Clearly I am still behind because my fics for specific days keep getting far too out of hand. This one didn't make it quiet as out of hand as Faking the Faking but it still went way farther than I expected. That being said, Faking the Faking will soon have a new chapter as well. So, um, yeah, enjoy. :)

Kara lands on the balcony of CatCo, slightly surprised to find Cat still there, "Miss Grant," she says as she lands, there's no use in hovering anymore.

"I believe Cat will do just fine, Kara," Cat says quietly.

Supergirl watches her, cautiously, "Are you calling me by my actual name now because you know I'm Supergirl or have you always known it and it's some kind of power play thing?"

Cat grins, "Which will make you feel better?"

"That's what I thought," Kara says and lifts herself up onto the balcony, sitting on the edge of it. "Do you know how important it is for me to keep my identity a secret?"

"I have my suspicions, yes," Cat says, "but why don't you enlighten me."

"The more people that know who I am the more people there are for the bad guys to target and the more people I have to fear keeping my secret." Kara studies the older woman, "You named Supergirl, Cat, but Supergirl won't lose a thing if Kara Danvers name gets spread across the papers. Kara Danvers will face her family, her friends, her boss," she says pointedly, "being put in harm's way because her name gets spread across the papers." She sighs, "I don't think you'll do that," she says honestly, "because if you don't respect Kara you do respect Supergirl and won't reveal her secret. But the government is willing to make sure that you don't spread Kara Danvers' name around but I don't want them to because I," she falters, "because you're needed, Cat."

"That's not what you were going to say," Cat says, standing and walking towards the other woman, stopping just paces away from her. "And I do respect Kara Danvers, Kara, because Kara and Supergirl are the same person but even if they weren't Kara has always had my respect. I may not show it as well as I could but I would hope you'd know that."

Kara tilts her head and Cat clearly sees her assistant just then, "How would I see that, Cat? Backhanded compliments?"

"I defended you to my mother," Cat says firmly, "the only other person I do that for is Carter." Cat blushes then and Kara slides down off of the balcony railing, diminishing the distance between them even more, "What were you going to say but stopped yourself from earlier?"

Tentatively, testing her boundaries Kara reaches out and traces a thumb over Cat's cheek, "I don't want the government to have a part in keeping you from spreading this story, Cat, because I need you. I need you and I don't know what they could or would do to keep my identity under wraps." She shakes her head, "I don't want to find out with you."

Cat reaches out, takes Kara's hand and brings it up so that their hands rest palm to palm before she interlaces their fingers, "I promise you, Kara, that your identity, your secrets, and anything you wish to share with me are safe, it is as if they were mine." She smiles slightly, "I would never put you at risk, Kara, you mean too much to me."

Kara smiles almost tiredly at Cat, "And I promise you, Cat, that I will do everything in my power to protect you and to protect Carter, to keep the two of you safe, no matter what may come. I will always be there for you, Cat, as your assistant, your friend, whatever you need. I will keep safe anything that you willingly trust me with."

As Kara finishes speaking there's a flash of light and two metal bands appear on their ring fingers, "Kara, what are those?"

"I'm not sure, Cat, I know what they look like but I hope I'm wrong."

"I hope you are too or we are having an even more serious conversation about promises of protection."

At this Kara fights the urge to giggle like a teenager while pressing a button on the com still in her ear, "Alex," she says into the device.

"What's up, sis?"

Kara grimaces, "How much do you know about Kryptonian marriage rituals?"

"Absolutely nothing, why?"

"I may have done something and I think it may have been that."

"Kara, you didn't. Henshaw is going to kill you. You need to come back in and speak with Alura."

"Yes, I realize that. There's no way I'm leaving Cat here though, how bad would Hank freak if I brought her with me?"

"Cat Grant? Kara, we told you to make sure she wouldn't rat you out not marry the woman. And he will totally freak but I think you should bring her anyway. There's no telling what effect a Kryptonian marriage bond could have on a human."

"She'll be okay, right?" Kara whispers after turning away from Cat.

"I don't know what it could do, Kara, I'll have to check her out when you get here while you talk to Alura."

Kara takes a deep breath and blows it out, "Okay we'll be there in a bit. I have a feeling convincing Cat to fly is going to take a while."

Turning back around Kara isn't surprised to find Cat with her arms crossed, "Fly? Like let you fly me to wherever the hell we're going?" She shakes her head, "Nope, no way."

Moving forward Kara cups Cat's cheek, surprised when the other woman leans into her touch, "I promise, Cat, nothing will happen to you. I will have you the whole time." Finally Cat nods, "Good, now do we need to find someone to go stay with Carter?"

Cat shakes her head, surprised that Kara had even thought about her son when there was even the remote possibility that she was married to her boss, "He's on a field trip to DC this weekend."

