Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

Call Me Kara

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 12:

“Why exactly are we up here again?” the Flash asked his friend and sometime partner. The two were perched on a roof across form a karaoke bar that Team Flash had frequented recently.

“Isn’t this what you do at night? Patrol?” the Arrow asked. Oliver had seemed irritated, more than usual, ever since the ladies had left the lab. Kara was gorgeous of course, wearing a red strapless dress that thankfully wasn’t too short. The Flash had all the confidence in the world. Barry Allen had doubts about what others would think seeing him dating the equivalent of a blonde fitness model. He didn’t think he was worthy of her, although he had dated attractive women before, just none in her league.

“Yeah I guess sometimes I patrol but I usually do it running around the city, not hiding out on rooftops. Besides we have been on this rooftop for the past hour.”

“Then go patrol the way you want and I will do what I want. We aren’t on a date Barry.”

“Thats good to know because if we were you would be a terrible date. I think that the girls can take care of themselves. There is no reason for us to be up here. Felicity would be seriously…”

Barry stopped talking when Oliver’s hooded, masked countenance fell on him.

“Hey you want to stalk, I mean patrol the rooftops near your girl thats fine with me. But if an actual emergency happens or…”

“You’re a superhero, so go be a superhero. I am not stalking. Your girlfriend doesn’t have her powers and this is a shady part of town. I don’t like Felicity to be without protection.”

“She has your sister and a former high ranking member of the League of Assassins with her. Seriously what the hell do you think will happen? Besides that, Kara isn’t helpless. Her sister trained her to fight, not just with her powers. She is in shape and can take care of herself and anyone else she needs to.”

“She is not strategic. She may have learned some moves from her sister, but she thinks like you. You rely on your speed and she relies on her strength. Her reflexes are probably as fast as yours, even if she can’t quite match your speed on the ground. If she is a fighter, and I have no doubt that her sister most likely did train her to an extent, she would have disarmed Savage of his one powerful weapon and taken him in hand to hand combat. He would not have survived. Instead she decided to engage him in a show of power, having no idea how powerful he was. It was a dumb move and one that nearly killed her. She could have easily taken that staff away and flown with him in seconds. Come to think of it, you could have taken that staff in less than a second. There was no reason she should have drained herself like that, if she had just thought about it.”

“Do you ever get tired of criticizing people with superpowers?”

“Do you ever get tired of having to watch her nearly die? What about you Barry? Zoom nearly killed you a couple times, Thawne nearly killed you. You need to learn to fight. Most of the enemies you have gone up against are bigger than you, maybe not taller but thicker, denser. You can use that as an advantage. Size has nothing to do with who wins a fight if both fighters know what they are doing. Look at Thea and Sara. I’ve seen both take down Digg before. Sara can take down anyone, man or woman it doesn’t matter. Thea is getting there. Laurel… Barry I don’t want to see you die. I’ve seen too many people I care about die. You need to learn to fight, to use your frame and speed to your advantage, not just rely on single punches that you need a five mile head start to throw.”

“I can’t exactly train with you Oliver. I can’t just fight slowly. Most of your techniques rely on speed and I can’t go halfway.”

“Maybe not but she could learn and the two of you could spar.”

“How is she going to learn to fight when she is faster and stronger than everyone?”

“Because she isn’t always. She isn’t right now.” Oliver pointed out.

“Thats temporary. She normally isn’t like this.”

“But she can be when she wants to be. You need to talk to her. If Thea is going to be in Central City for a time and Sara probably will be too, she needs to take advantage of that.”

“She can’t just turn her powers on and off.” Barry reminded him.

“Of course not, but she can use whatever it is that Stein is helping Cisco build so the two of you can have sex without breaking you in half, to turn her powers off. Then she can train, and once her powers are back on she trains you.”

“I suppose… wait what did you say? How the hell did you know about that? Did Cisco say something? Because I don’t know what that is all about!”

