Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

Call Me Kara

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 05:

Kara Zor El had fought every alien who wanted to kill her and won. She had defeated the Master Jailer, with help from her sister, she had defeated Reactron, a killer android that was literally built to kill her and stopped a nuclear missile from detonating. She had held up buildings, doused raging infernos with her breath and welded steel girders with her heat vision. She had broken the sound barrier with not much effort and defeated Non.

Despite these past experiences Kara didn’t believe she could remember a time she had felt this nervous. Barry had told her about Joe and Iris on her earth when he first came running into her life. Now she was going to meet the man who shaped Barry into the man and hero he was today. A man who would run across universes to save a friend’s life.

Barry was not concerned at all. There was absolutely no way someone could know Kara and not love her. Despite her wish to start fresh Barry was surprised to see her choice of clothes had still been casual and conservative. Even with her amazing looks she seemed to not have an ounce of vanity about her. The sneakers were standard Nikes, white with a pink Nike swoosh, her blue jeans were dark blue denim and she had bought a few sweaters, turtle necks, plain tees of various colors and to his great amusement and pride the shirt she had on now.

A Flash tee shirt.

One difference in her appearance was of course the lack of glasses and her hair was no longer restrained by a braided ponytail or a bun. She let her golden locks flow freely, accentuating her sunny smile.

She was perfect, like a beautiful day at a tropical island beach where nothing could go wrong.

“Are Cait and Cisco here? Wait… yes! I hear them inside.”

“Would you relax? You are wearing a Flash tee. That is all the in you need with this crowd. Just stay away from the Green Arrow merchandise. I don’t want him getting any ideas about who your favorite might be.”

Barry grabbed her hand without even thinking about it. The act had become so natural to them but never went unnoticed. Kara heard the increase in Barry’s heart when he touched her and while warning herself that it could be anything she would be lying if it didn’t give her hope that he saw or could see her as more than a friend. Barry was perfect because he wasn’t. He had loss and heartbreak and anger, even bitterness caused by the sting of betrayal but it never got the best of him. He knew what it was like to fight and lose, the self doubt that accompanied each loss. But Barry kept running, kept fighting no matter what. It was one of his best features. Plus his smile made her super strong knees weak.

“Just remember I don’t live with my foster father. We are roommates, equals.” Barry told her, wanting to head off that line of thinking.

“How much do you pay in rent?” Kara asked.

Barry ignored the question. The two walked in hand in hand to see Cisco and Cait talking to a woman Kara assumed to be Iris. Iris looked up at the two and smiled. A smile that went away when she spotted Barry and Kara’s hands interlocked. Iris quickly recovered and planted a smile back onto her face.

“Kara! Look at you, out of sweat pants and everything! Love the shirt, still think we should get royalties off of those bad boys. Barry having a secret identity sucks.” Cisco announced by way of greeting.

Iris stood and walked to the pair holding out her hand to Kara.

“Welcome. I’m glad to see you are okay. We were all very worried about you.”

Kara could tell the woman was genuine about that and smiled at her.

She would still keep an eye on her though. Barry and told her some of his history with the girl he had grown up with including unrequited love he had for a long time. A love he told Kara back on her former earth that he had grown past. She wondered if Iris had moved on from what could have been as well.

If nothing else, I can throw her into space, Kara thought as she shook hands, fighting the need to squeeze and scolding herself for having those thoughts. She had just met the woman and had no doubt they would be great friends.

But space was always an option.

A tall dark man with a close cut goatee and an apron on came walking from the kitchen with a giant smile. Walking over to the two he ignored Barry and wrapped Kara into a hug, surprising them all.

“Glad to see you are okay Kara. You had us very worried.” Joe whispered to her. His sudden display of affection nearly would have had Kara in tears had she not been so shocked.

“So I left you two at the mall an hour ago. What took you two so long to get her here?” Cait asked, smirking while Cisco waited for an answer with a raised eyebrow.

“Barry bought me ice cream.” Kara explained with a dopey grin.