Nodding Kara steps closer, "I'm going to pick you up now." Cat nods and Kara lifts her up into her arms, "Wrap you arms around my neck, know that I'm not going to let you go, you are safe with me." Cat wraps her arms around Kara's neck and then sinks her head down to rest on Kara's shoulder, her eyes closed. "You don't like heights, do you?" Cat shakes her head and Kara unconsciously presses a kiss to her temple, she just can't seem to help those little things now, "I'll make this as quick and painless as possible, I promise, then we'll get my sister to bring us back from base."

With that Kara takes to the skies and makes the quickest flight to DEO headquarters she's ever made without breaking the sound barrier and ensuring that Cat is safe in her arms. As she lands she eases Cat down on shaky legs, "That wasn't as bad as I was expecting," she says once her heart rate has calmed, her forehead pressed against Kara's shoulder. After a few minutes she steps back from Kara, "Let's go, I want to find out what's going on."

Kara smiles, always the same Cat. She takes the older woman's hand and leads her into headquarters and straight toward her private lair with her mother's memory, knowing Alex will be there waiting for her. Of course the older Davers sister is, standing right outside of the locked door leading to the hologram of Kara's mother. Kara turns to Cat, "I have to go talk to a hologram about what's going on and my sister wants to see if it's affected you in anyway. We can either split up or we can all talk to the hologram together and then I'll go with you so Alex can check you over."

Cat squeezes the hand Kara's hadn't even realized was still in the older woman's, "Together," Cat says, clearly slightly put off, because Cat Grant was never frightened, by the building they were in.

"We're gonna do this together," Kara tells Alex. "Cat wants to find out what's going on right from the source and I don't want Cat to find out how it affects her when she's alone." Alex nods, "Come in with us," Kara says, "we can figure it out together."

Alex nods and falls in behind Cat as the three make their way into the room where Alura's memory waits. "My daughter," Alura says as soon as Kara steps into the room, "how are you?"

"I have a few questions," Kara says instead of responding, she's still a little more than pissed over what she learned the last time they spoke. "What was a traditional Kryptonian marriage ceremony like?"

Alura begins speaking instantly in her computer generated voice, "Kryptonian marriage ceremonies were the equivalent of a shared promise of protection between lovers who truly care for one another. When such a promise is made rings of Kryptonian silver will appear on the lover's hands, bonding them for life. The Kryptonian marriage ceremony is meant to be a lifelong bond that cannot be broken."

"What if the marriage ceremony was accidentally done without the participants knowing what was going on between them? Without them knowing that it was in fact a marriage ceremony?"

"It does not matter if the ceremony is done accidentally or with purpose the bonding is the same. It cannot be broken." Kara lets her head drop into her hands, "Who have you bonded with, Kara?"

"My very human, very female, very not in love with me boss."

"Two out of three assessments are better than none," Cat mutters behind her. She steps up beside Kara, "What effects could this ceremony have on me? What effects could this have on my son?"

"Was your son mentioned in any part of the ceremony?"

"Of course," Kara declares quickly, "I vowed to protect both he and Cat to the best of my ability, as I fully intend to do."

"When a human marries a Kryptonian or should a child of the human be mentioned in the Kryptonian's protective promise then the human's cells will begin to mutate, slowly becoming those of a full Kryptonian."

"What you're telling me," Cat says slowly from her spot beside Kara, "is that since Kara and I have apparently taken protection vows as part of the Kryptonian marriage ceremony, both Carter and I will now become Kryptonian just as Kara is? Does this mean that we'll begin to develop the same types of powers that Kara has? How is it even possible?"

"Yes, you and your son will become Kryptonian just as Kara. You will eventually begin to develop the same powers as Kara has and live longer than the average human. It is possible for a human to become Kryptonian through a process known as Kryptonize which occurs because human and Kryptonian DNA is so closely linked that it can be easily converted from one species to the other."

"They will be safe, right?" Kara questions instantly fearing for her wife and their son's, and how the hell did she come to feel that way about them so fast, safety.

Alura nods, "Your wife and child, and yes the natural ability to instantly see them as such is normal, will be safe and well, Kara."

Kara nods then turns slightly, arm circling Cat's waist, "Is there anything else you want to ask?"

Cat shakes her head but doesn't say anything. She leans against Kara's side though and rests her head against Kara's shoulder. Kara knows the signs of a headache in the older woman instantly and presses a kiss to the top of her head, "Are we done here?" Alex questions.

"Yeah, I think so," Kara says instantly while guiding Cat towards the door to the room, still holding the smaller woman against her side. "How long is this gonna take, Alex?"

Alex smiles at Kara's protective nature over Cat, "Not too long for now. We may want to monitor how Cat's and Carter's powers develop over time though."

"My son will not be studied like some kind of lab rat," Cat suddenly snaps and Kara feels the hatred radiating from her. "Me I don't care about."

