Once Upon National City
A/N: And here's Part II! All the drabbles as voted upon by you will start next month.
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Summary: It's the end of the day and Kara still hasn't seen Alex's apartment. Or eaten any of her beloved potstickers. Hungry and miserable, Supergirl has finally had enough. Kara & Alex. Family/Humor.
*** ~ You Knew About This Place Too? – Part II ~ ***
"Alex…" Kara whined quietly, much to the amusement of Agent Vasquez whom she's currently keeping company in the DEO Command Centre.
It's the end of the day and Kara still hasn't seen Alex's apartment. Or eaten any of her beloved potstickers. And after a rather tiring and busy day in National City crime-wise, both on the alien front and otherwise, Kara is now back at the DEO, still in her super suit, waiting for her sister's shift to end. Despite already scoping out the newly opened branch of her favorite potstickers' restaurant nearby the DEO, as tempted as she was to forget all about her misery by gorging herself on her favorite food, Kara didn't. Potstickers were always so much better when eating in great company after all, not to mention an angry Alex would chew her out for eating without her.
(Alex was very scary when she was in her angry Agent Danvers mood.)
"I'm sure Agent Danvers won't be that much longer, Supergirl," Agent Vasquez said still typing away at her workstation, the short, dark haired woman offering Kara a sympathetic look. "If you wanted to grab something from the cafeteria in the mean time, I can send you message when your sister is done."
Out of all the other DEO agents, outside of Alex, J'onn and Lucy that is, Agent Vasquez was Kara's favorite. While not quite a friend, the other woman was definitely more than just an acquaintance, Agent Vasquez often making Kara laugh with her quick witted one-liners and no-nonsense-take-crap-from-no-one attitude. Despite her typical stoic and unattached air, Agent Vasquez was a kind soul under her detached exterior, at times sneaking a hungry Kara sweet treats when no one was looking, the agent also willingly volunteering to run menial errands for Supergirl when it was just one of those days.
Just like today.
"Thanks," Kara said, sighing. "But you don't have to do that. I'm just being impatient right now. You know?"
Kara ran a hand through her hair.
"For someone who can fly faster than the speed of sound, everything else just seems-"
"Slow," Agent Vasquez finished for her.
Rao bless this woman. Vasquez always understood everything.
"Yeah," she nodded. "Not that that's a bad thing or anything," Kara quickly added when she realized how belittling that sounded. "It's not like you guys are-"
"I understand, Ma'am," the DEO agent said before Kara could ramble herself into further embarrassment.
"For what it's worth," Agent Vasquez continued, offering her a wry smile. "Some of the others can be quite slow. Take Agent Reyes for instance."
Discretely looking around to ensure they weren't being overhead, Agent Vasquez leaned in closer to Kara to whisper conspiratorially.
"That man couldn't find his way into the DEO main database even if you sat him down at a terminal with full admin rights," the brunette said in a low voice.
The waggle of eyebrows.
Kara bite her fist to muffle her laughter, chuckles slipping past her lips as her entire body shuddered with suppressed giggles. How Agent Vasquez maintained a straight face after that remark, especially with Agent Reyes not even fifteen feet away from them on the other side of the DEO Command Centre, Kara would never know. What she did know was that in boring times like these, the other woman's dry humor was very much appreciated and needed.
"There you are," came a familiar voice, a one Alex Danvers walking into Kara's line of sight. "Hey Sis. I've been looking for you."
"Alex!" Kara squealed, practically throwing herself at her big sister, nearly knocking Alex off of her feet with a tackling hug. "You're finally here!"
Stumbling backwards in surprise despite being used to this kind of thing growing up with an alien super sister, Alex managed to keep them both on their feet, the brunette hugging Kara back with a smile.
"I missed you too," Alex chuckled, DEO agents all around the command centre smiling at the sight of them.
After giving her sister an extra squeeze, Kara pulled back, nearly vibrating on her feet with excitement.