“No, Cisco didn’t say anything. Stein is helping Cisco develop something with red star solar rays. Red solar rays take away Kara’s powers. Kara looked like she wanted to murder Cisco when he mentioned talking to Stein. Why else would she want to get rid of her powers temporarily? It’s obvious. How did you not see it?”

“I suspected.” Barry lied. “I’ll talk to her about it if this theory you have about her wanting the bracelet is true.”

“I never said it was a bracelet.”

“Oh… are we really going to sit up here all night stalking Felicity?”

“I am not stalking her! I am protecting her!”

“From listening to bad singing? Oh wait Kara is about to sing. I can’t hear that great though. She has an amazing voice. I don’t feel like just sitting here watching people sing, sorta. I can’t even see her. Lets go get something to eat.”

“Eat? Do you ever think about anything besides food?”

“Yeah, since all this talk about solar powered sex bracelets started I’ve been thinking about other things quite a bit. But thinking about them on a rooftop alone with you is not something I am comfortable with so lets go find some metahumans or maybe see if Snart wants to play a round or two and have a little fun or get something to eat. Its too bad Harry is still gone. It would be fun to screw with him since he hasn’t actually ever met you.”

“Go have fun Barry. I’m staying here.”

“Dude have you considered that things may not work out?” Barry asked, not wanting to hurt Oliver but needing to know if he was just really protective after everything with Laurel or if was going off the deep end.

“What do you want me to say Barry? She is it for me. I don’t love easily. You loved Iris forever but you moved on. I can’t jump into another universe to find a girlfriend. No one understands me the way she does. She is the only person in my life that makes me believe I can be something more, that never looked at me as a murderer, or damaged, or heartless. She believed in me when I didn’t believe in myself. I know I hurt her and I should have trusted her. I get that but right now I am doing everything I can to make this right. But I worry. I have seen everyone I love die, including Sara who is sitting with them now, except for Thea and Felicity. I have no mission anymore Barry. I am tired. All of this, it has made me tired. If I can’t touch her then the least I can do is protect her and I will always be ready to give my life for my sister and her. They are the only reasons I have left to go on.”

“I understand…”

“And never, ever call me dude again.”

“Sorry. Look if you don’t want to go then I am going for a run. I don’t want Kara thinking I am stalking her when I am actually just helping you stalk Felicity. If you need me, if you run into trouble on top of a roof across from a karaoke bar, call Cisco and he will patch me into you.”

Barry took off with no destination in mind. He just wanted to run, to clear his head, to feel the wind, the vibrations of the Earth and the energy, the electricity, the rush he always felt running. He trusted Kara to be able to take care of herself but he wouldn’t go to sleep until she sent him her nightly text saying goodnight. She told him she did that after she turned out the lights for the night. Once she was in bed he would go to bed. He had to be at work tomorrow, using most of his sick days the past few days staying with Kara while she slept. She was okay now though. She may not have her powers but she wasn’t powerless. She was a fighter, a survivor, just like he was. Maybe neither one of them were ninjas or former assassins but they could take care of themselves.

Barry did admit to himself that learning a bit more fighting styles probably could have helped him in the past. Maybe he would start having a kung fu movie night with Kara.

At the bar, four women watched the one Central City and the world call Superwoman on stage, stumbling around a bit but her grip secure on the mic stand.

“I can’t believe this. She sounds like a professional singer even when she is drunk.” Cait complained.

“How many has she had?” Thea asked.

“She is halfway through her first Margarita. I think this is the first time alcohol has ever hit her non super powered system. The girl scout is going to feel it tomorrow,” Sara said, with way too much humor for Felicity’s liking.

“Don’t call her a girl scout. You don’t know anything about her except that she took out Vandal Savage and has saved a lot of peoples lives.” Felicity defended Kara immediately, being on edge to begin with by Sara’s sudden reappearance in her life. Things were tough enough with Oliver already. Felicity loved him and knew she had to find a way to make it work but Sara was a complication neither needed. Why couldn’t the woman go back in time again or something?

