Chapter 13
“You have abs,” Lena blurt out as soon as Kara opened the door, her eyes wide as she took in her friend. The blonde had been in the middle of changing her clothes when she heard Lena’s heart beat just outside of the door and forgot that she was only in her pants and a sports bra. “Since when did you get abs?” Kara just gave the girl a flat looking, causing the brunette to chuckle. “Alright alright, I’m done, but you seriously look hot. I guess those Kryptonian genes and the weeks spent in Gotham has worked well for you.”
“Yeah, I had a lot of fun,” the blonde replied, a bright smile on her face as she thought of Kate. “How was England?”
“It wasn’t bad,” Lena replied, plopping down on the couch. “I don’t know why people say it rains all the time. I mean it did a little bit but it wasn’t bad. It had a weird feel to it though, not gloomy or anything, just… I’m not sure, old maybe? Had an old feel to it if that makes sense.” She cast a critical eye over her friend and pouted slightly when she pulled her abandoned shirt on over her head. “Can I feel your biceps?”
“Lena!”
“What? You’re really buff, but not in like a overly buff, body builder kind of way, but like a lean, swimmer or dancer kind of way and I really just want to feel your muscles flex.” She stuck in lip out in a pout, one that she had picked up from the other girl over the past few years and Kara sighed.
“Fine.” She held out her arm and Lena squealed, running her fingers over the musculature in Kara’s arm. It was more of a clinical, curious prodding than anything sensual but it still had heat flooding the blonde girl’s cheeks which caused the brunette to cackled wickedly.
“I think it’s funny that despite how mature your body is becoming, you’re still this adorable, blushing puppy,” Lena giggled. “Though I can’t wait to see everyone’s reactions at school especially Lucy. She’s going to love the new you.”
“Lena,” Kara groaned out, falling back on the couch away from her friend.
“Considering how short she is and how tall you’ve gotten, she’s going to climb you like a tree-”
“Lena!”
“Alright, alright, I’ll stop,” the brunette smirked. “So you know what I did in England, history, work, science stuff, what did you do in Gotham? You were very secretive about that when we were texting, and it was extremely annoying.”
Kara grinned and sat back up, “I got to meet Batman and Batwoman, hangout in the batcave, and go crime fighting with Batwoman.”
Lena’s eyes widened and her mouth dropped open. “You’re lying.”
The blonde shook her head mischievously, “Nope, and Batwoman even taught a few things about fighting, being a hero.”
“That’s so awesome,” the brunette breathed, her eyes wide. “So you know who Batman and Batwoman really are?”
Kara bit her lip, “I do, I can’t tell you who Batman is, but I can tell you who Batwoman is if you want, she said it was okay. Besides she’s going to be in my life from now on, so it will probably be easier if you know.”
“Tell me!” Lena said, jumping over to shake the girl.
“Alright, calm down, Batwoman is Kate Kane,” Kara gasped out as Lena’s fingers started tickling her sides, “No don’t do that, don’t do that.”
“Kate Kane is Batwoman?” Lena yelled, her knees digging into Kara’s shins, “Kate freaking Kane? Really? She’s like a giant in the tech and business world, I mean she basically owns half of Gotham, wow… How does she have time to run around at night fighting bad guys and other various villains?”
“I have no idea. I mean she took some time off while I was there, but I listened in on a few of her meetings one time and she is like always busy, it’s crazy.” Kara shook her head, “Of course Mom is also always busy with meetings, her show, things like that, and taking care of Carter and I.”
“Me too, when I’m here anyway,” the brunette added before sighing. “I hope we’re that industrious when we’re that age.” Kara nodded in agreement and the two friends sat in silence for a few minutes before Lena spoke again. “Are your thigh muscles also super taut?”
“Lena!”
