Once Upon National City
A/N: Hey everyone! A huge thank you goes out to everyone who voted in my poll. The results have been tallied and much to my surprise, there was tie between the "Kara blowing out her powers and Alex saving her" idea and the "Angel!Kara and Vampire!Alex" idea. I'll be working on those drabbles shortly for the coming months, but in the meantime, my next poll is up with new drabble options! Have a look and please vote!
For those of you needing your monthly Supergirl (TV) fanfiction fix, here you go! Just some Danvers' sister silliness. :) This was a bit of a rush job due to real life happenings, so it's a little rough around the edges. Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy!
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Summary: Alex refuses to show Kara her new apartment during working hours. Kara decides to take matters into her own hands. Sort of. Kara & Alex. Family/Humor.
*** ~ You Knew About This Place Too? - Part I ~ ***
Landing softly next to J'onn, Kara took in the monolithic sight before her, glancing around in confusion.
"Where are we?" she asked, following after the Martian as automatic sliding glass doors parted, allowing them entry into… wherever this was.
"The Department of Extra Normal Operations," J'onn responded as if this was nothing out of the ordinary. Making his way down the stairs towards what looked to be the Command Center of the place, he strode forward with the poise of a seasoned agent.
A hand on J'onn's arm.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait!" Kara said, Supergirl reaching out to momentarily grab the Martian to get his attention. "This has always been here?"
Spinning around, Kara pointed at the sliding glass doors they had just passed through.
"With the glass, and the views," she continued to ramble, the youngest Danvers still in a state of shock as she trailed behind J'onn again, her boss only pausing a moment before continuing on his way.
"And you made me fly to that cave every day?"
"The DEO has several facilities, Kara," J'onn stated, not the least perturbed by his flying companion's bewilderment.
Clearly not understanding her frustration, Kara frowned at the Martian hoping to get her grumpiness across.
"A bat bit me in the last one!" she exclaimed.
J'onn was not impressed.
"Whiner," the other alien muttered, Kara pouting at the comment.
Walking into the DEO's main Command Centre, Kara was greeted with not only a variety of black clad DEO agents milling about, some of them sitting at computers, but also a one Alex Danvers standing towards the left side of the illuminated Command Centre table in the middle. A tablet in hand, Alex's head was down as she examined whatever was on the screen. Hearing their approach however, the brunette raised her gaze and moved around the table to meet them near the wall of screens on the far side of the Command Centre.
"Hey Sis," Alex greeted, her eyes soon after dropping back down again to the tablet in her hand.
Kara didn't know if she wanted to scream, stomp, or pout at this new development. Maybe all three at the same time if she could manage it. Was she like the only one who didn't know about this place?
"You knew about this place too?" she said, throwing up her hands in exasperation.
"Yeah," Alex replied, meeting her gaze again for a moment. "It's like block from my apartment."
At that comment, Kara gawked at sister in disbelief.
"It's kind of like the old place, maybe better," Alex continued, not noticing Supergirl's reaction. Handing J'onn her tablet as the Martian passed her by for one of the offices upstairs, Alex's gaze drifted to the wall of screens nearby, the DEO agent putting her hands on her hips as she scanned the reports flashing on the displays.
Kara's mouth opened and closed a few times before she actually found her words.
"You moved into your new place and didn't tell me?" she said, Kara utterly devastated by this news.
A new DEO location? Kara could deal with that. Alex moving into her new apartment without her, that was something else. Helping each other move was like a tradition between them. When Kara moved into Alex's first apartment when she came National City, Alex helped her move in. And when Alex moved in to her second apartment, Kara helped her move in. To hear that Alex moved into her third home away from home without her, it hurt.
"Uh no," Alex rebutted, surprisingly unaffected by Kara's kicked puppy look. "One, I told you about it. And two, you weren't there at the time because you had to deal with those Cipactlis wreaking havoc on National City's Sewage plant. Not to mention, the both of us have been very busy with all those alien incidents as of late."
"Ugh," Kara shuddering as that memory came to mind. "Don't remind me. It took me a week to get that smell out of suit. And because I only have one of these since I ruined the last one and Winn hasn't had time to make me another yet, I had to fly around the whole time smelling like the butt end of a Sputan."
Alex chuckled at that comment, smiling sympathetically.
"My poor, poor Sister," the brunette said, Agent Danvers nodding to Agent Vasquez as the other DEO agent handed her another tablet to inspect.
