The Long Life of Kara Zor-El

Chapter 5

It's been a week since Kara and Lena shared their first kiss, and it was by no means there last. Both Kara and Lena have been very busy over the last week. Kara with duties as Supergirl and Lena dealing with L-Corp, as well as issues related to her kidnapping. It had been discovered that Lena was kidnapped by an infamous alien and human gang. Lena sort of admired that aliens and humans could get along well enough to form a gang and try and kill her. Although Lena knows that Kara would not be very amused by that thought.

After Lena's kidnapping a thorough investigation was carried out by both L-Corp security and Supergirl and the other super friends. It was soon discovered that one of L-Corp's employees helped to bring the gang into the building mostly unnoticed. In response Lena promptly fired the employee while the police filed charges. Then at the same time Lena ordered and thorough review of all L-Corp employees, not only to make sure that there were no employees left who were going to try and get her killed, but also Lena wanted to discover any anti-alien employees, who shared Lex and Lillian's views, right away.

In response to the whole situation the media had as expected been harsh on Lena. She was of course the victim in all this, but the media were framing it that she was putting her L-Corp employees in danger by remaining as CEO of the company. Of course Lena's board members jumped on this at the next meeting and Lena spent most her week defending attacks left and right to fight for her company.

Kara on the other hand has been kept busy trying to track down all the members of the gang that attacked Lena. Usually Kara would leave this task to the NCPD but this was personal for Kara, so she wanted to make an example of these gang members. Of course this didn't mean that Kara hurt any of the gang members when she found them, her intentions were very much to round them up as quickly as possible so they could end up in some dark prison cell somewhere. But this didn't mean that when Kara found some of these gang members and they attacked her or resisted in some way that she didn't maybe use a bit more force than would be necessary. Broken bones would heal after all.

Due to all of this going on in both Kara and Lena's lives both women were kept pretty occupied and busy. Therefore Kara and Lena have not really had a chance to discuss what was next for them, let alone go on a first date. This however doesn't mean that the two haven't seen each other, quite the opposite in fact. Despite how busy they have both been over the last week they have made a point to have lunch together every day, which frankly isn't really that unusual. The only real difference between their lunches now and their lunches previously is now their lunches are filled with a lot of heavy kissing, and less eating.

Even though Kara and Lena have had these moments daily at lunch neither of them have broached the topic of what is next for them. Whenever either one of them thinks to bring it up they end up being disturbed.

Presently it is Friday lunch time. Kara is heading over to L-Corp with Chinese take out in hand for the two of them to munch down on over lunch. This time unlike the days prior Kara has a plan in mind. She wants to ask Lena out on a first date before they get too distracted in the food or kissing each other, or before some emergency occurs that causes Kara and/or Lena to rush away, ending their lunch abruptly.

Kara arrives at Lena's office and knocks softly before entering. Kara knows that she doesn't have to knock, Lena has even told her as such. But Kara just doesn't feel comfortable entering an office without knocking first, even though Lena said it was okay not knocking, just coming in feels rude to Kara. Kara thinks this might be because of one of the principles that Eliza distilled in her when she first got to Earth. Eliza told Kara that it is polite to knock first, and you are not losing anything by knocking even if you don't have to. Eliza explained that it was important for Kara as she was going to be sharing a bedroom with Alex and Alex most likely wouldn't like Kara just barging in if she was naked for some reason. Then at the same time Kara might not like Alex barging in and seeing her naked, so the same curtesy would be extended to her. It did take Kara a while to get use to the idea of knocking as on Krypton knocking wasn't really a concept as it would be pointless. As on Krypton even if you knocked on a door it was unlikely that the person/people inside would hear you because of the doors structure which basically absorbed all sound. This did mean that Kara did forget to knock on occasion and come in to her bedroom in the middle of Alex changing, which Alex was not happy about. But Kara eventually learnt her lesson when she didn't knock one time and entered her and Alex's bedroom to find Alex exploring her body. After that Kara never forgot to knock when entering a room ever again.