“I meant no disrespect. I like her. She is cute.”

“I’ve heard that before. Its not as flattering to hear as you seem to think it is.” Felicity started before Thea cut in, heading off a fight between her very good friend and probable future sister in law and the former assassin, also her brother’s ex.

“She’s coming back this way. If she looks like she is going to fall someone catch her.” Thea begged, not seated in a good position to do so herself.

Kara managed to sit back down with only minimal stumbling and an uncontrollable giggle.

“I love this place.” she told them and began finishing off her drink then asking the waitress for another one.

“So how did you learn to sing like that? Because you are amazing.” Felicity told her.

Kara snorted. “No big deal. When I first came here, I had to learn English right? Cuz alllll I spoke was my spooky alien language. You know, cause I’m an alien right? I hate that term. Makes people think of E.T. or those things that the Predators are always fighting. Or even worse the mean ones from Independence Day that sort of look like the ones the Predator fights. Oh and Predators too, I guess they are aliens. Why couldn’t I be called a Predator? Oh well, being a really cute alien I had to learn English but I picked it up pretty fast on account of being really smart. I mean Kryptonians are like really super smart… hehe, I said Super. Shhhh!”

Thea and Cait took a shot apiece of Tequila, listening to the drunk alien… Kryptonian ramble.

“Anyway when I was learning Alex had this idea that singing might help me pick up the language. I loved to sing on Krypton, my mother would sing with me all the time. Aunt Astra would sing me to sleep at night when I was really little. I guess since our solar cycle was nearly identical to yours I would have been three until she disappeared when I was twelve. Oh wait she didn’t disappear. My mother used me to catch her like I was bait. Yay Mommy. She got the bad guy… or girl. Her twin sister. My Mom was kinda judgmental I guess, being a judge and all. Thats why every alien on my old Earth wanted me dead. I never met any Predators but they would have probably wanted to kill me too. She was big on her prison and sending people there for longer than life. It was the phantom zone. No aging, no time, just an endless void. It was ridiculous. But unlike Iron Heights no one was escaping every ten minutes so I guess it had its advantages. But back to the point… what was the point? Oh yeah, singing helped me learn the language and it made me feel not so alone. When I first crashed Alex didn’t want a whole lot to do with me so I sang quietly to myself when the noises around me became to much. It was like sensory overload when I arrived so if I focused on music it became easier to deal with.”

“You and Alex are close?” Sara asked.

“Yes. I mean not at first, but yeah we became very close. She became my sister in every sense of the word that mattered. Even if she did some things that hurt me pretty badly. Not just killing my aunt either. Before that even started, she did some pretty crappy things but I loved her and her and Eliza were my only family since my Kryptonian blood relative decided he was too busy saving the world to help me grow up on a new world that I was sent to for the purpose of helping him. Don’t get me wrong though, I’m not bitter about it or anything.”

“You sound bitter. Trust me I have a copyright on bitterness and you are bitter.” Thea pointed out.

“No I’m not! Kal was great. He would always send me letters… and saw me at least once a month. We got closer as I got older. I’m not angry that he dumped me off on another family right after I landed. He did it because it was best for me and he knew the people, Eliza and Jeremiah had helped him with his powers and… okay I was a bit angry for a long time, just a small amount of anger but I love him.”

“Hey its fine. I love Ollie too but I want to kill him most of the time.” Thea told her, patting her hand from across the table.

“I’ll drink to that.” Felicity agreed taking a shot.

“Hey I want a shot.”

“No!” all four voices answered Kara. Kara pouted.

“Fine, just one.” Cait told her giving in. Kara squealed and then took a shot of Tequila.

“I’ve had alcohol before but never really understood the draw people had to it. Its a lot of fun like this. When Cisco and Dr. Stein finish my solar powered sex bracelet we are so going to party more. This is really fun.”

Sara hid the smirk on her face by taking a drink while the other three looked at Kara in shock.