“Holy shit,” Lucy muttered quietly to herself as she spotted her younger blonde friend for the first time that day. It was the first day of the new term, the first day of her senior year and she was already swamped with classwork, homework, and extracurricular activities, and it was barely lunch time. She had missed the two younger girls she had befriended the previous year, Kara especially. Something about her was different, enchanting in an adorable, innocent kind of way. Lucy knew that she had a slight infatuation with the girl, and she knew that Kara definitely had a crush on her with the adorable stammering and blushing. But the girl was just a freshman, and she still looked so young so she never did anything about it, simply enjoying being friends with the girl.
That was until she had spotted Kara sitting in the cafeteria on the other side of the room at their usual table with Lena sitting next to her. The blonde was giggling and nodding at whatever her friend was saying to her, completely oblivious to the stares of everyone in the room as appraising and appreciative eyes glanced periodically back at their table. She couldn’t see much from her position, but she could tell that Kara hit a growth spurt over the summer and must’ve spent at least some time in the sun. Her hair had lightened even further to a pure honey blonde with bits of platinum highlights and her skin was kissed with a healthy, golden tan.
Lucy made her way back to the table, glaring fiercely at anyone who she caught staring. She was planning on going into the army to become a lawyer and with years learning from her father, she knew that she could put the fear of God into someone with her glare. She took pleasure in the few gawkers she caught leering stuttering in fear when they saw the look she was giving them and stumbled out of the cafeteria, their tails tucked between their legs. The gawkers were mainly guys though there were a few of the more brazen girls that she also sent running off with her glare. The majority of the girls in the room that were most definitely ogling the blonde sophomore were more subtle about it lest they face the rather of Lucy Lane. She turned her furious gaze back to where she was headed and her eyes were caught by the amused gaze of Lena Thorul. The girl had a smirk on her face and mirth was present in her eyes and Lucy knew that she was in trouble.
Lena nudged her friend in the arm and gestured behind her. “Lucy’s here Kara,” she muttered, barely containing the laughter that threatened to erupt from her chest.
Kara whirled around, her blue eyes landing on her other brunette friend and she smiled, standing up to embrace the older girl. “Oh sweet Jesus,” Lucy muttered when she saw and felt how much the girl had grown over the summer. Not only was she now at least a few inches taller than her, but her breasts had filled in and she has muscles everywhere. Not large, overly buff, but taut, tight muscles irradiated strength with every ripple, every moment. She felt Kara release her and a warm hand press against her forehead. “Are you alright Lucy?” Kara asked, concern written all over her face. “You’re face looks flushed, are you sick?”
“Oh yeah, she’s sick alright,” Lena muttered, a snicker escaping at the end of her words.
Lucy shook herself out of her daze and glared at the younger girl who merely smirked at her and returned to her lunch. “I’m fine Kara, really,” Lucy said, sitting down across from the blonde. She was half afraid that she would jump the girl if she sat next to her. The brunette prayed that the table provided a decent enough buffer between them. “So how were your summers?” She asked, glancing between the two sophomores.
“Summer program through Oxford,” Lena supplied, “I was there for eight weeks, only got back to National City in August and stayed with Kara a few weeks before moving back into the dorms. It was pretty good once I got back, we spent a lot of time at the beach.” A wicked grin crossed Lena’s face, “Even managed to talk her into a bikini.”
The other brunette’s brain short-circuited as the image floated through her mind, derailing any attempt at conversation she thought about making. “Lena,” Kara shushed her friend. They had gone to the beach pretty much every day in August leading up to the start of the school year and Kara had worn a bikini, but the beach they went to was a secluded one a few hours up the coast that she had flown both of them to, utilizing the practice she had received from Kate at learning to fly undetected. It was a nice beach, basically a small strip of sand surround by cliffs and forest, completely unreachable except for by water. She didn’t want Lena to accidentally spill about that part of their beach trips.
“Wha, um, sounds like fun,” Lucy sputtered a bit. Oh god, what is wrong with me? “So, Kara, how did you spend your summer, other than clearly working out judging by the firm muscles you’re now sporting.” Stop talking Lucy, just shut-up.
Kara blushed and glanced down at the table, shyly tugging at the sleeves of her shirt. “Ah, um, I spent July in Gotham with a new friend and an old colleague of mom’s. June was more of a family month as all three of us did stuff together when Mom wasn’t working.”