"So you ready to go?" she asked, ready to fly them both to Alex's new apartment posthaste.
"About that..." Alex trailed off, looking at Kara sheepishly.
"Alex…" Kara whined, knowing full well what was about to happen next.
"I just need fifteen more minutes, Kara, I swear," Alex said, rubbing Kara's shoulders. "I'm almost done."
"But Aleeexxxx…" she whimpered, pouting in full effect. "You promised! And it's already-"
Grabbing her sister's right arm, Kara raised Alex's watch strapped wrist up to her face.
"- 8:03pm. You said you'd be done at eight o'clock."
More pouting.
"I know," Alex said regretfully. "Things are just taking a bit longer in the lab than I thought they would. The test results should be ready anytime now though, and once they're done, we can go. Okay?"
Dropping her sister's arm down and sulking in silence, Kara stared the floor, kicking around an imaginary ball of dust with the toe of her boot.
"Kara," Alex said softly, trying to catch her gaze again.
"It's fine," Kara said with a sigh. She offered Alex a weak smile. "I know you have important stuff to do. It's just that-"
"You've been looking forward to this all day," her sister finished for her.
Kara nodded.
Wrapping an arm around Kara's shoulders to give her a side hug, Alex rested her head against Kara's.
"Tell you what," the DEO agent said. "If you give me another ten minutes, I'll order twice as many potstickers than usual, on top of our regular order of pizza. What do you say?"
Kara reluctantly met her Alex's gaze, trying and failing to keep the smile off of her face.
"Really?"
"Scout's honor," Alex replied, putting a hand over her heart.
Kara chuckled.
"Deal."
"Great," Alex said, smiling at her as she stepped back. "I'll just be at the station over there," the elder Danvers said pointing to a desk on the opposite side of the DEO Command Centre. A technician in a white lab coat currently sat at the terminal.
"Be right back."
Watching Alex go, Kara waited until her sister's back was to her before wandering around the area aimlessly to pass the time. Eventually she found herself back at Agent Vasquez's desk again, the agent briefly glancing up at her when Kara leaned against the side of the desk. Not wanting to bother the brunette more than she already had, Kara crossed her arms over her chest and lazily scanned this new DEO location.
Kara really liked this base. It was so much bigger and brighter than that dark, dusty cave they had been working out of in the dessert prior, the one big plus being the total and absolute lack of bats. Not that anyone would really believe her when she told them how much those vermin enjoyed using her as their chew toy. J'onn was a prime example of that, his earlier comment still a bit of a sore spot for Kara.
At the sudden sound of her stomach growling, Kara groaned, a hand immediately coming up to clutch at the said noise maker. With all the madness happening as of late, the mystery man in the Kryptonian pod for example, Kara had barely a bite to eat this morning and afternoon, her stomach noisily reminding her of just how unhappy it was because of that. Potstickers at the forefront of her mind once again, Kara glanced at her sister's form before seeking the time on Agent Vasquez's computer monitor.
8:08pm.
Ugh. Could time crawl by any slower?
Huffing in impatience, well, more in hunger than impatience, Kara missed Agent Vasquez's inquiring look as a smirk stretched across her face, a wicked thought coming to mind. Alex always said she needed to take more initiative in life, and that's exactly what she was going to do. Namely discovering the address of Alex's new apartment to help speed up their exit, with her sister none the wiser. Narrowing her eyes slightly, Kara's x-ray vision honed in on Alex's right back pants pocket as her sister spoke with the lab technician about whatever they were testing in the lab.
"Ma'am?" a voice next to her said.
Kara hummed distractedly in acknowledgment, moving her gaze to Alex's other back pants pocket when she didn't find a wallet as expected in the first pocket.
"Is something wrong?" the same voice queried, Kara frowning when she also found nothing in Alex's other pocket.
"Wrong?" Kara echoed, turning to the owner of the voice, that being a one Agent Vasquez. "Why would anything be wrong?"