“What?” the blonde heroine asked the group of gawkers, oblivious in her intoxication to the verbal flow of every thought she had being said out loud.

“What did you say Cisco is making you?” Thea asked, her smile widening.

“A bracelet with red sun rays. I think it will help me feel more human so I can, you know.”

“Get your groove on?” Felicity suggested, loving seeing Kara this open. She had been so conservative and sweet that seeing her becoming quickly intoxicated and less guarded was making this whole night worth it.

“So you and Barry haven’t had sex yet?” Thea asked to be clear.

“No, of course not. I mean its not because I don’t want to but, he’s the one, you know? I want to take it slow, make sure its right and that both of us…”

“How fast do you think Barry will be?” Thea asked Sara, who was drinking her beer constantly to stop from crying from laughter.

“I can’t believe you asked that.” Cailtin mumbled, taking another shot.

“I would say very fast, but since he has really quick recovery time it shouldn’t be a problem. He could probably go again and again and again.” Thea guessed. “I mean its going to get messy at first…”

“Whoa! TMI! Seriously forget I said anything about my solar powered sex toy!”

“Tell me about your sister Kara.” Sara suggested, wanting to save the blonde from Thea’s harassment. Cait and Felicity looked horrified at Thea’s analysis of Barry’s… potential as well.

“I love my Alex. Can I have another shot?” Sara poured her one before anyone could object. She had an idea and was personally invested in this. She hadn’t seen anyone fight with as much passion as this girl had in a very long time.

“I’m not sure what you want to tell me. I mean me tell me. No you… no what I tell you. Yeah, what do you want to know?”

“Anything. If you make it good I’ll tell you about the time Thea killed me.”

“You are never going to let that go are you?” Thea asked, wincing. She knew Sara understood she wasn’t in her right mind but the Canary loved to tease her about it now that enough time had passed.

“Wait if she killed you… nevermind. Thea you kind of look like Alex except not really. You both have short dark hair and can kick ass. Alex was a super secret agent for a long time. I didn’t find out until I became Super whatever. I kind of miss the skirt sometimes. I know it doesn’t sound as cool as leather pants but it was really easy to move around in.”

“Wait your sister was some sort of secret agent?So she must have been pretty proud of you when you started doing the hero thing right?” Sara asked.

“Oh Rao, no. She was soooo angry. Let me tell you what happened.”

The women sat in silence while they listened to a slightly, okay very drunk, Kara who had three more shots by the time the story was over. None were happy with what they heard but Felicity of course broke the silence.

“So not only did she lie to you about working for an agency whose purpose was to fight aliens, and using her knowledge of you to help, she told you she would have rather died than you save her from a plane crash? Screw the other people you saved, she was angry that you did it?”

“She was just worried that I became a target because of who my mother was I guess.”

“But you were going to a fire to help people and her agency shot you out of the sky with a dart they knew would weaken you. You crashed into a car! You could have been seriously injured. Then you wake up cuffed to a table and her asshole boss, who was actually another alien, brow beats you and tells you to go back to getting coffee?”

“Yeah…”

“And she just… oh my God I don’t see why you didn’t kill her.” Felicity mumbled.

“Sister relationships are hard. Believe me I know. Laurel and I had issues but we loved each other no matter what.”

Kara had stopped talking, trying to stay awake as the alcohol was making her drowsy. Still the analysis of her relationship was interesting.

“She loved me. She was just trying to protect me.”

“Protect herself is more like it.” Thea told her. “She admitted she was glad you decided to not use your powers because it made her feel better about herself. Then she gave you a message from your mother, who knows how long she had that thing? I mean this Martian guy definitely had it for a long time. You would think a guy who lost his whole world would feel a little sympathy and give you a message from your mother. And his whole promise to your foster father was to protect you and Alex but he let Alex fight aliens but didn’t want you, even though you had superpowers.”

“Its because of who my mother was.” Kara weakly defended.

