Two long drawn out days had passed with Kara partially recovered, the agent that had been altered apprehended to be send to some base only GI Jane had access to and the Director alone in her office in such deep thought hadn't even seen her sister looming in the doorway. Her logical side had viewed Colonel Haley a threat where her more personal side saw her as a real person with real feelings. Though what Lauren had said regarding aliens and her views steered Alex toward having someone spy on this woman and recommending her agents stay wary of her presence. Then there was the fucking saluting shit. Nothing pissed Danvers off more than being subjected to a rank reminder of the lowest blow.
She'd been in her own head teetering on rage and nervousness and she hadn't even noticed how she was gripping the stapler to click it over and over again in her hand emptying the metal prongs all over her desk. It hadn't been until she heard a clearing of her sister's throat glancing up seeing Kara waving.
"What did the stapler do to you?" The blonde asked with an eyebrow quirked up and a smirk on her face and it was then Alex saw the mess all over her stack of papers groaning to slam the object back onto her desk then settled back in her chair cupping her own chin and twiddling her fingers with sporadic taps on her desk. "You okay?"
"Are you?" Alex watched as Kara walked over in her suit to sit in the chair in front of her desk facing her distracted big sis. "How's your ribs?"
"Fairing after a full day under the sun lamps and...Lena's balcony of her penthouse." It was Alex's turn to raise an eyebrow now taking the hand off her chin to rest her arm at her side. The Director chuckled shaking her head.
"Don't tell me you were butt ass naked there." She didn't need that image imbedded in her brain.
"Nope, in a bikini which Lena gawked at while in her pool." Kara's grin said it all. Alex laughed.
"Phew! I didn't and don't want anymore de…"
"Thank you for giving her the red sun lamps sis! I can breathe easy knowing my moves and hands won't break her during…" Alex held out a hand turning her head away shaking it. "Oh! Sorry Alex."
"I'm glad you are happy Kara. Just...be careful. You aren't the only one with enemies. Lena has a rather big following of people that want to bury her in all sense of the word."
"Talking about me hmm?" Lena laughed walking in holding two drinks in her hands. "Figured miss boss could use something to perk her up and well...I got the mocha you wanted darling."
"YES!" Supergirl jumped over the chair she was in and slipped right into her girlfriend's personal space with Alex slipping out of her own seat to walk around the desk. "Thank you babe." Danvers snorted a laugh. Both women turned to look at her as Lena gave Alex her coffee. It had been amazing how they'd gone from friends that were practically dating to actually dating rather quick.
"Babe huh? Pet names already?" It was Lena's turn to snort.
"Trust me Director, the names we pet with are rather R rated." Alex's head shook and she walked away sipping her drink. "Oh what? Too much at ten in the morning?"
"La la la la la...TMI Luthor." Alex glared sighing sitting back down to look at her computer screen. Lena gave a quick kiss to her angel and walked over to the desk. "How is she?"
"Ruby has won over her whole team and is captain. Sam is...she's good." Emerald greens kept on Danvers. "She misses us….especially you. They both do."
Kara chose that moment to walk over leaning against the bookshelf at the wall. She knew her sister had grown to really care about both the mother and daughter and more than just a friend and protective way. Alex had started to feel something for Samantha. Then they moved.
"I miss them too." She didn't want to think about how her heart pinged back then. Alex understood why they moved. The whole Reign and World Killer situation had wrecked their sense of safety and home. She'd offered even for them to move in with her since she had a whole new place before Maggie and her had broken up. The payments sucked but it was worth it. Though she was spending most nights at Kara's place with her sister spending more time at Lena's swanky well stocked penthouse. Kara had however taken the time to return sister night with her which meant alot but it didn't take away the ache.
"Oh! By the way...I was meaning to talk to you both about something." Supergirl spoke turning both heads her direction seeing her put one hand on her hip the other waving in front of her to get to a point. "Nia." Lena blew out a breath switching Alex's attention to her slightly.
"She knew what to look at. I have my thoughts if you two want to delve into this topic further." Lena watched Kara walk over to the door shutting it to walk back to the desk and slip into the other chair her girlfriend wasn't occupying. Alex nodded for her to continue. "She isn't fully human...or she's a clairvoyant. She knew exactly what we needed to focus on with Kara's injuries. She spoke to me like she was dead sure on it. What she displayed makes me wonder if she's similar to J'onn." Lena saw Alex settle back in her chair with both her hands on the knee she brought up to slightly rest against the top of her desk. "Just a theory."
