Finally

Kara woke up to a warmth surrounding her.  A familiar warmth.  A warmth that had stayed over the past few nights.  Kara lifted her head and found herself face to face with Lena Luthor smiling lazily at her. 

“Morning Kara,” she whispered.

“Mmmm.  Morning,” Kara said, leaning up for a chaste kiss.  Lena smiled into the kiss and laughed when Kara pulled away peppering small kisses along her jaw. Honestly it could cut glass.   Under the sheets they were naked from the previous night’s activities.  They had spent the past few days wrapped up in each other, exploring and learning about each other’s bodies.  Kara found out that Lena would become a whimpering mess when she bit down on her collarbone and when Kara showered her neck in kisses and bites, Lena would become so handsy and desperate.  As for Kara, whenever Lena’s head was between her legs, it gave her a rush that made her mind go blank and her head spin and she loved it. 

This morning there was none of that.  It was a gradual wake up.  Kara propped herself on her elbows and skimmed Lena’s jaw with her nose. 

“We don't have to be in til later.  What do you wanna do?”  Kara asked, entirely innocently.

“You.”  Lena said, looking directly into Kara’s eyes

It had to be that Kara’s phone went off.  It seemed the universe thought they’d had enough time alone together and now was thrusting them back into the real world. 

“Sorry,” Kara said and reached over to her phone.  It was a text from Alex. 

Weapons cache, radiation warehouse off 3^rd.

Kara’s eyes widened.  She got up immediately.  “I gotta go. Alex needs me.”

Lena, ever understanding, nodded, concern on her face.

“Please let me know if she’s okay, and if there’s anything I can do about it.”  She offered. 

Kara gave her a quick kiss whilst trying to put her jeans on.

“Stay and sleep for a bit longer.  There’s a spare key in the cutlery drawer.  Leave whenever.”

“I will take you up on that offer.”  Lena said, sliding back under the covers as Kara put her shoes on as humanly fast as she could muster, kissed Lena again and sped out the door, making a show of slamming it shut.  As soon as she was clear, she sped off into the air on her way to the warehouse.  She landed as black SUV’s were pulling up and DEO agents spilled out.  She found Alex to get a proper debriefing. 

“What’s going on.  Why is there just a weapons cache in the middle of a warehouse?  We’ve done a thermal scan, there’s no-ones else here, but that crate is giving off major radiation.”  Alex said.

Kara scanned the warehouse.  Alex was right.  There wasn’t another living soul in there and there was nothing else in there.  It screamed trap.  She tried to scan the cache, but it was cased in lead.  To keep the radiation from leaking out.  She needed to move it before the situation became worse.

“Your scans are right, there’s no-one else in there, and the cache is covered in lead.  I can’t see what’s in it.”  Kara said.  “I’m going in, and flying that cache off to the other DEO site.  There was a vault in there that can contain this kind of radiation.”

Alex walked up to her, put her hand on Kara’s arm and looked her in the eye.  “Be careful Supergirl.”

“I always am.”  And with that she was off into the warehouse, lifting up the crate ever so gently and flying off. 

Alex must’ve contacted the DEO facility because when she arrived the vault was open and Lucy was there waiting.  She placed the crate into the vault and Lucy sealed it shut.

“Supergirl hey, long time no see.”  Lucy gave Kara a hug.

“Yeah, it’s so cool; you run your own DEO facility.  How’s it going?”

“Well I miss calling you in to smash and go that’s for sure.  Other than that I’m running a tight ship, and everything is smooth.”

“I knew you’d be perfect for this.”  Kara grinned.  “I gotta go, but it was awesome seeing you again.  Bye.”  And she sped off.

She got back to her apartment in the blink of an eye, and hovered outside.  She almost went in full Supergirl.  She sped back around and into the hallway, into her civilian clothes and opened the door.  Maybe Lena had left already.  No. She hadn’t.  Kara scanned her apartment and saw Lena was just finishing getting dressed. 

She walked into her room and stared.  Lena was a thing of beauty.  Her raven hair in a bun, dark lipstick popping, making her look irresistible.  Kara wanted to kiss it off her, push her back down onto the perfectly made bed and do sinful things to her.  She wanted to hear Lena moan her name again, have her beg.  Kara loved it when she begged. 

“Kara, hi,” Lena said, knocking Kara out of her daydream.

“Hi.”  Leaning in to get a kiss on the cheek.

“I thought you were going to be gone for longer?"

"I was supposed to but one of Alex’s friends has a day off so she’s looking after her, so I came back.  Expecting you to still be in bed.”