“And he used your sisters knowledge of that to figure out ways to hurt Kryptonians. I could understand that right up to the point where they shot you down with a Kryptonite dart. I mean she couldn’t have come up to you before that and said hey I’m a secret agent who hunts aliens and my boss wants to talk to you? Instead you find out when you wake up cuffed in a strange place and she just walks up. You are a really sweet person Kara. I’m a nice person and I would have hurt her.” Felicity told her.

“You are not that nice of a person. You are a badass in your own right. I mean you did fight off a metahuman with an automatic rifle and used a lamp post to take out a robot composed of robotic killer bees.” Thea reminded her.

“This world is so weird.” Kara slurred. “I think I need air.” she stood up and moved towards the door. The rest of the women decided it was probably best to leave before Kara died of alcohol poisoning and they all had to explain it to Barry.

Felicity walked out, looked around and her eyes stopped on the roof of a nearby building. No one could see anything in the darkness but apparently she did.

“Oliver! I don’t feel like grabbing a cab. Bring the bike around.”

No one heard anything.

“I’m not kidding Oliver, get down here and give me a ride back to my apartment!”

A few moments went by until the group heard a motorcycle start up and a helmeted figure in green leather pulled up. Putting on the helmet Oliver handed to her, the two were off.

“Cait you mind if I stay with you tonight? Probably best not to be in the apartment tonight. They are either going to scream at each other all night or… worse. Make up.”

“Yeah thats fine. Ready Kara?” Cait asked.

“No. I don’t want to go home. I feel great. The air is making me feel better. Sara! Sara lets go do something!”

“Uh Kara…”

“It’s cool Caitlin. I got this.” Sara told her, grabbing Kara’s hand and walking off with her, as she stumbled along. Thea placed a comforting hand on Caitlin’s shoulder.

“She will be okay. Sara won’t let anything happen to her.” she comforted Caitlin as much as possible, trying to figure out why Sara was so accepting of the offer. She had to know how drunk Kara was. Caitlin reluctantly got into a taxi and the two left, leaving the former assassin, vigilante and the most powerful woman in the world alone on the streets of Central City. She thought of calling Barry and letting him know but didn’t. Kara was a grown woman.

A grown woman who had never really had alcohol before tonight. “I’m calling Barry.”

“No you aren’t. She will be fine, Cait. Sara will watch out for her. You don’t want to be the overbearing sister do you? I think she had one of those to last a lifetime.” Thea pointed out. Cailtin admitted she had a point. Although it was obvious the two loved each other, she could definitely see they had issues between them as well. Kara seemed to rely too much on Alex to the point that she would forgive her for anything and Alex seemed intent on being in control of Kara’s life. The love was strong between the two and because of that every betrayal and slight was that much more painful. Caitlin found herself sad that Kara would most likely never get the chance to mend things, improve things or even pick up where she left off with her sister. Her sister was most likely a mess not knowing if Kara lived or died and Kara was convinced her sister would have a better life and be safer if she wasn’t in it.

Caitlin needed another drink.

Kara and Sara walked in silence, the streets not surprisingly empty considering the neighborhood.

“Thanks for coming with me Sara. I wasn’t in the mood to go back yet. I know when I get there i will probably get sick and think about Alex and I’m just not in the mood tonight.”

“No problem. I never turn down the chance to hangout with another hot blonde.”

“Huh?”

“What? You didn’t know you were hot? You definitely are. I’ve been wanting to get to know you better since the first time I saw you locked in combat with Savage. I loved your outfit by the way. The blue leather one I mean.”

“Its not actually leather its… I can’t remember. Barry knows.”

“Well it looked great on you. Very flattering.”

“Thanks?”

“No thanks needed. I just appreciate an attractive woman when I see one, human or Predator. So you and Barry are serious huh?”

“What? Oh yeah, very serious. Why? You are with Captain Cold guy right?” Kara asked, not feeling quite right. Sara was acting differently now that they were away. Her eyes were sort of running up and down Kara’s body.