"Neither of them will be studied like lab rats," Kara says forcefully. "I will monitor their powers' development and keep you updated on their progression. You remember how hard of a time I had adjusting to the control I had to have over my senses, it will take me time to ensure that both Cat and Carter possess that control, time that I will not have if the DEO is determined to study them."

Staring at her sister Alex is shocked by just how protective her sister has already become of Cat and Carter but then she thinks about how protective Kara has always been of her boss and it's not so out of character. "Sure, Kara," Alex says, unsure of how else to proceed.

"Kara," Cat says suddenly and to Kara her voice is very, very tiny. "Why is everything so loud?" she whispers out.

"Damnit," Kara mutters, "I had hoped it would take a few days. Alex, send a chopper to DC now, have them find Carter's school trip and bring him home. Make sure that they have sound blocking headphones for him and sunglasses."

Alex nods and rushes off down the hallway. Kara turns back to Cat, speaking in very quiet tones, "How far can you hear?"

"There's a woman three halls over demanding to know why you've rushed in."

Kara sighs, Astra, "Okay," she says quietly, "I'm going to lift you up and fly us home, we need to be somewhere I can control the volume of the things closest to you. I'm going to grab sound blocking headphones from Alex for you because otherwise the sounds of the city will overwhelm you, okay?"

Cat nods and then sinks down to the middle of the floor, hands covering her ears. Kara rushes down the hallway, hating herself for leaving her wife on the floor of the hallway but knowing that protecting her hearing is the most important thing at the moment. Alex spots her as she rushes in and tosses a set of headphones to her, "Thought you'd want those."

Kara grabs them from the air and turns around instantly, her ears picking up the beginnings of Cat's near silent crying, meaning that the sounds are getting loud. When she returns to Cat's side she places the headphones over her ears, "I know it doesn't block the sound entirely," she says at a normal volume, knowing Cat won't be able to hear if she whispers now, "but it will help until we get home."

Stooping Kara scoops Cat into her arms, "Will Carter be okay?"

"Alex will make sure of it," Kara promises her while placing a kiss on her forehead. She moves back down the hall to where Alex is pacing, "Has -"

"Helicopter has reached Carter, has him in transport. I'm meeting them when they land and bringing Carter straight to you. Where will you be?"

Looking down at Cat, Kara nods, "Cat's place, it will be better if they're in familiar surroundings but I need to be somewhere I can control the closest sounds to them."

Alex nods, "I'll see you later then."

Kara nods, "Make sure you bring him home safe."

"I will, Kara," Alex promises. "Get Cat home before the headphones stop working."

Nodding once more Kara moves towards the exit and takes flight into the sky, flying just a bit faster, believing that already, Cat's body will be able to handle the faster speed. When she touches down on the balcony of Cat's penthouse she knows the doors will be unlocked and she walks straight though. She kneels down in front of Cat after settling her into an armchair, "You're safe, baby," she whispers, "I'm going to help you." She reaches up, "I want to take these off, do you trust me?" Cat nods slowly and Kara slips the headgear away, Cat flinches when the sounds assault her instantly. "Focus on me," Kara says, voice gentle, soothing, "focus on my voice, on the lilts in it, the way the words I speak flow together. Picture my words as music, flowing in a constant stream. Just my voice, that's all I want you to listen for, it'll take some time but you can find it."

"I've got it," Cat whispers out, her mind wrapping around that one, quiet, soothing voice. A bit gravelly but still feminine.

"Now take all of the other noises, all of the other things, the ticking of the clock, the ambulance down the street and file them away. Create these little pockets for them, things in the room, things in our building, on our street. Let the pattern of doing it sooth you."

Kara can tell when Cat's eyes fall closed and her eyes begin moving behind her eyelids that the older woman is doing just as she's been directed. "Once all of the sounds have been sorted, this room, each other room of the apartment, open up that compartment where the sounds for this room are, just ease it open, not too much." She pauses, watching a small smile form on Cat's lips, "Now what do you hear?"

"Your heart beating," Cat says into the quiet, "my heart beating to the same rhythm, is that part of the marriage bond." Kara chuckles, leave it to Cat to want to investigate things when all but one of her senses are probably still bouncing off the walls. "Oh now that sounds like music," Cat whispers.

Kara shakes her head, "I won't you to close that compartment you're in just a tad, let the sound of our heartbeats become quieter, barely noticeable but still present if you want them to be." She waits a moment then grins when Cat hums to herself, "Quiet?"

"Until you ruined it, yes," she returns in true Cat like fashion. "Can we get rid of the smells now? Pollution is an absolutely horrid smell."

Kara chuckles, "I'm well aware." She doesn't dare reach out to touch Cat as she longs to do, "Focus on the smells assaulting you, just as you did with the sounds. Separate them, compartmentalize them as you did the sounds," Kara watches Cat smile, "you're steps ahead of me, aren't you?"

