Stay ◇Karamel◇

24. home at last

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// Mon-El \\

I was lying on a warm surface, my arms wrapped around a soft weight. My eyes fluttered open to the sight of Kara's curly locks, tickling my nose. I sighed, squirming closer to her.

"You're awake?" She whispers. I lifted me head, my eyes scrunched in confusion.

It was the next morning, and I had sleep over at her loft again. It was a habit we were falling into.

"I guess," I state. "Why don't you go back to sleep? It's, like, still morning."

"I can't," Kara announces. "I can't stop thinking about Cadmus--"

"Kara," I groan, pulling her closer to me. She giggled softly. "We just got T'ayy back. One step at a time."

"I know," She nods.

"Knowing you, you'll have a plan," I admit. "It'll be crazy, but it'll work. We'll win. We always do."

I sit up, Kara falling down into my lap. She laughed, squeezing her eyes shut. I smiled down at her, playing with her hair. I thought that she'd get up and sit next to me, but her head remained in my lap.

"I don't have a plan yet," Kara mumbled. "But I do have an idea on how I'll get one."

"And what's that?" I questioned.

"We lay here all day, just like this," She suggests. "Watch television, cuddle, eat food--"

"You know we can't do that," I whisper. "As much as I want to."

"Yeah, yeah I know," Kara groans. "I just wish that there was another super hero in National City to help me."

"What am I?" I scoffed, teasingly.

"You don't have a suit or a name yet," Kara responds. "I meant someone who can completely take over for me. Give me a vacation for a while."

"Well, Romeo and Juliet--" I began.

"Mon-El!" Kara scolds me, slapping my leg.

I breathe in sharply, mocking pain.

"You know how that ends," Kara exclaimed. "Such a fanboy."

"Says the woman who won't shut up about Riverdale, the Vampire Diaries, and Stitchers," I moaned. "Which by the way, are the best television shows ever."

"Oh, you haven't even watched half my favorite shows," She chuckles. "Which won't happen for a while, because of Cadmus."

"Hey," I sighed. I pulled her off of my lap, sitting her up next to me. "We'll find them and defeat them."

"I don't know how!" She exclaimed.

"You'll find a way," I assure her.

"I don't know," Kara sighed. "I've stressed every possibility. Send Jacob back in to spy, get captured again, fly tirelessly around the world until I find them-- and none of them are good enough."

"We always find a way." I put my hand on her shoulder. "I'll help you."

"They keep hurting people because of me," Kara wouldn't look me in the eye. "Because I'm here. And I just wonder that if I stop being Sup--"

"Don't finish that sentence," I demand. "You have made this world a better place. Don't think that you haven't. Don't stop."

Kara paused for a second, looking at me. She then scooted forward, and pecked my lips with hers.

"I won't stop myself. I'll stop them."

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I walked towards Alex, a determined expression on my face.  I had an epiphany. I tapped her on the shoulder, leaning against the counter. She was at the DEO, watching a monitor on the wall.

"Mon-El?" Alex asked, not looking away from the monitor. "What do you need?"

"I need your help," I mutter.

"With what?" She spun around, her eyes wide. "You know that look Kara has in her face when she has an idea she thinks is good but actually puts us in danger?"

"Yeah," I scoff.

"You have that same exact look," Alex sighs. "What do you need?"

"Kara once mentioned that she has a friend who lives on another Earth," I stated. "Who's also a super hero."

"And?"

"I wanna bring him here," I say. "Kara wants help defeating Cadmus. Who better than another superhero to help?"

"Winn is the only one who knows the whereabouts of that technology," Alex admits. "But it's in DEO custody. I'll see if J'onn can get ahold of it."

"Wait.." I trailed. "You're just going to agree? Like that? No fighting..."

"I'm tired of this fight, Mon-El," Alex exclaimed. "Too many people have been hurt, and I want Lilian Luther to be gone. If we don't, then who's next? Maggie? You? Winn? We need all the help we can get, even if it is from guy from another earth who I haven't met."

"Thank you," I said. "You'll get them to find it?"

"Yes," Alex muttered. "But be careful."

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// Barry Allen \\

Breaches don't just open randomly in Central City. In fact, they never do. We haven't had a breach in forever-- ever since Gypsy left a few weeks ago. 

I ran into the breach room, my mask pulled over my face. I slowly stepped towards it. No one else was here at S.T.A.R. Labs. It was late at night, and I was using equipment for a CSI case. They'd yell at me for not calling them, but I didn't want to wake them.

I got closer to the blue swirls, feeling the energy heighten. The air got thinner for a moment, before a shadow began to get closer to me. A man, who seemed to be a bit younger than me, appeared from the breach.

"Who the hell are you?" I asked, keeping my stance.

"My name is Mon-El," He states, glancing at our surroundings. "And I'm Supergirl's boyfriend."