“Before dinner?” Iris asked, souring a bit judgmental.

“Yeah, she eats as much as Barry. You should have seen them tear through the pizzas we had the other night.” Cisco told Iris, almost bragging.

Kara shrugged her shoulders. “Its true, I do love food.”

“And yet you have such a great figure.” Iris commented.

“Benefits of being an alien.”

Joe looked back and forth between the two women who were wearing the most forced smiles he had ever seen and decided to break the gridlock.

“Okay, well it is a good thing I made a lot of pasta! Who is hungry besides Barry and Kara?”

All moved towards the kitchen. Iris noticed that Barry was not sitting in his usual chair, instead sitting next to Kara.

“So Barry never told us he had such a close friend from another universe.” Iris commented while the rest ate. Barry seemed to notice something was off and looked up at Iris. Was that jealousy? It couldn’t be. He and Iris had moved on. She wasn’t the type to judge someone because of being different. Maybe it was his imagination.

“Yeah well, I haven’t really talked much to anyone since I returned. The Zoom thing took a lot out of me.”

“Thats no lie. The first genuine smile I have seen on him in weeks was after Kara woke up.” Cisco told the group. Barry nearly rolled his eyes but admitted it was true to the group. Kara focused on her food with one hand while the other went to Barry’s on top of the table. Cait and Cisco looked at each other knowingly.

“So tell us about your earth, Kara. What is it like there? I mean it seems things are the same but a little different in each universe.” Iris asked.

“Oh really? I haven’t had time to acclimate myself here obviously but I don’t see a lot of differences. Wait a minute, you guys have Homeland right?”

“Yep.” Barry told her, smiling at her obsession with her favorite TV shows.

“Yes! I think I will be good here. Wait, other universes? What universe is she talking about? The one where you were all evil?”

“Yeah, thats the only other one I have been too. Its quite a bit different there.”

“You can say that. Barry and I were married on that Earth.” Iris told the blonde, doing her best to sound nonchalant.

The entire table looked down, Joe rubbing his forehead.

“Yeah and Deadshot couldn’t handle a gun and Cait was a supervillian who tried to stab me with shards of ice. Pretty much the reverse of everything here.” Barry pointed out, his tone definitely warning Iris to back off.

“And then there was the future news…”

“Iris, stop.” Joe told her. Kara caught on though.

“Future what? I thought you could go back in time. You never told me about the future.”

“Because I haven’t been there. Remember what I told you about the Reverse Flash?”

“Of course.” Kara rubbed her thumb over the top of Barry’s hand. She knew this was a difficult thing for him to talk about. They had spent most of their time on her old earth talking and sharing secrets, even painful ones. He was so easy to talk to.

“Thawne had a room with an AI computer at S.T.A.R. Apparently I built it in the future. It was set to a newspaper on the day Thawne and I disappeared to the past. The lead article was written by Iris West Allen.”

“Really?” Kara asked, not amused.

“Yeah, crazy huh?” Iris replied.

“Of course after Eddie died and Thawne was erased from existence the article changed. Nothing about me or Iris or anything else unusual. Even the AI disappeared. The future is what we make it now, the way it should be.” Barry told her, meeting her beautiful blue eyes, causing her to grin.

“Thats true.” Kara agreed, “I mean nothing is preordained. No one would have predicted my arrival here from another Universe if Barry hadn’t pulled off the impossible. I suppose things change all the time in ways you never see coming or people you never see coming.” Kara pointed out to the table but she was looking at one person now.

The entire table noticed that Kara was looking Iris straight in her eyes when she said this. Kara did not understand why she felt Iris was implying that Barry was hers. Nor did she understand why she herself felt so possessive.

Then Kara realized she did know deep down. Kara in the past took a back seat to everyone, even Lucy Lane. Before the Red K incident she let Siobhan intimidate her in the office and she cowered to every threat Cat Grant ever made about firing her, knowing the woman couldn’t manage without her. She wouldn’t again. Not here not now. She may not be ready to stake a claim but she would not allow someone to warn her off.