“That must’ve been nice,” Lucy murmured, envy coloring her tone. It had been a long time since her family had done anything together, not with her father’s job and she at boarding school for most of the year. “Why Gotham though?”
“Um, Mom, er, Cat asked one of her colleagues to teach me some self defense moves so that I’ll be able to, you know, defend myself in the future.” She hesitated slightly with her answer, not liking to lie, but she realized that it was basically the truth, just not the whole truth. Self-defense lessons, beach, probably included swimming, that explains the toned physique, Lucy thought to herself, a light smile on her face. “What did you do over the summer?” Kara asked, drawing the brunette’s attention again.
“Oh, boot camp, basically what I do every summer,” Lucy replied, rolling her eyes. “Dad said it would looked good to the recruiters at West Point, and I spend a lot of time during the school year doing activities and internships so I don’t really need them over the summer.”
“So you’ve settled on West Point then,” Lena said, having gotten control of herself once it seemed that Lucy was over her shock at seeing the new Kara. It was endearing, hilarious and better than she could’ve hoped for, but the future army officer and lawyer seemed to recover quickly so Lena had to as well.
“West Point, then Harvard and then into basic training and officer’s school,” the other brunette replied, nodding her head. “With a degree in Defense and Strategic Studies from West Point and a Law degree from Harvard, I should progress pretty quickly and get placed in JAG in no time, which is what I want.”
“So no combat for you then?” Kara questioned.
Lucy shook her head, “No. I mean, if I’m deployed, I’m deployed, but that’s a lot of moving around and that’s the life my father shoved me into before putting me in boarding school here and I don’t want to do that anymore. I want to join the military, just not the nomadic lifestyle.” Kara thought about her aunt, a high-ranking member of the military guild, and how she would rarely see her when she was sent to the cities of Krypton to check the garrisons or when out on deployment. It was hard not seeing her favorite aunt for months on end and she could sort of understand where Lucy was coming from. “So what about you two?” Lucy asked, breaking Kara out of her thoughts, “I know that you’re both sophomores but you have to at least thought about where you want to go for college.”
“Mom has talked to me about it a little,” Kara admitted, “She wants me to look all over the world, anywhere I want to go, but I want to stay in National City. National City University is basically an ivy league school, and it has an amazing fine arts program if I want to pursue that or other things…”
“Other things?” The older girl asked.
Kara shrugged shyly, “English, creative writing, journalism maybe. Mom said I don’t need to take after her and go into journalism, but she took me in, adopted me, gave me a home, I feel like I kind of owe her a little.”
“That might be a conversation you’ll have to have with your mother then,” Lucy said before turning to Lena. “What about you? Plans of world domination?”
Lena scoffed, “Too much paperwork. I’m planning to go to MIT, though I might have to Yale since it’s a family thing. Unlike you two it isn’t fully up to me where I go.”
“You’re family really sucks Lena,” Lucy muttered before starting in on her food. Kara and Lena glanced at each other momentarily before setting in on their own food. It was still kept from common knowledge about Lena’s family, though with the way some of the professors treated Lena it was suspected that they knew. Lena had originally thought that the students knew as well and that’s why they avoided her, but it was typical teenage things that kept others away, misplaced jealousy, wariness, ideas of self-importance. If only Lucy knew how true her statement was though, especially with Lex’s growing outspokenness about Superman and aliens on Earth. Despite loving her brother and appreciating how he welcomed her into the family when she was adopted years ago, she didn’t agree with his views, especially once she learned about Kara and who she was. It was hard for her to be colored with the same brush, to bear the weight of her family name, but at least she had a secondary family in Kara, Carter and Ms. Grant.
“Well, it was good catching up with you two, but I’ve got to go meet up with some of my other friends,” Lucy said, pushing away from the table. Her eyes fell back on Kara, drifting from her bright blonde hair and brilliant blue eyes to her toned body causing her mind to short circuit again. “Um, right, bye, I’ll see you guys later.” She turned and hurried away, shooting glares at people she caught staring at Kara again.