Cat chuckles, "The only thing I can smell right now is you. I could add the other smells in the room but I won't, they aren't important." She tilts her head, eyes still closed, "Why has controlling my sense of smell helped with my sense of taste?"

"Because those two senses are connected, it's like when you smell something really foul and get a bad taste in your mouth. Now that your sense of smell is under control you should be able to maintain the control of your sense of taste, even when you eat."

Cat nods, she's never really thought about how her senses affect one another before now, "Which sense are we working on next?"

"I had the hardest problem controlling my eyesight so we can do that now or last, whichever you prefer."

"Now," Cat says firmly, "the sensations on my skin I can handle, not being able to see I can't handle at all."

Kara nods even though Cat can't see her, "Open your eyes for me."

Slowly Cat's green eyes flutter open, "I can't even see you," she says with a groan, "but I can see the musician in the park four blocks over."

Kara chuckles slightly, "We'll fix that," she promises. "Now focus on whatever you can see that's the farthest away, whether it's the musician in the park four blocks over or the bodega down by the bay," Kara's tone is still quiet, soothing as she speaks to Cat. "Now look at the scene as if you're moving backwards, each little bit you move back put a wall up between you and whatever it is you're looking at. Don't use multiple walls though simply move that original wall, that's the most difficult thing to remember, move the wall instead of building a new one."

Cat's brow furrows up in concentration, "How do you do this every day?"

"It gets easier," Kara promises, wishing once more that she'd helped Cat with her sense of touch first. "Once you've got that wall between this room and everything outside of it you'll find it's much easier to keep it up than to lower it."

"I'm at the end of the street," Cat says quietly, sweat beading at her brow now. She sighs, "I can't do it, Kara, I can't close it off anymore."

"Do you want to take a break? Try to focus on your sensitivity to touch instead and then go back to sight."

Cat nods, "Let's try that."

Kara smiles, "Okay," she reaches out but doesn't yet touch Cat. "I'm going to cover your hand with mine," she says, voice still calming, "focus only on that touch." Cat nods and slowly Kara lowers her hand to cover Cat's smaller one, "Focus on the feel of my skin on yours," she whispers, "the ghosts of my touch as I trace your hands." She traces light patterns across the backs of Cat's hands, thinks about when Alex used to do the same to her as a child to help her remain grounded, "Focus on only that."

"It's all I can feel now," Cat says quietly.

Nodding Kara smiles, "Now extend that sense, feel the weight of your clothes against your body. Feel the way the armchair surrounds you. Don't let the feelings get too much, you have to find a balance that feels good but is not overly sensitive, a balance that won't send you toppling into sense overload if someone besides Carter or I were to grab your hand suddenly."

Cat nods, "I think I've got it," she says quietly, "it feels like it did when I didn't have the heightened sense of touch."

Kara smiles, "That's one advantage you have that I didn't when I was learning this, you know how these things should feel to a human, you can accommodate them to feel that way." She runs her fingers lightly up and now Cat's arm, "Have you been able to maintain how far you can see this whole time?"

Slowly Cat's eyes flutter back open and she smiles, "I have," she whispers out, "can I try it again?"

Keeping up her slow easy touch to Cat's arm Kara nods, "Try it, baby," she murmurs, knowing Cat will probably detest the term of endearment but using it anyway.

Cat scrunches up her nose but doesn't comment instead she focuses on the things she's seeing down the street. This time Kara doesn't speak, she just watches her wife, the ebb and flow of the creases across her brow as she focuses more on one thing or another, as she moves her internal wall closer and closer to home. "It is good to see your face again," she says suddenly and Kara smiles widely, "that was much easier the second time I tried."

Kara nods, "It will get even easier in time. Eventually you'll get so accustomed to controlling what you're hearing, seeing, feeling that it will be as natural to you as breathing." Her ears pick up on something outside the door and she rises from her kneeling position, "Speaking of," she says, "our son's here."

When Kara pulls the door open Alex is standing on the other side, arm around Carter's shoulders, "I've helped as much as I can," she tells Kara, "hoped I could give you a bit more time to get Cat's senses under control."

Kara feels a hand at the small of her back, sliding around her waist, "Perfect timing actually," Cat says but her eyes are on Carter, "how ya feeling, sweetheart?"

"Alex helped with my sense of touch and hearing, I felt like my skin was on fire. She helped with the vision thing too but things keep slipping through."

Kara smiles at her sister, "Still remember all the old tricks then?"

Alex smiles, "I refresh my memory every morning, when your sister loses control of her senses every time she has a panic attack you remember these things."

Carter's voice breaks through the small moment then, "What's going on? Alex told me that it had to do with Kara but said it'd be better if the two of you explained." He tilts his head, "Why do I have powers like Supergirl?" Kara smiles slightly, she wonders if he's really so thrown he doesn't notice she's in her super suit.