“Man I am stuffed Joe. That was really great.” Cisco commented to break the tension they all pretended was not there.

“Yes, I am not sure if I can manage anymore.” Caitlin agreed.

“Oh come on now. There is too much left. We’ll be eating leftovers for a… never mind.” Joe finished recognizing the look in Barry’s eye. This time was different though. Kara had the same look in her eyes and they were looking at each other, almost as if challenging the other.

“You guys want to see something cool?” Barry asked, glancing at the large bowl of pasta not even half empty.

“I do.” Cisco agreed immediately. Kara grinned.

“Same rules as last time. No sauce on the face or anywhere else on the table. No striking each other’s forks…”

“That was you.” Barry reminded her.

“And no distracting head bumps. That was you.” Kara reminded him.

Joe crossed his arms with a huge smile and slid his chair a bit back.

“Back up everybody, This is going to get interesting.”

“Ready?” Kara asked, holding her fork at the ready.

“On three. First one to the bottom gets to decide what to do tonight.”

“One.”

“Two.”

“Three!”

The table sat in stunned silence at the blur of movement that erupted over the remaining pasta. The pile shrinked rapidly and three seconds later, Kara slid her chair back, and raised her hands in victory. A noodle was still hanging out of a disbelieving Barry’s mouth.

“You went down loser!”

“You totally cheated!”

“I followed the rules.”

“You got a long strand and used it to suck up half the bowl.”

“It’s not my fault I am really good at sucking…”

Kara’s hand slapped to her mouth and her eyes bulged. Cait saved Kara once again when she started to laugh. Soon the entire table was laughing, even Iris. Kara felt a bit better and Barry reached over, hugging her.

“Okay, you are the victor this time. What do you want to do tonight?” Barry conceded. His plan had been a walk in the park. He hoped she didn’t want to take him flying. Ever since Hawkman had dropped him in their brief get to know you skirmish, he was not a fan of the idea of being handled high up. He learned that night that even the Flash could not run on air.

“Don’t you have to be at work in the morning?” Kara asked.

“It’s Friday. No getting out of it. What do you want to do?”

The blonde thought for a moment. “Do you have karaoke here?” she finally asked. Cait paled at the reminder of that night which preceded the worst hangover she had ever experienced in her life.

“Absolutely. I know this great place. Who wants to come?” Barry asked.

Cisco and Cait immediately raised their hands.

“I have to catch up on paperwork tomorrow and am kinda tired since I wasn’t able to call in sick like a certain lab nerd I know.” Joe told the group, bowing out.

“I have to get home and proof some articles I have written.”Iris casually mentioned. “I’m a reporter for the largest paper in Central City. What did you do back on your old earth, Kara?”

“I was the one the stories got written about.” she responded instantly, shocking even herself. Space was looking more and more like an option.

“Well I guess its just the four of us. Don’t wait up Joe.” Barry stood and Kara followed never letting go of his hand. Once the four walked out, Cait and Cisco got into the front of Cait’s car while Kara held Barry back.

“She hates me.”

“No she doesn’t.”

“I hate her.”

“No you don’t.”

“I might.”

“You don’t have a hateful bone in your body.”

“My sister and former boss might disagree with you.” the blonde reminded him.

“When you are not under the influence of Red Kryptonite you don’t have a hateful bone in your body. Better?”

Kara nodded agreement. She really wasn’t a hateful person. But she could learn to be.

No, no, she would not. She was better than that. She had to be.

“Look Iris is kinda protective. She knows I had a thing for her and I think now she is realizing that I don’t have a thing for her anymore. She really is a great person, she just probably feels threatened by you. She kinda reminds me of that Olsen guy.”

“James?” Kara asked, slightly surprised.

“Oh yeah. Big time jealous. Big time.”

“Over you? He’s got like forty pounds of muscle and at least a few inches in height than you. Are you sure?”

Barry’s mouth hung open until Kara grinned.