Glancing around the DEO Command Centre cautiously, Agent Vasquez turned back to Kara.
"It's just that, you were staring so… intently… at Agent Danvers' behind, Ma'am," Vasquez explained, much to Kara's horror. "So I thought something might have been wrong."
Kara's mouth opened and closed a few times, her cheeks, ears, and neck a noticeable red colour.
"Uh…"
"Hey," Alex said popping up at Kara's shoulder, the elder Danvers choosing the worst possible time to check in on her. "The test just needs another few minutes before it's done and I thought-"
A glance at a confused Agent Vasquez. Then a frown.
"Something wrong?"
More awkward glances.
"You're not bothering Agent Vasquez here, are you?" Alex asked, turning to her fellow agent.
Briefly meeting Agent Vasquez's gaze again, Kara turned to face her sister.
"Ma'am," Vasquez said, beating her to the punch. "Supergirl was just-"
"I was not staring at Alex's butt!" Kara exclaimed before things could get complicated. Though, judging by how everyone suddenly had gone silent around them and was now looking at her, it seemed she wasn't very successful at that.
"You were staring at my butt?" Alex questioned, her eyebrows raising in surprise.
"No!" Kara quickly retorted, absolutely mortified.
Alex crossed her arms over her chest and looked to Agent Vasquez again, the other DEO agent wisely keeping her mouth shut while glancing back at Kara.
"No?" Alex repeated, her gaze returning to Kara who was so desperately trying to keep the squirming down to a minimum.
"Really Kara?" Alex said, clearly not convinced.
Damn Alex and her angry Agent Danvers voice!
"Maybe?" Kara squeaked, the sudden urge to flee quite strong right now.
A sigh.
"I don't know if I should be flattered or creeped out by that," Alex said, Agent Vasquez giving her a sympathetic look.
Kara wanted to die.
"It's not like that!" she exclaimed, getting looks from the other DEO agents around, all of whom were doing a very poor job of pretending they weren't paying attention to the awkward conversation going on between Kara and her sister.
"I was looking for your wallet! You always keep it in your back pocket and-"
"Kara," Alex said cutting her off, Alex's shoulders trembling with suppressed laughter. "I never have my wallet on me when I'm on duty. The first thing I do when I get here is to drop it in my locker with the rest of my stuff."
"Oh..." Kara blinked in surprise, mildly embarrassed at being caught staring. At her sister's behind. By none other than Agent Vasquez. Kara supposed it could have been worse. It could have been J'onn who caught her. The Martian would never let her live that one down, that's for sure.
"Wait," she said, taking a few steps towards her sister. "You're wallet is in your locker?"
Catching onto her line of thought, Alex put a hand on Kara's chest, right over her house crest, stopping Kara in her tracks.
"Kara, no," Alex said. "Now is not the time to go digging around my stuff. I'm almost done here. Just hang on for another few minutes and then we can leave."
"But Aleeeeeeexxxxxxx," Kara whimpered, her stomach grumbling loudly again. "I promise not to leave without you and eat everything in your apartment again."
Alex rolled her eyes.
"That's not what I'm worried about," her sister said quietly, more to herself than to Kara.
Blue eyes narrowed.
"What was that?" Kara asked, having heard that comment anyhow.
"Nothing," Alex said almost immediately, a little too fast if you asked Kara.
"Aleeeexxxxx," Kara drawled, dragging out her sister's name. Something was going on here, something suspicious. "What are you hiding?"
"Who says I'm hiding anything?" Alex challenged back, the DEO agent crossing her arms over her chest, Alex's expression bordering on menacing. Unlike before however, Alex didn't seem quite as intimidating as before for some reason. Maybe it was because Kara knew her sister was hiding something.
"I know you," Kara said taking a step forward and invading her older sibling's personal space. "You never keep something from me unless you're-"
Kara's eyes went wide.
"You have pudding, don't you?"