Reaching out Alex rests a hand on Kara's shoulder, "I'm heading back to work, we'll take care of everything we can. If it gets too serious we'll call, otherwise take care of your family. I'll call you tonight."

Kara presses a kiss to her cheek, "Thanks, Alex."

After Alex has left again, Kara turns to find her wife and son sitting on the floor Indian style across from one another. She smiles, listening to Cat's soft voice walk Carter through the same steps Kara walked her through not long ago. She rests her head on the doorframe in the arch between entry and den, simply enjoying watching them. As if sensing Kara's eyes on them Cat looks up, "Come help me walk him through this, I don't want to mess it up."

Smiling Kara moves forward, lowering herself to the ground beside them both, "You can't mess it up, Cat," she whispers quietly. "What are we working on?" she asks quietly, unsure of just how under control Alex had helped Carter to get his hearing.

Carter smiles at her, "You can talk normal," he says, "hearing is normal again, well what normal can be considered," he tilts his head, "these pocket things Alex talked me through really help too. Maybe now I can shut off the music from down the street when I'm trying to study on the balcony."

Kara smiles at him, shaking her head, "Okay, so hearing you've got. What about smell?"

Carter shakes his head, "We didn't make it that far in the car, left it for last."

"Okay." She looks at Cat, "You wanna try and talk him through it? Maybe it'll help you keep better control too, that's why Alex knows so much about how to help. I used to sit up at night walking her through how I maintained balance, then when I'd have a panic attack and lose control she could walk me back through it."

Slowly Cat nods, "I can try." She smiles at Carter, "Smell is a lot like hearing," she tells him carefully, "you have to focus on the individual smells, put them in little compartments where they belong then draw on the ones you want to focus on. Can you do that, sweetie?"

Kara smiles at Cat's use of the term in regards to their son and watches Carter, eventually a grin spreads across his lips, "Mom, are you wearing that perfume Kara gave you for Christmas last year even though you said you hated it?"

"She is," Kara confirms, "she wears it quite often for it to be, what was it again, oh vile smelling scented water."

Cat chuckles, "Well what do you expect? I couldn't actually like a present from my assistant, could I?"

Kara and Carter chuckle then too, "Does that mean you've got your sense of smell controlled, Carter?"

The boy nods, "I can smell just like I used to now."

"Good job, bud," Kara says reaching out to ruffle his hair. "So you've got touch, hearing and smell, which means taste also should have fallen into place. You said things kept leaking through your vision shield, right?"

Carter nods, "It's like there are cracks and sights slip through those cracks."

Kara nods, "How did Alex tell you to go about blocking out what you don't want to see?" Kara's changed her way of viewing how she handles this process of adapting over the years for the very reasons that Carter's having trouble with now.

"To kind of build a wall inside my mind, cutting off where I wanted to see."

"That's what I thought she might have. It works for the most part and it was effective enough when I was a kid that I could function. When I got older though I learned a better way to build that wall, enforce it in a way. I never told Alex about it so she wouldn't have known to talk you through it that way." She smiles at him, "You wanna try it?"

He nods, "Definitely, I couldn't focus more than ten minutes the way this is going."

Cat chuckles beside them, her son is as over dramatic as she sometimes has a tendency to be. Kara raises and eyebrow but Cat shakes her head and nods to Carter, "Okay," Kara starts, "the first thing you have to do is tear down that wall with all the cracks in it," she says, "it'll only get in your way if you don't."

Carter nods and Kara can see him concentrating for a moment, "What now?"

"Look at whatever you can see farthest away from here, whatever it is just focus on that."

Carter nods then tilts his head slightly, "Mom, can the website do a story on desert wildlife?"

Cat tilts her head in the same way as her son, "What in the world are you looking at, Carter?"

"Some kind of weird little lizard, he looks pretty cool."

Kara chuckles, "We'll see, now focus on what your mother is telling you," Cat says with her own grin.

"Right, sorry, just a thought he was cool."

Shaking her head Kara continues, "Now put up a new wall, right in front of that lizard, block him out completely with it, along with everything around him," Carter nods, brow furrowing just as Cat's had earlier. When she thinks he's had enough time Kara starts speaking, "After that think about taking steps back from him, one, two, ten at a time, you have to find your own rhythm for it. Each time you step back that amount of space, move your wall with you. Don't try to build a new wall, building new walls is how cracks are made. Moving that first wall, the one you built to keep out that very first image, it keeps the cracks from forming. You spent time on that wall, you know it'll hold under pressure."

For long moments Carter continues in silence, his nose scrunches up a few times, others little smiles pulling at his lips, "Oh cool, Mom! The new Star Wars is out, can we go see it soon?"

"Maybe not a good idea until we're sure we've got control of the super hearing, sweetie," Cat says, rubbing at her own ear, having not expected Carter's excited shout and having tweaked her hearing just a bit to hear Carter's steady heartbeat while he went through the task of building his wall.

