I want to talk to you so badly

Alex knows

It's Thursday and Alex can not believe how the week is flying, it feels like Monday was just yesterday and she's just scrambling behind trying to catch up. She sighs heavily leaning back against the elevator wall, pinching the bridge of her nose: what she really doesn't need right now, is another media freakstorm. Her week is usually busy as it is, add intensive negotiations with L-Corp to the mix and she barely has time for her girlfriend (which still feels so new and incredible it makes her squeak every time she thinks about it). Seeing her sister is entirely out of the question, even though they are in the same building each day, their paths may not cross for days, the only contact between them since Monday - few texts and takeout from Alex's favourite place left on her desk for her lunch everyday.

The elevator door opens and she scrunches her nose at a whiff of sanitiser and burning plastic - the usual at the lab. She catches a sight of Kara just outside her office, signing some paperwork on the clipboard and handing it to the waiting lab assistant.

"Kar?!" Alex calls before the blonde disappears.

"Alex? What's up?" Kara stops and beams, opening her arms.

"Hey, girl." Alex smiles back, plunging into an offered hug: she sure has missed her sister. "How are you? Haven't seen you much." she mutters into the shoulder, inhaling familiar scent.

"You," Kara says releasing her and jabbing a finger to her chest. "h-have been busy. T-Too bb-busy for your own sister."

"You," Alex mirrors the gesture. "have been secretly feeding me, but couldn't spare five minutes to see me?"

"Yeeaah, d-didn't..um, didn't want to distract you." Kara rubs the back of her neck, casting her eyes to the floor. "S-Sorry."

"Don't be silly," Alex lands a light punch to blonde's shoulder. "I need a distraction now and again."

"Dinner on SS-Saturday then?" Kara's face lights up.

"Definitely, sis." Alex smiles, but then raises her finger to Kara's face. "One condition, though." her sister furrows her brow. "You. Are. Not. Cooking."

"Hey!" Kara whines. "I've been... p-practising with Kalex."

"Uh-uh. There's no hope for you, Kara." Alex shakes her head. "Oh, and Kalex is out of the box again?"

"We are tt-testing ssome... improvements." Kara waves it off. "So, you here to ss-see me cause you've m-mmissed me? Or..?

"Hey, um, I need you to come with me." the older Danvers stammers out.

"Is ss-something wrong?" concern is creeping on Kara's face.

"No, um, all's fine." Alex doesn't want to worry her sister. It's not that something is wrong, really.

"Is just tt-that... I have few things to ff-finish up here." Kara glances inside her office.

"Kara, I really need you to come with me, please."

"You are s-scaring me, Alex." Kara chuckles humorlessly.

"I'll tell you everything on our way there, OK?" Alex pleads. "Come, lets go."

"Ok." Kara agrees, wriggling out of her lab coat and trowing it inside the office. "But if tt-that's.. one of your.. a-and Maggie's bets again..."

"It's not, I promise." Alex chuckles, heading back to the elevator.

"You ss-said that last time." her sister pouts.

"You'd got more potstickers than you could eat last time, why are you complaining?" Alex frowns.