It was chocolate pecan pie actually, Alex's third attempt at baking it. Kara wouldn't find that out until her earth birthday however, Alex surprising her with a freshly baked pie rather than a cupcake like usual. How the other Danvers was able to keep such a thing hidden from Kara for so long was still a mystery to her, but that was a puzzle to figure out another time.
"I don't know what you're talking about," Alex said, not giving an inch.
The stare down between sisters lasted all of a minute before either of them spoke again. During that time, Agent Vasquez's gaze darted back and forth between them, Vasquez along with the rest of the agents nearby silently monitoring this situation with varying degrees of interest.
"Of course you don't," Kara said with a smirk, being the one to break the silence between them. "Which means you have nothing to hide. And if you have nothing to hide, then you wouldn't mind if I mosey down to your locker and-"
A hand clamped down on her arm before she could walk one step.
"Don't you dare," Alex said, almost growling.
Kara's smirk widened. "And if I did, what are you doing to do about it?"
A raised eyebrow.
That seemed to give Alex pause, the brunette's eyes narrowing into a vicious glare. Then her sister was all smiles, creepily so giving the instantaneous turnaround, Kara feeling nervous all of a sudden.
"You're right," Alex said. "What could I possibly do to stop you from rushing off to my apartment on your own? I mean, you are Supergirl after all. You have super strength, and freeze breath, and you can fly."
Brows creasing in confusion, Kara remained quiet, unsure where her sister was going with this.
"I guess I'll just have to concede defeat," Alex continued, a wicked glint in her eye. "And while you claim your prize, I'll be bemoaning my fate, remembering the better days like that one time when we were kids and you-"
Kara's hand covered her sister's mouth in an instant.
"Alex!" Kara hissed, her eyes wide and her cheeks red. "You promised you wouldn't tell anyone about that! Like ever!"
Reaching up and pulling Kara's hand away from her mouth, Alex chuckled.
"All is fair in love and war, Kara."
A victorious grin.
Content that she had won this battle, Alex turned around to reconvene with the technician about the test results.
Gritting her teeth, her hands balling up into fists at her side in barely restrained aggravation, Kara's jaw clenched in defiance.
"I'll show you war!"
A whoosh of air.
"Kara!" Alex exclaimed, almost squealing.
Before Alex could even walk two steps away from her, in one swift movement, Kara swooped in, picked Alex up, and tossed the DEO agent over her shoulder like a sack of potatoes.
"Put me down!"
"Nope!" Kara replied back, much to the amusement of everyone around. Smiling at the agents nearby, Kara giggled as Alex pounded on her back with her fist, demanding to be released.
"Kara," Alex said red-face in embarrassment, all the while trying to wiggle free. "I swear to Rao, if you don't put me down right this instant, I'll-"
"You what?" Kara said, looking back over her shoulder absolutely beaming. "You won't buy me potstickers ever again?"
Agent Vasquez hid her amusement behind her hand as she turned back to her computer screen to get some actual work done.
"Kara," Alex threatened.
"Nope!" Kara said as smug as ever. "Not letting you down until you tell me where your apartment is. Or better yet, tell me where you're hiding the pudding!"
Before Alex could retort this time, a voice like thunder shattered the relative calm surrounding DEO Command Centre.
"What is going on here!?"
The sudden appearance of J'onn had Kara nearly dropping her sister. Thankfully she caught herself before that happened, Alex landing awkwardly but still somewhat upright and on her feet a second later. All loitering DEO agents quickly snapped back to their own workstations as serious as ever, and the ones who weren't at workstations, quickly evacuated the area.
"J-J'onn!" Alex said startled, her sister immediately working to smooth out her uniform and hair.
"Agent Danvers, Supergirl," J'onn said, walking up to the pair. The alien crossed his arms over his chest as he stood before them. "Is there something you two want to tell me?"
Kara tugged at a snatch of her cape, trying to act all nonchalant.
It didn't work.
"No Sir," Alex said, her Agent Danvers mask back in place. "Nothing to report, Sir."