“I’m kidding. I like men who are lean, devastatingly handsome and can run fast enough to break the sound barrier. Do you know anyone like that?”

“Sounds like you have high standards but I think we can find someone who meets those requirements. Let’s go. Time to show you who the best singer in this partnership is.”

An hour later Cait and Cisco sat at the bar drinking, pondering the fairness of life.

“I love Kara and Barry but I think I’m beginning to hate them both just a little.” Cait told Cisco quietly while nursing her first drink.

“I know right? Good looking, super powered and could be Broadway singers if they wanted to. Some people have all the luck.” Cisco groused.

“Luck? Her entire world ended when she was 13. Barry’s mother died when he was 10 and his father went away for a crime he didn’t commit. I don’t think you could call them lucky.”

“Maybe not, but wouldn’t you want to trade places with them for a day? Just one day?”

“At this moment yes.” Cait admitted. “I wonder if either realize they have been constantly touching since before she even woke?”

“Both are clueless but not that clueless. I mean look at them, staring at each other, love in their eyes. I could have had that with Kendra.”

“It wouldn’t have worked out Cisco. Leave it alone already.”

“Maybe but what about Lisa?”

“She is a criminal, Cisco.”

“She is still a good person. I really like her and we have serious chemistry. If she would just lay off the armed robberies I think we could be good together.”

“Keep dreaming. How many songs are they going to sing? They have been up there for half an hour.”

“Probably until they stop getting standing ovations.” Cisco guessed.

The duo had sang three songs so far and were in the middle of their fourth, belting out A Thousand Years for the mesmerized crowd.

“They are practically making out up there. How much closer can they get and still sing? I can’t tell whose mic belongs to who now.”

“Come on,” Cait smiled, “they are adorable.”

“Yeah they are.” The two sat back and watched, continuing to drink and listen to the beautiful voices. Caitlin had known but Cisco had no idea how good of a singer Barry was. Neither were prepared for the voice on Kara.

After another standing ovation and the crowd begging for one more, the two begged off and joined their friends at the bar.

“So not bad.”

“Thanks Cisco. It was fun. You and Cait should give it a try.” Kara suggested. Barry cringed.

“I’m not drunk enough for that. Even when I am drunk enough for that, its best I don’t.” Cait admitted. “Speaking of getting drunk would you like a drink Kara?”

“No, don’t waste the money. Alcohol has no effect on me.”

“At all? I guess you two aren’t so lucky after all.”

Kara and Barry exchanged looks at Cisco’s comment but shrugged their shoulders. He tended to say random things at times, Kara was learning.

“Hey a table in the back opened up!” Cisco hurried over and had a seat, motioning to his friends who were trying to figure out why they needed a table when the bar worked fine. Instead of questioning they just followed, Barry’s hand finding Kara’s once again.

“Any reason we need to sit in the back Cisco?” Barry asked.

“Yes. We have to talk about the new set up of Team Flash. Since Kara has joined…”

“Cisco.” Kara started raising a hand only for the man to keep speaking.

“Please girl. You lasted about three seconds after Barry went down to jump in a suit that didn’t fit you and beat up a giant man shark.”

“I had that.” Barry tried.

“No you didn’t!” Cisco and Cait both yelled, frustrated.

“Regardless of Barry getting his ass handed to him by a fish, we still need to know your powers so I can give you the two most important things you will need in this world.”

“I.D. and a job?”

“No! A superhero name and suit. Now I understand you don’t want the general public to know or anyone outside of us but you are on the team now. We need to know. I need to know. You said no to Supergirl and I completely agree. Now give me something to work with here.”

Kara took a deep breath. Barry trusted them, they had saved her life and were her only friends now. They did deserve to know everything.

“Okay, I can fly obviously…”

“How fast?”

“I don’t know exactly. I mean I broke the sound barrier and caught up to a nuclear missile once. Those things are more slippery than you would think.”

“Okay then. And obviously you can run as fast as Barry.” he continued.

“No she can’t.”