"Right," he said, "those movie theaters are loud, probably not a good place to be."

Kara laughs, "Give it a little time, before you know it you'll be ready to head back into one. You just have to know how to tune your hearing in certain situations." She looks him over, cocks her head, "How long have you been back in the room with us?"

He grins, "Few minutes, it's kind of fun to take everything in at ultra high def." He scrunches his nose, "There, just perfect."

"How was it so easy for him to adjust his vision?"

Kara smiles at Cat, reaching out to gently brush the other woman's hand with her own, "He's a kid. He's got twelve years of seeing like a normal human being, the idea of seeing more than that excites him but it's also easier to control. Someone older, my age or your age has a harder time because they've seen the world through normal human sight for so long that something more doesn't so much excite them anymore as scare them."

Nodding Cat studies Kara, it would seem that the younger woman, that her wife knows far more about human psychology than Cat ever gave her credit for. "So are you guys gonna tell me what's going on?"

Sighing Cat turns to her son, "That is quite the story and will require hot cocoa, pajamas and warm blankets by the fire as it's already quite late."

"Does it have to do with why you called Kara my mother?"

Cat falters, having nor even realized she did such a thing, "It does," she finally says, "go put some pjs on and Kara and I will explain."

Nodding Carter bounces up from the floor and heads down the hall, "I didn't even realize I'd done that," Cat whispers out quietly, leaning over to rest her head on Kara's arm. "This is all so new, I mean we weren't even dating for god's sake but it feels like -"

"It feels like we've been doing this forever," Kara says gently, lifting one of Cat's hands with her own, bringing it to her lips and pressing a kiss to the back, "That's how it feels for me too." She turns her head slightly, pressing a kiss to Cat's temple, "The hologram of my mother said that it would, that it was natural in situations such as ours." She laces her fingers with Cat's, "I think it has to do with the fact that for a marriage bond to occur the way that ours did the people involved must truly care for each other. When I made an assessment of the situation we faced for the hologram you announced that two of three were right," she grins slightly, "you were very much human and you are most definitely all female so only the last assessment I made could have been false. In that case the two of us would have felt equally as strongly for one another which would be why the marriage bond was so easily solidified between us and why it is so natural to us."

"Your last assessment was very wrong," Cat says, "quite the opposite is true in fact."

Kara smiles, "For me too," she whispers before tilting Cat's head back with a finger under her chin and kissing her softly. "We should get changed if we want to explain things to Carter."

Nodding Cat stands up from the floor and reaches back down to Kara, pulling her up but overestimating her strength so that Kara's taller frame over balances them both and they end up back on the floor, Kara's long form stretched out along Cat's smaller one. "Mmmm," Cat sighs, "I thought we were getting up?"

"We are," Kara says, rising to her own feet and lifting Cat up with her, standing her wife on her feet beside her. "You're gonna have to get used to that new strength you've got there." She chuckles at Cat's pout, "Our son is down the hall waiting for an explanation of why he has my powers and you have a whole new way of viewing the world, Cat, we'll get there," she whispers, "I promise."

Cat smirks, "I am not a patient woman."

"I know you aren't," Kara whispers next to Cat's ear, "but there are three people in this apartment right now with super hearing and two of us are not completely adept at keeping out what we don't want in yet." Kara chuckles a bit at Cat's slightly horrified look, "Exactly, let's not scar him for life."

"Only you could make me forget such important facts." She smiles, "You always do."

"You never forget anything, Cat."

Cat tilts her head, taking in the picture of her wife carefully, still dressed in her Supergirl suit but so much the Kara she sees every day at work. "Do you really believe that I call you back into my office five minutes after you leave because I wanted to make you walk all the way to your desk and then back?"

"Well maybe not now you've said it that way," Kara says blushing slightly.

Shaking her head Cat winds her arms around Kara's waist, "Kara, I had to come up with a completely new system of dictating orders to you because I kept forgetting the most important things. In the end I started listing the things I needed done from least important to most important in my head so that the most important ones got finished first."

Kara laughs lightly, "It's kind of nice knowing I wasn't the only one who got nervous every time I entered the office."

Cat tightens her hold on Kara, "That's not too tight, right?"

Shaking her head Kara tightens her hold around Cat as well, "We're bulletproof, Cat," Kara whispers.

"Oh right," Cat mutters.

"Moms!" they hear Carter call from down the hall after a loud crash, "I broke my bed!"

It takes only a moment and then Kara starts laughing, "It's not funny, Kara," Cat admonishes but Kara can see she's trying not to laugh as well. "I'm probably going to be buying a lot of furniture for a little while, aren't I?"

Kara shrugs, "My strength was one of the easiest things to gain control of, flying was the absolute easiest, the hardest was by far the laser vision. I would suggest we invest in fire extinguishers now rather than later."

