Chapter 5
Six.
Carter smiled at the security feed on Winn’s screen, seeing his mom and Kara sitting on Kara’s jumper in the elevator. They’d been in there for half an hour now, sitting in the dark. Because the lights were off, his mom couldn’t see the arms of Kara’s supersuit – but Carter could, and suddenly his mission became even more important, because if there was one thing he knew for certain about his mother, it was that she had a crush on Supergirl, just like him. The icing on the cake was the fact that his mom was in love with Kara, too. It was perfect.
“How we doing, buddy?” Winn asked. Carter smiled.
“Good. They’re sitting down now. Did you head off the police and the elevator mechanics?”
“Done and done – I explained the device in the control panel as a way for me to remotely hijack the elevator in the event that someone like Livewire takes control, which is actually true, and I’ve sent an email to maintenance saying Miss Grant said to leave it later tonight, after no-one’s using them all, in case someone gets stuck inside.” Winn grinned, Carter grinning back before looking back to the camera feed.
Behind them, James felt a buzzing in his pocket. Glancing at them, he took his cell out of his pocket, looking at the screen.
LUCY: Can you tell me what Winn’s up to?
James put his phone on absolute silent before sneakily crossing his legs, hiding his phone from view, texting her back.
JAMES: He and Miss Grant’s son, Carter, are trapping Kara in an elevator with Miss Grant in an attempt to set them up. They’re been stuck in one for half an hour now. Patiently, he waited for Lucy’s reply – but was shocked and a tiny bit hurt at her reply.
LUCY: Is that it? Winn could have just said. A few seconds later, Winn’s phone started ringing. He answered it, putting it to his ear.
“Lucy?” He paused, glancing at James. “Oh, yeah, uh- wait, what?” There were another few seconds of silence as Lucy spoke, and then a smile flashed on Winn’s face. “Sure. Though there’s not much to do – just make sure Supergirl isn’t needed any time soon.” Pause. Winn rolled his eyes. “Yeah, I’ll phone you if they make out. Bye.” He took the cell from his ear, hanging up before looking to Carter. “That was Lucy. She wants to help.”
Carter motioned to the screen, “There isn’t much more to do. We’ve just got to wait them out.”
Winn nodded, “Yeah.” James made a noise of discontent.
“You can’t keep them in there forever, you know.”
“We know,” Winn replied, “Kara’ll need food soon. She hasn’t had anything since lunch.”
“How much does Kara eat?” Carter questioned.
“Over twenty-thousand calories is apparently what she should be eating, but she’s been trying to cut back recently, what with her apartment rent going up. She spends a lot of money on food.”
“Cool – no wonder she ate like, six pizzas in one sitting last time she babysat me.”