“Yes she can. You should have seen what we clocked her at today. With the tachyon device,oh my God the possibilities. So we have super speed on the ground and in the air. Also very strong obviously, by the way she tossed the man shark that almost had Barry for breakfast…”

“I totally had that.”

“No you didn’t. Let me think. How about…”

“I can also freeze things with my breath.”

“Oh. Thats cool.” Cisco admitted wondering how to incorporate that into the name.

“And I have heat vision. I can basically melt metal with beams from my eyes.”

“Oh… wow. Okay so we got…”

“I’m pretty much indestructible as long as I’m not around Kryptonite obviously. I have really good hearing. I can hear for miles and isolate different sounds to track people I am looking for or hear people who need help.”

“Okay…”

“And I have X Ray vision. I can see through anything except lead when I want to. I couldn’t control it when I first came to Earth and had to wear lead lined glasses. Seeing people’s skeletons all the time was a nightmare.”

“X Ray vision? So you can fly, are basically bulletproof, fast enough to break the sound barrier on ground or in the air, you have laser vision, freeze breath, super strength, super hearing and X ray vision. I got all that?”

Kara nodded. “Thats all I can think of right now.”

Barry smiled in pride while Cait stared with wide eyes and a new respect for the humble girl in front of her.

“Hmmm. I got it! The Bomb cuz girl you are it! I mean seriously besides that green crap we are about to destroy forever do you have any weakness?” Cisco asked. Kara shrugged her shoulders.

“Of course. I’m not all powerful. I have a tendency to throw bombs into the atmosphere after waiting to long, leading to me usually falling a very long way to the ground. I can burn out my powers if I use them to much at once. That only happened once after I fought this really tough android. I had been having a really bad week and vaporized him to with my heat vision. It took a lot out of me. The thing was as strong as I was. Also I was almost killed by this guy who had a nuclear powered suit that could fire these radioactive blasts. He almost killed me the first time we fought. Those blasts hurt. My cousin saved my life which was very embarrassing for me. I mean yeah I cold have died but it was my fight, you know? He apologized later and honestly I should have thanked him. I was just at a place in my life where I was…”

“Okay hold up. You took a sustained blast of concentrated nuclear power and it ‘hurt’ you?” Cisco asked.

“Yeah.”

“I am glad you are on our side. Whatever name I come up for her is the new name of the team.”

Barry slapped Cisco in the back of the head.

“Kidding man. Don’t get mad. Hey we should totally not tell Oliver and get him to fight her. How great would that be?”

“She isn’t fighting Oliver, Cisco.” Barry told him, not finding that funny. While he recognized Oliver probably couldn’t hurt her the memory of those two arrows in his back still stung.

“Fine, look since you don’t want to be called by your Earth 3 name then I am going to need some time. Let’s talk suits.”

“Wait a minute. Earth 3? Kara asked, looking at Barry. “Why is my old earth called Earth 3?”

“Uh, because when we started traveling the multiverses the only other one we visited was what we call Earth 2 where Zoom came from. Your’s was the second Earth I visited so since my Earth was Earth 1…”

“Why does your Earth get to be Earth 1?” the blonde asked.

“Because I’m the one who traveled to them first so I get to name them? Kinda like an explorer gets to name new lands he or she might find first.” Barry finished, proud of his reasoning.

“You get to name them and the best you could come up with was one, two and three? No wonder Cisco handles the names.” Kara told him. Barry recognized the good natured humor he had come to associate with her.

“You get to name the next one and you can name it whatever you want okay?.”

“No! No more traveling Earths for either of us. You brought me here and I am not taking the chance of losing you to some other earth. You might make friends with another super powered blonde girl in a skirt.” she told him winking.

“I think I am done looking for anymore women in a skirt.” Barry admitted.

“Okay if we can stop the Disney channel romance can we get back to what is important here?”

Caitlin hit Cisco in the back of the head this time.

“Stop that! Now your old suit was destroyed when Cait had to cut if off you. There is no way you are wearing a cape here regardless. It will only slow you down and give the bad guy something to grab onto.”