Kara gulped when the Martian's intense gaze moved from her sister to her.
"Need I remind the both of you," J'onn said in that terrifying, commanding voice of his. "The DEO is a secret government agency whose sole responsibility is to apprehend and detain alien and alien related menaces to the entire population. If you have time to horse around, you have time to catch intergalactic criminals threatening national security."
Seeing an opening, Kara grabbed Alex's arm and started to pull her sister away from their boss.
"Right!" Kara said before J'onn could grill them any further. "We'll get right on that! Don't you worry J'onn! Right Alex?"
"Right!" Alex said, nodding very seriously to her commanding officer before swallowing thickly.
After a momentarily silence, of which the entire time J'onn looked them both over with a strict eye, the other alien nodded.
"Good," J'onn said, uncrossing his arms and walking past them. "Now if you'll excuse me, there is work to be done."
"Of course, Sir," Alex responded, the two of them watching as the Martian strode past them both and disappeared down an adjacent hallway to wherever. Neither of them would see the smile stretching across his face once out of sight.
Staring at the hallway for another few seconds to ensure J'onn was truly gone, Kara sighed in relief once she heard his heavy footsteps fade away behind a closing door at the end of the hallway.
"He's gone," Kara said, turning back to her sister.
Alex smacked her on the shoulder with the back of her hand.
"Hey!" Kara exclaimed, more out of principle than the hit actually hurting. In fact, she didn't feel a thing.
"I can't believe you just did that!" Alex growled, shaking her sore hand a bit.
"How was I supposed to know he was going to show up all of a sudden?" Kara retorted. "I'm not the mind reader, he is!"
Alex grumbled something unintelligible before swiftly walking away from Kara, towards another hallway opposite the one J'onn disappeared down. Pausing a moment when she realized she was not being followed, Alex turned around and put her hands on her hips.
"You coming or what?"
"Coming where?" Kara asked in confusion. Was Alex going to yank her away to scold her in private? This wouldn't be the first time.
"You wanted to see my apartment, didn't you?" Alex stated, snapping Kara out of her thoughts. "And potstickers. Unless you've changed your mind?"
Kara was beside her sister in an instant.
"Really? Now?" she asked with barely contained excitement.
Alex rolled her eyes with a huff.
"Yes, really," the DEO agent said, Alex continuing onward again, Kara on her heels. "That's why you were whining before, weren't you?"
"Well, yes," Kara admitted, not the least bit ashamed that she may have used some unfair tactics earlier while trying to wheedle information out of her sister. Then again, if she got free potstickers and her own private tour of her sister's new apartment, maybe that wasn't such a bad thing.
"But what about your test results?"
"I'll look at them tomorrow," Alex said with a dismissive wave. "Beside, you're more important."
"Aww Alex!" Kara squealed, tackle hugging her sister from behind as they entered the DEO locker room. Her sister stumbled forwards a few steps, having not expected that. "I love you!"
"Yeah, yeah," Alex grumbled, opening her locker with Kara still clinging to her back like a monkey. "Love you too, Dork."
END
A/N: A bunch of dorks, the both of them. XD So there you have it, the Danvers sisters being silly just because they can and J'onn acting all tough and mean just to scare them because he can. You all know he did that on purpose just to scare them crapless. J'onn is really just a big teddy bear after all. :P
Thanks to everyone who participated in my poll once again. The ancient Japan drabble with Assassin!Alex and Samurai!Maggie came out on top this time, which I've added to the queue. Given I've got a few in the backlog to work on now, that will be last the polls for now until I get all caught up.
Finally, my announcement! For those of you who don't know already, I'm working on an anime project called "Abyssian Knights". Like last year, we'll have a booth at the Anime North (2017) convention coming up at the end of May showing it off. We haven't been assigned a booth number yet, but the moment I find out, I'll let you all know. Until then, keep an eye out on the Abyssian Knights website for updates. You can find it here (replace periods with commas): www,abyssianknights,com/