“She has it bad,” Lena sniggered, cackling slightly.
“She’s just a little frazzled from the beginning of the school year,” Kara defended, “It is her last year.”
“Uh huh, and it has nothing to do with her eying you like you like someone on a diet who just caught sight of the most delicious sundae ever.”
Kara blushed and gave her friend a chiding look, “Lena…”
“Girl wanted to have you for dinner and dessert.”
The blonde groaned and turned back to her lunch, she wondered if her face would ever return to its normal color.
“Hey Kara,” Lucy called, jogging lightly down the hallway to catch up with the blonde. School had been in session for about a month and everyone had settled into the schedule of the new year. She had spotted Kara when she was on her way to cheer practice and her gaggle of admirers gathered around her as she headed towards her own club activities. The sight made Lucy’s blood boil, causing her to call out to the younger girl.
Kara turned when she heard her name and beamed at her friend. The brunette shot glares at the people around her, causing them to scatter to leave the two alone. “Hi Lucy,” Kara greeted, reaching out to hug her friend. “What’s up? Don’t you have cheer practice?”
“I do, I just…” She was having difficulty thinking with Kara’s hands on her arms and her concerned blue eyes staring at her. “Um…” Lucy shook her head slightly to knock out her hazy thoughts and glanced back up to meet Kara’s eyes, “I was wondering if you wanted to get dinner, with me, tonight.”
Blue eyes lit up and Lucy was struck speechless. “I would love to,” the blonde replied, “Do you want to meet up somewhere?”
“No huh, no I’ll pick you up, 7:30 sound good?”
“You know where I live?”
Lucy blinked, “Uh, no, I’ll probably need that information to pick you up.” Kara giggled and gave the other girl her address before they both headed to their club activities. The blonde met up with her best friend after finishing up with art club and they headed to the library to work on some homework.
“You want to hangout tonight? Junk food and movies?” Lena asked, pulling out her AP biology textbook.
“I can’t, Lucy asked me out to dinner,” Kara replied as she started taking notes for her English class. She heard a strangled noise come from her friend and before she could glance up, she was seized by her shoulders. “Wh-what?” She sputtered out, seeing the wide eyes of her friend.
“Lucy asked you out for dinner,” Lena stated, her eyes hard. “Lucy, asked you out for dinner. ”
“Yeah, she stopped me before art club and she asked if we could get dinner later, she’s going to pick me up.”
Glee and excitement filled Lena’s eyes and Kara stared at her friend in confusion. “Stop being such a dope, she asked you out on a date,” Lena squealed, receiving a harsh shush from the librarian. ‘Sorry’ she mouthed at the older woman before turning back to her friend.
“A date?” Kara squeaked, “No, it’s not a date, just dinner between two friends.”
“Uhuh, and what were you doing when she walked up to you?”
“I was just heading to art club, and I was talking with a few of the people from my classes and Lucy called out to me.”
“Right, it was more like you were being followed by your admirers and Lucy saw and got pissed so she decided to mark her territory,” Lena murmured, leaning back in her seat. When it looked like Kara was about to protest, she just waved her hand to cut Kara off. “She asked you out to dinner, said she’d pick you up, it is totally a date.”
Kara made to protest again but Lena’s words slipped in her mind and she actually started considering them. Her eyes widened when she came to the same conclusion that Lena did. “Oh Rao, I have a date with Lucy tonight!”
“You do! Oh you need to go, you need to call your mom, get ready.” Lena started scrambling, shoving Kara’s books back in her bag and grabbing her own. She grabbed Kara’s arm and tugged her towards the library door, and the blonde had to remind herself to shift with the movement due to the abruptness of Lena’s actions.
“Wh- Lena?”
“You have to go home and get ready for your date,” Lena stated firmly, “And you should probably call your mom and let her know, plus you might want to ask if her you can go, but you can’t just dally here.”
“But Lucy’s not going to pick me up for another few hours.”
“Right, so you don’t have much time, so you better be quick about it.” The brunette shooed her away and Kara hurried home, using a bit of her super speed to reduce the amount of commute time.