This time Cat begins chuckling and hides her face against Kara's neck, "We are raising an almost thirteen year old boy who will soon have raging hormones and he's got super strength, super speed, super senses and heat vision." She pauses, "And oh yeah, soon he'll be able to fly."

Laughter bubbles up inside of them both and when Carter enters the living room again both Kara and Cat have sunk to the ground, holding onto one another as they laugh, "Moms?"

Kara rolls onto her side, looking up at him then reaches up and tugs him down into the pile on the floor, "Come spend some time with your moms, bud."

Carter collapses down on the floor with them, "What in the world happened to the two of you today? And, Kara, why are you wearing Supergirl's super suit?"

Leaning over to his ear Cat whispers, "She is Supergirl, Carter." His eyes grow wide and he looks over at Kara then, "And the reasons we have all of her powers now is because she and I accidentally got married today."

"Wait, what?"

"Umm, yeah, Carter," Kara says head resting on her hand as she looks down on her wife and son, both stretched out on the floor, a circumstance she never once imagined seeing Cat Grant in.

"How do you accidentally get married?" Carter questions even as he shifts closer to Kara, using her bicep as a pillow.

"I may have figured out Supergirl's secret identity and she may not have known that a vow of protection between two people who care for another among her people equals to a marriage bond." Cat throws a glare Kara's way, "How is it that you have never thought to find out anything about the customs of our people?"

A few seconds later she realizes what she's said but shrugs it off, it's mostly accurate. "These things were never really important to me before I began using my powers to save National City. Then I got into a fight with a hologram after my aunt I thought was dead showed up and there was really no one to question."

"You got into a fight with a hologram," Carter says, laughing as he looks up at Kara.

"Oh hush you," Kara says, tickling at his sides, "there were things I found out about my family that I couldn't understand and the hologram was making things worse."

Carter nods, "Gotcha." He looks over at his mom and smiles when he finds her looking back at them with a smile teasing her lips, "So how did the two of you getting married end with mom and me having powers like Supergirl?"

"That is apparently part of the deal when you are a human and marry a Kryptonian," Cat says with a smile for her son. "As for why you are going through gaining powers as well is because when Kara made the vow of protection that instigated our marriage she promised to protect you as well."

"Does this mean if I ever meet someone and do the same thing they'll become Kryptonian as well?"

Kara tilts her head, "That's actually a good question, bud, I'll have to talk to the hologram or Aunt Astra about it later. Perhaps we can go down to DEO tomorrow or the day after and have some target practice and flying practice."

"Flying practice?" Carter questions.

"Look down," Kara tells him softly and he flips in the air to look below the three of them, finding that they're all three feet off the floor.

"Awesome!" Carter shouts and nearly topples out of the air as Kara and Cat both reach out as if to catch him, "Moooommmsss! I'm flying, you don't need to catch me."

"Yeah, we're always gonna catch you, dude."

Cat laughs at her wife and son as the two of them tussle through the air, rolling and cutting flips, "The two of you better not break anything," she says slightly glaring at them only to then pounce through the air at her wife.

A knock sounds at the door then and Kara rolls over in the air, using her x-ray vision to look through the wooden door, "Ha, knew she wouldn't be able to stay away." She turns to Cat and Carter, "Float higher," she whispers to them and points to the ceiling. Then she floats closer to the door, pulling it open without landing or circling around so she can be seen by the person on the other side.

"Kara," Alex's voice calls carefully into the apartment, "hey, Kara, I hope you don't mind me coming back." Just then the door swings shut behind her and she shrieks, "Kara," she growls smacking at her sister floating above her head, "that was a jackass move."

"Nope this is," Kara says as Carter and Cat both tickle Alex from behind.

When Cat and Carter finally back away from Alex she's glaring at all three people in the air, "You are all very evil people," she says, laughing. Looking up at them she tilts her head, "So the powers are developing rapidly then?"

Chuckling Kara and Cat land back on the ground easily, "Well you're liking flying much better," Kara mutters.

"I'm the one in control."

Kara shrugs, "True."

She turns to Alex then, "I was going to call you in a bit actually. Is it possible we could use the desert field tomorrow to target practice and practice flying somewhere that doesn't have a ceiling?"

Alex laughs, "As long as I get to watch."

Her sister's nose scrunches up, she knows so many bad jokes she could make after that comment but she'll refrain with Carter still floating around the light fixture. "Sure, I'm just trying to keep things from getting sticky if Cat or Carter gets mad about something. Especially that one," she says pointing to her wife, who glares then shrugs and gives a slight nod.

"The field is yours," Alex says while trying to control a new laugh that wants to bubble past her lips. "Are you planning on creating these two super suits too?"

"Yes!" Carter cheers.

"No," Cat and Kara say together with finality. "For either of them," Kara says.

"Oh no I'll be having one," Cat says. "There is no way you are going out saving the day without me."

