Now that was something she never thought her assistant would ever express. Not to say that the younger blonde was incapable of feeling it, but she was normally so easy going, so it was a little strange to see her huffing and puffing like this.
Alex blinked once and followed, the mood change was so quick, she was feeling a little slow. "Kara." She knew that her little alien thought that she was oblivious to the attentions being paid to her, but she wasn't. She had never missed much of anything going on, but sometimes she just didn't bother talking about it. And Thomas was harmless, even though he seemed unable to curve his own action. Besides, Kara liked the aquarium, so it couldn't hurt to be friendly with him.
"Baby, please, don't pout." Alex took a hold of her hand and squeezed tight.
"I'm not." And her lower lip was jutting out as she said this. They stepped far enough away from the Grants for their conversation to be semi-private. "I just don't know if I can stand him being all …" She made a gestured with her free hand when she couldn't find a word.
"Aw… you're jealous." Alex grinned.
"Of course I am." The Kryptonian muttered under her breath, but she let a smile came over her lips when, predictably, her favorite human wrapped an arm around her and pulled them close to each other. Normally, Kara couldn't be moved with such a small amount of pressure, and with anyone else she would've been unmovable. But she had long adjusted to Alex and the way she touched and tugged and pulled, with however tiniest of pressure that the brunette used. She was so in tuned to her.
"Don't be." Alex kissed her cheek, and they stayed pressed together, until Cat Grant gave them a little cough as verbal nudge, and Carter, who was a few paces ahead looked back at them, clearly he didn't know what was going on, but knew to give them a little space. Though with him being twelve, his patience was rather short in supply to begin with.
They were starting to hold up the people around them anyway.
"You dive as well, Alexandra?" Cat asked, off-handedly when they came close to them, as she, like her son, turned to observe the feeding in the tank.
"She does," Kara replied with a proud smile, all her earlier woe forgotten, her bright blue eyes turned to the woman beside her. She remembered the times when Alex told her how she had to keep up with Kara as the reason why she pushed herself so much.
"I guess the better question would be, what don't you know how to do?" One shapely brow lifted high to accompany the question.
The two Danvers looked at each other and shrugged.
"Knitting? Alex can't knit." Kara gave a very firm nod once as she answered.
A pair of green eyes rolled so hard, Kara thought they might never get back where they were.
They made their last stop at the penguin pit just before their exit. The two youngest of the group lingered as they cooed over a baby penguin that wasn't Cookie playing in the water. Cat teased her son about the baby penguin and how Cookie might feel jealous that now he paid attention to some other bird.
Carter was a little confused, but he happily, albeit a little tiredly responded to her teasing.
And when they finally leave it was with reluctant, with Kara and Carter kept looking back at the cute little creatures and Alex tried to herd them out without bumping into the new comers and fellow visitors. A few bounced off of Kara anyway.
Just before they left they had to make another quick stop at the gift shop, where the two youngest of the group begged to get stuffed octopus, orange just like the one they were looking at, and some t-shirt. Kara even found a new pair of socks- to Ms. Grant's chagrin, and the young Mr. Grant's delight.
Twenty minutes later they exited the place. Carter with octopus in a bag with several t-shirts and a pair of octopus socks. Kara was more than happy to carry the sea creature in her arm and let Alex carry their other purchases.
"We'll come back another time." Alex promised quietly as she tugged at her hand, and her little Kryptonian gave a small nod.
"Wow, I didn't think we were in there that long," Carter exclaimed when he looked at his mom's watch. Suddenly he got his second wind, he knew that at this point Alex and Kara could drop his mom and him home, and they would have dinner and spend the rest of the evening at home, but he didn't want that. He didn't know if he was going to get to see them again. Well, mostly Alex, since he could see Kara at his mom's office.
This was the best day. He felt like they were his friends, even though they were older than him. Alex was so patient, and so nice. She was also very, very smart, he wanted to be like her when he grew up. Maybe he could wrangled an early dinner out of them, he was pretty sure he could get Kara to agree anyway.
"I want some pizza." He said loudly as Alex unlocked the door to the little N-Slash. No, he wasn't all that hungry, he did have a really big lunch and dessert.
"Oh, I know a place, they did great pepperoni." Kara chirped up enthusiastically as she slipped into the passenger seat. "Right, Alex?"
"Yeah," the brunette nudged her to settled in.
Cat Grant felt that she might have to intensify her workout for the next week as a result of today's trip. Even though she'd been walking all day and most of those calories intake were probably being worked out by now. This was the most she'd ever eaten in her life. But she certainly could not refuse early dinner now. Carter was looking up at her her with his big blue eyes, smiling more than even when she got him what he wanted for Christmas. But he couldn't possibly be hungry, could he?
"Shall we go?"
With a sigh, Cat Grant nodded, knowing that the Danvers were looking at her from the front.
Maybe they could carry her home afterward, because she was sure she couldn't possibly be walking by the time they were finished. Should be easy for either of them to do that anyway.
She glared mildly at two young faces looked back at her. "Yes, let's go, pizza sounds great." She said drily.
Laughter all around.
a/n : I'd like to thank you guys for still sticking with me. For all your follows and favs thank you very much. It took me awhile to get this chapter out. Mom got sick, then I got sick. Also I wrote and rewrote, read and reread this thing so many times, but still I might miss something.
I got 1 more to go, and this story should be done.. yes, yes, Alex finally let me, mostly because she just wanna spend time with just Kara already. :D I have something else started for the next part of their adventure.