The second she reached the penthouse, she pulled out her phone and dialed her mother’s number. “Come on Mom, pick up the phone,” Kara muttered, pacing frantically. Cat had put Carter in preschool and daycare that year since Meredith had finished school and accepted a job at an elementary school closer to her parents so the blonde was alone at home. She was grateful for that at the moment since she didn’t want Carter worrying about her.
Just before Kara was going to hang up, she heard the dial quit ringing and her mother’s voice through the phone. “Kara? What’s wrong?”
“Mom I, I have a problem,” Kara started, her mind whirling.
“What’s wrong? Aren’t you still at school? Did something happen?”
“I’m at home, something happened.” She could already hear the panic in her mother’s voice so she pressed forward, “Date I got, um, I mean, huh…”
“Kara, breathe, words.”
The blonde took a deep breath, “Lucy asked me out on a date, tonight, she’s supposed to pick me up at 7:30. I need permission to go, and then I need help, I don’t know what I’m doing.”
Cat was quiet for a few minutes before she answered, “I’ll be home in half an hour, I have to finish up here and pick up Carter from daycare. Take a shower, wash your hair, extra conditioner, make sure you zap your legs and thank good genes that you don’t grow hair under your arms.”
“Does that mean that I can go?”
“Yes you can go on the date, but I am having words with Lucy before you two go anywhere.”
“Mom…”
“Don’t ‘mom’ me, I don’t hear you racing to the shower.”
“I’m going, I’m going, see you soon Mom!” Kara squeaked out, hanging up the phone and rushing to her bathroom. She pulled off her clothes, narrowly avoiding ripping her shirt when she heard the seam whine as she tugged it off her head. Turning the water on, Kara jumped in, instantly sticking her head under the cool stream to soak her long hair. She grabbed one of the extra bottles of conditioner her mother started stocking once she realized that flying and super speed was murder on her hair.
She finished her shower after washing and conditioning her hair and turned the water off. Kara glanced down at her legs and grimaced; she could see the stubble growing in, hard and prickly. She was grateful that unlike humans she only grew hair on her head, arms and legs, but figuring out how to shave her legs was difficult when she decided to start shaving them. Her classmates in high school, including Lena, all started shaving their legs at a young age, and it was one of the ways that she wanted to fit in. Cat figured out she could style her hair with a strong pair of titanium scissors, but she had to learn to use her heat vision on her legs. She zapped both of her legs and slathered body butter on them knowing that the heat would’ve dried out her skin.
A knock sounded on the door as soon as she finished rubbing her legs and Cat’s voice came through the door. “Kara?”
“Just a minute,” the blonde replied, spinning a towel around her body and twisting her hair into a different one. She opened the door and found Cat staring there, her hands on her hips and her brow raised.
“Well you can’t wear that, come along Kara, I’ll help you sort that out and you can tell me how Lucy asked you out.”
“I didn’t even know it happened until later when Lena told me,” Kara stated ruefully as she followed her mother into her room. The two talked while Cat helped the girl pick out something to wear, briefly taking a break to feed Carter his dinner. Kara was fixing her hair when the doorbell rang and Cat left to answer it.
The older blonde left Kara to finish getting ready and checked on Carter who was sitting in front of the TV entranced by the cartoons dancing across the screen. She schooled her features before she opened the door. This was her daughter’s first crush, her first date; Cat wanted her face to be a mixture of welcoming and ‘I’ve made senior military officers cry’ without it being obvious that that’s what she was going for. Relaxing her posture to appear more casual but still intimidating, Cat opened the door, finding a wide-eyed Lucy Lane staring back at her.
She assessed the younger Lane, letting her eyes run over her form in a scrutinizing fashion but also curious. Lois had mentioned that she had a younger sister when they were working together at the Daily Planet, but she hadn’t gone into too much detail about the girl. From what she could tell, they weren’t close since the younger brunette had moved around with her father since their mother had died while Lois remained in Metropolis. Apparently the General found that too difficult and had placed the girl in boarding school while he was on assignment. Cat could see why Kara developed a crush, but also why it didn’t register with her that Lucy and Lois were relating, they didn’t look anything alike. Where Lois took after her father in appearance, Lucy clearly resembled her mother.