“Wait. My suit was cut from me?” Kara asked Cait, her cheeks blushing.

“Uh yes? I mean I had to do surgery and we needed you to absorb as much solar energy as possible so…”

“Barry you said you two gave me blood. You both saw me naked?!”

Barry and Cisco both panicked.

“You did Barry Allen! I can hear your heart racing!”

“That is so unfair that you can do that. Technically I did see you naked while I was giving you blood, but in all fairness I was looking at your face and Cait had your chest literally cut open so I saw more of your insides than anything. I was kinda freaked and panicking and really didn’t have time to see anything.”

“Oh. I guess yeah, with my chest open… ow.” Kara rubbed at the spot Cait had cut her open days before she healed. The thought alone of hr chest being opened up made her ache. That would have hurt if she had been awake and not near death. “What about you Cisco?”

“Honestly? I really didn’t see anything but your insides because by the time my transfusion line was hooked up Cait had your stomach open and was digging around and there was a lot of blood and spurting and I really don’t do good with that stuff. I can’t even watch gory horror movies. It just makes me sick. I’m not saying you make me sick! Just seeing your insides was… pretty much all I could think about so I had my eyes closed the entire time.”

“After I closed you up, the boys were gone and I had a curtain between us and them. The only one who saw you naked was me Kara.” Cait told her. She had a feeling she wouldn’t be the only one at this table who would eventually see Kara naked. Despite the trials and tribulations these two had endured in their lives they still acted like awkward teenagers in love. It was sweet. She had never seen this side of Barry. Yes he was happy with Patty but there was no passion in Cait’s opinion. Barry and Iris kept missing each other with feelings for others and Iris had completely missed out now. Seeing Barry with someone who looked at him the same way he looked at her made her so happy for him. He deserved it. They both did.

“Okay so it needs to be aerodynamic. I’m guessing temperature doesn’t bother you?” Cisco asked.

“Nope. I can feel temperature of course, but my body doesn’t have the same reaction. It would take an extreme temperature change for me to be affected to the point I was incapacitated… hey wait. You still have my cape right?”

“I told you no capes.” Cisco told her sternly. She needed to learn her place on the team. He handled the suits. Of course learning about her powers if she wanted a cape she could have a cape.

“No not for that. That cape was given to me by my cousin. It was the baby blanket he was wrapped in when he was sent to Earth. Its important that I have it. It’s really the only thing I have left of my home now.”

The smile that had been on Kara’s face was threatening to leave and Cait could not have that.

“Hey, its okay. I have it locked away. It was unharmed and isn’t going anywhere except back to you. I would never let anything happen to it.”

Kara offered a smile of gratitude and Barry wrapped an arm around her, bringing her close enough for her to lay her head on his shoulder.

“So what is with the S? Is it because they called you Supergirl?” Cisco asked, remembering she did not want to hear that name ever again but reasoning she just meant she never wanted to be called that again. Mindful of her powers, he hoped that was the case.

“I guess that was part of it. My cousin had it first and he was called Superman by the public.” Kara told him, ignoring Cisco’s cough and the clearly spoken ‘lame’ it hid.

“It’s actually my families crest, what you would call a coat of arms. It’s the symbol for the House of my family. The House of El.”

“Okay. So right now I am thinking we can incorporate that in the center, design you a suit like Barry’s as far as material, better footwear than those boots with heels that you wore. I can put the minicam in the center plate, your family crest, because that has to be there and the mask will have to be more like Oliver’s than your’s Barry. She isn’t going to want to put her hair in a bun when its go time. No lead lining in the mask that can negate her X ray vision though. Also I need to find some way to thin out lead, maybe some sort of wiring that I can at least weave into the fiber. That way if you ever by some accident come into contact with another substance like that green crap or radioactive blasts the lead will offer you some protection and be bullet proof against any type of ammo. You should be able to walk through an inferno and this bad boy won’t even have a scratch on it. We are also going to have bio tech so Cait can monitor your vitals like she does for Barry. That way if you do ever go into power overload we can warn you to get out before you are in danger of blowing out. Defibrillators come standard. I know one works on you since we have seen it… not that we were looking! Oh, oh, I can add a solar panel on the inside of her crest, that way if she needs an extra dose of sunlight in case her powers are close to blowing out we can give her a few thousand watts of sunshine instantly! This is going to be so cool. I’m going to the lab and starting tonight.”

