The Meets

The Superfriends

Maggie was pushing the shopping cart through the fruit and vegetable aisle, Alex and Kara trailing behind.

"I thought we would start with some basics like pasta and a nice sauce, what'ya think?", Maggie asked over her shoulder. Their first official cooking lesson was due this Saturday evening and they had decided to go shopping together.

"Sounds simple enough", Kara replied, examining some small orange fruits she apparently couldn't place. "What are those orange guys?"

Maggie chuckled, parked the cart and went over to the two Danvers sisters who were eying the small fruits with interest.

"Those are called physalis", Maggie explained. "They make great dessert toppings."

"Can we make some mousse au chocolat?", Alex cut in, looking at her girlfriend with big eyes.

"Oh yeah and add some of those?", Kara joined in, imitating her sister's puppy eyes.

"How can I say no to that?", Maggie laughed and fished six physalis out to put them into a bag.

They continued through the aisles, getting everything they needed for the evening. They positively had to drag Kara away from the chocolate section where they had to get the good dark chocolate for the mousse au chocolat. Maggie used the opportunity to explain to the two others why she usually made sure to get the bio and fair-trade stuff, if it wasn't possible to get local foods and was pleased to discover that they listened with interest.

"Could get a bit expensive for you on the long run though", Maggie finished her explanation in Kara's direction. "With your metabolism, this could be a downside."

"Don't worry, the DEO pays her a fee for that", Alex whispered while Kara was off to another great chocolate she wanted to take as well.

"For fair-trade products?", Maggie asked in confusion, looking over at Alex who had come over to wrap her arms around Maggie's left one.

"No", Alex laughed in response. "For helping out the DEO, but we had to tell her that it was for the additional expanses she has foodwise because of all the power she uses for DEO cases. It was the only way to get her to take the money."

Maggie chuckled. It was very much like Kara not to want to take money for saving people.

After Maggie had coached Alex and Kara through making pasta with a tomato-vegetable-sauce and a mousse au chocolat, they had ended up on the sofa with their well-earned desserts. Maggie was grinning when she looked at the two Danvers sisters who were eyeing the physalis.

"How do you eat those?", Alex asked, blinking up at Maggie.

"With your mouth, Danvers", Maggie teased back, picking the little fruit up by its leaves before popping the orange part into her mouth to severe it from its greens.

"Haha", Alex replied with an eyeroll, she and Kara now mimicking Maggie's movements.

"See, that wasn't so hard", Maggie kept on going. "I knew all the training was good for something."

"What trai – oh", Alex started, then turned slightly red.

"These are actually rather delicious", Kara cut in, totally oblivious to the flirtation.

"Good, now try them with some of the mousse au chocolat", Maggie advised, getting her second physalis with her first spoon of the dessert.

"God, that's good", Kara said, while Alex only closed her eyes humming contently.

"We gotta make some of this for our next game night", Kara declared after her second spoon. "Can you bring tiramisu too?", she added as an afterthought towards Maggie.