“Well I was going to leave and get breakfast, but now that you’re here, we can make breakfast.”  Lena suggested, wrapping her arms around Kara.

Kara could feel her face getting hotter.  All Lena did was give her a hug.  Maybe it was how domestic they seemed, “Yup.”  Kara nodded, grabbed Lena’s hand and pulled her into the kitchen.

They managed to not make a mess whilst making pancakes.  Kara wouldn’t dare get Lena’s outfit messy.  No way, the woman was impeccable.  Kara was fishing for her keys at the bottom of her bag, when Lena spoke.

 “Kara?”

“Yeah,” Kara looked up from her bag

“Can I ask you a favour?”

“Sure, what’s up?”

“Can you get me in touch with Supergirl again; I just wanted to ask her something.”

Crap, again?  Kara wanted to keep her interactions with Lena as Supergirl a minimum.  It was too suspicious.

“Sure okay, I’ll make sure she gets the message.”  Kara mumbled, looking for her keys again, this time to hide the panic on her face, heart beating faster.  She found them and locked the door.

They walked hand in hand down to Lena’s car, Kara falling a couple of steps back so she could appreciate Lena’s ass.  So when they got to Lena’s car, Kara pushed Lena up against it and gave her a quick, deep kiss, which left them both a little breathless.  Lena went red; it gave Kara a thrill, having this effect on Lena. 

“I’ll give you a call at lunch.  Bye” Lena said.

“Bye,”

Kara watched as Lena drove off in one direction, and Kara turned and walked in the other.  Her brain was wracking how she would pull this off.  Before they got together Supergirl could interact with Lena just fine, but now Lena had seen Kara with her glasses off, her hair down, oh god she should have picked a better disguise.  What kind of disguise are glasses and a hairstyle change.  It fooled mostly everyone else.  But Lena wasn’t everyone.   Lena was smart, beautiful, perceptive. Kara mentioned potstickers passingly and Lena served them at the gala for her.  Of course Lena knew she was Supergirl.  Then why didn’t she say anything?

Kara fretted all the way to work, where everything was hectic.  Snapper was pissed.  Apparently his ex-wife called asking for a favour and he didn’t take it well, so now, he was taking it out on everyone else.

Kara walked into his office, and Snapper looked up from his laptop.

“I don’t need whatever cock and bull story you’re gonna throw at me Danvers.  I need a full draft with sources.  I’m not holding your hand today.”  He threatened.

Luckily Kara had an article for him, all sources vetted, and she’d gotten better at being objective in her writing.

“No need, here is the story on the corruption in the fire stations.”

She reached into her bag, pulled it out and handed it to Snapper.  he looked up from his glasses, brows furrowed like he wanted to scream at her, but was on the edge of controlling himself.

“Sources?”

“Verified, eyewitness accounts and a quote from Supergirl when she showed up to stop them burning down another building.”

He looked at her, and then skim read the article.  He put it down.  Kara was holding her breath.

“It’s going to print.  Olsen wants to see you.”  He dismissed her.

That was the first time she didn’t have to go back and edit her story.  She was getting better at this.

She took the elevator up to James’ office and in there was Alex talking to James.

“Alex what are you doing here?”

She turned around and gave Kara a smile,

“Just wanted to talk to you, outside the DEO, and you’re always busy after work, I haven’t seen you properly for like a couple of weeks.”

Kara faced James who was hiding behind his computer. 

“Did you call me up here for this?”

“Umm maybe.  You guys need to talk.  I have a magazine to run.”  And with that he left the room.

“Ok.  Alex I need to tell you something.”  

“Sure,” she said sitting in one of the chairs in the office.

“I don’t know how to, but ummm, okay.” She stuttered.

“Kara, if you’re not ready, you don’t have to tell me,”

Kara was too in her own head, completely ignoring what Alex just said, so immediately after she blurted out “I’m dating Lena Luthor.”

Alex’s eyebrows shot up, then after a moment her face relaxed, and she broke out into a smile, stood up and hugged Kara.

“Okay.”

“No wonder you’ve been so happy, like happier than normal.  Does she know you’re Supergirl?”

“I don’t know, because last time she and Supergirl talked I was positive she didn’t know, and now that we’ve been dating and you know, we’ve, you know, and now she wants to talk to Supergirl again and I think she knows.”  Kara rambled pacing around the room.

“Kara, hey look at me.”  Kara stopped.

“You’ll figure this out.  I know you.  And I’m happy for you.”

Kara beamed at her.