“I, huh, Miss Grant, hi, I didn’t um,” Lucy stuttered for a moment before firming her spine. “Hello Miss Grant, I’m Lucy Lane, I’m here to pick up Kara.”
“So I hear,” Cat replied, stepping aside to let the girl in the penthouse. “I could start by asking what intentions you have towards my daughter, seeing as you’re what, seventeen and she’s fifteen but I don’t think I need to do that do you?” Green stared into green as the older woman sized up the younger, “I think you know how special Kara is and you know better than to hurt her.”
Lucy shook her head emphatically, “I definitely don’t want to do that. I mean, we’re young so it’s not serious serious but um…”
Cat couldn’t help but to chuckle at the younger girl, “Relax Lane, I don’t expect you to marry her, I just want to make sure that you treat Kara well, and that my daughter does the same thing for you.”
The brunette let out a barely perceptible sigh of relief and Cat smirked at the sound. Kara walked into the room and shot her mother a withering look, which the older woman ignored. She was used to Kara listening to basically everything in the house unless she specifically told her not to listen; if she happened to overhear something that she didn’t like, it would teach her to stop listening into other people’s conversations as much.
“Hi Lucy,” Kara greeted shyly, tucking her blonde hair behind her ear, a nervous habit she'd picked up over the years.
“Hi Kara,” the brunette replied with just as much nervousness in her voice. “You look great.” The blonde had decided on a nice pair of jeans and a peasant style blue top that Cat said matched her eyes. Kara smiled at Lucy’s words and hugged the older girl, getting a closer look at her outfit as she did.
“Thanks,” she said, releasing the girl. “You look great too.” Lucy had on dark jeans that were frayed slightly on the knees, keeping up with the style of the time. She had a simple red top on that made the slight reddish tinge in her hair stand out, and a black leather jacket completed the look.
“Mhm, yes, we all look nice don’t we,” Cat murmured, humor lacing her tone as both girls jumped, forgetting that she was there. “Now both of you be safe, Lucy make sure she’s home by 11:00, no later.”
The brunette nodded, “Yes Miss Grant, come on Kara.” She reached out her hand to grab the younger girl’s, “I figured we could get some dinner and then there’s a concert in the park, folk music mainly, but the instruments make beautiful sounds.”
“Sounds great,” Kara replied as the walked out the door. “I hope you picked a place that serves a lot of food, because I eat a lot.”
Lucy smiled at the girl with fondness in her eyes and squeezed her hand, “Oh I know, but don’t worry, the place I picked does serve a lot of food, and it’s not super fancy. Plus, there are vendors in the park if you need a snack to feed that bottomless pit you have. I don’t even know how you manage to eat that much food.”
“High metabolism,” Kara blushed, “I uh, I work out.”
The older girl’s traitorous eyes gave Kara a quick once over before she blushed slightly and turned her attention back down the hallway. “I can tell.”
Green eyes tracked her prey as he flew high above the streets of Metropolis, keeping to the shadows to avoid detection by the blue and red clad figure. She winced slightly at the brightness of the costume, the flashy, primary colors standing out in the darkness. A small part of her mind registered that she used crimson on her own suit, but that created a different effect combined with black than the bright red and blue of the super powered hero. Kate only hoped that if Kara decided to don a suit, she would pick different colors, or at least ones that aren’t so bright. The moment the thought entered her mind, she shook it off; if anyone would be able to pull off bright colors, that girl could.
Batwoman turned her attention back to the man flying over head, and she pulled out one of the toys that Bruce had let her ‘borrow.’ It was a small remote controlled drone, a smaller version of the bombers starting to be used by the military. It had a camera on the front that streamed to the screen on the remote so that she would be able to control it and see where it was going. Drones like this had yet to be developed for civilian use, but Bruce had been curious about the technology and developed one of his own, making it smaller and improving the range so that he could possible use it in his role as Batman. Since he’s semi-retired, Kate has taken to borrowing the Bat-drone when she wanted to, and seeing how its purpose tonight was of extreme importance, the man had gladly let her borrow it.
