Live With Me

Chapter 12

Kara wasn't expecting everything in her life to suddenly be revolving around that stupid balcony and the obvious assassination attempt by the government. She was kind of just expecting to move on and keep working on the article with Ms Grant but instead, she's finding herself questioning every little thing that is happening in her life.

She'll be walking downstairs and she wonders if someone walking behind her might come and push her or she'll be getting in an elevator and she wonders if it's going to break and drop her to her death. It's much scarier than when Maxwell lord wanted her dead, maybe it's because she already knew what he was capable of and knew he had limited resources while the government have all the resources they could ever want and need and are capable of literally anything.

Lena has been her guiding light though, always there to listen and comfort her when she feels particularly paranoid or afraid despite the fact she can see Lena's own fear in her eyes. They both know it's going to get worse before it gets better though and there are only so many preventative measures they can take without shutting down their lives completely and never leaving the house.

Today is the day though, Kara and Cat have officially finished the article and it's going to be out in a matter of minutes so they're just waiting for the fallout now.

In the meantime, Kara has been busying herself with helping move Cat back into her own office and out of hers. She's actually shocked that Cat hasn't insisted she moves out of her new office even though she did fix it up herself but Cat is being true to her word and allowing her to keep it so she's now got a great-sized office with actual windows.

The windows do scare her a little though, she's seen enough action movies to know that sitting right beside the window is a bad move so she's moved her desk to the other side of the room where the tinted windows won't allow anyone to see where she's sitting. She's not going to do anything to increase the chances of a sniper putting a bullet between her eyes, not today.

Lena is coming by later but she's got a meeting she can't get out of at L-Corp first so she's going to start heading over in a little while and then she's going to stay with her in her office for the day.

Kara is keeping an eye on the article and the reactions of the public in the meantime to the best of her abilities. She's sure that Cat is doing the same from her office too but she needs to see for herself to see how much support they are getting because of the article.

If it works how they planned, they will have created an environment where nothing can happen to her without the government looking like they are directly involved in it, they shouldn't be able to touch her without it being obvious that she's being further targeted by them so they really can't do anything.

That's in theory though. In practice, this is the government, they can do whatever they want because they have the power to do so. It wouldn't be the first time that they have offed someone quite obviously and it's become old news in just a matter of weeks, sometimes less. That's the scary part.

A knock at Kara's door has her hollering for whoever it is to come in, hoping that Lena has managed to finish up her meeting early but knowing that she probably would have just let herself in if it was her since she knows Kara doesn't have any interviews planned for today.

Winn's face peeks around her door not a second after she's called out and her face breaks out into a smile. "Hey, stranger."

"Hey, I wanted to come and see how you're doing, it feels like forever since we've had a catch-up. Well, that and I wanted to come and check out the old hidey-hole. I can't believe this is actually your office now."

"I know, it's kind of crazy, right? I feel like I've come full circle." Kara beckons him further into the room by reaching her leg out under her desk to push out one of the two chairs she has on the opposite side for when she has interviews.