The Long Life of Kara Zor-El

Chapter 13

After Kara and her super friends, including Barry and his team, had dealt with Reverse Flash and Lex Luthor once more everything didn't go back to normal right away. In fact Lena saw how happy Kara was when she got to spend time with Barry. Lena was by no means jealous of this, it was a different kind of happiness to the way Kara is with her. Lena just recognises that when Kara is with Barry she doesn't have to hold back as much, she can eat as much food as she wants and actually have someone with her who can keep up with her. and maybe even eat more food than she can. Then while at the same time Lena notices how much joy Kara gets just from interacting with another powered super hero. Of course Kara had people like that in her life regularly with Nia, Brainy and J'onn but it was different with Barry. Both Barry and Kara have so much in common with one another. Both of them had become super heroes in the shadow of someone else. Kara of course had become Supergirl in Superman's shadow, while Barry had become The Flash in the Reverse Flash and the Arrow's (otherwise known as Oliver Queen) shadow. Both Barry and Kara had faced incredible tragedies when they were young children, Kara losing her whole world and watching it explode, Barry having his mother murdered and his father wrongly convicted of the crime. Then also the two were both thrust into new families and living situations, and had to learn how to deal with their trauma they had experience while learning how to live in these new families. So Barry and Kara are similar in so many ways, and Lena decided that it would be a good idea for Kara to go and spend a few days with Barry.

Of course Lena would miss Kara during these couple of days, but at the same time she had other motives. Just after they dealt with Reverse Flash and Lex Lena was informed that her and Kara's remodelled apartment was ready. Lena is of course pleased by this, but she knows that she has to make a few more changes to the apartment that she couldn't tell the builders to do without them getting suspicious. These changes mostly included making the space more liveable for a Kryptonian, most notably making sure red sun light bulbs were installed in every room in the apartment so Lena and Kara could have fun, without Kara being scared of hurting Lena, in any room in the apartment. So after some convincing Lena got Kara to go head to Central City and spend a few days with Barry. Kara of course was hesitant as she would much rather just cuddle up with Lena and spend time with her, as much as she likes Barry, but Lena promised her a surprise when she gets home so Kara agreed reluctantly.

Kara spent a total of two days with Barry in Central City. During her time there she was given a more in depth tour of Star Labs, seeing some of the places that she hadn't seen on the other occasions that she had been there. Admittedly Kara knew this was because every other time she had been to Star Labs it was during some sort of crisis, so no time for tours. During this tour Barry showed Kara the Star Labs Archives including the various gear that Oliver had left behind. Both Barry and Kara had a quiet moment of reflection and remembrance as they looked at the gear Oliver had. Also during Kara's stay Barry introduced Kara to his place of work, the Central City Police department, including the lab where Barry works as a forensic scientist. Another stop on the tour of the city was Iris' Central Citizen headquarters. While Kara visited the offices Iris jokingly offered Kara a job, saying that it would really do good for them to have a Pulitzer winning journalist. The remainder of the tour of the city just included Kara seeing all of the major sights of the city, and most enjoyably some of Barry's favourite places to eat food.

Over the two days Barry and Kara ate a lot of food, and this occurred several times a day. It even got to the point where Kara is pretty sure Iris made up a fake emergency at the Citizen just so she wouldn't have to watch Barry and Kara shove their faces with even more food. Admittedly Kara recognised that watching her and Barry eat may not be the most appealing thing to some people. Either way, Kara was enjoying herself with having someone who could keep up with her eating habits.

Of course the one another thing that Kara and Barry got up to was teaming up as Flash and Supergirl, because of course crime never rests, even in cities that have super heroes. This resulted in some occasions where criminals didn't expect The Flash to show up and were unprepared for him, let alone Supergirl. Then there were also several occasions where criminals were prepared for The Flash to show up, or at the very least expected him to show up, but every time their faces dropped when they saw Supergirl arrive alongside him. Of course with the two of them Barry and Kara made quick work of the criminals every time, not that they would have had any difficulty dealing with these criminals on their own, no real major crimes were committed.