“I suppose you could say that, but we aren’t exclusive. I need variety. I’m bisexual and love women as much as men, maybe more. The longest relationship I have ever had was with a woman named Nyssa. Have you ever thought of being with a woman Kara?”

“What!? No, uh not that there is anything wrong with that, its just I’ve never personally you know, with anybody but I think I’ll stick with Barry. No other needed, male or female. Not that its a bad thing. I think its great that you are so open minded…”

Kara stopped rambling when Sara started laughing. “You are so cute when you are uncomfortable. I’m sorry, that was mean but I couldn’t help myself.”

Kara let out a breath. Her panic had nearly made her sober. Not quite though.

“So you aren’t…”

“Oh no I am bisexual but I would never make a move on the Flash’s woman. I just wanted to have a little fun with you. So what do you want to do? Find a seedy bar and watch me beat up some guys?”

Kara admitted another drink couldn’t possibly hurt her more but the idea of watching a fight and being too drunk to be involved did not appeal to her. Then she saw it.

“I want to go there.”

“No you don’t.” Sara told her immediately.

“Yes I do.”

“No you don’t.”

“C’mon Sara, just one? It will go away when the rest of my powers return. I think my skin can still be punctured. How many opportunities will I get?”

“Drunken tattoos are a huge cliche Kara,. You don’t want to do this.”

“I do. I can enjoy it for a while. Besides I don’t need your permission.”

“I could touch you on your neck and you would lose consciousness immediately. A call to Barry and you are safely tucked away in five minutes.”

Kara admitted she had a point.

“Please?”

“Damn your puppy dog eyes.” Sara growled. An hour later Kara walked out, definitely sober now, not ever imagining getting a tattoo could hurt that badly. She did love it though. On her left shoulder blade was a tattoo perhaps four inches tall and three wide of the symbol of the House of El with a lightning bolt through it. They were apparently becoming quite popular in Central City.

“I admit it looks good. But are you sure it will go away when your powers return?”

“Pretty sure. I mean my powers haven’t completely returned and the solar lamps healed my burns and other injuries. I doubt this will stay.”

“But it isn’t an injury, its ink now.”

Kara shrugged her shoulders and then winced. She was glad she had worn a strapless dress tonight but part of it still covered her saran wrapped tattoo that still burned despite the lotion on it.

“If it doesn’t I don’t care. I like it.” Kara told her.

“Can I ask you a personal question?” Sara asked.

“Of course.”

“You left in a hurry obviously from your old Earth. You didn’t get to bring anything but the suit you had on. Is there anything back there you would want here? Some things you can’t live without?”

“I guess there isn’t anything I can’t live without. I mean my mother gave me a necklace that I always wore. I didn’t have it on that day and wish to Rao I still had it. It was my only real contact with her, you know?”

Sara nodded. Her family was important to her as well. So many times she had thought she would never see them again and then losing Laurel…

“Anything else?”

“My paintings. I used to love to paint. I painted my memories of Krypton, the landscapes, the buildings. We had the most beautiful buildings and temples .Oh and the message my mother put in my pod that the DEO took. The one Alex showed me? I had this AI program that was in her image but after speaking to that thing for a little while I came to see it as a computer program playing a sick joke on me. It wasn’t my mother and I let myself believe it was once too often. It began to hurt when I saw her… it. But the first message? That was my mother. I would imagine Alex has probably taken it all to keep as a remembrance. I doubt my apartment is there, or at least empty. I mean why would it be? I’m pretty sure I have been evicted by this point.”

“You never know. Hey, stay behind me.” Sara told her, placing a hand on the woman, pushing her behind. Kara looked over Sara’s shoulder and saw a man in a mask approaching, not a superhero mask either.

He pulled a gun and aimed it at Sara.

“Sara Lance?” his muffled voice asked.

“Who wants to know?”

“You’ve been targeted for death. Nothing personal.”

Without thinking Kara tossed Sara to the ground and her eyes lit up hitting the gun, melting it immediately. The man dropped it, grabbing his hand in pain until he was held in the air by his throat. Kara had him and she was very angry.