“Glad you are happy.” Kara told him with a wink, containing the emotion she felt inside that her new family, two people that had taken an alien in without question and made her feel like she belonged in such a short time, would think about a suit lined with lead to protect her, solar power generators and monitoring her health. The DEO never even thought to design one of the devices Non had for negating the effects of Kryptonite. Or maybe they didn’t want to. When she was attacked during the Red K incident, Alex had a gun that could reverse the effects. The rest of the DEO had weapons Kara took from them before they had a chance to use them. Now she wondered what sort of ammunition were in those weapons. Had all of them besides Alex and Hank been prepared to kill her or just capture her?

“Its weird to think that somewhere in this universe there is a Kara Zor El in her forties living on Krypton.” she suddenly said, the thought hitting her out of nowhere.

“Yeah maybe, but she isn’t our Kara Zor El.” Cisco raised his drink in a toast to the newest member of Team Flash, or whatever the hell it was going to be called now. Barry and Kara raised their water glasses and Cait raised her glass. In the back of a little bar, the protectors of Central City became much stronger.

After dropping off a very excited Cisco at S.T.A.R labs, Barry walked Cait and Kara up to Cait’s apartment. Cait walked in after saying good night to Barry. Kara turned to follow but found Cait’s hand on her shoulder.

“You two have been inseparable since you got to this Earth. Superpowers or not if you don’t kiss goodnight I am hurting both of you.”

Cait shut the door behind the two, leaving them awkwardly standing in the hall.

Kara looked at the floor feeling the heat in her cheeks. She wasn’t sure what to do until Barry’s finger gently raised her chin.

“She’s right. I’ve been wanting to kiss you since the first time I saw you. Would you mind?”

Kara bit her lip but shook her head smiling. She closed her eyes as Barry leaned in and then felt his lips softly brush hers. The electric shock both felt had nothing to do with super powers. They lingered and the kiss deepened, until Kara felt she was being drawn into him. Barry wrapped both arms around her waist and brought her closer, feeling her body pressed against his, no awkwardness, no missed signals. They finally broke and Kara attempted to straighten glasses that were no longer there.

“Wow.” Barry whispered.

“So was it worth the wait?” she asked quietly. Kara had been kissed before, much less than a woman of 24 should have been, but never felt the electricity she felt at that moment.

“I would cross a thousand universes for it. See you in the morning. You coming to the lab?”

“Are you going to be there? she asked, knowing the answer.

“Yes I am.”

“Then I will be there.”

“Great, I’ll pick you up at nine.”

“You have a car?” Kara asked, not remembering seeing one.

“Yeah but that isn’t how I plan to pick you up. Just look for the flash of red. Good night Kara Zor El.”

“Good night Barry Allen.”

Barry walked away slowly, unusual for him and the two continued looking back until Barry turned the corner. Kara walked in, closed the door and squealed. Cait had a knowing smile.

“Your lip stick is smudged.” she informed the blonde.

“I don’t care. So worth it. Thank you for everything Cait.”

“Hey you are family now. Thats what we do.”

“Cait do you trust me? I mean I know we haven’t known each other long…”

“Yes, I absolutely trust you.” Cait answered without hesitation.

“Want to go to the roof? I feel like flying right now. What do you say?”

“You want me to fly with you?” Cait asked, a bit shocked. Kara nodded her head. Seeing the happiness on the girl’s face who was so close to death a couple days ago the answer was easy.

“I would definitely love to find out how it feels to fly. Cisco will be so jealous.”