Crisis On Earth-1

An Unexpected Proposal

[How's everyone doing? I'm back for Chapter Seven, aka An Unexpected Proposal! I've been reading The Mortal Instruments recently (only up to City of Ashes, so no spoilers!). Highly recommend it to anyone who's a fan of fantasy and romance. Also, for any Arrow and Legends fans, I got to meet David Ramsey (John Diggle) and Jes Macallan (Ava Sharpe) on the weekend! They're both wonderful people, and if you ever have the chance to meet them, I recommend that too. Without further ado, An Unexpected Proposal!]

It had been strangely quiet over the last few days. Patrols around Central City lead to nothing more than a few kittens rescued from trees, as well as a few minor altercations being cooled down before they reached their melting point. Everyone at S.T.A.R. Labs held the knowledge that the Reverse Flash and Reign were plotting Rao knows what; but Barry and Kara were confident that whatever it was they could handle it.
Barry had beaten Thawne multiple times before, as well as other Speedsters. And Kara was more then capable of taking on a single Kryptonian.

The D.E.O. were working on finding out any information on Reign they could on their Earth. As far as Kara knew, Reign was a Kryptonian from her Earth which meant the key to stopping her would most likely be on her Earth. Team Flash had enough to worry about in terms of finding Thawne anyways, and National City wasn't facing any world-ending events, and Winn always loved challenges. He was more then happy to help out, once J'onn had chewed Kara and Alex out for skipping out on their jobs. That was an awkward conversation, and Kara knew when they returned they'd be in for a world of hurt. They came to an agreement in the end, however. They could stay for as long as they wanted, but if anything required their intervention on Earth-38 they were to drop whatever they were doing and return immediately. Seeing as Kara and Alex would do it even if it weren't a requirement, they happily agreed.

But Kara knew something was up, no one — including Alex — was acting like themselves. They were rather skittish, and Kara was growing suspicious. People would just randomly leave the room without an explanation, and someone would follow about thirty seconds later trying not to act suspicious but unfortunately for them Kara wasn't as oblivious as they perhaps presumed. But asking Alex was completely useless, she'd use her skills of deception to deflect the questions Kara was asking and end up getting Kara to ramble on about potstickers. It must have been some mind control the D.E.O. was working on because no matter how hard Kara tried, Alex always managed to flip it on her.

Eventually, Kara decided whatever they were hiding probably wasn't life threatening if she weren't involved. Of course it was bugging her like there was no tomorrow but as long as the world wasn't ending, Kara could manage. She decided not to think about it, because if she kept thinking about it, the Girl of Steel might go insane.
She'd been texting Lena to kill time while she waited for Barry to return from his latest patrol. He'd promised date night, with pizza and potstickers provided, and Kara couldn't wait. She'd finally be able to curl up next to Barry, watch some awful romantic-comedy, and stuff her face with her two favourite foods across the multiverse.

Lena Luthor - "You're a wonderful girlfriend, Kara. Not many women would rescue their boyfriends ex-fiancé from a Speedster." 8:23 PM

"Not many ex-fiancés would be so supportive! But Iris has been lovely, I can't believe I was worried about her..." 8:23 PM

Lena Luthor - "I'd have been worried too. I wouldn't think too much about it, Kara. Just enjoy your time with Barry." 8:24 PM

"I am, we're about to have date night! I'm so excited! How's everything back home?" 8:24 PM

Lena Luthor - "It's fine, Kara. Nothing to worry about." 8:25 PM

It was much easier to lie over text than in person, but Lena was an expert in online deception as well as face to face. Whatever was going on didn't require Supergirl's attention. And with a rogue Speedster and Kryptonian threatening Earth-1, Lena deemed it — while important — not important enough to drag Kara back over to Earth-38 for. Plus telling her would only spoil her — much needed — time with Barry and Lena didn't want to drive a wedge in there relationship. If anyone was good enough for Kara Danvers, it was Barry Allen.