The first-time Kara went with Lena to an L-Corp event had been the gala over a year ago, and as soon as she steps into the room she notices the difference, before she had been Kara Danvers, reporter and Lena's friend, easily ignored or dismissed as inconsequential the only people taking time to even look at her being the servers and Lena herself.
Now she was Kara Luthor, Lena's wife, the voice in Lena's ear, and unlike so many had hoped she wasn't Lena's weakness. In a little over three weeks' people had tried to use Kara to outmanoeuvre Lena in the political arena, seeking to use Kara's supposed innocence to their advantage. What they had learned was the same lesson as Mr Daniels had learnt.
Kara's life as Cat Grant`s assistant had given her both the skills, the knowledge, and the connections to move through the upper echelons of society. The first person to try and have Kara drop Lena in the lurch was the newest candidate for mayor, she had hoped to get Kara talking about Lena's 'xenophobic tendencies' instead Kara had manoeuvred her into saying derogatory comments regarding not only aliens but also her own human constituents and had subsequently buried her using CatCo's political correspondent also earning herself another favour.
After that those that approached Kara and Lena daren't try and manipulate the blonde, it being immediately clear that someone had taught her how to manoeuvre her way out of most any situation. And so, as she stands beside Lena as they greet the various important people who were invited to the gala Kara feels bored and disinterested it being clear to her even through Lena's own mask that she feels much the same way, and so as soon as she has the opportunity to do so she excuses them pulling Lena with her toward the dance floor.
Immediately they slip in amongst the others, going from a traditional waltz, to a fox trot and eventually tango. By the third dance many have paused to watch them, and the attention has divided effects on Kara, on the one hand, she wants to just be alone with Lena, dancing away from the eyes and ears of National City's elite, but another part of her relishes them watching her dancing with her wife, seeing the way they work so flawlessly together floating (not literally) across the floor. And when the song ends she pulls Lena into a passionate kiss before their entire group of assembled guests.
And when she pulls back to stare into Kryptonite eyes she hears Lena say "God I wish we could get out of here."
"Me too" Kara murmurs kissing Lena once more before extending her arm to escort her wife from the dance floor.
They stay there until late in the evening, bound by duty they work the room Kara and Lena working flawlessly off one another, Kara using her knowledge from CatCo to help her wife schmooze and work over each of the guests. By the end of the night the newest hospital in National City is fully funded, no one able to deny Kara or Lena anything, where she needed to Kara using her puppy-like charm to appeal to people's conscience, for those without Lena`s subtle machinations through L-corp soon have them searching out their pocketbooks.
Later that night they leave the gala, making their way home to their apartment and fall asleep in each other's arms, blissfully unaware of the storm that is coming