"I know, right!" Kara continued to rant, complete with radical hand gestures. "And if that wasn't bad enough, because Kryptonian senses are like ten times more sensitive than mostly everyone else, I had to hold my breath while saving people just so I wouldn't throw up!"
"Oh stop your complaining," Alex said, smacking Kara on the arm. "It wasn't that bad."
"Not that bad?!" Kara echoed incredulously. "I haven't gone near a single potsticker since then because the alleyway behind my favorite potsticker restaurant reminded me of the sewage plant!"
Another shudder.
"Okay," Alex said, wincing sympathetically. "That is pretty bad."
Kara crossed her arms over her chest and sniffed miserably, the withdrawal from potstickers being particularly bad these past few days. While she could have just as easily gotten potstickers from another restaurant, she was Supergirl after all, no one quite made potstickers like her favorite place. To eat potstickers from somewhere else was just blasphemy. And having someone else buy potstickers for her from her favorite store was just a no no.
"Tell you what," Alex said, reaching out to rub Kara's arm. "How about you come over by me tonight, and I'll treat you to some potstickers, seeing as how you haven't eaten your weekly quota's worth yet."
"But it's not going to be the same," Kara sighed dejectedly, the thought of her favorite food making her even more miserably right now.
"Have a told you they opened up a new location nearby?"
Blue eyes lit up in an instant.
"Really?"
Alex smiled.
"Yep," her sister said. "And while you're wolfing down your favorite, I can show you my new place while we catch up on some Homeland."
Kara's smile was brighter than the sun.
"Have I ever told you you're the bestest sister a girl could ever have?"
Alex laughed.
"You have on a few occasions," the DEO agent said. "But hearing it again never hurts."
Playfully shoving her cheeky sister, both of them all grins, Kara's smile quickly disappeared when the reality of the situation caught up to her.
"Hey Alex?" Kara asked, hesitant.
"Yeah?" Alex said, eyes on her tablet again now that the food and apartment situation with her Kryptonian had been resolved.
"When's your shift over today?"
Raising her left hand upwards, Alex glanced at her watch before returning her focus to her tablet.
"I get off at eight tonight," the brunette responded without looking up. "Why?"
Kara groaned, running a hand down her face.
"Aleeeeexxxxxxxxx," Kara whined, much to the amusement of all nearby DEO agents. It wasn't everyday you got to see a whining Supergirl after all.
"That's like twelve hours away," Kara whimpered. "I'm going to die of starvation long before then.
Kara draped herself bonelessly across the top of the Command Centre table.
"Can't you like, I don't know, get J'onn to give you the day off so we can go to your new apartment right now and binge watch some Netflix?"
"Kara," Alex chided, turning to her sister again. "You know I can't do that. Even if I could, that doesn't mean I should. There's still a lot of work to be done. The wicked never rest. You know that. Besides, you could always buy your own food in the meantime if you're really that hungry."
Grumbling to herself about the inhumanities of the world, Kara pouted, all thoughts of gorging herself on potstickers flying out the window. Speaking of flying…(Or thinking, because she was thinking about it...)
"Can I get your new address then?" Supergirl said, Kara blankly examining the schematics on Alex's tablet with absolutely no comprehension whatsoever. "I could pass by and check in on it for you when I do my rounds later."
"No," Alex said, finally handing back the tablet to the ever patient Agent Vasquez still standing nearby with a nod, the other DEO agent walking back to her desk leaving the elder Danvers to deal with her alien sister. "Not happening."
"Great!" Kara exclaimed, excited to see Alex's new place finally. "I-"
Then her brain caught up to her ears.
"Wait, what?" Kara asked, baffled. "What do you mean no?"
"Exactly what I said, Kara," Alex stated. "No means no. You'll just have to wait until after my shift to satiate your curiosity. And stomach."
"But Alex-"
"The last time I let you roam around my apartment unsupervised, you emptied my fridge and pantry, leaving only the mayo," Alex deadpanned.
Kara had the decency to blush.
"C'mon Alex!" the Kryptonian groaned in embarrassment, pushing herself upright from the table. "That was one time!"
Alex crossed her arms over her chest and gave Kara the patented Agent Danvers look.
"Besides," Kara continued shyly abashed. "I was hungry."
"Uh huh," Alex commented, the DEO agent's eyebrow quirked in amusement. "Still, my answer remains the same. Not until after my shift, Kara."
Kara pouted.
"Fine!" she exclaimed like a petulant child. "I'll just have to find it myself."
That comment almost had Alex snorting.