"She knows I'm Supergirl. I just…" Kara took a deep breath letting it out calmly but the krinkle was prominent on her face. "I feel like...she's wanting me to guide her. I don't know. She wants to learn so much from me at work and regardless of being asked to show her the ropes I feel like I'm her teacher for not only this but...my other profession."
"What do you both want to do? She will need to sign the forms Kara. Why...why don't you bring her in here. Wait.." Alex thought about the concern with the Colonel there. She retracted her first idea. "Not here. Not with Jane around." Kara nodded with Lena agreeing. "Can we bring her to your underground dungeon Lena?" Alex smirked.
"You mean my lab." Lena challenged.
"Four walls do make a…"
"We can discuss my rose petals idea again." The Director gave a disgusted face while Kara was flicking her head side to side to try to figure out what they were talking about.
"Boink." Alex snickered sipping her coffee drink.
"See if I wait in line at the barista again Director." They both noticed Kara twiddling her fingers in her Supergirl attire. "Darling?" The blonde looked fully confused.
"Her need for the red sun Kara." Alex tried at a direct approach and her sister turned bright red facepalming.
"Haha I think she got the picture Danvers. But with regard to Nia I agree with you."
"Why not have Jess grab her and bring her to your lab Lee."
"Good idea Kara. So it's settled? We bring her to where we have complete privacy." Alex broke into laughter at that.
"Do you have any idea how sinister that sounds when you say it like that?"
"I have another lab your sister and I have been testing bondage…." Alex waved both her fingers after nearly spitting out her coffee setting it down to twist her chair around roughly swallowing her drink. "Too much for the morning?" Lena smirked as Kara hid her face further in embarrassment. "Come on beautiful. I think we should go prepare for our visitor. I do recall Nia likes the pastries at our favorite bakery. Kara smiled wide.
"FROSTING!" She proclaimed and now Alex was facepalming.
"A good use of foreplay now that I think about it." Lena laughed with Alex thoroughly grossed out covering her ears humming. "We will see you there Alex." She slipped an arm around her girlfriends to pull Kara out of the office as she bounced for donuts. The Director was trying to clear her brain of the rather perverse twisted images that seemed to bounce all over like someone had thrown out a whole jar of bouncy balls in her skull. She shook her head to finish her coffee tossing the cup in the recycle can she had under her desk, standing up grabbing her favorite black jacket in her glorious hardcore badass warrior suit.
"I need a shower and to dunk my head in an ice bucket. My poor poor brain." She groaned slightly laughing heading out only to see Susan approach. She tossed her Co Director her keys. "All yours. I've done my 20 straight hours." Vasquez laughed catching the ring of jingling metal.
"Good news. Our mill issue is off base for the next two days." Alex clapped and fist pumped the air. "So it looks like I will have a nice time training our new recruits."
"Have fun and kick their ass!" Alex waved as she strode off to the garage to her bike.
Her brown orbs were grazing her own careful sentences making sure the article she was working on made sense. Kara had the most awesome idea to focus on a different figure every story in hopes of steering the animosity and anger of the city away caused by the agents of liberty. What she'd shown Nia when they went to Amadel had inspired her. She saw this incredible caring person that still searched for the truth and gave both admiration and understanding and something in her craved to be just as good of a reporter a person as her teacher.
But the other side of her knew without a doubt that their destinies were linked and just as she'd pondered on that her phone had rang only for Jess from L-Corp to walk in holding the phone out which Nia now figured out it was her calling. They both hung up with the woman coming over to her smiling then looking toward mister cranky's office. She looked back Nia's way.
"Care to take a drive with me?" Jess asked smiling with a glint to her reason.
"Something tells me that would be a good idea." Nia smiled back saving her files on her computer then shutting it down closing the laptop unplugging it to slip it into her shoulder bag. "Could we...grab some grub on the way?" The two women walked out and Nia slid her card at the door before leaving the office area after signing out. Jess nodded as they went to the elevator as it opened and two employees walked out leaving privacy in the box for both of them to head down to the garage. "So.."
"So.." Jess began to type out a text and with the screen visible Nia saw whom she was messaging. The L-Corp assistant looked back up at her slipping her phone in her jacket pocket. "You knew.." Nia raised an eyebrow.
"I did." She took her own phone out of her purse to look at the message that Kara had sent her. She unlocked her screen with the pass and read the text. "Seems I did more than that." Nia looked back up at Jess just as the elevator dinged. They stepped out and into the garage and oh did the sight make her mouth water. "Holy…" Jess chuckled pulling out the faub clicking the button to unlock the car. "Is that a…"
"Ferrari? Yep. It's Lena's if you are curious." Nia was still so damn near drooling at the beautiful burgundy automobile. "She picked me up in a lambo the other day." They got into the car shutting the doors buckling up and Nia was running her orbs along the interior. "Want pickup or drive through?" Jess laughed and her passenger gave her a shocked look. "We can do either but I'm sure the people at the drive would fall over themselves before we got our meals."