“Kara stop!” Sara yelled. Kara turned to look at her and saw the Canary was smiling.

“Can you put me down please?” the man asked, his voice squeaking from the pressure on his throat.

Kara let him down and the man pulled his mask off.

Sara introduced the two. “Meet Lenny, or Captain Cold as your boyfriend knows him. Lenny this is Kara Zor El. Last daughter of Krypton and the one woman you do not want to mess with.”

“You didn’t tell me she would melt the gun! That hurt!”

“Sorry. I honestly didn’t know what she would do. The gun wasn’t loaded, Kara.”

Any lingering alcohol in Kara’s system burned out the minute her full powers returned.

“Why the hell would you do this?!” she asked Sara, hotly. Kara was not amused.

“You needed your powers back or you were going to have a massive hangover. Short of throwing someone down an elevator shaft I couldn’t think of anything else.”

“I hate guns!”

“I know. Thats why I asked Lenny to do this. I knew you would save me. Its who you are. Sorry I freaked you out but I couldn’t think of any safer way to do this.”

“If you are angry I would like to remind you that this was her idea and I have already been burned because of it. Take your frustrations out on her.” Cold remarked.

Kara glared at Sara then her eyes lightened up at the smile gracing the Canary’s face.

“You are devious.” she admitted.

“And you are a hero. You ready to fly back, or you want to try and catch a cab this late?”

Kara let out a breath and gave up trying to be angry. She had to admit as crude as Sara’s method was it worked.

“Fine. I guess its time to go back to the real world. So you are Captain…”

Leonard was gone.

“Yeah he took off while you were considering burning me. Self preservation is one of his most admirable qualities.”

“Well it was fun having a tattoo while it lasted.” she admitted. Sara walked behind her and stifled a giggle.

“What?”

“Oh babe, that tattoo hasn’t gone anywhere. The good news is it looks really hot. The Flash is going to love it. Just make sure you figure out a way to make him get one too.”

“What if he doesn’t like it?” Kara asked worried. The idea that she had a tattoo that wouldn’t go away… what would her mother think? What would Eliza think? What would Alex and Kal…

“It doesn’t matter.” she said to herself. The people she thought about would never see her again. Who she was here was not who she was there. It was different, she was different and what she thought was the only thing that mattered. And right now she thought her tattoo was pretty awesome.

Cait was less than enthused when Kara arrived home, Sara in tow.

“You let my drunken best friend get a tattoo?!”

“I couldn’t stop her.”

“Yes you could have!”

“I like it.” Kara admitted sheepishly.

“See? She likes it.”

“It doesn’t matter. The point is she wasn’t thinking clearly because she was drunk! If you weren’t an assassin I would so hurt you right now. How did she get her powers back?”

“She is right here Cait. As far as my powers, it was like I told you, I just needed a shot of adrenalin.”

Caitlin turned back to Sara, who was leaned against a wall, arms crossed and grinning.

“What did you do Sara?”

“She had Captain Cold pull a gun on her. I melted the gun because I thought he was going to kill her. So… yeah. I was pretty mad but she was right. It was effective.”

Caitlin’s anger boiled over and any caution about angering the famous Canary was gone.

“She is terrified of guns! You know what happened!”

“Which is why I knew it would work and it did. You’re welcome. What were you going to do? Give her a pep talk?”

“One day you may need me to save your life. Just remember that.” Caitlin reminded her.

“I’ve been dead before. It never sticks. I had fun tonight ladies. Hope we can do it again soon, when you get your solar powered sex toy working, Kara.”

Kara’s face turned red. “I can’t believe I said that. I am never getting drunk again.” Sara walked out,shaking her head, promising herself that wouldn’t be true. Drunk Kara was a lot more fun than sober Kara.

Caitlin hugged Kara as soon as the door was closed on Sara. “I’m sorry. I should have gone with you. I will figure out a way to get the tattoo off.”