"And how, pray tell, are you going to do that?" her sister questioned, the DEO agent crossing her arms over her chest. "X-ray every apartment within a two block radius until you find mine?"
"Exactly!"
Alex laughed at that one, the elder Danvers trying and failing to keep her laughter under wraps.
"I'm not sure the citizens of National City are going to appreciate their superhero spying on them."
"I'm not spying!" Kara protested. "I'm just searching for something very important!"
"Of course you are," Alex said, in mock seriousness.
Kara scowled at her sister.
"Fine! If I can't X-ray everywhere, I'm just going to… to…"
Alex quirked a brow.
"I'm just going to have to smell your apartment out!"
Kara huffed when Alex actually snorted this time, the DEO agent needing a few seconds to recompose herself.
"Seriously Kara? Smell my apartment out? I think that's the best suggestion yet."
Kara puffed her cheeks out in indignation.
"Of course it's a brilliant idea! I came up with it!"
Agent Danvers just smiled and shook her head.
"You're something else, you know that?"
"And your apartment is as good as found!" Kara declared, leaning in to sniff at her sister playfully, Alex laughing some more before pushing her away.
"Kara! Stop it! I'm trying to work!"
"Fine, fine," National City's superhero relented, Kara stepping backwards a few steps away from her sister and waving at Alex in a shooing motion. "Go do whatever it is you do when you're here."
Ignoring the rolling of her older sibling's eyes, Kara just smirked, nearly bouncing where she stood.
"I, on the other hand-" Kara began because it wasn't often she could rub things in her sister's face. "-am off to find your apartment Miss-I-won't-invite-my-sister-to-my apartment-just-because-I'm-too-busy!"
Shaking her head in defeat, Alex just smiled.
"Good luck!" Alex called out after her, just as Kara zoomed away in search of Alex's apartment.
"You'll need it," the brunette murmured after the fact, Kara still hearing it anyhow.
Zipping up into the sky gleefully, Kara stopped to hover two hundred and fifty feet above the ground, the sky and city as far as the naked eye could see. Her smile rivaling the brightness of Earth's yellow sun, Kara inhaled deeply, ready and excited to enjoy her spoils, said spoils being her sister's new apartment. And food. Inhaling again to locate her sister's scent, Kara soon inhaled a third time, her smile disappearing upon realizing a key and important fact. Breathing in for a fourth time to no avail, Kara found herself back at the DEO five seconds later, to an amused Agent Alex Danvers standing in the exact same spot, in the exact same position she was before Kara left.
"You lost the scent, didn't you?" her sister said, not wasting time and mincing words.
Kara looked to the side, crossing her arms over her chest.
"It's windy outside," she said, hanging her head defeat and pouting.
Walking up to her, Alex patted Kara on shoulder in what was supposed to be a soothing gesture. It wasn't.
"Looks like you're just going to have to wait until I'm done today, Sis," Alex said smugly, before she sauntered away to finally get some work done.
Kara pouted.
END OF PART I
A/N: So this kind of got out of hand with the silliness me thinks. Ah well. This was supposed to be a solo, short and sweet drabble, but has since then, again, expanded into a two parter. Lol.
This drabble was inspired by Alex's comment in 2x01, that her apartment was just a block away from this particular DEO office. The moment she said that one line, this whole scene popped up in my brain and I rewrote the beginning of 2x01 to include these sisterly shenanigans. XD
Cipactlis are kind of like crocodiles or caimans. They're creatures pulled from the Aztec cosmology and for the purposes of this drabble, used as an alien/monster for Kara to fight. You can find out more info about them here (replace commas with periods): en,wikipedia,org/wiki/Cipactli
Sputans are a sentient race made up of larva and bacteria. I don't know much more beyond that (found out about them in the DC Comics list of alien races wiki page), but given the description of what they are, I can only imagine what they smell like. XD
I'm almost certain Kara has an unlimited supply of backup suits, given Winn's obsession with making it the first time for her. But for the purposes of this drabble, let's just say he's been a bit busy lately to make her another one at the moment. ;)
Not sure just how sensitive Kryptonian senses are in comparison to other races, alien and otherwise, but for the purposes of this drabble, let's say it's about ten times as sensitive. :P
Agent Vasquez makes an appearance! I love her so much and couldn't but have her show up here. Don't worry, you'll see more of her in Part II. ;) For those of you who don't remember her character, you can find out more info here (replace commas with periods): arrow,wikia,com/wiki/Vasquez
I'm probably reaching with the whole thing of Kara liking potstickers from only one particular chain of restaurants, but it works for this drabble. :P