"I can call in a pizza….wait...how many does Kara eat? Lena does vegetarian right?" Jess nodded as they drove away from CATCO. "What do you do?"
"Meat or Hawaiian is fine with me. Do you really wanna know what Kara eats?" She laughed as she drove away with the part of the city Nia had explored.
"How fast is her metabolism?" Now she was curious as Jess turned on a cd mix of dance techno that her boss had made her. Nia heard the one song she'd heard play on the Luthor's phone and smiled. "Andres?"
"Yeah. They are so very similar in so many ways." Jess shared driving toward the gate that caught Nia's attention. She understood that sentence more than the woman knew. "She ordered food already. We got all five kinds." She smirked pulling up to the box rolling down the window to punch in the code and press her thumb on the scanner.
"How did you already know I'd go for pizza?"
"Because Jess put the speaker on." Nia gasped with Jess laughing. "We have five different flavors of soda too. If you want any coffee I have an industrial size keurig here too."
"We are pulling in now boss." Jess informed her.
"I see that. Drive in and steer to the left onto the ramp. It will lock the car in the trailer and bring it down below the surface."
"I'm parked. Got the door?" Nia was trying to figure out where Jess had turned on the intercom but then noticed the buttons on the dash. She looked back to see a massive metal wall roll down encasing them in a pitch black box making her nervous. "Relax. I know it can be a little tight. I freaked out the first time I was in here. The walls feel a little too close." Nia nodded.
"HEY!" They both looked forward to see another slab roll up with Lena standing inside the building at the doors. "Come on in." She waited till both were out of the car and turned away walking slower with Jess then Nia following. "Sorry for the discretion but it's necessary." Jess walked beside her boss now with Nia catching up to walk along Lena's other side.
"What is this place?" She asked looking around a little more nervous.
"My underground lab. This is where my research and studies I can't do at CATCO or L-Corp are brought to life for lack of better words. This is where I had Sam when Reign took over."
"The kryptonite capsule." Nia spoke then gasped to cover her mouth.
"That just came into your mind didn't it?" Lena spoke to her as they got to a door she put her hand on a scanner then accepted a retinal scan as well. Both women watched as her fingers pressed on a keypad.
"It did. How….did you know that?" Her curiosity and jitters grew tremendously. Was Lena gonna study her? Her boss lead them into a massive chamber and to where her technology savvy set up was. Nia was impressed and even more did she wonder why she'd been brought here. Then she saw two women leaning against a large round podium table and her eyes locked on the blues of someone she knew all too well. "Kara.."
Supergirl didn't say a word but her older sister dressed in a slick armor style black suit with a gun in a holster on her side walked over to her then stopped a couple feet from her crossing her arms bringing her head partially down to lock her browns on Nia's own.
"You remember Alex." Lena chimed in walking over to Supergirl. Nia gulped.
"Director Alex Danvers." Alex spoke firmly. "Nia right?"
"Yes." Nia had thought she would be interrogated with the way Alex no Director was looking at her but what she didn't expect was a strong embrace a hug with so much definition to it.
"Thank you." Alex spoke against her ear breaking the hug to step back and walk over to the Luthor and Supergirl. Nia cleared her rambling thoughts to walk over where Jess had too ventured. "We needed to bring you here."
"Why?" She had a pretty good idea now but her fears played on her.
"The agency I work for that we all were dressed in black practically, is called the DEO."
"The Department of Extranormal Operations." Lena gave the response for Nia's questioning look.
"Why share this with me?"
"Because you know who I really am. So I have to ask you...how.." Kara piped up. The incredible unwavering blues had Nia soaring in them. She looked fully at Kara and saw the determination in her expression. "You saved me."
"I tried." Nia shared.
"Tell us all you've learned and we will go from there." Alex requested and as Nia began to explain more than they had expected the Director had been glad they had brought her there versus her place of full time employment. Their lives were far more linked than she thought and now learning so much more they were intertwined in a common destiny…
- Most of us think our differences make us misunderstood make us all strangers. We live lives of ridicule around us and sometimes we don't know how to break that cycle. It's when we see that we are far more linked that we understand the meanings our existence shapes for us. Learn to understand by stepping in the shoes of those around you. Learn to live with far more serenity through bonds we make_
- Enigmea