Kara was looking over her shoulder in the mirror. “I like it. I think Barry will like it. What do you think?”

Caitlin smiled at the already healed tattoo. She admitted it was pretty cool.

“I like it.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah. Don’t forget to text Barry goodnight. You know he won’t sleep until he hears from you and the poor boy hasn’t had near enough sleep recently.”

“I will. Cait you think he might marry me one day? I mean ask? That would be nice. I never thought I would have that. It would be kind of cool right? You would be my maid of honor and… and that is enough. You and Barry and Cisco. You are my family. I’m never going to see Alex again am I?”

“You can if you want to.” Cait told her, feeling her heart swelling at Kara’s assertion of where Caitlin stood in her life. She loved her men, Barry and Cisco, and missed Ronnie every night and day but Kara had filled a void in her life she hadn’t realized she was missing. A female best friend who she could bond with, who understood loneliness and loss but still managed to love.

“I do want to but I don’t. I mean I do but I think maybe we both needed our own life. I will always love her but I could only bring trouble to her life and honestly it was probably time I stopped being so dependent on her for approval. I needed to be on my own to grow up I guess. I would die for her and she would die for me and that will never change. Maybe one day if Cisco can really get control over what he can do but not now. Of course growing up probably doesn’t include getting drunk and being tattooed.”

“Maybe it does. Maybe here you can be all the things you never got to be, or were to afraid to try. Text Barry and lets turn in.”

“Please? I’m trying to sleep here!” Thea whined from the couch. “Can’t you two have a Lifetime network bonding moment in the morning?”

Kara shrugged her shoulder and hugged Cait. Walking into her bedroom she pulled her phone out and texted Barry that she was home and she loved him. He answered immediately that he had been asleep for hours. She reminded him of the Oliver principle and he admitted he may have been worried about her. She let him know she had gotten her powers back and she had a surprise for him tomorrow and would see him at lunch, then a short I love you that was returned and Superwoman and the Flash retired for the night.

Cisco wasn’t so lucky.

A tap on his shoulder at 4 AM, woke him, then scared the hell out of him when he saw Sara Lance standing over him. He didn’t bother asking her how she got in.

“Hey… uh whats up Sara? Everything okay? You aren’t here to… kill me or anything? I made your suit, the white one? It’s pretty cool right?”

“Cisco I need your help. I need you to help me with something and keep it to ourselves. No one can know until after it is done.”

“Okay… what do you need me to do?”

” I need you to take those special glasses you have and open a breach to National City on Earth 3.”

Cisco did not like this idea.

“I can’t control that very well Sara. What if we get there and I can’t open one back to home?”

“You don’t have to come with me. I’ll give you a time and you can open the breach back up and I will I return. I’ll only need a day, maybe less. Say ten, no twelve hours.”

“And if you get stuck there? If I can’t get you back?”

Sara shrugged her shoulders. “It wouldn’t be the weirdest place I have been stuck in. But I believe in you Cisco, the same as Barry does. I know you can do this.”

“Why there?”

“Because I need to find a necklace and a hologram device that has a message from Kara’s mother. She deserves that, don’t you think? I know what it is like to stay away from family because you think they are better off, safer without you. I would have given anything for a piece of home and she deserves hers.”

“Those things could be anywhere Sara. How do you think you are going to find them in twelve hours?”

“Easy. You are going to look with your special ray bans and tell me where the one woman who would know is at. I need to find Alex Danvers. If anyone has Kara’s belongings she will.”

“And if she wants to come back with you?”

“Thats not my place or decision. I just want to get Kara’s necklace and any other important items to her.”

“This Alex may not like you trying to take her sisters things or leaving her behind Sara.”

“Thats why I don’t plan to ask. Now can you help me or not?”

Cisco thought for a moment. Kara would love to have her mother’s necklace. Barry had told him how emotional Kara had been when she showed him the message her mother had sent with her in her pod.

“Yeah, when do you want to do this?”

“Right now.”