She held in a slight cackle as she zeroed in on her target, and pressed another button on the controller, releasing the weapon of the drone. A large glob of green paint sailed through the air and hit the back of Superman’s head. He whirled around to face the drone, but Kate was already firing again, this time hitting him right in the middle of his face. I might not be able to confront you for being a jerk to Kara, Kate thought as she maneuvered the drone, but I can still get payback.
Superman’s eyes lit up in anger under the green paint, and Kate activated the backwards camera and took the superhero on a chase above Metropolis. She took the drone down so that it was weaving around the city, silently thanking Bruce that he had the foresight to power up the motors to reach higher speeds on the small device. She knew in a straight confrontation between the drone and Superman, the Kryptonian would quickly catch the device and destroy it, but she never claimed to play fair.
She used the lights of Metropolis buildings and streets combined with the shadows to confuse his X-Ray vision as she hid the drone around buildings and continued to pelt the man with green paint. Kara had told her all about her powers and some of the problems she had noticed with them that she was trying to overcome, and Kate was using that insider knowledge to her advantage to annoy Metropolis’s wonderboy.
By the time Superman had given up on chasing the drone, Kate had run out of green paint to pelt at him because it was covering the other superhero. She could see him glaring at the drone through the camera, and she had to fight to keep down the snicker as she let out another stream of paint, this time red as it coated his chest in the shape of a bat symbol. Kate directed the drone back to Gotham and returned to her bike, hitting the highway to take the bridge back across the bay. She’d be back to annoy him another day, it was no less than he deserved. A large grin crossed her face at the thought of the pictures that would be splashed across the news tomorrow. Cat Lady better be appreciative of the things I do for her, Kate thought, also hoping that the pictures would make Kara smile.
Kate directed the drone as she drove, directing it to the roof of her building so that she could pick it up when she returned. She retrieved the drone, backing it away in her basement lair before returning to the penthouse, shedding her costume as she collapsed in bed. When she woke the next morning and turned on the news as she started breakfast, smirking as the pictures of a paint splattered Superman crossed her screen. It didn’t surprise her that the station running the pictures was the Gotham City News, currently being rebranded as the CatCo station in Gotham. The woman managed to purchase it from Bruce, who was a majority shareholder.
It was a three hour time difference between Gotham and National City, and while she knew that Kara always woke up with the dawn and Cat was also likely to wake up early, neither would be up at four in the morning. Kate finished her breakfast, the image of Superman covered in green and red paint popping up in her mind as she ate. She cleaned up in the kitchen and got ready to head down to the office to start her day. Just as she was getting ready to take the elevator down, a chime on her phone alerted her to a text message. Checking the device, she saw it was from her favorite talk show host and budding media mogul.
Nice job with taking Superman down a peg or two.
Kate smirked at Cat’s words, I take it that you approve?
Yes, it was quite funny when my division chief in Gotham alerted me of the story, Metropolis is being strangely silent for some reason.
Can’t imagine why.
Kara will be up soon and since the picture is all over the news, she’ll no doubt call you. She also had her first date last night, so make sure she tells you everything. She didn’t tell me anything of course other than coming home and squealing that she had such a good time.
The red-haired woman’s face lit up with a wide smile. There are some things that you don’t talk about with your mother Cat.
Right after she sent the text, her phone started ringing and Kara’s face appeared on the screen. “Kara hey,” Kate greeted. She listened with a fond smile on her face as the girl babbled about how funny ‘Kal-El’ looked covered in paint, and thanking her for making her feel better. The older girl waited until Kara took a breather in her babble before directing it to a different conversation. “So I heard you went on a date last night?” She couldn’t contain her laughter at Kara’s squeak and a new round of babble starting, this one centered around Lucy Lane and the ‘most awesome’ first date she’s ever had.