"And there's no way I'm letting you follow me into those situations. One of us has to be around to take care of Carter."

Cat glares at her, "We'll talk about this later."

Alex laughs then glances up at Carter hovering near the ceiling, "They're gonna fight tonight, I would suggest ear plugs."

Cater laughs and then drops down to the ground, "Moms, I'm hungry."

"And there's the Kryptonian appetite that Mom always complained about when Kara was his age." Kara socks Alex's in the arm, careful of her strength, "Well it's true, Kara, you used to eat three times what we did."

Cat laughs, "She still does when we work late at the office and order pot stickers."

Laughter bubbles up and out of Alex's, "She'll eat three orders of pot stickers by herself."

Cat laughs, Kara throws a take out menu at Alex, "Just order us food, Cat and I are going to change clothes."

Kara keeps Cat's hand held tightly in hers, "I don't know what Cat likes to eat, Kara!"

"Carter does," Cat calls back over her shoulder, intent on following behind Kara with everything that she has. Neither woman turns back though the laughter from the living room follows them until they disappear into Cat's bedroom. The moment they're inside Cat pulls Kara forward, capturing the younger woman's lips in a fierce kiss. For long moments the kiss lasts, Kara pulling Cat closer and closer until she lifts her up, Cat's legs wrapping around her waist.

Finally Kara pulls away, resting her forehead against Cat's, supporting her wife with ease, "We can't," she whispers quietly. "I want to but we can't."

"I know," Cat breaths out, eyes locked with Kara's. She presses a new kiss against Kara's lips, this one quick and chaste, "I've felt this way for a while now. I have however not felt like I need to rip your clothes off every minute, what's with that?"

Kara shakes her head, "I've been attracted to you since I met you and haven't felt like this before. Okay, maybe once or twice but I could control it then." She places a kiss on Cat's nose, "I'm wondering if this doesn't have something to do with our marriage being a Kryptonian marriage bond." Kara studies her wife and thinks carefully over everything she remembers from when she lived on Krypton, "Oh," she mutters, "oh well that would explain it." She shakes her head then, "Except it really doesn't."

Kara's hands are resting on Cat's hips, her thumbs stroking gently under the edge of Cat's shirt, "You have an idea of why we can't keep our hands to ourselves don't you."

"Umm," Kara closes her eyes, settles down onto the edge of the bed, Cat adjusting so that she's sitting in Kara's lap, "see I was just thinking back over my years on Krypton. In thinking about it I remembered something about many of the marriages there that I did not expect to." She keeps her arms wrapped loosely around Cat's waist as she talks, her thumbs still tracing the contours of the muscles in Cat's lower back. "Many of the marriages on Krypton were arranged or simply because our people settled, just as the people of this world do. Those marriages that were formed in a marriage bond such that we have always seemed to have a result that the others did not."

Cat tilts her head when Kara falls silent and does not seem to be about to continue speaking, "What was that result, Kara?"

A quiet sigh slips past Kara's lips while she drops her head onto Cat's shoulder, "A child. A marriage bond like our almost always resulted in a child not long after marriage."

"That," Cat begins quietly, Kara can still hear the slight panic in her voice, "that is something that we will figure out the repercussions of tomorrow. Tonight we are going to go down the hall, have dinner with your sister and our son and then we are going to tuck him into bed and finally crawl into bed ourselves. Tomorrow," she continues, "after flying practice and target practice we will return to DEO headquarters and speak to the hologram of your mother."

Kara nods through her own panic, "What if -"

Cat shakes her head, "Then we'll figure it out together, the way we'll do everything from here on." A smile spreads across Kara's features and Cat leans forward instantly to kiss away the grin, "Now I'm going to change into my pajamas in the bathroom," she leans forward for another kiss, "you are welcome to anything you can find in my closet or dresser." She slides off of Kara's lap then, making her way towards the ensuite bathroom, "Kara," she says when she stops in the doorway and looks back at the younger woman, "I love you."

Smiling Kara can't help the fact that her feet bring her to stand before Cat before she even truly realizes she's moving, she pulls Cat's face up to meet hers, cradling the smaller woman's face in her hands, "I love you too, Cat." For long moments they stand there, wrapped up in one another before they pull away, no other words spoken as Cat disappears into the bathroom to change and Kara slips into Cat's closet, intending to pilfer the first thing she can pass off as pajamas.

When they return to the living room they find Alex and Carter sitting in front of the couch, discussing some random science topic or other. Kara slips down to the floor beside her sister and pulls Cat down into her lap, leaning back to watch the interactions before her and think about the day she's had. When she got up this morning she was Kara Danvers, part time superhero and one of the few survivors of her home planet. Tonight she'll go to bed in a new home, holding tightly to her wife with their son sleeping right down the hallway but for now she returns to time with her new family, wondering what their next step will be