Pink Kryptonite

Straight For a Day

"Don't worry. The signs will be obvious," Alex promised as she finished lacing Supergirl's costume with Pink Kryptonite.

"How will I know?" Lena asked back, but Alex only gave her a teasing and playful wink before sauntering off, leaving the Luthor to wait and wonder. Luckily, though, Lena didn't have to wait for long. Instead, within the next few hours, a crisis ended up occurring towards the outskirts of National City and, just like always, Supergirl was the first to arrive on the scene. Today, however, Lena was the second. It was a bank robbery, but because it was being orchestrated by normal humans, it didn't take Supergirl very long to put an end to the issue.

"Well done, Supergirl," Alex congratulated as the Girl of Steel returned to the DEO HQ.

"Yes, that was most impressive. I have to say that it isn't every day you see someone able to stop a bank robbery in under five minutes!" a second voice congratulated the Kryptonian. This voice belonged to Lena.

"Ms. Luthor!" Supergirl sounded pleased and surprised. "What are you doing here?"

"I just wanted to get a chance to see you again," Lena replied honestly. Already, all of her senses were on the alert for any obvious sign that might tell her, one way or another, if Supergirl was into her. So far, nothing. Supergirl did look genuinely pleased to see Lena here, but there was nothing in her smile to reveal anything other than a light, casual happiness. Before Lena could try testing the waters by saying something to the Girl of Steel, however, another DEO agent appeared on the scene. It was Mon-El.

"Mon-El!" Supergirl seemed even more surprised and pleased to see him than she had to see Lena. While Lena felt a flash of indignation, hurt and envy rise up in her chest, Alex only bit her lip to hide a smirk. Mon-El was totally unaware of this, having only been passing through when he saw Supergirl. Then, the moment he saw her, she was all he could focus on. He hardly even noticed Alex or Lena, or their changing expressions as he came closer to take to the Girl of Steel.

"What's up, Supes?" Mon-El teased once he finally reached Supergirl's side. He still couldn't see Alex's smirk or Lena's death-glare.

"Ah, the usual," Supergirl suddenly looked away, shaking her head and trying to downplay what she'd done. "Just a human-run bank robbery. It didn't take more than five minutes for me to stop it, and four of those minutes were the time it took to reach the bank at all!"

"Ugh! How boring!" Mon-El teased. "What happened to the good old bashing and crashing stuff?"

"Maybe some other time, Mon-El," Supergirl replied, finally looking back up in his eyes with a playful and happy sparkle in her own.

"Good. Next time we go out together, you better promise me you'll leave a few heads for me to smash!" the Daxomite warned playfully.

"Always," Supergirl promised, then Mon-El politely excused himself from the scene, smiling at Supergirl as he left. Neither Lena nor Alex missed the way Supergirl smiled after Mon-El even after he was out of sight, and neither of them had missed the way her face had twitched when Mon-El referred to their tag-teaming as "going out", but while Alex found it hilarious, Lena's nostrils were flaring enviously.

"What a meathead," but it was Alex who insulted Mon-El, even though Lena was the one annoyed by his closeness with Supergirl.

"What do you mean?" Supergirl sounded hurt and affronted by Alex's remark.

"Bashing and crashing. Does he really think that that's all there is to being a superhero?" of course Alex knew that this wasn't true, but she continued to say it to see how many times she could push Supergirl's buttons. It worked like a charm and Supergirl suddenly became very defensive of Mon-El, reminding Alex of all the good things he'd done for the city while simultaneously warning Alex not to disregard him so.